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1945 Mexican Modernist Silkscreen Serigraph Print Regional Folk Art Dress Mexico
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is for the one Silkscreen serigraph piece listed here. Mexico City, 1945. First edition. plate signed, limited edition of 1000, these serigraph plates depict various types of traditional and folk art indigenous clothing...
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1940s Folk Art Figurative Prints

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Screen

Picasso, Composition (Bloch 1276; Czwiklitzer 23), Toros y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, 1961. Published by aux Éditions Cercle d'...
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1960s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Still Life - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1920. Good conditions. Edition of 110. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Price - Garden - Etching by Eduardo Paolozzi - Late 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Garden is an original etching realized by Eduardo Paolozzi. Signed on plate on the lower left. Good conditions (some folds and some shadows on paper). Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005)...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Etching

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
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1930s American Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #93: "Science" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
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1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Yakushae - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada - 1863
Located in Roma, IT
Yakushae is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada in 1863. Woodcut print oban from a tryptich. Signed Toyokuni ga. Publisher: Izutsuya. Scene from the play "Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi". Yasugoro, the thief with the bat tattoo on his cheek, enters the oil merchant's house at night...
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19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Matisse, Crayon, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma Navarre paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the album, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published...
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1920s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Dove of peace - Surrealist print, Limited edition, Established Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
The work comes directly from the artist, is numbered, signed and made on sealed paper. Limited edition of 20. RAFAŁ OLBIŃSKI (born in 1943) He graduat...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Color

Miró, Composition (Cramer 207; Mourlot 1078) XXe Siécle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Révolutions Scéniques Du XXe Siécle, 1975. Published and print...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Punishments of China, 8 plates
Located in Middletown, NY
A collection of gruesome 19th century images illustrating the barbarism of the Qing penal code. London: William Miller, 1801. Six (6) stipple point engravings with hand coloring in...
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Early 19th Century English School Portrait Prints

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Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Engraving

" Buveur au yeux verts "
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963 ) " Buveur aux yeux verts " Chope à bière . signed Jean Cocteau at the base . Marked and numbered Edition originale de Jean Cocteau / Atelier Madeline- J...
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1950s Art Deco Figurative Prints

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Ceramic

Untitled (Interior with Figures) [Acrobat]
Located in New York, NY
Engraving (State IV) 11.5 x 6.75 inches (29.2 x 17.1 cm), sheet 6 x 4 inches (15.24 x 10.16 cm), plate Literature: Alfonso Panzetta, Jared French by Jared French: 600 Unpublished W...
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1930s Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Saul Steinberg lithograph derrière le miroir
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Saul Steinberg Lithograph c. 1970 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition; well-preseved. Unsigned from an edition of...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Tracey Emin: My Photo Album (Hand signed, inscribed and dated by Tracey Emin)
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin Tracey Emin: My Photo Album (Hand signed, inscribed and dated by Tracey Emin), 2013 Hardback monograph (hand signed, inscribed to Kevin and dated by Tracey Emin) Warmly signed, inscribed and dated by Tracey Emin on the title page 9 × 7 1/4 × 1 inches Warmly signed, inscribed to Kevin and dated by Tracey Emin on the title page Tracey signed this for the present owner at an official book signing in New York back in 2013, so provenance is direct. Publisher's blurb: My Photo Album is a journey through the life of British artist Tracey Emin using photographs from her personal collection. Edited from the albums she has kept from an early age, this visual autobiography contains some amazing images: Tracey sharing a pram as a baby with her twin Paul, her bus-pass photo aged 14, a ‘glamour’ shoot as a semi-naked art...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Four Seasons (Illustrated Book, Pop Art, 3D Art, Urban Art, ~67% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
James Rizzi Four Seasons (Illustrated Book, Pop Art, 3D Art, Urban Art, New York Artist, Contemporary Art) Handsigned and numbered illustrated book Year: 1988 Size: 12×11.6×0.6in Edition: 965 Signed, numbered by hand Publisher: John Szoke Graphics, Inc. - NYC, USA Printed by: Arnoldo Mondadori Editori, Italy COA provided Ref.: 924802-1932 *the "Four Seasons: Spring" print is missing and not included Tags: James Rizzi, Pop art, 3D art, Urban art, New York artist, Contemporary art, Colorful art, Whimsical art, Cityscape art, Silkscreen prints, 20th-century artist, Three-dimensional paintings, Graphic art, American artist, Happy Rizzi House, 3D constructions, Animated art, Street art, Manhattan art, Graphic artist, International artist, Iconic pop artist, Playful art, Pop culture art, Childlike art...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Paper

La Terrasse de la Villa Brancas, Sevres (The Terrace of the Villa Brancas)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Terrasse de la Villa Brancas, Sevres (The Terrace of the Villa Brancas) etching & drypoint, 1876 Signed in the plate bottom right corner (see photo) in plate, at lower left: xbre ...
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1870s Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Surrealist Character with a Fish - Original handsigned lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Lucien COUTAUD Surrealist Character with a Fish, 1966 Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil On Rives vellum 37 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 inch) Excellent condition
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

La Paysanne Tournee a Gauche, Les Mains Appuyees L’Une sue L’Autre
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Paysanne Tournee a Gauche, Les Mains Appuyees L’Une sue L’Autre (Peasant turned left holding her hands) Etching, 1618 From: Varie Figure (16 plates) Condition: very good, aging Im...
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1610s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Etching

Rembrandt, Composition, Rembrandt, Drawings from the Bible (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin Hamilton Kilmory paper Year: 1947 Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Rembrandt, Drawings...
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1940s Baroque Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Passage d'une Ame - Etching by O. Redon - 1891
Located in Roma, IT
Passage of a Spirit is an original etching, realized by Odilon Redon in 1891, frontispiece for “La Passante”, edition of 420 copies, titled: " Passage d’une âme ". Image dimensio...
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1890s Symbolist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Down the Rabbit Hole (Field 69-5, A-M), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on Papeterie de Mandeure vélin paper. Paper Size: 16.93 x 11.22 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Dalí, ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Manet, Composition, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Foreign Affairs paper mounted on Foreign Affairs museum board, as issued . Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, ...
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1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Steam Bath, Aniak
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Steam Bath, Aniak" 1995 is a color offset lithograph on paper by noted American artist Rie Mounier Munoz, 1921-2015. It is hand signed and numbered 38/950 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 6.75 x 10 inches, sheet size is 10.5 x 14 inches. It is in excellent condition.. About the artist: Alaska painter Rie Mounier Munoz was the child of Dutch parents who immigrated to California, where she was born and raised. She is known for her colorful scenes of everyday life in Alaska. Rie (from Marie) Munoz (moo nyos), studied art at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. In 1950, she traveled up the Inside Passage by steamship, fell in love with Juneau, and gave herself until the boat left the next day to find a job and a place to live. Since then Juneau has been home to Munoz. She began painting small vignettes of Alaska soon after arriving in Juneau, and also studied art at the University of Alaska-Juneau. Munoz painted in oils in what she describes as a "painstakingly realistic" style, which she found stiff and "somewhat boring." Her breakthrough came a few years later when an artist friend introduced her to a versatile, water-soluble paint called casein. The immediacy of this inexpensive medium prompted an entirely new style. Rie's paintings became colorful and carefree, mirroring her own optimistic attitude toward life. With her newfound technique she set about recording everyday scenes of Alaskans at work and at play. Of the many jobs she has held journalist, teacher, museum curator, artist, mother, Munoz recalls one of her most memorable was as a teacher on King Island in 1951, where she taught 25 Eskimo children. The island was a 13-hour umiak (a walrus skin boat) voyage from Nome, an experience she remembers vividly. After teaching in the Inupiat Eskimo village on the island with her husband during one school year, she felt a special affinity for Alaska's Native peoples and deliberately set about recording their traditional lifestyles that she knew to be changing very fast. For the next twenty years, Rie practiced her art as a "Sunday painter," in and around prospecting with her husband, raising a son, and working as a freelance commercial artist, illustrator, cartoonist, and curator of exhibits for the Alaska State Museum. During her years in Alaska, Munoz has lived in a variety of small Alaskan communities, including prospecting and mining camps. Her paintings reflect an interest in the day-to-day activities of village life such as fishing, berry picking, children at play, as well as her love of folklore and legends. Munoz says that what has appealed to her most were "images you might not think an artist would want to paint," such as people butchering crab, skinning a seal, or doing their laundry in a hand-cranked washing machine. In 1972, with her hand-cut stencil and serigraph prints selling well in four locations in Alaska, she felt confident enough to leave her job at the Alaska State Museum and devote herself full time to her art. Freed from the constraints of an office job, she began to produce close to a hundred paintings a year, in addition to stone lithograph and serigraph prints. From her earliest days as an artist, Rie had firm beliefs about selling her work. First, she insisted the edition size should be kept modest. When she decided in 1973 to reproduce Eskimo Story Teller as an offset lithography print and found the minimum print run to be 500, she destroyed 200 of the prints. She did the same with King Island, her second reproduction. Reluctantly, to meet market demand, she increased the edition size of the reproductions to 500 and then 750. The editions stayed at that level for almost ten years before climbing to 950 and 1250. Her work has been exhibited many solo watercolor exhibits in Alaska, Oregon and Washington State, including the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Alaska State Museum in Juneau, Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Tongass Historical Museum in Ketchikan, and Yukon Regional Library in Whitehorse; Yukon Territory, and included in exhibits at the Smithsonian Institute and Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. Munozs paintings have graced the covers of countless publications, from cookbooks to mail order catalogs, and been published in magazines, newspapers, posters, calendars, and two previous collections of her work: Rie Munoz...
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Late 20th Century Folk Art Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Mademoiselle L.L., Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, mounted on vélin paper backing sheet, as issued. Year: 1954 Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.84 x 7.87 inches Inscription: Signed in the...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Death of Orpheus, Surrealist Etching by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 -1973) - Death of Orpheus from Ovids The Metamorphoses, Year: 1930, Medium: Etching on thin laid paper, Edition: , Image Size: 9 x 6.5 inches, Size: ...
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Matisse, Plume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
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1920s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Flying Doves, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Flying Doves Year: 2002 Edition: 451/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper Size: 4.87 x 4.5 inches Condition: Excellent Inscripti...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Baby in Arms, Original French Mourlot Modernist Lithograph 1950s Francoise Gilot
Located in Surfside, FL
Francois Gilot, (1921-) studied English Literature at Cambridge University, and then, encouraged by her father, studied international law, though she secretly also took art lessons a...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Rothenburg, Germany
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978) Title: Rothenburg, Germany Year: Circa 1950 Medium: Color etching with aquatint Edition: Unknown Paper: Printed on silk Plate mark ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Roman Fresco - Etching by Ferdinando Campana - 1772s
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Ferdinando Campana in 1772s. Signed on the plate. Good conditions. T...
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1770s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Uses and Customs - Royal Palace of Caserta - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Royal Palace of Caserta 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...
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1860s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Herd of Horses - Etching by Eugène Burnand - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Herd of Horses is an original etching realized by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921) in the Late 19th century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with foxing. The artwork is realized t...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving, Etching

Utrillo, Composition, Éloge de Maurice Utrillo (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Éloge de Maurice Utrillo, 1956. Published by Editions d'Art Manuel Bruker, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), This book was completed and printed on June 5, 1956 on the presses of madame Jean-Gabriel Daragnès for typography and by the Mourlot Frères for lithographs. It was shot on Vidalon blanc. Two hundred numbered copies from 1 to 200, including the first twenty with a suite on vélin paper of the Marais. It has been attached to each copy a simulated fac of the Sonnet d'Utrillo: "Lyric art...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

UNTITLED (from the ARTSOUNDS Collection)
Located in New York, NY
ITALO SCANGA Untitled (from the Artsounds Collection), 1986 color offset print, ed. 200 12 x 12 cm. 30.5 x 30.5 cm. Edition 49/100 signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, sig...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Offset

Zadkine, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°4, Christmas 1938. Published and printed under the dire...
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Linocut

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
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1930s American Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

" Orphée à la lyre " Orpheus' Obsession Myth
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 -1963 ) " Orphée à la lyre " signed and dated jean Cocteau 1958 . marked and numbered (10/50) Edition originale de Jean Cocteau Atelier Madeline-Jolly 10/50 (u...
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1950s Art Deco Figurative Prints

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Ceramic

Saint Jean Le Baptiste - Etching by P. Puvis de Chavannes - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Jean-Baptiste is an original Etching realized by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes in the late 19th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balance...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Esther Invites Ahasuerus to a Banquet - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Esther Invites Ahasuerus to a Banquet is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s. Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Lithograph on both sheets. Edition of 6500 uns...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Villon, Portrait d'une jeune fille, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes, 1972. Published by Fernand Mourlot, ...
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1970s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Owl - Etching by Enotrio Pugliese - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Owl is an Etching realized by Enotrio Pugliese in 1963. Limited edition of 14 copies numbered and signed by the artist. Good condition on a white cardboard. Enotrio Pugliese (May ...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

Ange du Paradis (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and F...
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1950s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Introduktion - Vintage Héliogravure by Franz von Bayros - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Introduktion - Incipit Redemptio" is an original Black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – V...
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Early 20th Century Symbolist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Ephemera
Located in New York, NY
Available individually ($2500), and also as a suite of five ($12,000). Born in Bronx, NY, Ida Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences (1949). She moved...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Aquatint, Photogravure

Sir Cat by Deming King Harriman, animal art, fish, paper, print
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Sir Cat", 2019, digital collage, print, cat, victorian, figurative, Digital Painting and Drawing / Animals / Surrealistic / Dark Colors / Portrait
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Digital

"Head of Batista", Miniature Mid Century Modern Abstract Etching, Proof III
Located in Soquel, CA
"Head of Batista", a mid-century modern miniature abstract etching by California artist Richard W. Downs (American,b-1934). This delicate, small-scale etching, dated 1965, was submitted to the Seattle Art Museum for the Northwest Printmakers 36th International Exhibition. Numbered "Proof III", titled "Head of Batista", signed "RW Downs" and dated "1/65" lower edge. Submission label attached to verso for the Northwest Printmakers 36th International Exhibition 1965, with information about the artist and piece. "RW Downs / San Jose California" written on verso. Displayed in a new beige mat, unframed. Image size: 3.25"H x 3.25"W. Paper size: 6"H x 5.5"W. Mat size: 13.75"H x 11.5"W RICHARD W. DOWNS was born in Los Angeles and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California and Master of Arts from San Jose State College where he taught one year as faculty assistant. He was a member of the Drake...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Printer's Ink, Laid Paper, Etching

James Penney, Symbols: Leader, Intellectual, Worker
Located in New York, NY
James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints. Although dating from 1932, this composition recalls New Deal Murals.
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1930s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"Drowsy Bums" - Mid Century Figurative San Francisco Dock Landscape
By John Stoll
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative landscape capturing dock workers' afternoon break by John Theodore Edward Stoll (b. Germany; 1889, d. California; 1974). Signed "John Stoll" lower right. Titled "Drowsy Bu...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper, Printer's Ink, Etching

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Femmes De Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper Year: 1954 Paper Size: 13.5 x 9.5 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Femmes de Lau...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Femmes De Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper Year: 1954 Paper Size: 13.5 x 9.5 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Femmes de Lautrec, 21 Pl...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Ancient Warriors of Germany - Lithograph by Auguste Wahlen - 1844
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Warriors of Germany is a lithograph made by Auguste Wahlen in 1844. Hand colored. Good condition. At the center of the artwork is the original title "Ancient Warriors of G...
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1840s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Sichem Removed Dina- Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Sichem Removed Dina  is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s. Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Lithograph on both sheets. Edition of 6500 unsigned lithographs...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled: Female Dancer
Located in New York, NY
Troy Kinney (American 1871 - 1938) "Untitled: Female Dancer", Figurative Drypoint/ Etching/ Pencil signed on bottom right hand corner, 13 x 10 (18.75 x 14, In Frame), Early 20th Century Troy Kinney (December 1, 1871 – January 29, 1938) was an American artist, etcher, and author. He was most notable for his works portraying dance performers, fanciful subjects, and classically styled nudes...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints

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Pencil, Drypoint, Etching

Principio de Incertidumbre de Heisenberg - Etching, Drypoint and Pochoir - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Etching, Drypoint and Pochoir, 1977. Sheet 19 from the series Les Caprices de Goya de Dalì. Printed by J.J.J. Rigal after Goya with drypoint revisions by Dalí in his own hand between 1973 and 1977. Edition 85/200. Red. Michler-Löpsinger 866a (from b). Inscribed Dalì and Goya in pencil and with the artist's signature, title and number on the plate. On bold chamois-colored BFK Rives The Spanish master Francisco Goya created the work “Los Caprichos...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Drypoint

The Rabbit in Vase - Lithograph By Jean Lurçat - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Rabbit in Vase is an original artwork realized by the french artist Jean Lurçat (1892 Bruyeres - 1966 St.-Paul-de-Vence) Lithograph print, mid-20th century. Very good condit...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Images de Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper Year: 1947 Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.24 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, I...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Images de Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper Year: 1947 Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.24 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, I...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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