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Modern Figurative Prints

MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Braque, Composition (Vallier 23), Hesiode, Théogonie, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, Hesiode, Théogonie, Eaux-fortes de Georges Braque, N° 71-7...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Golda Meir Israeli Woman Prime Minister Smoking Cigarette Ink Line Etching Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Golda Meir, Israeli Zionist leader, Prime Minister and feminist icon, smoking a cigarette. Nancy Drosd is a painter working in New York City. Since 2001 s...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Sanjûroku Kasen... - Woodcut by Mizuno Toshikata - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
Nishiki-e (woodcut print), in vertical oban format (31x20.5) realized by Mizuno Toshikata in 1893 (Meiji 26). Belongs to the Series "Sanjûroku Kasen" (Thirty-Six Beauties in Compari...
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1890s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

"La Lecon du Professor Tulp, " Original Lithograph signed by Claude Weisbuch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Lecon Du Professor Tulp" is an original lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. The artist signed the piece lower right and wrote the edition number (126/320) in the lower left. This piec...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Femme au Bouquet, from Nice and the Cote d'Azur (Unsigned Proof)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall (after) Title: Femme au Bouquet Portfolio: Nice and the Cote d'Azur Medium: Lithograph Date: 1967 Edition: Unsigned and unnumbered proof (aside from the edition ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Tiles, Signed Modern Screenprint by Menashe Kadishman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - Tiles by Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (1932–2015) Date: circa 1979 Screenprint, signed in pencil Image Size: 21.5 x 20 inches Size: 41 x 29 in. (104.14 x 73.66 cm)
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

The Butterfly.
Located in Storrs, CT
Edmund Blampied, R.E. The Butterfly. 1928-29. Drypoint. Appleby 133. 9 5/8 x 7 7/8). Etching (sheet 15 1/4 x 10 3/16)on 100. A rich impression printed on cream-colored laid 'F.J.He...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Les Champs-Élysées, Place de la Concorde, A La gloire à Paris, Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin Canson et Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by L'Imprimerie Daragnès, Paris; printed by Jean Gabriel Daragnès, Paris, ...
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1930s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

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

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Lithograph

Frank Kleinholz, World Premier
Located in New York, NY
Frank Kleinholz was a lawyer-turned-modernist-artist. This work may have been printed in France in the late 1940s when he went there to learn lithography. He returned to the states i...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Les Gens de Justice - Lithograph by Honoré Daumier - 1845
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Daumier in 1845, belonging to the Series "Les Gens de Justice" Table no. 20 of the Series. Monogrammed in the plate. Very good condition. Ref. Delteil 1356
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1840s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Common Medlar - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Chagall, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. VI, N° 24, 1...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

View of Venice - Etching by Alcione Gubellini - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Alcione Gubellini in the mid-20th Century. Edition of 16. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Excellent condition. 
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Cinq Heure Du Soir
Located in San Francisco, CA
Featured is a color lithograph by Alvar titled "Cinq Heure Du Soir." Created in 1966 and inscribed "Epreuve d'Artiste" in pencil, the piece is printed on CG pa...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Regards sur Paris, Jacques Villon
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Regards sur Paris, 1963. Published by André Sauret, Paris;...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Athena Goddess - Etching by Filippo Morghen - 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Athena Goddess - Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century. ...
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18th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Man Unveiling a Woman, 1931 (Vollard Suite, B.138)
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Man Unveiling a Woman" is a drypoint from Picasso's Vollard Suite, image size 14.5 x 11.5 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and framed in a Spanish-style, closed-corner, black an...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper, Drypoint

Beaudin, Composition, André Beaudin, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, André Beaudin, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

20th century drypoint etching figurative animal print horses sketch signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Combat Equestre" is an original lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. The artist signed the piece lower right and wrote the edition number (24/100) in the lower left. This piece depicts mu...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Montmartre, A La gloire à Paris, Charles Camoin
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin Canson et Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by L'Imprimerie Daragnès, Paris; printed by Jean Gabriel Daragnès, Paris, ...
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1930s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Composition (Mourlot 1212-1225; Cramer 248), La mélodie acide, Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La mélodie acide, 14 lithographies originales de Joan Miró, 1980. Published...
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1980s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Bloch 605-608; Mourlot 177; Reuße 519-522), Elegy of Ihpetonga
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on hand made Fabriano vélin paper mounted on museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Elegy of Ihpetonga and Ma...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Willow Brook Road, Signed Lithograph by Ronald Julius Christensen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Willow Brook Road by Ronald Julius Christensen, American (1923–1999) Date: 1980 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 295 Size: 27 x 39 in. (68.58 x 99.06 cm) This en...
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1980s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Léger, Composition, Contrastes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

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

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Lithograph

Picasso, Pour Roby, Noir (Bloch 680; Cramer 57), L'Âge de Soleil (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, L'Âge de Soleil, 1950. Published by Robert J. Godet, Paris; rendered by ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Mulholland Drive Original Vintage Movie Poster One Sheet
Located in London, GB
Mulholland Drive 2001 Original Movie Poster featuring Naomi Watts Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Single-Sided One-Sheet Movie Poster One sheet measures 27″ x 40″ inches / 69 ...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper

View of Venice - Etching by Alcione Gubellini - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Alcione Gubellini in the mid-20th Century. Edition of 16. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Excellent condition.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Untitled
Located in Kansas City, MO
Knox Martin Untitled Offset lithograph Year: 1977 Size: 21 x 14 in Edition: 1,500 Signed in the plate Publisher: HMK Fine Arts, New York COA provided Ref.: 924802-924 Knox Martin (born February 12, 1923) is an American painter, sculptor and muralist. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 till 1950. He is one of the leading members of the New York School of artists and writers. He lives and works in New York City. Collections: Martin's work is included in the collections of Whitney Museum of American Art,[15] Museum of Modern Art,[16] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[17] Art Students League of New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Academy of Design,[18] National Arts Club, New York University, Addison Gallery of American Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Baltimore Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum, Blanton Museum of Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Denver Art Museum, Hand Art Center, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Heckscher Museum of Art, Hofstra University Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art,[19] Ithaca Museum, Lowe Art Museum, George Washington University, Montclair Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts,[20] Newark Museum, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Provincetown Art Association and Museum,[21] Reading Public Museum, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Springfield Art Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[22] Toledo Museum of Art, University of Kentucky Art...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Icarus in the Stars - Screen Print
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) (after) Icarus Screen print On heavy paper 99 x 70 cm (c. 40 x 28 in) Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

Farmers Eating - Woodcut Print by Katsushika Hokusai - 1814
Located in Roma, IT
Farmers Eating is an original modern artwork realized by Katsushika Hokusai in 1814. Woodcut print double page of a book. B/W print with light gray and red. From one of the manga v...
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19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Untitled - Lithograph by Bernard Buffet­ - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a modern artwork realized by Bernard Buffet in 1961. Mixed colored lithograph. Signature and date on plate. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin.
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Santalee - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Rosaceae - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original "Wagon Lits" pop art style serigraph travel by train poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Wagon Lits” serigraph poster by the artist Valerio Adami. It was printed in France by GrafiCaza (Michel Caza), one of the finest serigraph companies on woven paper—in exce...
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1990s Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

Caress, 1951 - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Françoise GILOT (1921) Caress, 1951 Original lithograph On Marais vellum 28 x 22.5 cm (c. 11 x 9 inches) REFERENCES : Catalog raisonne "Stone Echoes, Original Prints by Francoise G...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Cocteau, Composition, Taureaux (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau, 1965. ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Bible : Rachel Treasure - Original Lithograph (Mourlot #242)
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) The Bible, Rachel's Treasure Original lithography (Daeger Workshop) On paper 36 x 26.5 cm (c. 14.2 x 10.2 in) Second illustration on the back, see photo ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

September Morn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Three women strolling on a beach. This impression is one of the rare impressions printed monochromatically. Hirsch natural inclination was to print in lack and white but reprinted ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Manhattan Bridge
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph by Louis Lozowick was created in 1934. This scarce piece was printed in an edition of 10 and in very good condition. It is signed and dated in the lower right with ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Léger, Composition, Contrastes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Watering Can - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....
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1930s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Chagall, Composition, Couleur amour (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du Moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good conditi...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Rouault, Composition, Georges Rouault, Stella Vespertina (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin pur fil du Marais paper, archivally hinged on a vélin pur fil du Marais backing sheet, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Fro...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

La Maison dans les arbres, Regards sur Paris, Jean Carzou
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Regards sur Paris, 1963. Published by André Sauret, Paris;...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

Series 347:301 (Raphael et Fornarina VI: Enfin seuls)
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this etching. Signed and numbered 35/50 in pencil by Picasso. Printed by Crommelynck, Mougins. Published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. From "347 Gravures...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Composition (Mourlot 1212-1225; Cramer 248), La mélodie acide, Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La mélodie acide, 14 lithographies originales de Joan Miró, 1980. Published...
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1980s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso & Villers, Composition, Diurnes Découpages et Photographies (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Phototype and Stencil on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Diurnes Découpages et Photographies, 1962. Published by Berggruen, Par...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Photogravure, Stencil

Picasso, Composition, Les Cavaliers d'Ombre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the album, Les Cavaliers d'Ombre; Sous le Manteau de Feu, 1956. Pub...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Boy from Aizu
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Kiyoshi Saito – Japanese – (1907-1997) Title: Boy from Aizu Year: circa 1950s Medium: Woodblock Image size: 15 x 10 inches. Sheet size: 16.5x 11 inches. Signature: Signed, ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

Picasso, Composition, Les Bleus de Barcelone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil with gouache and pastel inks on vélin de Rives paper, archivally hinged on vélin de Rives backing sheet, as issued. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumb...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Woman with Flowers in Her Hair
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri MATISSE (1869-1954) Lithograph Signed in the plate Vélin Paper Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm (12 x 9") This lithograph is one of a rare edition made during the Second World War ...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Vallier 153), Le Tir à l'arc mis en lumière par Georges Braque
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur Chiffon Moulin à papier Richard de Bas paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Le Tir à l'arc mis en lu...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Joen and Deborah - Etching by Jan Pieters Saenredam - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Joen and Deborah is an old master artwork realized in 17th Century by Jan Pieters Saenredam. Black and white etching. Good condition. Signature on ...
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17th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Original Vetements Forchic French fashion vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original lithograph, linen backed. Vetements Forchic. Pour Lui; Elle a Choise. Archival linen-backed vintage French fashion poster in fine...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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