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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
Original "The Greatest Show on Earth" 1951 vintage movie poster US 1-sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “The Greatest Show on Earth” vintage US 1 sheet movie poster. Cecil B DeMille’s 1951 movie. Archival linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. Original theater-issued fold marks restored during linen backing. Over 70 years old, 1st printing. Welcome to the circus. The Greatest Show on Earth starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Offset

Pig (Pet Commissions Welcome!)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Genevieve Hamel Pig Digital Print after Colored Pencil on Wood Panel Year: 2021 Image Size: 7x5in Size: 14x11in Edition: 25 Signed, inscribed and numbe...
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2010s Modern Animal Prints

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Digital Pigment

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

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Lithograph, Paper

"Unicorn Moebius II" - Trial Proof Lithograph in Ink on Laid Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Unicorn Moebius II" - Trial Proof Lithograph in Ink on Laid Paper High contrast, multi-layer etching by Bruce Weinberg (American, 1942-1994). A moebius strip is shown against a dar...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Laid Paper, Lithograph

Pablo Picasso - Jeu de la Cape - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph by Picasso Atelier Mourlot. Paper: Vélin. Dimensions : 9 5/8 x 12 7/16 inches Reference: Bloch 1015 Picasso is not just a man and his work. Picasso is always a legend, ...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Cosaques en Service Militaire - Lithograph by Auguste Raffet - 1838
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on wove paper. Signed and date in the plate. Image dimension: 19.5x28 cm. A fine and atmospheric lithograph by Auguste Raffet, the celebrated French lithographer and pa...
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1830s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Owl - Plamienka driemavá
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Etching on fine art paper, E.A. 1/1 from the cycle " Botanical Dream Nr. 11", presented in the Danubiana Meulenstein Art Museum in Bratislava/2021..
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Animal Prints

Materials

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

Ostrich - Original Lithograph by Georges Bastia - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ostrich is an original lithograph artwork on paper realized by Georges Bastia (1904-1980)in the 1950s. Signed on the lower right. Good Conditions.
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Lumbermen.
Located in Storrs, CT
Lumbermen. 1923. Etching. Appleby 91. 9 x 12 (sheet 12 3/8 x 18 1/8). Edition 100. A cleanly-wiped impression printed on off-white 'FG Head & Co' laid paper with full margins. Signed...
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1920s Modern Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Lumbermen.
Lumbermen.
$500 Sale Price
33% Off
Eagle Fischerman - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Eagle Fisherman is an etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Bible : The Lion of Judah and the Tablets of the Law - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc CHAGALL (1887-1985) Bible : The Lion of Judah and the Tablets of the Law, 1962 Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Unsigned On Vellum 32.5 x 24 cm REFERENCE: Mourlot catalo...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Prehistoric Sighting Pacific Ocean (Goblin Sharks?)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a single color lithograph created by Matthew Roath as part of Tamarind Institute PTP. The Collaborating printer isAndreea Cristina Mateescu....
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Mr. Monkey Painter Set Off - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
Mr.Monkey Painter Set Off 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 Manesq...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

The Bee Bride - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
The Bee Bride 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 Manesq & Harvard, ...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Chaim Soutine, Hanging Hare, from Soutine, I, 1966 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Chaim Soutine (1893–1943), titled Lievre pendu (Hanging Hare), from the folio Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, 1966, originates from the edition published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, and printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, on October 20, 1966. The work conveys the heightened emotional tension and expressive force characteristic of Soutines painterly vision, capturing in lithographic form the dynamic structure and psychological immediacy that define his mature still lifes. Executed as a lithograph on velin d'Arches paper, this work measures 26 x 20 inches. Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued The edition exemplifies the technical mastery of the Mourlot atelier. Artwork Details: Artist: After Chaim Soutine (1893–1943) Title: Lievre pendu (Hanging Hare), from the folio Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy Medium: Lithograph on velin d'Arches paper Dimensions: 26 x 20 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1966 Publisher: Fernand Mourlot, Paris Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the folio Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, 1966 Notes: Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This album, the first of a series dedicated to Mr. Pierre Levys collection, was printed in DL examples on Arches velin. Printing was finished on October 20, 1966 by Mourlot for lithographs of the canvases of Soutine, and by Fequet and Baudier for Waldemar Georges unpublished text. Fernand Mourlot, Paris 1966. About the Publication: Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, published in 1966 by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, is the first album in the important series devoted to the Pierre Levy collection, one of the most significant private collections of twentieth century French painting. Conceived as a scholarly and visual record, the album was designed to present key works by Chaim Soutine in lithographic form at a time when renewed international interest in the artist was expanding. Created in collaboration with Mourlot Freres, the foremost lithographic atelier in France, the publication reflects the printers commitment to translating Soutines canvases into richly tonal lithographs that preserve the emotional intensity and structural drama of the originals. Issued in a single edition on Arches velin, the album stands as an essential document of postwar art publishing, illuminating the historical partnership between artist, collector, and master printer, and contributing to the larger historiography of modern French Expressionism and museum quality print albums of the mid twentieth century. About the Artist: Chaim Soutine (1893–1943) was a Belarus-born French Expressionist painter whose explosive brushwork, emotionally charged distortions, and uncompromising commitment to depicting the psychological intensity of human experience have secured his place as one of the most vital and transformative figures in twentieth century art, creating his legacy within the same revolutionary modernist environment defined by Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray; after leaving his impoverished childhood in Smilavichy and arriving in Paris in 1913, Soutine immersed himself in the School of Paris circle at La Ruche—an incubator of international avant garde talent—where he developed formative friendships with Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Jules Pascin, and other pioneering artists whose daring approaches inspired him to push color, gesture, and form into new emotional territories. His portraits of cooks, choirboys, servants, and village residents; his tempestuous landscapes of Cagnes, Chartres, and Ceret; and his deeply visceral still lifes—most famously his monumental depictions of slaughtered carcasses—reveal a singular ability to transform ordinary subjects into raw, pulsing, almost metaphysical dramas, building on the influence of Rembrandt, Goya, Velazquez, and El Greco while departing radically from academic restraint. His paintings vibrate with psychological tension, their twisted perspectives, molten colors, and trembling outlines capturing an inner world marked by anxiety, longing, resilience, and profound empathy. Soutines originality profoundly shaped the evolution of modern painting: Francis Bacon cited him as one of his greatest influences, Willem de Kooning and the Abstract Expressionists admired his gestural ferocity, and later artists—including Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, and Adrian Ghenie...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Chaim Soutine, The Hare at the Green Shutter, from Soutine, I, 1966 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Chaim Soutine (1893–1943), titled Le Lievre au volet vert (The Hare at the Green Shutter), from the folio Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, 1966, originates from the edition published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, and printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, on October 20, 1966. The work conveys the heightened emotional tension and expressive force characteristic of Soutines painterly vision, capturing in lithographic form the dynamic structure and psychological immediacy that define his mature still lifes. Executed as a lithograph on velin d'Arches paper, this work measures 26 x 20 inches. Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. The edition exemplifies the technical mastery of the Mourlot atelier. Artwork Details: Artist: After Chaim Soutine (1893–1943) Title: Le Lievre au volet vert (The Hare at the Green Shutter), from the folio Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy Medium: Lithograph on velin d'Arches paper Dimensions: 26 x 20 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1966 Publisher: Fernand Mourlot, Paris Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the folio Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, 1966 Notes: Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This album, the first of a series dedicated to Mr. Pierre Levys collection, was printed in DL examples on Arches velin. Printing was finished on October 20, 1966 by Mourlot for lithographs of the canvases of Soutine, and by Fequet and Baudier for Waldemar Georges unpublished text. Fernand Mourlot, Paris 1966. About the Publication: Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, published in 1966 by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, is the first album in the important series devoted to the Pierre Levy collection, one of the most significant private collections of twentieth century French painting. Conceived as a scholarly and visual record, the album was designed to present key works by Chaim Soutine in lithographic form at a time when renewed international interest in the artist was expanding. Created in collaboration with Mourlot Freres, the foremost lithographic atelier in France, the publication reflects the printers commitment to translating Soutines canvases into richly tonal lithographs that preserve the emotional intensity and structural drama of the originals. Issued in a single edition on Arches velin, the album stands as an essential document of postwar art publishing, illuminating the historical partnership between artist, collector, and master printer, and contributing to the larger historiography of modern French Expressionism and museum quality print albums of the mid twentieth century. About the Artist: Chaim Soutine (1893–1943) was a Belarus-born French Expressionist painter whose explosive brushwork, emotionally charged distortions, and uncompromising commitment to depicting the psychological intensity of human experience have secured his place as one of the most vital and transformative figures in twentieth century art, creating his legacy within the same revolutionary modernist environment defined by Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray; after leaving his impoverished childhood in Smilavichy and arriving in Paris in 1913, Soutine immersed himself in the School of Paris circle at La Ruche—an incubator of international avant garde talent—where he developed formative friendships with Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Jules Pascin, and other pioneering artists whose daring approaches inspired him to push color, gesture, and form into new emotional territories. His portraits of cooks, choirboys, servants, and village residents; his tempestuous landscapes of Cagnes, Chartres, and Ceret; and his deeply visceral still lifes—most famously his monumental depictions of slaughtered carcasses—reveal a singular ability to transform ordinary subjects into raw, pulsing, almost metaphysical dramas, building on the influence of Rembrandt, Goya, Velazquez, and El Greco while departing radically from academic restraint. His paintings vibrate with psychological tension, their twisted perspectives, molten colors, and trembling outlines capturing an inner world marked by anxiety, longing, resilience, and profound empathy. Soutines originality profoundly shaped the evolution of modern painting: Francis Bacon cited him as one of his greatest influences, Willem de Kooning and the Abstract Expressionists admired his gestural ferocity, and later artists—including Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, and Adrian Ghenie...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The Petition - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
The Petition 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 age...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

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 t...
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1930s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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

Le Beau Monde aux Tuileries - Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
Le Beau Monde aux Tuileries 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 Co...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, 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
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Birds in a Nest - Woodblock Print on Paper #3/6
Located in Soquel, CA
Birds in a Nest - Woodblock Print on Paper #3/6 Black and white woodblock by Janet Wheeler (American, 1922-2001). Four birds are shown in a nest, along with a cracked eggshell. The birds and the nest are depicted in a bold, stylized manner, with clever use of negative space. Numbered "3/6" at bottom center. Signed "Janet P Wheeler...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Ink, Woodcut

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

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

Materials

Lithograph

Original Gene Autry Gold Mine in the Sky US 1-sheet linen backed movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Gene Autry Gold Mine in the Sky linen-backed original vintage movie poster. The poster does show some foxing on the original theatrical fold marks. Republic Pictures. ...
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1940s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Exhibition at Brewster Gallery, Lithograph Poster after Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
After Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) - Exhibition at Brewster Gallery. Year: circa 1975, Medium: Lithograph Poster, Size: 35 in. x 21.5 in. (88.9 cm x 54.61 cm)
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

A Family Scene - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
A Family Scene 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 Conditions. Th...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Cheval Noir, Modern Etching and Aquatint by Andre Francois
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Francois, Hungarian (1915 - 2005) - Cheval Noir, Year: circa 1960, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 6/50, Image Size: 15.5 x ...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

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

l' Ivrogne et sa Femme
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985) Title: l'Ivrogne et sa Femme Year: 1927 Medium: Original etching Edition: fom the unumbered edition of 200 Paper: Montval Laid paper Image ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Cheval jaune et bleu, Modern Etching and Aquatint by Andre Francois
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Francois, Hungarian (1915 - 2005) - Cheval jaune et bleu, Year: circa 1960, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 6/50, Image Size:...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Bonnard, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 155, 1965. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeu...
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1960s 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

Eric Gill 1934 Woodblock Print 'From the Books of Philip Hofer' 'Ex Libris' Lion
Located in London, GB
From a series of wood engravings by Eric Gill. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - ...
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1930s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Doe Bow (Christmas Bow Features Santa's Reindeer, Word Play)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A series of prints was commissioned by the Met Museum in NY in a regular edition of 40 This impression is from an edition of 5 artist proofs. This impression is #4/5 Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting. In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
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2010s Modern Animal Prints

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Intaglio

Birds (Retouche), Modern Screenprint by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Birds (Retouche), Medium: Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 61/100, Size: 19 in. x 13 in. (48.26 cm x 33.02 cm)
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Screen

Death and The Lumberjack - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #101
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall Fables : Death and The Lumberjack, 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate Numbered 61 / 85 On Montval vellum 39 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) With COA of the ga...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Bulls and a Frog - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #106
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall Fables : Bulls and a Frog , 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate Numbered 61 / 85 On Montval vellum 39 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) With COA of the gallery a...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Mouse and Chair
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on white wove paper with a deckle edge, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (598 x 317 mm); sheet 30 x 22 1/2 (762 x 571 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 20/50 in penc...
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Late 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Le Cerf De Corse - Etching by Buvée l'Américain - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Anatomy is an artwork realized  by  Buvée l'Américain in 1771.   Etching B./W. print  on ivory paper. The artwork belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et parti...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Eli Jacobi "The Lion" Colored Woodcut
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eli Jacobi: 1898-1984. Very important artist who was born in Kharkov Ukraine. His art studies began at the Bezalel Art Institute in Palestine. He was impris...
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1940s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

The Rat and the Elephant - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #179
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall Fables : The Rat and the Elephant, 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum 39 x 30 cm (c. 15.5 x 12 in) With COA of the gallery and photo...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Birds - Etching by Robert De Launay - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Birds is an etching realized in 1771 by Robert De Launay. The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditions.
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Astrology and Zodiac : Aries - Lithograph, Ltd 100 copies
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Marais (1913 - 1998) Astrology and Zodiac : Aries Original lithograph Signed with the stamp of the artist (Also bears printed signature in the plate) Numbered / 100 copies On v...
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Late 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The Monkey - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Rat 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, Paper

The lover's Interlacing - Original wooodcut, Handsigned and numbered / 105
Located in Paris, IDF
Robert BONFILS The lover's interlacing, 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 the editor 'Imagie...
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1920s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Fir Play
Located in New Orleans, LA
A series of prints was commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York in a regular edition of 40. This impression is from an edition of 5 artist proofs. This impression is #4/5. Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting. In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
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2010s Modern Animal Prints

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Intaglio

Fir Play
Fir Play
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Le Tapir - Etching by Juste Chevillet - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Tapir is an etching realized by Juste Chevillet in 1771. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi". Pa...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

"The Fish" Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe, Trout, Black and White, Water, Animal Art
Located in New York, NY
Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe The Fish, 1935 Signed and dated in pencil lower right Monotype on paper Image 6 x 8 1/2 inches Exhibited Dallas Museum of Art, Ida O'Keeffe: Escaping Georgia's...
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1930s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Monotype

Grallae - Etching by Jean Francois Turpin-1831
Located in Roma, IT
This is one of the illustrations of " Dizionario di scienze naturali " (Natural sciences dictionary) edited by Battelli nel 1831.  The work was made of 29 volumes, containing hundred...
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1830s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

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

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Etching

Rotche - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Rotche 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 London, Bell...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Ibis - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Ibis 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 London, Bell &...
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1870s Modern Animal Prints

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Woodcut

Little Zoo III - Abstract with Tiger and Parrots
Located in London, GB
Michael Rothenstein Little Zoo III, 1990 Screenprint on Velin Arches paper 54 x 45 cm Edition 9 of 100 hand-signed and numbered 9 of 100. published by Flowers Graphics, London in 19...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Screen

"Field Bird", Mid Century Modern Earthtone Abstract Serigraph with Bird
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century modern abstract serigraph with a bird by Howard Bradford (Canadian/American, 1919-2008), 1959. This limited edition figurative abstract pri...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Printer's Ink, Screen

Mexican Scene, Modern Screenprint by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Mexican Scene, Medium: Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 6/100, Size: 24 x 19.5 in. (60.96 x 49.53 cm)
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Screen

Le Porc - Etching by Jacques Baron - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Porc 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 wi...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Original "S.A.S. Scandinavia Airlines" vintage travel poster with 2 storks
Located in Spokane, WA
Scandinavia by SAS - Storks. Original vintage European travel poster created by the artist Otto Nielsen. This poster features the prop plane and would be SAS's earliest printing of the image. Archival linen-backed, fine condition, ready to frame. Beautiful travel poster for Scandinavian Airlines. Excellent condition with wonderful artistry and soft warm colors. SAS was founded in 1946 as a consortium of the national airlines of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Over the years, it has played a crucial role in connecting Scandinavia with the rest of the world. Otto Nielsen was a Danish artist known for contributing to Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) posters. Born on December 29, 1916, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Nielsen became a prominent figure in the world of graphic design and illustration, particularly for his work with SAS. Otto Nielsen created a series of iconic posters for SAS during the mid-20th century. His artwork often featured stylized and colorful depictions of Scandinavian landscapes, culture, and landmarks. These posters were part of SAS's marketing campaigns to promote air travel to and from Scandinavia. This is an Original Lithograph Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction. The Vintage Poster has been working with collectors worldwide, helping them with their original vintage poster collections...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Offset

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

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