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

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Lithograph

Guardian Of The Peace
Located in Santa Monica, CA
DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS (1896 1974) GUARDIAN OF THE PEACE c. 1945 Lithograph from an unknown edition size. Signed and dated in pencil and annotated E / E (Edition Especial). Image 11...
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1940s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Nature Morte
Located in Belgrade, MT
This colorful lithograph is part of my private collection. It is a limited edition , 1 print available, signed and numbered 25/150. It is in very good condition. Vibrant and colorful.
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

So went Moses and Aaron, and gathered all the Elders... - The Exodus
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025. – Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - So went Moses and Aaron, and gathered all the Elders of the children of Israel L...
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1960s Symbolist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Amiddaleas - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable ...
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19th Century Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The dance - Lithograph and stencil, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)(after) The dance, 1946 Lithograph and stencil Signed in the plate On vellum 48 x 33 cm (c. 18.9 x 13 inches) INFORMATION: Edited by Albert Carman in 1946 ...
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1940s Abstract Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Speckled Corn Kachina, Dan Namingha, lithograph, Hopi, kachina, blue, orange
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Speckled Corn Kachina, Dan Namingha, lithograph, Hopi, kachina, blue, orange hand pulled limited edition lithograph signed and numbered by the artist Glenn Green Galleries also pr...
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1970s Contemporary Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Sam's Art, from the New York International portfolio, signed/n lithograph 1966
Located in New York, NY
Saul Steinberg Sam's Art, from The New York International Portfolio), 1966 Lithograph on wove paper with blind stamp Pencil signed and numbered 12/225 on the front Published by Tanglewood Press, Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc., New York Printed by Irwin Hollander with blind stamp Unframed This Steinberg lithograph is titled Sam's Art, which of course refers to Uncle Sam, the nickname for the United States government. It features his version of the motto seen on our dollar bills, "Annuit Coeptis", which is one of the mottoes found on the Great Seal of the United States. It is directly underneath the "Eye of Providence" and is translated by the US Treasury and State Department as "God (or Providence) favors our undertakings". American President Abraham Lincoln, sitting in front of an easel, is also depicted as an artist in this telling 1960s work. Commentary: "In Saul Steinberg’s lithograph ‘Sam’s Art’, Abraham Lincoln, in stove-pipe hat, poses as the artist in front of his canvas. While his attention looks fixed on rendering the slightly wobbly pyramid with an eye, the Masonic motif from the back of the one dollar bill, the line from his brush has floated off the canvas to become a cubist-futurist cloud in the sky. The American Eagle looks on, perched on a civil war cannon...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Untitled Abstract Picture (one plate) - artist authorized print on GardaMatt Art
Located in New York, NY
Gerhard Richter Untitled Abstract Picture, 2002 Offset lithograph on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper Limited Edition edition of 3433 12 1/2 × 16 3.5 inches Unframed Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee Printed on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper, this beautiful and colorful piece was part of a portfolio of loose plate reproductions for Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes works. Released during his exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art (Abstract Pictures) and the Museum of Modern Art (Gerhard Richter, 40 Years of Painting). It depicts Richters Oil on Aluminum abstract picture) More about Gerhard Richter: Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Throughout his career, Richter has negotiated the frontier between photography and painting, captivated by the way in which these two seemingly opposing practices speak to and challenge one another. From exuberant canvases rendered with a squeegee and acerbic color charts to paintings of photographic detail and close-ups of a single brushstroke, Richter moves effortlessly between the two mediums, reveling in the complexity of their relationship, while never asserting one above the other. Richter’s life traces the defining moments of twentieth-century history and his work reverberates with the trauma of National Socialism and the Holocaust. In the wake of the Second World War, Richter trained in a Socialist Realist style sanctioned by East Germany’s Communist government. When he defected to West Germany in 1961, a month before the Berlin Wall was erected, Richter left his entire artistic oeuvre up to that point behind. From 1961 to 1964—alongside Blinky Palermo and Sigmar Polke—Richter studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he began to explore the material, conceptual, and historical implications of painting without ideological restraint. Richter’s earliest paintings in Düsseldorf, stimulated by a fascination with current affairs and popular culture, responded to images from magazines and newspaper cuttings. Through the 1960s, Richter continued to address found and media images of subjects such as military jets, portraits, and aerial photographs. Notably, he reimagined family pictures he had smuggled from East Germany that included his smiling uncle Rudi, dressed in a Nazi uniform...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1965 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 151-152) and published in Paris by Maeght. Size: 15 x 11 inches (378 x 277 mm). There ...
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1960s Abstract Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

SCHOMBURG LIBRARY 1986 Lithograph, African American History, Black Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
SCHOMBURG LIBRARY is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Arches printmaking paper...
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1990s Contemporary Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Bible : Dove and Menorah candlestick - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc CHAGALL (1887-1985) Bible : Dove and Menorah candlestick, 1962 Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Unsigned On Vellum 32.5 x 24 cm REFERENCE: Mourlot catalog raisonné #366 ...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Sans titre, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, New Séries, XXIIIth year, N°17 - Christ...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Basque Boy also called Boy with Beret and Fabian.
Located in Storrs, CT
The Basque Boy also called Boy with Beret and Fabian. 1944. Lithograph. Fletcher Lithographs 3.ii. zinc plate. 13 x 10 1/4 (sheet 7 1/8 x 13 7/8). Edition 10. Printed on countermarke...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1956 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...
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1950s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1960 for the art revue XXe Siecle (No. 14) and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches (308 x 230 mm). Not signed. Con...
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1960s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Robert Longo 'Frank & Glenn' Hand Signed and Framed, 1991
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Lithograph in colors on wove paper. Artist proof signed and numbered in pencil out of 10 by Robert Longo, published by Brooke Alexander from the Men in the Cities. Frank and Glen st...
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1990s Contemporary Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Violet Torso on Orange Stripes
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in four colours on Japon nacré paper 31 x 31 cm - framed Edition of 75 Hand-signed and numbered by the artist Henry Moore’s prints are a vital aspect of his artistic lega...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Salon des Artistes Decorateurs" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster). This poster was executed in 1939 by Raoul Dufy. The lithograph offered here was printed by Mourlot in 1959, reproducing the...
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1950s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Eat Less . Share with those who fight vintage 1918 poster, linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Eat Less” 1918 vintage First World War poster. This is a less seldom seen poster variation. The other version has the wording, "This is What God Gives Us." The image i...
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1910s American Realist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lincoln in Dalívision /// Salvador Dalí Abraham Lincoln Surrealism Lithograph
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989) Title: "Lincoln in Dalívision" *Signed by Dalí in pencil lower right Year: 1977 Medium: Original Photolithograph and Etching with Embossing...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Lithograph

Pantomime : Harlequin and Pierrot - Original Lithograph, 1898
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri Gabriel IBELS Pantomime : Harlequin and Pierrot, 1898 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) INFORMATI...
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1890s Art Nouveau Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Armagnac Ryst vintage French liquor poster, linen backed lithograph
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Armagnac Ryst - de Haut Parage vintage poster. This great lithographic image features a lion holding both a shield which is a lion on a shield and a sparkling glass of Armagnac. Original old French vintage...
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1940s American Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Untitled" (From the Flight Portfolio)
Located in Warren, NJ
Adolph Gottilieb (1903-1974), New York, 1969, signed "161/250" and dated 1969 . In good condition Unframed. Measures 24x19
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20th Century Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Costruzione Arancio - Lithograph by Luigi Veronesi - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
The proposed print is a lithograph with a print run of 99 copies, in very good condition. On the lithograph are the print number in the lower margins with its print run and the hand...
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1980s Abstract Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original 1894 poster by Eugène Grasset - Jeanne d'Arc Sarah Bernhardt
Located in PARIS, FR
This magnificent original 1894 poster by Eugène Grasset was created for the celebrated production of Jeanne d’Arc starring the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt. Commissioned to prom...
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1890s Art Nouveau Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Marc Chagall, Hommage à Elsa Triolet, rare hand signed lithograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Marc Chagall Hommage à Elsa Triolet, 1972 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper Hand signed and numbered 7/20 from the very rare edition of 20 Mourlot 642 Paper: 25.5 x 19.5 Framed: ...
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1970s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Femme nue couchée (Bloch 120; Cramer 127), Les Dames de Mougins
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 3.5 x 7 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonne references: Picasso, Pablo, and Georges Bloch. P...
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1960s Cubist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

lithograph for Florilege des amours de Ronsard
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after Matisse). Printed in sanguine ink on cream laid paper from the Papeteries Casteljoux and published in Geneva by Edito-Service in 1970. This reproduces one o...
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1970s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Soutine, Paysage à Cagnes, Soutine, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1966 Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Soutine, I, Collect...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

TAKASHI MURAKAMI: Homage to Francis Bacon. Pop Art, Superflat, Japanese Modern
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Homage to Francis Bacon (Study of Isabel Rawsthorne) Date of creation: 2017 Medium: Offset lithograph with cold stamp on paper Edition: 300 Size: 68 x 68 cm Condition: In mint condit...
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2010s Pop Art Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset, Paper

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
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1990s Contemporary Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Mi Careme de Nantes original vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage French poster: Mi Careme de Nantes carnaval poster. Printer: Jagueneau - Nantes, France. Over 50 years old, Linen ...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Circa 1900 original poster for Champagne Jules Pierlot in Epernay
Located in PARIS, FR
This circa 1900 original poster for Champagne Jules Pierlot, Epernay is a prime example of Belle Époque advertising design. Featuring elegant typography, heraldic symbolism, and a re...
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Early 1900s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1954 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1954 Spr...
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1950s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original advertising by Bernard villemot poster from 1979 for Perrier
Located in PARIS, FR
Bursting with motion and saturated color, this celebrated Perrier poster from 1979 captures Bernard Villemot at his most exuberant. A whorl of stylized ...
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1970s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Time Out Sydney Poster
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Iconic Banksy Rat featured on the middle of the Banksy Time Out Sydney Poster. Very cool rat with movie star sunglasses was created by Banksy and released on this exclusive Sydney on...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Matisse, La danse, Douze Contemporains (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Douze Contemporains, 1959; published by Éditions d'Art du Lion, Paris;...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Black Cat 1981 Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Walasse Ting Title: Black Cat - Midnight Cat Year: 1981 Medium: Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper   22'' x 30'' Edition: Signed in pencil and marked AP Walasse Ting (DING...
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1980s Pop Art Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Picasso, Le Chien (The Dog) (Orozco p.82), Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Paper Size: 12.99 x 9.84 inches. Catalogue raisonné reference: Orozco, Miguel. T...
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1970s Cubist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Petra, The Upper or Eastern Valley: 19th C. Hand-colored Roberts Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored lithograph entitled "Petra, Shewing the Upper or Eastern End of the Valley" by David Roberts, from his Egypt, The Holy Land and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, published in London by F. G. Moon in 1842. The lithographs were prepared by Louis Haghe (1806-1885) from drawings and paintings by Roberts. The resultant large folio editions of 'The Holy Land' and 'Egypt & Nubia' are considered the greatest lithographically illustrated works issued in the 19th century. This is one of Roberts' most famous and collectible works. The scene captures a view of the magnificent ruins of Petra in what is Jordan today, as it appeared on March 8, 1839, on the day of Roberts' visit. Multiple Arab men are approaching Petra; some on foot and others riding camels. They are dressed in their colorful local costumes. Roberts' signature and hand written date are reproduced in the plate on the left. This hand-colored lithograph is printed on wove paper with wide margins. There is some loss of color in the text in the title and a faint dark curvilinear area in the upper right. The print is otherwise in very good condition. It is presented in a gold-colored wood frame with a tan mat. It is glazed with UV protected conservation glass. All framing materials used are archival museum quality. The frame measures 23.5" high and 30.5" wide. There are two additional iconic David Roberts hand-colored lithographs for sale on 1stdibs that are matted and framed in identical styles, although slightly different sizes. They are scenes of Approach of Simoon, Desert of Gizeh and the Citadel of Cairo. They can be viewed by typing their reference #'s, LU1173211955452 and LU1173211970142, into the 1stdibs search field or typing Timeless Intaglio in the search field and tapping on the drop down name to be taken to our storefront. Two or all three of these pieces would make for a striking display grouping. A discount is available for the purchase of multiple pieces. David Roberts (1796-1864) was a Scottish painter who specialized in landscapes, architectural subjects, and scenes from the Middle East and Europe. Born in Edinburgh, Roberts began his career at age ten as an apprentice to a house painter and eventually became a scene painter for theater companies in Edinburgh and London. In the 1820s, J. M. W. Turner recognized his artistic talent and encouraged him to become a full-time artist. He began to focus on painting landscapes and architecture. In 1838 he traveled to Egypt and soon after to the Holy Land, concluding in Jerusalem. Roberts' travels in the Middle East had a profound impact on his art, and he produced a series of highly detailed and realistic paintings and sketches of the region's famous ruins and other landmarks, including the Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, the Temple of Abu Simbel...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Guggenheim, Pop Art Lithograph Poster by Red Grooms
Located in Long Island City, NY
Red Grooms, American (1937 - ) - Guggenheim, Year: 1972, Medium: Lithograph Poster on Cartridge Paper (unsigned), Size: 39 in. x 26 in. (99.06 cm x 66.04 cm), Description: Depict...
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1970s Pop Art Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Alex Katz - American Dance Festival - 1976 original poster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: CB1505 Artist: Alex Katz Title: American Dance Festival Year: 1976 Signed: No Medium: Offset Lithograph Paper Size: 39 x 30.5 inches ( 99.06 x 77.47 cm ) Image Size: 39 x 30.5 i...
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1970s Pop Art Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Léger, Composition, mes voyages (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger mes voyages avec un poème d'...
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1970s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Star Chart. Antique Astronomy celestial print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour lithograph, 1890. 210mm by 285mm (sheet). From W Peck's 'A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy', 1890. Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (1862 – 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scien...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Frank Stella Hand Signed 93/100 Whitney Museum Lithograph Abstract Expressionist
Located in New York, NY
Frank Stella Large Limited Edition Hand Signed Whitney Museum Print, 1985 Offset Lithograph Hand signed, dated and numbered 93 from the edition of 100, lower left front 75 7/10 × 52 ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor). Printed in Paris in 1929 at the atelier of Daniel Jacomet for L'Art Cubiste. Image size: 7 x 6 inches (175 x 150 mm). There is an inscription...
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1920s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Deux Femmes Accroupies - Lithograph by Pablo Picasso - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
Realized by Picasso in 1956. Lithograph on Arches Paper. Hand Signed and numbered. Edition of 19/50.  Ref. Bloch n.790. 
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1950s Cubist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Porol-Vua, Signed Surrealist Lithograph by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002) Title: Porol-Vua Year: 1978 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 97/100 Image Size: 20 x 28.5 inches Size: 22 x 29....
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Léger, Composition, Cahiers d'Art (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Cahiers d'Art N°24, 1949. Published and printed by Éditions des Cahi...
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1940s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Abstract Expressionist Lithograph for the Carnegie Museum of Art, Lt Ed. of 1000
Located in New York, NY
Joan Mitchell Untitled Abstract Expressionist Print for the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1972 Lithograph on wove paper 15 × 22 inches Limited Edition of 1000 (unnumbered) Printer: Maeght...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Blandfordia Flammea, antique botanical Australian flower lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Blandfordia Flame - Flame-flowered Blandfordia' Botanical lithograph of an Australian native plant with original hand-colouring , 1854, by Walter Hood Fi...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Wyeth, Early October, The Four Seasons (after)
By Andrew Wyeth
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Art in America, New York in an edition of CDVII/D. From the folio, The Four Se...
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1960s American Realist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Portrait de Nadia - Lithograph after Fernand Léger - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized after Fernand Léger in 1959, on Moulin Richard de Bas paper. Monogrammed in the plate. It belongs to the suite "Contrastes", printed by Daniel Jacomet and publi...
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1950s Contemporary Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Minoutaure et nue
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Minoutaure et nue Lithograph from 1967. The edition of 89/500 on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper. With two watermarks - one of the paper, second of the p...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Spanish Elegy (Belknap 354-380; Engberg/Banach 415-441), Three Poems
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From th...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1979 and published in Barcelona by La Poligrafa in an edition of 1000. Size: 10 x 7 1/2 inches (255 x 188 mm). Not signed.
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1970s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Joan Miro und Katalonien - Lithograph by Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: Joan Miro und Katalonien Year: 1969 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in the plate Size: 20 in. x 26 in. (50.8 cm x 66.04 cm) Frame...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

PINK HOUSE Signed Mini Lithograph, French Country-Style Home, Artist Paintbrush
Located in Union City, NJ
PINK HOUSE is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arche...
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1990s Surrealist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Abstract Composition
Located in OPOLE, PL
Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) - Abstract Composition Lithograph from 1969. Dimensions of work: 31 x 23.5 cm Publisher: San Lazzaro, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast ...
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1960s Surrealist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Vintage Lithographs and Other Prints for Sale 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 vintage lithographs and other fine art prints on 1stDibs is waiting for you.  

The lithographic process begins by drawing on or painting on a stone surface with an oil-based substance, such as a greasy crayon or tusche (an oily wash). The stone is then covered with water, which is repelled by the oily areas. Oil-based ink is then applied to the wet stone, adhering only to the oily image. The stone is then covered with a sheet of paper and run through a press. 

Lithographs tend to be more painterly than other printing techniques such as woodcut printmaking and drypoint, and many postwar and contemporary painters have collaborated with lithographic workshops to push their practices in new directions. The collection of vintage lithographs on 1stDibs includes works by Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Peter Max, Jasper Johns and other artists.

Groundbreaking print studios like Gemini began to crop up in the mid-20th century. These included Tamarind, first founded as a lithography shop in Los Angeles; ULAE on New York’s Long Island; and Crown Point Press in San Francisco. The timing was due to the fact that many artists had developed a taste for printmaking during the Great Depression via the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which opened print shops for unemployed artists to help create useful and uplifting messages that could be widely disseminated.

Find vintage lithographs and other types of prints for sale on 1stDibs.

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