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Period: Early 20th Century
Period: 1960s
Michigan, Southern Part. USA. Century Atlas state antique vintage map
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Century Atlas. Michigan, Southern Part.'
Original antique map, 1903.
Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners.
Sheet 40cm by 29.5cm.
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Woman Juggler, from 1960 Mourlot Lithographe I
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Woman Juggler
Portfolio: Mourlot Lithographe I
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Framed Size: 21 7/8" x 18 7/8"
Image Size: 12 1/2" x 9 1/...
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1960s Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali, "Grenade et l'ange from FlorDali - Les Fruits"
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece was created in 1969 by Salvador Dali, it is a photolithograph of a original gouache painted on printed illustrations with original engraving was created in 1969 by Salvado...
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1960s Surrealist More Prints
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Lithograph
Oiseau Entre deux Astres
By Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color aquatint, etching and carborundum. Signed and numbered 27/75 in pencil by Miro. Printed and published by Maeght, Paris.
Catalogue reference: Du...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist More Prints
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Color, Etching, Aquatint
Asymmetric Abstract Composition - Original Lithograph by M. Avenali - 1060s
Located in Roma, IT
Asymmetric Abstract Composition is an original lithograph realized by Marcello Avalani between 1960's and 1970.
Hand signed in pencil on lower right margin and numbered in pencil on...
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1960s Contemporary More Prints
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Lithograph
Original 1918 "Hey Fellows" American Library Association vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Hey Fellows! Your Money Brings this Book We Need When We Want It. Original World War 1 antique military poster created by...
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1910s American Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Miro - I Work Like a Gardener - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro - I Work Like a Gardener - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Year: 1964
Handsigned and numbered in pencil
Edition: 2 / 30
Printer : Mourlot, Paris
Dimensions: 22.5 x 23 cm
Ref...
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1960s Abstract More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vicinity of London, England, United Kingdom. Century Atlas antique map
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Century Atlas. Vicinity of London, England, United Kingdom.'
Original antique map, 1903.
Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners.
Sheet 29.5...
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Early 20th Century Victorian More Prints
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Lithograph
Black and White Woodcut Composition (Edition 55/100)
Located in New York, NY
Naghi Nagashian (Iran b. 1948), "Black & White Woodcut Composition" Edition 55/100, Abstract Woodcut signed and numbered in Pencil, 20.50 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1965
Colors: Blac...
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1960s Abstract More Prints
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Woodcut
Italy, Northern Part. Century Atlas antique vintage map
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Century Atlas. Italy, Northern Part.'
Original antique map, 1903.
Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners.
Sheet 29.5cm by 40cm.
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Early 20th Century Victorian More Prints
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Lithograph
The Purple Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Bernard Buffet
Title: The Purple Bouquet of Flowers
Portfolio: Bernard Buffet Lithographs 1952-1966
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1968
Ed...
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1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Original Chicago to Europe vintage poster Scandinavian Airlines System
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Chicago to Europe Fly SAS. Book your trip - NOW! Scandinavian Airlines System. Original linen-backed, excellent condition. This early SAS poster features the Eiffel Tower; the Roman Colosseum, the Arch of Triumph...
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1960s American Modern More Prints
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Offset
African Boxthorn (Lycium horridum, Thurnberg), antique botanical lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'African Boxthorn (Lycium horridum, Thurnberg)'
Colour lithograph, 1909. Plate number printed at the top of the image.
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Zao Wou-ki - Original Lithograph - Abstract Composition
By Zao Wou-Ki
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Zao Wou-ki - Original Lithograph
1962
From La tentation de l’Occident
Dimensions: 39 x 28.5 cm
Publisher: Les Bibliophiles Comtois
Edition of 170
Reference: Jørgen Ågerup 137 - 146...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Acrobats at Play, from 1963 Mourlot Lithographe II
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Acrobats at Play
Portfolio: Mourlot Lithographe II
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1963
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 21 7/8" x 18 7/8"
Sheet Size: 12 3/4" x 9...
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1960s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jacqueline
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Jacqueline
Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961.
Dimensions of sheet: 27 x 37.9 cm
Dimensions in frame: 43.2 x 53.2 cm
Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'...
Category
1960s Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Mexico. Century Atlas antique vintage map
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Century Atlas. Mexico.'
Original antique map, 1903.
Central fold as issued. Map name and number printed on the reverse corners.
Sheet 29.5cm by 40cm.
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian More Prints
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Lithograph
Ex Aegypto Vocavi Filium Meum - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Aegypto Vocavi Filium Meum is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and...
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1960s Surrealist More Prints
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Lithograph
The House in My Village, from 1960 Mourlot Lithographe I
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: The House in My Village
Portfolio: Mourlot Lithographe I
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Framed Size: 21 7/8" x 18 7/8"
Image Size: 12 1...
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1960s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original 1917 Railroad Map of Washington State railway map
Located in Spokane, WA
This is an Original Lithograph Vintage Railroad Map of Washington State; it is not a reproduction.
“Railroad Map of Washington, 1917, The Public Servi...
Category
1910s Academic More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
They Give Their Lives original World War 1 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original THEY GIVE THEIR LIVES WSS, World War 1 lithograph vintage poster.
They Give Their Lives, do you lend your savings? W.S.S.--War Savings Stamps....
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1910s American Impressionist More Prints
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Lithograph
Original 2nd Liberty Loan of 1917 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "SHALL WE BE MORE TENDER WITH OUR DOLLARS THAN WITH THE LIVES OF OUR SONS?" vintage poster. Buy a United States Government Bond of the 2nd LIBERTY LOAN of 1917. Depict...
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1910s American Realist More Prints
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Lithograph
Air France Europe original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original AIR FRANCE EUROPE, Editions Perceval, artist: Jacques Nathan Garamond. Professional acid-free archival linen backed vintage travel post...
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1960s Expressionist More Prints
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Lithograph
Brushstroke
Located in Miami, FL
Hand signed rf Lichtenstein in pencil and numbered 270/280 lower right margin. Published by Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, Printer Chiron Press, New York. The Prints ofRoy Lichtenst...
Category
1960s Pop Art More Prints
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Screen
Assuerus Adamavit Esther - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Assuerus Adamavit Esther is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969...
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1960s Surrealist More Prints
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Lithograph
Original Cordial Topaze Bordeaux red wine, 1924 lithograph vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original French poster: CORDIAL TOPAZE; Marie Brizard & Roger Bordeaux wine; original lithographic French 1924 antique poster. Signed but an illegible signature. Size: 18" x 24"...
Category
1920s Conceptual More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original European Weightlifting Championship, Leningrad vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Russian European Weight Lifting Championship held in Leningrad in 1968. This poster is archival linen-backed and in very good condition. The original fold marks have been restored during linen backing. The event was June 19th – 25th, 1968.
Translation:
USSR WEIGHTLIFTING FEDERATION
June 19.25 LENINGRAD
EUROPEAN WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIP
The image of a big hand holding one side of a set of giant weights for the bench press...
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1960s Abstract More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Wedding, from: My Life Die Hochzeit: Mein Leben - Russian French Berlin
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered 50/110 in pencil from the edition of 11...
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1920s Surrealist More Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
Waves (Derriere le Miroir #156)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder
Title: Waves (Derriere le Miroir 156)
Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #156
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1966
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 17 1/4"
Shee...
Category
1960s Abstract More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Inferno, Canto 28 - Bertan de Horn
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Inferno, Canto 28 - Bertan de Horn
Woodcut print from 1960.
Dimensions of work: 33 x 26.2 cm
Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris.
The work is in ...
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1960s Surrealist More Prints
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Lithograph
Mi Careme de Nantes original vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage French poster: Mi Careme de Nantes carnaval poster. Printer: Jagueneau - Nantes, France.
Over 50 years old, Linen ...
Category
1960s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Decorative Motifs - Original Chromolithograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Decorative Motifs of the Italian Renaissance is a vintage chromolithograph realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents Decora...
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Early 20th Century More Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
Les Infortunes de la Vertu - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
Les Infortunes de la Vertu is a modern artwork realized by Hans Bellmer.
Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968.
Copy on Véli...
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1960s Surrealist More Prints
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Paper, Etching
Original Buy War Savings Stamps WW1 lithograph vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 vintage poster: HELP HIM WIN BY SAVING AND SERVING, W.S.S., BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS. Original World War 1 vintage stone lithograph. Museum archival linen backed and...
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1910s American Realist More Prints
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Lithograph
Original 1910 Officiel Paris Spectacles vintage poster for theater performances
Located in Spokane, WA
Linen backed original of the official event spectacles of Paris, promoting Moulin Rouge, Salome, Musee Grevin, Sarah-Rita, Madame Butterfly, Carmen, La Vie de Boheme. Orignial in ex...
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1910s Art Nouveau More Prints
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Lithograph
Gala, mon seul désir
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Gala, mon seul desir
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Jean Schneider, Basel/Bergruen, Paris
EDITION NUMBER: XLVII/LXXV
MEASUREMENTS:...
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1960s Surrealist More Prints
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Etching
The Mock Turtle's Story Alice in Wonderland Salvador Dali 1969 original woodcut
Located in Paonia, CO
The Mock Turtle's Story is from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as interpreted by Salvador Dali and published by Maecenas ( a Random...
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1960s Surrealist More Prints
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Photogravure
The pagoda, from The Hippies
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: The pagoda
Portfolio: The Hippies
Medium: Color etching on Arches wove paper
Date: 1969
Edition: 67/145
Frame Size: 31" x 26 1/2"
Sheet Size: 26" x 20"
I...
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1960s Surrealist More Prints
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Etching
Original 1966 Santa Barbara Sports Car Races Championship vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Rare, original, linen-backed SANTA BARBARA Championship Sports Car Races. . (May 28-29, 1966 - Santa Barbara, California. Excellent condition original California racing poster....
Category
1960s American Modern More Prints
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Offset
Untitled (Litho #7)
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this scarce and early lithograph on Arches. Edition of 50. Printed at Hollander's Workshop, Inc., New York, with the blind stamp lower right.
Provenance: ...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist More Prints
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Lithograph
He wrote in the Tables the wordes of the covenant, even the Ten Commandments
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - He wrote in the Tables the wordes of the covenant, even the Ten Commandments
Lithograph from 1966.
The edition of 20 on Japanese paper.
Dimensions of w...
Category
1960s Symbolist More Prints
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Lithograph
Beacon
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on Arches. Signed, dated and numbered 14/100 in pencil by Gottlieb. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York.
Catalogue refe...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist More Prints
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Color, Lithograph
Colorful Russian French Judaica Jewish Shtetl Wedding Lithograph Mourlot Paris
By Mane Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Mane-Katz (1894-1962) Original Lithograph published by Andre Sauret, Monte Carlo, 1966, printed in France, by Mourlot. The ouvrage sheet is not included. this is from a limited editi...
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1960s Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs'
Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs.
Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
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Early 1900s Naturalistic More Prints
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Lithograph
Sarah and the Angels, from Drawings for the Bible
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Sarah and the Angels
Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/4"
Image Size: 14 3/8"...
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1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Original Forbidden Paradise vintage silent movie window card with Pola Negri
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "Forbidden Paradise" vintage silent movie window card. Production from the play "The Czarina" by Lajos Biro and Menyhert Lengyel. This poster has been archivally paper backed and is in excellent condition. This movie window card was printed as a stone lithograph.
Pola Negri was born Apolonia Chalupiec in 1897. She adopted the pseudonym "Pola Negri," after the Italian poetess, Ada Negri.
The Ernst Lubitsch-Pola Negri combination was very successful and the roles that Pola played were earthy, exotic, strong women. One of her films, 'Madame DuBarry...
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1920s American Realist More Prints
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Lithograph
The Clown with Flowers, from 1963 Mourlot Lithographe II
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: The Clown with Flowers
Portfolio: Mourlot Lithographe II
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1963
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 21 7/8" x 18 7/8"
Sheet Size: 12 3/...
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1960s Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Salvador Dalí, "Les Rois Mages, " book containing 6 hand signed etchings
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Les Rois Mages
Book containing 6 etchings and one lithograph on Arches blanc including 2 by Salvador Dali: "L'Incantation and Isis soutenant Osiris mutile", the other 5 by: Hans Bell...
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1960s Modern More Prints
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Etching
Original Your Country Needs You! Join the Navy Now! vintage WW1 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster: "Your Country Needs You! Join the Navy Now!"
Original poster printed by the U.S. Food Administration during World War One. Archi...
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1910s American Realist More Prints
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Lithograph
Colorful Russian French Judaica Jewish Shtetl Wedding Lithograph Mourlot Paris
By Mane Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Mane-Katz (1894-1962) Original Lithograph published by Andre Sauret, Monte Carlo, 1966, printed in France, by Mourlot. The ouvrage sheet is not included. this is from a limited editi...
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1960s Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Original U. S. MARINES TEUFEL HUNDEN (Devil Dogs) vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War 1 vintage poster: U. S. MARINES TEUFEL HUNDEN, a unique piece of history and artistry. Archival linen backed in A- condition, ready to frame. No paper loss. ...
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1910s American Impressionist More Prints
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Lithograph
View of Venice II - Bacino
Located in New York, NY
Antonio Frasconi created the color woodcut entitled "View of Venice II – Bacino" in 1968. It is signed, titled, dated, and inscribed “13/18” in pencil. The paper size is 24 x 36 inch...
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1960s American Modern More Prints
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Woodcut
Vitrail de l’église de Saint Dominique (after) Georges Braque, 1960
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph was printed in 1960 and is based on the glassworks of the Saint Dominique church in Varengeville, in Normandy, where Braque had his country house. The original gouach...
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1960s Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Huiles Parfumees (Edition #6)
Located in New York, NY
Werner and Winter Frankfurt, "Huiles Parfumees" Ed .6, Still Life Mixed Media Lithograph, 17.25 x 11.75, Early 20th Century
Colors: Pink, Yellow, Green, Blue
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Early 20th Century Art Deco More Prints
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Mixed Media, Lithograph
Flurry
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on white wove paper. Signed, dated and numbered 74/75 in pencil by Gottlieb. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York.
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1960s Abstract Expressionist More Prints
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Color, Screen
Marc Chagall - Bath-Sheba at the Feet of David - Original Handsigned Etching
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Bath-Sheba at the Feet of David - Original Handsigned Etching
1958
Printed by Tériade
Dimensions: 54 x 39 cm
Handsigned and numbered
handcolored
Edition: 100
Reference: Cramer 30.
Etching with hand-coloring, circa 1930, initialled in pencil, numbered 75/100 (there were also twenty hors-commerce copies) , published 1958 by Tériade, Paris, on Arches wove paper
Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985.
The Village
Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work.
At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well.
Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged.
The Beehive
Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period.
Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come.
War, Peace and Revolution
In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos.
To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia.
In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good.
Flight
After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research.
Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion.
With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way.
Haunted Harbors
Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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1960s Surrealist More Prints
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Etching
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 More Prints
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Woodcut
Original Los Angeles (California) 1964 vintage travel poster Mid Century Modern
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1964 Los Angeles, California vintage travel poster. Professionally archivally linen-backed in mint condition. This is one of four ...
Category
1960s American Modern More Prints
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