Contemporary Figurative Prints
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
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Style: Contemporary
Period: 1940s
Cathedral - Lithograph by F. Gentilini
Located in Roma, IT
Cattedrale is an original lithograph realized by Franco Gentilini between 1940 and 1950. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin; "prova dell'artista", artist's proof. Perfec...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Night Time - Lithograph by Orfeo Tamburi - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Night time is a modern artwork realized by Orfeo Tamburi and Giorgio Vigolo in 1945.
Black and white lithograph. Both pages are hand-signed in pencil and the left one is dated 1945....
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
The Man in the Well - Lithograph by Alberto Savinio and Lorenzo Montano - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
The Man in the Well is a modern artwork realized by Alberto Savinio and Lorenzo Montano
Black and white lithograph realized by Alberto Savinio and a text by Lorenzo Montano
Good c...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
Sleeping Nude - Lithograph by Robert Fonténé - 1942
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Nude is a lithograph on paper realized by Robert Fontené in 1942.
Stamped
Numbered on the lower left, the edition of 13/50 prints.
The artwo...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
The Challenge in the Aegean - Plate 3 - Lithograph by Giorgio De Chirico - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
The Challenge in the Aegean is a black and white artwork realized by Giorgio De Chirico in the half of 20th Century. Rare specimen on light blue paper.
Original title: "La sfida in ...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Carte de Voeux - Lithograph by Massimo Campigli - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Carte de Voeux is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the Second half of the XX Century by Massimo Campigli (Berlin, 4 July 1895 – Sait-Tropez, 31 May 1971...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Fight - Vintage Offset after Renato Guttuso - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Fight is a vintage offset print realized after a 1940 drawing by Renato Guttuso.
The picture is in very good conditions, no signature. Image Dimensions: 28.3x22.2 cm.
Renato Guttu...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Offset
Country - Original Etching by Edmond Henri Zeiger de Baugy Valley - 1949
Located in Roma, IT
Country is an original etching on paper realized by Edmond Henri Zeiger de Baugy Valley (1895-1994).
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right in pencil. Numbered, edition of 3/4 pri...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Then the Boy displayed to the Dervish his Bosom… Arabian Nights
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985
[Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses]
Vitebsk, Belarus 1887-1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes
Title: Then the Boy displayed to the Dervish his Bosom…, f...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Une Femme - Lithograph by Georges Gobo
By Georges Gobo
Located in Roma, IT
Une Femme is an original blak and white lithograph on paper, realized at the beginning of the XIX century by the artist Georges Gôbo (Saint Francisco, 1876 - Nantes 1958).
Signed in...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
On S'Amuse - Original Woodcut by Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
On S'Amuse is an original artwork realized in 1945 by Mino Maccari.
Original colored xylograph.
Includes passepartout: 49 x 33.5 cm
Good conditions except for yellowing of paper d...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Jaguar Dévorant un Tapis - Original Etching by Unknown French Artist - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 14.2 x 19.6 cm.
Jaguar devorant un Tapis is a beautiful black and white etching with an aquatint intervention, realized in 1941 by a French artist, whose signature...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Fire - Woodcut on Paper by Gu Yuan - 1947
By Gu Yuan
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 28 x 18 cm.
The Fire is an original artwork realized by Gu Yuan in 1947.
Original xylograph on watermarked paper.
Signed and dated in pencil on the lower right. ...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Untitled (Youth with Kite)
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Youth With Kite)
1941
Signed, titled, and numbered, recto
Etching (Edition of 75)
10.375 x 5.375 inches (26.4 x 13.7 cm)
Contact gallery for price.
This work is offere...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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Etching
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Named after his great-uncle, a five-term senator, Thomas Hart Benton was born on April 15, 1889, in Neosho, Missouri. His father, Maecenus Eason Benton, was a lawyer and a United States representative from 1896 to 1904, so the young Benton spent his early years in both Washington, DC, and southwest Missouri. Benton dropped out of high school at 17 and started working as a cartoonist for the Joplin American newspaper. His mother, Elizabeth Wise Benton, was supportive of his artistic ambitions, but Benton’s father enrolled him in the Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois, in 1906 before agreeing to allow him to attend the Art Institute of Chicago in 1907. The following year Benton traveled to Paris and studied at the Académie Julian. There he met California artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright (American, 1890 - 1973) and began to experiment with Macdonald-Wright’s synchromist style of abstract painting. In 1911 he returned to the United States and settled in New York. He taught briefly at the Chelsea Neighborhood Association, where he met his future wife, Rita Piacenza, one of his students. During World War I Benton served at the naval base in Norfolk, Virginia, where he made illustrations for a catalog of ships and military equipment. After the war Benton went back to New York, and in 1922 he married Piacenza. The couple was married for 53 years and had two children. They regularly spent summers on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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