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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
At the sauna. 1960s, paper, lithography, 38x49 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At the sauna 1960s, paper, lithography, 38x49 cm Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still life. She is one of the most productive watercolors artists, in first post-war generation - the number of jobs estimated in the thousands. Especially popular paintings with floral motifs. The artist about herself says: "I was born in Jelgava in 1930 in family of teachers. As a child, together with brother we loved to draw and made figures of clay or plasticine. In Riga elementary school №8 was a great art teacher, artist Alphonse Mihaylovskis, he also gave the first direction in art. Father let us buy a good brushes, watercolors, art books and publications related to the Latvian art. We also visited the exhibition. Enthusiastically I absorb all that read, studied the basic concepts...
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1960s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Central Synagogue Lexington Avenue Looking North Etching and aquatint S/N Framed
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas Central Synagogue - Lexington Avenue Looking North, 1991 Etching and aquatint on wove paper Signed, dated and numbered 8/35 in graphite pencil on the front; bears the or...
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1990s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

"Chester Street" By Ed Fairburn, Limited Edition Poster Print, Portrait of Woman
Located in Denver, CO
"Chester Street" is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag premium archival Moab pape...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Archival Pigment

Schubert's House, Vienna
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Schubert's House, Vienna" c. 1970 is a color etching on wove paper by noted Austrian artist Robert Kasimir, 1914-2002. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower c...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Starling
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Starling" c.1990, is a color woodblock print on paper by noted Canadian/Japanese artist Suezan Aikins, b.1952. It is signed and numbered 82/150 in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 10 x 23.25 inches, framed size is 17.25 x 30.25 inches. Custom framed in a silver metal frame, with double off white matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame have some small minor rubs. About the artwork: This artwork required 3 different carved wood blocks and 7 layers of colors to complete. About the artist: Born in Montreal in 1952, Suezan was influenced early in her life by the works of modern Japanese woodblock printmakers which hung throughout her parents’ home. She attended the Fine Arts programme at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick (1969 - 1971), The Ontario College of Art (1971-73), L’ ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts (1974), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design -BFA (1975) as well as a very intensive year of study with Toshi Yoshida in Tokyo (1984-85). She has exhibited extensively in both public and private galleries throughout North America and Japan. Recent exhibitions include solo shows in Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, and Boston with group exhibitions at the Wenniger Gallery, Boston, Royal Canadian Academy in Toronto and the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Her paintings and woodblock prints are found in many collections such as The Canada Council Art Bank, The Nickle Art Museum, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Royal Bank of Canada, Prince Takamanonamiya Norihito, the Embassy of Canada in Tokyo, The Thomas Moore Institute as well as private collections. Suezan Aikins was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant in 1983, Nova Scotia Department of Culture - Development Grants in 1980, 1987 and 1988. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1990 and received the Canadian Progress Club- Women of Excellence Award for Culture in 1993. Her work has been featured in a number of television documentaries as well as many Canadian magazines. STUDIES: Yoshida Woodblock Print Studio Tokyo, 84-85 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, 74-75 BFA Ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal, 74 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 71-73 Mt. Allison University, 69-72 SELECTED SOLO SHOWS: 25 Year Retrospective of Woodblock Prints traveled to three Public Galleries in Germany: Dornum Castle; Tollhousverein, Leer; Rastede Palace, Oldenberg 2000-2001 color catalog and reviews. Private Exhibitions, Falmouth, Mass., July 1996; Montreal, November 1996; Gibson Island, Md., April 1999. Gold Paintings and Woodblock Retrospective, travelling: Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo; Genkan Gallery, Tokyo American Club; Blue Nile Gallery, Osaka; Kanda's Gallery BOQ, Okinawa; May 1994 (color catalogue) Edo Gallery, Boston, November 1992, Private Exhibitions, Chatham, Mass, July 1992, Toronto, Oct. 1991 New Paintings and Woodblocks Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo, May 1991, and also in 1987. Japanese Garden and Pavilion Foundation, Montreal, September 1990, Ownens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University 1988 Zwickers Gallery, Halifax, NS, 1979; Gallery 78; Fredericton, November, 1983; Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, November, 1982 SELECTED GROUP SHOWS: "A New Leaf" 30 foot instalation of mixed media/ goldleaf reliefs, Artsplace, Annapolis Royal, N.S., 2000 color catalog "Far and Wide" Juried Bienials, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; 1996 to '99, travelling, catalogs "Moku Hanga Travelling Exhibition: Contemporary Japanese Woodcuts...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Inside of a Hippah in New Zealand from Captain Cooks Travels
Located in Paonia, CO
The Inside of a Hippah in New Zealand is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook John...
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1780s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

"Western Front" (2024) Limited Edition Poster Print, Portrait of Woman
Located in Denver, CO
"Western Front" is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece, released in 2024, is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag premium ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Archival Pigment

Richard Haas, Downtown Los Angeles MOCA, Etching & Aquatint, Signed/N, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas Downtown Los Angeles MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), 1991 Etching and aquatint on paper with printers blind stamp SIgned, dated '91 and numbered 14/35 in graphite pen...
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1990s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Late 19th Century Engraving -- "A Hot Bargain" Painting by Frederick Bridgman
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful engraving of a late 19th Century painting by Frederic Arthur Bridgman (American, 1847 - 1928) titled "A Hot Bargain," (see image) engraved by James D. Smillie (American, 1833-1909), circa 1900. Signed lower right edge. Edition 64/225 with attribution to piece and artist on verso. Presented in with new mat. Original mat on verso. Condition: Good, minor foxing on edge. Image size: 5.88"H x 9"W. A native of New York and the son of an engraver, James David Smillie earned his early reputation for his etching skills but later for watercolor landscapes. He began etching at age 8, learning from his father, James Smillie...
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1870s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink

The Governor Palace, Williamsburg Serie
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Governor Palace, Williamsburg Series" 1940 is an original etching on paper by noted American artist Samuel V. Chamberlain, 1895-1...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

February : Carnival time - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS February : Carnival time Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in) Excellent c...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Impossible Series (Garden of Eden), Lowell Nesbitt-Painting (70 x 153.5 inches)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Impossible Series (Garden of Eden) Year: 1986 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 70 x 153.5 inches Inscription: Signed, dated by the artist, verso ...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Canvas, Oil

Heidelberg Terrace, Germany
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Hidelberg Terrace, Germany" c.1930 is an original color etching on watermarked Kasimir Vienna wove paper by Austrian/American artist Tana Kasimir Hoernes, 1887-1972. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist's estate at the lower center. The image (plate mark) size is 8.5 x 11.5 inches, sheet size is is 15 x 19 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed About the artist: Tanna Kasimir...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Explorator
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Explorator', engraving, 1734, edition unknown, scarce. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the matrix, lower left. A fine impression, on handmade antique, l...
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1730s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

La Tauromaquia, Plate #23
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork from the suite "La Tauromaquia, Plate #23" engraved between 1815 and 1816, is a photogravure on creme wove paper after renown Spanish artist Francisco Jose De Goya...
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Early 19th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Photogravure

La Vilaine, France
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roger Hebbelinck (Belgian, born 1912) Title: La Vilaine Year: Circa 1965 Medium: Color etching with aquatint Edition: Numbered 30/350 in p...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

"Woman from Maui" Large original color serigraph.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Woman from Maui" 1983 Is an original color serigraph by renown Navajo artist Rudolph Carl Gorman, 1932-2005. It is hand signed and inscribed E.P.I in pencil by the artist. With the blind stamp of the artist and the printer, Editions Press, San Francisco. The sheet size is 28.5 x 33.35 inches, framed size is 41.25 x 45.25 inches. Custom framed in a wooden off white frame, with off white matting and bevel. the artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition, it has minor restorations, practically invisible About the artist: Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest's best known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man's world with some calling him the "Picasso of Indian artists". Of this kind of attention, he said: "I wish people would quit pushing my being Indian. The only time I was interviewed as If I were a normal person was by the Jewish Press in Tucson. It was the first time I felt international and almost white". (Samuels 222) His parents were Carl Nelson...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Screen

"Keswick" By Ed Fairburn, Limited Edition Poster Print, Nude Portrait of Woman
Located in Denver, CO
"Keswick" is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag premium archival Moab paper with ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Archival Pigment

Vintage Hockney Tate Poster, Celia in Black Dress with white flowers and rainbow
Located in New York, NY
The poster reproduces 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 i...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Der Blumenmarkt (Flower Market, Amsterdam)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978) Title: Der Blumenmarkt (Flower Market, Amsterdam) Year: Circa 1950 Medium: Color etching with aquatint Edition: Unknown Paper: wo...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

SHOWER PROFILE (GOLD)
Located in Aventura, FL
Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust. Hand signed, dated, and numbered on verso by Carole A Feuerman. Edition of 25. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: Carole A. Feuerman (American, born 1945) is a Hyper-Realist sculptor. Along with artists like Duane Hanson...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Prints

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Canvas, Screen

Mining for National Savings, original vintage poster by Charles Beardsworth
Located in London, GB
Charles Benjamin Beardsworth Mining for National Savings -- Back your efforts with national savings for future prosperity Lithograph 75 x 50 cm This poster was a British propagand...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Ach-Hua Dlubh: (Body Two) Half Breed
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Ach-Hua Dlubh: (Body Two) Half Breed" 1989 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross ...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Bonn, Bethovenhaus (Bonn, the House of Bethoven)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Bonn, Bethovenhaus" c. 1970 is an color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed, titled, dedicated and resigned a second time in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 12 x 9.10 inches, framed size is 21.65 x 17.65 inches. Custom framed in a dark wood frame, with green matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist. Josef Eidenberger was born in 1899 in the little town of Goisern, Austria,he began his artistic career as a landscape painter. In 1923 he enrolled in the famed Graphic Academy of Art in Vienna and studied under Professor Alfred Cossman. His recognized talent brought him many commissions from city officials and members of the business communities throughout Europe, especially in Austria and Germany. In 1973 after visiting the United States for the first time he created a series of California etchings...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Familia Indigena III
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Familia Indigena III" 1983 is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by renown Costa Rican/Mexican artist Francisco Zuniga, 1912-1998. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 67/100 in pencil by the artist. The artwork size is 22 x 29.85 inches, framed size is 28.5 x 36.5 inches. Published and printed by La Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne "Zuniga The Complete Graphics, 1972-1984, by Jerry Brewster, plate #93. Beautifully framed in a custom acrylic display box, with brown fabric backing. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Internationally acclaimed sculptor and printmaker Francisco Zuñiga was born in Costa Rica. He studied drawing, stone sculpture, and engraving at the School of Fine Arts in San Jose. Later, in 1936, he studied stone carving at La Esmeralda in Mexico City. He was appointed to the faculty of La Esmeralda where he remained until his retirement in 1970. Zuniga's art reflects a love and respect for Central American people and traditions. In 1972, he created his first lithograph. As a complement to his emotionally powerful sculpture, Zuniga's prints articulate the sensitivity and sensuality of the human figure. He has been the recipient of numerous international prizes and awards. His work is exhibited frequently in prominent galleries throughout the world and may be found in the permanent collections of twenty-nine museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Mexican Museum in San Francisco, and the Phoenix Art Museum. In 1936, Francisco Zuniga left San Jose, Costa Rica, where he had studied drawing at the School of Fine Arts and worked as an assistant in his father's studio, a workshop which produced religious sculpture for the churches and convents in and around the city. His destination was Mexico City. It was from there that he would begin an illustrious career as a sculptor and draftsman. Zuñiga's exploration into the nuances of volume, in line and space, are demonstrated in this, the most complete exhibition of his work to be shown in more than a decade. Mexico City in 1936 was, even then, one of the major art centers of the Americas. As such it witnessed and participated in many of the frenzied and controversial art movements which reflected the political and intellectual climate of the first three decades of the twentieth century. Muralism, the graphic arts, the incorporation of in-ternational movements had produced an artistic climate, which would eventually attract to Mexico international artists and intellectuals such as Sergei Eisenstein...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

DUELO (Duel)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCISCO MORA (1922 - 2002) DUELO (Duel) c. 1945 Lithograph signed in pencil. Published by the TGP Taller de Grafica Popular. Label on verso. 9 5/8 x...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Landscape with Pond
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roger Hebbelinck (Belgian, born 1912) Title: Landscape with Pond Year: Circa 1960 Medium: Color etching with aquatint Edition: Numbered 43/3...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

Monograph: The Complete Paintings (Hand signed, inscribed by Philip Pearlstein)
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein The Complete Paintings, 1984 Hardback monograph with dust jacket Hand signed, dated and inscribed to Nadine by Philip Pearlstein 12 × 10 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches This i...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Hanover Schmiedestrasse
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Hanover Schmiedestrasse" 1920 is an original color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower cen...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

September : Wine & Harvest - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS September : Wine & Harvest Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in) Excellent...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Paris, Montmartre, Le Sacre Coeur
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Paris, Montmartre, Le Sacre Coeur" c. 1970 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Robert Kasimir, 1914-2002. It is signed at t...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Early 20th Century Dutch Girls Chromolithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming early 20th century chromolithograph of young Dutch girls with their older instructor titled, "Dutch Girls" by Bernhardt T. Wall (American, 1889-195...
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Early 1900s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink

Nancy Spero, Thou Shalt Not Kill (The Sixth Commandment), signed/n lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Spero Thou Shalt Not Kill (The Sixth Commandment), 1987 from the 10 Commandments Portfolio 9 Color lithograph and letterpress on Dieu Donne handmade paper 24 × 18 inches Edition AP 2/15 Signed and numbered AP 2/15, aside from the regular edition of 84 Printed by Peter Kruty, Dan Stack and Judy Solodkin Unframed with deckled edges This nine color lithograph and letterpress on Dieu Donne handmade paper is a signed, dated and numbered Artist's Proof, numbered AP 2/15, aside from the regular edition of 84. It was created as part of the 1987 portfolio "The Ten Commandments", in which ten top Jewish American artists were each invited to choose an Old Testament commandment to interpret in contemporary lithographic form. The "Chosen" artists were, in order of Commandment: Kenny Scharf, Joseph Nechvatal, Gretchen Bender...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

A Young Woman of Otaheite, Dancing (Tahiti) 1784 Captain Cooks Voyage by Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Young Woman of Taheite Dancing (Tahiti) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.John Webber (1752-...
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1780s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Three Resting Women - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Maurice DENIS (1870 - 1943) Three Resting Women Original lithograph with charcoal enhancement Printed signature in the plate On light vellum 46 x 30 cm (c. 18 x 12 inch) Excellent ...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Spread Eagle Inn, Midhurst
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Spread Eagle Inn, Midhurst" is a chromolithograph by noted British artist Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, 1870-1935. It is hand signed a...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Miss Hawtin - Born without Arms
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Miss Hawtin, born without arms, 18th century. Born in Coventry, she exhibited her dexterity cutting decorative watch papers with her feet all over England...
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19th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Seebenstein Castle Courtyard, Austria, large color etching
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Seebenstein Castle, Austria" 1920 is a color etching on watermarked Kasimir Vienna 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 15.75 x 22.25 inches, the sheet size is 23.25 x 29.5 inches. with full margin. it is in excellent condition, has never been framed. 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

HOLD THE LINE Kansas City Chiefs, Signed Stone Lithograph, NFL Football History
Located in Union City, NJ
HOLD THE LINE is an original limited edition lithograph by the American artist, Merv Corning printed from hand drawn lithographic stones using traditional...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Krumau
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Krumau" is an color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991 It is hand signed in pencil. The plate mark (image) size is 13 x 10.15 inches, ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Children in a Boat
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, "Children in a boat" 1976 in a color off set lithograph by renown Chinese/American artist Wai Ming A.K.A Lo Hing Kwok, b.1938. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P (Artist Proof) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 21.5 x 28.75 inches, sheet size is 32.5 x 39.5 inches. Custom framed in wood dark brown rustic frame and beige matting. It is in excellent condition About the artist: Wai Ming, was born in Canton, South China on November 11, 1938, the son of a school master with nine children. Extremely poor as a child, he was raised in Hong Kong enduring many hardships amidst a chaotic environment of war and refugee settlements. Wai Ming's love for art flourished and he developed his drawing techniques without any art education, just painting what he saw. In the 1960s, Ming found representation in Hong Kong and also took the unusual step of opening his own gallery to display his work in. His primary interest being to capture images of life in fishing villages, or 'fish-folk', who have retained traditional Chinese culture, his work was at home with the sensibilities of many art buyers in Hong Kong. Crossing the ocean in his mid-30s, Wai Ming arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1974. There, he experienced initial resistance from galleries and the official art world for a variety of reasons, but was ultimately embraced by dealer Jack Swanson...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Group of Workers
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Group of Workers" 1943, is an original lithograph on paper by noted American artist John Edward Costigan, 1888-1972. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by th...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Unter Den Linden Street, Berlin, Germany
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Unter Den Linden Street, Berlin, Germany" c.1930 is a color etching on watermarked Kasimir Vienna paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kas...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Rothenburg, City Hall Gate
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Rothenburg, City Hall Gate" c. 1975 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. Printed...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Hopes of the Family, University of Cambridge engraving by William Bunbury
Located in London, GB
William Bunbury, engraved by James Bretherton The Hopes of the Family Hand coloured engraving 26 x 36 cm c.1790 This engraving, titled "The Hopes of the Family – An Admission at the University", is satirical work by William Bunbury. The scene portrays a young man being presented for admission to the University of Cambridge. Although the title suggests that the boy is expected to achieve great things, his appearance and and general demeanour hint at incompetence or lack of enthusiasm, thus introducing an ironic paradox. This caricatural scene dates from the late 18th century, a period when William Bunbury, alongside James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, and Isaac Cruikshank...
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1790s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

STREET SCENE Signed Hand Drawn Lithograph, Young Men and Women Casual Gathering
Located in Union City, NJ
STREET SCENE is an original, hand drawn lithograph by Raphael Soyer, the renowned Russian-born American realist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Printed using traditional lithogra...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

At the pond / - The longing of the landscape -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Thoma (1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe), At the pond, 1897. Algraph on strong wove paper, published by Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig as ‘Zeitgenössisches Kunstblatt Nr. 148’, 23....
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1890s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper

The Red Capote
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " The Red Capote" 1986 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- ...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Street with Church
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Street with Church" c.1925 is an original color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower center. The p...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Biagoth Eecuebeh Hehsheesh-Chedah (Red Ridinghood and her Wolves)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Biagoth Eecuebeh Hehsheesh-Chedah (Red Ridinghood and her Wolves)" 1989 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Advantage of Exile tropical ocean mountain landscape blue water unique monotype
Located in New York, NY
This large-scale, colorful ocean landscape monotype gives the viewer a hidden vantage point: through the dark silhouette of tangled vines can be seen a placid, turquoise sea lapping ...
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1990s Realist Figurative Prints

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Monotype

Dance Apache
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dance Apache" 1988 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- Che...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Cheh-Ayeh: Prey
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Cheh-Ayeh: Prey" 1989 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We-...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

A Sunny Day In the Garden - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Mily POSSOZ (1888-1967) A Sunny Day In the Garden , 1930 Original etching Handsigned in pencil by the artist Numbered / 60 copies Blind stamp of the editor Marcel Guiot (Paris) On v...
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1930s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

August : Summer Holidays - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS August : Summer Holidays Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Juchiteca's Platicando (Juchitecan Women Talking)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Juchiteca's Platicando (Juchitecan Women Talking) 1985 is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by Costa Rican/Mexican artist Francisco Zuniga, 1912-1998. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 72/150 in pencil by the artist. The size is 22.75 x 30 inches. It is in excellent condition, 2 small pieces of hanging tape remaining on the back at the top edge of the sheet from previous framing. About the subject: This print, Juchitecas Platicando (Juchitecán Women Talking), depicts three statuesque women from the city of Juchiteca in the state of Oaxaca in southeastern Mexico. Juchiteca is a largely matriarchal society, in that women control the economy and hold positions of power. It is also home to a large Zapotec population, indigenous to the land that became Mexico. Francisco Zúñiga lived within the community of Juchiteca for a period of time and adopted the women of the area as one of the central motifs of his artwork, both on paper and in sculpture. Through his selective coloring, Zúñiga highlights the women’s clothing, including their recognizable huipiles or tunics, conveying the pride in locally made textile art About the artist: Internationally acclaimed sculptor and printmaker Francisco Zuñiga was born in Costa Rica. He studied drawing, stone sculpture, and engraving at the School of Fine Arts in San Jose. Later, in 1936, he studied stone carving at La Esmeralda in Mexico City. He was appointed to the faculty of La Esmeralda where he remained until his retirement in 1970. Zuniga's art reflects a love and respect for Central American people and traditions. In 1972, he created his first lithograph. As a complement to his emotionally powerful sculpture, Zuniga's prints articulate the sensitivity and sensuality of the human figure. He has been the recipient of numerous international prizes and awards. His work is exhibited frequently in prominent galleries throughout the world and may be found in the permanent collections of twenty-nine museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Mexican Museum in San Francisco, and the Phoenix Art Museum. In 1936, Francisco Zuniga left San Jose, Costa Rica, where he had studied drawing at the School of Fine Arts and worked as an assistant in his father's studio, a workshop which produced religious sculpture for the churches and convents in and around the city. His destination was Mexico City. It was from there that he would begin an illustrious career as a sculptor and draftsman. Zuñiga's exploration into the nuances of volume, in line and space, are demonstrated in this, the most complete exhibition of his work to be shown in more than a decade. Mexico City in 1936 was, even then, one of the major art centers of the Americas. As such it witnessed and participated in many of the frenzied and controversial art movements which reflected the political and intellectual climate of the first three decades of the twentieth century. Muralism, the graphic arts, the incorporation of in-ternational movements had produced an artistic climate, which would eventually attract to Mexico international artists and intellectuals such as Sergei Eisenstein, André Breton and Antonin Artaud. Then as now, Mexico City was a major world capital with the infrastructure necessary to exhibit and expose new aesthetic concepts. For all these reasons it was the most obvious destination of choice for Zuñiga. In Mexico he worked with the painter Manuel Rodríguez...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Self / - Inversion -
Located in Berlin, DE
Kurt Mühlenhaupt (1921 Klein Ziescht - 2006 Berlin), Myself, c. 1975. Woodcut, 32 cm x 29 cm (image), 36.5 cm x 32.5 cm (sheet size), signed in pencil lower right and titled “Selbst....
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper

Linz Landhaus, Austria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Linz Landhaus, Austria" 1977., is an original color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Cityscape with Bridge
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Cityscape with Bridge" c.1940 is a color etching on wove paper by Austrian/American artist Tana Kasimir Hoernes, 1887-1972. It is hand signed in pencil by the estate o...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Venice Sailboats, Italy
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Venice Sailboats" c. 1975 is an color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil by the artist. The plate mark (i...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

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