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Figurative Prints For Sale
"Winch" British Linocut Grosvenor School Machine Age 1930 Woman Artist Print
Located in New York, NY
"Winch" British Linocut Grosvenor School Machine Age 1930 Woman Artist Print
"The Winch" 1930. 7 3/4 x 11 (sight) inches. Linocut in colors on tissue...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Costume Life Drawing 1972 Signed Limited Edition
By Peter Blake
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Sir Peter Thomas Blake
Title: Costume Life Drawing
Year: 1972
Print - Lithograph Heavy Paper
Size: 30'' x 22 5/8''
Edition: Signed and Numbered 116/125
Kelpra stamp on v...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Down the River
Located in London, GB
In this sentimental work from 1939, Benton expresses his admiration for the rural lifestyle of the Midwest. He highlights the connection between man and the land by depicting two fig...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
TO MARRY Signed Lithograph, For My People by Margaret Walker, Bride and Groom
Located in Union City, NJ
TO MARRY is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known for her depictions of the African-American experience. TO MARRY features a creative collage style portrait of a bride...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Donkey in the Roman Countryside - Etching After Charles Coleman-1992
Located in Roma, IT
The donkey in the Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992.
Signed on the plate, the rare edition of on...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chagall, Banished from Paradise (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25) (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Marc Chagall, Dessins Pour La Bible, Verv...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Soaring New York' — 1930s American Modernism, New York City
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Soaring New York', aquatint, soft-ground etching, roulette, 1931-32, edition 25, Duffy 165. Signed, dated, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmosp...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Calder, Convection, Braniff International Airways Flying Colors (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, embossed with the official Braniff Flying Colors Collection seal, and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Not...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miró, Composition, (Cramer 249; Mourlot 1258), Joan Miró Lithographs (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Joan Miró Lithographs, Volume IV 1981. Published by Maeght Éditeur...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Theo Tobiasse "Le Petit Train qui mene au chant de la pensee" Lithograph c.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Theo Tobiasse (French, 1927-2012) Le Petit Train qui mene au chant de la pensee" Lithograph c.1970
Bright and colorful lithograph by noted French artist.
The title translates to "T...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Walter DuBois Richards, The Lobster Float
Located in New York, NY
Ohio-born Walter DuBois Richards (1907-2006) was educated at the Cleveland School of Art. He re-located to New York around 1933 where he had a successful career as a commercial artis...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Composition (Cramer 105), Femmes, Joan Miró
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Joan Miró, Femmes, 1965. Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris; printed ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salomé - Original lithograph (Catalog raisonne Bridges #R 10c), 1897
Located in Paris, IDF
Alphonse Mucha
Salomé
Original lithograph
Printed signature, as issued
1897/98
Printed on paper Vélin (wove)
Size 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12")
REFERENCES : Ann Bridges, Alphonse Mucha...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adam, Eve and the Forbidden Fruit - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph realized by Marc Chagall in 1960 to illustrate "The Bible".
Edition of 6500, published by Tériade in no. 33 and 34 of the Art Magazine Verve.
Printed by Mourlot a...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Heart & Soul
Located in New York, NY
Heart & Soul, 2020
Signed, dated, numbered in pencil with thumbprint in verso
Screenprint on paper
30 x 22 inches
Edition 84 of 85
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
L'Oiseau Bleu By Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
L'Oiseau Bleu
By Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was a Russian-French artist celebrated for his vibrant, dreamlike paintings that blend fantasy, folklore, and personal memor...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Death and the Lumberjack - Original Etching by Alphonse Legros - 1876
Located in Roma, IT
Death and the Lumberjack is an original artwork realized by Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) in 1876.
The original work is contained in a cream colored cardboard passepartout (50x35 cm)....
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Ruff's Farm
Located in Middletown, NY
A nostalgic image of a bucolic farmyard and thatched cottage, hearkening to a bygone era.
c 1920. Etching with drypoint on laid watercolor paper with deckle edges, and an indiscerni...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Portrait of Clemency - Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Clemency is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway (1748 - 1827).
Original Etching from J.C. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge...
Category
1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Band, Impressionist Lithograph by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953)
Title: The Band
Year: 1949
Medium: lithograph, signed in the plate
Size: 19 x 29.5 inches
Frame Size: 25.5 x 36 inches
Printed by Baynard Pr...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Shunga, Love Plays - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Shunga, Love plays is an original artwork realized in the 1850s by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865).
Good print with gold. Backed, restored wormholes and missing oarts, glued at upper ...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
1993 "Elvis" original etching by Al Hirschfeld. Hand signed and numbered.
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Elvis" original etching by artist Al Hirschfeld. Caricature portrait of Elvis Presley. Hand pulled in 1993 from an edition of 150 plus 30 artist's proofs. Hand numbered 14/150 in lo...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Happy Birthday Liberty, 100th Birthday of the Statue of Liberty. Large serigraph
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Happy Birthday Liberty, 100th Birthday of the Statue of Liberty" 1986 is an original color serigraph on thick paper by renown artist Hiro Yamagata (Japanese, b. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Le cercle visceral du Cosmos from La Conquete du Cosmos Etching by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989)
Title: Le cercle visceral du Cosmos from La Conquete du Cosmos
Year: 1974
Medium: Etching with Litho...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Etching
Femme Au Chapeau Gris, After Picasso from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection
Located in Long Island City, NY
This print by Pablo Picasso showcases the artist's changing methods of incorporating Cubism into his portraits of sitters. Colored almost entirely in greyscale, the print contains a ...
Category
Late 20th Century Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Place de la Concorde, Surrealist Etching by Salvador Dali 1963
Located in Long Island City, NY
Spanish artist Salvador Dali is considered to be the father of Surrealism, renowned for his technical skill and unique style. This etching features a city landscape with fountains, c...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Conventional sentiment. Limited edition print Surreal Established Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Giclee limited edition print by worldwidely established Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. Figurative surrealistic print with man and a woman standing on the road. The road is transformin...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
The Shadowed Valley.
Located in Storrs, CT
Sir Frank Short, R.A., P.R.E. 1857-1945. The Shadowed Valley. 1927. Mezzotint. Hardie 128. 14 3/8 x 19 3/8 (sheet 19 x 24). A rich, glowing impression p...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mr Brainwash - Love Catcher (Blue), Street Art
By Mr Brainwash
Located in London, GB
Mr. Brainwash
Love Catcher - Blue, 2023
Screenprint on Archival paper
22 × 22 in 55.9 × 55.9 cm
Frame included
Edition 30 of 75
Mr. Brainwash, the pseudonym of Thierry Guetta, is a...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Ladies and Gentlemen - Screenprint by Andy Warhol - 1975
By Andy Warhol
Located in Roma, IT
Ladies and Gentlemen is a colored screen print realized in 1975 by the Pop artist Andy Warhol.
Mixed colored screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse.
Edition of 204...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Bataille de Fleurs (Carnaval of Flowers) from Nice and the Côte d’Azur
By Marc Chagall
Located in Missouri, MO
After Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985)
By Charles Sorlier (French, 1921-1990)
"Bataille de Fleurs (Carnaval of Flowers)" (from Nice and the Côte d’Azur), 1967
Reference: CS 33
Color Lithograph
Image Size: 24 7/16 in x 18 in (62 cm x 45.8 cm)
Sheet Size: 29 9/16 in x 20 11/16 in (75 x 52.5 cm)
Framed Size: approx. 34 x 27 inches
Edition: Numbered 1 of 150 in pencil in the lower left margin and printed on Arches wove paper (aside from an edition of 75 signed and numbered in Roman numerals and 10 artist's proofs).
Signature: This work is hand signed by Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul, 1985) in pencil in the lower right margin.
Marc Chagall was a man of keen intelligence, a shrewd observer of the contemporary scene, with a great sympathy for human suffering. He was born on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia; his original name was Moishe Shagal (Segal), but when he became a foremost member of the Ecole de Paris, he adopted French citizenship and the French spelling of his name. Vitebsk was a good-sized Russian town of over 60,000, not a shtetl. His father supported a wife and eight children as a worker in a herring-pickling plant.
Sheltered by the Jewish commandment against graven images, the young Chagall never saw so much as a drawing until, one day, he watched a schoolmate copying a magazine illustration. He was ridiculed for his astonishment, but he began copying and improvising from magazines. Both Chagall's parents reluctantly agreed to let him study with Yehuda Pen, a Jewish artist in Vitebsk. Later, in 1906, they allowed their son to study in St. Petersburg, where he was exposed to Russian Iconography and folk art. At that time, Jews could leave the Pale only for business and employment and were required to carry a permit. Chagall, who was in St. Petersburg without a permit, was imprisoned briefly.
His first wife, Bella Rosenfeld, was a product of a rich cultivated and intellectual group of Jews in Vitebsk. Chagall was made commissar for the arts for the area, charged with directing its cultural life and establishing an art school. Russian folklore, peasant life and landscapes persisted in his work all his life. In 1910 a rich patron, a lawyer named Vinaver, staked him to a crucial trip to Paris, where young artists were revolutionizing art. He also sent him a handsome allowance of 125 francs (in those days about $24) each month. Chagall rejected cubism, fauvism and futurism, but remained in Paris. He found a studio near Montparnasse in a famous twelve-sided wooden structure divided into wedge-shaped rooms. Chaim Soutine, a fellow Russian Jew...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Cheval (The Horse) — Mid-Century Cubism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Léopold Survage, 'Le Cheval' (The Horse), color etching, edition 60, 1953. Signed and numbered '46/60' in pencil. Initialed in the plate, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impressi...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La Guerre et la Paix
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Guerre et la Paix
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 53 x 35.5 cm.
Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris.
Each copy of this Lithograph was...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mykonos, Greece II
By Jean Claude Carsuzan
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Mykonos, Greece II" c.1990 is an original color lithograph by noted French artist Jean Claude Carsuzan b. 1938. It is hand signed and numbered 116/150 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 10.25 x 14.25 inches, framed is 18.25 x 22.25 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden gold frame. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame has some scratches. It will be replaced by a new similar one before shipping, which will bring the condition to excellent.
About the artist:
Jean Claude Carsuzan was born in Bordeaux, France in 1938. France. Hi interest for art began at an early age. He Attended the Bordeaux Art...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sunday Afternoon
By Bob Dylan
Located in London, GB
Bob Dylan
Sunday Afternoon, 2012,
Giclée print on Hahnemühle Museum paper, published by Washington Green Fine Art, framed.
Edition of 295
signed and numbered in pencil
Original Wash...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée
untitled depicting a couple and dog
Located in Belgrade, MT
This colorful lithograph is limited and signed in the plate and also pencil signed in the lower right and numbered by the artist. Maurice Savin strived to reduce and synthesize his...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Ceramic, Tapestry, Oil, Lithograph
Let us Devote Our Hearts Limited Edition (print) by Murakami hand signed
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Let us Devote Our Hearts, 2022 by Takashi Murakami
Woven paper, four-color offset print, cold foil stamp, glossy varnish
Published by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo
28 in diameter
71 c...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Composition - Original Color Lithograph by Antoni Clavé - 1943
By Antoni Clavé
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated. Signed on plate. Very good conditions
Passepartout included : 49 x 34 cm
Image Dimensions : 25 x16 cm
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legis...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Connais-tu le Pays (Primavera) apres J. Rolshoven (Do you Know the Country)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Connais-tu le Pays (Primavera) apres J. Rolshoven
(Do you Know the Country -Spring)
Etching, 1889
Signed "Julius Rolshoven...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean-Michel Basquiat Gagosian Exhibition Poster
Located in Central, HK
After Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Gagosian Exhibition Poster, 2013
Exhibition poster
14 × 14 in 35.6 × 35.6 cm
Category
2010s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Mirror Images
Located in Kansas City, MO
Roy Lichtenstein
Mirror Images
Offset Lithograph
2000
33.07 x 23.22 inches (84 x 59 cm)
Unsigned as issued
Publisher: VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn - Germany
COA provided
The exhibition in Wo...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
de La Fresnaye, Scène militaire, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1968
Paper Size: 26 x 20 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Roger de la Fresnay...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Les Songes : The Meal - Original etching (Cramer #112)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Les Songes : The Meal, 1981
Original etching
Unsigned
On BFK Rives vellum 52 x 38 cm (c. 10 x 15 in)
REFERENCE: Catalogue Raisonné Carmer #112
First state ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Capital letter "G" - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capital letter for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very good condition, except for some stains alo...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Uses and Customs - Ancient Army Stuff - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Ancient Army Stuff is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of t...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Constant Gardener-Limited Edition#7-gallery collection-British Awarded Artist
Located in London, GB
This Edition is one of the Summer Bloom series Shizico Yi started in 2022.
Veronica and Hydrangea (in the painting) are the summer elements in her garden, Shizico cultivated these de...
Category
2010s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Metal
'Taxco Market' — American Modernist Scene of Mexico
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Taxco Market', aquatint and etching, 1932-33, edition 30, Duffy 181. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full shee...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Drugs Don’t Work - Signed Limited Edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
The Drugs Don’t Work
by BATIK
Archival pigment pop art print of the 1960s supermodel Twiggy signed & limited edition.
40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
signed and numbered...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Monkey - Lithograph by Alberto Mastroianni - 1970 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition 25/150 prints.
Very good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Derriere Le Miroir, " Three Original Color Lithographs by Saul Steinberg
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Derriere Le Miroir" is an original color lithograph signed by the artist Saul Steinberg. The artist's signature is in the bottom left margin.
Image Size: 14"x20"
Frame Size: 25 5/8...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Le berger et le roi, Vingt fables de La fontaine, Jean Carzou
By Jean Carzou
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Vingt fables de La fontaine, 1961. Published by Éd...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Cavaliers of King Arthur, from Tristan and Iseult
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: The Cavaliers of King Arthur
Portfolio: Tristan and Iseult
Medium: Color engraving
Year: 1970
Edition: XII/XXV
Frame Size: 25 1/4" x 20 3/4"
Sheet Size: ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Under the Bridge
Located in Storrs, CT
Under the Bridge. 1985. Etching and drypoint. 9 1/2 x 12 1/8 (sheet 20 1/16 x 22). Edition 27, #13. Printed on cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. A rich impression in excellent condition, housed in an archival folder. The etching has never been matted. Titled and numbered in pencil. by the artist; signed and initialed in pencil by the artist's estate. Provenance: the artist's estate A dramatic view of the lower East Side in New York. Housed in an archival folder awaiting your choice of mat and frame.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson Wilbur...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Boundaries Of Our Realities Are Set By The Limits Of Our Imagination
Located in New York, NY
A pristine color screenprint, acrylic and oil paint and varnish over giclée on paper. Signed and dated in white ink by the Connor Brothers. Dimensions with the frame are 32 x 22 inches.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Varnish, Oil, Acrylic, Color, Giclée, Screen
Crossing of the Red Sea- Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
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.
...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Central Synagogue Lexington Avenue Looking North Etching and aquatint S/N Framed
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas
Central Synagogue - Lexington Avenue Looking North, 1991
Etching and aquatint on wove paper
Signed, dated and numbered 8/35 in graphite pencil on the front; bears the or...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Pablo Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) – hand-signed etching on BFK Rives paper - 1968
Located in Varese, IT
Groupe avec vieillard à la torche sur un âne amoureux, femme et arlequin (Ref: Bloch 1484 )
etching on Rives wove paper, Edited in 1968
Limited edition of 50 copies
Current copy num...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
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.