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Medium: Lithograph
Indian-Persian, French antique 19th century Racinet art design lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Indian-Persian - Indo-Persian - Indisch-Persisch' Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris. Albert Raci...
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Late 19th Century French School Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Presso Ponza - Lithograph by Aldo Riso - 2003
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on Magnani-Pescia paper. Paper size 17,5 cm x 24,5 cm work size 14,5 cm x22 cm . Excellent condition, no defects. Aldo Riso was born in 1927 in Santa Maria di Leuca, in th...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Les Déjeuners - hand-signed Lithograph - 1962
Located in Varese, IT
Coloured lithograph on paper, edited in 1962. Limited edition of 75 copies, numbered as 72/75 in lower left corner. Signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner. Paper size: 51,...
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1960s Cubist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

The Treasured Land, Judaica Folk Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Michoel Muchnik was born in Philadelphia in 1952. Muchnik received his artistic training at the Rhode Island School of Design. He later studied Jewish and Talmudic studies at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, New Jersey. Michoel Muchnik's art focuses on imaginative and joyful depictions of traditional and mystical Jewish and Hasidic themes. Muchnik has exhibited his work and lectured on Hasidic art throughout the United States as well as abroad. In 1977, Muchnik was selected alongside four other Hasidic artists, including Hendel Lieberman...
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Late 20th Century Folk Art Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall 'Enlevement de Chloe (Abduction of Chloe)' 1977- Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 25 x 33.5 inches ( 63.5 x 85.09 cm ) Image Size: 20 x 30.5 inches ( 50.8 x 77.47 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Limited edition print by Mar...
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1970s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Wassily Kandinsky, Tableau avec formes blanches, L'édition de tête (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, tête edition, Consacré au Blau...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

La Garçonne
Located in OPOLE, PL
Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968) - La Garçonne Original Lithograph, pochoir from 1925. Arches paper (no watermark). Dimensions of work: 23.5 x 18 cm Publisher: E. Flammarion Éditeur. ...
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1920s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Jean Rene Bazaine 'Composition IV' 1968- Lithograph Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This lithograph page, titled Composition IV, is part of the Derrière le Miroir (DLM) No. 170 series, featuring the work of René Bazaine. Known for his lyrical abstraction, Bazaine’s ...
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1960s Contemporary Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ellsworth Kelly - Composition (Axsom No. I-C), 1958 Lithograph From DLM
By (after) Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly Title: Composition (Axsom No. I-C) Year: 1964 Dimensions: 15in. by 11in. Mount Board Size Inches: 20 x 16 inches Mount Board Color: White/Black Print Border...
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1960s Contemporary Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Musee National d'Art Moderne (after) Wassily Kandinsky - Abstract
Located in New York, NY
This rare lithographic poster was printed in 1957 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris. It was created to promote an exhibition of artworks by Kandinsky, on loan from the Guggenheim Museum to the National Museum of Modern in Paris. Certificate of Provenance: Each individual work of art carefully curated by Mourlot Editions comes with a Certificate of Provenance, signed, dated, stamped, and numbered by Eric Mourlot. This certificate guarantees the origin and authenticity of your personal lithograph. About the Artist: Kandinsky was a painter and art theorist, one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue...
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1950s Abstract Geometric Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Matisse, Plume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
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1920s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Honesty, English antique mauve flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Honesty' Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890. Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand a...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Soutine, Le Lièvre au volet vert, Soutine, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1966 Paper Size: 26 x 20 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 Skateboard Deck (Murakami Flowers)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Takashi Murakami Flowers Skateboard Deck: A collaboration between Takashi Murakami and his friend, the rising Japanese artist 'Madsaki' (bio below). The impression is an urban twist...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Wood, Lithograph, Screen

"Kleine Welten VII" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the woodcut). Printed in Paris in 1954 by Mourlot and published by Berggruen for a scarce catalogue. Image size: 4 1/2 x 4 inches (117 x 100 mm). There is a...
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1950s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les Oiseaux de Nuit
Located in Kansas City, MO
Georges Braque Les Oiseaux de Nuit 1964 Original Reproduction of a Gouache on Velin d'Arches Size: 10x7.375in Edition: 2,000 Annotated verso Unsigned as issued Publisher: Mourlot, Pa...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Vellum, Lithograph

Neil Young, Caricature Lithograph by Al Hirschfeld
Located in Long Island City, NY
Al Hirschfeld’s Rock'n in the Free World Neil Young. This print is signed and numbered in pencil. Al Hirschfeld, American (1903–2003) Date: 2000 Lithograph, signed and numbered in p...
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Early 2000s Post-Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

V, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
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1990s Contemporary Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Horse : Polo Game - Original Lithograph, HANDSIGNED & Ltd /100
Located in Paris, IDF
Vincent HADDELSEY (1934-2010) Horse : Polo Game, 1974 Original Lithograph Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 100 On Arches vellum 53 x 38 cm (c. 23 x 15 in) Excellent condition
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1970s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Carol Channing LORELEI Broadway Legend Tony Awards 20th Century Lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Carol Channing LORELEI Broadway Legend Tony Awards 20th Century Lithograph Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) Carol Channing in LORELEI Hand-signed Limited Edition Etching Signed lower rig...
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1970s Performance Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Hommage a Rene Char after Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
This colorful lithograph after Pablo Picasso was printed by the Atelier Mourlot in Paris in 1964 and is unsigned*. This image is taken from a drawing in pencil and colored chalk enti...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Buste de Femme Assise - Les Mains Sous le Menton, Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
This print by Pablo Picasso portrays a woman wearing a hat in an abstracted, complex form. With her hands clasped underneath her chin and elbows resting on the table before her, the ...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

(after) Tancrede Synave - lithograph poster "Mademoiselle Fifi"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the poster). Printed in 1897 on smooth wove paper and published in Paris by Librairie Nilsson. Image size: 8 x 6 1/2 inches (207 x 164 mm). Sheet size: 12 1...
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1890s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Tunnel /Target
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JUNE WAYNE (1918 - 2011) THE TUNNEL II, 1951 (B.69; G.14; Conway 67) Lithograph, signed, numbered, dated July 1951 and titled incorrectly The Target. Edition 35. 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inc...
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1950s American Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Tunnel /Target
Tunnel /Target
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Untitled (SF-229P) (Fondation Maeght) Poster /// Sam Francis Abstract Expression
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sam Francis (American, 1923-1994) Title: "Untitled (SF-229P) (Fondation Maeght)" Year: 1983 Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Exhibition Pos...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Lily - Lithograph by Filippo De Pisis - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Lily is an artwork realized by Filippo De Pisis (1896, Ferrara - 1956, Milano) in 1968. Black and white lithograph. Good condition. Not signed. Published in the volume "De Pisis ...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition, L'Art Cubiste, Theories et Realistions (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, L'Art Cubiste, Théories et Réalisations, Etude Critique...
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1920s Cubist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Kandinsky, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 155, 1965. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeu...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Picasso, Sans titre, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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1960s Cubist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Wrapped Reichstag, Contemporary Lithograph by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wrapped Reichstag Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Bulgarian (1935–2020) Offset Lithograph, signed in plate Image Size: 31.5 x 24.5 inches Size: 39 x 27.25 in. (99.06 x 69.22 cm) Frame Siz...
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1990s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Agnes Martin Recent Paintings Limited Edition 1977 PACE Gallery invite on vellum
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Martin Recent Paintings, 1977 Offset Lithograph invitation on Vellum 12 × 12 inches Edition of 2000 Unframed This early print is an exhibition invitation to the Pace Gallery's 1977 Agnes Martin show in New York. The image is a reproduction of a painting from the show, approved by Martin to be used on the invitation to the show. It is printed on a fragile, almost transparent vellum that captures the delicate power of the art. Less than 2000...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Offset, Lithograph

Jane Fonda Hollywood Legend Academy Awards Oscars 20th Century Litho Activist
Located in New York, NY
Jane Fonda Hollywood Legend Academy Awards Oscars 20th Century Litho Activist Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) Jane Fonda in "They Shoot Horses Don't They" Limited Edition etching, 1975 S...
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1970s Performance Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Modulor by Le Corbusier, 1962 - Original Lithograph Poster
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Le Corbusier Medium: Original Lithograph, 1956/62 Dimensions: 29 x 21.5 in, 73.7 x 54.6 cm Arches Paper with Mourlot watermark - Excellent condition A Le Corbusier’s relationship with Mourlot started as early as the mid thirties. The artist was always interested in editions of all sorts, whether furniture, tablewear or lithographic. It all related to a new modern way of life and intrinsic to his architecture. In fact, the famous Modulor is the iconic image in Le Corbusier’s work as it is the basis for his architectural work. As in many other cases, the Master’s philosophy was very democratic and he felt that while a few proofs should be signed, the others should be signed directly in the plate so that it could be affordable to as many people as possible. He wanted not only collectors, but regular home owners to have access to an artwork of quality but reasonably priced, just as he wanted them to afford his furniture designs. It was all about Modernity ushering a brave new world. This rare Le Corbusier lithograph...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Flower Dance, Impressionist Lithograph by Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Flower Dance, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 45, Image Size: 30 x 22, Size: 31 in. x 24 in. (78.74...
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1980s Impressionist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Tobey, Recherche, Mark Tobey, Peintres d'aujourd'hui (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 10.83 x 13.78 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Mark Tobey, Peintres d'aujourd'hui, ...
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1960s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Venus, Mars and Cupid
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Venus, Mars and Cupid Medium: Engraving with stencil color on Rives paper Year: 1971 Edition: 81/150 Sheet Size: 29 5/8" x 22" Image Size: 22 3/4" x 15" ...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Miró, Joan Miró Fotoscop (Cramer 209; Mourlot 938) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Guarro vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Published by Galerie Börjeson, Malmö; printed by La Polígrafa, Barcelona, 19...
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1970s Surrealist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Chair, Hat and Cow - Lithograph and Stencil, 1959
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand LÉGER Chair, Hat and Cow, 1959 Original lithograph and stencil Printed signature in the plate On vellum Auvergne 38,9 x 50 cm (c. 15,3 x 19,6 Inches) Published in 1959, under the control of the wife of the artist, Nadia Léger...
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1950s Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

1952 original poster Visit the Alps - French National Railway Company
Located in PARIS, FR
Antique tourist poster for the promotion of the French National Railway Company, SNCF. The poster is based on an original staging: the image suggests that the landscape is seen from the window of a train crossing the Alps...
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1950s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

"Femme en robe brune" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor). Printed in Paris in 1924 and published by Albert Morance for "L'Art d'Aujourd'hui", and now very scarce. The publisher's provenance inscriptio...
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1920s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

"Les affinites ambigues" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1963 for the art revue XXe Siecle and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (312 x 235 mm). Not signed.
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1960s Surrealist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1967 original exhibition poster by Pablo Picasso at the Galerie Lucie Weill
Located in PARIS, FR
In the world of art exhibitions, posters often serve as an iconic glimpse into the creative world of the artists involved. One such piece is the 1967 original exhibition poster desig...
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1960s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled 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

THE LAST PRIVATE PERSON - DER LETZIE PRIVATIER
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893-1980) THE LAST PRIVATE PERSON - DER LETZIE PRIVATIER Lithograph signed in pencil and with the artist's Clan Press Stamp l...
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1950s Surrealist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1898 lithographic poster by Fernel Les maîtres de l'affiches Bonne cafetière
Located in PARIS, FR
This charming and humorous 1898 lithographic poster by the artist known as Fernel is a fine example of Belle Époque advertising wit. Published as Plate 154 in the celebrated Les Maît...
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1890s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum (The Brooch. Eva Mudocci) Poster /// Edvard Munch Litho
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) Title: "Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum (The Brooch. Eva Mudocci)" Year: 1973 Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on heavy wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Unknown Publisher: Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark Sheet size: 35" x 21.5" Image size: 24.75" x 19" Condition: Some minor handling creases. Light toning at edges. In otherwise excellent condition Rare Notes: Printed in four colors: black, black, tan, and red-orange. Produced for a special posthumous exhibition of Munch's work at the Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark from August 16 - October 21, 1973. The image featured on this poster is Munch's 1903 lithograph edition "The Brooch. Eva Mudocci", (Woll No. 244, page 208-209). Edvard Munch would build a strong relationship with Eva Mudocci which lasted many years. They were connected through both romance and also friendship, with the two alternating in importance over time. There was a great mutual respect for each other, with Mudocci being a highly talented violinist from the UK who would regularly tour throughout Europe. They first got together in Paris...
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1970s Expressionist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Helios" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the lithograph). Printed in 1953 at the atelier of Daniel Jacomet and published in Paris by the Berggruen Gallery for a rare catalogue. Image size: 5 x 4 inche...
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1950s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Mobile, Abstract Lithograph after Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro, After, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - Mobile, Medium: Lithograph Poster, signed in the plate, Image Size: 14 x 10 inches, Size: 15 x 10.5 in. (38.1 x 26.67 cm), Frame Size: 2...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Léger, Composition, L'Art Cubiste, Théories et Réalisations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, L'Art Cubiste, Théories et Réalisations, Etude Critique...
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1920s Cubist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Socony, Abstract Expressionist Lithograph by Charles Christopher Hill
By Charles Christopher Hill
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Christopher Hill, American (1948 - ) Title: Socony Year: 1980 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 15/19 Size: 30.5 x 23 inches Frame Size: 33.2...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

'Victim of Misfortune and Folly' — Surrealist Fantasy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Zena Kavin, 'Victim of Misfortune and Folly, lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '17/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, wi...
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1930s American Modern Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

John Baldessari Sonnabend Gallery 1981 (announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
John Baldessari, Sonnabend Gallery New York 1981: Rare early 1980s John Baldessari exhibition announcement published on the occasion of: "Shape Derived from Subject (Snake): Used as ...
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1980s Surrealist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

"The Swimmer in the Tank" from Jazz
Located in Henderson, NV
This lithograph (after the 1947 pochoir) is from the 1983 edition, published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art. The original 1947 edition of Matisse "Jazz" is now so rare it is...
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1980s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Round-leaved Pellaea, antique fern botanical plant lithograph print, 1859
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique 19th century fern lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1859, after Walter Hood Fitch. 310mm by 250mm (sheet) Walter Hood Fitch was one of the...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Oeurves Recentes" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster). During the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, Henri Matisse created a series of posters at the atelier of Mourlot Frere...
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1950s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1922 Art Deco hand coloured lithograph with gouache of elegant lady
By Ernesto Micaelles (Thayaht)
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
After Ernesto MICHAHELLES, known as Thayaht Pendant les Modeles, 1922 A hand-coloured lithograph with gouache Signed, inscribed and dated in the plate 8.1/8 x 6 in. (20.7 x 15.3 cm.)
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20th Century Art Deco Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Gouache, Lithograph

Red Flowers with Painting, Folk Art Lithograph by Guy Charon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Red Flowers with Painting Guy Charon, French (1927) Date: circa 1977 Lithograph, signed in pencil Edition of 250, EA Image Size: 19.75 x 25.5 inches Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
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1970s Contemporary Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Untitled - Lithograph by Antoni Tapies - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
This original artwork by Antoni Tàpies is one of the 10 colored lithographs of the “Berlin Suite”. Tàpies realized this portfolio in 1974, each lithograph is on Arches wove paper. ...
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1970s Contemporary Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Musée des Arts Décoratifs (The Scream) Poster /// Expressionist Edvard Munch Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) Title: "Musée des Arts Décoratifs (The Scream)" Year: 1969 Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition ...
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1960s Expressionist Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"La feuille jaune" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the gouache). Published in Paris in 1928 by Teriade for Editions Cahiers d'Art in an edition of 800. This impression was printed on Velin de Torpes paper. Imag...
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1920s Lithograph Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

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.

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