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Period: 1960s
Nature morte au coquetier
By Mario Avati
Located in New York, NY
This elegant mezzotint print, entitled, "Nature morte au coquetier", was realized by the esteemed artist Mario Avanti in France, 1962. It depicts a stylized rendition of a dove as a ...
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Modern 1960s More Prints
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Mezzotint
1960s UK Army Recruitment poster, Join the Regular Army Junior Leaders' Unit
Located in London, GB
John Godfrey Bernard Worsley (1919-2000) - attributed
Join the Regular Army through a Junior Leaders' Unit
Original UK Army recruitment poster c....
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Modern 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Anonymous Original Switzerland of tomorrow Poster Swiss National Exhibition 1964
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage travel posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find th...
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1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
London Transport Original Poster Westminster Abbey, UK. Gaynor Chapman, 1966
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage travel posters including more pre-war London Transport posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it ...
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Realist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Marc Chagall - Flowered Clown - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From Chagall Lithograph II
Reference: Mourlot 399
Condition : Excellent
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Adam and Eve are Banished from Paradise
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Adam and Eve are Banished from Paradise
Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/4"
...
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1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Plate 16, from 1965 Peintures sur Cartons
By Joan Miró
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Joan Miro
Title: Plate 16
Portfolio: Peintures sur Cartons
Date: 1965
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 17 1/4"
Sheet Size: 15" x 11"
Image Size: 15" x 11"
Signature:...
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Abstract 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Plate 15, from 1965 Peintures sur Cartons
By Joan Miró
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Joan Miro
Title: Plate 15
Portfolio: Peintures sur Cartons
Date: 1965
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 17 1/4"
Sheet Size: 15" x 11"
Image Size: 15" x 11"
Signature:...
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Abstract 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Construction Drawing
Located in Kansas City, MO
“Construction Drawing I”, 1973
Dimensions : 19″ x 23.5″
Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75
Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist...
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Conceptual 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Construction Drawing
Located in Kansas City, MO
“Construction Drawing II”, 1973
Dimensions : 18.75″ x 23.5″
Signed by the artist, Edition 16/75
Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual ar...
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Conceptual 1960s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rythme-couleur - Hand-signed and numbered original lithograph, 1962
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Delaunay
Rythme-couleur, 1962
Lithograph on Fabriano wove paper
27 3/5 × 19 7/10 in l 70.2 × 50 cm
Frame included - 32 1/3 x 24 4/5 l 83 x 63 cm
Edition of 40
Condition: Overa...
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Abstract Geometric 1960s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Coasts Of Illusion - Moonstrips Empire News By Eduardo Paolozzi
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Untitled from Moonstrips Empire News
By Eduardo Paolozzi
Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was a pioneering Scottish artist and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. Renowned f...
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Contemporary 1960s More Prints
Materials
Screen, Paper
Tamar, Daughter-in-Law of Judah
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Tamar, Daughter-in-Law of Judah
Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/4"
Image Si...
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1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Plate 1, from Derriere le Miroir #141 (Stabiles)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder
Title: Plate 1
Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #141 (Stabiles)
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1963
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 17 1/4"
Sheet Size: 15" ...
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1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Naomi and Her Daughters-in-Law, from Drawings for the Bible
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Naomi and Her Daughters-in-Law
Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
...
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1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Job in Despair
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Job in Despair
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" x 10 ...
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1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Ruth Gleaning
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Ruth Gleaning
Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/...
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1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Plate 18, from 1965 Peintures sur Cartons
By Joan Miró
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Joan Miro
Title: Plate 18
Portfolio: Peintures sur Cartons
Date: 1965
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 17 1/4"
Sheet Size: 15" x 11"
Image Size: 15" x 11"
Signature:...
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Abstract 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Leviathan - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Leviathan is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964 by Salvador Dalì, It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 19...
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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Judith Beheads Holfernes - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible - Judith Beheads Holfernes is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published...
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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Dixit Raphael ad Tobiam - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible - is 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.
Signed and ...
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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Lazare, Veni Foras - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible - Lazare, Veni Foras is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 an...
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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Lot's Wide Turned into a Statue of Salt - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible - Lot's Wide turned into a Statue of Salt is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Medi...
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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
The Transfiguration - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible - The Transfiguration is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 a...
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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Exhibition Poster Galerie Gerald Cramer - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1969
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition Poster Galerie Gerald Cramer is a contemporary artwork realized by Joan Mirò.
Mixed colored lithograph.
The poster was realized in occasion of the exhibition of the arti...
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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Exhibition Poster Galerie Gerald Cramer - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1969
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition Poster Galerie Gerald Cramer is a contemporary artwork realized by Joan Mirò.
Mixed colored lithograph.
The poster was realized in occasion of the exhibition of the arti...
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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Abstract - Lithograph by Ossip Zadkine - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed.
Edition of 150 (140/150).
Very good condition.
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Cubist 1960s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Shine of Bodies - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Shine of Bodies - Paradise is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited ...
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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Woodcut
Oblatio Munda - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Oblatio Munda 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.
Signed a...
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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Angelus Excussit Flammag Ignis - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Angelus Excussit Flammag Ignis 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 an...
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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Susannae Pulchritudo - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Susannae Pulchritudo 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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Surrealist 1960s 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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Surrealist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Organisée Par le International Art Program, Event Poster
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Organisée Par le International Art Program, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution: “Woman with Fan” 1914 Bronze Relief, Visionaire International, Musée Rodin, Paris, 11 Mars-14 Avril, 1969 by ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (American-Ukranian, 1887-1964). Event Poster...
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1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
$195 Sale Price
35% Off
Sheet Corner
Located in London, GB
GERHARD RICHTER b. 1932
Born in Dresden 1932 (German)
Title: Sheet Corner Blattecke. 1967
Technique: Original Hand Signed, Dated and Numbered Offset Lithograph in Colour on Thin C...
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Realist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
Olympia
By (after) Gerhard Richter
Located in New York, NY
Offset color lithograph poster. Signed by the artist in felt-tip pen and black ink.
This color print is based on the same-titled painting in the Böckmann collection, Berlin.
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Neo-Expressionist 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph, Color
$4,000
Permeation I - XX Century, Figurative etching print, Surrealism
By Leszek Rózga
Located in Warsaw, PL
LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015)
He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (later: Academy of Fine Arts)...
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Contemporary 1960s More Prints
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Paper, Etching
Torbi
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Torbi
Phototype and pochoir from 1962.
From the edition of 1,000 copies, this example is number 334, as noted in the colophon.
Dimensions of sheet: 40 ...
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Modern 1960s More Prints
Materials
Stencil
The Corrigan of the Shore
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Corrigan of the Shore
Phototype and pochoir from 1962.
From the edition of 1,000 copies, this example is number 334, as noted in the colophon.
Dime...
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Modern 1960s More Prints
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Stencil
End of Absalom
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - End of Absalom
Etching and watercolour from 1956.
The edition of 100 on Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 52 x 37.5 cm.
Hand signed.
Publisher: Tériad...
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Modern 1960s More Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Offering
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - The Offering
Original Lithograph from 1960.
Dimensions of work: 32 x 24 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
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Modern 1960s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Léon Zack - Snow - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Léon Zack
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Léon Zack - Snow - Original Handsigned Lithograph
1969
Handsigned in pencil and numbered
Edition of 22
32.5 x 25 cm
Léon Zack (1892-1980)
Léon Zack was a Ru...
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Abstract Expressionist 1960s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bullfighter - Woodcut Print by Mino Maccari - 1965
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Bullfighter is a woodcut print on cream-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the 1965.
Hand-signed on the lower in pencil
Good conditions with minor folding along the margins....
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Modern 1960s More Prints
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Woodcut
$332 Sale Price
20% Off
Seeing Voice Welsh Heart
By Paul Jenkins
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on Rives BFK. Signed and numbered 30/40 in pencil. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Published by Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris. From the same-...
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Abstract Expressionist 1960s More Prints
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Color, Lithograph
"ECSTASY HEDY LAMAR"
Located in New York, US
Edition 23/195
Signet by artist
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorp...
Category
Pop Art 1960s More Prints
Materials
Paper
Jean Cocteau - Surrealist Torrero - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Taureaux
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Trinckvel
1965
From the last po...
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Modern 1960s More Prints
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Lithograph
André Lanskoy - Composition - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Lanskoy - Composition - Original Etching
From Dédale
Edition: 190
Dimensions: 32 x 18 cm
This etching is from the first series of etching Lanskoy m...
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Abstract Expressionist 1960s More Prints
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Etching
Marc Chagall - Inspiration - Original Lithograph from "Chagall Lithographe" v. 2
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph from Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II.
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the unsigned edition of 10000 copies without margins
Reference: Mourlot 398
Condition : Excellent
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...
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Lithograph
The Pitfall - Original Etching by Walter PIacesi - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 50 pieces. Original title: "L'insidia".
Very good conditions.
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1960s More Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
Postcard of Greetings by Marino Marini - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
(P.A.S.d.l.) Autograph Postcard Signed by Marino Marini to Nesto Jacometti. Locarno, 27th December 1963. In 24°, cm 10.7 x 15, in Italian
Amusing postcard of greetings to his Graphi...
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Contemporary 1960s More Prints
Materials
Etching
Rhythm 15 - Original Screen Print by Mario Padovan - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Rhythm 15 is an original colored serigraph realized by Mario Padovan in 1969.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered in pencil on the lower left. Edition 26/50. Original...
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Op Art 1960s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Der Transport - Original Etching and Drypoint by A. Hrdlicka - 1968
By Alfred Hrdlicka
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypont. Hand Signed and dated. Edition of 30 prints.
Very good conditions.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created...
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1960s More Prints
Materials
Etching
Miracolo (Miracle) - Original Etching - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 40.5x31.5 cm.
Edition of 20 prints numbered in roman numbers.
Hand numbered and signed by the artist.
Excellent conditions.
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1960s More Prints
Materials
Etching
Miracle - Original Etching by Marino Marini - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions 28.5x24.5 cm
Edition of 65 prints, numbered and hand signed.
Ref. S. Lazzaro 45a, Toninelli 58
Excellent conditions.
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1960s More Prints
Materials
Etching
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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Abstract Expressionist 1960s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Reference: Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II.
Unsigned edition of over 5,000
Condition : Excellent
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.
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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Moreover they made garments of ministration to minister in the Sanctuarie; they m...
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Bank Street
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on Rives BFK. Signed and numbered 89/125 in pencil. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Published by Atelier Mourlot, Ltd., New York.
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Maurice Estève - Composition - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Maurice Estève - Composition - Original Lithograph
1964
Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm
Edition of 200 (one of the 200 on Vélin de Rives)
Mourlot Press, 1964
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Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Rudolf Bosshard (*1929 Balm-Lottstetten), Six variations on a circular theme, 1967. Portfolio with inserted cover sheet and six color woodcuts on thin Japanese paper. Copy no. 6...
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By André Masson
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Signed and numbered 14/200 in pencil.
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