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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Cat - Original Woodcut by Simon Haret- Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is an original Woodcut Print realized by Simon Haret in the Mid-20th Century. Good condition. Monogrammed on a plate.
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Early 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Papion - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Papion is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière a...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
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1930s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Owls - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Owls is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stuttgart ...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
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1930s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The Passing Parade, 20th Century Lithograph, Southwestern Desert with Antelope
By Ila Mae McAfee
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning original lithograph, titled The Passing Parade, is a signed piece by renowned American artist Ila Mae McAfee (1897-1995). Created in the 20th century, the artwork depic...
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20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Chauvesouris - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Chauvesouris is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particul...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

La Noctule - Etching by Jean Louis Barran - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
La Lerot is an etching realized by J.L. Barran in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". The Artist's signature is engraved lower right. Good conditions.
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Chauvesouris - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Chauvesouris is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". The Artist's signature is engraved lower right. Good co...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Eagle Owl - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Eagle Owl is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

The Physiognomy - The Insects - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
The Physiognomy - The Insects is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the...
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1810s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Tengmalm's Owl - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Tengmalm's Owl is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by Lond...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Le Chien Courant - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Chien Courant is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Le Lapin D'Angora en Mue - Etching by Antoine Defehrt - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Lapin D'angora en Mue is an etching realized by Antoine Defehrt in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la des...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Chbysochlore - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Chbysochlore is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publis...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Mr. Bunny Eating A Big Carrot - Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
Mr. Bunny Eating A Big Carrot is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by J.J. Grandville from Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Ma...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Sparrow - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Sparrow is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Leda and the Swan No. 8, Minimalist Etching by Reuben Nakian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Reuben Nakian, American (1897 - 1986) Title: Leda and the Swan - 8 Year: circa 1979 Medium: Etching and Chine Colle, signed in pencil Edition: AP XXX Image Size: 16 x 19 inch...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Le Cerf - Etching by Claude Jardinier - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Cerf is an etching realized in 1771 by Claude Jardinier. Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la d...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Wild Canary - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Wild Canary is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stu...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Tapir Pinchaque - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Tapir Pinchaque is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was pub...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

"Elephant Family" Large original serigraph.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Elephant Family" 1983 is an original large color serigraph on paper by noted American artist Leroy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 63/300 in pe...
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Late 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Screen

Goldfintch - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Goldfintch is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Nightingale - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Nightingale is a Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stut...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Le Chevreuil - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Chevreuil is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du ...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

The Monkey - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Monkey is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publishe...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Ancient Roman Daily Life from Herculaneum - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bust, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Michele Sorello and Nicolaus Vanni in the 18th century. Signed on the ...
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18th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Interior of Animals - Etching by Marcel Gaillard - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Interior of Animals is an etching realized by Marcel Gaillard in 1771. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet ...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Le Rat - Etching by Jacques Baron - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Rat is an etching realized by Jacques Baron in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". The Artist's signature is engraved lower right. Good conditions wit...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

The Trading of Insects - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
The Trading of Insects is an original lithograph by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Conditio...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Le Renard - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Renard is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". The Artist's signature is engraved lower right. Good condi...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

The Pig - Original Lithograph on Paper - 1880 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
The Pig is an original Modern artwork realized by an anonymous artist in 1880 ca. Original lithograph on Paper. Good Conditions. Passepartout: 34 x 49 The artwork represents a Pi...
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1880s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Aurora (Red), Framed and Signed Modern Screenprint by Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Aurora (Red) Will Barnet, American (1911–2012) Date: 1979 Color Screenprint on Lenox, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of AP Image Size: 16.5 x 40 inches Size: 20 x 43.5 in. (50...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Screen

Ostrich - Lithograph by Alberto Mastroianni - 1970 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Ostrich is an original lithograph realized by Alberto Mastroianni in the 1970s. Hand Signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower in pencil. Edition of 150. Good conditi...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Andalusian Quail - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Andalusian Quail is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by Lo...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

The Physiognomy - The Owl and the Peacock - Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
The Physiognomy - The owl and peacock is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge...
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1810s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Condor - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Condor is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stuttgar...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

The Butterfly Flower - Lithograph By Jean Lurçat - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Butterfly Flower is an original artwork realized by the french artist Jean Lurçat (1892 Bruyeres - 1966 St.-Paul-de-Vence) Lithograph print, mid-20th century. Good conditions...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The Vulture. 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.341)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Vulture is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.6 x 8 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers). Catalogue - Cramer #37 The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work. Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential. For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate). These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
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20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint

Bonsoir donc, Ami Lecteur - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
Bonsoir donc, Ami Lecteur is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Cond...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Fish - Original Lithograph By Jean Lurçat - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Fish is an original artwork realized by the french artist Jean Lurçat (1892 Bruyeres - 1966 St.-Paul-de-Vence) Lithograph print, mid-20th century. Very good conditions. Not sign...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Drawing, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th century. Signed on the plate. Good conditio...
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18th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Centaur and Unicorn - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & numbered /160
Located in Paris, IDF
Honoré BROUTELLE (1866-1929) Centaur and Unicorn, 1929 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /160 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of the edit...
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1920s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Jockey Before the Horse Race - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & numbered /160
Located in Paris, IDF
Pierre LISSAC (1878-1955) Jockey Before the Horse Race, 1926 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /160 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of th...
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1920s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Horses before the race (Weighing - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & numbered /160
Located in Paris, IDF
Gérard COCHET (1888-1969) Horses before the race (Weighing), 1926 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /160 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp ...
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1920s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

The Bird - Original Etching by Giselle Hallf - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Bird is an original artwork realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971) in the mid-20th Century. Original black and white etching on cardboard. Good conditions. Not signed.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Fight - Original Etching by Gérard Cochet - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Fight is an original etching realized by Gérard Cochet in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions. Hand-signed. Numbered. Edition,35/50. The artwork is depicted through soft stro...
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Early 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Saccoptery's Wing - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Saccoptery's Wing is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was p...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Post Soviet Nonconformist Avant Garde Russian Israeli Screen Print Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Michail Grobman (Russian: Михаил Гробман, Hebrew: מיכאיל גרובמן‎‎, born 1939) is an artist and a poet working in Israel and Russia. He is father to Hollywood producer Lati Grobman an...
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20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Screen

Sketch of Cat - Original Lithograph by Helène Neveur - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sketchof Cat View is an original lithographia realized by Helène Neveur in 19870s. Good conditions. Numbered. Edition, 4/75. The artwork is depicted t...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Le Chien, Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de ...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Horseman - Original Etching - 1875
Located in Roma, IT
Horseman is an original etching artwork on paper realized in 1875 by Alphonse Edouard Enguérand Aufray de Roc'Bhian (French, Paris 1833– 1887). Signed on the plate on the lower of t...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

The Skeleton - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Skeleton is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publis...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Air France, Mediterranee by Roger Bezombes
Located in New York, NY
This lithographic poster was printed in 1981 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris. In the early 1970s, Air France commissioned Roger Bezombes to create original artworks capturing the s...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Sleeping Wolves
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sleeping Wolves" 1970 is an original color lithograph on B.F.K Rives paper by noted Italian/American artist Beniamino Benevenuto Bufano, 1890-1970. It is hand signed and numbered 81/100 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 12.35 x 11.35 inches, framed size is 23.75 x 21.5 inches. it is beautifully custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano was born in San-Fele, Italy on Oct. 14, 1889. At age three Bufano's family brought him to NYC where he spent his childhood and was educated by private tutors. He studied at the ASL in NYC from 1913-15, the pupil of James L. Fraser, Herbert Adams, and Paul Manship. He came to San Francisco in 1915 to work on a sculpture for the PPIE. For awhile he worked in the studio of coppersmith Dirk van Erp. He then traveled extensively for four years in France, Italy, India, and China. After returning to San Francisco in 1921, he remained there the rest of his life except for visits to the Orient and Europe. Always a radical, he lost his teaching position at San Francisco Institute of Art in 1923 because he was too modern for the conservative faculty. He later taught at UC Berkeley and the CCAC (1964-65). Henry Miller wrote of him, "He will outlive our civilization and probably be better known, better understood, both as a man and artist, five thousand years hence." His work, simple in style and monumental in scale, includes smoothly rounded animals in granite and icons sheathed in stainless steel. Only five feet tall, Bufano was a controversial, free spirit until his death in San Francisco on Aug. 16, 1970. Member: SFAA; NSS; American Artists Congress. Exh: Whitney Museum (NYC), 1917; Arden Gallery...
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Late 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

A Woman from Harem - Hand Colored Lithograph - 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
A Woman from Harem is an original lithograph, Hand-colored on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century, Titled on the lower center in Italian" Una Donna Dell'Harem". ...
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19th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Man on Horseback - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Man on Horseback" is an original print in etching technique on ivory-colored cardboard , by Anonymous Artist of the XVIII Century. In excellent condi...
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18th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Tamarin - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
Tamarin is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Rooster - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Rooster" is an original woodcut realized by Mino Maccari (1898-1989). In good conditions. This artwork represents a rooster while singing with the village's house in its backgroun...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

The Ram And Sheep - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Ram And Sheep is an original colored lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", a...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Modern animal prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Modern animal prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add animal prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, yellow, blue, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Jean Jeacques Grandville, Louis Legrand, TURPIN, P[ierre Jean Francois], and Pablo Picasso. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Etching and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern animal prints, so small editions measuring 1.5 inches across are also available. Prices for animal prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $36 and tops out at $35,000, while the average work sells for $176.

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