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Period: 20th Century
L'Etreinte II - Etching by P. Picasso - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Edition 37 of 50 prints, numbered and hand signed.
Image dimensions: 43x58 cm.
Wonderful proof on vélin in full margins, numbered lower left and signed lower right in pencil.
Realize...
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Cubist 20th Century More Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Paolo Uccello, St. George and the Dragon, 1460
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Paolo Uccello, St. George and the Dragon, 1460 (Details of Renaissance Paintings)
Medium: Screenprint on Arches Aquarelle Cold Pressed paper
Date: 1984
Ed...
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Pop Art 20th Century More Prints
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Screen
Jean Cocteau - Portrait - 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
Jean Cocteau
W...
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Modern 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Untitled (Infinity Field--Lefkada Series)
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on white wove paper. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 75. Signed and inscribed "A.P." in pencil by Stamos. Printed by Kelpra...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century More Prints
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Color, Screen
Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs'
Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs.
Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
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Naturalistic 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'182. Boletus edulis'
Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph.
From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of French, Swiss, and Belgian fungi, il...
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Naturalistic 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Pierre Bonnard Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Mosque Minaret, Swan
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from a limited edition portfolio of original lithographs print Fernand Mourlot in Paris in 1958 from work done in collaboration with Bonnard which began in 1928.
A mosque ...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Vintage Museum Press Kit (National Gallery, LACMA & Dallas Museum)
Located in New York, NY
Roy Lichtenstein
Vintage Museum Press Kit (National Gallery, LACMA & Dallas Museum), 1994 -1995
Offset Lithograph brochures, press releases, magazines and a bookmark
12 x 9 inches
Un...
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Pop Art 20th Century More Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs'
Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs.
Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
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Naturalistic 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Musee National d'Art Moderne (after) Wassily Kandinsky - Abstract
Located in New York, NY
This rare lithographic poster was printed in 1957 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris. It was created to promote an exhibition of artworks by Kandinsky, on loan from the Guggenheim Museum to the National Museum of Modern in Paris.
Certificate of Provenance:
Each individual work of art carefully curated by Mourlot Editions comes with a Certificate of Provenance, signed, dated, stamped, and numbered by Eric Mourlot. This certificate guarantees the origin and authenticity of your personal lithograph.
About the Artist:
Kandinsky was a painter and art theorist, one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Plate 7, from Derriere Le Miroir #141 (Stabiles)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder
Title: Plate 7
Portfolio: Derriere Le Miroir #141 (Stabiles)
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1963
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 15" x 22"
Image Size: 15" x 22"
Si...
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Abstract 20th Century More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Landscape India Rajasthan Light Natural Mustard Earth Blue Yellow
Located in Norfolk, GB
There is a natural and raw understanding in Mukesh Sharma’s prints that depict, and are influenced by, the Rajastani communities of his home town in rura...
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Abstract 20th Century More Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut
Original GREECE - Apollo - Olympia vintage 1956 first printing vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original travel poster: GREECE - OLYMPIA APOLLO, original vintage European travel poster. Size 23 3/8" x 31 3/8". Archival linen backed in very good condition; ready to frame. ...
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American Modern 20th Century More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nebulus
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Presenting an authentic edition work by the esteemed artist Victor Vasarely, renowned for his distinct artistic style and captivating visual language. This limited edition piece offe...
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20th Century More Prints
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Screen
Flower (1982), Lithograph, Limited Edition of 100 by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 10)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama
Flower, Edition 100/100.
Lithograph [3 plates, 3 colors, 3 runs], Collage.
Image: 22.3 x 15.5 cm.
Sheet: 35.5 x 27.5 cm.
Published in 1982 on on Velin d' Arches paper by...
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Pop Art 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Untitled, Jasper Johns. Colorful rainbow hatching on parchment
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
This print features Johns's exuberant hatching in orange, white, bright green, and purple atop collaged newsprint. Printing on translucent parchment makes the image particularly vibr...
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Abstract 20th Century More Prints
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Screen
Sonata
By Mark Tobey
Located in New York, NY
A very good, richly-inked impression of this color screenprint on Japon nacré. The deluxe, Roman numeral edition of 60 on Japon nacré, aside from the regular edition of 100. Signed a...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century More Prints
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Color, Screen
Horizon VI (blue, purple, green)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 75, Set of 6
33 x 71 cms (13 x 28 ins)
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Abstract 20th Century More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs'
Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs.
Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
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Naturalistic 20th Century More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Thistle
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Donald Baechler
Title: Thistle
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1999
Edition: 67/75
Sheet Size: 45 1/2" x 22"
Signed: Hand signed and numbered in pencil
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Abstract 20th Century 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 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
First, original edition.
The work is in Excellent cond...
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Surrealist 20th Century More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SIGNED Frank Stella poster 1980 Democratic Convention colorful vintage Pop
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Colorful vintage poster for the 1980 Democratic National Convention, held in Madison Square Garden in New York.Concentric lines of orange and bright green interweave with strokes of ...
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Pop Art 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Richard Anuszkiewicz, Six Squares - Signed Screen Print from 1969, Op Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Richard Anuszkiewicz (American, 1930–2020)
Six Squares, 1969
Medium: Screenprint on card
Dimensions: 64 x 94 cm (25 x 37 in)
Edition of 200: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century More Prints
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Screen
Freedom From Want - The Four Freedoms
Located in New York, NY
NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978) - The Freedom from want - [from the series THE FOUR FREEDOMS.] 1943.
40x28 1/4inches, 101 1/2x71 3/4 cm.
World War II poster
U.S. Government Printing Office...
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American Modern 20th Century More Prints
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Paper
Dalinean Horses The Centaur of Crete
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Dalinean Horses The Centaur of Crete
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Simeon Wajntraub & Jacques Carpentier
EDITION NUMBER: 170/25...
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Surrealist 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Original Mahatma Gandi vintage inspirational poster "In a gentle way...
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Mahatma Gandi vintage poster. Photo: Information Services of India, N.Y. In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, New York, NY.
Archival linen backed, ready to frame, Grad A condition. Condition, c. 1960s
From a series of portraits with inspirational quotes from The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Photo from the Photo Information Service of India, NY.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. (Wikipedia)
About Equitable Life. After closing to new business in 2000, parts of the business were sold off, and the remainder of the company became a subsidiary of Utmost Life and Pensions in January 2020. The Equitable Life Assurance Society (Equitable Life), founded in 1762, is a life insurance...
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American Realist 20th Century More Prints
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Offset
Pierre Soulages, Original Stone Lithograph n¨28 by Mourlot, Paris 1970, Signed
Located in Pasadena, CA
Pierre Soulages
Lithographie sur papier
Papier: 12.25 x 9.5in
Cat Bnf n° 76
Signée au dos a droite, datée 70.
Provenance : Collection privée
Épreuve parue dans le n. 34 de la rev...
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Abstract 20th Century More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
歌麿筆Utamaro Hitsu as Sealed-From Six Houses of Yoshiwara-Publisher Omiya Gonkuro
Located in London, GB
-In light of new tariffs, we’ve applied a 20% discount off the market price of this piece to support our collectors in facing potential added costs. At the gallery, we work closely w...
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Edo 20th Century More Prints
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Ink, Washi Paper, Woodcut
Historic limited edition 1960s retrospective poster British Council Pop Op Art
Located in New York, NY
After Bridget Riley
Bridget Riley Works 1959-1978: A Major Retrospective Exhibition, 1978
in collaboration with five international museums
Published by the Fine Arts Council UK
Offs...
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Op Art 20th Century More Prints
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Offset, Lithograph
Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs'
Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs.
Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
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Naturalistic 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
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....
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American Modern 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Oval Head with Dividing Line (Plate XXIX), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Oval Head with Dividing Line (Plate XXIX)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Frame Size: 21" x 18"
Sheet Siz...
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Cubist 20th Century More Prints
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Etching
"Statue of Liberty" silkscreen on paper by artist Peter Max from edition of 300
By Peter Max
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Statue of Liberty" unframed silkscreen on paper by artist Peter Max. Numbered 177/300 on front lower left corner and signed "Max" in front lower righ...
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Pop Art 20th Century More Prints
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Screen
Don Quichote
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Don Quichote
Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961.
Dimensions of sheet: 37.9 x 27 cm
Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm
Publisher: Éditions Cercle ...
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Modern 20th Century More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matadores
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Matadores
Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961.
Dimensions of sheet: 37.9 x 27 cm
Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm
Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'A...
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Modern 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Paul Jenkins - Composition - Original Lithograph
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jenkins - Composition - Original Lithograph
1964
Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm
Edition of 200 (one of the 200 on Vélin de Rives)
Mourlot Press, 1964
Paul Jenkins, American (1923 - 2012)
Paul Jenkins, an artist originally associated with abstract expressionism, exhibits in his mature works a redefining of color, light and space on the canvas surface.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1923, Jenkins worked as a teenager in a ceramics factory, where he was first exposed to color intensity and the creation of form. From age 14 to 18, he studied drawing and painting at the city's Art Institute.
Initially interested in drama, Jenkins received a fellowship to the Cleveland Playhouse, then continued his dramatic studies in Pittsburgh at the Drama School of the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Deciding to become an artist, Jenkins moved to New York City in 1948 and studied at the Art Students League. During Jenkins's three years at the League, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor were his influential instructors.
While Jenkins continued to live and paint in New York City, his personal explorations took a metaphysical turn, which would ultimately become dominant in his work.
P.D. Ouspensky's The Search of the Miracu/ous changed the artist's thoughts on human growth and limitations, while the Chinese I Ching, through its thematic emphasis on constant change, heightened his interest in flowing paint on canvas. Painting for Jenkins became an intuitive, almost mystical process. He commented, "I paint what God is to me."
In 1953, Jenkins traveled to Paris, where, a year later, he had his first one-man show. While working at the American Artists Center, he continued to experiment with flowing paints, pouring pigment in streams of various thicknesses, with white thin spills as linear overlays.
Jenkins's intent was to deny stasis and create a literal and metaphysical sense of dynamism, while maintaining a sense of unity. Beginning in 1958, Jenkins titled each canvas Phenomena, with additional identifying words. He believed the work to be descriptive of the discovery process inherent in each painting.
Paralleling his beliefs, the artist's paintings have undergone subtle but definite changes. Beginning in the early 1 960s, a shift of color saturation and exposure of the white areas gave Jenkins's canvases an enhanced feeling of illumination.
If Jenkins's technique is unorthodox, he is in many other ways a traditional artist. He works in an acrylic medium on traditional linen canvas or fine rag paper. Often he uses an ivory knife...
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Modern 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Don Quichote
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Don Quichote
Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961.
Dimensions of sheet: 37.9 x 27 cm
Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm
Publisher: Éditions Cercle ...
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Modern 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Don Quichote
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Don Quichote
Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961.
Dimensions of sheet: 37.9 x 27 cm
Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm
Publisher: Éditions Cercle ...
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Modern 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
"Stepping Out" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
By John Lennon
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Stepping Out" first released on "Milk & Honey," the final album released after his death in 1980. ...
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Contemporary 20th Century More Prints
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Other Medium
Obra inèdita recent
By Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Initialed and numbered 73/100 in pencil by Miro. Published by Sala Gaspar, Barcelona. From the same-titled suite.
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Modern 20th Century More Prints
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Color, Lithograph
Sealyham and Setter, Cecil Aldin 1930s dog lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Sealyham and Setter'
Cecil Aldin dog lithograph, 1935.
Cecil Aldin was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of...
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English School 20th Century More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jablonka Galerie exhibition poster, Köln (Hand Signed by Peter Halley)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
Peter Halley, Jablonka Galerie, Köln (Hand Signed), 1993
Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Peter Halley)
26 1/2 × 26 1/2 inches
Unframed
Alpha 137 Gallery is honored to offer ...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century More Prints
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Offset, Lithograph
Abstract Landscape Rajasthan Light Viscosity Print Natural Green Turquoise
Located in Norfolk, GB
There is a natural and raw understanding in Mukesh Sharma’s prints that depict, and are influenced by, the Rajastani communities of his home town in rura...
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Abstract 20th Century More Prints
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Le cheval de triomphe
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Pégase
Lithograph from 1970.
Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm
On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the Field catalogue.
Reference: Field 72-6G
The work is...
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Surrealist 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Les Faneuses
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Camille Pissarro
Title: Les Faneuses
Portfolio: l'Histoire des Peintres Impressionistes
Medium: Etching on cream laid paper
Date: 1906
Edition: 1000
Frame Size: 19 1/2" x 17"...
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Modern 20th Century More Prints
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Etching
Ruckus Taxi
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color 3-D lithograph in Plexiglas box. Edition 75
Red Grooms and Master printer Bud Shark began their many print collaborations in 1981 with “Mountaintime”, followed in 1982 by their first three-dimensional lithograph, “Ruckus Taxi...
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Contemporary 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
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...
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Conceptual 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Pop Shop II (4)
By Keith Haring
Located in Miami, FL
Screenprint in colors on Wove Paper. Reference Littmann, K, & Haring K. Keith Haring, Editions on Paper 1982-1990: The Complete Printed Works, Cantz, Stuttgart, 1997, p.97. Hand num...
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Pop Art 20th Century More Prints
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Screen
Wild Sunflowers original limited ed. signed serigraph by Robert Daughters framed
Located in Paonia, CO
Wild Sunflowers by American impressionist Robert Daughters. A limited edition ( 205/255) serigraph with deckle edges floating on a dark blue mat wi...
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American Impressionist 20th Century More Prints
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Screen
'Favourite Flowers' Limited edition book with signed aquatint 'Iris'
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
’Favourite Flowers (Iris)’
By Elizabeth Blackadder
A limited edition book of 100 copies specially bound for the Mercury Gallery. No 1 to 50 contain and original etching/aquatint 'Iris'. No 51 to 100 contain and original etching/aquatint 'Salpiglossis'. Each signed and numbered by the artist. All watercolours reproduced within the book by Elizabeth Blackadder and commentary by Deborah Kellaway.
Medium - Limited edition book with signed aquatint
Book Edition - 58/100
Print Edition - 8/50
Signed Book - Yes
Signed Print - Yes
Size Book - 234mm x 202mm
Size Print - 217mm x 187mm
Date - 1994
Published by Gillian Raffles. Mercury Gallery. Bond Street, London
Condition - Excellent. 10/10
Painter and printmaker, born Falkirk, Scotland. She studied at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, 1949-54. In 1954 she was awarded a Carnegie Travelling Scholarship and visited Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy and was much influenced by Byzantine architecture and mosaics. In 1956 she married the painter John Houston with whom she has since travelled widely. Flowers, cats and small objects are often arranged perpendicularly across the paper or canvas.
Elected RSW in 1960, an Associate of the RSA 1963, an Associate of the RA 1971, RSA 1972 and RA 1976, she is the first woman to be elected both RA and RSA. Blackadder has exhibited at the Mercury Gallery, London, Marjorie Parr Gallery and abroad and is a member of the Scottish Arts Club. Her work is represented in Aberdeen University, Bolton Art Gallery, Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Fleming Collection, Glasgow Print Studio, Gracefield Arts Centre, New Hall College, Cambridge, Otter Gallery, Reading Art...
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Contemporary 20th Century More Prints
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Color, Etching, Aquatint
Storm at Saint Honoré
Located in New York, NY
Richly-inked and superb impression of this engraving and drypoint on cream wove paper. This is the eighth state (of 8). Signed, dated and numbered 28/100 in pencil by Bourgeois. Publ...
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Contemporary 20th Century More Prints
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Engraving, Drypoint, Lithograph
Tanks #1.
Located in New York, NY
This 1929 lithograph by Louis Lozowick was printed in an edition of 50. Lozowick signed this impression in pencil lower right with a monogram on stone, in the lower left. The sheet...
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Modern 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
L'Escargot
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - L'Escargot
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26 cm.
Plate signed.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
First, original edition.
The work is in ...
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Surrealist 20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
"Oh My Love" Limited Edition Drawing Copper Etching
By John Lennon
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's playful double portrait of Yoko and himself . "Oh My Love" was originally drawn in 1968, this limited editi...
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Contemporary 20th Century More Prints
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Screen, Other Medium
Woman with cushion, from The Hippies
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Woman with cushion
Portfolio: The Hippies
Medium: Color etching on Arches wove paper
Date: 1969
Edition: 67/145
Frame Size: 31" x 26 1/2"
Sheet Size: 26"...
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Surrealist 20th Century More Prints
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Etching
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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Original Lowenbrau Munchen vintage beer poster with lion . (Löwenbräu München)
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Original Lowenbrau Munchen Vintage Poster with Iconic Lion - Conservation Linen Backed, Ready to Frame, Excellent Condition. (Löwenbräu München)
The Original Lowenbrau Munchen Vintage Poster with Iconic Lion is a true collector's item. This poster features the company's iconic Gothic lion design, which has become synonymous with the brand. Conservation linen backed and in excellent condition, this poster is ready to be framed and displayed in any space. The gold and blue colors of the lion add a royal touch to the poster, making it a stunning piece of art. Perfect for beer enthusiasts and collectors, this vintage poster is a timeless treasure that celebrates the heritage of Lowenbrau Munchen.
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Grapin fait le bon vin original French vintage poster
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Original vintage 1933 poster: Graphin. The silhouette of the man is sitting on a casket of wine with a big bottle of wine resting on the ground in front ...
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