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Figurative Prints For Sale
And Then.. (Hello) Limited Edition (print) by Takashi Murakami (DOB)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
And then, and then and then and then (Hello), 2008 by Takashi Murakami Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist 19 11/16 × 19 11/16 in 50 × 50 cm Edition 100/300 About the A...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Offset

Ya es Hora - Etching and and Aquatint by Francisco Goya - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Ya es Hora. is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition.Very g...
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1880s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

'Tree, Manhattan' — Classic American Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Martin Lewis, 'Tree, Manhattan', drypoint, 1930, edition 91 (including 10 trial proofs), McCarron 87. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression, in warm black ink, on cream...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Prints

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Drypoint

Werner Drewes, Winter, 1933, modernist woodcut
Located in New York, NY
A modernist fantasy winter scene created by Werner Drewes, this print brings key aspects of the period together. His cubist-inspired woodcut technique is utilized here to bring the s...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Chagall, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 155, 1965. Publ...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Blue Rose - Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Blue Rose is an original contemporary artwork realized by Giacomo Porzano in 1970s. Colored etching. Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left. Edition 25/50 G...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

Clairvoyance. Limited Edition (print) by Takashi Murakami signed, numbered
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Clairvoyance, 2015 by Takashi Murakami Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist Edition 205/300 Takashi Murakami is best known for his contemporary combination of fine art a...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Mexican Japanese woman artist 1998 signed original engraving art proof 21x25in
Located in Miami, FL
Namiko Prado Arai (Mexico, 1963) 'Untitled 3 (Buril)', 1998 etching, aquatint on paper Deponte 400g. 20.9 x 24.5 in. (53 x 62 cm.) Unframed ID: PRA-305 Hand-signed by author
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Ink, Etching

Grand Tier and the Met
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Grand Tier at the Met Etching, 1939 From: Reginald Marsh, Thirty Etchings and Engravings Published by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969 Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edit...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

William Dunas Dance 4 - Pamela, Lithograph by Alex Katz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alex Katz, American (1927 - ) Title: Night: William Dunas Dance II Year: 1983 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 106/125 and there were also 17 artist...
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1970s American Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

William Hamilton Classical Greek Vase-Painting Engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting two women and two youths from an unidentified vase. Technique : Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring Background inf...
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Early 1800s Other Art Style Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Hong Kong urbanscape lithograph
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Moscardó (1953) - Girona Cathedral Lithograph - Hand signed Lithograph measures 54x76 cm. Frameless. Numbered 12/150 Barcelona, 1953 Painter, sculptor and draftsman of deep-r...
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1990s Fauvist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Roy Lichtenstein Tryptich "as I opened fire" 1966 Stedelijk Museum Amsterd
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "As I opened fire" is a lithograph triptych by Roy Lichtenstein whose provenance is printed on verso: Coll. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Editions were copyrighted by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and corrected with the original and printed in the Netherlands. Each piece measures: 25 1/8" h x 20 5/8" w. Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. During the 1960s through the 90’s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody. Most of Lichtenstein's best-known works are relatively close, but not exact, copies of comic book panels, a subject he largely abandoned in 1965. Lichtenstein's Still Life paintings, sculptures and drawings, which span from 1972 through the early 1980s, cover a variety of motifs and themes, including the most traditional such as fruit, flowers, and vases. Inspired by the comic strip, Lichtenstein produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in cheek manner. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. His artwork was considered to be "disruptive". He described pop art as "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting". His paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. Wham!, and Drowning Girl Look Mickey proved to be his most influential works. His most expensive piece is Masterpiece which was sold for $165 million in January 2017. Lichtenstein received both his Bachelors and Masters at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio where he taught for ten years. In 1967, he moved back to upstate New York and began teaching again. It was at this time that he adopted the Abstract Expressionist style, being a late convert to this style of painting. Lichtenstein began teaching in upstate New York at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1958. About this time, he began to incorporate hidden images of cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny into is abstract works. In 1960, he started teaching atRutgers University where he was heavily influenced by Allan Kaprow, who was also a teacher at the university. This environment helped reignite his interest in Proto-pop imagery. In 1961, Lichtenstein began his first pop paintings using cartoon images and techniques derived from the appearance of commercial printing. This phase would continue to 1965, and included the use of advertising imagery suggesting consumerism and homemaking. His first work to feature the large-scale use of hard-edged figures and Ben-Day dots was Look Mickey (1961), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.) This piece came from a challenge from one of his sons, who pointed to a Mickey Mouse comic book and said; "I bet you can't paint as good as that, eh, Dad?" In the same year he produced six other works with recognizable characters from gum wrappers and cartoons. It was at this time that Lichtenstein began to find fame not just in America but worldwide. He moved back to New York to be at the center of the art scene in 1964 to concentrate on his painting. Lichtenstein used oil and Magna (early acrylic) paint in his best known works, such as Drowning Girl (1963), which was appropriated from the lead story in DC Comics’ Secret Hearts No. 83, drawn by Tony Abruzzo. (Drowning Girl now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.) Drowning Girl also features thick outlines, bold colors and Ben-Day dots, as if created by photographic reproduction. Of his own work Lichtenstein would say that the Abstract Expressionists "put things down on the canvas and responded to what they had done, to the color positions and sizes. My style looks completely different, but the nature of putting down lines pretty much is the same; mine just don't come out looking calligraphic, like Pollock’s or Kline’s. Rather than attempt to reproduce his subjects, Lichtenstein's work tackled the way in which the mass media portrays them. He would never take himself too seriously, however, saying: "I think my work is different from comic strips – but I wouldn't call it transformation; I don't think that whatever is meant by it is important to art.” When Lichtenstein's work was first exhibited, many art critics of the time challenged its originality. His work was harshly criticized as vulgar and empty. The title of a Life magazine article in 1964 asked, "Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?" Lichtenstein responded to such claims by offering responses such as the following: "The closer my work is to the original, the more threatening and critical the content. However, my work is entirely transformed in that my purpose and perception are entirely different. I think my paintings are critically transformed, but it would be difficult to prove it by any rational line of argument.” In 1969, Lichtenstein was commissioned by Gunter Sachs to create Composition and Leda and the Swan, for the collector's Pop Art bedroom suite at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz. In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, Lichtenstein received major commissions for works in public places: the sculptures Lamp (1978) in St. Mary's, Georgia; Mermaid (1979) in Miami Beach; the 26 feet tall Brushstrokes in Flight (1984, moved in 1998) at John Glenn Columbus International Airport; the five-storey high Mural with Blue Brushstroke (1984–85) at the Equitable Center, New York and El Cap de Barcelona (1992) in Barcelona. In 1994, Lichtenstein created the 53-foot-long, enamel-on-metal Times Square Mural in Times Square subway station. In 1977, he was commissioned by BMW to paint a Group 5 Racing Version of the BMW 320i for the third installment in the BMW Art Car Project. The DreamWorks Records logo was his last completed project. "I'm not in the business of doing anything like that (a corporate logo) and don't intend to do it again," allows Lichtenstein. "But I know Mo Ostin and David Geffen and it seemed interesting. In 1996 the The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. became the largest single repository of the artist's work when Lichtenstein donated 154 prints and 2 books. The Art Institute of Chicago has several important works by Lichtenstein in its permanent collection, including Brushstroke with Spatter (1966) and Mirror No. 3 (Six Panels) (1971). The personal holdings of Lichtenstein's widow, Dorothy Lichtenstein, and of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation number in the hundreds. In Europe, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne has one of the most comprehensive Lichtenstein holdings with Takka Takka (1962), Nurse (1964), Compositions I (1964), besides the Frankfurt Museum fur Modern Kunst with We Rose Up slowly (1964), and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes...
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1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Calder, Composition, A Bestiary (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Letterpress printing on spécialement fabriqué Curtis Rag vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.1875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, A Best...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Extraña devoción! - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
Located in Roma, IT
Extrana Devocion is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810. Original Etching on paper. The artwork belongs to the famous series "Los Desa...
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1860s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Pablo Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) - hand-signed lithograph on Arches–1962 (Bloch103)
Located in Varese, IT
Pablo Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) –Portrait de Famille , Six Personnages ( Ref Bloch 1031; Mourlot 385 ) lithograph on Arches paper, edited in 1962 Limited edition of 50 copies signed ...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

The Dove of the Ark - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956. Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies. Not signed nor numbered, as issued. ...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

My Mother Bridlington, Hand Signed Tate Gallery print, Ed. of 250 w/official COA
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney My Mother (Bridlington), 1988 Four Color Lithograph on T.H. Saunders Waterford 250 gram paper. Hand signed. Also accompanied by a separate signed Certificate of Authent...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

"Femme Fiere" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal""
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Femme Fiere" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal" created in 1937/38, is an original color aquatint on Montval paper by renown French artist Georges Rouault, 1871-...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

A FANCY LADY
Located in Portland, ME
Dine, Jim. A FANCY LADY. Williams College 206. Etching with hand-coloring, 1976. Edition of 30 (there were a further 16 proofs for the artist and othe...
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1970s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Andy Warhol Custer Print
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer: Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) Marking(s); notes: copyright/publisher’s ink stamp, blind stamp; unknown edition size; 1986 Materials: screenprint in colors on Len...
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20th Century Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Screen

Tulips in a Round Vase
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, titled "Tulips in a Round Vase" and dated 2000, is an original color lithograph on Arches paper by noted American artist Gary Bukovnik, born 1947. It is signed and numb...
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Early 2000s American Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition (Orozco 238), Picasso, La flûte double (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas paper, spécialement filigrané pour cette édition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Jules, Gretchen, Mark (state II)
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this lithograph with embossing on Arches. One of 4 numbered printer's proofs, aside from the edition of 30. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right, and ins...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Melancholic Muses II
Located in London, GB
'Melancholic Muses II', one of a poignant set of six signed artist proof lithographs by the celebrated Spanish artist from Barcelona, Vicenç Caraltó (circa 1960s). This collection of...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso - Visage - hand-signed lithograph on BFK Rives paper - 1967
Located in Varese, IT
Lithograph in cream and black, on Rives BFK paper, (with watermark) Edited in 1967 , signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner, numbered 25/100 published by Published by Le Pa...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Untitled - Lithograph by Wifredo Lam - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a contemporary artwork realized by Wifred Lam. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of 5/30. Some folds and signs of time, ...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Roland Garros French Open
By Juan Uslé
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In 2014, Juan Uslé was commissioned to create the official Roland Garros poster, infusing the French Open with his distinctive abstract style. His design features flowing lines and v...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Offset

Baden Baden, Casino
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Baden Baden, Casino" 1988 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 261/375 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 36 x 42 inches, sheet size is 42 x 48 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, three small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back. About the artist: Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival. Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes. Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions. When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union. In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care. Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out." His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995. LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather. He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess. As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid." After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war. On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s. When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint. While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine. In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician. Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation. In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter. Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world. "Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962. Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him. A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters. Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS. Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

Jellyfish Eyes - Black 1. Limited Edition (print) by Takashi Murakami signed
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Jellyfish Eyes - Black 1 by Takashi Murakami (2004) Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist 19 ¹¹/₁₆ × 19 ¹¹/₁₆ in 50 × 50 cm Edition 41/300 Takashi Murakami is best known ...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Offset

Keith Haring Safe Sex! (Vintage Keith Haring 1987)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Original 1987 Keith Haring Safe Sex poster: Illustrated by Keith Haring in conjunction with his many Aids Awareness efforts. A historical vintage 1980s Keit...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Dubuffet, Personnages I, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°6, 1956. Published and printed under the direction of Gualti...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

René Gruau Les Pivonies The Peony Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
René Gruau LES PIVOINES - THE PEONY - 1998 Print - Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper   46'' x 22'' Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 59/300 Embossed with the printers stamp Mou...
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1990s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Art Deco Antique Poster "Eugene - Ondulation Permanente"
Located in Hinsdale, IL
FOSSEY (DATES UNKNOWN) EUGENE / ONDULATION PERMANENTE. 1926. Shee Size: 35 1/4x22 1/2 inches, 89 1/2 x 57 cm. C. Courtois, Paris. This is a gorgeous example of art deco artwork...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

10 Statues of Liberty, Paris, rare 1980s offset lithograph poster (limited ed.)
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol 10 Statues of Liberty, Paris, 1986 Offset Lithograph 38 3/4 × 27 inches Edition of 500 Published by: Galerie Lavignes-Bastille, Paris...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

United Colors of Benetton
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction features a powerful advertisement by Oliverio Toscani for United Colors of Benetton, depicting two young girls—one Caucasian and one of African descent—embracing ea...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Offset

Invocation
Located in New York, NY
M a x W e b e r – – 1 8 8 1 – 1 9 6 1 Invocation- – 1919-20, Color Woodcut. Rubenstein 27. Proofs only. Signed in pencil. Image size 3 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches (124 x 54 mm); sheet size ...
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1910s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Ellera - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Shakespeare XII (Bloch 1197), Picasso-Aragon Shakespeare (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper Year: 1965 Paper Size: 19 x 13 inches Catalogue raisonné reference: Bloch, illustration 1197 Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as iss...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Aurore
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM. Unframed. Edition of 250 ex. Paper: 300gr. Goya. Signed, dated and numbered. Free shipment worldwide. Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed aw...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

"Couple Making Love" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #4 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Kli...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

The Acropolis, Athens
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. In generally good conditon with several scattered very light spots of foxing throughout,...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Le Clairon, 1993, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned and numbered
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013) Le Clairon, 1993 Lithographie sur papier Arches, justifiée EA12/30 Signée en bas à droite 65 x 50 cm / 76 x 56 cm Bibliographie: CR Jansem, 2000, n°85 "Ma...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"The Capture, " Jacob Lawrence, Harlem Renaissance, Black Art, Haitian Series
Located in New York, NY
Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) The Capture of Marmelade (from The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture series), 1987 Color screenprint on Bainbridge Two Ply Rag paper Sheet 32 1/8 x 22 1/16 inches Sight 29 3/4 x 19 1/4 inches A/P 1/30, aside from the edition of 120 Signed, titled, dated, inscribed "A/P" and numbered 1/30 in pencil, lower margin. Literature: Nesbett L87-2. A social realist, Lawrence documented the African American experience in several series devoted to Toussaint L’Ouverture, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, life in Harlem, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He was one of the first nationally recognized African American artists. “If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man’s continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being.” — Jacob Lawrence quoted in Ellen Harkins Wheat, Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938 – 40. The most widely acclaimed African American artist of this century, and one of only several whose works are included in standard survey books on American art, Jacob Lawrence has enjoyed a successful career for more than fifty years. Lawrence’s paintings portray the lives and struggles of African Americans, and have found wide audiences due to their abstract, colorful style and universality of subject matter. By the time he was thirty years old, Lawrence had been labeled as the ​“foremost Negro artist,” and since that time his career has been a series of extraordinary accomplishments. Moreover, Lawrence is one of the few painters of his generation who grew up in a black community, was taught primarily by black artists, and was influenced by black people. Lawrence was born on September 7, 1917,* in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was the eldest child of Jacob and Rosa Lee Lawrence. The senior Lawrence worked as a railroad cook and in 1919 moved his family to Easton, Pennsylvania, where he sought work as a coal miner. Lawrence’s parents separated when he was seven, and in 1924 his mother moved her children first to Philadelphia and then to Harlem when Jacob was twelve years old. He enrolled in Public School 89 located at 135th Street and Lenox Avenue, and at the Utopia Children’s Center, a settlement house that provided an after school program in arts and crafts for Harlem children. The center was operated at that time by painter Charles Alston who immediately recognized young Lawrence’s talents. Shortly after he began attending classes at Utopia Children’s Center, Lawrence developed an interest in drawing simple geometric patterns and making diorama type paintings from corrugated cardboard boxes. Following his graduation from P.S. 89, Lawrence enrolled in Commerce High School on West 65th Street and painted intermittently on his own. As the Depression became more acute, Lawrence’s mother lost her job and the family had to go on welfare. Lawrence dropped out of high school before his junior year to find odd jobs to help support his family. He enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal jobs program, and was sent to upstate New York. There he planted trees, drained swamps, and built dams. When Lawrence returned to Harlem he became associated with the Harlem Community Art Center directed by sculptor Augusta Savage, and began painting his earliest Harlem scenes. Lawrence enjoyed playing pool at the Harlem Y.M.C.A., where he met ​“Professor” Seifert, a black, self styled lecturer and historian who had collected a large library of African and African American literature. Seifert encouraged Lawrence to visit the Schomburg Library in Harlem to read everything he could about African and African American culture. He also invited Lawrence to use his personal library, and to visit the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition of African art in 1935. As the Depression continued, circumstances remained financially difficult for Lawrence and his family. Through the persistence of Augusta Savage, Lawrence was assigned to an easel project with the W.P.A., and still under the influence of Seifert, Lawrence became interested in the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, the black revolutionary and founder of the Republic of Haiti. Lawrence felt that a single painting would not depict L’Ouverture’s numerous achievements, and decided to produce a series of paintings on the general’s life. Lawrence is known primarily for his series of panels on the lives of important African Americans in history and scenes of African American life. His series of paintings include: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, 1937, (forty one panels), The Life of Frederick Douglass, 1938, (forty panels), The Life of Harriet Tubman, 1939, (thirty one panels), The Migration of the Negro,1940 – 41, (sixty panels), The Life of John Brown, 1941, (twenty two panels), Harlem, 1942, (thirty panels), War, 1946 47, (fourteen panels), The South, 1947, (ten panels), Hospital, 1949 – 50, (eleven panels), Struggle: History of the American People, 1953 – 55, (thirty panels completed, sixty projected). Lawrence’s best known series is The Migration of the Negro, executed in 1940 and 1941. The panels portray the migration of over a million African Americans from the South to industrial cities in the North between 1910 and 1940. These panels, as well as others by Lawrence, are linked together by descriptive phrases, color, and design. In November 1941 Lawrence’s Migration series was exhibited at the prestigious Downtown Gallery in New York. This show received wide acclaim, and at the age of twenty four Lawrence became the first African American artist to be represented by a downtown ​“mainstream” gallery. During the same month Fortune magazine published a lengthy article about Lawrence, and illustrated twenty six of the series’ sixty panels. In 1943 the Downtown Gallery exhibited Lawrence’s Harlem series, which was lauded by some critics as being even more successful than the Migration panels. In 1937 Lawrence obtained a scholarship to the American Artists School in New York. At about the same time, he was also the recipient of a Rosenwald Grant for three consecutive years. In 1943 Lawrence joined the U.S. Coast Guard and was assigned to troop ships that sailed to Italy and India. After his discharge in 1945, Lawrence returned to painting the history of African American people. In the summer of 1947 Lawrence taught at the innovative Black Mountain College in North Carolina at the invitation of painter Josef Albers. During the late 1940s Lawrence was the most celebrated African American painter in America. Young, gifted, and personable, Lawrence presented the image of the black artist who had truly ​“arrived”. Lawrence was, however, somewhat overwhelmed by his own success, and deeply concerned that some of his equally talented black artist friends had not achieved a similar success. As a consequence, Lawrence became deeply depressed, and in July 1949 voluntarily entered Hillside Hospital in Queens, New York, to receive treatment. He completed the Hospital series while at Hillside. Following his discharge from the hospital in 1950, Lawrence resumed painting with renewed enthusiasm. In 1960 he was honored with a retrospective exhibition and monograph prepared by The American Federation of Arts. He also traveled to Africa twice during the 1960s and lived primarily in Nigeria. Lawrence taught for a number of years at the Art Students League in New York, and over the years has also served on the faculties of Brandeis University, the New School for Social Research, California State College at Hayward, the Pratt Institute, and the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Art. In 1974 the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a major retrospective of Lawrence’s work that toured nationally, and in December 1983 Lawrence was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The most recent retrospective of Lawrence’s paintings was organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2020, and was accompanied by a major catalogue. Lawrence met his wife Gwendolyn Knight...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper, Screen

Brittany : Women in the Harbour - Original Lithograph, 1898
Located in Paris, IDF
Louis BORGEX Brittany : Women in the Harbour , 1898 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) INFORMATION: Lith...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, étude pour la céramique, Céramiques de Picasso (Orozco 105) (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype and lithograph on vélin gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on vélin paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 11.25 x 15 inches Catalogue ...
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1940s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Man on Stilts
Located in Toronto, ON
Image Size: 23" x 13" Unframed Limited Edition Fine Art Print of 195 Hand Signed by Annora Spence
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

Sailboat Series I, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Sailboat Series I Year: 1998 Edition: 300/300, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Coventry Smooth paper Size: 7 x 8 inches Condition: Excellent Inscrip...
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1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Published Benincasa Carmine. Edizioni SEAT, Torino, Italy. Offset directly from the original plates. Limited edition. This is not hand signed or numbered. Signature in the printing p...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

"Accidente" - 1943 Linocut on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Accidente" - 1943 Linocut on Paper "Accidente" from the portfolio "25 Prints of Leopoldo Méndez", depicts a figure, upside down, appearing to fall downward from a ladder. Another f...
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1940s Post-Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper, India Ink, Linocut

The Rounder Pop Art Mel Ramos Nude Boxing Print Lithograph blue
Located in Zug, CH
MEL RAMOS (1935-2018) The Rounder 1999 Lithograph 92.1 x 48.9 cm 36.26 x 19.25 inches Edition of 199 with HC 20 Edition HC 12/20 Signed and numbered in pencil
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20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Jules Pascin (French, 1885-1930) "Two Women Reclining" Original Etching C.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jules Pascin (French, 1885-1930) "Two Women Reclining" Original Etching C.1920 Plate dimensions 9" wide x 12" high Frame dimensions 19.5" wide x 26.5" high Plate signed The etchi...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Ernst, Deux Oiseaux (Spies/Leppien 438) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Published and printed by Poligrafa, Barcelona, 1970. MAX ER...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Tribute to Toulouse Lautrec : Lovers, the Kiss - Lithograph - Printed Signature
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Tribute to Toulouse Lautrec : Lovers, the Kiss Lithograph enhanced with stencil (Jacomet process) after a pastel by the artist Printed signature in the pla...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Wild West Wagon Train 1969 Signed Lithograph Artist Proof
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Warrington Colescott Title: A Wild West: Wagon Train Year: 1969 Print - Lithograph    Size: 23'' x 31'' inches Edition: signed and numbered in pencil Edition Proof 3 Unfr...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Carte de Voeux pour Aime Maeght
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Carte de Voeux pour Aime Maeght 1960 Lithograph in Arches paper Signed in stone Image: 22.2 x 29.5 cm Frame: 46.5 x 54.5cm Marc Chagall (1887 – 1985) Russi...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Profile of an African Woman —1920s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Profile of an African Woman), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 15 in pencil. Number 15 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publish...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Roy Lichtenstein As I Opened Fire (set of 3 lithographic posters)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Roy Lichtenstein As I Opened Fire, set of 3 Lithographic Posters: An authorized reproduction of Roy Lichtenstein's painting entitled "As I Op...
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1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Decorating with Figurative Art Prints and Works on Paper

Bring energy and an array of welcome colors and textures into your space by decorating with figurative fine-art prints and works on paper.

Figurative art stands in contrast to abstract art, which is more expressive than representational. The oldest-known work of figurative art is a figurative painting — specifically, a rock painting of an animal made over 40,000 years ago in Borneo. This remnant of a remote past has long faded, but its depiction of a cattle-like creature in elegant ocher markings endures.

Since then, figurative art has evolved significantly as it continues to represent the world, including a breadth of works on paper, including printmaking. This includes woodcuts, which are a type of relief print with perennial popularity among collectors. The artist carves into a block and applies ink to the raised surface, which is then pressed onto paper. There are also planographic prints, which use metal plates, stones or other flat surfaces as their base. The artist will often draw on the surface with grease crayon and then apply ink to those markings. Lithographs are a common version of planographic prints.

Figurative art printmaking was especially popular during the height of the Pop art movement, and this kind of work can be seen in artist Andy Warhol’s extensive use of photographic silkscreen printing. Everyday objects, logos and scenes were given a unique twist, whether in the style of a comic strip or in the use of neon colors.

Explore an impressive collection of figurative art prints for sale on 1stDibs and read about how to arrange your wall art.

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