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Jesus and the Disciples - Leaflet from the 1497 'Pirate' Nuremberg Chronicles

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"Some Town without a Name" - Signed Screen Print Exhibition Poster Screen Print titled "Some Town without a Name" by Masuo Ikeda (Japanese, 1934-1997). A black headshot is seen with blue ink by the mouth and enclosed in a blue rectangle. "Masuo Ikeda" can be seen printed up top, with a list of Ten Lithographs under. Signed in pencil "Masuo Ikeda" lower right and numbered "XXXlll" middle Presented in a white mat. Mat: 36"H x 28"W Paper: 26"H x 21"W Image: 25 1/2"H x 19 1/2"W Masuo Ikeda (Japanese, 1934 - 1997) was born in 1934. Masuo Ikeda is well known a Japanese painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, ceramist, novelist, and film director. He started winning prize after prize in the 1960s: the Governor of Tokyo's Prize (1962), the Tokyo Museum of Modern Art Prize (1964). In 1961 he had established himself as a printmaker by winning the Grand Prize for Printmaking at the Tokyo International Biennale of Art, but it was in foreign parts that he achieved his greatest triumphs: in 1961 the Prix d'Excellence at the Young Artists' International Biennale in Paris; in 1965 the Grand Prix at the International Print-making Biennale in Ljubljana; in 1966, the First Prize at the International Engraving Biennale in Cracow, and first prizes at the Biennales of Vienna and Venice, where he was only the second Japanese to win in this category, after Munakata Shiko in 1956. He was the first Japanese to have a one-man show at the New York Museum of Modern Art (1965). He was always on the move and spent two years in New York (1965-66), then settled for a year in Berlin (1967). Ikeda was producing prints in his studio in New York from 1969, he returned to Japan in 1980 and was based there from then on, and extended his brilliant talent beyond printmaking. In 1977, he won the 77th Akutagawa Prize (the most prestigious literary award in Japan) for his novel, Offering in the Aegean, and directed the film adaptation of the same title in 1979. His vigorous artistic activity even extended to the production of ceramic works from around 1983 onward. The Ikeda Masuo...

"The Retreat From Long Island" - 1932 Etching On Paper Black and white etching titled "The Retreat from Long Island" (from the portfolio ​“The Bicentennial Pageant of George Washing...

This artwork titled "Paris, Le Pont Neuf" c.1990 is an original etching by noted California artist Arnold A. Grossman, 1923-2016. It is signed with initia...

Original Italian movie poster: American Graffiti - Italian style. Anche Tu negli anne '60's Linen-backed offset lithograph. A great George Lucas film. American Graffiti, voted in 1998 to the American Film Institute's list of 100 superlative films. This one should be in your collection. This original Italian size (39.5" x 54.75') is ready to frame. Original movie poster theatrical issued fold marks restored during linen backing. Overall condition is very good with very minor printing flaws. The vintage poster features a silhouette of a football jersey with a big glass of Coca-Cola balanced as the head of the image. This was a George Lucas film with Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard. A Francis Ford Coppola production. This is a genuine Italian one-sheet ORIGINAL MOVIE POSTER issued by the studio when the film was released and meant for theatrical display. (Italian posters of this size may also be referred to as a 2-sheet because of their size; it is, however, printed on a single sheet.) a.k.a. (an Italian duo foglio.) This is an Original Lithograph Vintage Italian Poster...