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Period: 1950s
La Corrida (The Bullfight)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso (after)
Title: La Corrida (The Bullfight)
Medium: Aquatint in colors on Arches wove paper
Date: 1956
Edition: 104/200
Printer by Atelier Crommelynck Paris
Publi...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
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Aquatint
La Pique
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Pique
Lithograph from 1961.
Dimensions of work: 31 x 25 cm.
Reference: Bloch 1014; Cramer 113.IV.
Printed by Atelier Fernand Mourlot, Paris.
The wo...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
Femme Nu
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Nu
Photogravure from 1952.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure sh...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
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Photogravure
L'atelier de Cannes
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - L'atelier de Cannes
Lithograph from 1958.
On Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 44.8 x 33.4 cm.
Plate signed.
It's an enhanced version of the first st...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
Sports d' Hiver original antique skiing vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Sports d'Hiver (winter sports) skiing vintage poster. Archival linen-backed lithograph in very good condition, ready to frame.
The blank area at the bottom would be used to indicate various ski locations or ski events that would be taking place. This gave this poster more various uses than just having it printed for one location.
A large scale original ski poster that is great for your ski lodge and in the reasonable price category for original and antique skiing posters...
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Naturalistic 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$958 Sale Price
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La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and s...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Femme Bleue
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Bleue
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm
Plate signed.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
On the verso there is another Lithograp...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
$670 Sale Price
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Fleurs de Neige
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Fleurs de Neige
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm
Plate signed.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
First, original edition.
The work ...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
$861 Sale Price
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La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and s...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
Dans L'Atelier de Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Dans l'Atelier de Picasso
Lithograph from 1957.
The edition 211/275.
Dimensions of work: 44.5 x 33.5 cm
Publisher: Fernand Mourlot Éditeur, Paris.
Re...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,393 Sale Price
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Lierre
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Lierre
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm
Plate signed.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
First, original edition.
The work is in Exc...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
$861 Sale Price
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Jeu de la Cape
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Jeu de la Cape
Lithograph from 1961.
Dimensions of work: 31 x 25 cm.
Reference: Bloch 1015; Mourlot 350; Cramer 113.IV.
Printed by Atelier Fernand Mour...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Fables of La Fontaine, 100 handsigned etchings
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887–1985, France)
Portfolio: The Fables of La Fontaine, 1952
Marc Chagall’s The Fables of La Fontaine is a masterful interpretation of Jean de La Fontaine’s classic 17th-century fables, blending poetic storytelling with Chagall’s dreamlike visual language. This rare edition, published by Tériade in Paris in 1952, features 100 handsigned etchings, each sequentially numbered 1–100, bringing to life the timeless allegories of human nature, morality, and wit.
Chagall’s etchings...
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Symbolist 1950s More Prints
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Etching, Engraving
The Anointing of Saul
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - The Anointing of Saul
Etching from 1952.
Edition of 100
Enhanced with watercolour by the artist.
Dimensions of work: 52 x 37 cm.
Hand signed.
Publish...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Etching
$5,265 Sale Price
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Le Coq, from Verve Vol VII No. 27-28
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Georges Braque
Title: Le Coq
Portfolio: Verve Vol VII No. 27-28
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1952
Edition: 6000
Frame Size: 22" x 18 1/4"
Sheet Size: 14" x 10"
Signature: Unsigned
Category
Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Picador
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Picador II
Lithograph from 1961.
Dimensions of work: 31 x 25 cm.
Reference: Bloch 1017; Mourlot 350; Cramer 113.IV.
Printed by Atelier Fernand Mourlot, P...
Category
Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Omega (Poem by George Reamy), Surrealist Etching by Irene Rice Pereira
Located in Long Island City, NY
Omega (Poem by George Reamy)
Irene Rice Pereira, American (1902–1971)
Date: 1953
Etching and Aquatint, signed, dated and dedicated in pencil
Edition of Dedicated Proof
Image Size: 14...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Original Northwest Orient and Trans World Airlines vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES, TRANS WORLD AIRLINES poster. Description
There’s a New Way Around the World / Northwest Orient Airlines – Trans World Airlines. Circa 1...
Category
American Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Los Banderillos
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Los Banderillos
Lithograph from 1961.
Dimensions of work: 31 x 25 cm.
Reference: Bloch 1016; Cramer 113.IV.
Printed by Atelier Fernand Mourlot, Paris.
...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
Untitled from In the Bottom of My Garden (Plate 17)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Untitled (Plate 17)
Portfolio: In the Bottom of My Garden
Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper
Date: 1956
Frame Size: 15 3/4" x 18 3/8"
Sheet ...
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Pop Art 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
Untitled from In the Bottom of My Garden (Plate 1)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Untitled (Plate 1)
Portfolio: 1956 In the Bottom of My Garden
Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper
Date: 1956
Frame Size: 15 3/4" x 18 3/8"
Sh...
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Pop Art 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
Bullfighting Poster - Malaga, 11 August 1955
Located in London, GB
Juan Reus (1912-2003)
Original Vintage Bullfighting Poster
April 1955
107cm x 53cm
Juan Reus was born in 1912 in Valencia, where he became a well-known pain...
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Other Art Style 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Blue Lady - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Blue Lady
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm
Edition: 200
1959
Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais
Unnumb...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and s...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso, La Petite Corrida, lithograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a lithograph in colors (after)Pablo Picasso, done in 1957. Picasso created this piece for the special issue of the art publication XXe Sicle Review No. 10, entitled "Ho...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pan American World Airways Scandinavia by Clipper original vintage poster
By Jean Carlu
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage travel poster: Pan American World Airways cy Clipper to Scandinavia. Archival linen-backed and ready to frame.
The cent...
Category
American Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Femmes et Singes
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femmes et Singes
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 52.5 x 35.5 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Each copy of this Lithograph was originally publ...
Category
Surrealist 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
$717 Sale Price
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Warriors
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color engraving, soft-ground etching and scorper on Johannot paper. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 200. Signed, dated and titled in pencil, ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s More Prints
Materials
Color, Engraving, Etching
Original 'Fiesta Mayor Badalona' vintage Spanish festival poster 1955
Located in Spokane, WA
Original ‘Fiesta Mayor Badalona” vintage travel poster. Conservation linen backed and ready to frame. Very good condition full lithograph
A bright and vibrant travel poster that ...
Category
American Modern 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
$1,160 Sale Price
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After Picasso Exhibition Poster, "Mostra di Picasso, " depicting Guernica - 1953
Located in Roma, IT
Rare and giant vintage poster of Pablo Picasso Exhibition Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1953.
Limited edition of 1,000 copies, most of which lost or...
Category
Cubist 1950s More Prints
Materials
Offset
La Piscine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - La Piscine
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 103 x 35.5 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Each copy of this Lithograph was originally published w...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$957 Sale Price
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La Perruche et la Sirène
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - La Perruche et la Sirène
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 78 x 35.5 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Each copy of this...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
$957 Sale Price
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Bullfighting Poster - Granada, 9 June 1947
Located in London, GB
Carlos Ruano Llopis (1878-1950)
Original Vintage Bullfighting Poster
June 1947
107cm x 53cm
Carlos Ruano Llopis was born in 1878 in Orba, Spain w...
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Other Art Style 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Quai aux Fleurs
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025.
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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Quai aux Fleurs
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of sheet: 38 x 28 cm
Dimensio...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
$2,393 Sale Price
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Untitled from In the Bottom of My Garden (Plate 13)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Untitled (Plate 13)
Portfolio: In the Bottom of My Garden
Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper
Date: 1956
Frame Size: 15 3/4" x 18 3/8"
Sheet ...
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Pop Art 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
Les Monstres de Notre-Dame
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025.
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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Les Monstres de Notre-Dame
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of sheet: 38 x 28 c...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
$2,393 Sale Price
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Original "The Chateaux of the Loire, Go by Train" vintage poster
By Jean Jacquelin
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: The Chateaux of the Loire, Go By Train, artist J. Jacquelin, size: 24" x 39", year: 1956. Original vintage European travel poster...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$718 Sale Price
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Woman with Monkey
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Woman with Monkey
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and se...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and s...
Category
Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Piscine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femmes et Singes
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 52.5 x 35.5 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Each copy of this Lithograph was originally publ...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$717 Sale Price
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Figure
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Figure
Lithograph from 1957.
The edition no. 211/275.
With Arches watermark.
Dimensions of work: 44.5 x 33.5 cm.
Publisher: Fernand Mourlot Éditeur, ...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,435 Sale Price
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Original 'Come to Monte Carlo, Monaco' vintage poster. Paradise on Earth!
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Come to Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco vintage poster. Come to paradise on earth! A black and white vintage poster for Monte Carlo wi...
Category
American Realist 1950s More Prints
Materials
Offset
$311 Sale Price
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Original SAS One Giant Leap vintage travel poster / Un Pas de Geant
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1950s SAS Scandinavian Airline System travel by air vintage poster. Linen backed in B+ condition. This poster was restored to the top and bottom left corners. Ready t...
Category
Conceptual 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - Original Lithograph by Enrico Prampolini - 1954 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 100 prints, numbered and hand signed.
Good conditions.
A nice and rare graphic work, probably one of the last ones, by a key figure of Futurism.
This artwork is shipped f...
Category
Futurist 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
Message Intime
Located in OPOLE, PL
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) - Intime Mitteilung (Message intime)
Etching and aquatint in color from 1925.
The editon of 52/300.
Dimensions of work: 57 x 45 cm.
Monnogramed and ...
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Symbolist 1950s More Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
$2,776 Sale Price
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Original Nice-Themal spa Berthemont - Les -Bains antique French vintage poster
By Emmanuel Bellini
Located in Spokane, WA
Original French travel poster: Nice - Thermal health spa original vintage poster created by artist Emmanuel Bellini.
Original linen backed, large French travel size: Nice - Therm...
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Impressionist 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
De Mauvais Sujets - Planche V
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - De Mauvais Sujets - Planche V
Etching and aquatint from 1958.
An unnumbered and unsigned copy from a limited edition of 153.
Dimensions of sheet: 43.5 x 32.5 cm
Dimensions in frame: 63.2 x 53.2 cm
Publisher: Les Bibliophiles de l’Union Française, Paris.
Printer: Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut, Paris.
Reference: Cramer 35
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This original color etching comes from De Mauvais Sujets ("The Bad Subjects"), a 1958 illustrated portfolio that paired Marc Chagall’s artwork...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
La Piscine II
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Title: La Piscine II
Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1958
Edition: 2000
Sheet Size: 14" x 42"
Signature: No
Referenc...
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Abstract 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled from In the Bottom of My Garden (Plate 9)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Untitled (Plate 9)
Portfolio: 1956 In the Bottom of My Garden
Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper
Date: 1956
Frame Size: 15 3/4" x 18 3/8"
Sh...
Category
Pop Art 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original "Marine Nationale" vintage French naval poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Marine Nationale. Artist: Evan. Size: 24.5" x 39". This is an original vintage military poster backed with archival linen. It is in very good to excellent condition and ready to fram...
Category
French School 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$680 Sale Price
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Femme Nu
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Nu
Photogravure from 1952.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure sh...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Original San Francisco - Oakland Bay Fly American Airlines vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original American Airlines, San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge vintage travel poster. Printed: 1950. Fly American to California this vacation.
Linen backed in fine condition, ready to frame.
Artist: Ivan Dmitri. It was also during this time frame that Edward McKnight Kauffer started to produce posters for American.
American Airlines' beautiful designs and imagery are still some of the best created.
This is an original, 1950 American Airlines travel poster...
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American Realist 1950s More Prints
Materials
Offset
Original Radio Radiola vintage French poster with parrot
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Radio Radiola vintage French antique poster. Archival linen-backed and in very good condition. Bright and vibrant. Artist: Rene Ravo....
Category
American Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Femme Bleue
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Bleue
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm.
Plate signed.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
First, original edition.
The work is ...
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Surrealist 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
$670 Sale Price
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Untitled from In the Bottom of My Garden (Plate 5)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Untitled (Plate 5)
Portfolio: 1956 In the Bottom of My Garden
Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper
Date: 1956
Frame Size: 15 3/4" x 18 3/8"
Sh...
Category
Pop Art 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Décoration - Masques
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Décoration - Masques
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 96.5 x 35.5 cm.
Plate signed.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Each copy of this Lithograph ...
Category
Surrealist 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$717 Sale Price
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Original "Television Grammont" art deco original vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original TELEVISION GRAMMONT vintage poster. Printer: Draeger. Size 23.75" x 32". Original lithograph. Archival linen backed in very good condition; ready to frame.
This poster is a French advertisement for a company that made both television sets...
Category
Art Deco 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Untitled from In the Bottom of My Garden (Plate 11)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Untitled (Plate 11)
Portfolio: 1956 In the Bottom of My Garden
Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper
Date: 1956
Frame Size: 15 3/4" x 18 3/8"
S...
Category
Pop Art 1950s More Prints
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Lithograph
Dans L'Atelier de Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Dans L'Atelier de Picasso
Lithograph from 1957.
The edition 211/275.
With Arches watermark.
Dimensions of work: 65 x 44 cm
Publisher: Fernand Mourlot...
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Modern 1950s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Red Rider - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
The Red Rider
From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle
1957
See Mourlot 191
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
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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