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Realist Figurative Prints

REALIST STYLE

Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world. 

Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history. 

By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.

Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.

Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.

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Style: Realist
The House of Shango — African American artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Samella Sanders Lewis, 'The House of Shango', lithograph, 1992, edition 60. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '31/60' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on Arches cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/4 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 24 x 18 inches (610 x 457 mm); sheet size 30 inches x 22 1/4 inches (762 x 565 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THIS WORK “The title of this piece is an unmistakable harkening to African roots. Shango is a religious practice with origins in Yoruba (Nigerian) belief, deifying a god of thunder by the same name. Shango has been adopted in the Caribbean, most notably in Trinidad and Tobago, a fact that underscores the importance of transnationalism to Samella Lewis’s piece. Her work often grapples with issues of race in the U.S., and The House of Shango is no exception. Through a reliance on the gradual transformation of Shango—one that took place across continents and time—Lewis’s piece forms a powerful link between black Americans and their African and Caribbean counterparts. The figure depicted in the piece appears to emerge, quite literally, from the house of Shango. Given the roots and transformative process of the religion, The House of Shango can draw attention to the historical intersections to which black American culture is indebted.” —Laura Woods, Scripps College, Ruth Chander Williamson Gallery, Collection Highlights, 2018 ABOUT THE ARTIST Samella Lewis’ lifelong career as an artist, art historian, critic, curator, collector, and advocate of African American art has helped empower generations of artists in the United States and worldwide, earning her the designation “the Godmother of African American art.” Born and raised in Jim Crow era New Orleans, Lewis began her art education at Dillard University in 1941, transferring to Hampton University in Virginia, where she earned her B. A. and master's degrees. She completed her master's and a doctorate in art history and cultural anthropology at Ohio State University in 1951, becoming the first female African American to earn a doctorate in fine art and art history. Lewis taught art at Morgan State University while completing her doctorate. She became the first Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Florida A&M University in 1953. That same year Lewis also became the first African American to convene the National Conference of African American artists held at Florida A&M University. She was a professor at the State University of New York, California State University, Long Beach, and at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Lewis co-founded, with Bernie Casey, the Contemporary Crafts Gallery in Los Angeles in 1970. In 1973, she served on the selection committee for the exhibition BLACKS: USA: 1973 held at the New York Cultural Center. Samella Lewis's 1969 catalog 'Black Artists on Art', featured accomplished black artists typically overlooked in mainstream art galleries. She said of the book, "I wanted to make a chronology of African American artists, and artists of African descent, to document our history. The historians weren't doing it. It was really about the movement." From the 1960s through the 1970s, her work, which included lithographs, linocuts, and serigraphs, reflected her concerns with the values of human dignity, democracy, and freedom of expression. Between 1969 and 70, Lewis and E.J. Montgomery were consultants for a groundbreaking exhibition at the Oakland Public L designed to create greater awareness of African American history and art. Lewis was the founder of the International Review of African American Art in 1975. In 1976, she founded the Museum of African-American Art with a group of artistic, academic, business, and community leaders in Los Angeles, California. Lewis, the museum’s senior curator, organized exhibitions and developed new ways of educating the public about African American art. She celebrated African American art as an 'art of experience’ inspired by the artists’ lives. And she espoused the concept of African American art as an 'art of tradition', urging museums to explore the African roots of African American art. In 1984, Lewis produced an extensive monograph on Elizabeth Catlett, her beloved mentor at Dillard University. Lewis has been collecting art since 1942, focusing primarily on the WPA era and work created during the Harlem Renaissance. Pieces from her collection were acquired by the Hampton University Museum in Virginia, the world’s earliest collection of African American fine art...
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1990s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

'Dei Praestitis Signumexaere' — 18th Century Classical Italian Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Dei Praestitis Signumexaere' (God's Providence Signumexaere), engraving, 1734, edition unknown. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the plate, lower left. E...
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1730s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Homage to the Panthers, signed/n lithograph shown at Art Students League, Framed
Located in New York, NY
This exact work was exhibited at the Art Students League in an important show. (details below) Elizabeth Catlett Homage to the Panthers, 1993 Color Lithograph on wove paper with deck...
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1990s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Allusions, Bay of Naples (from the collection of Donald Baechler) Signed/N print
Located in New York, NY
Cy Twombly Allusions, Bay of Naples (from the collection of Donald Baechler), 1975 Color offset lithograph and photo lithograph on wove paper Signed and numbered 56/80 in ink on the ...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

The Hugh O'Neill Building, 655-671 Sixth Avenue, NYC, lithograph Signed/N Framed
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas The Hugh O'Neill Building, 655-671 Sixth Avenue, New York City, 1974 Lithograph on Arches paper Signed, titled and annotated "TP" in graphite pencil on the front Edition...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Afghan Girl iconic poster: Sharbat Gula, Pakistan (Hand Signed by Steve McCurry)
Located in New York, NY
Steve McCurry Sharbat Gula, Afghan Girl, Pakistan (Hand Signed), 1984 Offset Lithograph poster Hand signed by the photographer in black felt pen on the front 24 × 20 inches Unframed...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Felt Pen, Lithograph, Offset

SCARCE EARLY OROZCO - CABEZA DE MUJER -
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO (1883 – 1949) CABEZA DE MUJER, ( Woman's Head: Mexican Woman) 1929 (Orozco 9) Lithograph, signed and numbered 23/50. in pencil. Pri...
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1920s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Keeping the Culture, mixed media signed/N print by top African American artist
Located in New York, NY
Kerry James Marshall Keeping the Culture, 2011 Silkscreen and linocut in colors with full margins and deckled edges on Arches paper with full margins and deckled edges 20-1/4 x 30-1/4 inches Hand signed, titled and numbered 79/100 by Kerry James Marshall in graphite pencil on the front Published by Africa House International, Chicago Unframed Kerry James Marshall's 2011 "Keeping the Culture" is based upon the artist's eponymous painting done the year earlier. Marshall, along with his dealer, were voted by ArtReview the top two of the 100 most influential people in the art world of 2018 - even ahead of the #MeToo movement, and ahead of figures like Jeff Koons, Larry Gagosian and Eli Broad! His paintings now sell for tens of millions of dollars - after P. Diddy paid $21 million for a painting. The present work "Keeping the Culture" is an extremely desirable work of art and exemplifies Marshall's style. For a feature profile/article written for Marshall's first retrospective - a blockbuster show entitled "MASRY" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Met Breuer in New York, Barbara Isenberg of the LA Times wrote: ." The New York Times called the show “smashing” and its subject “one of the great history painters of our time.” The New York Review of Books and Artforum magazine put large images from the show on their January covers. “I’ve been acutely aware that museums are behind their academic colleagues in terms of thinking of representation and people of color,” MOCA chief curator Helen Molesworth says. “I find Kerry’s paintings ravishing — they are drop dead, great paintings — and they have an extra level of reward for people who hold in their heads a history of Western painting.” Marshall is a compelling storyteller, whether on canvas or in conversation. Talking at length during a visit to MOCA, he is easygoing but eloquent, recalling his neighborhood in Birmingham, Ala., where he was born in 1955, or about growing up black there and in Los Angeles. He remembers the names of teachers who encouraged him. Asked when he first began to notice a lack of black subjects...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Linocut, Screen, Mixed Media, Pencil

Mercedes 370 and Hotel Gonnet - Signed lithograph - 115ex
Located in Paris, IDF
Denis-Paul NOYER Hotel : Mercedes 370 and Hotel Gonnet Original lithograph, c. 1980 Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 115 copies On Arches vellum 75 x 105 cm (c. 30 x 42 in) INFORMAT...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Zapata, Modern Lithograph by David Siqueiros
Located in Long Island City, NY
Zapata David Alfaro Siqueiros (After), Mexican (1896–1974) Date: Printed 1966 of original: 1913 Lithograph, signed in the plate Image Size: 18 x 13.5 inches Size: 23 x 17 in. (58.42...
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1960s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

A Man of Mangea 1784 final voyage of Captain Cook by John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Man of Mangea is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. John Webber (1752-1793) was the official a...
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1780s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

The Smell of Us (Hand signed poster)
Located in New York, NY
Larry Clark The Smell of Us (Hand signed poster), 2015 Offset lithograph poster Pencil signed by Larry Clark on the back 10 1/2 × 15 1/2 inches Unframed Limited edition poster; hand ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, silkscreen on aluminum, signed/N, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Incised signature in aluminum, annotated "Artists Proof" and titled; ink on top smudged If you've ever visited the Guggenheim Bilbao, you should get this stunning mixed media on alum...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Prints

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Metal

Architectura Curiosa Nova, Sunburst Garden Fountain
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Andreas Böckler, 'SunBurst Garden Fountain', antique copperplate engraving, 1664, from the book 'Architectura Curiosa Nova'. A fine, richly inked...
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1660s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Vintage David Hockney Poster Miami New World Festival of Arts 1982 palm trees
Located in New York, NY
This vintage David Hockney poster features whimsical imagery and rich, bright color. Palm trees, boats in the ocean, a cafe, and a bodega with an elaborate iron-wrought balcony sit a...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

'Bacchus Cumampelo' — 18th Century Classical Italian Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Bacchus Cumampelo', engraving, 1734, edition unknown. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the plate, lower left. Engraving by Gabbugiani, after the original...
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1730s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Christmas - original lithograph (1897-1898)
Located in Paris, IDF
Charles LEANDRE (1862 - 1934) Christmas, 1897 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) INFORMATION: Lithograph...
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1890s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

'Notre-Dame, Paris' — Historic French Gothic Cathedral
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Notre Dame, Paris', etching, 2nd state, 1927. Signed, titled, and annotated '2nd State', in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked...
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1920s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Cityscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cityscape" c.1930 is an original color etching on wove paper by Austrian/American artist Tana Kasimir Hoernes, 1887-1972. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 12.75 x 9.15 inches, framed size is 19.35 x 15.25 inches. Custom framed in a silver with brown patina frame, with light grey matting and green and red filet. It is in excellent condition, About the artist: Tanna Kasimir...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Wien
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Wien" c.1930, is a color etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist's estate at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 18 x 12.65 inches, framed size is 28 x 22.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold stressed frame, with off white/green matting and green and black fillets It is in Excellent condition. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand. Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Acrobats, Michele Zalopany. Black and white monotype painting landscape
Located in New York, NY
In this black and white monotype, Zalopany has captured a duo of tumblers atop a roof, as onlookers stare in wonder. The artist is able to cap...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Monotype

The Ayase River and Kanegafuchi, Summer, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Located in Soquel, CA
The Ayase River and Kanegafuchi, Summer, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Summer on the Ayase River by Hiroshige (Ando) Utagawa (Japan, 1797 - 1858 ). Woodcut circa 1856. Ima...
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1850s Realist Figurative Prints

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Ink, Woodcut

'Foul Rope (Left)' — Early American Southwest Rodeo
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Robinson Leigh, 'Foul Rope (Left)', etching, c. 1920, edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil and signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove Umbria paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 14 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (378 x 303 mm); sheet size 20 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (518 x 391 mm). ABOUT THE ARTIST Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia, on a plantation a year after the Civil War and raised in Baltimore, William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) became one of the foremost painters of the American West. His career spanning some seventy-five years, Leigh created some of the most iconic depictions of the Western landscape, with admirers referring to him as ‘The Sagebrush Rembrandt.’ The son of impoverished Southern aristocrats, Leigh received his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell at the Maryland Institute, where he was regarded as the best student in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama. In 1896, Leigh began working as a magazine illustrator for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine in New York City. He also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes. Leigh's trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he agreed to paint the Grand Canyon with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting, which led to more commissions and an extensive painting trip through Arizona and New Mexico. These travels inspired him to paint western subjects for the next 50 years, and his primary interests were the Hopi and Navajo Indians. In 1910, he traveled to Wyoming, where he painted in Yellowstone Park and created sketches, many of which he later converted into large canvases such as ‘Lower Falls of the Yellowstone’ (1915) and ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ (1911). In 1926, he traveled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience, wrote and illustrated 'Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa'. In 1933, he wrote and illustrated 'The Western Pony'. His adventures were chronicled in several popular magazines, including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers. For many years, Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel handled his work exclusively in New York. In 1953, Leigh was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design and became a full Academician in 1955. In March 1999, the Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, held an exhibition of his field sketches and finished works depicting his experiences near Cody early in the century. Between 1910 and 1921, when he often painted in the Carter Mountain vicinity, these years were considered pivotal to his artistic development and devotion to the Western landscape. Leigh's work is held in many museum collections of American Western art...
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1920s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Gran vía
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Antonio López Engraving Gran Vía 2024 Signed and numbered (32/100) From the publisher Talleres del Prado Certificate of authenticity issued by Talleres el Prado 68x70cm
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Satirical French Illustration of Man and Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Satirical French Illustration of Man and Woman Comical illustration by Gaston Hoffmann (French, 1883-1967) titled "un bon tien vant amieux que deux tu l'auras" in French, "one real ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Maurice Chevalier, Casino de Paris
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Maurice Chevalier, Casino de Paris" created 1925 is a lithographic poster on paper by French noted artist Charles Kiffer, 1902-1...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Hoer Dachstein, Austria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Hoer Dachstein, Austria" c. 1960 is an color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The plate ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Windmill
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Windmill" 1641 is an etching on paper After Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1606-1669, plate engraved By French renown engraver Charles Armand Durand, 1831-1905. Signatu...
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17th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

"L'intrus" - Satirical French Illustration - Hand Colored Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Comical illustration by Gaston Hoffmann (French, 1883-1977). A doctor is giving a shot to a female patient, while a nurse tries to prevent a man from barging in. Pencil signed "G Ho...
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1950s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph

The Feast, from the suite les Bohemiens
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635) Title: The Feast, from the suite, les Bohemiens Year: 1620 Medium: Etching Paper: Laid paper Size of image: 4.65 x 9.15 inches Signature: S...
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17th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Blessed are the pure in heart / - The Vision of the Child's Eyes -
Located in Berlin, DE
Rudolf Nehmer (1912 Bobersberg - 1983 Dresden), Blessed are the pure in heart, 1948. Woodcut on yellowish wove paper, 17.8 cm x 15.4 cm (image), 35 cm x 25 cm (sheet size), signed “R...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Never have so many owed so much to so few, original Winston Churchill poster
Located in London, GB
Original Winston Churchill Poster Lithograph 51 x 40 cm c.1940-1945 "Never in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much to so few." ...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi - Suite of Original Etchings by B. Pinelli
Located in Roma, IT
Complete Title: Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi Incisi all'Acquaforte". Suite of original colored etching realized by the italian engraver Bartolomeo Pinelli in 1815-...
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1810s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan II by Utagawa Kunisada Edo Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan II by Utagawa Kunisada Japanese Woodblock Print Wonderful portrait of Nakamura Shikan II, a prominent kabuki actor, in the role of Kisen Hoshi Toyokuni ...
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1820s Realist Figurative Prints

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Printer's Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut

From the Vargas Portfolio
Located in Missouri, MO
From the Vargas Portfolio **Portfolio Cover Not Included** Lithograph Only Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1896, the son of...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

From the Vargas Portfolio
Located in Missouri, MO
From the Vargas Portfolio **Portfolio Cover Not Included** Lithograph Only Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1896, the son of...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

From the Vargas Portfolio
Located in Missouri, MO
From the Vargas Portfolio **Portfolio Cover Not Included** Lithograph Only Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1896, the son of...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Undergarment Model (1970s Gay Bathhouse Jockstrap Ad)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Vintage jockstrap ad poster, 1975. Offset lithograph on paper measures 18.5 x 12.75 inches. Copyright Winifred Bonney. Original offset period print on perio...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints

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Offset

"Folding Linen III" - Limited Edition Lithograph, 20/75
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful figurative limited edition lithograph by Robert Baxter (American, b. 1933). Signed and numbered "R. Baxter 20/75" lower left. Displayed with wh...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

The Courtesan Kashiwagi and the Kamuro Wakano - Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
The Courtesan Kashiwagi and the Kamuro Wakano - Japanese Woodblock Print Original Toyokuni III/Kunisada (Japanese, 1786 - 1864) Japanese Woodblock Print "The Courtesan Kashiwagi and...
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1820s Realist Figurative Prints

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Printer's Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut

From the Vargas Portfolio
Located in Missouri, MO
From the Vargas Portfolio **Portfolio Cover Not Included** Lithograph Only Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1896, the son of...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Limited Edition Print of Trafalgar Square, Big Ben in Westminster City of London
Located in Preston, GB
Limited Edition Print of Westminster from Trafalgar Square with Big Ben, London, by leading British urban landscape artist, Angela Wakefield. Print measures 12.5 x 10.5 inches Pape...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Color, Digital, Giclée

Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Michigan Avenue, Chicago" 1930 is a colors etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed at the lower center in pencil by the artist. The plate ...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Desnudo de Frida Kahlo, Signed Lithograph by Diego Rivera
Located in Long Island City, NY
This portrait depicts Rivera's second wife, the artist Frida Kahlo (1907-54), sitting on a bed wearing stockings and shoes and fastening rows of beads around her neck. An accident wh...
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1930s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Le Chat et Les Fleurs
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and aquatint on cream laid, watermarked Rives paper. 6 5/8 x 5 inches (167 x 126 mm). Sixth and final state, a posthumous impression. A fine, inky impression with full margin...
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1860s Realist Figurative Prints

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Aquatint, Etching

Le Luxe II BHGG, Gagosian poster (hand signed, dated, inscribed by Roe Ethridge)
By Roe Ethridge
Located in New York, NY
Roe Ethridge Le Luxe II BHGG, Gagosian poster (hand signed, dated and inscribed by Roe Ethridge), 2023 Offset lithograph poster invitation/mailer (hand...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

A Human Sacrifice, in a Morai, in Otaheite (Tahiti) 1784 James Cook Final Voyage
Located in Paonia, CO
 A Human Sacrifice in a Morai in Otaheite (Tahiti)  1784 by John Webber is from the  First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain...
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1780s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Pink Poppy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Mark Adams (American, 1925-2006) Title: Pink Poppy Year: 1980 Medium: Color aquatint Paper: Wove Image size: 11.25 x 8.5 inches Sheet size: 18 x 13.5 inches Framed size: 20.25 x 15.75 inches Signature: Signed and dated (1980) in pencil lower right Edition: 50 This one 21/50 Condition: Very good Frame: Framed in dark wood frame with Plexiglas This beautiful aquatint is by the noted San Francisco Bay Area artist Mark Adams (1925-2006). The print is in excellent condition. It is framed, floating in a simple dark wood frame with Plexiglas. The frame is in good condition and goes very well with the print. About the artist: Mark Adams attended Syracuse University and left to study art in New York with Abstract Expressionist Hans Hoffman. He was also a tapestry and stained-glass designer. He designed the windows for Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco’s largest synagogue, as well as has textiles featured in the de Young Museum and San Francisco International Airport. Later in life, Adams transitioned to watercolors, employing everyday objects–such as a flag, a bowl of fruit, and ballet shoes–as his subjects and creating pristine and almost hyper-real images. Through Adams’s vivid, delicate, and translucent colors, these mundane items take on deeper meanings. The artist was married to Beth Van Hoesen, who has portrayed him in an interior scene surrounded by objects he might have also portrayed. Adams attended Syracuse University and left to study art in New York with Abstract Expressionist Hans Hoffman. He was also a tapestry and stained-glass designer. He designed the windows for Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco’s largest synagogue, as well as has textiles featured in the de Young Museum and San Francisco International Airport. Later in life, Adams transitioned to watercolors, employing everyday objects–such as a flag, a bowl of fruit, and ballet shoes–as his subjects and creating pristine and almost hyper-real images. Through Adams’s vivid, delicate, and translucent colors, these mundane items take on deeper meanings. The artist was married to Beth Van Hoesen, who has portrayed him in an interior scene surrounded by objects he might have also portrayed. 1983 Mark Adams: Prints and Watercolors, Hastings Gallery of Art, Hastings College of the Law, University of California, San Francisco, California Mark Adams: Recent Watercolors, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1981 Mark Adams: Recent Watercolors, Graham Galleries, New York, New York 1980 Mark Adams: Recent Watercolors, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1978 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1972 Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, California 1971 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California 1971 – 74 Fire; Water, stained-glass windows, Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, California 1970 Mark Adams: An Exhibition of Tapestries, Fountain Gallery, Portland, Oregon Mark Adams, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California 1968 Hansen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1967 Tapestries and Drawings, Santa Rosa County Public Library, Santa Rosa, California 1966 Hansen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1963 I Am the Light of the World, stained-glass windows, Woodside Village Church, Woodside, California 1964 Tapestries by Mark Adams, French & Company, New York, New York 1962 Tapestries, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California 1961 Contemporary Tapestries by Mark Adams, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California Contemporary Tapestries by Mark Adams, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon 1959 Tapestries by Mark Adams, San Jose State College, San Jose, California Tapestries: Mark Adams, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, California 1958 Modern Tapestries by Mark Adams, San Diego State College, San Diego, California 1957 Tapestries by Mark Adams, Stanford University, Stanford, California 1954 Gump's Gallery, San Francisco, California 1997 Structures: Buildings in American Art, 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California Second Annual Collaboration, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho 1996 The Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California A Collaboration, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho 1995 Objects of Desire, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California XXV Years, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California Mark Adams, A Way with Color; Beth Van Hoesen, Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1994 Twenty-Six Artists: A Selection of Works from John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, Washington Mark Adams: Watercolors, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1991 Mark Adams: Tapestries, Drawings, Prints, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1989 Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1987 Mark Adams/Beth Van Hoesen, Pacific Presbyterian Professional Building, San Francisco, California Watercolors, Shasta College, Redding, California Master Exhibition Series, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA Flo Allen: a Model for a Generation, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco, California 1986 Tapestry-Contemporary Imagery/Ancient Tradition: United States, United Kingdom and Canada, Cheney Cowles Memorial Art Museum, Spokane, Washington Airport Cafe: An Exhibition About Food and Art, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California The Golden Land, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California Life Drawings - 1960's: Seven San Francisco Artists, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, California 1985 American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California American Realism, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California Two California Artists: Mark Adams/Beth Van Hoesen, University of Tennessee, The Small Press Phenomenon: Work from 18 Bay Area Fine Art Presses, Glastonbury Gallery, San Francisco, California 1984 Contemporary American Realists, Orr's Gallery, San Diego, California The Art of Connoisseurship and the Print, DeSaisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California California Drawings, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California Recent Acquisitions, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Painters at U.C. Davis: Part II, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, California 1983 Bon a Tirer, DeSaisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California Contemporary Drawings, Glastonbury Gallery, San Francisco, California California Contemporary: Recent Work of 23 Artists, Monterey Peninsula of Art, Monterey, California Figure Drawings: Five San Francisco Artists, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, California 1982 New American Graphics II, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Whitewater, traveling through 1983 by The Art Museum Association of America 1981 Drawings from the Figure, Art Gallery, California State University, Hayward, California 1980 Water Works, Art Gallery, University of North Dakota, North Dakota 1979 Tapestries: 15-20th Centuries, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California 1978 Contemporary Tapestries, Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California 1977 Works on Paper - 3 Artists, Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, California Invitational American Drawing, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, California Contemporary Tapestries, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California 1976 Five Centuries of Tapestry, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California 1975 Contemporary Tapestries, Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California Fiber and Clay, California State University, Hayward, California 1973 Mark Adams: Drawings, Paintings, Tapestries; Beth Van Hoesen: Intaglio Prints, Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, California 1970 West Coast '70: Painters & Sculptor, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California Tapestries by Mark Adams and Graphics by Beth Van Hoesen, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, California 16th Painting Annual 1969, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California 1966 Newman Guild Religious Art Invitational, E.B.Crocker Gallery, Sacramento, California The 5th Biennial National Religious Art Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 400 Years of Tapestry, Norfolk Museum, Norfolk, Virginia California Design, Pasadena Museum, Pasadena, California 1964 84th Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California Bienale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland COLLECTOR; Object/Environment, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, New York Religious Art, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 1963 5 Bay Area Artists, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California Vistas, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 1962 California Design, Pasadena Museum, Pasadena, California Fourth Winter Invitational Exhibition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California Fine Arts for Architecture, California Council, American Institute of Architects Convention, Monterey, California Paintings...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Color, Aquatint

Cambridge Midsummer Fair
Located in Middletown, NY
A peaceful image by Britian's first official war artist. Drypoint printed in brownish black ink on fibrous, laid Japon paper, 3 3/8 x 6 5/16 inches (85 x 161 mm), full margins. Sign...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Drypoint

Vintage Hockney Tate Poster, Celia in Black Dress with white flowers and rainbow
Located in New York, NY
The poster features David Hockney's 1972 drawing Celia in a Black Dress. Viewed through elegantly drooping tulip stems, Celia Birtwell stares dreamily ahead. With one hand paused in ...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Annual Events for Young Murasaki (July) - Tales of Genji - Japanese Woodblock
Located in Soquel, CA
Annual Events for Young Murasaki (July) - Tales of Genji - Japanese Woodblock Rightmost panel a triptych, depicting monthly events for Wakamurasaki (Young Murasaki). This is the month of July. There appears to be a lesson taking place, possibly for writing or poetry. Artist: Toyokuni III/Kunisada (1786 - 1864) Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shoshichist Presented in a new blue mat. Mat size: 19"H x 13"W Paper size: 14.5"H x 10"W Commentary on the triptych: In the Edo period, Tanabata was designated as one of the five seasonal festivals, and became an annual event for the imperial court, aristocrats, and samurai families, and gradually came to be celebrated by the general public. Its origins are said to be a combination of the Kikoden festival, which originated from the Chinese legend of Altair and the Weaver Girl, and Japan's ancient Tanabata women's faith. Ink is ground with dew that has accumulated on potato leaves, poems and wishes are written on five colored strips of paper, which are then hung on bamboo branches to celebrate the two stars that meet once a year. Although the illustration is a Genji painting...
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1850s Realist Figurative Prints

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Printer's Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut

Mykonos, Greece II
By Jean Claude Carsuzan
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Mykonos, Greece II" c.1990 is an original color lithograph by noted French artist Jean Claude Carsuzan b. 1938. It is hand signed and numbered 116/150 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 10.25 x 14.25 inches, framed is 18.25 x 22.25 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden gold frame. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame has some scratches. It will be replaced by a new similar one before shipping, which will bring the condition to excellent. About the artist: Jean Claude Carsuzan was born in Bordeaux, France in 1938. France. Hi interest for art began at an early age. He Attended the Bordeaux Art...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Richard Haas, Hong Kong, Etching & Aquatint, Signed 26/35, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas Hong Kong, 1990 Etching and Aquatint on wove paper Hand Signed, numbered 26/35 and dated on the front Frame included; held in the original vintage hand made wood frame ...
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1990s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

"INDIAN ON HORSE" WESTERN NATIVE AMERICAN
Located in San Antonio, TX
Olaf Wieghorst (1899 - 1988) California, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Artist Image Size: 11 x 8.5 Frame Size: 18.5 x 14.5 Medium: Print "Indian on Horse...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Archival Pigment

Woolworth Building, New York
Located in Middletown, NY
A rich and tonal image of an icon of Manhattan architecture. Etching with drypoint, 11 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (300 x 186 mm), full margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Wien Opernring
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Wien Opernring" 1921, is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed by the estate in pencil at the lower center. The plate mar...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Nudes in bathtub, signed lithograph edition of only 19 legendary realist artist
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein Untitled Nudes in bathtub, ca. 1971 Lithograph on paper with Deckled Edges Numbered from the limited edition of only 19. Unframed Hand signed in graphite pencil and...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

'Delaware River Bridge' — Mid-Atlantic Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Delaware Bridge' (Delaware, New Jersey), etching, c. 1927. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with skillfully wiped plate tone, on BFK Rives, cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (302 x 225 mm); sheet size 15 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (403 x 311 mm). ABOUT THIS IMAGE The Benjamin Franklin Bridge, originally named the Delaware River...
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1920s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

High Quality Print of New York Rain III Painting by leading British Urban Artist
Located in Preston, GB
High Quality Print of New York Rain III Painting by leading British Urban Artist, Angela Wakefield. Part of her New York Series. Hand signed by the ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Board, Color, Digital

New York Sunshine Figurative Cityscape Limited Edition Print by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
New York Sunshine Figurative Cityscape Limited Edition Print of 'New York Woman' - Cityscape Painting by Leading British Urban Landscape Artist. 'New...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Giclée

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