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Figurative Prints For Sale
Pink Flowers - Lithograph by Ivan Rabuzin - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Pink Flowers  is a colored lithograph realized by Ivan Rabuzin .   Hand signed  in pencil on the lower right corner. Numbered in pencil on the lower left corner.  Edition of 200 pr...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Still Life with White Pot and Pears - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY Still Life with White Pot and Pears, 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor With printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch) E...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

General Dynamics, Convair 880, World's Fastest Jetliner – Original Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
A poster belonging to Erik Nitsche's third series for General Dynamics, promoting its Convair Company. Founded 1952, General Dynamics hired Nitsche a...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper

Original "Spoleto 1974, Lulu Opera' vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original linen-backed 1974 Spoleto poster. Roman Polanski directed Alban Berg's opera LuLu at the Spoleto Festival, which was conducted by Christopher K...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"Forgive Our Trespasses" Original 1899 Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Decameron - Portfolio of 10 Original Signed Engravings by Salvador Dali
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Portfolio of 10 Original Signed Engravings by Salvador Dali Title: Decameron Signed in Pencil by Salvador Dali Dimensions: 45 x 32 cm Edition EA 1/5 1972 References : Field 72-8 (p. ...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

CABARET Film Liza Minnelli Joel Grey Broadway Academy Tony Award Musical 12/150
Located in New York, NY
"Cabaret" Liza Minnelli Joel Grey Broadway Film Academy Tony Award Musical Signed and numbered 12/150 in pencil, lower margin. Etching with aquatint, 15” x 10 1/2”. Framed 22” x 1...
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1970s Performance Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Murmure - Garbage Tail - Main Edition - Urban Graffiti Street Art Prints
By Murmure
Located in Asheville, NC
Murmure - Grabage Tail - Main Edition - Contemporary Urban Street Art Prints As whale watching is becoming more and more popular in the Caribbean, this wo...
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2010s Street Art Figurative Prints

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Color, Digital, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Carbon Pigment, Screen

Kyoka-Tokaido - Woodcut after Utagawa Hiroshige -1925
Located in Roma, IT
Kyoka-Tokaido is an original modern artwork realized after Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in 1925. Woodcut print Chuban Yokoe Format. Signed...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Picasso, Plante aux Toritos (Orozco 214), Grabados al linóleo (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 14.5 inches; image size: 10.5 x 8.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Orozco, M. (201...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Linocut

The Cultivation of Dictators - Woodcut by Primo Zeglio - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cultivation of Dictators is an original woodcut print by Primo Zeglio in the 1940s. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through strong strokes in a well-balanced composition.
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Keith Haring Paradise Garage Exhibit Poster 'Keith Haring Jeffrey Deitch'
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Rare vintage Keith Haring exhibition poster published on the occasion of: ‘Paradise Garage: Keith Haring and Music, December 14, 2000-February 10, 2001, Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster ...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph, Offset

Rosemary - 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

Ansicht Von Rothenburg
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura Title: Ansicht Von Rothenburg Year: Circa 1930 Medium: Color etching on silk Paper: Wove Image size: 9.25 x 4.75 inches Framed size: 16.5 x 12.5 inches Signa...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Keith Haring Help the Homeless 1985 (Keith Haring 1985 announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring 1985: Keith Haring off-set illustrated announcement card, NY, 1985: "NY for NY, Help The Homeless" at The Roxy, West 18th St., NYC. Off-set printed, 1985 (folds open in...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Tu que no puedes - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1799
Located in Roma, IT
Tu que no puedes from "Los Caprichos" is an original artwork realized by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799. The work is an etching and aquat...
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1790s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Venus in Furs - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Etching Stamp signed by Dali Edition of 294 copies. Paper : Arches vellum. Dimensions : 16x12". Catalogue Raisonné : Field 68-6 (p. 40-41). Salvador Dal...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Close Call, Mark Kostabi
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Mark Kostabi (1960) Title: Close Call Year: 1986 Edition: 9/10, 40 Arabic Numerals, 10 Roman Numerals, plus proofs. Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Size: 40.5 x 30.25 inch...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Screen

Ancient View of Bordeaux - Original Lithograph - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Bordeaux is an original modern artwork realized in the Mid-19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower central margin: Im hafen v...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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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
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Screen

Tom Sachs - Too Darn Hot, 2022
Located in Central, HK
Too Darn Hot combines a landmark moment for Tom Sachs’ practice with his continued investigations of the past, present and future of authentication. “The thing about faith is that i...
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2010s Figurative Prints

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Paper

Le Cerf - Etching by Claude Jardinier - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Cerf is an etching realized in 1771 by Claude Jardinier. Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la d...
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1770s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

THE ARENA I and THE ARENA II
Located in Portland, ME
Frasconi, Antonio THE ARENA I and THE ARENA II. Color Woodcuts, 1962. The Arena I an edition of 12, The Arena II an edition of 10. Each numbered 9 from its edition, and titled, signe...
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1960s Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Leonor Fini - Pregnant - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Pregnant - Original Handsigned Lithograph Circa 1982 On colored paper Handsigned and Numbered Edition: 275 Dimensions: 69 x 52.5 cm Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery. Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau. A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...
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1980s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"Portrait of a Boy (Rupert Doone)" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Catalogue reference: Colnaghi 142. Published in London in 1921 by Herbert Furst at the Little Art Rooms for inclusion in the "Modern Woodcutters 4" volume, ...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

2 Lovely Robert Kipniss Lithographs titled "Leaning" & "Interiors"
Located in New York, NY
Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931) Left: Leaning, c. 1988 Lithograph Sight: 5 1/4 x 4 in. Framed: 11 x 9 3/4 x 3/4 in. Numbered lower left: 53/175 Signed lower right: Kipniss Right...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Dancers - Original Etching and Drypoint by Robert Naly - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dancers is an Original Etching and Drypoint realized by Robert Naly (1900-1984) Good condition on a yellowed paper. Edition of 3/25. Hand-signed and numbered on the lower margin.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

"Carte de Voeux #731, " Lithograph by Marc Chagall in Chagall Catalog Raisonne
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Carte de Voeux #731" is an original lithograph greeting card by Marc Chagall. It is in the Chagall Catalogue Raisonne and is from a rare edition of only 200. It depicts a face and a bird in Chagall's signature whimsical modernist style. 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" art 21" x 18 1/4" frame Marc Chagall was born in Liozno, near Vitebsk, now in Belarus, the eldest of nine children in a close-knit Jewish family led by his father Khatskl (Zakhar) Shagal, a herring merchant, and his mother, Feige-Ite. This period of his life, described as happy though impoverished, appears in references throughout Chagall's work. The family home on Pokrovskaya Street is now the Marc Chagall Museum...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lucite, Lithograph

Queen by BATIK Oversize Signed limited edition - Pop Art -Queen Elizabeth II
Located in London, GB
Queen ! Oversize Signed limited edition - Pop Art - HRH The Queen Elizabeth II by the London based contemporary pop art image creator and artist, BATIK. Measures 60 x 40" inches ...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Color, Archival Pigment

The Bridge - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print from the Series "Der vreeselijke avonturen vas Scholastica" (The Terrible Adventures of Scholastica). Edition of 300, published by A. J. van Dishoeck. Unsigned, ass i...
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1930s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

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

God and Eve - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
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...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

L'Amour de la Patrie - Etching by F.M. Beaurain and J.-B. Malle
Located in Roma, IT
Allegoric engraving of the French Revolution, designed by François Marie Beaurain and Jean-Baptiste Mallet between 1793 and 1794. Both Beaurain ...
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Late 18th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Modigliani, Portrait, Douze Contemporains (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Douze Contemporains, 1959; published by Éditions d'Art du Lion, Paris; rendered by Daniel Jacomet, Paris; printed by l'atelier Jacomet, December 1959. Excerpted from the folio, This album finished printing in December 1959 drawn to nine hundred and seventy examples numbered from I to CMLXX and thirty non-commerce examples numbered from I to XXX, was directed by Daniel Jacomet. Typography of the union printing in paris. AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (1884–1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Miró, Composition (Mourlot 238; Cramer 39) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacques Prévert and Georges R...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Paradies XXVIII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Inferno, Canto IV (Field 189-200; M/L. 1039-1138), La Divina Commedia
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Teruta-hime - Woodcut by Utagawa Kuniyoshi - 1842/43
Located in Roma, IT
Teruta-hime is a woodcut print realized by Utagawa Kuniyoshi in 1842/43. Lifetime impression of chuban tate-e, it depicts Teruta-hime carrying a bucket of water through the snow, wi...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Fat Lady Sings Giclee Painting Print on Canvas Rowdy Tavern Bar Scene
Located in Surfside, FL
Barry Leighton-Jones was born in London, England in 1932 and is a direct descendant of the Victorian artist and President of the Royal Academy, Lord Fre...
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20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Canvas, Giclée

Divine Comedy complete set of 6 books, 100 illustrations
Located in Wilton, CT
complete set of 100 illustrations from Dante's Divine Comedy contained within complete text, 6 volumes. Beautiful condition. Justification pages included. Published by Editions ...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Large Archival Pigment Print Judaica Lithograph Mark Podwal Jewish Hebrew Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Mark Podwal (American, New York, born 1945) "All This Has Come Upon Us" Archival pigment print Dimensions: 22 X 30 inches Hebrew Letter Aleph Alef From a 2014 portfolio of archiva...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Archival Pigment

Origiinal Boston Fly TWA Jets vintage American travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
TWA (Trans World Airlines) was formed in 1924 as Transcontinental & Western Air. The airline's first route was from New York to Los Angeles, followed by multiple National routes. The airline expanded to serve Europe, the Middle East, and Asia after WWII when the company was under Howard Hughes's owner's control from 1939 until 1961. Hughes was a dominant force in expanding and promoting his company's routes. The economy was vastly improving, and travel by air for business and pleasure increased, too. Posters were a crucial element in promoting this form of travel and TWA. The airline started a decline in the 1970s, ending in a third bankruptcy that caused its acquisition by American Airlines in 2001. The airline operated in 132 destinations worldwide and had a fleet size of 190. The Boston FLY TWA shows a three-masted schooner in the background, a large colonial drum in the center with an American Eagle...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

TIE Fighter Beatles Large Oversize Pop Art Print Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
TIE Fighter Beatles by B A T I K Pop art work featuring the Fab Four Paul McCartney , George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon running away from Star Wars TIE fighters chasing...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

STRONG MAN
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 30 circus ballerina
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

Composition, Alternance, Jean Cocteau
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Alternance, 1946. Published by Le Gerbier, Paris; printed by atelier Quesnevill...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

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Engraving

A Sunday in Avocadoland
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
A Sunday in Avocado Land by celebrated Mexican surrealist Pedro Friedeberg is a visually arresting work that encapsulates the artist’s iconic blend of symbolism, architecture, and dr...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Screen

Profile Series II, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Profile Series II Year: 1998 Edition: 83/300, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Coventry Smooth paper Size: 8.5 x 7 inches Condition: Excellent Inscri...
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1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Letter Z - Lithograph by Rafael Alberti - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Letter Z from Alphabet series is an original lithograph realized by Rafael Alberti in 1972. Hand-signed and dated on the lower margin. Numbered on the lower margin. Edition 10/99...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

'Priests' from 'In Praise of Folly' — Mid-Century Graphic Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Priests' from the series 'Moriae Encomium (The Praise of Folly)', mezzotint, 1943, no edition, proofs only. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/4 to 2 inches) in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce. Image size 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (197 x 121 mm); sheet size 10 11/16 x 8 1/16 inches (271 x 204 mm). Created by the artist for 'Erasmus's Moriae Encomium,' or 'In Praise of Folly,' published by the Limited Editions Club, 1943. A rare, signed, proof impression apart from the Limited Editions Club publication. ABOUT THE ARTIST Lynd Ward is acknowledged as one of America’s foremost wood engravers and book illustrators of the first half of the twentieth century. His innovative use of narrative printmaking as a stand-alone storytelling vehicle was uniquely successful in reaching a broad audience. The powerful psychological intensity of his work, celebrated for its dynamic design, technical precision, and compelling dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers, Ward was concerned with the themes of man’s inner struggles and the role of the subconscious in determining his destiny. An artist of social conscience during the Great Depression and World War II, he infused his graphic images with his unique brand of social realism, deftly portraying the problems that challenged the ideals of American society. The son of a Methodist preacher, Lynd Ward, moved from Chicago to Massachusetts at an early age. He graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University, New York, in 1926, where he studied illustration and graphic arts. He married May Yonge McNeer in 1936 and left for Europe for their honeymoon in Eastern Europe. After four months, they settled in Leipzig, where Ward studied at the National Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookmaking. Inspired by Belgian expressionist artist Frans Masereel's graphic novel ‘The Sun,’ and another graphic novel by the German artist Otto Nückel, ‘Destiny,’ he determined to create his own "wordless" novel. Upon his return to America, Ward completed his first book, ‘God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts,’ published in 1929. ‘Gods’ Man’ was a great success for its author and publisher and was reprinted four times in 1930, including a British edition. This book and several which followed it, ‘Madman’s Drum,’ 1930, ‘Wild Pilgrimage,’ 1932, ‘Prelude to a Million Years,’ 1933, ‘Song Without Words,' 1936, ‘Vertigo,’ 1937; and ‘Last Unfinished Wordless Novel’ (created in the 1960s and published in 2001) were comprised solely of Ward's wood engravings. Ward designed each graphic image to occupy an entire page, the sequence of which conveys the story's narrative. In 1937, Ward was named Director of the Graphic Arts Division of the Federal Art Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In the following years, Ward went on to illustrate more than one hundred books (some of which he wrote), including classics for the Limited Editions Club Goethe’s ‘Faust,’ Faulkner’s ‘A Green Bough,’ and Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ and several children’s books. He also produced single-subject wood engravings, paintings, and drawings. His print ‘Sanctuary,’ 1939, was shown at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, and ‘Clouded Over,’ 1948, received the 1948 Library of Congress Award and was included in ‘American Prize Prints of the 20th Century’ by Albert Reese. He received the National Academy of Design Print Award (1949), the New York Times Best Illustrated Award (1973), and the Regina Award (Catholic Library Association, 1975). ‘The Biggest Bear,’ a children’s book with illustrations by Ward, was the recipient of the esteemed 1952 Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Ward was a member and board member of the National Academy of Design and the Artists’ League of America. He served several terms as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists and was a member of the American Artists Congress and the Society of Illustrators. Ward exhibited at the American Artists Congress; the National Academy of Design; the John Herron Art Institute; and the Library of Congress. He had a one-person show at Associated American Artists, NY, on the publication of his monograph 'Storyteller Without Words,' 1974; AAA mounted a memorial exhibition in 1986. The May 1976 issue of 'Bibliognost,' a book collector’s publication, was dedicated to Ward. ‘Lynd Ward, His Bookplate Designs,’ an article by Dan Burne Jones, was published in the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers Yearbook, 1981/82. In 2001, sixteen years after his death, Rutgers University Libraries published ’Lynd Ward’s Last Unfinished Wordless Novel.’ The blocks were intended to be part of a novel in woodcuts, the first since Vertigo, but Ward did not live to complete the project. Master printer and book designer Barbara Henry collated and printed the twenty-six finished blocks out of the forty-four initially planned for the still unnamed narrative. In 2010 the Library of America honored Ward’s achievements with the meticulous production of a collection of Ward’s woodcut novels—the first time the Library had gone wordless. The publication replicated his original editions with a single full-size image printed on the right page of each double-page spread. In his introduction to the books, renowned cartoonist/illustrator Art...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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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.

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