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Robert Mapplethorpe 'Antinous' 1994
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This striking image by Robert Mapplethorpe, titled Antinous, reflects the artist’s deep engagement with classical form and idealized beauty. Featuring a statue of Antinous—beloved of...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Gregor MacGregor, Empire Cricketeer, Scottish cricket sport portrait lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Gregor MacGregor was a Scottish wicketkeeper for Middlesex and England. Tayler was an English artist who was a member of the Royal Academy of Painters. He was a cricketer himself, a...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

You Are Not Alone, You have this artwork for company - Contemporary Art
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley You are not alone, 2014 Linocut on wove paper 31 x 21 cm (image) 39 x 29 cm (paper) Edition 42 of 100 signed and numbered by the artist published by Schafer Editions ...
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2010s Contemporary More Prints

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Linocut

Nijinsky in Cleopatre.
Located in London, GB
BARBIER, George. Nijinsky in Cleopatre. London, C. W. Beaumont, 1913. ‘The designs, although somewhat fantastic in treatment, do convey the impression produced by Nijinsky in hi...
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1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Soutine, Le Lièvre au volet vert, Soutine, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1966 Paper Size: 26 x 20 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Soutine, I, Collect...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Merce Cunningham and dance Company
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Litografía de Joan Miró (1893-1983) - edición de 200 ejemplares numerada a lápiz. Medidas 72x50 cm. Firmada en plancha, numerada a lápiz (la numeración puede variar respecto a la f...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Original 1933 Concours de Photographie e Cinematographie vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1933 French Poster — Touring Club de France “Concours de Photographie et de Cinématographie” — Art Deco — Linen Backed Vintage Advertising Grade a- condition with minor r...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Stoats on a Rock - Lithograph - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Stoats on a Rock is an original print realized in the late 19th century by an anonymous illustrator. Color lithograph representing a group of stoats: one has just captured a lttle b...
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Late 19th Century Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Kabuki Scene- Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Kabuki Scene is an original artwork realized in the mid 19th century by the Japanese master Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). Color woodcut print. The artwork is a rare triptych (each ...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Portrait
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the drawing). Printed in 1927 and published in Paris by Albert Morance for "L'Art d'Aujourd'hui", and now very scarce. Sheet size: 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (268...
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1920s Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Memories of Surrealism Crazy Crazy Crazy Minerv
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Memories of Surrealism Crazy Crazy Crazy Minerv MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 29.25" x 21.75" YEAR: 1971 ...
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1970s Surrealist More Prints

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Etching

Paul V. Beaulieu-Man with Puppet-Mid Century
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This vintage offset lithograph, published by the National Gallery of Canada and printed by Cambridge Press Limited, Montreal, was created in 1950 by celebrated Canadian artist Paul V...
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20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Louise Bourgeois "Be Calm" Limited Edition Ceramic Dish MOMA
Located in New York, NY
Louise Bourgeois Be Calm Butter or Trinket Dish, 2017 Screenprint on Ceramic 6 × 4 × 1 inches Unframed Stamped by artist's estate, bears printed copyright and name stamp of The Easto...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Ceramic, Screen

Pablo Picasso - La Petite Corrida - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Original Lithograph La Petite Corrida (The Small Bullfight) 1958 Edition of 2000, unsigned Published in the journal XXe Siecle Dimens...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine Lithograph from 1954. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and s...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso - Le Ballet (The Ballet Dancer) - lithograph, Framed
Located in London, GB
Pablo Picasso The Ballet Dancer, 1954 Lithograph on paper 32 x 24 cm - sheet 55.5 x 49.5 cm - Framed unknown edition size Printed signature Reference: Bloch #767 and Mourlot #259 Fr...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Fishing in the Clouds, fantastical jungle inspired cityscape by Guillaume Cornet
Located in Dallas, TX
GUILLAUME CORNET (b. 1987, Paris, France) Guillaume Cornet is an artist working with illustration and painting, exploring notions of abstract geometry, influenced by surreal perspec...
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2010s Pop Art Landscape Prints

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Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Screen, Mixed Media

Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by Pietro Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Pietro Campana. Signed on plate on the ...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Etching

Limited edition Basquiat spray paint can 2017 (Basquiat graffiti)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Limited Edition Jean-Michel Basquiat spray paint published circa 2017 featuring the Estate trademark of Jean-Michel Basquiat. a unique Basquiat collectible that makes for a fantastic...
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1980s Street Art Prints and Multiples

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Metal

'Badminton', Alfred Watson, Vanity Fair caricature portrait, 1897
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Badminton' Chromolithograph. 1897. Vanity Fair portrait of Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1849-1922) who was a Music and Drama Critic. He wrote for the Saturday Review and occasion...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Vintage Chinese Hatamen Cigarettes Advertisement Poster, c. 1933
Located in Chicago, IL
This framed advertising poster for Hatamen Cigarettes from the late 1920s melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the nuanced color and fine resolution of color lithography. Ensconced in a filigree frame, a woman peers out alluringly, caressing the fur trim of her luxurious robe. Discreetly positioned on the lower corners, an open pack of Hatamen cigarettes makes a more subtle appeal to the senses. These advertisements, depicting fashionable women and influenced by the Art Deco movement in the west, recall the economic boom of early 20th-century Shanghai, an international center of business and trade. Today, these lithograph tobacco posters...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink

Rahab and the Spies of Jericho
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Rahab and the Spies of Jericho Lithograph from 1960. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fa...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1950 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lullaby
Located in New York, NY
Sila Sehrazat Yucel is a talented artist based in Istanbul. Her background in landscape and interior architecture shapes her creative vision. With experience as an art director in ci...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Archival Pigment

Surrealist Portrait of Dali Surrounded by Butterflies, Memories of Surrealism
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Surrealist Portrait of Dali Surrounded by Butterflies Portfolio: Memories of Surrealism Medium: Etching and photolithograph Date: 1971 Edition: AP XIV/XX...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Lithograph

Crazy Horse
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Crazy Horse MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 223/250 MEASUREMENTS: 30.5" x 22.25" YEAR: 1968 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Excelle...
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1960s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Litografía original II
Located in OPOLE, PL
Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Litografía original II Lithograph from 1972. Dimensions of work: 32 x 24.5 cm. Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris. Printed by: Fernand Mourlot, Paris. The ...
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1930s Surrealist More Prints

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Lithograph

Red Blue (Axsom 2), X + X, Ten Works by Ten Painters, Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, X + X, Ten Works by Ten Painters, 1964. Publishe...
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1960s Minimalist Landscape Prints

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Screen

Champions: Contemporary Art Center of Cleveland (Hand signed by Keith Haring)
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring (after) Champions / The Contemporary Art Center of Cleveland Poster, 1984 (Hand signed by Keith Haring), 1988 Offset lithograph (Hand sig...
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1980s Street Art Abstract Prints

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Felt Pen, Offset

"La Lithographie en Couleurs" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: multi-stone color lithograph (after the original Bonnard lithograph). Printed in 1952 on Renage paper at the Mourlot atelier in faithful recreation of the original. According...
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1950s Fauvist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Aristide Bruant" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the poster). Printed in Paris in 1950 by Mourlot Freres, this lithograph faithfully reproduces the original Toulouse-Lautrec poster in a smaller-size format...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Derain, Figure, Du cubisme (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching, Engraving on vélin du Lana Papiers Spéciaux pure rag paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Du Cubisme, 1947. Published by Compagn...
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1940s Modern Landscape Prints

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Etching, Engraving

David Hockney, Letter S, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by David Hockney (born 1937), titled Letter S, from the folio Hockney's Alphabet, Drawings by David Hockney, originates from the 1991 edition published by A...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Henri Matisse, Mrs. Mary Hutchinson, Portraits by Henri Matisse, 1954 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Madame Mary Hutchinson (Mrs. Mary Hutchinson), from the album Portraits par Henri Matisse (Portraits by Henri Mati...
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1950s Fauvist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"Untitled #365 " watercolor print on fine art paper
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Over the past 20 years, Michelle Oppenheimer has become well known for composing paintings that capture the imaginative and organic possibilities of abstract watercolor and acrylic. ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Inkjet

Whooping Crane /// John James Audubon Ornithology Natural History Wading Birds
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) Title: "Whooping Crane" (Plate 313, No. 63) Portfolio: The Birds of America, First Royal Octavo Edition Year: 1840-1844 Medium: Origi...
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1840s Victorian Animal Prints

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Watercolor, Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1951 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1951 Spr...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Nude Descending a Staircase, Pop Art Lithograph by Mel Ramos
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mel Ramos, American (1935 - ) Title: Nude Descending a Staircase Year: 2012 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Editi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Shepard Fairey Screenprint "Bliss At The Cliff's Edge" Global Warming Fine Art
Located in Draper, UT
"Fairly self-explanatory, but I’ll share my thoughts. Our planet Earth is often called 'Mother Earth' for reasons that seem obvious to me. Mothers are often the primary caregivers fo...
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2010s Landscape Prints

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Screen

"Kleine Welten III" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original). Printed in Paris in 1954 by Mourlot and published by Berggruen for a scarce catalogue. Image size: 4 3/4 x 4 inches (120 x 100 mm). There is ...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lightheaded - Contemporary Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Orange, 2025
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight kozo paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Personages - Etching by Wifredo Lam- 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Personages is print realized by Wifredo Lam (Sagua La Grande 1902 - Paris 1982) Colored etching on paper. Hand-signed and numbered, edition of XXI/XXV lower in pencil.
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

'Pipe and Brawn' — WPA Era American Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'Pipe and Brawn,' 1937, lithograph, edition 40. Signed and annotated 'Ed/40' in pencil. A superb, richly inked impression on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margin...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Frankenthaler, Mary Mary 1991, New York City, Lincoln Center
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) Title: Mary Mary (Lincoln Center Honorary) Year: 1991 Medium: Offset lithograph poster on extra thick Somerset paper Edition: 2000 Size...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Faces, Conceptual Collage on Board by Genichiro Inokuma
Located in Long Island City, NY
Genichiro Inokuma, Japanese (1902 - 1993) - Faces, Year: 1970, Medium: Collage on board, signed and dated in pencil, Size: 6 x 4 in. (15.24 x 10.1...
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1970s Conceptual Figurative Prints

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Mixed Media

Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Welcoming Jeers - Lithograph, 1997
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) Welcoming Jeers, 1997 Lithograph Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 76 x 56 cm (c. 29.9 x 22 in) Published by Galerie Enrico Navarra ...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Collection of Lemons - Lithograph by C. Frateantonio - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Interesting Colored litograph, representing man picking up lemons. Hand-signed and hand-numbered with pencil on lower margin by the Italian artist, Corrado Frateantonio. In good con...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Olympische Spiele Muenchen (Foot), Pop Art Screenprint Poster by Tom Wesselmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Tom Wesselmann (1931 - 2004) Title: Olympische Spiele Muenchen (Foot) Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint Poster mounted on linen Edition: 3000 Size: 40 in. x 25 in. (101.6 cm x 6...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Playing Cards - Lithograph poster for "Le Surrealisme" by Max ERNST (Mourlot)
Located in Paris, IDF
Exhibition poster after Max ERNST featuring an image of playing cards HIgh-quality lithograph printed in Mourlot workshop in 1964 Created for the exhibition "Le Surréalisme, Sources...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled (Woman), 2010 - Hand-Signed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The etching Woman by Kerry James Marshall, published by Paulson Fontaine Press in Berkeley, California, is a limited edition work, signed and numbered 30/50 by the artist. Presented ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Henri Matisse, Series I, Var. 1, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie I, var. 1 (Series I, Variation 1), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
A wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand- made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames. Joha...
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18th Century More Prints

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Watercolor, Mezzotint

Obra Inèdita Recent I
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is renowned internationally as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist. Miró’s works, which wer...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"Collette la Vagabonde" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Executed by Vertes in 1927 for "Collette la Vagabonde", this impression is printed on wove paper. The full sheet measures 12 x 9 inches (305 x 228 mm). N...
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1920s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Tree with moth, caterpillar..., Plate 39, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
Located in Middletown, NY
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate No. 39; Unidentified tree with moth, caterpillar and pupa. The Netherlands: 1705....
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Early 18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Engraving

Large Robert Longo TILLMAN Lithograph, 70"H (JAMES also available, priced each)
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Robert Longo (American, b. 1955) Marking(s); notes: signed, blind stamp; ed. HC 1/10 aside from edition of 50; 2000 Materials: lithograph on Arches wov...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1952 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1952 Spr...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Icart, Sans titre, Le Sopha (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
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1930s Modern Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

(after) Jean Hans Arp - lithograph for "Newyorker Kantaten"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). Printed in 1952 in Basel, Switzerland and published in Paris by Berggruen in an edition of 500 for Richard Hulsenbeck's "Die Newyorker Kantate...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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