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Medium: Intaglio
Le Téléphone (Lobster Telephone) /// Salvador Dali Surrealism Modern Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Title: "Le Téléphone (Lobster Telephone)"
Portfolio: Hommage à Leonardo da Vinci (Great Inventions)
*Signe...
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1970s Surrealist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Intaglio
1960s "Crusade" Purple, Teal, Red Collagraph NY Artist Myril Adler
Located in Arp, TX
Myril Adler
"Crusade"
c.1960s
Intaglio etching ink on paper
2"x2" ash wood gallery frame 9.5"x9.5"
Titled in pencil, estate stamp
Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vite...
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1960s Abstract Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Intaglio
1960s "Jerusalem" Ombre Red to Orange Collagraph NY Artist Myril Adler
Located in Arp, TX
Myril Adler
"Jerusalem"
c.1960s
Collagraph ink on paper
2.75"x2.75 ash wood gallery frame 9.5"x9.5"
Titled in pencil, estate stamp
Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vi...
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1960s Abstract Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Intaglio
"This Must Be the Place VE 3/7" Intaglio, hand colored, texture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "This Must Be the Place VE 3/7" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from Intaglio with soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece is an edition of 7 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
"Like a Pen VE 6/18" Intaglio, hand colored, tool motifs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Like a Pen VE 6/18" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from hand-colored etching on Rives BFK with an artist-made frame. This piece is an edi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
Figures - Print after Pablo Picasso - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an artwork realized after Pablo Picasso (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973) in 1959.
Phototype print.
Dated, 24.12.59, and signed on the plate.
Good condition.
Pablo Picass...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
"Like a Pen VE 4/18" Intaglio, hand colored, tool motifs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Like a Pen VE 4/18" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from hand-colored etching on Rives BFK with an artist-made frame. This piece is an edi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
"The Secret Life of Plants VE 6/8" Intaglio, hand colored, house, leaves
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "The Secret Life of Plants VE 6/8" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from Intaglio with soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece is an edition of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
Trapezoid Planet, Abstract Mono-Type Print on Etching Paper
By a.muse
Located in New york, NY
The work on paper by a.muse is a study in negative and positive space. Bold colors and geometric shapes float weightlessly in space in an imaginary constellation.
The viscosity inke...
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2010s Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Intaglio, Monotype
69 Palms, by Smith-Harrison
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 160. Palm trees in Cuban landscape with Spanish tile designs. Based on the artist's trip to Cuba where he taught printmaking in 1999.
...
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1990s Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Intaglio
Six Etchings, Abstract Print Portfolio by Louisa Chase
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 Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
Geisha Walking, Bold Work on Paper on Madame Butterfly
By a.muse
Located in New york, NY
A portrait of the Japanese geisha Madame Butterfly dressed in a colorful kimono this is a (one-of-a-kind) mono-print, Geisha Walking, 2017 by a.muse. 12.5" x 10.25 the print is dated...
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2010s Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Intaglio, Monotype
Présence /// French Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Engraving Colorful Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Serge Helenon (French, 1934-)
Title/Portfolio: "Présence"
*Each work is signed by Helenon in pencil lower left
Year: 1985
Medium: The Complete Portfolio of Three Original Car...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
"The Secret Life of Plants VE 8/8" Intaglio, hand colored, house, leaves
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "The Secret Life of Plants VE 8/8" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from Intaglio with soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece is an edition of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
The King and the Queen - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature.
Héliogravure on bot sheets, recto and verso.
Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris.
...
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1960s Surrealist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
Fields
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint.
Edition of 50
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2010s Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
"Like a Pen VE 3/18" Intaglio, hand colored, tool motifs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Like a Pen VE 3/18" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from hand-colored etching on Rives BFK with an artist-made frame. This piece is an edi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
1960s "Magic Journeys" Teal, Pink, Orange Collage Intaglio Etching NY Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Myril Adler
"Magic Journeys"
c.1960s
Intaglio etching collage, ink on paper
6"x3" mahogany wood gallery frame 11.25"x8.25"
Signed and titled in ink
Myril Adler, was born on Septemb...
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1960s Abstract Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink, Intaglio
"The Secret Life of Plants VE 2/8" Intaglio, hand colored, house, leaves
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "The Secret Life of Plants VE 2/8" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from Intaglio with soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece is an edition of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
'Mount Kenya, Kenya' — from the series 'Axis Mundi', Contemporary
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Beth Ganz, 'Mount Kenya, Kenya', copperplate photogravure etching, edition 10, 2020. Signed, titled, and numbered 6/10 in pencil. A superb, richly-inked im...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Photogravure
Wish I Was the Moon VE 6/7
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Wish I Was the Moon VE 6/7" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from Intaglio with soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece is an edition of 7 mea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
"Like a Pen VE 13/18" Intaglio, hand colored, tool motifs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Like a Pen VE 13/18" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from hand-colored etching on Rives BFK with an artist-made frame. This piece is an ed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
"Like a Pen VE 2/18" Intaglio, hand colored, tool motifs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Like a Pen VE 2/18" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from hand-colored etching on Rives BFK with an artist-made frame. This piece is an edi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
Wish I Was the Moon VE 5/7
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Wish I Was the Moon VE 5/7" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from Intaglio with soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece is an edition of 7 mea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
"Extraordinary Machine VE 3/6" Intaglio, hand colored, Industrial, egg motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Extraordinary Machine VE 3/6" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from Intaglio with soft ground and chine colle on Rives BFK. This piece is a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
"La Mer VE 1/8" Intaglio, hand colored, seashell motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "La Mer VE 1/8" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from two-plate intaglio with drypoint, aquatint, and soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio, Drypoint, Aquatint
"Extraordinary Machine VE 5/6" Intaglio, hand colored, Industrial, egg motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Extraordinary Machine VE 5/6" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from Intaglio with soft ground and chine colle on Rives BFK. This piece is a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
"La Mer VE 7/8" Intaglio, hand colored, seashell motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "La Mer VE 7/8" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from two-plate intaglio with drypoint, aquatint, and soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
"Pueblo Portals" - Intaglio Print in Ink on Archival paper, #3/15
Located in Soquel, CA
"Pueblo Portals" - Intaglio Print in Ink on Archival paper, #3/15
Tan interior intaglio print with blue accents by Marcia Pagels (American, 1930-2010). This piece shows a stark interior of a Pueblo building, with two bright blue accents - the window and the door. This piece also has an asymmetrical trapezoid border that is imprinted (but not printed) around the edge.
Titled, numbered, signed, and dated along the bottom edge:
Pueblo Portals 3/15 Marcia Pagels © 1989
Presented in a new brown mat
Mat size: 12"H x 16"W
Paper size: 11"H x 14"W
Impression size: 7.5"H x 10"W
Marcia Pagels (American, 1930-2010) was born in Taft, California, and moved to Glendale in her early teens. She attended Stanford University, where she earned her BA in Art, and then went on to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. She later moved to East Palo Alto with her husband and children, where she studied with Richard Bowman...
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1980s Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Intaglio
Portrait and Hand - Print by Renzo Vespignani - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait and Hand is a phototype print reproducing drawing by Renzo Vespignani of the 1960s
Signed on the plate lower right.
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes and perf...
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1960s Modern Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
Spacial Studies III
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Spacial Studies III" is an original artwork made from relief, chine colle, intaglio on Rives BFK by Katie VanVliet. This piece is shipped in the pictured white fra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Color, Intaglio
Chartres La Mort de la Viegre X111”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original photo mechanical print handcolored throughout by the French artist, Lucy Garnot. Signed and titled bottom. Circa 1900. Condition is very go...
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Early 1900s Academic Intaglio Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Photogravure
"Splayed Founds: Napkin Ring", Intaglio Print, Representation of Common Objects
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Splayed Founds: Napkin Ring" is a limited edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from intaglio printed from engraved sterling sil...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching, Intaglio
"Somebody That I Used to Know", Two Plate Intaglio Etching, Floral Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Somebody That I Used to Know" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from two-plate intaglio with soft ground, chine colle, carborundum plate and chine ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching, Intaglio
"Ancient Walls of Flowers", Intaglio Print, Floral Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Ancient Walls of Flowers" is a limited edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from intaglio with soft ground on Rives BFK, artist-made frame. This piece is an ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching, Intaglio
Hort Club Sale, by Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A celadon decorated Chinese vase with flowers, with a full moon and clouds in the background. Intaglio print with Chine Colle, signed, titled and numbered by the artist.
While the i...
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2010s Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
The Language of the Prophet - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature.
On bot sheets, recto and verso.
Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris.
Ref. Mourlot,...
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1960s Surrealist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
The Flood, The Fish and a Woman - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, no signature.
Héliogravure on bot sheets, recto and verso.
Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade on the A...
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1960s Surrealist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
"Facade" - Intaglio Etching of a Brick Building with Trees by Ron Blumberg
By Ron Blumberg
Located in Soquel, CA
"Facade" - Intaglio Etching of a Brick Building with Trees
This etching by Ron Blumberg (b. 1908 d. 2002), features the outside facade of a brick building which is obscured by tree ...
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1970s American Impressionist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Los Romanos
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Smith-Harrison's work very often features architectural elements, along with trees. This is a unique monoprint based on a photogravure print, and finished with hand watercolor.
Davi...
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2010s Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Intaglio, Photogravure, Monoprint
Eclogue 6 (after) Samuel Palmer
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: heliogravure (after the drawing). This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by S...
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1880s Realist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
1960s "Duo" Orange, Teal, Green Collagraph NY Artist Myril Adler
Located in Arp, TX
Myril Adler
"Duo"
c.1960s
Collagraph ink on paper
2."x2.5" unframed
Signed and titled in pencil
Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vitebsk, Russia (now Belarus), and im...
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1960s Abstract Intaglio Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Intaglio
Esther Accuses Aman - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, no signature.
Héliogravure on bot sheets, recto and verso.
Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade on the A...
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1960s Surrealist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
Eclogue 4 (after) Samuel Palmer
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: heliogravure (after the drawing). This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by S...
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1880s Realist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
(after) Frans Masereel "Le Calvaire"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the woodcut). Printed in 1925 and published in Paris by Albert Morance for "L'Art d'Aujourd'hui", and now very scarce. Image size: 8 x 4 3/4 inches (205 x 11...
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1920s Expressionist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
'Craugh Phadrig, Ireland' — from the series 'Axis Mundi', Contemporary
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Beth Ganz, 'Craugh Phadrig, Ireland', copperplate photogravure etching, edition 10, 2020. Signed, titled, and numbered 6/10 in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression in warm black ink, on cream, wove, cotton rag paper; the full sheet in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches; sheet size 16 x 15 1/2 inches.
From the artist's series of 64 photogravure etchings, 'Axis Mundi'. Additional works from the series are available; please inquire.
Exhibited: 'Photography in Ink, A Look at Contemporary Copper-Plate Photogravure,' Curated by Leandro Villaro, Penumbra Exhibition Space Gallery, Nov 30, 2022 - March 15, 2023.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
Cruach Phadraig in Irish, known as Croagh Patrick...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Photogravure
Tauromaquia - Plate 8
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...
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1940s Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
(after) Samuel Palmer - "The Brothers under the Vine"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: photogravure (after the watercolor). Samuel Palmer had always admired the work of John Milton, and executed a suite of watercolors which were made into photo-engravings for "...
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1880s Realist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
Eclogue 10 (after) Samuel Palmer
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: heliogravure (after the drawing). This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by S...
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1880s Realist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
'Lomagnupur, South Iceland' — from the series 'Axis Mundi', Contemporary
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Beth Ganz, 'Lomagnupur, South Iceland', copperplate photogravure etching, edition 10, 2021. Signed, titled, and numbered 6/10 in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression in warm black ink, on cream, wove, cotton rag paper; the full sheet in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches; sheet size 16 x 15 1/2 inches.
From the artist's series of 64 photogravure etchings, 'Axis Mundi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Photogravure
Weed Wreath (edition 4/6)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Weed Wreath (edition 4/6)" is an original artwork made from hand colored cut-plate intaglio on Somerset by Katie VanVliet. This piece is the fourth in an edition o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Color, Intaglio
Sisyphus - Héliogravure by Jan Mesker - 1890
Located in Roma, IT
Sisyphus is a print realized by Jan Mesker after Antonio Zanchi, after Salvator Rosa in 1877/1890.
Héliogravure on paper.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions.
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1890s Symbolist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
Girl with Flowers Vase - Original Photolithograph by F. Gentilini - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Girl with Flowers Vase is an original Contemporary Artwork realized by Franco Gentilini in the 1980s.
Original Lithograph.
Hand signed in pencil by the artist on the lower right ...
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1980s Modern Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
Figure, Surrealist Intaglio Etching by Joan Semmel
By Joan Semmel
Located in Long Island City, NY
This abstract figure by feminist modern artist Joan Semmel is almost grotesque in its depiction of a nude body crouched on the floor. Their hands brace against the ground, shoulders ...
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1960s Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Tauromaquia - Plate 9
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...
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1940s Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
Lady - Phototype after Corrado Cagli - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lady is an artwork realized after Corrado Cagli in the middle of the 20th century.
Photype print.
Signed on the low side.
Good condition.
Corrado Cagli (Ancona, 1910 - Rome, ...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
Who Caire, Intaglio Etching by Jean Sariano
By Jean Sariano
Located in Long Island City, NY
Who Caire
Jean Sariano, Algerian/American (1943)
Date: 1979
Intaglio Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 300
Size: 16 x 29 in. (40.64 x 73.66 cm)
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1970s Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
"Untitled"
Located in Southampton, NY
Original engraving, aquatint, intaglio on archival paper. Signed and dated lower right, 1947. Artist proof. Condition: Good. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Image size 6.75 by 5...
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1940s Surrealist Intaglio Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Engraving, Aquatint, Intaglio
Shopping for Intaglio Prints?
There are many good reasons for an art lover to venture into the world of intaglio prints and other types of fine art prints. For one, art is a smart investment if the print-collecting bug has bitten you. But maybe you’re merely looking to bring art into your home — if so, prints and other art can help enhance your space while supporting your effort to tie an interior design together.
Making a print can be as straightforward as pressing one painted surface to another or as complex as triggering a chemical reaction to create an image. Intaglio is a broad term for the variety of techniques used to create images by incising a metal plate, either with a sharp instrument (engraving, drypoint and mezzotint) or with acid (etching, aquatint and photogravure).
In intaglio printmaking, after the artist incises the image, the plate is covered with ink then wiped clean, leaving pigment only in the marks that have been made on the plate. The plate is then covered with a piece of damp paper and run through a press to transfer the ink. Different intaglio techniques are often combined to create varying effects of line and tone.
OK, so what is the difference between a woodcut print and an intaglio print?
“It is the opposite of relief printing — woodcut, linoleum cut, letterpress, and rubber or metal stamping,” says Rhea Fontaine of Paulson Fontaine Press. “With relief printing, the raised areas of the printing surface are inked and printed, while the areas that have been cut away do not pick up the ink. Often these prints are made by hand.”
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