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Color:  Gray
Medium: Aquatint
Covers 1 Ultramarine (Abstract print)
Located in London, GB
Covers 1 Ultramarine (Abstract print) Aquatint made with oil based Charbonnel Etching Ink, printed on 100% rag paper Copperplate Warm White. - Unframed. "Edition 4 of 20. This pi...
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2010s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Aquatint

Le Monde - Etching and Aquatint by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Monde is an etching and aquatint realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. From the serie "The Tarots" Dry stamp by Il Cigno Stamperia d’Arte. Han...
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1970s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Ukrainian Dream
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Vitaly was considered an up and coming artist in his native Ukraine, after years of training under one of the Ukraine’s greatest graphic artists...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Covers 4 Viridian (Abstract print)
Located in London, GB
Covers 4 Viridian (Abstract print) Aquatint made with oil based Charbonnel Etching Ink, printed on 100% rag paper Copperplate Warm White. - Unframed. "Edition 6 of 20. This piece...
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2010s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Aquatint

'Surreal Boudoir', San Francisco Bay Area Modernist, Atelier 63 Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1975 and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Jane Voitle Mellin (American, born 1952). Paper dimensions: 17.25 x 12 inches An atmospheric, sugar-lift aquatint showing a young woman seated at a claw foot table...
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1970s Surrealist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Aquatint

The Stars - Etching and Aquatint by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Stars is an etching and aquatint realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. From the serie "The Tarots" Dry stamp by Il Cigno Stamperia d’Arte. Ha...
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1970s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

'Evening Encounter', San Francisco Bay Area Modernist, Atelier 63 Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1975 and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Jane Voitle Mellin (American, born 1952). Paper dimensions: 13.25 x 19.75 inches A atmospheric, sugar-...
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1970s Surrealist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Aquatint

Chicago Water Tower, c. 1930s, Etching Aquatint, Framed, Cityscape
By Leon Rene Pescheret
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Leon Rene Pescheret (American, 1892 - 1971) Signed: Leon Pescheret (Lower, Right) " The Chicago Water Tower ", 1932 (Titled, Lower, Left) Etchin...
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Early 20th Century Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

The Devil - Etching and Aquatint by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Devil is an etching and aquatint realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. From the serie "The Tarots" Dry stamp by Il Cigno Stamperia d’Arte. Ha...
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1970s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Finger Parrot, monochromatic print bold graphic, surreal bird, hands
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an artist proof (one of a kind) aquatint of a parrot made up of fingers, and beautiful insects cascading to her right. She has a human ear on one side. The images is 6 x 6 ...
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2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Aquatint

The Empress - Etching and Aquatint by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Empress is an etching and aquatint realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. From the serie "The Tarots" Dry stamp by Il Cigno Stamperia d’Arte. ...
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1970s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Abstract Skyscrapers, Aquatint Etching by Martha Diamond
By Martha Diamond
Located in Long Island City, NY
Skyscrapers by Martha Diamond, American (1944) Date: 1987 Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 45 Size: 28.5 in. x 36 in. (72.39 cm x 91.4...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

The Thames, 1894 - Victorian aquatint etching of London by Joseph Pennell
Located in London, GB
JOSEPH PENNELL (1857-1926) The Thames, 1894 Signed Aquatint Plate size 20.5 by 26.5 cm., 8 by 10 ½ in. (frame size 42 by 46 cm., 16 ½ by 18 in.) Pennell was born in Philadelphia where he studied at School of Industrial Art and the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1884 he was commissioned by the Century Magazine to supply a series of drawings of London...
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1890s Realist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

The Source - Etching and Aquatint by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Source is an etching and aquatint realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. From the serie "The Tarots" Dry stamp by Il Cigno Stamperia d’Arte. ...
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1970s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

The Moon - Etching and Aquatint by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
"The Moon" is an etching and aquatint realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. From the serie "The Tarots" Dry stamp by Il Cigno Stamperia d’Arte. H...
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1970s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Woman Entwined in Giant Electric Cord Claes Oldenburg Laocoon style pop art nude
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a woman peeks out from loops and knots of thick cord, a modern-day Laocoön and His Sons. She seem...
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1970s Pop Art Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

"The New French Tools 2 - Three Saws from the Rue Cler"
Located in Hinsdale, IL
Jim Dine (b. 1935) The New French Tools 2 - Three Saws from the Rue Cler Etching, aquatint, and electric tools in colors on Arches paper, 1984 36 x 24...
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1980s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

The Tower - Etching and Aquatint by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Tower is an etching and aquatint realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. From the serie "The Tarots" Dry stamp by Il Cigno Stamperia d’Arte. Ha...
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1970s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

The Hermit - Etching and Aquatint by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Hermit is an etching and aquatint realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. From the serie "The Tarots" Dry stamp by Il Cigno Stamperia d’Arte. H...
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1970s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Moby Dick
Located in Seoul, SO
That changing, shifting quality is apparent in Stella's own Moby Dick series, a set of painting, lithographs and sculptures made between 1986 and 1997...
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Early 2000s Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Baba Yaga's House - Etching by Giosetta Fioroni - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Baba Yaga's House is a print realized by Giosetta Fioroni (Rome 1932) in the late 20th century. Aquatint and drypoint print Hand-signed and numbered, editi...
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1970s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Patitcha
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse Patitcha 1947 Aquatint on BFK Rives paper, Edition of 25 Paper size: 55.5 x 38 cms (22 x 15 ins) Image size: 34.9 x 27.6 cm (13 3/4 x 10 7/8 ins) HM15405 Selected Coll...
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1940s Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Op Art : Geometrical Abstraction - Original etching with aquatint
Located in Paris, FR
François MORELLET Op Art : Geometrical Abstraction Original etching with aquatint Unsigned as issued On vellum 46 x 46 cm (c. 18 x 18 in) Authenticated with the Chalcographie du Louvre...
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Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Study for Sculpture in the Form of an Inverted Q Above & Below Ground Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Study for Sculpture in the Form of an Inverted Q: Above and Below Ground, 1975 Lithograph, soft-ground etching, and aquatint in six colors on cream, thick, slightly textured Rive BFK paper 14 × 11 in. / 35.2 × 28 cm Signed and dated in pencil, lower right, numbered in pencil, lower left. Edition of 100 with 20 AP. Printed by Bill Law, Winston Roeth and Allan Uglow at Petersburg Press...
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1970s Pop Art Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph

No title
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1989 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 45/99 Publisher : Poligrafa (Barcelone) Printer : Poligrafa (Barcelone) Catalog : Agerup 339 56.00 cm. x 75...
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1980s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

G 1970-1 / LAS ESTAMPAS DE LA COMETA, planche II
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1970 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 33/75 Publisher : Las estampas de la cometa (Gustavo Gili), Barcelone Printer : Ed...
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1970s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

To the Sea
Located in New Orleans, LA
Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, Jack Coughlin studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and the Art Students League of New York. He is b...
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1960s American Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Earth prayer
Located in Bristol, GB
Aquatint and soft ground etching, relief, pochoir Edition of 50 Signed, numbered and dated on the front Mint Since this item will be shipped directly from the consignor, the seller ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Night Light, Signed Aquatint Etching California Modernist Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Susan Hall lives and works in Point Reyes Station, California, a town in the heart of the Point Reyes National Seashore. This pristine wilderness area is dominated by a mosaic of bay...
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1970s American Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Iron Point
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Iron Point Aquatint, 1985 Signed and dated lower right (see photo) Annotated: AP 4/6 lower center (see photo) Titled lower left (see photo) Annotated: AP 4/6 (There was also a regula...
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1980s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Pigeon - Original Etching by Giselle Hallf - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pigeon is an original etching realized by Giselle Halff in the mid-20th Century Good condition. Pencil signature. Edition of 25 copies signed and dated.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Early Morning Rain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Early Morning Rain Etching & color aquatint, 1977 Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil Edition: 40 (39/40) Published by Associated American Artists, New York Condition: Mint Image/Plate size: 16 1/2 x 15 3/8 inches Sheet size: 25 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches Reference: AAA Index No. 2486 "Norman Ackroyd (RA) is one of Britain’s most celebrated living landscape artists. He is renowned for his evocative and atmospheric visions of the British Isles. Working in both etching and watercolour, he is equally as adept at capturing the calm of a Summer’s daybreak as he is the ferocity of a winter sea. Born in 1938 in Leeds, he studied at Leeds College of Art (1957-61) and the Royal College of Art in London...
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1970s Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Tree & Handkerchief
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Tree & Handkerchief. Original color aquatint and etching, 1978. Edition of A.P. (artist’s proof) signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper. Kyu-Baik Hwang is contemporary painter and printmaker, from South Korea. He served in the military during the Korean War, and after the war he began to paint. Latter, he traveled across Europe and America and got inspired by many of their cultures and artists. Displacing ordinary objects from their original environments, typical for his works is often compared to Surrealist’s art from the 20th-century. Unlike surrealists, who rejected mind control...
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1970s Post-Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

New York City Skyline Modern Print Chrysler State Building Framed Unique Etching
By Katherine Gallagher
Located in Buffalo, NY
Limited edition aquatint etching of the New York City skyline by Katherine E. Gallagher. This piece features the famous Chrysler Building prominently in the background along with a M...
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1980s Realist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

The Dominoes
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 73/150 Publisher : Galerie Maeght (Paris) Catalog : Saphire E15 / Maeght 1402 64.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.2 in. x 1...
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1950s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Ernst Fuchs Jesus Crucifixion Aquatint Vienna Fantastic Realism Austria 1972
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Ernst Fuchs (Austrian, 1930 - 2015) Jesus speaking from the cross A rare Artist proof sheet from the Folio “Jean Paul. Die Rede des toten Christus vom Weltgebaude herab, dass kein Gott sei”, published in 1972 by Propyläen, Berlin, Germany. • Aquatint etching on French Arches paper (watermarked) • Sheet ca. 57 x 38 cm • Plate, ca. 24.7 x 19.7 cm • Signed bottom right • Inscribed in pencil bottom left: IV/XX E. A. (Print No. 4 out a run of twenty, Épreuve d'artiste (Artist’s proof) Worldwide shipping is complimentary - There are no additional charges for handling & delivery. Ernst Fuchs was an Austrian painter...
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1970s Surrealist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Archival Paper, Aquatint

De trace de pas de trace de…
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil lower right Color etching with aquatint From: Monsour and Matta, Les Damnations, 1966 (11 plates, this one of 7 hors text images) Edition: 85 portfolios in the re...
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1960s Surrealist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

The Accordian Player
Located in New York, NY
deluxe limited edition of 25 medium: etching, aquatint, with carborundum, collage on paper year: 1980 paper size: 58" x 38" image size: 58" x 38" (145 x 98 cm.) frame size: 65.5" x...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph

Wayne Thiebaud 'River Turns' 1998/2011
Located in Miami, FL
Wayne Thiebaud's 'River Turns' is a 1998/2011 etching in color. The dimensions of the full sheet measure at 15 x 20 inches. This print is signed in pencil, dated and numbered '3/40 R...
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1990s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

The Tyne
Located in Storrs, CT
The Tyne. 1922. Etching and drypoint. Dickins 73. 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 (sheet 9 3/4 x 12 1/2). Series: The Arteries of Great Britain. Edition 425. A fine proof with tonal wiping and more of a sepia coloring, printed on "J.Green & Son' cream-wove paper. Signed in pencil. The image looks down on the open Swing Bridge, from the High-Level Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne. The boats carry timber and coal. The complete set of The Arteries of Great Britain includes The Thames, The Tyne, The Forth, The Clyde, and The Mersey. Architectural draughtsman, etcher. Born in Lustdorf, near Odessa, Russia, to a British father and Russian mother. Traveled extensively with his family before studying architecture in St Petersburg, with further studies at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Atelier Redan, Paris. Practiced architecture in Moscow and was co-designer of the Metropole Hotel, in 1898. Moved to London in 1907 and was employed as an architectural perspectivist. After a sponsored visit to Rome and Venice he had a solo exhibit at the Fine Art Society, 1912, 'Watercolours of London and Venice'; followed by a further four shows. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers..., and Connell & Sons. His etchings were published in London by H C Dickens,1913-24, and a folio of his work 'Architectural watercolors and etchings of William Walcot' was published, in 1919. Elected RE, 1920; FRIBA, 1922; Associate British School at Rome. A foremost architectural draughtsman, he worked from studios in London, Oxford and Rome. The complete set of The Arteries of Great Britain includes: The Thames, The Tyne, The Forth, The Clyde, The Mersey. Signed in pencil .Housed in a 16 x 20 inch mat suitable for framing. Opened in 1890, the Forth Bridge...
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Early 20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

Ducks Quacking, Cactus Peeking, linear style, monochromatic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an artist proof aquatint of a woman peeking around a cactus with ducks mysteriously hovering in the upper right corner and a giant beautiful cactus overgrowing. The mood is ...
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2010s Expressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Aquatint

Cheveaux Tirant une Peniche (Horses pulling a Barge)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Cheveaux Tirant une Peniche (Horses pulling a Barge)" c.1920 is an original color etching with aquatint on Wove paper by French artist Ferdinand Jean Luigini, 1870-1943...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Untitled
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Alex Pena, Too Little, Too Much, Too Late #2 $350.00 2018 Etching, aquatint, and relief, framed Framed size: 20” x 16” x 2” Image size: 12” x 9”
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2010s Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Etching, Aquatint

Church at Chichicastenango
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jesse F. Reed, 'Church at Chichicastenango', color etching and aquatint, 1963. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Chichicastenango, also known as Santo Tomás Chichicastenango, is a town in the El Quiché department of Guatemala, located in a mountainous region about 140 km northwest of Guatemala City. Chichicastenango is a K'iche' Maya cultural center, with the great majority of the municipality's population indigenous Mayan K'iche. The church depicted is the 400-year-old church Iglesia de Santo Tomás. Built atop a Pre-Columbian temple platform, the steps which remain venerated today, originally led to a temple of the pre-Hispanic Maya civilization. K'iche' Maya priests still use the church for their rituals, burning incense and candles. Each of the 18 stairs that lead up to the church stands for one month of the Maya calendar year. ABOUT THE ARTIST Jesse Floyd Reed (1920-2011) studied art in New York City at the Grand Central School of Art and the Art Students’ League. He held degrees in History and English and completed special advance studies in Asian, African, and Latin American art, history and culture. At the time of his retirement, he was a Professor of the Arts Emeritus at Davis & Elkins College, a position he held for over forty-nine years. A nationally recognized artist since 1947, Professor Reed’s art has been shown in hundreds of museums, libraries, colleges, and universities, including the Boston Museum, National Museum, The Library of Congress, Brooklyn Museum, and Seattle Museum. In his native West Virginia, he is represented in the permanent collections of the Huntington Museum and the Charleston Museum at Sunrise. The recipient of many national and regional awards, Reed was a member of the Salmagundi Club in NY, the Boston Printmakers, the Print Club of Albany, and was a founding member of the West Virginia Water...
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1960s American Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Wayne Thiebaud 'Hill River' 2002
Located in Miami, FL
Wayne Thiebaud's 'Hill River' is a 2002 drypoint and aquatint in color on wove paper. The dimensions of the full sheet measure at 21.25 x 30.5 inches. This print is signed in pencil,...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Abstract Composition II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Abstract Composition II." c.1970 in an original color etching and aquatint on Arches paper by noted Polish artist Johnny Friedlaender, 191...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Mexican signed limited edition original art print aquatint 22x14.8 in
Located in Miami, FL
Raul Anguiano (Mexico, 1915-2006) 'Salomé', 2003 sugarlift on paper 22.1 x 14.8 in. (56 x 37.5 cm.) Edition of 100 ID: ANG-102 Unframed
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Early 2000s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Hommage a Bach III
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Hommage a Bach III. Original etching and aquatint, cca. 1980. Edition H.C. (horse commerce/exhibition copy). Victor Vasarely was a French painter of Hungarian origin. Influenced by B...
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1980s Op Art Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Gravures pour une exposition
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1973 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 52/75 Publisher : Pierre Matisse (New-York) Printer : Morsang (Paris) Catalog : Dupin 608 63.00 cm. x 91.00 cm. 24...
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1970s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your Hair (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Located in New York, NY
Sheet from “Rapunzel” story (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Text printed letterpress and “Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your Hair” etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP" Etching 10.5 × 9.85 in. / 26.7 × 25 cm Paper 17.5 x 12.25 in. / 45 x 31 cm Unsigned: apart from the published edition of 400 books and 100 portfolios. This is one of eleven images recently found in our archive which we have decided to make available. There is one only of each image. Perhaps the most famous story from the Grimm Brothers, Rapunzel spins the tale of a beautiful young princess locked away by an evil sorceress. Captured in this scene is the moment a King's son came across the tower and fell in love with her sweet singing, beseeching her: 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair to me.' Though the sorcerer banishes Rapunzel and maims the prince, they are of course ultimately reunited to live happily together. Hockney illustrates this scene with incredible texture detail: layers of aquatint defining the soft forest floor, delicate hatching on the horse's haunch, the tower's tight crosshatching, and of course the lyrical gesture of Rapunzel's hair which cascades from the upper right corner. This print from our publisher's archives is one of thirty-nine etchings from David Hockney’s 1969 "Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm". Hockney worked on this series with Paul Cornwall-Jones at Petersburg Press over the course of a year. 400 books and 100 portfolios plus artist’s proofs were printed. The artist illustrated six stories: 'The Little Sea Hare', 'Fundevogel', 'Rapunzel', 'The Boy who left Home to learn Fear', 'Old Rinkrank' and 'Rumpelstilzchen'. According to Hockney, "They're fascinating, the little stories, told in a very, very simple, direct, straightforward language and style, it was this simplicity that attracted me. They cover quite a strange range of experience, from the magical to the moral." He was inspired by earlier illustrators of the tales, including Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, but Hockney reimagined the stories for a modern audience. The frontispiece for the project pictures Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, the elderly German woman who recounted fairy tales to the Grimm brothers when they were in their late twenties. In Hockney's words: “The stories weren’t written by the Brothers Grimm…they came across this woman called Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, who told 20 stories to them in this simple language, and they were so moved by them that they wrote them down word for word as she spoke.” Hockney drew the German woman in the style of Dürer, formally posed yet naturalistic against an impeccably crosshatched swath of grey. Hockney wrote about the surreal plots contained in the Brothers Grimm tales: “…the stories really are quite mad, when you think of it, and quite strange. In modern times, it’s like the story of a couple moving into a house, and in the next door’s garden they see this lettuce growing: and the wife develops this craving for the lettuce that she just must have and climbs over to pinch it, and the old woman who lives in the house next door says well, you can have the lettuce if you give me your child, and they agree to it. And if you put it into terms like this and imagine them in their semi-detached house agreeing to it all, it seems incredible.” Hockney enhanced this unbelievable quality with his illustrations which traverse inky, dense areas of intense crosshatching and minimalist line work. Rather than serving as direct interpretations of the plot, the images capture moments and feelings. Some portray the magic yet mundane -- Rapunzel's tiny face gazing placidly at a well-tended garden, or project danger and unease as in The Haunted Castle, with its citadel perched atop craggy rocks, dramatically lit against a dark sky. Hockney's sense of humor comes through in Cold Water About to Hit the Prince, in which a man tucked into bed stares straight at a rush of water drawn with a splash (this technique is likely Spit Bite, and the resultant bold spattered brushstroke contrasts beautifully with the rest of the carefully crosshatched image). A Wooded Landscape, with its lush textures, conveys the bucolic setting of a fairy tale and the potential danger hidden within the woods -- the viewer is left to wonder who lives on the hilltop in that diminutive cabin. These etchings defy the conventions of beautiful fairy tale illustrations...
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1960s Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Baby, Baby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Baby, Baby Etching & aquatint printed in colors, 1991 Signed, dated, titled & numbered in pencil (see photos) Edition: 35 (4/35) plus 10 AP Condition: Excellent, colors fresh Image...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Falc
Located in London, GB
Colour soap ground and spit bite aquatints with photogravure and roulette. Published by Crown Point Press, 2007. Paper: Somerset Satin White
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Early 2000s Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Jean Miotte - Abstract Composition - Original Aquatint Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Miotte - Rare Original Aquatint Engraving Title: Abstract Composition Dimensions: 76 x 56 cm Jean Miotte, 1926 - 2016 Miotte came of artistic age in the decade after World War...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Six Etchings, Abstract Print Portfolio by Louisa Chase
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Louisa Chase, American (1951 - 2016) Title: Portfolio of Six Etchings Year: 1984 Medium: Six Drypoint Etchings with Aquatint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 30 Paper...
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1980s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

Guy Allen, Horse Study Fuschia, Horse Art Prints, Limited Edition Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Horse Study Fuchsia [2020] Limited Edition Figurative Etching, Aquatint, and Screen Print on Paper Edition of 45 Image size: H:53.5 cm x W:56 cm Work: H:76...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint, Screen

Juggler - Etching and Aquatint by Marino Marini - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Juggler 1963 is an original contemporary artwork realized by Marino Marini. Color etching and aquatint depicting a juggler. Edition of 100 copies. On the back oh the artwork there ...
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1960s Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Ernesto García Peña ¨¡¡Y ya! (P. Estado)! ¨, 2007, Etching, 30.3x23.2 in
Located in Miami, FL
Ernesto Garcia Peña (Cuba, 1949) '¡Y ya! (P. Estado)', 2002 engraving on paper Guarro Biblos 250g. 30.4 x 23.3 in. (77 x 59 cm.) Edition of 50 Unframed ID: GAE-106 Hand-signed by author
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Early 2000s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Screen

Trichromatic Flower-piece, Richard Hamilton multi color flower still life
Located in New York, NY
According to Gesine Tosin, Richard Hamilton irritated contemporary critics in the 1970s with a series of works -- romantic images of flowers, still lifes and landscapes, interspersed with scatological motifs. "Once exhibited, the critics regarded the paintings as evidence either of a kinky sexual aberration or an early onset of senility." (Hamilton 1982, p.79. ) Trichromatic flower-piece is one of these works, which questioned the categories of high and low art through its appropriated imagery. In the words of Richard Hamilton: “The Shit and Flowers series was was inspired in a sense by Barcelona, walking on the Ramblas where thousands of postcards are displayed. (…) I bought three pictures of flowers. I took them back to Cadaqués and began to play about with them, at first by putting a little paint on the surface.” According to Andrew Kim Tyler: “Working at Atelier Crommelynck, Paris in 1973-4, Hamilton used a traditional still life subject, a bouquet of flowers, to pursue his interest in the combination of photographic images with planes of color and hand-drawn aspects, but subverting the image with addition of a large turd. Perversely he set out to produce by manual means an etching with the characteristics of a commercially made reproduction resulting in Trichromatic flower-piece.” In addition to the edition of Trichromatic Flower-piece, Hamilton printed...
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1970s Expressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

Shop a Collection of Aquatint Prints and Other Fine Art Prints on 1stDibs

Buying art and design is one thing. Collecting it is quite another. Whether you’re looking to add a focal point to your living room or you’re introducing a new acquisition to an already thriving collection of art, the range of aquatints and other fine art prints on 1stDibs is waiting for you.    

A technique named for its resemblance to watercolor or ink wash, aquatint is often combined with etching to create rich tonal variations. It’s a similar process to etching but the resin ground is more granulated, so the acid handles the metal differently. 

Different degrees of darkness are created during the aquatint printmaking process based on the amount of time the plate is in contact with the acid. The process was famously deployed by Goya, but contemporary artists, ranging from Wayne Thiebaud and Susan Rothenberg to Joel Shapiro and Marcel Dzama have used it to dramatic effect.

And prints — as well as sculpture, photography and and other types of art — should help a residence feel more like itself. “Art plays such an important function in the home,” says Sophie Ashby, who founded her eponymous interior design studio in London in 2014. “Out of everything in a space, it has the most power.”

Find original aquatint prints and other prints and paintings for your home on 1stDibs.

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