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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: 1970s
French Vintage Exhibition Poster for Yves Brayer for Galerie Alain Moyon-Avenard
Located in London, GB
French Vintage Exhibition Poster for Yves Brayer (1975). Newly framed, the poster announces an exhibition of the works of Yves Brayer at the Galerie Alain Moyon-Avenard in Nantes, Fr...
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Aries - Screen Print by Sergio Barletta - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Aries is a screen print on grey paper realized by Sergio Barletta in 1973. 68 x 49 cm. Good conditions except for some some signs of the time on the margins. Sergio Barletta ...
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Cancer - Screen Print by Sergio Barletta - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Cancer is a screen print on grey paper realized by Sergio Barletta in 1973. 68 x 49 cm. Good conditions! Sergio Barletta (1934) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator, who...
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Do You Know...?, from the New York Collection for Stockholm portfolio (Signed/N)
Located in New York, NY
Nam June Paik Do You Know...?, from the New York Collection for Stockholm portfolio, 1973 Silkscreen on paper, in original portfolio sleeve Signed and dated '73 and numbered 36/300 i...
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Aries - Screen Print by Sergio Barletta - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Aries is a screen print on grey paper realized by Sergio Barletta in 1973. 68 x 49 cm Two folds in the top margin of the sheet. Sergio Barletta (1934) is an Italian cartoo...
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The Horse Rider - Original lithograph, Mourlot
Located in Paris, FR
Georges ROUAULT The Horse Rider Original lithograph Printed in Mourlot workshop On heavy paper 31.5 x 24 cm (c. 12.5 x 9.5 in) Posthumously published in the special issue Xxe Siècl...
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Silver Sprinters - Olympia 1974
By John Paul Jones
Located in Kansas City, MO
Silver Sprinters - Olympia 1974 Serigraph Edition: 200 Signed by the Artist Size: 100 x 64 cm (25 x 40 inches) COA provided John Paul Jones (November 18, 1924 – 1999) was an America...
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Gemini - Screen Print by Sergio Barletta - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Gemini is a screen print on grey paper realized by Sergio Barletta in 1973. 68 x 49 cm. Good conditions! Sergio Barletta (1934) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator, wh...
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Cancer - Screen Print by Sergio Barletta - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Cancer is a screen print on grey paper realized by Sergio Barletta in 1973. 68 x 49 cm. Good conditions! Sergio Barletta (1934) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator, wh...
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Insects - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Insects is an etching realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left in Roman numerals, from the edition of XXX prints. ...
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Insects - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Insects is an etching realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left in Roman numerals, from the edition of XXX prints. ...
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Nude - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an etching on cardoboard realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. sheet dimensions, 25 x 17 cm. Edition XL/XL Handsigned in pencil in the lower right margin. Good condtions
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Insect - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Insects is an etching realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left in Roman numerals, from the edition of XXX prints. T...
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Your Day in Court, from the portfolio Wisconsin Graphics
Located in New York, NY
Warrington Colescott Your Day in Court, from the portfolio Wisconsin Graphics, 1971 Drypoint, etching, aquatint, woodcut, & soft-ground etching, w roulette, vibrograver, letterpress ...
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Woodcut

Nude - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a etching on cardboard realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. sheet dimensions, 25 x 17 cm. Handsigned in pencil in the lower right margin. Edition XXXVIII/XL Very good c...
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Insect - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Insects is an etching realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left in Roman numerals, from the edition of XXX prints. ...
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Nude - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is aetching realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. Sheet dimensions, 25 x 17 cm. Handsigned in pencil in the lower right margin. Edition XXXVII/XL. Good condtions.
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Pandora's Box - Phototype print - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Pandora's Box is an print on cream-colored paper, realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1970s. Phototype print. Good conditions. The artwork realized through deft and precise str...
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Insect - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Insect is an etching realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left in Roman numerals, from the edition of XXX prints. ...
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Insects - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Insects is an etching realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left in Roman numerals, from the edition of XXX prints. ...
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Original Tennis, Henry V, Act I, Scene ii vintage motivational poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Tennis. Original motivational – theater - sports poster. Linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. This linen-backed 1970 vintage poster, created by The Perfection Fo...
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Insects - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Insects is an etching realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left in Roman numerals, from the edition of XXX prints. ...
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Ex Libris - Van Den Berg - Colij - Screenprint - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Van Den Berg - Colijn is a Modern Artwork realized in 1979. Ex Libris. Screenprint on paper. Dated on the right margin. The work is glued on ivory cardboard. Total d...
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Screen

Nude - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an etching on cardoboard realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. sheet dimensions, 25 x 17 cm. Handsigned in pencil in the lower right margin. Edition XXXIV/XL Good condtions
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Nude - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an etching on cardoboard realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. sheet dimensions, 25 x 17 cm. Handsigned in pencil in the lower right margin. Edition XXXIII/XL Good condt...
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Rainbow Signed 1970s silkscreen & lithograph by pioneering female Fluxus artist
Located in New York, NY
Mary Bauermeister Rainbow, 1973 Lithograph and silkscreen on creamy white paper Hand signed, dated and numbered 56/250 by the artist on the front 19 x 25.5 inches Unframed This work is on the permanent collection of various institutions like: Rice University, Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, Rutgers Zimmerli Museum and Wheaton College Massachusetts. While studying the fringe sciences the 1970s, Bauermeister created Rainbow (1973), a lithograph and silkscreen. She uses a creamy white background as the base. Two intersecting diagonal bands of color transcend across the page, and black cursive lettering dances over the surface serving as a mind map of interweaving ideas. Through the central band, Bauermeister shifts through the color spectrum; she begins with red and finishes with violet. Inspired by music, she uses strokes of color that are rhythmically smeared across the lithograph. The surface lettering, a kind of visual poetry, explores her interest in human emotion and science. The viewer can see Bauermeister’s thoughts as they flow into one another through the use of words such as bliss, love, and healing. Bauermeister also includes a repetition of words such as cancer, sickness, and cure. The word cancer emerges from a cell-like shape. A careful study of the words shows that they may seem dark in nature; however, she juxtaposes these words against the cheerful title and colors. Perhaps the rainbow symbolizes a new hope, an inspiration for an optimistic future. -Courtesy to the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art About Mary Bauermeister: A multidisciplinary artist known for her intricate and enigmatic assemblages, Mary Bauermeister (1934-2023) continues to defy categorization with layered works in a range of media. A precursory figure of the Fluxus movement—her studio was the meeting point for a number of defining artists of the avant-garde—her work plays an integral role in the discussion of art, both European and American, that emerged from the 1960s. Her reliefs and sculptures, which have incorporated drawing, text, found objects, natural materials and fabric, reference a plethora of concepts: from natural phenomena and astronomy to mathematics and language, as well as her own “spiritual-metaphysical experiences.” Maturing amidst the currents of Minimalism and Pop Art, Bauermeister’s art has resisted labels due to the singular expression of her interests and concerns, among them the simultaneous transience and permanence of the natural world with experimentations in transparency and magnification, multiplication and variation, structure and order, chance and ephemerality, introversion and extroversion. Her three-dimensional receptacles of thoughts, ideas, and notes contain visual, conceptual, and philosophical paradoxes that challenge perceptions and that offer literal and metaphorical windows into which one can glimpse the inner workings of the artist’s mind. - Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld...
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Lithograph, Screen, Mixed Media, Pencil, Graphite

Waiting, Framed Print by Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Waiting from the Kent Bicentennial Portfolio Will Barnet, American (1911–2012) Date: 1975 Offset Lithograph (unsigned as issued) Image Size: 11.25 x 11 inches Size: 17 x 14 in. (43.1...
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Soft Screw as Balloon, Ascending
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this lithograph on Arches Roll paper. Signed and numbered 25/35 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with the blind...
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Lithograph

Woman in the Mirror - Etching by Enrico Palù - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in the Mirror is an Etching realized by Enrico Palù in 1973. Good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (45x31.5 cm). Hand signed and dated by the artist o...
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Untitled Flower
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt Untitled Flower, 1975 Etching on wove paper Hand signed, numbered AP and dated on the front 24 × 19 inches Unframed Poignant and exquisitely rendered etching of a flow...
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Construction Drawing IV (Conceptual Art, Mechanical, Engineer, Machine)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75 COA provided Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculpto...
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Lithograph

Harold Town "Diva" Lithograph, 1970
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Town (1924–1990) was one of the most dynamic and brilliant figures in Canadian art throughout his lengthy career. While often associated with Painters Eleven, he was also a m...
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Head, Lithograph from the Swiss Society of Arts Portfolio (Lutze 629), Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Horst Antes Untitled, from the Swiss Society of Arts Portfolio (Lutze 629), 1975 Lithograph on paper with Deckled Edges. Hand signed and numbered 26/200 by the artist on the front 2...
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André Planson - French Province - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Planson - French Province Original Lithograph Handsigned Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture...
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'Simplicius' Farewell to the World' — Graphic Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fritz Eichenberg, 'Simplicius’ Farewell To The World' from the suite 'The Adventurous Simplicissimus', wood engraving, 1977, artist's proof apart from the edition of 50. Signed in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 14 x 12 inches (356 x 305 mm); sheet size 17 1/2 x 15 inches (445 x 381 mm). Archivally sleeved, unmatted. ABOUT THIS WORK 'Simplicius Simplicissimus' (German: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch) is a picaresque novel of the lower Baroque style, written in five books by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen published in 1668, with the sequel Continuatio appearing in 1669. The novel is told from the perspective of its protagonist Simplicius, a rogue or picaro typical of the picaresque novel, as he traverses the tumultuous world of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. Raised by a peasant family, he is separated from his home by foraging dragoons. He is adopted by a hermit living in the forest, who teaches him to read and introduces him to religion. The hermit also gives Simplicius his name because he is so simple that he does not know his own name. After the death of the hermit, Simplicius must fend for himself. He is conscripted at a young age into service and, from there, embarks on years of foraging, military triumph, wealth, prostitution, disease, bourgeois domestic life, and travels to Russia, France, and an alternate world inhabited by mermen. The novel ends with Simplicius turning to a life of hermitage, denouncing the world as corrupt. ABOUT THE ARTIST Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990) was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion, social justice, and nonviolence. Eichenberg was born to a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany, where the destruction of World War I helped to shape his anti-war sentiments. He worked as a printer's apprentice and studied at the Municipal School of Applied Arts in Cologne and the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, where he studied under Hugo Steiner-Prag. In 1923 he moved to Berlin to begin his career as an artist, producing illustrations for books and newspapers. In his newspaper and magazine work, Eichenberg was politically outspoken and sometimes wrote and illustrated his reporting. In 1933, the rise of Adolf Hitler drove Eichenberg, who was a public critic of the Nazis, to emigrate with his wife and children to the United States. He settled in New York City, where he lived most of his life. He worked in the WPA Federal Arts Project and was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists. In his prolific career as a book illustrator, Eichenberg portrayed many forms of literature but specialized in works with elements of extreme spiritual and emotional conflict, fantasy, or social satire. Over his long career, Eichenberg was commissioned to illustrate more than 100 classics by publishers in the United States and abroad, including works by renowned authors Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Poe, Swift, and Grimmelshausen. He also wrote and illustrated books of folklore and children's stories. Eichenberg was a long-time contributor to the progressive magazine The Nation, his illustrations appearing between 1930 and 1980. Eichenberg’s work has been featured by such esteemed publishers as The Heritage Club, Random House, Book of the Month Club, The Limited Editions Club, Kingsport Press, Aquarius Press, and Doubleday. Raised in a non-religious family, Eichenberg had been attracted to Taoism as a child. Following his wife's unexpected death in 1937, he turned briefly to Zen Buddhist meditation, then joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1940. Though he remained a Quaker until his death, Eichenberg was also associated with Catholic charity work through his friendship with Dorothy Day...
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Trooper II
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ronald King Trooper II Year: 1970 Color Lithograph Size: 27.5x20.5in Edition: 50 Signed, inscribed and numbered by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1359 Bor...
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Lithograph

Original Shakespear's Henry V Quote Track and Field runners vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original motivational – theater - sports poster. Linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. This linen-backed 1970 vintage poster, created by The Perfection Form Company, features a captivating image of men on a track field...
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Offset

'Mother and Child with Guitar', Figural, Barcelona, Venice, Chicago, New York
By Jordi Pla Domènech
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Pla Domenech' for Jordi Pla Domenech (Spanish, 1917-1992) and created circa 1975. Paper dimensions: 19 x 13.5 inches Jordi Pla...
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Paper, Lithograph

Cuban signed limited edition original art print silkscreen 23x17 in.
Located in Miami, FL
Modesto Braulio (Cuba, ) 'Untitled (from Porfolio Grabados Cubanos)', 1978 silkscreen on paper Canson 320 g. 23.6 x 17.6 in. (59.8 x 44.6 cm.) Edition of 200 ID: BRA-302 Hand-signed ...
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Screen, Paper

Ex Libris - Woodcut by Daniel Joim - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Daniel Joim is a Modern Artwork realized in 1971. Ex Libris. B/W woodcut on paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensions: 20.5x 15 cm. Good conditions. ...
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Composition II
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Whimsical in nature, the exuberant application of color captures a quality of spontaneity and experimentation. Famous for the "Dupe of Being" in which he strives to combine the tragi...
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Lithograph

Cuban signed limited edition original art print silkscreen 17x23 in.
Located in Miami, FL
Oscar Carballo Pérez (Cuba, 1951) 'Untitled (from Porfolio Grabados Cubanos)', 1978 silkscreen on paper Canson 320 g. 17.6 x 23.6 in. (44.6 x 59.8 cm.) Edition of 200 ID: CAO-302 Han...
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Alexander Calder lithograph Derrière le Miroir (Calder prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder Lithograph c. 1971 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. From: Derrière le miroir Published Paris c. 1971. Printed in France. Derrière le miroir: In October 1945 the French art dealer Aimé Maeght opens his art gallery at 13 Rue de Téhéran in Paris. His beginning coincides with the end of Second World War and the return of a number of exiled artists back to France. The publication was created in October 1946 (n°1) and published without interruption until 1982 (n°253). Its original articles and illustrations (mainly original color lithographs by the gallery artists) who were famous at the time. The lithographic publication covered only the artists exhibited by Maeght gallery either through personal or group exhibitions. Among them were, Pierre Alechinsky, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Eduardo Chillida, Alberto Giacometti, Vassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Saul Steinberg and Antoni Tapies. Alexander Calder was an American artist best known for his invention of the kinetic sculptures known as mobiles. Calder also produced a variety of two-dimensional artworks including lithographs, paintings, and tapestries as seen in his Butterfly (1970). “My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses, and movement,” the artist once said. Born on August 22, 1898 in Lawnton, PA, Calder turned to art in the 1920s, studying drawing and painting under George Luks and Boardman Robinson at the Art Students League in New York. Calder moved to Paris to continue his studies in 1926, where he was introduced to the European avant-garde through performances of his Cirque Calder (1926–1931). “I was very fond of the spatial relations,” he said of his interest in the circus. “The whole thing of the—the vast space—I’ve always loved it.” With these performances, along with his wire sculptures, Calder attracted the attention of such notable figures as Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Fernand Léger. Notably, it was his friend Duchamp that coined the term mobile—a pun in French meaning both “motion” and “motive”—during a visit to Calder’s Paris studio in 1931. His earliest mobiles moved by motors, but Calder soon abandoned these mechanics and designed pieces that moved by air currents or human interaction. Over the course of seven decades, along with his mobiles, he also produced paintings, monumental outdoor sculptures, works on paper, domestic objects, and jewelry. The artist lived in both Roxbury, CT, and Saché, France, before his death on November 11, 1976 in New York, NY. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate Gallery in London. Related Categories Calder prints. Mid Century Modern. 1970s. Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art. Mid Century Modern. Calder clowns.
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Bohemian Woman - Rare and Signed Graphite Portrait Drawing on Textured Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Bohemian Woman - Signed Graphite Portrait Drawing on Textured Paper Portrait of a woman in a Boehme Bandana with exaggerated eyes and a parted smile. A Carbon Pencil and eraser original drawing by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). Signed and dated upside-down along the bottom edge: "Eugene May 13th 1976" Presented in a new black mat. Mat size: 20"H x 16"W Paper size: 15"H x 11"W Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933) is a BIPOC artist known for his detailed portraiture and printmaking. He is listed in Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, and his work was exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art. He spent the majority of his life working and exhibiting in Southern California. His work frequently touches upon socio-political subjects, making strong statements about the world. The California African American Museum features Eugene Hawkins's work in the Permanent Collection.Exhibition: 2017 Paperworks: Selections from the Permanent Collection focuses on works on paper produced from 1800?2000 and includes figurative, impressionistic, and abstract styles. The exhibition showcases the radically diverse range of works on paper created by African American and other artists over the last two centuries, and includes drawings, prints, paintings, and collages by Edward Mitchell Bannister...
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Carbon Pencil, Paper

Nude - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a Hand-colored etching artwork, realized in 1974 by Sergio Barletta. Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil. numbered in Roman numerals on the lower left, from the editi...
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Ex Libris J. De Belder - Woodcut by Josef Liesler - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris J. De Belder is an Artwork realized in 1977, by the Czech author Josef Liesler (1912-2005). Color Lithograph print on paper. Hand Signed and...
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Four Figures and a Head, on Giant Phallus by Claes Oldenburg erotic nude scene
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of joy and come-hither coquettishness. T...
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Claes Oldenburg mythological Erotic Fantasy Suite print set of 6 medusa mermaid
Located in New York, NY
These erotic etchings depict mythological and fantasy creatures as striking nudes. A host of sensuous and shocking figures include a mermaid, Medusa, and women in both jubilant and p...
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Study for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of ecstasy and repose. The loose sketches were drawn directly onto the plate by the artist, a master draftsman whose erotic etchings are largely unknown. The composition is based on the drawing: Clinical Study, Towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comic Style...
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"Jose "Pepe" Contino" Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed silkscreen 1978 n1
Located in Miami, FL
Jose "Pepe" Contino (Cuba, 1933) 'Untitled (from Porfolio Grabados Cubanos)', 1978 silkscreen on paper Canson 320 g. 17.6 x 23.6 in. (44.6 x 59.8 cm.) Edition of 200 ID: CON-301 Hand...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen, Paper

Henry Moore 1973 Lithograph edition 28/75 Sculpture Figures Reclining Nudes
Located in Surfside, FL
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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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Nude - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a Hand-colored etching artwork, realized in 1974 by Sergio Barletta. Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil. numbered in Roman numerals on the lower left, from the editi...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Poster for the film 'Umbracle'
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Joan Miró Poster for the film 'Umbracle,' 1973 is a lively work that was originally created as a movie poster for the film Umbracle, an experi...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Cuban signed limited edition original art print silkscreen 17x23 in.
Located in Miami, FL
Oscar Carballo Pérez (Cuba, 1951) 'Untitled (from Porfolio Grabados Cubanos)', 1978 silkscreen on paper Canson 320 g. 17.6 x 23.6 in. (44.6 x 59.8 cm.) Edition of 200 ID: CAO-301 Han...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper, Screen

Cuban signed limited edition original art print 17x23 in.
Located in Miami, FL
Modesto Braulio (Cuba, ) 'Untitled (from Porfolio Grabados Cubanos)', 1978 silkscreen on paper Canson 320 g. 17.6 x 23.6 in. (44.6 x 59.8 cm.) Edition of 200 ID: BRA-301 Hand-signed ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen, Paper

L'enfance d'Ubu (Childhood of Ubu), 1975
Located in Palo Alto, CA
L'enfance d'Ubu is one of three illustrated books inspired by the French playwright Alfred Jarry's (1873-1907) plays Ubu Roi, Ubu Cocu, and Ubu Enchaîné. ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Eros and Thanatos - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Eros and Thanatos is an Etching realized by Sergio Barletta in the Early 1970s. Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered. Edition, 15/160. Good conditions. The artwork is realiz...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Ex Libris - Maria Guillermina - Duarte Catarino by Miguel Antoni - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Maria Guillermina - Duarte Catarino - Alves De Azevedo is a Modern Artwork realized in 1970, by the Portoguese Author Miguel Antonio. Ex Libris. B/W woodcut on ivory ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

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