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Medium: Woodcut
The White Villa - Original Woodcut Print
Located in Paris, IDF
François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941) The White Villa, 1938 Original Woodcut Print Signed with the stamp of the artist On Japan paper 35 x 24 cm (c. 13.8 x 9.5 inch) Excellent condition
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1930s Art Nouveau Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Stehendes nacktes Mädchen im Profil (Standing Naked Girl in Profile) /// Woodcut
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976) Title: "Stehendes nacktes Mädchen im Profil (Standing Naked Girl in Profile)" Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman) *Issued unsigned Year: 1918 Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany Reference: Schapire No. 220, page 45; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118 Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38" Image size: 6.5" x 3.57" Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). In very good condition Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany. Biography: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died...
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1910s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Woodcut

Arp, Figurationen—Drei Elemente (Arntz 348), XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°19, 1962. Published and printed under the direction of Gualtieri di ...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

WARM DAY
Located in Portland, ME
Nagai, Kiyoshi (Japanese, 1911-1984). WARM DAY. Color woodblock, 1971. Edition of 252. Signed, datted, and numbered 156 - 252, all in pencil. 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches, framed to 20 1/2...
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1970s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

EARLY JACOULET - A DOWNPOUR AT METALANIM PONOPE EAST CAROLINAS
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EARLY JACOULET PAUL JACOULET (1896 – 1960) UNE AVERSEA METALANIM, PONAPE , EST CAROLINES, 1935 A DOWNPOUR AT METALANIM PONOPE EAT CAROLINAS (Miles 29) Color woodcut, with metallic ...
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1930s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Color, Woodcut

Plucking a Branch from a Neighbor's Plum Tree
Located in Middletown, NY
A mischevious tableau with sexual undertones. Tokyo: Shuei-Sha, 1768. Woodblock print in colors printed on laid mulberry paper, 10 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches (273 x 200 mm), full margins. ...
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Mid-18th Century Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut

Arp, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°4, January 1954. Published and printed under the directi...
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1950s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

No Footprints Show, Where the Flowers Grow Deep
Located in Fairlawn, OH
No Footprints Show, Where the Flowers Grow Deep Woodcut, 1961 Unsigned (as isssued) From: The "Way" of the Woodcut, three woodcuts, 1961 Publisher: Pratt Adlib Press, Brooklyn, New Y...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Beauty of Beatrice - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Beauty of Beatrice is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Hell 34 : The Appearance of Pluto - Original woodcut - 1963 (Field p 189 à 200)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Hell 34 - The Appearance of Pluto From the Divine Comedy (Dante) Original woodcut Signature printed in the plate 1960/63 Printed on paper Vélin BFK Rives S...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Kabuki - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada II - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Kabuki is an original artwork realized in 1864 by Utagawa Kunisada II (1823 1880). Scene at night in a snowy forest, the actor Ichikawa Kodanji in the ro...
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1850s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Nihonbashi Bridge - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Yoshitora - 1875
Located in Roma, IT
Scene on the Nihonbashi Bridge is an artwork realized in 1875 by Utagawa Yoshitora. Woodcut print triptych. Signed: Mosai ga. Publisher: Sawamuraya...
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1870s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Poèmes, Planche XXI
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Poèmes, Planche XXI Collage, woodcut print from 1968. Trial proof - unique work. Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm ...
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1970s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Nakamura Nanji II - Woodcut Print Triptych by Utagawa Hirosada - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Nakamura Nanji II as Otsuyu is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hirosada (Japanese, active 1825–75) in 1851. Original Woodcut Chuban Tryptich, 1851. Nakamura Nanji II...
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1850s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Kabuki Actor with Pine-Patterned Robe - Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Kabuki Actor with Pine-Patterned Robe - Japanese Woodblock Print Finely detailed woodblock by Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769-1825). A kabuki actor is standing on a wooden deck, wearing a robe with a pine-needle pattern. He is holding a sword and a staff. In the background, tree branches hang down from out of frame. Presented in a gold colored frame with a silk mat. Frame size: 20"H x 14.25"W Image size: 14"H x 8.5"W Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769-1825) was born in Edo, the son of Kurahashi Gorobei, a carver of dolls and puppets...
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Early 19th Century Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut

1945 Brazilian Master, Art Deco Serigraph Woodcut Colonial Architecture Mission
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Brazilian Art Deco, African Diaspora Bahian Carnival Subject: Abstract Medium: Print Surface: Paper Country: Brazil Dimensions of overall paper are listed. This is from a series of work he did in the 1940's, we sold one called Ritmo Negro, they are about Afro-Brazilian jazz, dance and music. Odetto Guersoni was born in the city of Jaboticabal, State of São Paulo, in 1924. From 1936 to 1941 he attended the Liceu de Artes de Ofícios in São Paulo, beginning his artistic career in 1945, when he exhibited paintings in the Hall of the Plastic Artists Union . Two years later he was part of the collective group of 19, alongside Aldemir, Charoux, Otavio Araújo, Grassmann, Maria Leontina and several other artists that time would make famous. He then practiced a figurative painting of accentuated Expressionist lauds, characterized by deformation and coloring, raw and Satirical- as, moreover, so many of his fellow exhibitors at the time. As a French government scholar, Odette Guerzoni went to Paris in 1947 and the following year took part in the Peintres et Graveurs Etrangers and Art Libre exhibitions. Student of engraving by Renê Cottet, gradually transformed this expressive medium into his favorite, to the detriment of painting, which he practically abandoned soon after. In 1947, he participated in the 19 Painters exhibition at the Prestes Maia Gallery together with Lothar Charoux, Maria Leontina,Grassmann, Aldemir Martins, Luiz Sacilotto and hiró. Guersoni was awarded a scholarship by the French government, and traveled to Paris, where he began work in engraving. Back in Brazil, in 1951, he founded the Art Workshop, in São Paulo. In 1954, he returned to Europe for a year, financed by the International Labor Organization (ILO). In Geneva, he studied engraving with René Cottet (1902 - 1992) and worked in Stanley william Hayter's studio, Atelier 17, in Paris (1901 - 1988). From 1956 to 1957, he became director of the Union of Plastic Artists of São Paulo. From 1960, he attended, as a trainee, some art schools in the United States and Japan such as The New York School of Printing and Osaka University. In 1971, also in Japan, he attended the workshop of I. Jokuriti. Two years later, he was voted Best Recorder of the Year by the Paulista Association of Art Critics - APCA. He took part in a special room at the Ibero-American Biennial in Montevideo in 1983. The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo - Pesp presents a retrospective of his work in 1994. Odetto Guersoni explores the wide spectrum of possibilities of the engraving. In addition to using techniques such as metal etching, lithograph, serigraph, linocut and, especially, woodcut he developed, in the 1950s, the philigraphy, in which the forms he developed gained points of embroidery made by Bonadei (1906 - 1974) . And, in the 1960s, the plastigraphy, in which he makes engravings on pasty surfaces, obtained from gypsum or other soft material. In the 1970s, technical investigations were associated with pictographic, ideographic, archaic symbol searches, Brazilian cave paintings and plant forms. The drawings are reduced to stylized, geometric shapes and transformed into abstract graphic elements. The artist works with few matrices, which, organized in rectangles, squares or circles, become modules to be combined. Guersoni juxtaposes them, adds, changes colors, and thereby composes colorful mandalas and structural geometries. Based on concise compositions, it produces color vibrations through optical illusions. In many of his woodcut works of the 1980s he uses smooth wood, knives, saws, gouges, punches, avoiding the natural textures of wood. In printing, it leaves the vibrant color and employs dosed inks with colorless masses, obtaining transparencies by superpositions. New journeys of study and specialization in engraving techniques took him in 1954 to Switzerland, 1960 to the United States, and in 1966 to Germany and Austria. Today, after having performed more than 40 individuals including 16 abroad and having participated in more than 50 collectives in several countries, Guersoni is considered one of the most notable Brazilian engravers. Conquered awards in several shows. CHRONOLOGY Individual exhibitions 1946 - Sao Paulo SP - 10th Salon of the Artists' Union, at the Prestes Maia Gallery 1947 - São Paulo SP - 19 Painters, at the Prestes Maia Gallery 1948 - Paris France - Peintres et Graveurs Etrangers at the École des Beaux-Arts 1949 - São Paulo SP - 13th Salon of the Artists' Union, at the Prestes Maia Gallery 1951 - São Paulo SP - 1st Paulista Salon of Modern Art, at Prestes Maia Gallery - silver medal 1953 - São Paulo SP - 2nd International Biennial of São Paulo, at MAM / SP 1954 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Paulista Salon of Modern Art, in the Prestes Maia Gallery 1955 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4th National Salon of Modern Art 1955 - Salvador BA - 5th Baiano Salon of Fine Arts, in Belvedere da Sé - honorable mention 1962 - São Paulo SP - Leirner Prize for Contemporary Art at the Folha Art Gallery - 1st printing award 1963 - Curitiba PR - 20th Salão Paranaense de Belas Artes, at the Public Library of Paraná 1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, no MAM / RJ 1968 - Bradford England - First International Print Biennale 1970 - São Paulo SP - Antonio Henrique Amaral, Odetto Guersoni, Tomie Ohtake, Pedro Tort and Gerda Brentani, in the Alberto Bonfiglioli Gallery 1971 - São Paulo SP - 11th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Biennial Foundation - acquisition award 1973 - Punta del Este Uruguay - 1st Engraving Meeting of the Prata Basin Countries - International Prize 1977 - São Paulo SP - The Groups: the 40's, at the Lasar Segall Museum 1982 - São Paulo SP - Ismenia Coaracy, Odetto Guersoni and Alice Brill...
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1940s Art Deco Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Andalusian Quail - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Andalusian Quail is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by Lo...
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1870s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Le Purgatoire XV (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Giant - Woodcut by Peter Blake - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Giant is a contemporary artwork realied by Peter Blake in 1978 Woodcut on Japan paper, drystamped Waddington Graphics, London. Plate dimensions: 15,5 x 13 cm Mounted in a passepar...
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1970s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Portrait of Stefan George - Woodcut by Reinhold Lepsius- Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
"Portrait of Stefan George" is an original woodcut on brown-colored paper, realized by Reinhold Lepsius (1857-1922). The state of preservation of the ar...
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Early 20th Century Symbolist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Landscape from Fugaku Hyakkei- Woodcut Print by Katsushika Hokusai-1878
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape from "Fugaku hyakkei" is an original modern artwork realized by Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849). Original Woodcut print from the series "Fugaku Hyakkei" (100 views of Mount Fuji). From the second posthumous edition 1878. Passepartout is included. Publisher Eiraku Toshiro. Sheet dimensions: 24 x 26 cm. Good conditions. Signs of age and wear. Hokusai created the monumental Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji both as a response to a domestic travel boom in Japan and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji. Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849) known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Hokusai is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Joyce T. Nagel Woodcut "Vegetable Forms No. 1" Signed Dated Ltd Ed
Located in Detroit, MI
"Vegetable Forms No. 1" is a bright fresh woodcut print of a mirrored halved cabbage. Nature's intricate design is fully appreciated and apparent in the captured tight crinkled and folded leaves. #7/7 Signed and Dated Joyce Tilley Nagel...
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1970s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Dogs 2 - Contemporary Woodcut Print, Figurative, Black & white, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
ZDZISŁAW WIATR (born 1960) He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, at the Faculty of Graphic Arts in Katowice, where in 1986 he received a diploma with the honourable m...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut, Paper

Rancho Woodcut Heart, 1982
Located in Palo Alto, CA
One of Jim Dine’s most iconic motifs, the romantic Rancho Woodcut Heart work illustrates the story of hope and love through a symbolic image of a large red heart. With the contrast o...
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1980s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches of Salvation): The 30th Figure - Astrological Diagram with Scene of the Nativity Woodcut, 1491 Unsigned, as issued Published by Anton Koberger Diagram has Zodiac signs on outer ring, planets in the lower registers, and Nativity in the center. Condition: Very good for a 15h century woodcut, with the usual slight age stains Sheet size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Wogelmut was the teacher of Albrecht Durer and employed young Durer in many project of the last decade of the 15th century. Michel Wolgemut Biography Wolgemut trained with his father Valentin Wolgemut (who died in 1469 or 1470) and is thought to have been an assistant to Hans Pleydenwurff in Nuremberg. He worked with Gabriel Malesskircher in Munich early in 1471, leaving the city after unsuccessfully suing Malesskircher's daughter for breach of contract, claiming she had broken off their engagement. He then returned to his late father's workshop in Nuremberg, which his mother had maintained since Valentin's death. In 1472 he married Pleydenwurff's widow and took over his workshop;[3] her son Wilhelm Pleydenwurff worked as an assistant, and from 1491 a partner, to Wolgemut. Some consider Wilhelm a finer artist than Wolgemut, however he died in January 1494, when he was probably still in his thirties. Wilhelm's oeuvre remains unclear, though works in various media have been attributed to him. Woodcuts Michael Wolgemut, Danse Macabre, 1493 Two large and copiously illustrated books have woodcuts supplied by Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff; both were printed and published by Germany's largest publisher, the Nuremberger Anton Koberger, who was also Dürer's godfather. The first is the Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichthumer des Heils (1491); the other is the Historia mundi, by Schedel (1493), usually known as the Nuremberg Chronicle...
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15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

View of Venice I - San Giorgio
Located in New York, NY
Antonio Frasconi created the color woodcut entitled "View of Venice I – San Giorgio" in 1968. It is signed, titled, dated, and inscribed “17/20” in pencil. The paper size is 24 x 36 ...
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1960s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Motif, Orange Blue, African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in orange and blue abstract. From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination. Viola Burley Leak, American (1944 - ) Viola Leak was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she received a B.A. in Art from Fisk University, a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an M.A. from Hunter College, NY and an M.F.A. in Media from Howard University, Washington, DC. Leak was an art consultant for both the New York State Board of Education and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print Department, in addition to working for the Experimental Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute. Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile designing, soft sculpture, appliqué tapestries, doll making, and multi-media. Viola has studied with many renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, and Charles White. Her works can be found in the collections of World Federation of United Nations, New York State Office Building, Manufacturers of Hanover Trust Company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company and many more organizations. Viola's exhibition experience is extensive - more than 100 showings over a decade, national and international. Her quilts exude a miraculous and magical presence. They have traveled in two international shows and three national quilt projects in the past three years. A proud moment for her was being featured in the December 20, 2000 of the Smithsonian magazine; the article praised her mural "Afro Dance Scan" as one of the outstanding artworks in the "When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance...
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1980s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Woodcut

Dante in Doubt - Woodcut Print After Salvador Dalì - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Dante in Doubt, from the Series "The Divine Comedy", is a woodcut print by Salvador Dalì, realized in 1963. Good conditions. Not signed. Plate n.7 (as reported on the back of the a...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Kawazaki Gonjuro - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Hirosada - 1865
Located in Roma, IT
Kawazaki Gonjuro is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hirosada (Japanese, active 1825–75) in 1865. Woodcut print oban format, from a multi-sheet. Signature Toyokuni ga....
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1860s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Wild Red and White flowers - Original woodcut on Arches Vellum
Located in Paris, IDF
Maurice de VLAMINCK Wild Red and White flowers Woodcut and embossing (Atelier Raymond Jacquet) Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 15 x 11" (38 x 28 cm) INFORMATION : W...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Sailing by Moonlight
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pencil signed and numbered from the edition of 102. This traditional color woodcut of a sailing boat on a brightly lit moonlight night off the California coast shows Schwaberow great...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Bird - Woodcut print - early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The bird is a woodcut print realized by an unknown artist in the early 20th Century. Very Good conditions. the artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Motif, Gold Abstract African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in orange, blue and gold abstract. From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination. Viola Burley Leak, American (1944 - ) Viola Leak was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she received a B.A. in Art from Fisk University, a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an M.A. from Hunter College, NY and an M.F.A. in Media from Howard University, Washington, DC. Leak was an art consultant for both the New York State Board of Education and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print Department, in addition to working for the Experimental Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute. Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile designing, soft sculpture, appliqué tapestries, doll making, and multi-media. Viola has studied with many renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, and Charles White. Her works can be found in the collections of World Federation of United Nations, New York State Office Building, Manufacturers of Hanover Trust Company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company and many more organizations. Viola's exhibition experience is extensive - more than 100 showings over a decade, national and international. Her quilts exude a miraculous and magical presence. They have traveled in two international shows and three national quilt projects in the past three years. A proud moment for her was being featured in the December 20, 2000 of the Smithsonian magazine; the article praised her mural "Afro Dance Scan" as one of the outstanding artworks in the "When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance...
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1980s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Woodcut

Shunga: Twelve Signs of the Zodiac - Goat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Shunga: Twelve Signs of the Zodiac - Goat Color woodcut with gauffrage (embossing) Unsigned (as usual) Format: Shikishiban Publisher: Privately produced Unusually well preserved with the fugitive blue still intact Image size: 5-1/8 x 5-3/4" Sheet size: 5 3/8 x 6 1/4" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In this Japanese name, the surname is Isoda. Isoda Koryūsai (礒田 湖龍斎, 1735–1790) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer and painter active from 1769 to 1790. Life and career Koryūsai was born in 1735 and worked as a samurai in the service of the Tsuchiya clan. He became a masterless rōnin after the death of the head of the clan and moved to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he settled near Ryōgoku Bridge in the Yagenbori area. He became a print designer there under the art name Haruhiro in 1769, at first making samurai-themed designs. The ukiyo-e print master Harunobu died in 1770, and about that time Koryūsai began making prints in a similar style of life in the pleasure districts. Koryūsai was a prolific designer of individual prints and print series,[1] most of which appeared between 1769 and 1881. In 1782, Koryūsai applied for and received the Buddhist honour hokkyō ("Bridge of the Law") from the imperial court and thereafter used the title as part of his signature. His output slowed from this time, though he continued to design prints until his death in 1790. Works Koryūsai created a total of 2,500 known designs, or an average of four a week. According to art historian Allen Hockley, "Koryūsai may ... have been the most productive artist of the eighteenth century". The series Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsumoyō, 1776–1781) ran for 140 prints, the longest known ukiyo-e print series of beauties. He designed at least 350 hashira-e pillar prints, numerous kachō-e bird-and-flower prints, a great number of shunga erotic prints, and others. Ninety of his nikuhitsu-ga paintings are known, making him one of the most productive painters of the period. Legacy Despite Koryūsai's productivity and popularity—both in his time and amongst later collectors—his work has attracted little scholarship. The first ukiyo-e histories written in the West in the 19th century elevated certain artists as exemplars; Koryūsai's work came to be seen as too indebted to Harunobu, who died in 1770, and inferior to that of Kiyonaga, whose peak period came in the 1880s. An example is Woldemar von Seidlitz's Geschichte des japanischen Farbenholzschnittes ("History of Japanese colour prints", 1897), the most popular of the early ukiyo-e histories, which paints Koryūsai as a successor to Harunobu and a rival of Kiyonaga in the 1770s who slipped into mediocrity and imitation of his rival by the end of the decade.[5] Interest lay mainly in the details of Koryūsai's life—a samurai who received court honours was unusual in the proletarian world of ukiyo-e. In 2021, contemporary woodblock printmaker David Bull...
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1770s Other Art Style Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Kabuki Scene - Woodblock Print by Utagawa Kunisada - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Kabuki Scene is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19 century by Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print. This wonderful modern artwork repr...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Untitled II 2020 Signed Original Woodcut Screenprint 29x43in Cuban Woman Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Zaida del Rio (Cuba, 1954) 'Untitled II', 2020 Woodcut and screenprint on paper Intaglio 300 g. 29.2 x 42.8 in. (74 x 108.5 cm.) Edition of 40 ID: DER-10...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Jacob Pins "Lonely Walker" 1960 Woodcut
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jacob Pins: 1917-2005. Was a German born Israeli woodcut artist and art collector. He has had auction results over $3000 for a print. This powerful scarce example...
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1960s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Last Tango - Woodcut Print by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Last Tango is an Artwork realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Colored woodcut on paper. Hand-signed on the lower, numbered 4/...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Two Crown from The Series "The Divine Comedy" - Woodcut Print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Two Crowns from the Series "The Divine Comedy" - Purgatory plate 26 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dan...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Metamorphosis of Zan Biell, Woodcut Print on Rice Paper by Keisuke Serizawa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Keisuke Serizawa, Japanese (1895-1984) Title: Metamorphosis of Zan Biell Year: circa 1970 Medium: Woodcut on Rice Paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP Size: 29 x...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Rice Paper, Woodcut

Still Life with a Pipe and a Pichet - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Demetrios Galanis Still Life with a Pipe and a Pichet, 1926 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /160 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of the...
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1920s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Bloody Bucket (portfolio of 10 prints)
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Each print is an individual edition out of 25 respectively: Beef Brain Buffet 16/25 Ultimate Cock Fighting 24/25 Anatomy of a Crack Shack 10/25 A Dollar Dance 23/25 The Jolly Guano ...
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Early 2000s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"Daikoku, Dieu de la Richesse" Japanese Style Woodblock Print
Located in Austin, TX
A woodblock print of a Japanese geisha in elegant clothing against a yellow decorative background. By Paul Jacoulet 15.5" x 12" Woodblock print on paper Framed Size: 22.5" x 18.5" ...
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Mid-20th Century Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

Yamabayashi Fusahachi - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
Yamabayashi Fusahachi is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada in 1861. Woodcut print Oban from a multi-heet, 1861 Actor in the role of Yamabayashi Fusahachi sta...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Dierdre, Woodcut Print on Rice Paper by Leonard Baskin
Located in Long Island City, NY
This woodcut print was created by American artist Leonard Baskin. Baskin is well known for his somewhat grotesque, intricate, surreal drawings and natural subject matter. This print ...
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1950s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Rice Paper, Woodcut

Seibutsu (Still Life) A Vase and Apples
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seibutsu (Still Life) A Vase and Apples Color woodcut, 1925 Signed on the mount (support sheet) From: Dojin zasshi, Hanga Magazine, Volume 8, No. 8 Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet ...
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1920s Showa Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

'Bowling Angel', Post Impressionist, Portland Museum, Albright-Knox Gallery
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'May' for Dan May (American, 1952-2019) with number and limitation, '1/50'. Titled, lower center, 'Bowling Angel' and dated, lower right, '2003'. Sheet dimensions:...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

Bando Mitsugoro as a Servant with a Sword
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bando Mitsugoro as a Servant with a Sword Color woodcut, 1952 From The Series Shunsen Nigao-E Shu (Shunsen Portraits), Six Woodblock Prints Publisher: Watanabe Excellent condition Im...
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1950s Other Art Style Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

HEAVEN CANTO 22
Located in Aventura, FL
Woodblock engraving on paper from the Divine Comedy series. Sheet size 13 x 10 inches. Frame size approx 18 x 15 inches. Edition 4,765 in French, 3,000 in Italian, 300 in German. ...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

Charles Pont, Splicing
Located in New York, NY
An old sailor is shown at work on a what must be a huge sailing vessel. He's splicing, or joining ropes together -- probably still a useful skill in the mi...
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1930s Ashcan School Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

A was an Artist - Wood Engraving by William Nicholson - 1898
Located in Roma, IT
A was an Artist is a Wood engraving, realized by the Artist William Nicholson in 1898 Titled " A was an Artist - Portrait de William Nicholson " below, in the center of the image. O...
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1890s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Capricorn - Original Woodcut by P. C. Antinori - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Zodiac Signs - Capricorn is original Black and white xilography artwork, realized by Italian artist Piero C. Antinori. Excellent condition. Written on the lower left; Original xilo...
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20th Century Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Rônin in the Night, Armed with a Club - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This magnificent woodcut print signed Toyokuni III represents a Ronin in the night, armed with a club, and was realized by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) in the mid 19th Century. The ...
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19th Century Old Masters Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Bull - Woodcut by Jean Lurçat - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Bull is a vintage woodcut print realized by Jean Lucrat in 1948. Good condition on a cream colored paper. No signature, on the back the title in fren...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Angel of Mercy - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Angel of Mercy - from the Series "The Divine Comedy" is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. No...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Ex-Libris - Winterink - Woodcut by Nico Bulder - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex-Libris - Winterink is an Artwork realized in 1940s, by the Artist Nico Bulder. Woodcut print on ivory paper. Signed on plate on the lower margin. The work is glued on colored ca...
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1940s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Kabuki Scene - Woodblock Print by Utagawa Kunisada - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Kabuki Scene is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19th century after Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861). Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print. This wonderful mo...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Kabuki Scene- Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Kabuki Scene is an original artwork realized in the mid 19th century by the Japanese master Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). Color woodcut print. The artwork is a rare triptych (each ...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Find Original Woodcut Prints for Your Home

Original woodcut prints and other types of fine art prints can help enhance any room in your home while supporting your effort to tie an interior design together.

Woodcut is a type of relief print that is made by carving a block of wood with a knife or gouge. The surface is then inked with a roller and pressed onto paper. Unlike with intaglio techniques, the section of the surface that has not been incised is what appears in the print. 

Woodcut printmaking is one of the oldest printing techniques, first used in 9th-century China, mastered by Albrecht Dürer during the Northern Renaissance and famously associated with the ukiyo-e artists of 17th- and 18th-century Japan. (For concision, power and delight, it’s hard to beat a Japanese woodblock print, the product of an artistic tradition that is aging very well indeed.)  

Elsewhere, German Expressionists like Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner embraced the medium for its bold, graphic power in the 1920s, and artists continue to use it today.

OK, so what is the difference between a woodcut print and an intaglio print?

“[Intaglio] is the opposite of relief printing — woodcut, linoleum cut, letterpress, and rubber or metal stamping,” says Rhea Fontaine of Paulson Fontaine Press. “With relief printing, the raised areas of the printing surface are inked and printed, while the areas that have been cut away do not pick up the ink. Often these prints are made by hand.”

Find original woodcut prints by Katsushika Hokusai, Suzuki Harunobu, M.C. Escher, Mino Maccari and many other artists on 1stDibs.

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