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Medium: Paper
Alone
Located in Deddington, GB
Barbara Jackson. Alone- this is an etching / aquatint with a print run of 40 plus 10 artist proofs. Each print is individually inked and passed through the press by the artist, numb...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Mod 1970s Israeli Judaica Foil Print 12 Tribes of Israel Zodiac Signs Hebrew
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Israeli Batia Adith Subject: Biblical Medium: Print Surface: Paper Dimensions w/Frame: 30 1/2" x 21 1/2"
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1970s Modern Paper Figurative Prints

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Foil

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Gertha Felsövanyi" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Paper Figurative Prints

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Paper

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Paula Zuckerkandl" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Paper Figurative Prints

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Paper

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Hermine Gallia" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
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1910s Vienna Secession Paper Figurative Prints

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Paper

Winter Moon 4
Located in Deddington, GB
Winter Moon 4 By Sarah Brooks [2022] limited_edition Mixed media Edition number 40 Image size: H:29.7 cm x W:42.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

"Rescuer" Black & White Photography 28" x 20" in Ed. 1/15 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Rescuer" Black & White Photography 28" x 20" in Ed. 1/15 by Olha Stepanian Printed on Epson Professional Paper Signed and numbered by the artist Not framed. Ships in a tube. Av...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Photographic Paper

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Train of the Dead" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

Thinker, Etching & Cyanotype on paper, Blue, Grey by Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Kamal Mitra - Thinker - 16 x 12 inches (unframed size) Etching & Cyanotype on paper Inclusive of shipment in a roll form. About Kamal Mitra’s Works : While pursuing his Bachelors (P...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching

Excelsior by Simon Tozer, Limited edition, Sailing, Landscape, Figurative art
Located in Deddington, GB
Excelsior by Simon Tozer [2021] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Screenprint on Paper Edition number of 30 Image size: H:23 cm x W:30 cm ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Screen

Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright… and Sun Lion
Located in Deddington, GB
Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright… by Kate Willows [2016] limited_edition Ink on paper. Edition number 40 Image size: H:20 cm x W:30 cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look This piece is inspired by William Blake's poem 'TheTyger'. I design the image in my sketchbook and then transfer it to lino, which I hand-carve. Each print is handprinted in my studio using a roller press. As each print is individually handprinted, there may be slight variations in tone and colour. This print is made using gold oil-based ink as a background and then printed over with the tiger in dark purple ink. Each print has the title, edition number and my signature hand-written beneath the image. Sun Lion...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Linocut

Greta 3, Simon Tozer, Limited edition print, Screen Print, Sailing art
Located in Deddington, GB
Greta 3 by Simon Tozer Limited edition print and hand signed by the artist Edition of 40 Screen Print on Fabriano Rosaspina paper Image size: H:71cm x W:4...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Screen

Ballet und Pantomime "Der Paradiesvogel" (Bird of Paradise) plate #1.
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
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1920s Art Deco Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

SANDRA CHEVRIER - La Cage. Je N'ai Pas Peur. Limited ed. hand signed. Pop art
Located in Madrid, Madrid
SANDRA CHEVRIER - La Cage. Je N'ai Pas Peur Date of creation: 2018 Medium: Giclée on Moab paper Edition: 837 Size: 80 x 62 cm Condition: In mint conditions and not framed Descriptio...
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2010s Street Art Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Giclée

PURGATORY CANTO 22
Located in Aventura, FL
Woodblock engraving on paper from the Divine Comedy series. Sheet size 13 x 10 inches. Frame size approx 18 x 15 inches. Edition 4,765 in French, 3,000 in Italian, 300 in German. ...
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1960s Surrealist Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Signed Print of “Cabo Kiss 8”
Located in Fresno, CA
Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative painters and sculptors of our time. He is a living master whose work is considered to be both personal a...
Category

2010s Abstract Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink

Salvador Dalí – La Botte violette – hand watercolored drypoint etching – 1969
Located in Varese, IT
hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969 limited edition of 145 copies water-colored , numbered in lower left corner ea ( artist proof ) si...
Category

1960s Surrealist Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint, Etching

Mexican Garden Tangle
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an artist proof (one of a kind) aquatint and watercolor depicting a cactus-filled Mexican garden, a mirror tilted up and an image of the artist s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Aquatint, Watercolor

"Three Mountaintops Emerging From Fog" Copper Plate Heliogravure
Located in Chicago, IL
2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extolling his artistic merits during his lifetime to showing something of a feigned disdain- more reflective of the world political order than a true change of heart for Hodler’s work. After years of Hodler being all but a footnote in the annals of art history and generally ignored, finally, the pendulum has righted itself once again. Recent retrospective exhibitions in Europe and the United States have indicated not only a joyful rediscovery of Hodler’s art but a firm conviction that his work and world view hold particular relevance today. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is not only a collection of printed work reflecting the best of all of his painted work created up to 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I, the portfolio itself is an encapsulation of Hodler’s ethos, Parallelisme. Hodler developed his philosophy of Parallelisme as a unifying approach to art which strips away detail in search of harmony. By means of abstraction, symmetry and repetition, Hodler sought ways to depict Nature’s essence and her fundamental, universal order. He believed these universal laws governing the natural, observable world extend to the spiritual realm. Symbolist in nature with Romantic undertones, his works are equally portraits of these universal concepts and feelings governing all life as they are a visual portrait in the formal sense. Whether his subject is a solitary tree, a moment in battle, mortal fear, despair, the awe inspired by a vast mountain range, a tender moment or even the collective conviction in a belief, Hodler unveils this guiding principle of Parallelisme. Several aspects of Hodler’s portfolio reinforce his tenets of Parallelisme. The Table of Contents clearly preferences a harmonious design over detail. The two columns, consisting of twenty lines each, list the images by order of appearance using their German titles. The abbreviated titles are somewhat cryptic in that they obscure the identities of the sitters. Like the image Hodler presents, they are distillations of the sitter without any extraneous details. This shortening was also done in an effort to maintain a harmonious symmetry of the Table of Contents, themselves, and keep titles to a one-line limit. The twenty-fourth title: “Bildnis des Schweizerischen Gesandten C.” was so long, even with abbreviation, that it required two lines; so, for the sake of maintaining symmetry, the fortieth title: “Bauernmadchen” was omitted from the list. This explains why the images are not numbered. Hodler’s reasoning is not purely esoteric. Symmetry and pattern reach beyond mere formal design principles. Finding sameness and imposing it over disorder goes to the root of Hodler’s identity and his art. A Swiss native, Hodler was bi-lingual and spoke German and French. Each printed image, even number forty, have titles in both of Hodler’s languages. Certainly, there was a market for Hodler’s work among francophones and this inclusion may have been a polite gesture to that end; however, this is the only place in the portfolio which includes French. With German titles at the lower left of each image, Hodler’s name at bottom center and corresponding French titles at the lower right of each image, there is a harmony and symmetry woven into all aspects of the portfolio. This holds true for the page design, as it applies to each printed image and as it describes the Swiss artist himself. Seen in this light, Hodler’s portfolio of printed work is the epitome of Hodler’s Parallelisme. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is also one of the most significant documents to best tell the story of how Hodler, from Switzerland, became caught between political cross-hairs and how the changing tides of nations directly impacted the artist during his lifetime as well as the accessibility of his art for generations to come. The Munich-based publisher of the portfolio, R. Piper & Co., Verlag, plays a crucial role in this story. Publishing on a wide range of subjects from philosophy and world religion to music, literature and the visual arts; the publisher’s breadth of inquiry within any one genre was equal in scope. Their marketing strategy to publish multiple works on Hodler offers great insight as to what a hot commodity Hodler was at that time. R.Piper & Co.’s Almanach, which they published in 1914 in commemoration of their first ten years in business, clearly illustrates the rapid succession- strategically calculated for achieving the deepest and broadest impact - in which they released three works on Hodler to hit the market by the close of 1914. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS was their premier publication. It preceded C.A. Loosli’s Die Zeichnungen Ferdinand Hodlers, a print portfolio after 50 drawings by Hodler which was released in Autumn of 1914 at the mid-level price-point of 75-150 Marks; and a third less expensive collection of prints after original works by Hodler, which had not been included in either of the first two portfolios, was released at the end of that year entitled Ferdinand Hodler by Dr. Ewald Bender. The title and timing of DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS' debut leaves little doubt as to the connection it has with another avant-garde portfolio of art prints, Das Werk Gustav Klimts, released in 5 installments from 1908 -1914 by Galerie Miethke in Vienna. Hodler, himself, was involved in Klimt’s ground-breaking project. As the owner of Klimt’s 1901 painting, “Judith with the Head of Holifernes” which appears as the ninth collotype print in the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts, Hodler was obliged to grant access of the painting to the art printers in Vienna for them to create the collotype sometime before 1908. Hodler had been previously invited in 1904 to take part in what would be the last exhibition of the Vienna Secession before Klimt and others associated with Galerie Miethke broke away. In an interview that same year, Hodler indicated that he respected and was impressed by Klimt. Hodler’s esteem for Klimt went beyond the art itself; he emulated Klimt’s method aimed at increasing his market reach and appeal to a wider audience by creating a print portfolio of his painted work. By 1914, Hodler and his publisher had the benefit of hindsight to learn from Klimt’s Das Werk publication. Responding to the sluggish sales of Klimt’s expensive endeavor, Hodler’s publisher devised the same diversified 1-2-3 strategy for selling Hodler’s Das Werk portfolio as they did with regards to all three works on Hodler they published that year. For their premium tier of DAS WERKS FERDINAND HODLERS, R. Piper & Co. issued an exclusive Museum quality edition of 15 examples on which Hodler signed each page. At a cost of 600 Marks, this was generally on par with Klimt’s asking price of 600 Kronen for his Das Werk portfolio. A middle-tiered Preferred edition of 30, costing somewhat less and with Hodler’s signature only on the Title Page, was also available. The General edition, targeting the largest audience with its much more affordable price of 150 Marks, is distinguishable by its smaller size. Rather than use the subscription format Miethke had chosen for Klimt’s portfolios which proved to have had its challenges, R. Piper & Co. employed a different strategy. In addition to instantly gratifying the buyer with all 40 of the prints comprising DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS and the choice among three price points, they advertised in German journals a fourth possibility of ordering single prints from them directly. These printed images are easily discernible from the three complete folio editions. The paper size of the single purchased images is of the larger format like the Museum and Preferred editions, measuring 65 h x 50 w cm; however, the paper itself is the same copper print paper used in the General edition and then mounted on poster board. The publishing house positioned itself to be a direct retailer of Hodler’s art. They astutely recognized the potential for profitability and the importance, therefore, of having proprietary control over his graphic works. R. Piper & Co. owned the exclusive printing rights to Hodler’s best work found in their three publications dating from 1914. That same year, a competing publication out of Weimar entitled Ferdinand Hodler: Ein Deutungsversuch von Hans...
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1910s Symbolist Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

Figure on Sand, Graham Fransella, Etching, Abstract, Statement Artwork, Yellow
Located in Deddington, GB
Graham Fransella Figure on Sand Limited Edition Etching Triptych Edition of 25 Individual Sheet Size: H 90cm x W 46.7cm x D 0.2cm Total Size: H 90cm x W 140cm x D 0.2cm Sold Unframed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Paper

Marc Chagall – LE BOUQUET BLANC – hand-signed Lithograph on Arches - 1969
Located in Varese, IT
Color lithograph on Arches paper, edited in 1969 Limited edition of 50 copies plus 25 in roman numbers signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner and numbered IX/XXV in lower l...
Category

1960s Surrealist Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Fritza Riedler" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

NICK SMITH - AMERICAN GOTHIC. Limited edition hand signed Pop Art Design Modern
Located in Madrid, Madrid
NICK SMITH - AMERICAN GOTHIC Date of creation: 2020 Medium: Giclée and screen printed varnish on paper Edition: 150 Size: 84 x 70 cm Condition: Brand new, in mint conditions and nev...
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2010s Pop Art Paper Figurative Prints

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Varnish, Archival Paper, Giclée, Screen

Le Cénacle
Located in Greenwich, CT
Le Cenacle is an 1897 chromolithograph of Victor Mignot's poster, printed at Imprimerie Chaix under the direction Ernest Maindron and G. Boudet for the lauded poster collection 'Les ...
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Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Paper Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Beauté du XVIIIe siècle 3, Agent X, Limited edition print, Rococo inspired art
Located in Deddington, GB
Beauté du XVIIIe siècle 3 [2022] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Digital artwork Edition number 50 Image size: H:88 cm x W:78 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:88 cm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Giclée

MEDICINE (SEPIA)
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From Tom Sawyer Portfolio. Sheet size 25.5 x 19.5 inches. Image size approx 17 x 13 inches. Frame size approx 28 x 24 inches. AP edition. ...
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1970s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

UNTITLED (PLATE 6)
Located in Aventura, FL
From Untitled 1-6, Keith Haring's first series of printed works. Lithograph on Arches paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered in red crayon by the artist. Published by Barbara Gladsto...
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1980s Pop Art Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

Nas (Black & White) (50 Years, Hip Hop, Rap, Iconic, Artist, Musician, Rapper)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X Nas (Black & White) (50 Years, Hip Hop, Rap, Iconic, Artist, Musician, Rapper, Anniversary, Legend, Pop Art) Archival Pigment Print with Archival Inks on 240 gsm Hahnemühle P...
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2010s Pop Art Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Digital

SAINT APOLLONIA FS II.332
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered on front by the artist. Screenprint on Essex Offset Kid Finish paper. Published by Dr. Frank Braun, Düsseldorf, Germany. From the edition of 250. Framed si...
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1980s Pop Art Paper Figurative Prints

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Paper, Screen

Rockwell Kent Original Wood Engraving, 1931 - Diver
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) wood engraving in excellent condition titled: Diver. Created 1931. Edition size: 150. Image measures: 7 7/8"h x 5 3/8"w. The print is unframed and presents ...
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Mid-20th Century Paper Figurative Prints

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Paper

QUEEN OF SHEBA
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size approx 25 x 18 inches. Sheet size 29.5 x 22 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Edition of 300. Artwork is...
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1980s Art Deco Paper Figurative Prints

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Paper, Screen

QUEEN OF SHEBA
QUEEN OF SHEBA
$2,065 Sale Price
30% Off
Jason Keeley, Echo in Grey, Contemporary Figurative Artwork, Affordable Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Jason Keeley Echo in Grey Limited Edition Silkscreen Print Printed on somerset velvet paper 300gsm. Edition of 95 Image Size: H 66cm x W 66cm Sheet Size: H 87cm x W 84.7cm x D 0.1cm ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Figurative Prints

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Paper, Screen

Antique Lithograph Shakespeare's "The Taming Of The Shrew" Character Petruchio
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Smoker" After Shakespeare's "The Taming Of The Shrew" Petruchio - Antique Lithograph Lithograph titled "The Smoker," after the character ...
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Mid-19th Century Tonalist Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Ink, Laid Paper

PURGATORY CANTO 13
Located in Aventura, FL
Woodblock engraving on paper from the Divine Comedy series. Sheet size 13 x 10 inches. Frame size approx 18 x 15 inches. Edition 4,765 in French, 3,000 in Italian, 300 in German. ...
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1960s Surrealist Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Sailing boat at Morston Creek
Located in Deddington, GB
Sailing boat at Morston Creek by Joanna Padfield [2022] limited_edition Linocut Edition number 50 Image size: H:30.8 cm x W:30.8 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:38 cm x W:38 cm...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Linocut

THE WARRIOR
Located in Aventura, FL
Offset lithograph in colors on paper. Artist signature signed in the plate. Hand numbered in pencil. From the edition of 500. Published by Images International Hawaii. Printed by Tree Lautrec...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paper Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

THE WARRIOR
$100 Sale Price
50% Off
SUPERMODEL 2
By KAWS
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print in colors on Rives BFK wove paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Artwork size 29.2 x 21 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Frame size approx 34.5 x 2...
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1990s Street Art Paper Figurative Prints

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Paper, Screen

SUPERMODEL 2
SUPERMODEL 2
$47,970 Sale Price
40% Off
St. Moritz – Swiss Original Winter Poster, Ski Race
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Swiss Avantgarde Poster created in 1933 by Walter Herdeg (1908 – 1995) and printed in 1934 by the Art. Institut Orell Füssli in Zurich as an intaglio to promote the ...
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1930s Modern Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

FLEURS DEVANT LA FENETRE (MOURLOT 478)
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper. Hand signed and numbered by Marc Chagall. Mourlot 478. Edition 5/50 (there were also 25 artist’s proofs numbered in Roman numerals). Image size 17.75 x 16.5 inches. Sheet size 26.25 x 21 inches. Frame size approx 33 x 28 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887–1985) was an artist whose work anticipated the dream-like imagery of Surrealism. Over the course of his career, Chagall developed the poetic, amorphous, and deeply personal visual language evident in paintings like I and the Village...
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1960s Surrealist Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching

"Playboy Daydream" Photography 18" x 18" inch Edition of 15 by Brendan North
Located in Culver City, CA
"Playboy Daydream" Photography 18" x 18" inch Edition of 15 by Brendan North Not Framed Ships rolled in a tube ABOUT: Brendan North is a fine art photographer based in Los Angeles....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Figurative Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

A bike. Contemporary figurative print, A couple, Satire, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Small scale contemporary figurative etching print by Polish artist Marian Bocianowski. Artwork depicts man sitting on a bike with a woman. She is seen from behind and he is seen from...
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2010s Other Art Style Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Paper

Figure and Creek, Figurative Art, Large Statement Art, Bold Interior Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Figure and Creek Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Figure and Creek is a unique contemporary print by Graham Fransella. The warm orange...
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2010s Abstract Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching

MUGGELTON'S STAGECOACH
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size approx 20.5 x 16 inches. Frame size approx 32 x 27 inches. From the edition of 200. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certific...
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1970s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

"Day" Copper Plate Heliogravure
Located in Chicago, IL
2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extolling his artistic merits during his lifetime to showing something of a feigned disdain- more reflective of the world political order than a true change of heart for Hodler’s work. After years of Hodler being all but a footnote in the annals of art history and generally ignored, finally, the pendulum has righted itself once again. Recent retrospective exhibitions in Europe and the United States have indicated not only a joyful rediscovery of Hodler’s art but a firm conviction that his work and world view hold particular relevance today. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is not only a collection of printed work reflecting the best of all of his painted work created up to 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I, the portfolio itself is an encapsulation of Hodler’s ethos, Parallelisme. Hodler developed his philosophy of Parallelisme as a unifying approach to art which strips away detail in search of harmony. By means of abstraction, symmetry and repetition, Hodler sought ways to depict Nature’s essence and her fundamental, universal order. He believed these universal laws governing the natural, observable world extend to the spiritual realm. Symbolist in nature with Romantic undertones, his works are equally portraits of these universal concepts and feelings governing all life as they are a visual portrait in the formal sense. Whether his subject is a solitary tree, a moment in battle, mortal fear, despair, the awe inspired by a vast mountain range, a tender moment or even the collective conviction in a belief, Hodler unveils this guiding principle of Parallelisme. Several aspects of Hodler’s portfolio reinforce his tenets of Parallelisme. The Table of Contents clearly preferences a harmonious design over detail. The two columns, consisting of twenty lines each, list the images by order of appearance using their German titles. The abbreviated titles are somewhat cryptic in that they obscure the identities of the sitters. Like the image Hodler presents, they are distillations of the sitter without any extraneous details. This shortening was also done in an effort to maintain a harmonious symmetry of the Table of Contents, themselves, and keep titles to a one-line limit. The twenty-fourth title: “Bildnis des Schweizerischen Gesandten C.” was so long, even with abbreviation, that it required two lines; so, for the sake of maintaining symmetry, the fortieth title: “Bauernmadchen” was omitted from the list. This explains why the images are not numbered. Hodler’s reasoning is not purely esoteric. Symmetry and pattern reach beyond mere formal design principles. Finding sameness and imposing it over disorder goes to the root of Hodler’s identity and his art. A Swiss native, Hodler was bi-lingual and spoke German and French. Each printed image, even number forty, have titles in both of Hodler’s languages. Certainly, there was a market for Hodler’s work among francophones and this inclusion may have been a polite gesture to that end; however, this is the only place in the portfolio which includes French. With German titles at the lower left of each image, Hodler’s name at bottom center and corresponding French titles at the lower right of each image, there is a harmony and symmetry woven into all aspects of the portfolio. This holds true for the page design, as it applies to each printed image and as it describes the Swiss artist himself. Seen in this light, Hodler’s portfolio of printed work is the epitome of Hodler’s Parallelisme. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is also one of the most significant documents to best tell the story of how Hodler, from Switzerland, became caught between political cross-hairs and how the changing tides of nations directly impacted the artist during his lifetime as well as the accessibility of his art for generations to come. The Munich-based publisher of the portfolio, R. Piper & Co., Verlag, plays a crucial role in this story. Publishing on a wide range of subjects from philosophy and world religion to music, literature and the visual arts; the publisher’s breadth of inquiry within any one genre was equal in scope. Their marketing strategy to publish multiple works on Hodler offers great insight as to what a hot commodity Hodler was at that time. R.Piper & Co.’s Almanach, which they published in 1914 in commemoration of their first ten years in business, clearly illustrates the rapid succession- strategically calculated for achieving the deepest and broadest impact - in which they released three works on Hodler to hit the market by the close of 1914. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS was their premier publication. It preceded C.A. Loosli’s Die Zeichnungen Ferdinand Hodlers, a print portfolio after 50 drawings by Hodler which was released in Autumn of 1914 at the mid-level price-point of 75-150 Marks; and a third less expensive collection of prints after original works by Hodler, which had not been included in either of the first two portfolios, was released at the end of that year entitled Ferdinand Hodler by Dr. Ewald Bender. The title and timing of DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS' debut leaves little doubt as to the connection it has with another avant-garde portfolio of art prints, Das Werk Gustav Klimts, released in 5 installments from 1908 -1914 by Galerie Miethke in Vienna. Hodler, himself, was involved in Klimt’s ground-breaking project. As the owner of Klimt’s 1901 painting, “Judith with the Head of Holifernes” which appears as the ninth collotype print in the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts, Hodler was obliged to grant access of the painting to the art printers in Vienna for them to create the collotype sometime before 1908. Hodler had been previously invited in 1904 to take part in what would be the last exhibition of the Vienna Secession before Klimt and others associated with Galerie Miethke broke away. In an interview that same year, Hodler indicated that he respected and was impressed by Klimt. Hodler’s esteem for Klimt went beyond the art itself; he emulated Klimt’s method aimed at increasing his market reach and appeal to a wider audience by creating a print portfolio of his painted work. By 1914, Hodler and his publisher had the benefit of hindsight to learn from Klimt’s Das Werk publication. Responding to the sluggish sales of Klimt’s expensive endeavor, Hodler’s publisher devised the same diversified 1-2-3 strategy for selling Hodler’s Das Werk portfolio as they did with regards to all three works on Hodler they published that year. For their premium tier of DAS WERKS FERDINAND HODLERS, R. Piper & Co. issued an exclusive Museum quality edition of 15 examples on which Hodler signed each page. At a cost of 600 Marks, this was generally on par with Klimt’s asking price of 600 Kronen for his Das Werk portfolio. A middle-tiered Preferred edition of 30, costing somewhat less and with Hodler’s signature only on the Title Page, was also available. The General edition, targeting the largest audience with its much more affordable price of 150 Marks, is distinguishable by its smaller size. Rather than use the subscription format Miethke had chosen for Klimt’s portfolios which proved to have had its challenges, R. Piper & Co. employed a different strategy. In addition to instantly gratifying the buyer with all 40 of the prints comprising DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS and the choice among three price points, they advertised in German journals a fourth possibility of ordering single prints from them directly. These printed images are easily discernible from the three complete folio editions. The paper size of the single purchased images is of the larger format like the Museum and Preferred editions, measuring 65 h x 50 w cm; however, the paper itself is the same copper print paper used in the General edition and then mounted on poster board. The publishing house positioned itself to be a direct retailer of Hodler’s art. They astutely recognized the potential for profitability and the importance, therefore, of having proprietary control over his graphic works. R. Piper & Co. owned the exclusive printing rights to Hodler’s best work found in their three publications dating from 1914. That same year, a competing publication out of Weimar entitled Ferdinand Hodler: Ein Deutungsversuch von Hans Muhlestein appeared. Its author, a young scholar, expressed his frustration with the limited availability of printable work by Hodler. In his Author’s Note on page 19, dated Easter, 1914, Muhlestein confirms that the publisher of Hodler’s three works from that same year owned the exclusive reproductive rights to Hodler’s printed original work. He goes further to explain that even after offering to pay to use certain of those images in his book, the publisher refused. Clearly, a lot of jockeying for position in what was perceived as a hot market was occurring in 1914. Instead, their timing couldn’t have been more ill-fated, and what began with such high hopes suddenly found a much different market amid a hostile climate. The onset of WWI directly impacted sales. Many, including Ferdinand Hodler, publicly protested the September invasion by Germany of France in which the Reims Cathedral, re-built in the 13th century, was shelled, destroying priceless stained glass and statuary and burning off the iron roof and badly damaging its wooden interior. Thomas Gaehtgens, Director of the Getty Research Institute describes how the bombing of Reims Cathedral triggered blindingly powerful and deeply-felt ultra-nationalistic responses: “The event profoundly shocked French intellectuals, who for the most part had an intense admiration for German literature, music and art. By relying on press accounts and abstracting from the visual propagandistic content, they were unable to interpret the siege of Reims without turning away from German culture in disgust. Similarly, the German intelligentsia and bourgeoisie were also shocked to find themselves described as vandals and barbarians. Ninety-three writers, scientists, university professors, and artists signed a protest, directed against the French insults, that defended the actions of the German army.” In similar fashion, a flurry of open letters published in German newspapers and journals as well as telegrams and postcards sent directly to Hodler following his outcry in support of Reims reflected the collectively critical reaction to Hodler’s position. Loosli documents that among the list of telegrams Hodler received was one from none other than his publisher in Germany, R.Piper & Co. Allegiances were questioned. The market for Hodler in Germany immediately softened. Matters worsened for the publisher beyond the German backlash to Hodler and his loss of appeal in the home market; with the war in full swing until 1918, there was little chance a German publisher would have much interest coming from outside of Germany and Austria. Following the war and Hodler’s death in 1918, the economy in Germany continued to spiral out and just 5 years later, hyper-inflation had rendered its currency worthless vis-a-vis its value in the pre-war years. Like the economy, Hodler’s reputation was slow to find currency in these difficult times. Even many French art fans had turned sour on Hodler as they considered his long-standing relationship in German and Austrian art circles. Thus, the portfolio’s rarity in Hodler’s lifetime and, consequently, the availability of these printed images from DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS since his death has been scarce. In many ways, Hodler and his portfolios were casualties of war. Thwarted from their intended purpose of reaching a wide audience and show-casing Parallelisme, Hodler’s unique approach to art, this important, undated work has been both elusive and shrouded in mystery. Perhaps DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS was left undated as a means of affirming the timelessness of Hodler’s art. Digging back into the past, Hodler’s contemporaries, like R. Piper, C.A. Loosli and Hans Muhlestein, indeed provide the keys to unequivocally clarify what has largely been mired in obscurity. Just after Hodler’s death, the May, 1918 issue of the Burlington Review ran a small column which opined hope for better access to R.Piper & Co.’s DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS; 100 years later, it is finally possible. Hodler’s voice rings out through these printed works. Once more, his modern approach to depicting portraits, landscapes and grand scale scenes of Swiss history speak to us of what is universal. Engaging with any one of these images is the chance to connect to Hodler’s vision and his world view- weltanschauung in German, vision du monde in French- however one expresses these concepts through language, its message embedded in his work is the same: “We differ from one another, but we are like each other even more. What unifies us is greater and more powerful than what divides us.” Today, Hodler’s art couldn’t be more timely. FERDINAND HODLER (SWISS, 1853-1918) explored Parallelisme through figurative poses evocative of music, dance and ritual. His images of sex, night, desertion and death as well as his many landscapes exploring the universal longing for harmony with Nature are unique and important works embodying a Symbolist paradigm. Truly a Modern Master, Hodler’s influence can be felt in the work of Gustav Klimt and Kolomon Moser...
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Located in Culver City, CA
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UNTITLED (CUP MAN)
Located in Aventura, FL
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Located in Culver City, CA
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Suspended Sentence
Located in Greenwich, CT
Suspended Sentence is a lithograph on paper with an image size of 1.5 x 2 inches, initialed 'FMB' lower right and numbered lower left, framed in a contemporary silver and dark gray f...
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General Dynamics, Exploring the Universe, Sub-Atomic Worlds – Original Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
A poster belonging to Erik Nitsche's second series for General Dynamics, promoting its nuclear research. Founded 1952, General Dynamics hired Nitsche as Art Director – a Swiss (1908 – 1998) educated at the Collège Classique in his birth town Lausanne and at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. 1934 he emigrated to the United States and became an incredibly versatile graphic designer whose work became exemplary modernist. General Dynamics for its part focused on – amongst others – aerodynamics, aerospace, electronics and nuclear power. So here the company had a problem: Only a few years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki it wasn’t exactly the simplest thing to explore nuclear energy and not to be suspected of developing weapons of mass destruction. The International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy 1955 in Geneva was a great opportunity to be seen as a provider of peaceful technology. The guys in charge chose Erik Nitsche to communicate this message. He created four poster series. Atoms for Peace was the first consisting of eleven posters. The second was made for the Conference 1958; these posters are titled Exploring the Universe and represent different aspects of technological research. The third series promoted General Dynamics’ departments. The last series of six smaller posters...
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Spanish Artist signed limited edition original art print lithography floral
Located in Miami, FL
Antonio Lopez Garcia (Spain, 1936) 'Lirios', 2021 etching, lithograph on paper Rives BFK 300 g. 23.3 x 26.8 in. (59 x 68 cm.) Edition of 75 Unframed ID: L...
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Pantocrator - Christ In His Majesty (Tarot 3 of Coins), hand signed lithograph
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph and mezzotint on japon paper. Hand signed and numbered by Salvador Dali. LXXXIX/C. Includes original portfolio and insert. Published by Levine and Levine Publishers for Beverly Hills Gallery. A. Field 76-7, p. 131. Catalogue Raisonné: Field 76-7, pp. 131. Artwork is in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989) was a renowned Surrealist artist known for his enigmatic paintings of dreamscapes and religious themes. The Persistence of Memory (1931), arguably his best known work, visually manifests the strangeness of time, showing clocks melting in an idyllic landscape. “One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams,” he once reflected. Born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he displayed a great aptitude for the visual arts as a teenager. Three years after his first exhibition at the age of 14, he enrolled at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. At school, he emulated many contemporary styles but also the works of Johannes Vermeer and Diego Velázquez. During his visits to Paris in the late 1920s, he was introduced to the Surrealist movement by René Magritte and Joan Miró. Though the concept of Surrealism was new to him, Dalí was already well versed in the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. Dabbling in various projects throughout his long career, in 1942 he published the book The Secret...
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Fly to Bermuda by BOAC – Original Vintage British Airline Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
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"Lovers" Black & White Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
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Marc Chagall "La famille du peintre" 1972 The Painter’s Family Color lithograph
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
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"Beach House" Photography 27" x 36" inch Edition 4/7 by Brendan North
Located in Culver City, CA
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Agent X, Valentine Love (number 10 white) R, Valentine Art, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Valentine Love (number 10 white) R [2021] Limited Edition Flowers Mixed Media Edition number 100 Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:55 cm x W:55 cm x D:1cm Sold Unframed Please note t...
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Bouteilles – lithograph, hand-signed and numbered
Located in Zurich, CH
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Original vintage Cognac Pellisson poster by Leonetto Cappiello
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Original vintage Cognac Pellisson poster by Leonetto Cappiello of figure carrying Pellison Pere & Co. Cognac barrel printed by Vercasson. Raised Maxmi...
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"Second Course Fish" The Perfect Meal - Menu - Intaglio - Style of Chagall
Located in Soquel, CA
"Second Course Fish" The Perfect Meal - Menu - Intaglio - Style of Chagall The artwork "Second Course Fish" by Michael Parker, created one of a group show at San Francisco State Uni...
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1980s American Modern Paper Figurative Prints

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Ballet und Pantomime "Der bose Zauberer" (The Evil Wizard), plate #6.
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
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