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Style: Modern
Medium: 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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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

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

Those Were The Days ! - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Those Were The Days! (Che tempi!) is an Artwork realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Colored woodcut on paper. Hand-sign...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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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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Yugiri - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Yugiri is an original artwork realized in the 1850s by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). Chapter 39 of the story Genji Monogatari. Color woodcut around 1851. Signed: Ichiyossai Toyokun...
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1850s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Old Samurai - Woodcut Print after Utagawa Kunisada - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old Samurai is a Woodcut print realized in late 19 century after Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print, included a cardboard passpartout (46x32 cm...
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Late 19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Cat - Original Woodcut by Giselle Halff - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Black Cat is an Original Woodcut Print realized in the Mid-20th Century by Giselle Halff (1899-1971). Good condition, monogrammed on the lower right corner. Giselle Halff (1899-197...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Figure - Original Woodcut Print by Amadore Porcella - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original woodcut print realized by Amadore Porcella. The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Passepartout dimension: ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Rooster - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Rooster" is an original woodcut realized by Mino Maccari (1898-1989). In good conditions. This artwork represents a rooster while singing with the village's house in its backgroun...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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The Metro Station in Paris - Original Woodcut by S. Birga - 1994
Located in Roma, IT
The Metro Station in Paris is an original contemporary artwork realized by Sergio Birga (Florence, 1940) in 1994. Original B/W xylograph on ivory paper. Pa...
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1990s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Leonard Baskin Woodblock Broadside Print Woodcut Vintage Poster in Red and Black
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an original gallery show poster the Boris Mirsky Gallery, Newbury St. Boston. titled Sculpture Prints Drawings. It is dated 1962. it is in red and black. Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin. In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Ex-Libris - Johnny Køhler - Woodcut by Herbert Ott - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Ex-Libris - Johnny Køhler is an Artwork realized in 1959, by the Artist Herbert Ott, from Germany. Woodcut on paper. Hand Signed and dated on the right...
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1930s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Mexican - Original Woodcut print - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Mexican is an original woodcut print realized by an unknown artist of early 20th century. Very good condition on a brown cardboard. No Signature.
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Butterfly - Woodcut by Jean Lurçat - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Butterfly 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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Ex Libris with Landscape - Original Woodcut - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris with Landscape is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in 1984 in Russia. Original B/W woodcut on ivory-colored paper. Signed and dated on plate on the lower right co...
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1980s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Leo Meissner, Let's Dance, Shall We?
By Leo Meissner
Located in New York, NY
Detroit-born Leo Meissner lived in New York and was respected as a painter, draftsman, and illustrator, but is most known for his wood engravings. His ski...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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"Nara" Japanese Townscape
Located in Houston, TX
Landscape print of small Japanese city, Nara (A). Signature and seal lower right. Mat board covers the margins which may have date, title and edition. Non-glare glass makes inspection and photography difficult. Visible Area: H 15 in. x W 20.5 in. Artist Biography: Kiyoshi Saito was born in Fukushima prefecture in 1907. At the age of five he moved to Otaru in Hokkaido, where he would come to serve as an apprentice to a sign painter. Saito became infatuated with art after studying drawing with Gyokusen Narita and moved to Tokyo in 1932 to study Western-style painting at the Hongo Painting Institute. He began experimenting with woodblock prints and exhibiting his works with Nihon Hanga Kyokai in 1936. Saito mainly worked in oil painting until his invitation from Tadashige Ono...
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20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Rooster - Woodcut by Jean Lurçat - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Rooster 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 french language. Jean Lurçat (French: 1 July 1892 – 6 January 1966) was a French artist noted for his role in the revival of contemporary tapestry. In order to fully appreciate and understand the works of Jean Lurçat, one must view them in the context of the history of tapestry, in particular, the downfall of its existence during the rise of the Renaissance. It was during this time that tapestry was somewhat re-invented, where by traditional techniques were misplaced in the likening of tapestry to paintings by artists of the likes of Raphael. Jean Lurçat is largely responsible for its revival in the 20th century when he redefined the importance of designing tapestry in a way that embraced the integrity of authentic tapestry...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Ex Libris Biblioteca De Pedro Antonio De Guezala y Ayrivié - Woodcut
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Biblioteca De Pedro Antonio De Guezala y Ayrivié is an Artwork realized in Mid-20th Century Woodcut print on green paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimension...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Kabukie - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Kabukie is an original artwork realized in 1840 by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). From the series "Mitate Yakusha gojusan tsui no uchi" (juxtaposition of actors and the 53 Tokaido s...
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1840s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Ex Libris Pokomskiego - Original Woodcut - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Pokomskiego is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the half of the 20th Century. Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Sigled in pencil on the low...
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1940s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Bijinga - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1844
Located in Roma, IT
Bijinga is an original artwork realized in the half of the 19th Century by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). From the series "SHyakunin isshu esho" (Girl's pictures and 100 poets' card...
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1840s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Gabriele D'Annunzio- Original Woodcut by Unknown - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Gabriele D'Annunzio Combattente al Servizio della Regia Marina (translated: Gabriele D'Annunzio Fighter at the Service of the Royal Marine) is an original woodcut print realized by a...
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Eric Gill 1934 Woodblock Print 'From the Books of Philip Hofer' 'Ex Libris' Lion
Located in London, GB
From a series of wood engravings by Eric Gill. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - ...
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1930s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Les animaux malades de la peste, Léonard Tsugouharu Foujita (藤田 嗣治)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Vingt fables de La fontaine, 1961. Published by Éd...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Kameido - Woodblock Print by Utagawa Hiroshige - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Panoramic View of the Plum Viewing Pavilions of Kameido is an Original Woodcut Print realized by Utagawa Hiroshige. Not very good condition, but vivid colors. Utagawa Hiroshige bor...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Meishoe - Woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige II - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
Meishoe is an artwork realized in the 1865 by Utagawa Sadahide (1807 – c. 1878–1879). Woodcut Print Oban Format. From the series "Suehiro gojusan ts...
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1860s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Actor in Onnagata Role - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Actor in onnagata role accompanied by a kamuro is an original artwork realized in the 1850s by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (January 1, 1798– April 14, 1861). Woodcut Print. Sign.: Ichiyusai ...
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1850s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Ex Libris - Players
Located in Roma, IT
Xilograph on paper. Hand signed lower right. On the bottom, the title was written in pencil by the artist. Image Dimensions : 15.8 x 11 cm Very good conditions except some foxings. ...
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20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Sucking his Beard - Woodcut Print by Mino Maccari - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Sucking his beard is an original colour print on paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989),. Coloured woodcu...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Kabukie - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Kabukie is an original artwork realized in the 1850s by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). Oban from a triptych. An actor in the role of Otokodate Abe no Homei stands ready at night in...
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1850s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Atelier No 7, Contemporary Woodcut
Located in Brecon, Powys
From the Stoneman collection Arturo DI Stefano has shown work in many galleries worldwide including: *Purdy Hicks Gallery London 1998-99, *Eastbourne Clark Gallery, Florida 1991, ...
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1980s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Miotsukushi - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada II - 1864
Located in Roma, IT
Miotsukushi is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada and Hiroshige II in 1864 Woodcut Print Oban Format. From the series "Omokage Genji gojuyo" (In reference to t...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Bird in the Branches - Original Woodcut Print by G. Halff - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bird in the Branches is an original artwork realized by Giselle Halff in the mid-20th Century. Original woodcut print. Good condition. Artist’s proof.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Children Asleep Under A Tree - Original Illustration for a book by C. Farrère
Located in Roma, IT
Children Asleep Under A Tree is a graceful hand-colored xylograph print, born presumably as an illustration of a book for children, unidentified, written by the French author Claude ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Yakushae - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada - 1856
Located in Roma, IT
Yakushae is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada in 1856. Woodcut print Oban from a tryptich. An elderly lady has a worried conversation with a pretty young woma...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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the Radiant Prince Genji - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Radiant Prince Genji is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada in 1850s. Woodcut print Oban yokoe format. From the series "Sono sugata yukari no utsushie" (Faithfu...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Radiant Prince Genji - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada-Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Radiant Prince Genji is an original artwork realized in the mid-19th Century by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). From the series "Sono sugata ukari utsushie" (Faithful Images of t...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woman - Woodcut Print - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original woodcut on cardboard realized in 1957 by the Italian artist Vincenzo Petrillo (1932-2003). Signed at the top right in pencil. The state of preservation of the ...
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1950s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Kabuki - Scene in the Snow - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1864
Located in Roma, IT
Kabuki - Scene in the snow is an original artwork realized in 1864 by Utagawa Kunisada II (1823 – 20 July 1880). Oban from a triptych. Scene in a snowy ...
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1850s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Reading News in Cafe - Original Woodcut Print by Paul Baudier - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Reading News in Cafe is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. On the lower right description in French. Very good con...
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1930s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Red Landscape - Original Woodcut - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Red Landscape is an original xylograph realized during the half of the 20th Century by an anonymous artist. Monogram of the artist on the left side of t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Sumida Haru - Kakutai - Woodcut by Utagawa Yoshitaki - 1860
Located in Roma, IT
Sumida haru - kakutai is an original artwork realized in 1860 by Utagawa Yoshitaki (April 13, 1841 – June 28, 1899) also known as Ichiyosai Yoshitaki. Two Chuban from a Triptych. M...
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1860s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Les Deux Aristocraties - Woodcut by Hermann Paul - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Les Deux Aristocraties is a vintage Woodcut Print realized by Hermann Paul (1864-1940). Good condition on a grey cardboard. No signature. Hermann R...
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Ex Libris Salvatore Bono - Original Woodcut - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Salvatore Bono is an original Modern Artwork realized in the 1940s. Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensi...
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1940s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Aerial View on Malta - Original Woodcut - Early 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Aerial View on Malta is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the first half of the 19th Century. Original woodcut on Ivory Paper. Inscripted in Gothic letters on the lo...
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Early 19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Prisoners - Original Woodcut by A. H. Laboureur - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Prisoners is an Original Woodcut print realized by A. H. Laboureur. The artwork on a green paper is in good condition, glued on a page of magazine. No signature. Titled on the uppe...
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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The Rabbit - Original Woodcut by Giselle Hallf - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Rabbit is an original woodcut print by Giselle Hallf in the first half of the 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through strong strokes in a well-balanced c...
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Kabukie - The Province of Rokuok - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunikazu - 1862
By Utagawa Kunikazu
Located in Roma, IT
Kabukie - The Province of Rokuoku is an original artwork realized in 1862 by Utagawa Kunikazu (1830 - 1919) Chuban. From the series "Dai Nippon rokuju of Rikuoku" (60 provinces of Glorious Japan), The Province of Rokuoku. Meeting of the two rivals in the forest at night, Tanigoro with sumo apron and fan with the national colours. Signed: Kunikazu. Good impression, backed, glued at corners, oxidation, centrefold, a little bit rubbed. Utagawa Kunikazu (1830 - 1919) was a printmaker from Osaka. He had a famous teacher, the ukiyo-e artist Kunisada Utagawa...
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Ex Libris Pedersen - Original Woodcut - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Pedersen is an original Artwork realized in the 1960s. Original Colored woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensions: 21 x...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Flirtage - Original Woodcut by F. F. Froment - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flirtage is a wonderful wood-cut original print by Ferdinand Florentin Froment, d'après A. Forestier. A woman crouching on her chair, is receiving some flatterings from a man on he...
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Late 19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paphy - Original Woodcut Print - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Paphy is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the Mid-19th Century. Original B/W woodcut print on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the Upper margin in Capital Letters: Paph...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Dante - Original Woodcut by Adolfo de Karolis - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dante is an original Woodcut realized by Adolfo de Karolis (1874–1928). Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through perfect hatching in a well...
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Ex Libris Laszlo - Woodcut on Paper - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Laszlo is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the 1920s. Original B/W woodcut on ivory-colored paper. Signed and dated on plate on the lower margin: "Nemes Irm...
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1920s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

Ex Libris Aira Konu - Original Woodcut Print - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Aira Konu is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. On the upper side in inscripted in capital ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Dreamy - Original Woodcut on Paper by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dreamy is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-20th Century by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original woodcut on paper. Very good conditions...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Ex Libris - PF - Original Woodcut by M. Fingesten - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - PF is an original xilograph artwork realized by Michel Fingesten in the 1930s Hand-signed on the lower center. Hand-written note on the lower center. Good conditions. Includes passepartout: 30 x 24 cm Ex Libris is a Latin phrase meaning a bookplate that identifies the owner of the book into which it is pasted. Michel Fingesten (Butzkowitz, 1884 - Cerisano, 1943) was a Czech painter...
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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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