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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
Original "King of the Congo", Chapter 1 "Mission of Menace" vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original KING of the CONGO vintage movie poster, US 1-sheet. (The Mighty THUNDA). 1952 Chap. US 1 sheet. Chapter 1 "Mission of Menace". Linen-backed one-sheet film poster. NSS: ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Original Grand Prix Bugatti Type 59, linen backed print 1958
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Type 59. Grand Prix Bugatti. Linen-backed, horizontal format, fine condition. Small format. This is an original small format type 59. Grand Prix Bugatti sports car print ...
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Offset

Danseuse Créole
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952 From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54' Pr...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original "Bly by BOAC to Japan" vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original JAPAN, Fly by BOAC to the Caribbean. Small format. Archival linen-backed original vintage European travel poster in mint condition; ready to frame. This antique original poster...
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Offset

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

Pablo Picasso, The Rehearsal, original lithograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso The Rehearsal, (La Répétition) Original Lithograph, (litho crayon composition on transfer paper, transferred to stone) Hand signed in ink in lower left corner Numbered ...
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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Moses - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours Year: 1956 Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet) Published by: Éditions de la Revue Verve, Tériade, Paris Printed by: Atelier Mourlot, Paris Documentation / References: Mourlot, F., Chagall Lithograph [II] 1957-1962, A. Sauret, Monte Carlo 1963, nos. 234 and 257 Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Olympian Games
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Olympian Games Engraving, 1957 Signed, dated, titled and numbered (see photos) Edition: 25 (7/25) From the first and only edition, probably less than 8 impressions printed Printed by...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Le Passeggiatrici - Lithograph by Massimo Campigli - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed.  “Le Passeggiatrici” (“The Promenaders”) is a lithograph by Massimo Campigli, dated 1957. Two elegant female figures are the protagonists of this composition. The diffe...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Moses with Tablets of Stone - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours Year: 1956 Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet) Published by: Éditions de la Revue Verve, Tériade, Paris Printed by: Atelier Mourlot, Paris Documentation / References: Mourlot, F., Chagall Lithograph [II] 1957-1962, A. Sauret, Monte Carlo 1963, nos. 234 and 257 Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

La Negresse
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952 From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54' Pr...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950. Copy on velin creme de Rives Artwork by Paul Jouve. Original copper engraving heightened with pochoir. Paul...
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Jean Cocteau - Blue Lady - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Blue Lady Signed in the plate Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm Edition: 200 1959 Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais Unnumb...
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The Cat Girl Huge Original Vintage Poster Linen-backed
Located in London, GB
Beautiful original US threesheet (104×206 cm) for CAT GIRL directed by Peter Hennessy in 1957 starring Barbara Shelley. Poster is linen backed for restoration and longevity purpose...
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Archival Paper

L'escargot
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952 From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54' Pr...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Nu Bleu II
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952 From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54' Pr...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Acrobates
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952 From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54' Pr...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Ex Libris - Lévy - Woodcut by Émilien Dufour - 1954
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Lévy is an Artwork realized in 1954, by the French Artist Émilien Dufour (1894-1975).  Lithograph on paper. Signed on plate and dated on the right margin.  The work is ...
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Ex Libris - Herbert Ott - woodcut by Stanislaw Jakubowski - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Herbert Ott is an Artwork realized in 1950 s. by the Polish Artist Stanislaw Jakubowski (1885-1964)  Etching print on ivory paper. Hand Signed on back. The work is glue...
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Ex Libris - Liba Zaleska - Woodcut - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Liba Zaleska is an Artwork realized in 1950s. Woodcut print on paper. The work is glued on pink cardboard. Total dimensions: 19.5 x 14.5 cm. Good conditions. The art...
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Ex Libris - Sigismundi - woodcut - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Sigismundi is an Artwork realized in 1957. Etching print on ivory paper. Hand Signed on the right margin. Good conditions. The artist wants to define a well-balanced c...
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Ex Libris-José Suria Navarro-Woodcut by Juan Ferrándiz Botella- 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - José Suria Navarro is an Artwork realized in 1950, by the artist Juan Ferrándiz Botella (1925-1997).                                                            Woodcut pr...
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Ex-Libris - Boat and Fish - Etching by V. Pyle - 1954
Located in Roma, IT
Ex-Libris  - Boat and Fish is an Artwork realized in 1954, by the American Artist V. Pyle. Etching on paper. Hand Signed and dated on the right margin. Titled "Boat and Fish" in the...
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Etching

Ex Libris - Flowers - Woodcut by Frantisek Kobliha - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Flowers is an Artwork realized in 1951, by the artist  Frantisek Kobliha (1877-1962).                                                        Woodcut print on ivory paper....
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Ex Libris - Dit is Marieke's Boek - Woodcut - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Dit is Marieke's Boek is an Artwork realized in 1952. Woodcut B./W. print on ivory paper. The work is glued on colored  cardboard. Total dimensions: 11x15 cm. Good co...
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Ex Libris - V. Martinez Yuste - Woodcut - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - V. Martinez Yuste  is an Artwork realized in 1950s, by the artist Herbert Ott.                                                                  Woodcut print on paper. M...
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Ex Libris - V. Martinez Yuste - Woodcut by Jocelyn Mercier - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - V. Martinez Yuste  is an Artwork realized in 1951, by the artist Jocelyn Mercier.                                                                  Woodcut print on ivory...
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Pablo Picasso - La Petite Corrida - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Original Lithograph La Petite Corrida (The Small Bullfight) 1958 Edition of 2000, unsigned Published in the journal XXe Siecle Dimens...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Marc Chagall - Double Portrait - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours Year: 1956 Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet) Published by: Édit...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Paesaggio Urbano - Etching by Diego Donati - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Paesaggio Urbano is an Artwork realized in 1950s, by Diego Donati (1910-2002) from Italy.  Etching on ivory paper.  Hand Signed and titled on the lower margin. Numbered 52/100 on th...
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Etching, Paper

Ex-Libris - J. Mercier - Woodcut by Jocelyn Mercier - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Ex-Libris  - J. Mercier is an Artwork realized in 1957, by the artist Jocelyn Mercier.  Woodcut print on paper. Signed on plate on back, numbered ex. 25.  The work is glued on card...
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(after) Pablo Picasso - Flying Dove with a Rainbow - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Pablo Picasso - Flying Dove with a Rainbow - Lithograph 1952 Dimensions: 28 x 38 cm Signed and dated in the plate Numbered in pencil Edition : /10...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Le French CanCan from La Ville
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph by Fernand Leger is from the portfolio entitled "La Ville" (The City) which consists of 29 lithographs featuring scenes of people, life and emotions of Paris. The art...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Jean Cocteau - Antigone - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Antigone From "Théâtre" Portfolio, 1957 Edition: 207 / 8800 Dimensions: 22.5 x 15.5 cm Jean Cocteau Writer, artist and film director Jean Cocteau was one of the most influential creative figures in the Parisian avant-garde between the two World Wars. “The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.” —Jean Cocteau Synopsis Jean Cocteau was born on July 5, 1889, in Maisons-Laffitte, France. He spent most of his life in Paris, where he became part of the artistic avant-garde and was known for his variety of accomplishments. Over a 50-year career, he wrote poetry, novels and plays; created illustrations, paintings and other art objects; and directed influential films, including The Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus. He died on October 11, 1963. Early Life and Literary Debut Jean Cocteau was born on July 5, 1889, in Maisons-Laffitte, France, a village 12 miles outside Paris, to Georges and Eugénie (née) Lecomte Cocteau. He and his two older siblings were brought up in comfortable household in Paris, where they were introduced to the arts by their parents. Their father, a lawyer and amateur artist, committed suicide in 1898. After his father's death, Cocteau was raised by his mother and his maternal grandfather. He attended school at the Lycée de Condorcet in Paris and he showed an early talent for writing. When he was just 18, his poetry was read aloud in performance arranged by the well-known actor Edouard de Max, and he became the toast of literary Paris. His first book of poems, La Lampe d'Aladin (Aladdin's Lamp), was published a year later, in 1909. Cocteau and the Parisian Avant-Garde In the 1910s, Cocteau formed friendships with many prominent members of the Parisian avant-garde, including writer Guillaume Apollinaire and artists Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso. He was so impressed by seeing the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky perform with the Ballets Russes that he met the company's founder, Sergei Diaghilev, and asked to work with him. Cocteau designed posters for the Ballets Russe, and in 1917 he was one of the collaborators on the ballet Parade: Cocteau wrote the story, Erik Satie composed the music, Léonide Massine choreographed the dance and Picasso designed the set and costumes. Cocteau's activities of the 1920s were remarkably varied. He composed opera libretti for several composers. He published collections of poetry and illustrations as well as a novel inspired by his experiences during World War I. He staged a ballet called Le Boeuf Sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof) and directed modern adaptations of several classic dramas. He promoted the work of young writer Raymond Radiguet...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original Kaffee-Rahm, Swiss vintage coffee poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Swiss Kaffee Rahm Pilatus ; Swiss coffee cream poster. Linen backed. The coffee-colored woman poises with a coffee cup on her head, pouring s...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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

Original 1954 "A Star is Born" vintage Belgium movie poster Judy Garland
Located in Spokane, WA
Une Etoile est Nee or ‘A Star is Born’. This poster is Belgian. Original 1954 Belgian movie poster art is some of the best. Norman Maine, a movie s...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

Original Holiday Come to Belgium by Dover Ostend vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Holiday, Come to Belgium vy Dover Ostend vintage travel poster. Conservation linen backed in A condition ready to frame. Printer: Cocu & Mairesse, Quaregnon. An adorable...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original "New England American Airlines" vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original New England American Airlines vintage travel poster. Size 30” x 40”. Archival linen backed, untrimmed, A condition. This original vintage poster from the 1950s captures the essence of New England and American Airlines flights to the region. Designed by Bern Hill...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

The Temple - Woodcut Print After Mizuno Toshikata - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The temple is an artwork realized by Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908). Woodcut print, early 20th Century. 33 x 43 cm with frame. Good conditions
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

after Henri Matisse - Acrobat
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri Matisse - Acrobat Edition of 200 with the printed signature, as issued 76 x 56 With stamp of the Succession Matisse References : Artvalue - Succession Matisse
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Cinq Poésies en Hommage à Georges Braque (Five Poems in Homage to Georges Braque
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Georges Braque Cinq Poésies en Hommage à Georges Braque (Five Poems in Homage to Georges Braque), 1958 is the image Braque designed for the cover of a book containing five poems by R...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

A Feeding Woman - Etching by Suzanne Tourte - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
A feeding woman is an artwork realized by Suzanne Tourte in 1950s. Etching, 22 x 13 cm. Artist's proof. Hand signed on the right left. Good conditi...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Torero
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Toreros seek to elicit inspiration and art from their work. Their intentions are not to deliberately cause harm the bull, but create an emotional connection with the crowd through th...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Mayan Trio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mayan Trio Lithograph, 1950 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Edition 250 for Associated American Artists Publsihed 1950 Reference: AAA Cat.: 1950‑05; 1958‑01 AAA Index 1087 Condition: Excellent Image size: 13 x 9 1/2 inches Francisco Dosamantes (b. October 4, 1911 - d. July 18.1986) was a Mexican artist and educator who is best known for is educational illustrations and graphic work against fascism. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. Life Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. He was not registered into the civil registry until he was about twenty years old on March 6, 1939. His mother’s name is not listed on the certificate. As a child, he demonstrated a strong interest in drawing and color, influenced by his father and his uncle Juan. The Mexican Revolution occurred while he was a young child and he stated that he remembered events such as soldiers on horses charging as well as the execution of rural farm workers. He attended primary and high school in Mexico City but stated that his education was irregular and deficient. He then entered the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, where he studied for five years. Initially, however, he was disappointed with the inexperience of the young professors and he left for a short time to study on his own. During this time, some of the dissatisfied professors organized the 30 30 group against the academic system of the school and which whom he sympathized. The effort gained the attention of established artists such as Diego Rivera who intervened. He died on Mexico City on July 18, 1986 Career After he graduated, he worked with the cultural missions of the Secretaría de Educación Pública in Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Colima, Coahuila and Chihuahua (state) from 1932 to 1937 then again from 1941 to 1945. He stated that this experience was vital to his conscience as he worked with rural farm workers and others he stated were worthy of dignity and respect, but victims of deceit and exploitation. When he returned to Mexico City, he gave classes in high schools from 1937 to 1941. In 1945 he founded and directed the Taller Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura “Joaquín Claussell” in Campeche, Campeche. Dosamantes was a politically and culturally active artist with most of his work and affiliations related to such. He was a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios from 1934 to 1938. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, serving as administrator in 1940 and remaining a member until his death except for one short hiatus. He created posters for conferences about fascism and Nazism such as Alemania bajo bayonetas (Germany under bayonets) in 1938. In 1940 he became the secretary general of the Sindicato de Maestros de Artes Plásticas. He was also a member of the Sociedad para el Impulso de las Artes Plásticas en 1948, a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1949 and a member of the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas from 1952. He painted a number of murals in rural areas of Mexico generally when he was there on cultural missions. His main mural is at the former home of José María Morelos in Carácuaro, Michoacán, but there are a number at various rural schools. These were all painted between 1941 and 1946. As a book illustrator he mostly worked for the Secretaría de Educación Pública working on books for literacy campaigns. He exhibited his works, which included engravings, oils, tempuras and lithographs in Mexico and abroad. His first individual exhibition was in 1930 at the Galeria de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. His major exhibitions include the Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1932, various exhibitions in New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in 1937; the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Missouri in late 1947, and the Gallery of Mexican Art in...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Jeune Fille au Chat
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 220. Signed and inscribed "E.A." in pencil by Foujita. Printed by the Guilde de la Gravure,...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Color, Lithograph

Original 'Bundesbahn durch das Gastliches Deutschland' vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Linen-backed original German / Germany culinary map in excellent condition. MIT DER DEUTSCHEN BUNDESBAHN DURCH DAS GASTLICHE DEUTSCHLAND. Mit der Deutschen Bundesbahn durch das Gastliche Deutschland (With Deutsche Bundesbahn through Hospitable Germany). A map of Germany showing all the food and wine features in various regions and cities. If you go to Germany and want to find the origins of foods, this will lead you to the correct city. From wine, bread, fish, cookies, spat, prezels, pork, bier, french...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Oiseau dans son nid (Bird in its Nest) from Août (August)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Braque Oiseau dans son nid (Bird in its Nest) from Août (August), 1958 is an exquisite work that revisits Braque’s beloved bird motif. Beautifully inspir...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

Apres Ski Time 1951 Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski Time 1951 Skiers on the terrace of a resaurant, Skihous Schwendi in Klosters, Switzerland, 1951. by Toni Frissell 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Archival pigm...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Archival Pigment

On Tips - Etching by Suzanne Tourte - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
On tips is an artwork realized by Suzanne Tourte in 1951. Etching, 33 x 24 cm. Hand signed and dated in the right left. Good conditions, exept some ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Original "Holiday on Ice of 1957" vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Holiday on Ice of 1957 linen-backed vintage poster. Size is 22” x 28”. Excellent condition, ready to frame. Rarely seen and rarely available. Mid-century modern, over ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

NIGHT NUDE
Located in Portland, ME
Avery, Milton. NIGHT NUDE. Woodcut, 1953. Edition of 25 in black and white (there were a further 25 printed in black and blue). Signed, dated and numbered "6/25" in pencil, and also ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Still Life with Fruits - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Raoul DUFY Still Life with Fruits, 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor With printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch) Excellent cond...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Still life with Journal and Flowers - Lithograph and Stencil, 1959
Located in Paris, FR
Fernand LÉGER Still life with Journal and Flowers, 1959 Original lithograph and stencil Printed signature in the plate On vellum Auvergne 50,2 x 40 cm (c. 19,7 x 15,7 Inches) Publ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Original "Matson Cruise Lines - Festival of the Sea" vintage cruise line poster
Located in Spokane, WA
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

“Judith”
Located in Southampton, NY
Strong and vibrant color lithograph by the American artist, Benton Murdoch Spruance. Edition size in pencil lower left margin 7/40. Titled in pencil middle margin and signed in penc...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Archival Paper

Ex Libris - Woodcut by Frans Lasure - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
Ex-Libris - F. Lasure is an Artwork realized in 1956 by the Belgian Author Frans Lasure. Woodcut B./W. print on paper. Signed on plate and dated on the back. The work is glued on c...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Nude - Monotype by Mino Maccari - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a Monotype artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1950s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition.Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an Italia...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Monotype

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