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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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Style: Modern
Christian Ludwig Martin, Geese
Located in New York, NY
Christian Ludwig Martin worked in Vienna. He was an artist, illustrator, and art teacher. 'Geese' is titled in German, and titled and signed in pencil. It is on a large sheet. While ...
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1920s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

2 Lazy 2 P
Located in Phoenix, AZ
2 Lazy 2P, ca. 1939 Lon Megargee Serigraph 20 x 24 inches Signed in screen Original serigraph print by Lon Megargee 1883 - 1960 Featured in "Hot Irons" by Oren Arnold and John Hale, 1940 SHIPPING CHARGES INCLUDE SHIPPING, PACKAGING & INSURANCE Lon Megargee created this serigraph from his commission with Oren Arnold and John Hale to do their dust jacket for the book, " Hot Irons", 1940. Arnold and Hale wanted to establish a reference work, an "authority", with a entertaining history about the evolution of the brand. Megargee created a painting of a steer that was branded with the script, 2 Lazy 2 P. Surrounding the steer is a random display of famous brands of ranches in the Southwest. It was well received and must have prompted Megargee to create the likeness as a print. The brand is described in chapter thirteen, page 207-208 and says, " Ed Stram, who was Arizona state veterinarian for sixteen years, fire-branded his cattle with this peculiar crest. It isn't peculiar unless you have an equally peculiar sense of humor. At a glance it appears to be just another typically unimaginative brand, but it has been used to make many a thousand girls blush, and a few thousand bashful young men as well". COLLIER GALLERY, FINE ART ESTATE OF LON MEGARGEE Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lon Megargee, at age 13, ran away from his upper class home and went West in 1896 led by his zest for the wild and adventuresome life. There he established a reputation as a cowboy painter and illustrator with work most associated with Arizona Brewing Company ads featuring humorous aspects of cowboy life. In his youth, he worked as a free-lance cowboy, exhibition roper, poker dealer, and bronco buster in Arizona, and then went east again to study art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and to New York at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute. He returned to Arizona, living in Cave Creek, Salt River Canyon, Phoenix and the last years of his life near Sedona. His Phoenix home later became a popular hotel and dining place called the Hermosa Inn. Megargee was a ranch owner and also did oil canvases of the places he loved and the cowboy life he admired. By 1910, he was among the earliest resident artists, and was probably the best known artist in Arizona. His name was first associated with a landscape series of 15 large murals for the Capitol Building, newly constructed just after Arizona became a state in 1912. Another one of his paintings, Elemental, was the first painting by an artist living in Arizona to be acquired for the Municipal Collection of Phoenix. These works were chosen from entries in the State Fair, where he continued to win prizes for figure and landscape painting. From 1911 to 1953, he did numerous commission works for the Santa Fe Railroad, including a work titledNavajos Watching a Santa Fe Train. Between 1915 and 1930, he also painted in the Los Angeles area of California and had entries in the California State Fair. He died in Cottonwood, Arizona. After his death, theSaturday Evening Post had a double-page reproduction of his painting Cowboy's Dream. Creator of the iconic logo for the Stetson Hat Company, " Last Drop From his Stetson", still in use today. Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee We offer signed in print and original signature block prints. Custom, hand carved, signature frames, with archival standards and a speciality in hand dyed mats and french matting are provided for a beautiful and timeless presentation. Megargee explored different mediums; printmaking captivated him in particular. The contrast of the black and white block print method captured perfectly his interpretation of a bold American West. The first print was produced around 1921 and culminated with the creation of “The Cowboy Builds a Loop” in 1933 with 28 images and poetry by his friend, Roy George. Megargee continued producing prints throughout the 1940s and early 50s. At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar Ranch . . . and, after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook...
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1930s Modern Animal Prints

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Screen

The Competition - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
The Competition 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 Conditions but ...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Polish Swan - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Polish Swan 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 Londo...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Paul Jouve (after) - Tiger - Original Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve (after) - Tiger - Engraving 19 x 14 cm Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950. Copy on velin creme de Rives Copper engraving heightened with pochoir.
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Engraving

The Ox, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.330)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Ox 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 10.7 x 8.2 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

Max Ernst - The Soldier - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Max Ernst (1891-1976) Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, La Ballade du Soldat, Pierre Chave, Vence, 1972 Colour lithographs on Arches paper 1972 Edition : 199 Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm Refe...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Brood Mare Pasture, Impressionist Lithograph by Millard Sheets
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Millard Owen Sheets, American (1907 - 1989) Title: Brood Mare Pasture Year: circa 1977 Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil Edition: 250, A...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

"Brahma vs. Leghorn, " Farm Scene Wood Engraving by Howard Thomas
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Brahma vs. Leghorn" is an original wood engraving by Howard Thomas. In front of an understated farm house, Brahma and Leghorn face off, ready to battle. An unidentified plant sits on the center. Unsigned. Image: 6" x 7.44" Framed: 13.75" x 15.18 Thomas Howard (1899-1971) born a Quaker in Ohio, trained in the Midwest at Ohio State University and the Chicago Art Institute. He taught in the Art Department of the Milwaukee State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) where he became good friends with Carl Holty, Edward Boerner, Robert von Neumann...
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1930s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Mid-Century Original Printed Menu, Transatlantic French Line, 'Ile de France'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century French transatlantic liner menu with printed illustration by French artist Jean Adrien Mercier. Signed in the print, top left and dated 1956 inside centre. This highly c...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Printer's Ink

Georges Braque - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Georges Braque - Original Lithograph 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Andre Sauret, Monte Carlo The father of Cubism Three Cubist that distinguishes art historian periods were initiated and developed by Georges Braque: The Cubist Cézanne (1907-1909), Executive (1909-1912) and synthetic (1912-1922). Post-Impressionist and fawn, Braque no longer adheres to the contingency of a decorative way or the other. Cézanne’s paintings exhibited at the Grand Palais during the retrospective of 1907 are a revelation: Cézanne sought and invented a pictorial language. In his footsteps, Braque went to the South with the reasons of the Master. He returned with Estaque landscapes and surprising Ciotat it keeps Cezanne geometric model and retains the “passages” continuity from one surface to another to create the sensation of “turning around” of the object represented. But he wants to go after the consequences of the vision of Cezanne. In his paintings Houses in L’Estaque (1908) it simplifies the volumes of houses, neglects detail by removing doors and windows: the plastic rhythm that builds the table. Large Nude , a masterpiece of the period, can be considered the first work of Cézanne cubism . Systematizing and deepening Braque discoveries open the door analytical cubism. In 1909, his painting became more cerebral than sensual. The pattern is recreated in the two-dimensionality of the canvas, leaving aside any illusionistic perspective. In Still Life with Violin, objects are analyzed facets according to their characteristic elements, each facet referring to a particular view of the object. There are so many facets of points selected view: Table reflects the knowledge of the object and the ubiquity of the eye. Moreover, Braque is looking for the essence of the objects in the world rather than their contingency, which explains the absence of light source and use of muted colors (gray, ocher), contingent aspects of the object . But formal logic has stepped facets, erased any anecdote to the object and ultimately led to his painting a hermetic more marked on the edge of abstraction (see the series of Castle Roche-Guyon ). Braque, anxious to keep the concrete and refusing at all costs that the logic of Cubism takes the paintings to abstract, reintroduced signs of reality in his paintings in 1912 marks the beginning of Synthetic Cubism. Historians speak of “signs of real” rather than reality because what interests Braque, this is not to put reality into a table, but to create a painting which, by its language, refers to the real. To do this, he invented two major techniques XX th century inclusions and contributions. The inclusions consist of painting objects that have no real depth, materials (wallpaper in Nature morte aux playing cards faux wood is a pictorial inclusion) or letters (calligraphic inclusion in Portuguese ), made first brush and a few months later stencil. Contributions are defined in contrast with the collage on canvas of foreign materials: glued or sand paper, sawdust, etc.. Regarding the collages, Braque used for the first time in September 1912 a piece of adhesive paper imitating faux wood Compote and Glass , then the packet envelope of tobacco Bock in 1912-1913, or an advertisement in Damier , 1913). Inputs and inclusions refer to an external object in the table, without “emulate” this object. Away from their appearances, objects are represented in closest essence of the objects in the real world sense. This is also the time of Synthetic Cubism that Braque invented paper sculpture. There are, unfortunately, and no one is living proof of a photograph makes it possible to realize: Paper and paperboard. Métamorphoses period(1961-1963). In 1961, Georges Braque worked on a Greek head for the Louvre, which obsesses him, and he wishes to free his mind. He tried several times to bring out the paint and the result was unsatisfactory. He thinks the ultimate metamorphosis its Greek head projected in three dimensions. He calls in his studio of Baron Heger Loewenfeld, master lapidary, and he communicates his enthusiasm during the “fateful encounter.” Nine months later, in honor of the eighty years of Georges Braque, Heger Loewenfeld offers the Master of the ring Circe: the famous Greek head finally exorcised, carved in an onyx. Braque Loewenfeld then asked to identify other issues that haunt him. From dated and signed by Georges Braque, Heger gouaches Loewenfeld shapes works in the fields of jewelery, lapidary art...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

After Georges Braque - Oiseaux - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Georges Braque Oiseaux Color Pochoir on Paper Published in the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle (issue number 11 "Les nouveaux rapports de l'art et de la nature") 1958 Dimensions:...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Stencil

Les Papillons, Modern Colorful Lithograph by Fernand Leger
Located in Long Island City, NY
Les Papillons Fernand Leger, French (1881–1955) Date: 1948 Lithograph on Arches (unsigned) Image Size: 20 x 16 inches Size: 25.75 x 19.5 in. (65.41 x 49.53 cm) Printer: Mourlot, Pari...
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1940s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving Mme.Helvetius' Cats Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF). Conditions: excellent Edition: 100 Support: Arches paper. Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm Editions: Moret, Paris. Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery. Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau. A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Picasso, La Chèvre, 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

Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving Mme.Helvetius' Cats Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF). Conditions: excellent Edition: 100 Support: Arches paper. Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm Editions: Moret, Paris. Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery. Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau. A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Veterinarian, Animal Lover - Original etching, Handsigned & Numbered /80
Located in Paris, IDF
Miguel CONDÉ (1939-) Veterinarian, Animal Lover, 1981 Original etching Signed in pencil Numbered / 80 copies On vellum, 24 x 16.5 cm (c 10 x 6.5 in) Excellent condition
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Pajarito cantor (Singing Bird) [diptych] (1/20)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rocca Luis César Pajarito cantor (Singing Bird) [diptych], 2022 Serigraph in three colors Each of the two pieces is 19.70 x 19.70 in Edition of 20 This serigraph (silkscreen or scre...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Animal Prints

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Screen

The Lobster, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.352)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Lobster 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 7.9 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

Leonor Fini - Purple Surrealist Cat - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving Mme.Helvetius' Cats Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF). Conditions: excellent Edition: 100 Support: Arches paper. Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm Editions: Moret, Paris. Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery. Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau. A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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ARBORESCENSES I
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed with initials, dated ‘72’ and numbered. Screen printed vacuum-formed relief. Published by Pace Editions, New York. Webel 1092. Edition 55/75 (there were also ten art...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Screen

ARBORESCENSES I
ARBORESCENSES I
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The Vraic Season (No 1).
Located in Storrs, CT
The Vraic Season (No 1). 1936. Etching. Appleby 181. 12 x 14 1/4 (sheet 15 1/4 x 20). Edition 125 for The American College Society of Print Collectors (alternatively titled Seaweed H...
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1930s Modern Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

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

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Woodcut

The Mouses - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Mouses 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 ...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Orphean Warbler - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Orphean Warbler is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 187...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches backing sheet, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Corres...
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1940s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Original San Diego (Home Federal) 1974 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original travel poster: San Diego (Home Federal), artist: Robert Kinyon, 24.25" x 38", 1974; original Southern California poster. Excellent condi...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Offset

Original Stan Galli "Pacific Northwest" United Air Lines Vintage Poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Stan Galli "Pacific Northwest" United Air Lines Vintage Poster – Stunning Mid-Century Travel Art. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. Grade A. ...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Offset

Death on Horse (~40% OFF LIST PRICE - LIMITED TIME ONLY)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Clean & Pristine Death on Horse Archival Pigment Print on Heavy Paper 2021 16.5 x 11.75 inches Signed by hand, Stamped COA provided
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2010s Modern Animal Prints

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Archival Pigment

"The Catch (Les Mains du Pecheur), " Color Aquatint signed by Le Corbusier
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Catch (Les Mains du Pecheur)" is an original color aquatint by Le Corbusier. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and wrote the edition number, 10/30, in the lower lef...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Aquatint

The Green Bird, Modern Lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Expressionist poster of “The Green Bird” by Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887-1985) for Chagall’s exhibition in 1962 at Galerie Maeght in France. Marc Cha...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Original "The Ships Are Coming" vintage American poster with an Eagle.
By James Henry Daugherty
Located in Spokane, WA
Original: THE SHIPS ARE COMING vintage poster. Artist: James H. Daugherty (1889-1974) Publisher: U.S. Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publication Section, Philadelphia, 1917. Poster showing a giant eagle...
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1910s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Landscape with Deer Herds
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Deer Herds" c.1970 is an original color lithograph by French/Vietnamese artist Hoi Lebadang, 1922-2015. It is hand sig...
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Late 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Shepherdess and her Sheep - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri AMEDEE-WETTER (1869-1929) Shepherdess and her Sheep, 1920 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /105 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of...
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1920s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros. combined Circus original vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original circus poster: Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Combined Circus. Professional linen backed, ready to frame. Artist: Roland Butler. The Lion Tamer is ...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Fish Tank
Located in New York, NY
Color woodcut on Japan paper. Signed by the artist in ink, lower right. Titled and numbered 22/100 in pencil, lower left. Strong, vibrant colors; a richly-inked impression. Cata...
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1940s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut, Color

Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
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1930s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

The Horse "Lampo" - Lithograph by Giorgio de Chirico - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
The horse "Lampo" is a modern artwork realized by Giorgio De Chirico in 1971. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed, titled and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of 30/48 inc...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Sommets d'Auvergnelaure - Etching by Jules Laurens - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Sommets d'Auvergnelaure is a black and white etching realized by Jules Laurens (1825–1901) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 23cmx30.5cm. Very Good condition. Signed in ...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches backing sheet, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Corres...
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1940s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches backing sheet, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Corres...
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1940s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Original The New Great Lakes in South Dakota travel and sports vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original The New Great Lakes in South Dakota vintage travel and sports poster. Promoting fishing, camping, boating, and swimming. Linen backed and ready to frame. Although hard...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Offset

Picasso, Le Crapaud, 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

Nixon + Spiro - Zero, Extremely rare 1968 political poster offset lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Unknown Artist Nixon + Spiro - Zero, 1968 Extremely rare vintage 1960s Offset lithograph poster 28 × 22 inches Publisher Published by Joe A. Kennedy; printed by Provo Press Unframed,...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Ducks on Lake, Signed Modern Etching by Frank Weston Benson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ducks on Lake Frank Weston Benson, American (1862–1951) Date: 1923 Etching on thin wove paper, signed in pencil and dated in the plate Image Size: 11 x 14 inches Size: 14 x 16.5 in. ...
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1920s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Zephyr Bird, Lithograph by Joan Miro 1956
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original lithograph from the 1956 Derriere le Miroir “Miro-Artigas” folio. Printed by Mourlot, Published by Maeght, Paris. Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: Zephyr Bird...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Wheel of Life : To the Future - Lithograph, Ltd 100 copies
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Marais (1913 - 1998) Wheel of Life : To the Future Original lithograph Signed with the stamp of the artist (Also bears printed signature in the pla...
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Late 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Cudham, Kent
Located in Storrs, CT
Cudham, Kent. 1924. Etching. Tassi 15; Cooke 20. 3 1/8 x 4 (sheet 4 3/8 x 6 7/16). Edition of 42, including some artist's proofs. Published by the Twenty-One Gallery in London. Slight paper loss in the top left-hand corner. A rich impression with plate tone, printed by the artist on antique laid paper...
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Early 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Cudham, Kent
Cudham, Kent
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
"Lion Tamer" framed signed lithograph by Alexander Calder. Edition EA of 100.
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Lion Tamer" lithograph by Alexander Calder. Hand-lettered EA in lower left front corner. Hand-signed Calder in lower right front corner. From an ed...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Horse : The race - Original Lithograph, HANDSIGNED & Ltd /100
Located in Paris, IDF
Vincent HADDELSEY (1934-2010) Horse : The race, 1974 Original Lithograph Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 100 On Arches vellum 53 x 38 cm (c. 23 x 15 in) Excellent condition
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Joan Miro THREE PLATES I/V Lithograph
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983) Marking(s); notes: signed; I/V; 1975 Materials: lithograph on Japon paper Dimensions (H, W, D): 29.5"h, 21"w (work is no...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Chuzo Tamotzu Litho, Southwestern Landscape with Donkeys & Mission
Located in New York, NY
Chuzo Tamotzu (1891-1975) Untitled (Southwestern Scene), c. 1950 Lithograph Sight: 12 1/2 x 16 in. Framed: 19 1/2 x 23 1/4 x 1 in. Edition 14 of 30 Numbered lower left, signed lower...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Gallo
Located in Miami, FL
Mariano Rodriguez Gallo, 1984 Serigraph Ed. VII of XXV 29 x 22 in
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Gallo
Gallo
$2,800 Sale Price
30% Off
Etude de Tigre - Lithograph by Antoine-Louis Barye - Early 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Fine print with sheet in perfect conditions, on vélin blanc fort, belonging to the Bertauts Edition. Perfect and vivid impression. Full margins. Ref. Delteil 2. Prov. Collection Hen...
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Early 19th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Exodus, Modern Hand-Colored Lithograph by Savo Radulović
Located in Long Island City, NY
Savo Radulović, Serbian American (1911 - 1991) - Exodus, Medium: Hand colored Lithograph, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 20, Image Size: 9.5 x 14.25 inches, Size...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Alexander Calder UNTITLED Lithograph
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Marking(s); notes: ed. 111/200; 1976 Materials: lithograph on BFK Rives paper Dimensions (H, W, D): 15.75"h, 17....
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20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The hen by William GOLIASCH - Ink on paper 41x56 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Numbered 18/20 Work on paper Red wooden frame with glass pane 44 x 59 x 1,5 cm
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Late 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Ink

Modern animal prints for sale on 1stDibs.

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