1970s Figurative Prints

Heinz Wehlisch Building Color etching Signed by hand Size: 15.2 × 22.4 on 20.1 × 26.9 inches COA provided Heinz Wehlisch was a modern artist of the late 20th century and worked in Berlin. He was a member of the professional association of visual artists in Berlin from 1946-1980; his specialty were etchings but also watercolors based on old postcard...

Composition is an original lithograph, realized by Pietro Carabellese in the 1970s. Hand-signed on the bottom right. Numbered on the bottom left. Edition of 100. Excellent condit...

Composition is a lithograph realized by Ibrahim Kodra in 1973. Edition of 100 Ibrahim Likmetaj Kodra (22 April 1918 – 7 February 2006) was an Albanian painter.In 1944 he opened his...

Apocalypse is an artwork realized by Charles Lapicque   in 1974. Original colored lithograph. Good conditions. Printed by Mourlot , France. This lithograph was realized  by the ar...

Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) Title: Le Roi Marc from Tristan et Iseult Year: 1970 Medium: Color Etching on Arches, Initialed in Penci...

Fountain of the Turtles -Rome is an artwork realized by Giuseppe Malandrino. Original print in etching technique. Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right corner. Nu...

This artwork, titled "Three Standing Figures," 1976, in an original color lithograph on Arches paper by British artist Henry Moore, 1898-1986. It is hand signed with initials in pencil. It was published by Association de Bibliophiles Art et Poesie, and printed by Curwen Studio, London. From the suite, La Poesie, Les Poetes. From the edition of 110. Catalogue raisonne by Cramer, plate #323. In excellent condition. It is beautifully framed in a custom wooden gold frame with gold color bevel and fabric matting. Henry Spencer Moore...

Regarded la Lune, la Lune a l'Art Etrange is an original lithograph realized after Aubrey Beardsley in 1970. The drawing is part of a 1970 "Eyes Open" edition...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - David and Bathsheba, Portfolio: Song of Songs, Year: 1972, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Size: 30 ...

Hands is a vintage offset print realized after a drawing by Renato Guttuso. The picture is in very good conditions, no signature. Image Dimensions: 22x30.3 cm. Renato Guttuso, bor...

C like Cristina is an artwork realized by Miguel Berrocal (1933 – 2006) in 1975. Linocut print. Good condition.

Vue du Temple de Mars-Vengeur is a vintage offset print artwork on paper, realized after G. Engelmann (1788-1839), in the 1970s. The artwork is signed on the plate. In very good con...

Satyricon is original colored lithography, realized in 1970 by Leonor Fini, an Argentine-Italian painter who spent her artistic career in France and was associated with the Surrealist movement. In very good condition. From series "Satiricon de Petron". The artwork represents a portrait of figures with their feeling expressed perfectly through confident strokes by bright and harmonic colors. The artwork here is resembling of the Roman wall painting...

In Anne Dykmans' "Fructidore", a well endowed woman uses her plaid apron to carry a bunch of fruit. Parts of her body clothed in plaid seem to suggest the same fruit she is carrying...

Menorah is a lithograph on Arches paper realized by Max Ernst in 1972. Belongs to the suite "Judith". Limited edition of 500. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Godd conditions. ...

Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger mes voyages avec un poème d'...

Lars BO The Abandoned Village (Le Rève de Jean Valjean 8/8 (II/II)), 1975 Original etching Handsigned in pencil On vellum, 36 x 45 cm (c. 14,1 x 17,7 inch) Edition limited to 100 un...

Artist: Larry Rivers (1923-2002) Title: 40th Regiment (Boston Massacre) Year: 1970 Medium: Silkscreen and collage on wove paper Edition: 25/150, plus p...

Tower-Man is a print artwork realized by Russian artist Alexandre Zlotnik in 1973. Lithograph print on paper. Hand-signed and numbered by pencil on the lower, edition of 150 prints...

Vue du Colisée, prise de l'intèrieur du Temple de la Paix is a vintage offset print artwork on paper, realized after G. Engelmann (1788-1839), in the 1970s. The artwork is signed on...

Mara Tran-Long (French b. 1935) "Bacchante Montmartre" Edition 71/100, Abstract/Art Deco/Art Nouveau Lithograph numbered and signed in Pencil, 25.50 x 20, Late 20th Century Colors: ...

Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger mes voyages avec un poème d'...

The Romance is an etching print on ivory-colored paper realized by Walter Spitzer (1927-2021) in the 1970s. On the cover "Suite In The First State, Strong Waters By Walter Spitzer F...

Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger mes voyages avec un poème d'...

Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger mes voyages avec un poème d'...

Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger ...

Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger mes voyages avec un poème d'...

Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger ...

Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger mes voyages avec un poème d'...

Ben Schonzeit Yankee Flame, from the portfolio: America: the Third Century, 1975 Collotype on wove paper Pencil signed and numbered 50/200 on the front Publisher: APC Editions, Chermayeff & Geismar Associates, Inc Printer: Triton Press 27 × 19 3/10 inches Unframed Note: this is the original hand signed and numbered collotype; not to be confused with the separate (unsigned) poster edition. This hand-signed, numbered and dated collotype in colors by photorealist pioneer artist Ben Schonzeit was created in 1975 for the portfolio America: the Third Century, commissioned by Mobil Oil Corporation in which 13 American artists, including Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and others created works celebrating America's bicentennial. Yankee Flame combines the iconic images of George Washington, Coca-Cola and the Statue of Liberty into a collaged interpretation of contemporary American life and the meaning of freedom. "Yankee Flame" is in excellent condition and never framed. It was acquired as part of the America: The Third Century full portfolio. Ben Schonzeit (b. 1942, Brooklyn, New York) is one of the original Photorealist painters and is considered to have pioneered the airbrush technique. His works often depict still life arrangements that are intentionally out of focus. He received his B.F.A. from The Cooper Union in 1964 and has since had over 50 solo exhibitions both in the United States and abroad. His paintings are held in numerous museum collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 1973 Nancy Hoffman introduced me to Ben Schonzeit in the backroom of her gallery on West Broadway. She had been open less than a year, and Ben was one of the artists in her original stable. His large Crab Blue It had arrived from his studio a few days earlier and was leaning against the wall. I thought at the time it was one of the most impressive, virtuosic Photorealist works I had seen. That first encounter was more than a quarter of a century ago and I have always considered it to be one of the quintessential, tour de force paintings of American Photorealism. In the early seventies one could stand on West Broadway on any pleasant, sunny weekday and see less than a dozen people on the street between the Nancy Hoffman Gallery and OK Harris Works of Art. Almost all of the SoHo galleries, such as Leo Castelli, Paula Cooper, Ward-Nasse, and Ivan Karp’s Hundred Acres, could be visited in an afternoon. At night the streets were almost deserted. With the exception of Andy Warhol, there were no art world superstars. More importantly, none of the artists expected to achieve celebrity status. That was a phenomenon of the eighties and nineties. There were a only a handful of restaurants and watering holes, such Elephant and Castle, Fanelli’s, the Spring Street Bar and Prince Street Bar. Fanelli’s closed on weekends, which was a holdover from their sweatshop clientele during lunch and ragtag group of artists in the evenings. In those early days of SoHo, the drafty, raw sweatshop spaces with their large windows, rough floors, and service elevators provided large, inexpensive living quarters and studios for many artists. Unlike today, there were no boutiques. The area was not chic and with the exception of Lowell Nesbett’s showplace, the lofts were not glamorous. Schonzeit was in the same living and working space the he now occupies when I first visited him, but SoHo was a very different time and place. When the National Endowment of the Arts recommended me to curate America 1976, which turned into one of the major visual arts projects for the Bicentennial, Ben Schonzeit was on the first list of participants I made up for the U.S. Department of the Interior. His large diptych, Continental Divide, was one of the most memorable works produced for the exhibit. I stopped by his studio four or five times while it was in progress and have visited him many times over the years. We have maintained a very cordial working relationship and friendship over the past three decades. I saw The Music Room exhibit in 1978 and realized at the time that the vigorously rendered mural sized canvases and mirror and related works represented a major catharsis in his painting. In many ways, it and the other paintings and drawings based on the same image represented a sharp, decisive break with the tenets of Photorealism, or at least the photo-replicative aspects that had been so widely heralded in America and abroad in the mid-seventies. Over the years we have continued to work together. He has been in almost all of the major exhibitions I have curated here and abroad and in almost all of the books I have written. I am familiar with his studio habits, his quiet, internalized restlessness that manifests itself in the hundreds of small, unknown drawings and watercolors, doodles on napkins during lunch, and imaginary landscapes. I also know that he would rather do a painting than think or talk about it. Over the years I have followed the shifts in his studio procedure from the monumental airbrushed fruit and vegetable paintings to the most recent bouquets of flowers and decorative paintings. Our discussions of these matters tends to lapse into a verbal shorthand at this point. The following essay is based on both my longstanding familiarity and admiration for his work and involvement with contemporary realism and figurative painting. A booklet of color xeroxes with notes made up by Schonzeit was extremely helpful. In addition to several interviews, much of the information unfolded through a lengthy series of Emails. Due to our different working habits these were composed and sent out very late at night and answered by Ben the following morning. They dealt with the specifics of many of the paintings, generalities, his background and childhood in Brooklyn, and occasional bits of art world gossip. And there were odd discoveries. Prior to discussing his witty, tongue in cheek painting of Buffalo Bill, I did not know or had long forgotten that William Cody...

1970's modernist anthropomorphic animals at a bar by Stephen Martin (American, 20th Century). Several animals sit at a bar, with a few in the b...

The Couple is an original etching and drypoint on paper, realized by the Italian artist Eugenio Comencini. In good condition. Hand-signed. Numbered. Edition, VI/XX. This contempo...

Salvador Dali A Shattering Entrance upon the American Stage Original etching and stencil Handsigned in the right corner with the blind stamp of the editor in the left corner On B...

Interesting etching, representing three pregnant women. Numbered, titled and hand-signed with pencil on lower margin by the Italian artist, Edoardo Salvi. With autograph note and sig...

Artist: Mimmo Rotella Title: The Look Year: 1979 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300 Size: 34 x 26 inches; 86.47 x 66 cm

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, ...

One Lemon Two Lemons is an artwork realized by the Contemporary Italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017) in 1974. Original black and white etching on paper. Hand Signed on the lower...

Artist: Larry Rivers, American (1923 - 2002) Title: Queen of Clubs Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph and Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: ...

Composition 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. Numbered on...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 195. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Éditions...

Fly is an original colored lithograph realized by the artist Nino Terziari in the 1970s. Hand-signed by the artist on lower right. Artist' proof (P.A. is handwritten in pencil on lo...

The Eyes of Herod is a beautiful original print on paper realized by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley. Black and white lithograph. The artwork is the plate n. 11 from the portfolio Eroti...

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Les Amours Jaunes Duel With Camelias MEDIUM: Etching + Gold Flakes SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: CLXII/CC MEASUREMENTS: 11" x 14.75" Framed:...

Léonor FINI (1907-1996) Family portrait Original etching, 1973 Hand signed in pencil Numbered /275 copies On Arches vellum size 56 x 38 cm (c. 22 x 15 in) Very good condition

Artist: Robert Indiana, American (1928 - ) Title: Henrietta M. (Henrietta Muir Edwards) from Mother of Us All Series Year: 1977 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in p...

Ponte de Rodillas is a contemporary artwork realized in 1977. The artwork is from the series: 'Les Caprices de Goya de Dali'. Drypoint on Heliosgravure, on Rives paper. Plate dime...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°38, 1972. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...

Charles LAPICQUE Faster, Higher, Stronger Lithograph Signature printed in the plate On heavy paper 101 x 64 cm (c. 40 x 26 inch) Made for the Olympic Games in Munich, 1972 Excellen...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°41, 1973. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...

Limited edition of 90 prints, numbered and hand signed.

Lithograph with thickly textured inks to resemble the surface of concrete on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe...

Caricature etching by American artist Charles Bragg. A group of jurors stares aimlessly around a courtroom. The Jury 2 Charles Bragg, American (1931–2017) Date: circa 1970 Etching, ...

Hommage a Couperin is an artwork realized by Mario Avati, 1975. Etching on wove paper. Signed, dated, marked and numbered "6 etat 5/15". 37,5 x 48 cm. Very good condition.

Jacques Monory Spectacular : Surprised Girl, 1976 Original vintage lithograph poster Created for Monory's exhibition at Maeght Gallery On paper 60 x 45 cm (c. 24 x 18 in) Excelle...

Ottana 74 is an original etching realized by Giuseppe Guerreschi in 1974. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right by the artist. Edition 71/99....

ALEX KATZ (1927-Present) This rare Alex Katz 'Face of the Poet' album is the complete set of fourteen aquatints in colors, on J. Green Hotpress paper. Conceived in 1978, each print ...

1971 The Tarahumara Indians - Figurative Etching on Paper Black and white etching of The Tarahumara Indians by Kelly English (American). The figures are outlined in thick black ink ...

Niño Payaso is an original hand drawn stone lithograph by the Mexican artist Rafael Coronel. Niño Payaso was printed one color at a time on archival printmaking paper using traditional hand lithography techniques in Paris c.1973 from lithographic stones drawn by the artist. Niño Payaso is a sensitive profile portrait depicting a young boy wearing an antique-style clown outfit whose image suggests a deeply dispirited child at a moment of gloom; a very strong impression printed in rust orange, light beige and black ink on buff colored paper. Framed size - 24 x 30 in., dark brown Mexican wood frame...