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Period: Mid-20th Century
100 Affiches Pablo Picasso Stone Lithograph Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
100 Affiches Pablo Picasso Lithograph Poster Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and co-founder of the Cubist movement, which revolutionized European painting and sculptu...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Linen

Salvador Dali - Nude at the Fountain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude at the Fountain - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 235 1967 embossed signature On Arches Vellum References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Brigitte Bardot - Exhibition Poster
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Kees Van Dongen - Brigitte Bardot - Vintage Exhibition Poster Vintage Brigitte Bardot, exhibition poster for "Les Peintres Témoins de leur Temps" at G...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Juliette ou les Prospérités du Vice - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968. Copy on Japon Nacré from the additional suite. Includes matting. Excellent conditions....
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Paper, Etching

The Sea Itself from the Rilke Portfolio, Minimalist lithograph by Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969) Title: The Sea Itself from the Rilke Portfolio Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in the plate Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961....
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Jean Cocteau - Marine Mountains - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Marine Mountains - Original Lithograph Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 200 In Rives From: COCTEAU. — VERDET (André). Montagnes marines. S. l. (Paris), Les Messagers du...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Angler - Etching - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Salvador Dalì to illustrate Pierre Ronsard's "Les Amours de Cassandre". Published by Argillet, Paris, in 1968. Edition of 299 pieces. One of 165 sp...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXIIe Année, N° 14, Jui...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

High Wide and Handsome by Fletcher Martin 1953, Original Stone Lithograph
Located in Phoenix, AZ
SHIPPING CHARGES INCLUDE SHIPPING, PACKAGING & **INSURANCE** Fletcher Martin Size: 16 x12 inches Stone lithograph Frame 25 x 21 inches High, Wide and Handsome- - 1953, Lithograph....
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Jim Dine Basil in Black Leather Suit from "The Picture of Dorian Gray" fashion
Located in New York, NY
Pictured in this monochromatic Jim Dine lithograph is Basil Hallward, the artist companion of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wearing a sleek black lea...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - The Crown - Original Etching on Silk
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Crown- from "Les Amours de Cassandre" Original Etching From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34 Dimensions: 38,5 x ...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

General Dynamics, Atom Reactor Triga around the World – Original Vintage Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
A poster belonging to Erik Nitsche's third series for General Dynamics, promoting the reactor Triga of its General Atomic division. Founded 1952, General Dynamics hired Nitsche as A...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Paper

Oscar Weissbuch, Westchester Hills (NY), New Deal, WPA-era wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
New York City native Oscar Weissbuch (1904-1948), attended the Yale University School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League, NY. He participated in the NYC-WPA printmaking project...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Le coq rouge (Cramer 34; Mourlot 203), Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 9.06 x 15.75 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc,...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Jean Cocteau - Bulls - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Taureaux Signed in the plate Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm Edition: 200 Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Trinckvel 1965 From the last po...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

HEAVEN CANTO 12
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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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar ...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Raoul Dufy - A L'Ecu de France - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Raoul Dufy - A L'Ecu de France - Original Etching From the limited edition book "Aphorismes et Varietes" by Brillat Savarin with 20 illustrations by Dufy Dimensions: 13 x 10". Editio...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Marc Chagall - Green River - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph Double-page spread from the 1974 book "Chagall" by André Pieyre de Mandiargues. Unsigned, edition of approximately 10,000 Published by Maeght 1974 D...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, étude pour la céramique, Céramiques de Picasso (Orozco 105) (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype and lithograph on vélin gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on vélin paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 11.25 x 15 inches Catalogue ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Victor Manuel Cuban Artist, Original Pen & Ink Drawing, circa 1930s-1940s
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Original pen & ink drawing by well-known Cuban artist Victor Manuel (1897-1969). The subject is a man and woman seated near the water. This pen and ink drawing on graph paper bears a rubber stamp on the verso. Image measures: 10" H x 8" W image. Paper size 12" x 9.” The work presents in an archival mat and is unframed. Born in Havana, Victor Manuel began studying the arts at San Alejandro Art School at age 12. When he was 14, he started to act as unofficial professor of elementary drawing classes. He studied with Leopoldo Romañach, another famous Cuban painter, and performed his first personal exhibition in 1924. In 1925, he traveled abroad, visiting France. He returned home in 1927 and participated in an exhibition at the Painters and Sculptors Association of Havana. In this time, he dedicated himself, for almost two years, to train other Cuban painters free of charge. Afterwards, he returned to Europe, visiting Spain and Belgium, returning to Cuba again in 1929. It was in this year that he created his most famous painting: La Gitana Tropical ("The Tropical Gipsy"), popularly known as La Gioconda...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Paper

BACKSTAGE
Located in Portland, ME
Soyer, Raphael. BACKSTAGE. Cole 36. Lithograph, 1935. 15 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Editon of about 30. In excellent condition. Rare. Nicely framed
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Raoul Dufy - Champs Français - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Raoul Dufy - Champs Français - Original Etching Dimensions: 13 x 10". Edition of 200 1940 Edition Les Bibliophiles du Palais, Paris Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Cocteau, La cravate de deuil, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Coc...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Le vieux Roi
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025. – Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) – Le Vieux Roi (Old King) Technique: Original lithograph Year: 1959 Dimensions: 64...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

After Pablo Picasso - Cubism - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso - Cubism - Pochoir Dimensions: 48.5 x 36 cm 1962 Edition of 260 Daniel Jacomet, LEDA, Editions d'Art Pablo Picasso Picasso is not just a man and his work. Picas...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Série L, var. 13 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, La Comédie Humaine, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, La Comédie Humaine, Suite d...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. This original Raoul Ubac woodcut was issued in 1958 for the hard-to-find XXe Siecle (No. 10), published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Sheet size 12 3/8 x 9 1/2 i...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

MEN IN STREET
Located in Portland, ME
Johnson, Lester. MEN IN STREET #2. Etching in colors, 1973. Edition of 35, numbered 33/35, titled, and signed in pencil. 19 1/2 x 25 inches, 494 x 635 mm. (plate); 25 x 31 inches,...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

"Biblia Sacra (Susannae pulchritudo)" Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Pasadena, CA
Salvador Dalí, a leading figure of the surrealist movement, deeply marked twentieth-century art with his audacity and singularity. Among his works is "Susannae Pulchritudo," a lithog...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Le Goût du Bonheur : Cubist Sailor man - Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Le Goût du Bonheur, Sailor Man, 1964 Lithograph Unsigned Printed date in the plate On vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (c. 12.6 9.8 in) INFORMATION : Created for the ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

MODEL AND EASEL
Located in Portland, ME
Hirsch, Joseph. MODEL AND EASEL. Lithograph, 1952. Cole 25. 21 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. Edition of 50 on Arches paper, printed by Gaston Dorfinant, Paris, using two inks. Signed in pencil...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

'Broken Carousel' — Mid-Century American Symbolism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Broken Carousel', color lithograph, 1950, edition 35, Fine and Looney 285. Signed, titled, and numbered '18/35' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Noémie et ses Belles-Filles (Mourlot 230-77; Cramer 42)
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: Mourlot, Fernand. C...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Two blocks from Twenty-Five Nudes by Eric Gill, 1938
Located in Middletown, NY
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1938. Each a woodblock print on white wove paper, 8 11/16 x 5 1/2 inches (219 x 139 mm), the full sheet. Each image in excellent condition, printed on one...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Gordon Grant Sail Boat Lithograph "Salt Bark - Gloucester"
Located in New York, NY
Gordon Grant (American, 1875-1962) The Salt Bark - Gloucester, c. 1947 Lithograph Sight: 10 x 12 1/2 in. Framed: 15 x 19 x 3/4 in. Signed lower right in pencil Published in edition ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

THE BOWERY - UPRIGHT
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. THE BOWERY - UPRIGHT. S.26. Lithograph, 1932. Edition of 21, signed and numbered 3/21 in pencil. 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches, 241 x 184 mm (image), Chine colle to a sheet 1...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Job - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234) On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

MARKET IN ERONGARICUARO
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MORTON DIMONDSTEIN (NY 1920 - LA 2000) MARKET IN ERONGARICUARO 1954 Serigraph, silkscreen. Signed titled and dated in pencil. Image 10 ¼ x 25 ½ inches. Large full sheet 17 1/4 x 30...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Screen

Miró, L'Aigrette (Cramer 36), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching from cuivre rayé après tirage on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches; image size: 4.72 x 3.54 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné ...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Bible : The judgment of Solomon, 1939 - Original Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : The judgment of Solomon (Le jugement de Salomon), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

'Chion-in Temple Gate' from 'Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms' — Jizuri Seal
By Hiroshi Yoshida
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hiroshi Yoshida, 'Chion-in Temple Gate (Sunset)' from the series 'Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms (Sakura hachi dai: Sakura mon)', color woodblock print, 1935. Signed in brush 'Yoshida' and in pencil 'Hiroshi Yoshida'. A superb, early impression, with fresh colors; the full sheet with margins, on cream Japan paper; an area of slight toning in the top right sheet corner, not affecting the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Marked with a jizuri (self-printed) seal, upper left margin. Self-published by the artist. Image size 9 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches (444 x 375 mm); sheet size 10 7/8 x 16 inches (276 x 406 mm). Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Provenance: M. Nakazawa, Tokyo. Literature: Japanese Landscapes of the 20th Century (Hotei Publishing calendar), 2001, May. Collections: Honolulu Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ABOUT THE IMAGE Located in Kyoto, Chionin is the main temple of the Jodo sect of Japanese Buddhism, one of the most popular Buddhist sects in Japan, having millions of followers. The Sanmon Gate, Chionin's entrance gate, standing 24 meters tall and 50 meters wide, it is the largest wooden temple gate in Japan and dates back to the early 1600s. Behind the gate, a broad set of stairs leads to the main temple grounds. ABOUT THE ARTIST Painter and printmaker Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the Japanese 'shin hanga' (New Print) movement. Yoshida was born as the second son of Ueda Tsukane in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, a schoolteacher from an old samurai family. In 1891 he was adopted by his art teacher Yoshida Kasaburo in Fukuoka and took his surname. In 1893 he went to Kyoto to study painting, and the following year to Tokyo to join Koyama Shotaro's Fudosha private school; he also became a member of the Meiji Fine Arts Society. These institutions taught and advocated Western-style painting, greatly influencing Yoshida’s artistic development. In 1899 Yoshida had his first American exhibition at Detroit Museum of Art (now Detroit Institute of Art), making the first of many visits to the US and Europe. In 1902 he helped reorganize the Meiji Fine Arts Society, renaming it the Taiheiyo-Gakai (Pacific Painting...
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Showa Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Composition (Field 67-4; M/L 174-187), Dalí­ illustre Casanova
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper Size: 14.875 x 11.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Dalí­ ill...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Many Cities from the Rilke Portfolio, Minimalist lithograph by Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969) Title: Many Cities from the Rilke Portfolio Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in the plate Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 in....
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Le Jeu des Acrobates, original lithograph from "Chagall Lithographe II"
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm As published in Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II. Unsigned, as issued, from the edition of several thousand Condition : Excellent Reference: Mourlot/Gauss 401 Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Chagall, Tribe of Joseph, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem. Published by Musée des Arts Décora...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Chagall, Composition (Cramer 61; Mourlot 434), Le plafond de l'Opéra (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 13 x 19 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Ju...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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