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EXPRESSIONIST STYLE

While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared. 

Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.

Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.

Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.

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Style: Expressionist
The Chess Game Texture Print By Renowned Italian Artist Francesco Beda
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL APRIL 15TH ONLY** *This Price Won't Be Repeated Again This Year-Take Advantage Of It* RESTORED, numbered and RARE Vintage Textured Print Aft...
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16th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Handmade Paper

FACE OF THE NIGHT(Octavio Paz)Lithograph on Arches Paper, Abstract Expressionist
Located in Union City, NJ
FACE OF THE NIGHT (For Octavio Paz) is a limited run lithograph exhibition poster printed in multiple colors using traditional hand lithography techniques (not a photo reproduction) ...
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1980s Expressionist More Prints

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Lithograph

Ottokar Mascha Folio, plate 9: "Darmstadt Poster"by Joseph Maria Olbricht
By Joseph Maria Olbrich
Located in Chicago, IL
After JOSEPH MARIA OLBRICHT (1867-1908) DARMSTADT POSTER, 1901, (In Mascha, no. 9) One of the founding members of the Vienna Secession and a highly esteemed architect, Olbricht was c...
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1910s Expressionist More Prints

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Lithograph

"Courtisane aux Yeux Baisses" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal""
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Courtisane aux Yeux Baisses" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal" created in 1937, is an original color aquatint on Montval paper by renown French artist Georges Rouault, 1871-1958. It is signed and dated in the plate as issue. Published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris and printed by Lacouriere, Paris. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonnes by Chapon plate #276, Wofsy plate #273. The plate mark (image) is 11.75 x 8.15 inches, framed size is 20.5 x 17.25 inches. Custom framed in a wooden brownish and gold frame, with fabric matting and black fillet. Artwork and frame are in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright. Example of this artwork is held in many museums including The National Gallery of Art. About the artist: French painter, draughtsman, printmaker and designer, Georges Rouault created a personal style of Expressionism that gives him a highly distinctive place in Modern Art. Rouault was born in 1871, in the cellar of a house in Belleville, a working class quarter of Paris near the Père Lachaise cemetery, while the city was being bombarded by government troops quelling the Paris Commune. His father was a finisher and varnisher of pianos at a local factory. Rouault's grandfather was an amateur art...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Aquatint

Clown et Enfant (Clown and Child) From the suite Cirque (Circus)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Clown et Enfant (Clown and Child)" from the suite "Cirque (Circus) by Andre Suarez" created in 1930, is an original color aquatint, etching and drypoint by renown French artist Georges Rouault, 1871-1958. It is signed in the plate as issue. According to Isabelle Rouault (Daughter of the artist) the total edition was 500. Published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris and printed by Maurice Potin, Paris. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonnes by Rauch #153, Kornfeld, Klipstein Catalog 120, #134 to #144, Soby pages 110 and 120, and Ambroise Vollard Editeur by Una E. Johnson #202 and page #109. . The plate mark (image) is 12.15 x 8.25 inches, framed size is 24.75 x 21 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black and gold frame, with fabric matting, fabric spacer, and gold color bevel. Artwork and frame are in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright. Example of this artwork is held in many museums including The Museum of Modern Art, New York About the artist: French painter, draughtsman, printmaker and designer, Georges Rouault created a personal style of Expressionism that gives him a highly distinctive place in Modern Art. Rouault was born in 1871, in the cellar of a house in Belleville, a working class quarter of Paris near the Père Lachaise cemetery, while the city was being bombarded by government troops quelling the Paris Commune. His father was a finisher and varnisher of pianos at a local factory. Rouault's grandfather was an amateur art...
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Aquatint

STELLA PEREGRINA
Located in Portland, ME
Marc, Franz (German, 1880-1916). STELLA PEREGRINA. FranzHanffstaengl, Munich, 1917. Only edition. Number 25 of the limited edition of 110. Folio (18 x 13 inches), parchment-bac...
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The Norfolk Broads by Kate Heiss, Limited edition print, Landscape, Wildlife
Located in Deddington, GB
The Norfolk Broads [2022] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Oil based inks on 300GSM Somerset Velvet Paper Edition number 15 Image size:...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist More Prints

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media

Sea Of Stars, Kate Willows, Limited Edition Print, Seascape Sky Art, Affordable
Located in Deddington, GB
Sea of Stars by Kate Willows [2020] limited edition Ink on paper Edition of 40 Image size: H:15 cm x W:15 cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu im...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist More Prints

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Paper, Ink

Poplars hand-pulled serigraph by Robert Daughters
Located in Paonia, CO
Poplars is a hand-pulled, limited edition serigraph, no. 117 / 185 and is signed in pencil by the artist. Published by Aspen Mountain Graphic It is...
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20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Screen

Sangre de Christos hand-pulled serigraph by Robert Daughters
Located in Paonia, CO
Sangre de Christos is a hand-pulled, limited edition serigraph, no. 39 / 260 and is signed in pencil by the artist. Published by Aspen Mountain Graphic...
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Cottonwoods hand-pulled serigraph by Robert Daughters
Located in Paonia, CO
Cottonwoods is a hand-pulled, limited edition serigraph, no. 32 / 165 and is signed in pencil by the artist. Published by Aspen Mountain Graphic it is ...
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Ranchito hand-pulled serigraph by Robert Daughters
Located in Paonia, CO
Ranchito is a hand-pulled, limited edition serigraph, no. 31 / 265 and is signed in pencil by the artist. Published by Aspen Mountain Graphic It is...
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Corrupt Petliura Ukraine Russian Propaganda Poster
Located in Paonia, CO
Vintage Soviet Government propaganda lithographic poster titled with Ukrainian text that reads “Corrupt Petliura has sold Ukraine to the Polish landowners. Landowners burned and plundered Ukraine. Death to landowners and Petlyurovites.” Originally issued April 1920 following the Treaty of Warsaw (also the Polish-Ukrainian Agreement). The agreement was a military-economical alliance between the Second Polish Republic, represented by Jozef Pilsudski, and the Ukrainian People’s Republic, represented by Symon Petliura, against Bolshevik Russia. The artwork features Jozef Pilsudski running away with a sack of goods. Good condition. Artist unknown. The Bolshevik Era (1917-1921) was a life and death struggle for the Bolsheviks and their ideology. The propaganda poster...
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Early 20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Lithograph

Paul Klee Etching "Stachelströmung zweiten Stadiums"
Located in Berlin, DE
Helio-etching on hand-made paper, 1928 by Paul Klee. Signatur is printed, top center: Klee From portfolio Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen 1921-1930; Here no 47 Image: 5.67 x 7.48 in ( 14,...
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Four 1920's Russian Propaganda Posters by Alexander Apsit, Dmitri Moor & others
Located in Paonia, CO
The Bolshevik Era (1917-1921) was a life and death struggle for the Bolsheviks and their ideology. The propaganda poster was everywhere, as the Bolsheviks struggled to win the Civil War against the Whites and fought the Poles over control of the Ukraine and parts of modern day Belarus. The early Soviet poster - an incredible 3600 designs - was remarkable for its revolutionary fervor and biting wit. Powerful visual symbols were invented, like the red star and hammer and sickle. These four posters are as follows: 1." May 1st All Russian Subbotnik " is a Russian poster promoting the first all Russian Subbotnik held on May 1st, 1920 in which Vladimir Lenin was in attendance. "Subbotnik" were weekend days of unpaid, volunteer community service work following the October Revolution which eventually became obligatory. By Russian artist Dmitry Moor 2. " Anniversary of Vsevobuch--Develop and Learn to Defend Freedom"    celebrates the second anniversary of the implementation of universal military training and says ‘2nd Anniversary of Vsevobuch, Develop and Learn How To Defend Freedom. Artist unknown 3." Devil Doll "    The Devil Doll' (January 1920) shows a soldier pointing his bayonet at a looming monster in the first panel. However, in the second it turns out to be the weak and insignificant enemies of the state behind a pathetic mask and cloak.  Russian artist Dmitri Moor 4. " Forward to defend the Ural"    ’By Russian artist A. Petroff ( pseudonym for Alexander Aspit ) from the ´´Plakate der Russichen Revolution 1917 - 1929´´ Dmitry Moor was a Russian graphic artist, poster designer and cartoonist, also known as D. Moor ("Д. Моор"). During the 1900s and 1910s he was a comic pioneer, making satirical comics ridiculing the Czarist regime and censorship. Under the Soviet regime he became one of the most celebrated propaganda artists. Both during the First and the Second World War he ridiculed the German army. In his work Moor often made use of sequential illustrated narratives or comics. He was the house cartoonist of magazines like Budilnik and later Bezbozhnik. Alexander Petrovich Apsit was born in Riga on 25th March, 1880. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1894 and attended art school and became a student of Lew Dmitriew-Kawkaski. Aspit worked for various Russian magazines and on the outbreak of the First World War was employed by the government to design war posters. After the Bolshevik Revolution Apsit was commissioned by the State Publishing House to design revolutionary posters.
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Early 20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Screen

Chama Winter limited edition hand-pulled serigraph by Robert Daughters
Located in Paonia, CO
Chama Winter is a hand-pulled, limited edition serigraph, no. 133 /260 and is signed in pencil by the artist. Published by Aspen Mountain Graphic...
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20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Screen

Rome, Italy original signed limited edition aquatint etching by J.J. Regal
Located in Paonia, CO
Rome, Italy original signed limited edition etching by French artist J.J. Regal This is a very bold design and an original depiction of a major European city. The print is in good...
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20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Etching

Carlotta Auba by Simon Tozer, Limited edition print, Sailing, Coastal
Located in Deddington, GB
Carlotta Auba by Simon Tozer [2022] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Screenprint on Paper Edition number of 18 Image size: H:23.5 cm x W:3...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist More Prints

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Paper, Screen

London, England original signed original aquatint etching by J.J. Regal
Located in Paonia, CO
London, England is an original signed limited edition aquatint etching by French artist J.J. Regal printed on BFK Rives paper. This is a very bold design with an original depict...
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20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Etching

La Hage, Pyrenees , France original etching by J.J. Regal
Located in Paonia, CO
La Hage, Pyrenees , France  by French artist J.J. Regal is an original signed, limited edition aquatint etching printed on BFK Rives paper. This is a very bold design with an or...
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20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Luxemberg original aquatint etching by J.J. Regal
Located in Paonia, CO
  Luxemberg is an original signed limited edition aquatint etching by J.J. Regal printed on B F K Rives paper. This is a very bold design with an original depiction of a major Europe...
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Bonn, Germany original limited edition aquatint etching by J.J. Regal
Located in Paonia, CO
  Bonn, Germany is an original signed, limited edition aquatint etching by French artist J.J. Regal. Printed on BFK Rives paper this is a very bold design with an original depiction ...
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20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Trichromatic Flower-piece, Richard Hamilton multi color flower still life
Located in New York, NY
According to Gesine Tosin, Richard Hamilton irritated contemporary critics in the 1970s with a series of works -- romantic images of flowers, still lifes and landscapes, interspersed with scatological motifs. "Once exhibited, the critics regarded the paintings as evidence either of a kinky sexual aberration or an early onset of senility." (Hamilton 1982, p.79. ) Trichromatic flower-piece is one of these works, which questioned the categories of high and low art through its appropriated imagery. In the words of Richard Hamilton: “The Shit and Flowers series was was inspired in a sense by Barcelona, walking on the Ramblas where thousands of postcards are displayed. (…) I bought three pictures of flowers. I took them back to Cadaqués and began to play about with them, at first by putting a little paint on the surface.” According to Andrew Kim Tyler: “Working at Atelier Crommelynck, Paris in 1973-4, Hamilton used a traditional still life subject, a bouquet of flowers, to pursue his interest in the combination of photographic images with planes of color and hand-drawn aspects, but subverting the image with addition of a large turd. Perversely he set out to produce by manual means an etching with the characteristics of a commercially made reproduction resulting in Trichromatic flower-piece.” In addition to the edition of Trichromatic Flower-piece, Hamilton printed...
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1970s Expressionist More Prints

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Engraving, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

"And Put on the Eyes of Zedekiah" From the suite "Judges and Kings"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "And Put on the Eyes of Zedekiah" From the suite "Judges and Kings" is an original etching on Arches paper by Ukrainian/American artist Ben Zion Weinman, 1897-198...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Etching

"And Deborah, A Prophet" From the suite "Judges and Kings"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "And Deborah, A prophet" From the suite "Judges and Kings" is an original etching on Arches paper by Ukrainian/American artist Ben Zion Weinman, 1897-1987. It is ...
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Original Vintage Travel Poster Paris French Railways Notre Dame Expressionist
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster by French Railways promoting tourism to Paris featuring an illustration by a French expressionism painter Bernard B...
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1960s Expressionist More Prints

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Paper

"Then Said Samuel to the people" from the suite "Judges and Kings"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Then Said Samuel to the people" from the suite "Judges and Kings" is an original etching on Arches paper by Ukrainian/American artist Ben Zion Weinman, 1897-1987...
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"Les saltimbanques" by Marc Chagall, expressionist, figurative, lithograph print
Located in Köln, DE
"Les saltimbanques" by Marc Chagall is numbered and signed Epreuve d’artiste’ and numbered XXIV/XXV, and is apart from the edition of 50. 76,2 x 53,7 cm. This lithograph from 1969. C...
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1960s Expressionist More Prints

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Lithograph

Chama Canyon hand pulled serigraph by William Hook
Located in Paonia, CO
Chama Canyon is a limited edition hand-pulled serigraph no. 225 /260 in excellent condition. It is signed in pencil and published by Aspen Mountain Graphics. sheet size 14 x 18 image 12 x 16 For American artist William Hook ( b. 1948- ) art was a central focus in his family home and he began his career in art at an early age.. He studied at several prestigious art schools in the US and abroad. His work has been featured in magazines such as Southwest Art, Art of the West, U. S. Art, American Artist and Focus Santa Fe. The book… Leading the West… by Donald Hagerty features William Hook as one of the most notable influences on the western art scene. Publishers Harper-Collins and North Light have included his work in numerous books written about the contemporary art process in Europe and America. Hook’s paintings can be found in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Tucson Art Museum, the University of New Mexico, the FORBES Museum, NYC, and the Genesee Museum, NY as well as in many corporate and private collections. His work has also been featured in prints for the New Mexico Symphony, Music from Angel Fire...
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20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Screen

Los Ojos Village hand pulled serigraph by William Hook
Located in Paonia, CO
Los Ojos Village is a limited edition hand-pulled serigraph no. 169/260, in excellent condition. It is signed in pencil and published by Aspen Mountain Graphics. For American artist William Hook ( b. 1948- ) art was a central focus in his family home and he began his career in art at an early age.. He studied at several prestigious art schools in the US and abroad. His work has been featured in magazines such as Southwest Art, Art of the West, U. S. Art, American Artist and Focus Santa Fe. The book... Leading the West... by Donald Hagerty features William Hook as one of the most notable influences on the western art scene. Publishers Harper-Collins and North Light have included his work in numerous books written about the contemporary art process in Europe and America. Hook’s paintings can be found in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Tucson Art Museum, the University of New Mexico, the FORBES Museum, NYC, and the Genesee Museum, NY as well as in many corporate and private collections. His work has also been featured in prints for the New Mexico Symphony, Music from Angel Fire...
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Mere Biblique
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012) Title: Mere Biblique Year: 1984 Medium: Color lithograph, with collage Edition: Numbered 172/175 in pencil Paper: Arches Image...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Lithograph

II Festival de la Melodia Costa Verde original vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: II FESTIVAL MELODIA DE LA COSTA VERDE, 1961. This image for the second music festival held in Gijon, a city in north-western Spain. Located on the coast of the ...
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1960s Expressionist More Prints

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Lithograph

"Master Arthur" from the suite "Cirque de l'Etoile Filante" Original aquatint.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Master Arthur" from the suite "Cirque de l'Etoile Filante" created in 1934, printed in 1938 is an original color aquatint, etching and drypoint by renown French ...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist More Prints

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Aquatint

Air France Europe original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original AIR FRANCE EUROPE, Editions Perceval, artist: Jacques Nathan Garamond. Professional acid-free archival linen backed vintage travel post...
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1960s Expressionist More Prints

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Lithograph

Four Original Signed Etchings by Louis Jou
Located in Paonia, CO
Spanish painter, engraver, master typographer and editor Louis Jou ( 1882 – 1968 ) became a naturalized French citizen and was known as an artist of the French School . He set up his own publishing house in Paris and gained a reputation as one of the greatest typographers of the 19th century. His original etchings and wood engravings appeared in books authored by Victor Hugo, Andre Gide, Cervantes and many more. Jou’s etchings also appeared in the Gazette des Beaux Arts published in Paris. Beginning in 1859 until it’s final year in 1930 the Gazette became known for it’s role in the revival of etching as a creative process as vital as painting and sculpture. The Gazette regularly commissioned the greatest etchers of the time including such artist’s such as Whistler, Goya, Max Lieberman...
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"Galerie Maeght, " an Original Color Lithograph Poster by Valerio Adami
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Galerie Maeght" is an Original Lithograph Poster bu Valerio Adami. This poster was created to advertise Adami's show at the Galerie Maeght in 1976. The print is orange on the left s...
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1970s Expressionist More Prints

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Lithograph

"L'Artist Phoenix Poster, " an Original Colored Lithograph Poster by Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Marc Chagall "L'Artist Phoenix Poster" for Galerie Maeght from 1972. It is from the edition of 5000. 30 1/2" x 20" art 40 1/2" x 32 1/4" frame Marc Ch...
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1970s Expressionist More Prints

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Lithograph

Paul Klee Etching "Plan einer Burg"
Located in Berlin, DE
Helio-etching on hand-made paper, 1930 by Paul Klee. From portfolio Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen 1921-1930; Here no 67 Image: 5.43 x 7.32 in ( 13,8 x 18,6 cm ), Framed: 15.16 x 13.46 i...
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Secession
By Rudolf Jettmar
Located in New York, NY
Jettmar was a painter and founder member of the Vienna Secession, a group of artists founded in 1897, who rejected the more traditional and conservative styles of their predecessors ...
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Early 1900s Expressionist More Prints

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Lithograph

Paul Klee Etching "Compliciert-Offensiv"
Located in Berlin, DE
Helio-etching on hand-made paper, 1930 by Paul Klee. Signatur is printed, lower left: Klee From portfolio Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen 1921-1930; Here no 66 Image: 5.24 x 7.56 in ( 13,...
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Expressionist more prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Expressionist more prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add more prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including and Kate Heiss. Frequently made by artists working with Ink, and Lithograph and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Expressionist more prints, so small editions measuring 5.91 inches across are also available. Prices for more prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $121 and tops out at $23,505, while the average work sells for $750.

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