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Medium: 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

Ripple
Located in Columbia, MO
Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Mulberry Paper, Woodcut

Répit, 1968 (Poèmes, #9)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Répit (Respite) is a woodcut on paper from Marc Chagall's Poèmes portfolio, published in 1968. The image size is 13 x 10 inches and the art is framed in an ornate, gold-tone frame. U...
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20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

Pura Vida, 1985, (A/P)
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Woodcut in colors on Japanese paper. Signed and titled by artist. 24.25" x 24.25" art 34.88" x 34.63" frame Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second ...
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1980s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Utagawa Kuniyoshi -- No. 38 Totomi 遠江
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Utagawa Kuniyoshi No. 38 Totomi 遠江, 1852 From Series: Sankai medetai zue 山海目出度図絵 (Celebrated Treasures of Mountains and Seas) Woodblock print Oban Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Woma...
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1850s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Utagawa Kuniyoshi -- No. 65 Kawachi sekkai 河内右灰 (Limestone from Kawach)
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Utagawa Kuniyoshi No. 65 Kawachi sekkai 河内右灰 (Limestone from Kawach), 1852 From Series: Sankai medetai zue 山海目出度図絵 (Celebrated Treasures of Mountains and Seas) Woodblock print Oban...
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1850s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Hell 22 - The Liars - Original Woodcut 1963 (Field p 189 à 200)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Hell 22 - The Liars Color woodcut with the signature printed in the plate 1960/63 Printed on paper Vélin BFK Rives Size 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) REF...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

ZAUBERKUNSTLER (ERRINERUNG AN PAUL KLEE)
Located in Portland, ME
Heckel, Erich (German 1883-1970). ZAUBERKUNSTLER (ERRINERUNG AN PAUL KLEE). Woodcut, 1956 Dube 416. Second state of two, signed, dated and titled in pencil. Edition size not known, M...
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1950s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Hölle IV (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
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1970s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Window by the Sea
Located in Austin, TX
By Rei Yuki Medium: Wood block print on paper Size: 27 x 21" Year: 1967 Framed
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1960s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Woodcut

Midnight Wolf: A Limited Edition Clarence Mills Signed Haida Inuit Print
Located in Alamo, CA
"Midnight Wolf" is a framed signed limited edition abstract inuit native people's work by Northwest Coast Haida artist Clarence Mills. The print depicts a st...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

IV by Kim Lim, 1991
Located in Kingsclere, GB
IV by Kim Lim, 1991 Additional information: Medium: woodcut on paper 36 x 32.5 cm 14 1/8 x 12 3/4 in signed and dated in pencil verso Kim Lim was born in Singapore and spent much of her early childhood in Penang and Malacca. After her schooling in Singapore, Lim knew that she wanted to become an artist, and at eighteen, she enrolled at St. Martin's in London, where she spent two years concentrating mainly on wood carving. She then transferred to the Slade, where taught by the etcher Anthony Gross and lithographer Stanley Jones, she developed a strong commitment to print making. On journeys back to Singapore she stopped off in Europe and India, soaking up the art 'like a sponge'. These were the experiences that confirmed in her a lifelong predilection for things archaic, and for the flow and rhythm of Indian and South East Asian sculpture: " I found that I always responded to things that were done in earlier civilizations that seemed to have less elaboration and more strength." In Greece she was entranced by Cycladic sculpture. Of Chinese art she was moved most by early Shang bronzes, Han sculpture, Sung pottery...
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20th Century Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Frau H.M. Naila signed original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Signed in pencil. Catalogue reference: Hofmaier 282 IV BB. Printed in Germany in 1923 for the very rare Kunst der Gegenwart portfolio, published in Munich by Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., with the Marées-Gesellschaft blindstamp in the margin. The printer was Fritz...
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1920s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Squall
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Yal...
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Late 20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Inferno, Canto 22 - The Liars
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Inferno, Canto 22 - The Liars Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publisher: Les Heures...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Kiki Smith 'Untitled,' 1995 Woodcut with color additions by hand 31 x 21 inches Edition 43 of 47 Signed In 1995 five well-known American artists - Donald Baechler, Julian Lethbridge...
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1990s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Mythology : Danae Sleeping - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Louis JOU (1881-1968) Mythology : Danae Sleeping, 1921 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /125 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of the edit...
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1920s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Ayase River and Kanegafuchi, Summer, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Located in Soquel, CA
The Ayase River and Kanegafuchi, Summer, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Summer on the Ayase River by Hiroshige (Ando) Utagawa (Japan, 1797 - 1858 ). Woodcut circa 1856. Ima...
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1850s Realist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Woodcut

HELL CANTO 23
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

Paris, Old Street in Latin Quarter - Original Wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean LEBEDEFF (1884-1972) Paris, Old Street in Latin Quarter, 1924 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /160 On vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (c. 12,7 x 9,5 in) Edited for the 'Ima...
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1920s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"Self Portrait" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Printed in 1920 for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition of 500. Catalogue refere...
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1910s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

V by Kim Lim, 1991 - Minimalist Tonal Print, Beige, White, Neutral
Located in Kingsclere, GB
V by Kim Lim, 1991 Additional information: Medium: woodcut on paper 36 x 32.5 cm 14 1/8 x 12 3/4 in signed and dated in pencil verso Kim Lim was born in Singapore and spent much of her early childhood in Penang and Malacca. After her schooling in Singapore, Lim knew that she wanted to become an artist, and at eighteen, she enrolled at St. Martin's in London, where she spent two years concentrating mainly on wood carving. She then transferred to the Slade, where taught by the etcher Anthony Gross and lithographer Stanley Jones, she developed a strong commitment to print making. On journeys back to Singapore she stopped off in Europe and India, soaking up the art 'like a sponge'. These were the experiences that confirmed in her a lifelong predilection for things archaic, and for the flow and rhythm of Indian and South East Asian sculpture: " I found that I always responded to things that were done in earlier civilizations that seemed to have less elaboration and more strength." In Greece she was entranced by Cycladic sculpture. Of Chinese art she was moved most by early Shang bronzes, Han sculpture, Sung pottery...
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20th Century Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Beauties on the Beach with view of Mount Fuji
Located in Burbank, CA
Shichirigahama, Sagami Province. A beauty in the foreground waves to her young companions, who run towards her on the beach. The beauty at left wears a western-style golden ring. We ...
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1890s Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Mulberry Paper, Woodcut

Le Purgatoire VII (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

"Covered Bridge Near Columbia" California - Woodblock Landscape on Tissue Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Covered Bridge Near Columbia" - Woodblock Landscape on Tissue Paper Bold woodblock print by Charles Surendorf (American, 1906-1979). A covered br...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Tissue Paper, Woodcut

The Purgatory, Canto 8 - The Guardian Angels of the Valley
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Purgatory, Canto 8 - The Guardian Angels of the Valley Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

lls sont de la familie
Located in OPOLE, PL
Karel Appel (1921-2006) - lls sont de la familie Woodcut print from 1978. Edition of 130. Dimensions of work: 76 x 56.5 cm Publisher: ABCD Éditeur. The work is in Excellent cond...
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1970s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Touching and Tasting
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1/5 BARBARA KUEBEL is a Daphne, AL-based artist who uses oil and pencil for her works on paper and on canvas. She was born and raised in Austria and earned two art degrees f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

"The Court Jesters, " Two Woodcuts by Andre Derain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Court Jesters" includes two original color woodcuts by Andre Derain. This is from an edition of 200. It features two vignettes of brightly-clad j...
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1940s Fauvist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"Femme nu" woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: woodcut (engraved by Jacques Beltrand after Cezanne). This impression on cream laid paper was printed in 1914 and published by Bruno Cassirer and Theodore Duret. Image size: ...
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1910s Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Umewaka Shrine in the Rain
By Kobayashi Kiyochika
Located in Burbank, CA
Umewaka Shrine, from an untitled series of prints depicting Tokyo. A woman braces her umbrella against the rain and a man waits out the storm next to his jinriksha in this view of th...
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1870s Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Mulberry Paper, Woodcut

Farm in the Woods
Located in New York, NY
Werner Drewes (1899-1983), Farm in the Woods, woodcut, 1933, signed and dated in pencil lower right (also numbered 1-xxx and titled lower left). Reference: Rose 83. In very good cond...
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1930s American Realist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

UNTITLED (WOMAN WEAVING)
By Jehuda Wallersteiner
Located in Portland, ME
Wallersteiner, Jehuda Isaraeli 1915-2004). UNTITLED (WOMAN WEAVING). Woodcut in colors, not dated. Edition of 85. 38 x 26 inches.Signed in pencil and numbered. Framed, .
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Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Color, Woodcut

"Pomme d' Amour" Mid-Century Modern Aquatint Floral Original by Anne Walker
By Anne Walker
Located in Soquel, CA
"Pomme d' Amour" Mid-Century Modern Aquatint embossed Floral "Sept Tomate Original by Anne Walker Mid-Century Modern Aquatint of the Pomme d’amour or ‘Love Apple’ by Anne Walker (Be...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Aquatint, Woodcut

Titre pour "Le Sourire"
Located in London, GB
Paul Gauguin Titre pour "Le Sourire" 1899 Woodcut Paper size 13.8 x 21.9 cms (5 1/2 x 8 5/8 ins) Image size 10.5 x 20.8 cms (4 1/8 x 8 1/8 ins) Kornfeld 61 Signed in lower left corn...
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1890s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Poèmes, Planche VIII
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Poèmes, Planche VIII Woodcut print from 1968. An unnumbered and unsigned copy from a limited edition of 238. Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm Dimensio...
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1970s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Purgatory, Canto 16 - In the Cloud of Angry Ones
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Purgatory, Canto 16 - In the Cloud of Angry Ones Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Pu...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Morning - Italian Art Original Hand Signed and Inscribed Woodcut Nude Woman
Located in London, GB
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE b. 1952 Naples 1952 (Italian) Title: Morning, 1981/82 Technique: Original Hand Signed, Dated, Titled and Inscribed Woodcut in Colours on Japan Paper Paper size...
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1980s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

NAILS
Located in Portland, ME
Frasconi, Antonio. NAILS. Baltimore 505. Woodcut, 1964. Edition of 15. Numbered "10/15," titled and signed in pencil within the image. 18 x 23 3/4 inches (image printed on the full ...
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1960s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Turning to one point/ colour olive green
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/5 BARBARA KUEBEL is a Daphne, AL-based artist who uses oil and pencil for her works on paper and on canvas. She was born and raised in Austria and earned two art degrees f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

Green Column/Figure
Located in New York, NY
Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, Mangold developed a reductive vocabulary based on geometric forms, monochromatic color, and an emphasis on the flatness of t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Woodcut

Le Vieux Manuscrits, Coree-Seoul
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fascinating artwork titled Le Vieux manusrits (old writings Seoul Korea) by Paul Jacoulet. (French-Japanese 1896-1960) finely crafted with lovely graduating background color blue to light green. Depicts a figure seated on a pink pillow wearing a Korean hat...
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20th Century Realist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Purgatorio, Canto VI (Field 189-200; M/L. 1039-1138), La Divina Commedia
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

EARLY MORNING (BROAD BROOK, CONN.)
Located in Portland, ME
Cheffetz, Asa EARLY MORNING (BROAD BROOK, CONN.) Wood Engraving,1929. Springfield 15. Edition of 100, numbered 32/100, titled, signed, and inscribed "imp" all in pencil. 6 x 6 inches...
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1920s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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ABS, Woodcut

Purgatorio, Canto XXIV (Field 189-200; M/L. 1039-1138), La Divina Commedia
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

'Masken (Masks)' — German Expressionism, Bauhaus
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Masken (Masks)' also 'Carnival Masks', woodcut, 1920, proofs only. Prasse W193. Signed and titled in pencil. Annotated '1973', the artist’s inventory number. A fin...
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1920s Bauhaus Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Fishing Boats in Cap Muroto
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Titled "Fishing Boats in Cap Muroto" c.1950, is an original woodcut on paper by Japanese artist Gihachiro Okuyama, 1907-1981. It is hand signed and inscribed in Japanese...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"Nightrise" Public Works Art Color Woodcut
By Ruth Chaney
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold woodblock serigraph by Ruth Chaney (American, 1908-1973). Numbered (#17), titled, signed, and dated along the bottom edge. The Smithsonian American Art Museum has an edition of...
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1930s American Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Ink, Woodcut

Lassitude
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur, Lassitude, 1912, woodcut, signed and numbered (24/35) in pencil. Reference: Sylvain Laboureur 682, third state (of 3). From the edition of about 35, published b...
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1910s Cubist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Paradise, Canto 30 - To the Empyrean
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Paradise, Canto 30 - To the Empyrean Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publisher: Les...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"Angelika's Pets, " Wood Engraving by Robert Franz Von Neumann
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Angelika's Pets" is an original wood engraving by Robert Franz Von Neumann. It features a young woman sitting at a desk, working on a wood engraving. Two large cats sit near her and look out a window nearby. Image: 6" x 5" Framed: 13.43" x 12.43" 1888 - 1976 Born in Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany, Robert von Neumann...
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1930s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

LANDSCAPE WITH SHEEP
Located in Portland, ME
Nason, Thomas. LANDSCAPE WITH SHEEP. BPL 178. Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks, 1935. Edition of 75, numbered "49/75," signed in pencil, and titled in pencil at the bott...
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1930s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"The End, " Original Woodcut & Silkscreen signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The End" is an original color woodcut by Carol Summers. The artist signed the piece in the center right. This woodcut depicts a marble fluted column with the title in large letters ...
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1960s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Woodcut

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, Mangold developed a reductive vocabulary based on geometric forms, monochromatic color, and an emphasis on the flatness of t...
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1990s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

At the Circus - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Robert BONFILS At the Circus, 1927 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 editor 'Imagier de la Gr...
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1920s Art Deco Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"Männlicher Kopf" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Printed in Germany in 1917 for Die Aktion; this impression is from the deluxe edition of 100 on Bütten laid paper. Catalogue reference: Schapire 202. Image ...
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1910s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"Nipples and Peas" The Perfect Meal "Soup Etching on Paper by Tina Heck
Located in Soquel, CA
The artwork "Nipples & Peas" by Tina Heck, created in 1983, is a print that combines elements of realism and abstraction. The technique appears to be a combination of printmaking, ...
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1980s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Intaglio, Woodcut

Jim Dine "The First Woodcut Gate (The Landscape)"
Located in Hinsdale, IL
Jim Dine The First Woodcut Gate (The Landscape) Hand Embellished Woodcut, 1983 Size : 35.75” x 44.75” inches Edition number 27 of 49 with 7 APs Signed and dated in pencil Printed ...
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1980s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Paradiso, Canto XVII (Field 189-200; M/L. 1039-1138), La Divina Commedia
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

"Sierra Madre, " Original Color Woodblock Nude signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sierra Madre" is a color woodblock signed by Carol Summers. As suggested by the title, the print teeters the line between Summers' fanciful landscapes an...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist 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.”

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