Paint Nude Prints

"Good Morning" (2021) by SarahGrace Oil and water-based ink relief print Ink on Paper Block Print, Deep Pink, Purple, Plum, Orange, Marigold Color Gradie...

An original signed unique monoprint on unbranded heavy white wove paper by American artist Dan May (1955-) titled "Home Early II", 1990. Hand pencil signed by May lower left and date...

Captivating contemporary Shunga tritych by Norobu Sawai (Japanese/Canadian, 20th Century) depicting intimate events on a Victorian couch. Presented in a linen mat with gold leaf edging in a painted and giltwood frame. Signed "Artists Proof," "Sawai" center bottom with artists chop and Sawa(i) 000'8 AP #4" on verso. Image size, 10.5"H x 13"W Noboru Sawai was undoubtedly one of the major voices in contemporary Canadian printmaking and a key proponent of post-modern direction in contemporary Canadian art. Sawai’s awareness of the cultural attitudes and values of western and Eastern cultures gave him a unique foundation from which to build his ideas. Born in 1931 in Takamatsu, Japan, Sawai eventually moved to the United States to study art. He received his BFA from Augsburg College in Minneapolis in 1966, followed by MFA from the University of Minnesota. He subsequently moved to Calgary where, from 1971 to 1993 worked as a Professor of Printmaking and Drawing at the University of Calgary, influencing many Canadian print artists of a younger generation. In 1981, Sawai established Sawai Atelier in Vancouver, a publishing house specializing in relief and intaglio printing. In his works, Sawai uses a combination of relief and intaglio, a most intriguing fusion of the Oriental coloured woodcut technique that brings together soft qualities with the more firm and linear Occidental copper etching process. He also blends the two cultures in his imagery, using Western...