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Roy Lichtenstein for Leo Castelli Gallery - Offset after Roy Lichtenstein - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Roy Lichtenstein for Leo Castelli Gallery is a very colorful artwork realized after Roy Lichtenstein in 1979.
Mixed colored offset on paper.
This beautiful print was realized on t...
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Pop Art 1980s More Prints
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Offset
Spectrum of Enchantment, Signed Floral Lithograph by Helen Covensky
Located in Long Island City, NY
Spectrum of Enchantment by Helen Covensky, Polish/American (1925–2007)
Date: 1980
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 225, HC
Image Size: 17 x 26 inches
Size: 22 in....
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Abstract 1980s More Prints
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Lithograph
Woman Standing - Offset and Lithograph after Willem De Kooning - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Standing is an offset and lithograph print realized on Fabriano Paper after a drawing by Willem De Kooning of 1951.
The print suite was realized in 1985 in a limited edition o...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s More Prints
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Lithograph, Offset
Plaza Real
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color soft-ground etching, etching and aquatint on White Rives BFK paper. Signed, dated and numbered 55/60 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and publish...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s More Prints
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Color, Etching, Aquatint
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Aquatint and drypoint
75.9 x 60.6 cms (29 7/8 x 23 7/8 ins) paper size
60.3 x 45.4 cms (23 3/4 x 17 7/8 ins) plate size
Edition of 5
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Abstract 1980s More Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Monet Portrait of Jeanne Duval: Ricard drawing vintage typewriter love poetry
By Rene Ricard
Located in New York, NY
Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. Here, Ricard traverses visual art, text, and the pleasure of sculptural trompe-l’œil with this printed drawing of melancholy hand-written and typed love poetry, composed with natural earthen shades of antique white and brown.
Monet Portrait of Jeanne Duval...
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Contemporary 1980s More Prints
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Lithograph
Crack Down!, Serigraph, Contemporary
By Keith Haring
Located in Roma, IT
Crack Down! is an amazing screenprint on wove paper, realized in 1986 by Keith Haring.
Signed and dated on plate on lower right margin. From an edition of 2000 copies.
In excellent...
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Contemporary 1980s More Prints
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Screen
La cérémonie du thé
Located in OPOLE, PL
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) - La cérémonie du thé
Lithograph from 1981.
Artsit's edition.
On Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 53.5 x 39 cm.
Hand signed.
The work is in Excellen...
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Expressionist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fujita Hotel in Kyoto
Located in OPOLE, PL
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) - Fujita Hotel in Kyoto
Lithograph from 1981.
Artsit's edition.
On Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 71 x 53.5 cm.
Hand signed.
The work is in Excell...
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Expressionist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The great building in Tokyo
Located in OPOLE, PL
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) - The great building in Tokyo
Lithograph from 1981.
Artsit's edition.
On Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 53.5 x 39 cm.
Hand signed.
The work is in ...
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Expressionist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gestural, Abstract, Composition (Composición, in Green/Blue Spain, Catalonia)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Composición, (in Green/Blue)
Color etching
year: 1980
signed by hand, dated and inscribed
Edtion: H.C.
Size: 12.3 × 24.8 on 33.3 × 27.3 inches
COA provided
Joan Hernández Pijuan’s l...
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Minimalist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Etching
Sumo
Located in OPOLE, PL
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) - Sumo
Lithograph from 1981.
Artsit's edition.
On Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 53.5 x 39 cm.
Hand signed.
The work is in Excellent condition.
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Expressionist 1980s More Prints
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Lithograph
Temple in Kyoto
Located in OPOLE, PL
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) - Temple in Kyoto
Lithograph from 1981.
Artsit's edition.
On Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 53.5 x 39 cm.
Hand signed.
The work is in Excellent c...
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Expressionist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Temple To-ji, Kyoto
Located in OPOLE, PL
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) - Temple To-ji,Kyoto
Lithograph from 1981.
Artsit's edition.
On Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 71 x 53.5 cm.
Hand signed.
The work is in Excellent...
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Expressionist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Zinnias, Signed Lithograph by Ronald Julius Christensen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Zinnias, Ronald Julius Christensen, American (1923–1999)
Date: circa 1980
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 295
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
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Modern 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Research Pays Off HAND SIGNED
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large silkscreen printed in over 20 colors, signed and numbered out of 225 in pencil by Rodney Greenblat. Blindstamped by Martin Lawrence Galleries.
...
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Pop Art 1980s More Prints
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Screen
Woman - Offset and Lithograph after Willem De Kooning - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an offset and lithograph print realized on Fabriano Paper after a drawing by Willem De Kooning of 1952.
The print suite was realized in 1985 in a limited edition of 2500, a...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Michele Maria: bright yellow red Maria Callas opera artist portrait with poetry
By Rene Ricard
Located in New York, NY
Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. In this bright yellow, red, ...
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Contemporary 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen, Woodcut
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview C
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
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Abstract Geometric 1980s More Prints
Materials
Screen
Perestrioka
Located in Columbia, MO
P. Serkin
Perestroika
1988
Lithograph
Unknown edition
25.75 x 19.25 inches
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1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Woman - Offset and Lithograph after Willem De Kooning - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an offset and lithograph print realized on Fabriano Paper after a drawing by Willem De Kooning of 1952.
The print suite was realized in 1985 in a limited edition of 2500, a...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Woman - Offset and Lithograph after Willem De Kooning - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an offset and lithograph print realized on Fabriano Paper after a drawing by Willem De Kooning of 1953.
The print suite was realized in 1985 in a limited edition of 2500, a...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
"A Song for a Nesei Fisherman" Poster, Limited Edition Screenprint #14 of 100
Located in Soquel, CA
"A Song for a Nesei Fisherman" Poster, Limited Edition Screenprint #14 of 100
Show poster designed by Chester Yoshida (American, b. 1922). The play "A Song for a Nisei Fisherman" wa...
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Pop Art 1980s More Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Senza Titolo II (Untitled II)
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
86 x 107 cms (33 7/8 x 42 1/8 ins)
Edition of 66
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Color, Etching
Untitled II male figurative limited edition print
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled II, by Luis Caballero
Lithography
Size: 15 in H x 10.7 in W
Edition 8/75
Signed in the lower right corner. Numbered in the lower left corner. Great condition with flaws.
...
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1980s More Prints
Materials
Cardboard, Lithograph
Lovers by Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita) (INV# NP3218)
By Corita Kent
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Corita Kent
Lovers
Serigraph Print
Image: 4.88 x 9"
Frame:11.75 x 15.75 x .75"
1983
Signed in pencil and numbered to lower edge ‘ed 200 Corita’
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Contemporary 1980s More Prints
Materials
Screen
OPERATION MOSES Signed Lithograph, Historic 1984 Airlift Ethiopian Falasha Jews
By Chaim Gross
Located in Union City, NJ
OPERATION MOSES is an original hand drawn lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross, hand proofed and printed from lithographic plates on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. OPERATION MOSES is a contemporary style figurative watercolor drawing created to commemorate the evacuation of African Jews to Israel here represented by visual elements including colorful doves, a yellow menorah, an out stretched hand, city of Jerusalem, the U S White House, stone tablets, and a group of seated Ethiopian people studying Torah. OPERATION MOSES was printed in watercolor shades of light blues, reds, yellow, green, salmon pink, purple, browns and graphite black for the pencil drawing using the age-old hand printing methods first used in fine art lithography printmaking.
OPERATION MOSES is a very unique, extremely limited edition lithograph created in commemoration of the historic airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1984. Operation Moses refers to the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews (known as the "Beta Israel" community or "Falashas") from Sudan during a civil war that caused a famine in 1984.
Print size - 16 x 20 inches, unframed, excellent condition, pencil signed by Chaim Gross
Image size - 10.5 x 15 1/8 inches
Edition size - 10, plus proofs
Printer - J K Fine Art Editions Co. NY
Never been framed or mounted, pencil signed A.P.(Artist Proof) aside from an edition of 10, printers chop on lower left corner, from the master printers private collection
Chaim Gross,(1904 - 1991) was a sculptor, artist, and teacher, known for his wood carvings, sculptures of moving human figures, religious imagery, acrobats, mothers and children. Chaim was born on March 17, 1904 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia. During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art academy and studied with painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before emigrating to New York City in 1921.
In the U.S., Gross's studies continued at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied sculpture with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League, with sculptor Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Gross exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club (the precursor to the Whitney Museum of American Art). In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005), and they had two children, Yehuda and Mimi (Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist, and was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976).
In 1933, Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures for schools and public colleges, and created works for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the 1937 Exposition universelle in Paris. Chaim Gross, Sculptor by Josef Vincent Lombardo, the first major book on Gross, came out in 1949 and included a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture.
In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1963, Gross and his family moved from their longtime residence at 30 W. 105th Street to Greenwich Village, following the purchase of a four-story historic townhouse at 526 LaGuardia Place, which is now the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation.
In 1974, the Smithsonian American Art Museum held the exhibition, Chaim Gross: Sculpture and Drawings, and in 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African...
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Contemporary 1980s More Prints
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Lithograph
Sand Howard Hodgkin abstract sepia black and white earth tone painting print
Located in New York, NY
Abstract, large scale earth toned red, black, taupe and grey scene with dynamic lines, shapes and hand painted brushstroke texture. This dramatic Howard Hodgkin work is ideal for dis...
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Abstract 1980s More Prints
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Watercolor, Lithograph
Lament for Lorca
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on white Tyler Graphics Ltd. (TGL) handmade paper
44x61 in (111.8x154.9cm)
Edition of 52
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Cafe Dining, Signed Impressionist Lithograph by Amos Yaskil
By Amos Yaskil
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cafe Dining
Amos Yaskil
Israeli (1935)
Date: circa 1980
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of LXVI/CCCLXXV
Image Size: 17.5 x 25 inches
Size: 22 x 29.5 in. (55.88 x ...
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Impressionist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Drawing Boards II (No.2)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 30, Set of 5
74.9 x 59.1 cms (29 1/2 x 23 1/4 ins)
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Abstract 1980s More Prints
Materials
Etching
SILK STOCKINGS, CANDLELIT CAFES Signed Lithograph, Geometric Abstract Pattern
Located in Union City, NJ
Silk Stockings and Candlelit Cafes, is an original hand drawn lithograph by Sharon E. Sutton printed using hand lithography techniques on archival paper 100% acid free. An architectu...
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Abstract Geometric 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Great Teammates Toyota and NFL, 1981 vintage American Football poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Toyota Great Teammates Toyota and NFL. Oh, what a feeling! This linen-backed NFL promotional poster was created in 1981 by Toyota. It is in excellent condition, with pinholes in the corners repaired. This is a very difficult original vintage NFL poster to locate and one of the last ones we have been able to document.
The poster features a silhouette of a football player composed entirely of football helmets, each adorned with the logo of a different NFL team. This creative design showcases all the teams in the league at the time, making it both a celebration of the sport and a clever piece of advertising.
The silhouette of the football player is meticulously crafted using helmets...
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Pop Art 1980s More Prints
Materials
Offset
Mestna Galerija Ljubljana - Photolithograph by Henry Moore - 1983
By Henry Moore
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage poster realized in occasion of Henry Moore's Exhibition in Mestna Galerija Ljubljana in 1983.
Photolihtograph.
Good condition.
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Contemporary 1980s More Prints
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Lithograph
Illustration for Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles - by J. M. Folon - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Illustration for Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is an original modern artwork realized in 1980 by the Belgian illustrator Jean Michel Folon (1934-2...
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Contemporary 1980s More Prints
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Etching
Agam Silkscreen Mod Judaica Lithograph Hand Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art Print
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Surfside, FL
Yaacov Agam
Israeli (b. 1928)
Hand signed, not individually numbered but from edition of 180. I can include a copy of the title sheet with the edition size and his signature if you r...
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Op Art 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
L'enlèvement d'Europe by Hans Erni - Print 43x60 cm
By Hans Erni
Located in Geneva, CH
Hans ERNI is an artist born in Switzerland in 1909 and died in 2015. His works have been sold at public auction 3,987 times, mostly in the Print-Multiple category. The oldest auction...
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Surrealist 1980s More Prints
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Lithograph
Abstract Composition - Etching by Eugenio Carmi - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original etching realized in the 1960s by Eugenio Carmi (Genoa, February 17, 1920 - Lugano, February 16, 2016).
Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lo...
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Surrealist 1980s More Prints
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Etching
The Painting - Lithograph - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
The Painting from the series The Arts is a lithograph by Salvador Dalì realized in 1980 .
Hand-signed, numbered, edition of 111/249.
This artwork is from the serie “The Arts” comp...
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Surrealist 1980s More Prints
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Lithograph
L'Arbre de l'Amour (The Tree of Love) - Original Lithograph by Mayo - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful hand signed lithograph by the Greek painter naturalized French citizen Antoine Malliarakis (Mayo, 1905-1990).
Edition 68/100, signed and dated in pencil lower right. Very ...
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Surrealist 1980s More Prints
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Lithograph
Icarus from the Celestial Meridian Suite, Aquatint Etching by Tighe O'Donoghue
Located in Long Island City, NY
Paying homage to the Ancient Greek myth of Icarus, this print by Tighe O'Donaghue incorporates planets and a string instrument along with several linear diagrams arranged throughout ...
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Folk Art 1980s More Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Danse, Dessin, Destin - Linocut by Albert Flocon - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Danse, Dessin, Destin is a linocut realized by Albert Flocon in 1987.
Good conditions.
Belongs to the series " from the "Scénographies au Bauhaus. Homm...
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Contemporary 1980s More Prints
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Linocut
Counterpoint Gothic VI
Located in San Francisco, CA
This work on paper is by Donald Farnsworth (1952-). It is titled Counterpoint Gothic VI. It measures 29.5 x 21 inches the sheet, 38.5 x 29.75 inches ...
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Modern 1980s More Prints
Materials
Paper, Handmade Paper, Lithograph, Monotype
Le Fantôme de l'Atelier
By Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color aquatint, etching and lithograph. With the artist's signature ink stamp and numbered 26/65 in pencil. With the artist's estate ink stamp and sign...
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Surrealist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph
Seiko, Pop Art Screenprint by Rupert Jasen Smith
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rupert Jasen Smith, American (1953 - 1989) - Seiko, Year: 1989, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 52/100, Size: 35.75 x 35.75 in. (90.81 x 90.81 cm), Fra...
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Pop Art 1980s More Prints
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Screen
Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, Los Angeles - Lithograph on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, Los Angeles - Lithograph on Paper
Clean, modern lithograph of the Ennis House in Los Angeles by Frances Myers (American, 1936-2014). The Ennis House sits at the top of a small hill, cutting a strong line against a soft peach-colored sky. Wright's strong sense of balance is highlighted in this composition, with patterns and lines guiding the viewers eye in various directions around the piece.
Numbered, titled, signed and dated along the bottom edge:
7/50 Ennis House - Los Angeles Frances Myers 1980
Paper size: 29.5"H x 38"W
Print size: 24"H x 32"W
Shipped rolled in a tube.
Myers was born on April 16, 1936, in Racine, Wisconsin. She began her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, but soon transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she earned a BS in 1962, and an MFA in 1965.
Myers employed a variety of printmaking techniques in her career including "relief, photo-etching, and mixed media processes."
Myers is best known for her prints depicting various buildings. She once said, “I don’t want to invent a building, I want to bring new life to a building.” Growing up in Racine, Myers was exposed to many of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural works, and she paid tribute to this in her 1980 work The Frank Lloyd Wright Print...
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Modern 1980s More Prints
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Paper, Ink, Lithograph
Original "Quale Capri?" vintage Italian travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Quale Capri? Original Italian vintage travel poster. Conservation archival linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame.
Quale Capri? Is which Capri? in Italian. The image is the outline of the island of Capri, off the coast of Naples, Italy. The poster has two different sides, which Capri do you like or want? One side represents progress with large commercial skyscrapers and the other side the small homes and businesses on the island. The question is do you want to allow development on this beautiful Mediterranean island.
Capri was first “discovered” by emperor Augustus in the early years of the Roman Empire. He often resided there and built many temples, villas and gardens as a way of having his own private paradise. The meaning of the name Capri can be traced to the ancient Greeks, where the ancient Greek word 'kapros' means 'wild boar'.
The island of Capri has had dozens of famous vintage posters...
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Modern 1980s More Prints
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Offset
Los Alamos Hills monotype by John Hogan, landscape cliffs, greens, yellow white
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Los Alamos Hills monotype by John Hogan, landscape cliffs, greens, yellow white
John Hogan A graduate of Northeast Louisiana State University with a bachel...
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Contemporary 1980s More Prints
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Monotype
Untitled (Fondation Maeght)
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color offset lithograph on Arches. Signed and numbered 17/75 in pencil by Francis. Printed by Imprimerie Arte, Paris. Published by the Fondation Maeght...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s More Prints
Materials
Color, Offset
Mt. Christo Rey Afternoon by John Hogan rock cliff, red, brown, black and white
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Mt. Christo Rey Afternoon by John Hogan rock cliff, red, brown, black and white
framed edition ACPIV
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Contemporary 1980s More Prints
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Etching
All we are..., Aquatint Etching by Tighe O'Donoghue
Located in Long Island City, NY
This detailed print by Tighe O'Donoghue features a series of script and symbols that create a magical, mystical atmosphere centered around Gaelic motifs and legends.
All we are and...
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1980s More Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
CRYSTAL CLEAR Signed Lithograph, Blue Water Landscape, Sun, Boathouse, Dock
By Frank Licsko
Located in Union City, NJ
CRYSTAL CLEAR is an original hand drawn lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print)by the artist Frank Licsko printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archi...
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Contemporary 1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rare 1922 German Jewish Judaica Zion Woodcut Woodblock Print Hermann Fechenbach
By Hermann Israel Fechenbach
Located in Surfside, FL
Title: Zion
Subject: Various biblical images depicting Creation and prayer
1922
Medium: woodcut
Frame: 14" x 18"
Image: 12.5" x 16.75"
Provenance: owned and signed verso by Peter Keil.
Central panel shows the Jewish star over a crown, with inscription in Hebrew: "When God comforts Zion, He will comfort all its ruins and make its deserts look like Eden," and "You have sanctified the seventh day, the goal of creation of Heaven and Earth." This is flanked by a Palestinian farmer pioneer on the left and a Jew praying on the right. The lower tier shows six vignettes of the days of creation from Genesis.
Hermann Fechenbach was born in 1897 in Württemberg, Germany. He grew up in Bad Mergentheim where his parents had an inn, which served as a meeting place for the local Jewish community.
He left school early and through family connections with clothing retailers received training in window dressing. His skill with brush writing was quickly recognised by a big firm in Dortmund where he was responsible for the displays in 10 large windows. He received his conscription papers in 1916 and recalls “being as patriotic as any other fool”. In August 1917 he was involved in a grenade attack in which he was the sole survivor. With serious injuries to both legs he struggled to safety and was eventually transported to a front line “slaughterhouse” where the first of a series of amputations was performed which led to the loss of his left leg.
As a result of his injuries his father dropped his opposition to him becoming an artist. His formal art education started in 1918 with training at a Stuttgart handcraft school for invalids. He attended the Academies in Stuttgart and Munich to learn painting and restoration for 3 years. He was influenced at this time by Max Liebermann. He has been compared to Kathe Kollwitz and was a contemporary of Jakob Steinhardt and hermann Struck. In 1923 he went to Florence for a year. While in Florence he started to produce a series of miniature wood engravings to illustrate the stories of Genesis. This was followed by periods in Pisa, Venice, Vienna and Amsterdam. In 1924 he returned to Stuttgart to paint in the contemporary style “Die Neue Sachlichkeit”. (The New Objectivity was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s Weimar republic as a reaction against expressionism. The term was coined by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, the director of the Kunsthalle in Mannheim, who used it as the title of an art exhibition staged in 1925 to showcase artists who were working in a post-expressionist spirit. These artists—who included Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter and Jeanne Mammen) Every spring and autumn he exhibited at the “Kunstgebit” which served as the showcase for all serious artists of the period.
His professional status “Kunstmaler und Grafiker” was recognised by Berlin in 1926. Practically all his work from this period was sold following exhibition.
In 1926 he collaborated with an architect friend to build a bungalow in Hohenheim, a non-Jewish area and a suburb of Stuttgart. Hermann alternately lived in his country bungalow and his town studio, producing portraits for sale or barter and wood engravings for his own pleasure.
In 1930 he married a non-Jewish professional photographer – Greta Batze. They had a studio in Stuttgart, which was used to teach art to a group of 12 students.
In 1933 the Nazi influence removed his name from the official state register together with the right to exhibit. By spending most of his time in his bungalow out of the Jewish quarter the Fechenbachs escaped being registered by the Nazis for some years. They were ostracised and abused by their non-Jewish neighbours. Hermann made weekly visits to friends in town to teach them the practical skills they would need assuming they were to escape from Germany. His energies were directed towards protection and survival.
Ultimately the Nazi persecution forced the Fechenbachs to flee their homeland. They moved to Palestine for 3 months in 1938, but found the political and physical environment unsustainable.
Greta arrived in England penniless in January 1939 to work as a domestic servant and to find a guarantor for her husband. Hermann arrived in May 1939. They moved to Blackheath a few months later. Hermann resumed his painting and engraving as a means of earning a living. He raised enough money to get his parents out of Germany to join his brothers in Argentina but was unable to save his twin sister Rosa who died in a Nazi concentration camp. In 1940 Hermann was interned in Bury as a suspect alien. He protested about his treatment by starting a hunger strike. Because of his persistence he was moved to a prison in Liverpool. From Liverpool he was moved to the Hutchinson Camp in the Isle of Man with fellow artist Kurt Schwitters. Arrangements were made for Greta to be accommodated near by. While interned he commenced work on “Refugee Impressions”, a series of linocut prints (no wood was available).
In 1941 when released from internment the Fechenbachs came under the sponsorship of Dr. Bela Horovitz, the Austrian art publisher who in turn made an introduction to Professor Tancred Borenius.
They were offered lodgings with a family in Oxford. Hermann had his first public exhibition for many years in a small gallery in Oxford in 1942. A second exhibition of oils, pencil drawings, coloured linocut and woodblock prints held later in the year was opened by the mayor of Oxford and critically acclaimed.
In 1944 the first London exhibition took place at the Anglo-Palestinian club in Piccadilly. There were two exhibitions at the Ben Uri Art gallery during this period.
In 1948 a second exhibition at the Anglo Palestinian club was inaugurated by a member of the Rothschild family and several members of Parliament. This was a great success.
In 1944 the Fechenbachs moved to a top floor studio flat in Colet Gardens. Open exhibitions were held each Spring at the Embankment from 1946 to 1951. Movietone News produced a short feature on the artist, which was shown in cinemas in England and Germany.
In 1969 he published the Genesis story in a hard back volume containing 137 prints. He started to research the fate of the entire Jewish community of Bad Mergentheim during the period of the second world war, liaising with historian Dr. Paul Sauer and Professor Max Miller, historian and theologian. In 1972 Kohlhammer published his partly autobiographical book “The last Jews of Mergentheim”. He exhibited at the Anglo-Palestinian Club & the Ben Uri Gallery in the 1940s. His works only came to prominence during the last year of his life when he exhibited at Blond Fine Art.
Peter Keil part of the Junge Wilde. In 1978, the Junge Wilde painting style arose in the German-speaking world in opposition to established avant garde, minimal art and conceptual art. It was linked to the similar Transavanguardia movement in Italy, USA (neo-expressionism) and France (Figuration Libre). They were also known as the Neue Wilde. Artists included; Austria: Siegfried Anzinger, Erwin Bohatsch, Herbert Brandl, Gunter Damisch, Hubert Scheibl, Hubert Schmalix...
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Impressionist 1980s More Prints
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Woodcut
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview D
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
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Abstract Geometric 1980s More Prints
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Screen
TREE ROOTS I, Hand Drawn Lithograph, Fantasy Landscape, Surreal Tree, Pipeline
By Hanna Kay
Located in Union City, NJ
TREE ROOTS I is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a digital print or photo reproduction) printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper 100% acid free. Superb impression of a finely detailed surrealist style tree whose finger-like roots entwine among pipelines, presenting a intriguing fantasy landscape. TREE ROOTS I presents smoothly shaded airbrush drawing which define the pale yellow and light purple red pipeline structures; fine pen drawing creates the tiny leaves that form the puffy clustered green foliage. TREE ROOTS I is an imaginative rendition of nature and man interlocking in the natural environment.
TREE ROOTS I is excellent condition, unframed, hand signed in pencil by Hanna Kay...
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Surrealist 1980s More Prints
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Lithograph
Le Retour de l'Enfant Prodigue
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Le Retour de l'Enfant Prodigue
Etching from 1981.
An unnumbered and unsigned copy in black, outside from signed edition of 60.
Dimensions of sheet: 49.5...
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Surrealist 1980s More Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
La Thora Rouge
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - La Thora Rouge
Etching and aquatint from 1981.
An unnumbered and unsigned copy outside from signed edition of 60.
Dimensions of sheet: 49.5 x 32.5 cm
D...
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Surrealist 1980s More Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
"Untitled" screenprint by Georgy Litischevsky from the "Kinderstern" portfolio
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Untitled" screenprint by artist Georgy Litichevsky (Georgij Litischewskij) from the "Kinderstern" portfolio, published in 1989 by Edition Domberger to raise money to house families ...
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Contemporary 1980s More Prints
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Screen