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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
Period: 1950s
Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on vellum paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Léger, Femme tenant une fleur, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 79-80-81, published by Derrièr...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Jean Cocteau - Reflections - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Reflections Signed in the plate Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm Edition: 200 1959 Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais Unnumbered as issued
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Signed in plate and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, published by Derrière le, P...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original "Sint-Truiden Carnaval!" vintage festival poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1959 “Sint-Truiden Carnaval!” vintage lithograph poster. Archivally linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. No paper loss, no tears, no stains. Excellent gr...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Moore, Red and Blue Standing Figures (Cramer 36), XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Lithograph on wove paper. Edition: 1,500. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, XXe S...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

“Venice”
Located in Southampton, NY
Description: People have collected autographs of notables for hundreds of years. The desire to have a personal memento from a famous and or important artist drives the collecting field. The top rung of the ladder, in terms of popularity, is a relatively small group of artists called ‘icons’. These are people who’s names and images stay with us, appearing with regularity in our culture. The 20th Century Masters such as Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Miro, Dali and more recently, Warhol fit this description. The renowned French printer, Fernand Mourlot, printed many of the original posters for the most important artists of the day. In 1959 the studio printed the series Affiches Originales for collectors. They are reduced lithographic versions of the original posters created by the contemporary masters, Picasso, Chagall, Braque, Matisse, Miro, Leger, and Dufy. This announcement was for an Easter exhibition in the city of Vence. This very rare and desirable 1959 Mourlot poster, of which only 1500 were printed and only a handful known to have been signed, has been signed in pencil by the artist, Marc Chagall. The original larger poster...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Archival Paper

Rouault, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 36-37-38, published by Derrière le miroir, Paris; printed by Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1951. Excerpted from a Christie’s, New York lot essay, The life span of Derrière le Miroir was thirty-five years. Publication began in 1946. Aimé Maeght, initiator of Derrière le Miroir, had already made few attempts to start publications illustrated with fine printed lithographs in colours in the years prior to the launch of Derrière le Miroir. The name, Derrière le Miroir was suggested by Jacques Kober, manager of Galerie Maeght. The gallery had opened in 1945; the first number of Derrière le Miroir was released a year later. For this first issue Geer van Velde was invited to create lithographs to illustrate the publication. The lithographs in the first issue was printed by Mourlot, Paris. The first three issues of Derrière le Miroir were unsuccessful for Maeght as far as the edition size—the initial print-runs were far too large. From 30,000 for the first issue, the number was taken down to 10,000 for numbers two and three, until Derrière le Miroir number four was published in an edition of 1500. Maeght instituted a policy whereby unsold issues were recycled and used for the fabrication of new paper for the coming editions—this served to both conserve resources and also usually result in ultimate edition sizes far less than 1,500. With number four, the permanent format for Derrière le Miroir was established. Lithographs in colours were key; text was limited to comments on the featuring artist's exhibition taking place in the Galerie Maeght, and this catalogue format was defining to Derrière le Miroir. Galerie Maeght took on the leading role in Paris and presented all main artists including Braque, Matisse, Chagall, Léger, Bonnard, Chillida and many more. So too did Derrière le Miroir. The idea of a magazine was meanwhile still on the mind of Aimé Maeght. He found an insert as a solution. Two, and later four, pages of art review were inserted from 1952 onwards. In 1968 this find had ripened to independency and the dream of Aimé Maeght was now a tangible fact named l'Art vivant. Derrière le Miroir was on it's own again. Over 250 issues in a row. At that point publisher Aimé Maeght wished to make a mark with the publication of an hommage to all who once contributed to the magazine which came in the form of issue number 250, but was delayed by the death of Aimé Maeght. It was published after number 253 in 1982 and became a tribute to Aimé and Marguérite Maeght and 35 years of friendship with artists and poets. The era of Derrière le Miroir was closed with that final publication. GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance. Rouault was born in a cellar in Paris during a bombardment of the city by the forces opposed to the Commune. His father was a cabinetmaker. A grandfather took an interest in art and owned a collection of Honoré Daumier’s lithographs...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Léger, Les instruments de la Passion, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition; with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 36...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Léger, Nature morte aux clefs, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition; with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 79...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies originales. Published by Tériade Editeur, Les Éditions Verve, Paris; printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1950. Cirque was originally conceived as a collaboration between Fernand Léger and the novelist Henry Miller. At a time when the two were interested in working together, the publisher Efstratios Tériade Léger approached Leger to make prints for an artist’s book. Tériade hoped to publish a series of such books with the circus as the theme. Léger was a circus enthusiast who often used circus images in his paintings. He often went to the Cirque Médrano in Paris and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Signed in plate and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, published by Derrière le mi...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition; with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the v...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies originales. Published by Tériade Editeur, Les Éditions Verve, Paris; printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1950. Cirque was originally conceived as a collaboration between Fernand Léger and the novelist Henry Miller. At a time when the two were interested in working together, the publisher Efstratios Tériade Léger approached Leger to make prints for an artist’s book. Tériade hoped to publish a series of such books with the circus as the theme. Léger was a circus enthusiast who often used circus images in his paintings. He often went to the Cirque Médrano in Paris and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on vellum paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Léger, Nature morte, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 79-80-81, published by Derrièr...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on vellum paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on vellum paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Masson, Le Torrent, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Laurens, Daphne, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. VII, N° 27-28, 1952. P...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Gromaire, Interieur flamand, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. VII, N° 27-28, 1952. P...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Signed in plate and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, published by Derrière le mi...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on vellum paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition; with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the v...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition; with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the v...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on vellum paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies originales. Published by Tériade Editeur, Les Éditions Verve, Paris; printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1950. Cirque was originally conceived as a collaboration between Fernand Léger and the novelist Henry Miller. At a time when the two were interested in working together, the publisher Efstratios Tériade Léger approached Leger to make prints for an artist’s book. Tériade hoped to publish a series of such books with the circus as the theme. Léger was a circus enthusiast who often used circus images in his paintings. He often went to the Cirque Médrano in Paris and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies originales. Published by Tériade Editeur, Les Éditions Verve, Paris; printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1950. Cirque was originally conceived as a collaboration between Fernand Léger and the novelist Henry Miller. At a time when the two were interested in working together, the publisher Efstratios Tériade Léger approached Leger to make prints for an artist’s book. Tériade hoped to publish a series of such books with the circus as the theme. Léger was a circus enthusiast who often used circus images in his paintings. He often went to the Cirque Médrano in Paris and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on vellum paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies originales. Published by Tériade Editeur, Les Éditions Verve, Paris; printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1950. Cirque was originally conceived as a collaboration between Fernand Léger and the novelist Henry Miller. At a time when the two were interested in working together, the publisher Efstratios Tériade Léger approached Leger to make prints for an artist’s book. Tériade hoped to publish a series of such books with the circus as the theme. Léger was a circus enthusiast who often used circus images in his paintings. He often went to the Cirque Médrano in Paris and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on vellum paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition; with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the v...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition, Cirque (Saphire 44-106), Fernand Leger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 300. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Cirque, Lithographies...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Braque, Le Coq, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. VII, N° 27-28, 1952. P...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Signed in plate and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, published by Derrière le mi...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original Break Through, US 1 sheet movie poster, linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original movie poster: BREAK THROUGH. U. S. 1-sheet vintage, linen-backed vintage 1950 release. Very good condition; ready to frame. Breakthrough is a 1950 American war film di...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Signed in plate and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, published by Derrière le mi...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

In the style of Henry Moore, Mother and Child in Rocking Chair
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a cast metal sculpture of a woman and child, mother and baby in a rocking chair. It has a patina on a white metal. Not sure if it is steel or aluminum. It is and older vintage piece and has wear to patina where it sits and rocks on table. It is not signed or numbered and there is no foundry mark. Hence it is being sold as being after or in the manner of Henry Moore. Henry Spencer Moore (1898 – 1986) Moore was born in Castleford, the son of a coal miner. He became well-known through his carved marble and larger-scale abstract cast bronze sculptures, and was instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom later endowing the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts. After the Great War, Moore received an ex-serviceman's grant to continue his education and in 1919 he became a student at the Leeds School of Art (now Leeds College of Art), which set up a sculpture studio especially for him. At the college, he met Barbara Hepworth, a fellow student who would also become a well-known British sculptor, and began a friendship and gentle professional rivalry that lasted for many years. In Leeds, Moore also had access to the modernist works in the collection of Sir Michael Sadler, the University Vice-Chancellor, which had a pronounced effect on his development. In 1921, Moore won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in London, along with Hepworth and other Yorkshire contemporaries. While in London, Moore extended his knowledge of primitive art and sculpture, studying the ethnographic collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum. Moore's familiarity with primitivism and the influence of sculptors such as Constantin Brâncuși, Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Frank Dobson led him to the method of direct carving, in which imperfections in the material and marks left by tools became part of the finished sculpture. After Moore married, the couple moved to a studio in Hampstead at 11a Parkhill Road NW3, joining a small colony of avant-garde artists who were taking root there. Shortly afterward, Hepworth and her second husband Ben Nicholson moved into a studio around the corner from Moore, while Naum Gabo, Roland Penrose, Cecil Stephenson and the art critic Herbert Read also lived in the area (Read referred to the area as "a nest of gentle artists"). This led to a rapid cross-fertilization of ideas that Read would publicise, helping to raise Moore's public profile. The area was also a stopping-off point for many refugee artists, architects and designers from continental Europe en route to America—some of whom would later commission works from Moore. In 1932, after six year's teaching at the Royal College, Moore took up a post as the Head of the Department of Sculpture at the Chelsea School of Art. Artistically, Moore, Hepworth and other members of The Seven and Five Society would develop steadily more abstract work, partly influenced by their frequent trips to Paris and their contact with leading progressive artists, notably Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Arp and Alberto Giacometti. Moore flirted with Surrealism, joining Paul Nash's modern art movement "Unit One", in 1933. In 1934, Moore visited Spain; he visited the cave of Altamira (which he described as the "Royal Academy of Cave Painting"), Madrid, Toledo and Pamplona. Moore made his first visit to America when a retrospective exhibition of his work opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[28] Before the war, Moore had been approached by educator Henry Morris, who was trying to reform education with his concept of the Village College. Morris had engaged Walter Gropius as the architect for his second village college at Impington near Cambridge, and he wanted Moore to design a major public sculpture for the site. In the 1950s, Moore began to receive increasingly significant commissions. He exhibited Reclining Figure: Festival at the Festival of Britain in 1951, and in 1958 produced a large marble reclining figure for the UNESCO building in Paris. With many more public works of art, the scale of Moore's sculptures grew significantly and he started to employ an increasing number of assistants to work with him at Much Hadham, including Anthony Caro and Richard Wentworth. Moore produced at least three significant examples of architectural sculpture during his career. In 1928, despite his own self-described "extreme reservations", he accepted his first public commission for West Wind for the London Underground Building at 55 Broadway in London, joining the company of Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill. At an introductory speech in New York City for an exhibition of one of the finest modernist sculptors, Alberto Giacometti, Sartre spoke of "The beginning and the end of history...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, published by Derrière le miroir, P...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, published by Derrière le miroir, P...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original "The Adventures of Captain Africa #3" vintage movie poster 1955
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. The Adventures of Captain Africa #3 vintage movie poster. Linen-backed and ready to frame. Original issued theater fold marks restored. A condition with excellent color. Printed in 1955. NSS: 55/3802. This is an original theatrical movie poster printed by the National Screen Service. About: Trapper Nat Coleman and government agent Ted Arnold come upon a plot to take over an African nation. Its leader, Caliph Abdul el Hamid, has been exiled from his country and replaced by a look-alike usurper allied with an unnamed foreign power. The Caliph intends to return, but enemy agents Boris and Greg are out to stop him. Captain Africa a...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

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