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Period: 1940s
Poem III, Surrealist Etching with Aquatint and Poem by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Poem III Joan Miro, Spanish (1893–1983) Date: 1947 Etching and Aquatint on laid paper, signed in the plate Image Size: 10 x 6.75 inches Size: 15 x 11.25 in. (38.1 x 28.58 cm) Printer...
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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Apples, Glass and Knife by Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph entitled "Apples, Glass and Knife", from the suite "Dans L'Atelier de Picasso". Printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, in an edition of 50.
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Hombre contemplando la luna" signed / numbered original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and aquatint. Signed in pencil and numbered 68 of 80. Printed in 1947 on Velin de Hollande paper and published in New York by the Quadrangle Press as a speci...
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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches backing sheet, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Corres...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Harry Shokler, Island Harbor
Located in New York, NY
Harry Shokler used serigraphy to great advantage in this landscape. It's colorful and detailed. It is signed in the image at the lower left. When printmakers began making serigraphs...
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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

"Femme et Oiseaux dans la Nuit" original pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original pochoir stencil print in four colors. Catalogue reference: Dupin 50. Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for the ...
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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Matisse, Série H, var. 6 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

THOMAS HART BENTON
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HARRY STERNBERG (American, 1904-2001) THOMAS BENTON, 1943. Color screenprint on gray card stock wove paper. Edition of 30. Signed "Benton by Sternberg" in ink, by hand by the artist...
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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Matisse, Série M, var. 3 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Let's Go U. S. Marines On Land at Sea in the Air vintage WW2 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original, LET’S GO! U.S. MARINES, on Land at Sea and in the Air, 1941 vintage poster. Archival linen backed and ready to frame. Original US Government-issued fold marks were pr...
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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1944 Messerschmitt "ME-323" German transport plane identification poster WW2
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". 1944...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Matisse, Série N Gc'S, var. 2 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Composition (Duthuit N° 17), Pierre à feu, Les Miroirs profonds, Henri Matisse
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin supérieur paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by Maeght, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, January 17, 1947. Note...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Bullfighting Poster with Manuel Rodriguez Manolete, Salamancar 12 September 1942
Located in London, GB
Juan Reus (1912-2003) Original Vintage Bullfighting Poster September 1942 107cm x 53cm Juan Reus was born in 1912 in Valencia, where he became a well-known...
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Other Art Style 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Pin-Up - Telephone Call linen backed vintage pinup girl.
Located in Spokane, WA
Behold the original lithographic Petty Pin-up, a unique vertical-format piece. The see-through bathing suit she wears seems to make her glow, especially with her red hair peeking fro...
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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Rodin, Composition, La Varende, Rodin (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Varende, Rodin, 1944. Published by Éditions ...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Matisse, Série D, var. 2 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Magritte, Composition, Les chants de Maldoror (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin papier pur chiffon paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Les chants de Maldoror, illustrat...
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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Tete de Femme - Etching by Fernand Léger - 1949
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realied by Léger in 1952. Artist proof our of and edition of 100. Hand signed in pencil lower right.
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Cubist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Icare From The Jazz Portfolio, Modern Lithograph (After) Henri Matisse
Located in Long Island City, NY
Henri Matisse (After), French (1869-1954) Icare (Icarus) Portfolio: Jazz Year: Of Original: 1947 Year Printed: 1983 Medium: Lithograph Image Size: 14.75 x 9.75 inches Size: 15.25 x ...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Vintage French Fashion Poster
Located in London, GB
Vintage French fashion poster, original lithograph, by Jean Choiselat, (1947). Take a step back to the 1940s to immerse yourself in the surprising work ...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original "Think American" USA World War II vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: For a Country Where We Are Still Masters of Our Own Destinies, Let's Be Truly Thankful. Silk-screened patriotism. This is a poster meant to appeal to the American family. Soft, rich colors and a patriotic vision... This poster has been archivally mounted on linen and is in fine condition condition. Touched up pin-holes in the corners. A- condition. The Original Think American, USA World War 2 Poster is a captivating piece of history and art. This vintage poster showcases a unique design that captures the era's essence. It features a pilgrim couple gazing out to sea towards their three-master schooner, representing America's pioneering and adventurous spirit. The outline of the United States is a powerful symbol of national pride and strength. The large text along the bottom of the poster delivers a thought-provoking message, reminding viewers to be grateful for the country where they can shape their own destinies. Created and printed by Think America, a renowned brand, this poster is a true collector's item that celebrates American history and values. The ghosted image of early Pilgrims seems to reach out to the American family who are standing on an outline of the United States. The old sailing...
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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Original "First Class Soldier and Citizen, USA" vintage American poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Linen backed original post-World War II military poster "First Class Soldier and Citizen, U.S.A." Original fold marks have been restored during linen backing. The poster features a smiling Army soldier in his khaki uniform. A rare original military poster to find today. (The poster was documented as being printed in a larger size.). R-224-RPB-2-1-47 A military recruitment poster for young men to join the military post World War 2. The poster features a clean-cut, handsome man in his military uniform with crossed arms smiling at you. Artist: Glass. No known biography of this artist. This is an original 1947 vintage American poster...
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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Matisse, Couverture, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with spine-fold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue ...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Faces - Linocut Print by Mino Maccari - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Faces is a linocut realized by Mino Maccari in the 1940s. 50 x 30 cm. Handisigned in the lower right part. Edition of 12 copies. Reference; Cat. Meloni , pag 367, n.1741. Good c...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

Matisse, Série B, var. 3 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"L'Estaque" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph with pochoir coloring (after the 1883 watercolor). Printed in 1948 on Johannot paper for the rare "Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir" portfolio and published...
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Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Miseres Humaines, souvenir de Bretagne
Located in Henderson, NV
This impression (after the original woodcut) was printed on japon paper in 1943 in an edition of 250, and is one of Gauguin's beautiful Tahiti compositions. Image size: 7 3/4 x 11 3/...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lithographie IV (Duthuit 20), Repli, Gravures de Henri Matisse
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin a la forme des papeteries d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Repli, Gravures de Henri Matisse, 1947. Publ...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Going Home, Lithograph by Georges Schreiber
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Georges Schreiber, Belgian/American (1904 - 1977) Title: Going Home Year: circa 1945 Medium: Lithograph, signed and titled in pencil Image Size: 9.25 x 13.25 inches Size: 12 ...
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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Poem IV, Surrealist Etching with Aquatint Poem by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Poem IV Joan Miro, Spanish (1893–1983) Date: 1947 Etching and Aquatint on laid paper, signed in the plate Image Size: 6.75 x 5.5 inches Size: 14.75 x 11.5 in. (37.47 x 29.21 cm) Prin...
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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Matisse, Série B, var. 5 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Nice Travail & Joie 1947 stone lithograph (after) Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Nice Travail & Joie 1947 stone lithograph By (after) Henri Matisse Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was a French artist and one of the most influential figures in the development of moder...
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Contemporary 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Matisse, Série G, var. 1 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Charles Locke, McCosh Walk, Princeton University
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph is signed in pencil under the image at the lower right. Just above that, in the image, are the artist's initials and the date, 1942. This well-known walkway on the P...
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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original "The 3rd Man" 1949 original first printing vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “The 3rd Man”, 1949, linen-backed vintage one-sheet movie poster "The 3rd Man". NSS: # 49/452. Excellent condition with restored original fold m...
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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Old Man Reading
Located in London, GB
Accompanied by a lantern, an elderly man sits alone, engrossed in a newspaper. Benton used a lithographic process to draw and produce this image. He renders the face and paper well-l...
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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Matisse, Série A, var. 3 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Landscape, Hidden Rome - Etching by Alberto Ziveri - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Etching by Ziveri. Hand signed. Signed and numbered in the bottom. Editions of 20 pieces (3/20). Passepartout included. Very good conditions.
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

'Fantasia Americana, 1880' — Mid-Century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches. Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University). ABOUT THE ARTIST Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe. Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston. In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press: “The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.” The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor). Printed in 1944 at the Rene Kieffer atelier and published by Rombaldi in an edition of 300 for the rare "La Varende" portfolio. Size: 13 1/2 x...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Pablo Picasso Femme, 1942 Original etching. Bibliography: Bloch 360.
Located in Torino, IT
  PABLO PICASSO, Malaga 1881 - Mougins 1973 Non Vouloir - Visage de Dora Maar, 1942 Original Zincography. Bibliography: Bloch 360, Block books no. 36, Cramer 36, Galantaris 189, Gaya...
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Cubist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Renoir, L'arbre roux, Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches Johannot paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 15 x 10.75 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Seize ...
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Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Renoir, Paysage, Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches Johannot paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 10.75 x 15 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Seize ...
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Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Published by Tériade, éditeur, Édit...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Circus Lovers (Horse & Dog)
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an original hand signed (I believe it is also hand colored but i am not positive) Artists Proof Lithograph of a Circus scene. This depicts a trapeze artist an acrobat on the high wire. This came from a portfolio inscribed by Vertes and also signed by the Surrealist Jean Cocteau. MARCEL VERTES FRENCH HUNGARIAN 1895(Ujpest, Hungary)-1961(Paris, France) art deco artist.Vertes was born in Hungary and died in Paris, but spent a lot of time in New York as well. He was noted as a painter, illustrator, designer and scenic mural painter. His whimsical images graced the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Continuing in the footsteps of Boutet, Forain, Erte, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Concentrating upon scenes of Paris street life...
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Art Deco 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Matisse, Série N Gc'S, var. 1 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Wings For Victory, original vintage Second World War poster
Located in London, GB
Wings for Victory -- The Sky's the Limit for Wartime Saving Original vintage Second World War poster Lithograph 50 x 37 cm Dated to 1943 This 'Wings for Victory' poster was a prop...
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Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Paco Reyes Presenta Su Ballet Teatro con y Gloria Libran vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Musical Dance Flamenco Spanish Caseres & Arseni Theatrical/Musical Theatrical 1940s. Ballet Teatro. 1941. Artists: AMADEU ASENSI AND RAFAEL CASERES The ...
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Art Deco 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Venus de Milo
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: offset lithograph (after the Rodin watercolor). Printed in 1945 on Vélin de Lana paper and published in Paris by the Musée Rodin in an edition of 2500. Image size: 7 x 4 1/4 ...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Venus de Milo
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: offset lithograph (after the Rodin watercolor). Printed in 1945 on Vélin de Lana paper and published in Paris by the Musée Rodin in an edition of 2500. Size: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Renoir, Le Chemin tournant, Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches Johannot paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 10.75 x 15 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Seize ...
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Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Renoir, L'Estaque, Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches Johannot paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 10.75 x 15 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Seize ...
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Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Renoir, Les Martigues, Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches Johannot paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 15 x 10.75 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Seize ...
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Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Bowling Green, New York
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Conrad Rosenberg, 'Bowling Green, New York', etching, 1940. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with all the fine lines printing c...
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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

Kollwitz, Self-Portrait (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Kathe Kollwitz, Ten Lithographs. Published by Henry C. Kleemann and...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Morning Paper
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Alessandro Mastro-Valerio, 'Morning Paper', 1941, mezzotint, edition 350. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, luminous impression, on cream, wove paper, with wide margins (1 9/16 to 1 13/16 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards; unframed. 32nd Presentation Print of the Chicago Society of Etchers, 1941, with the Chicago Society of Etchers blindstamp in the bottom, left margin. ABOUT THE ARTIST Painter and printmaker Mastro-Valerio was educated at the Salvador Rosa Institute in Naples, Italy (1906-1912), and came to the United States in 1913. He settled in Chicago and after a brief period as a commercial artist, established a reputation as a portrait painter. Among his patrons were the industrialists Harvey S. Firestone and Anheuser Busch. Mastro-Valerio was also the owner and editor of the progressive magazine 'La Tribuna Transatlantica'. He wrote and published articles supporting the cause of Italian immigrants. He helped form the Giordano Bruno...
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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint

Gauguin, Offerings of Gratitude (Maruru), Gauguin (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin Utopian paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Gauguin, A portfolio of 12 color woodblocks, Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903 from the collection of the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946. Rendered by Albert Carman (1899-1949); published the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston and The Studio Publications, Inc., New York and London; printed by Holme Press Inc., New York, in an edition of MMMD. Excerpted from the folio, Paul Gauguin and Emil Bernard at Pont-Aven, Brittany, in 1888, each made a bas-relief, wooden panel to decorate a piece of furniture for a friend. In order to keep a record of their designs, a few inked impressions were made on paper. The illustration at left is a reproduction of a print which is possibly one of the above mentioned. It is further possible that this experiment later gave Gauguin the idea of making woodcuts. Just as his work in painting expressed a revolt against the overemphasis on factual representation of the nineteenth century in favor of decorative pattern and color, so also his woodcuts leaned strongly to the same side of the balance. Ten of the cuts reproduced (all excepting Soyez Amoureuses and Changement de Residence), which constitute the whole of his best known series, were made at Pont-Aven beginning in the fall of 1894, after Gauguin's return from his first trip to Tahiti and after he broke his ankle. They were at first roughly cut with a common carpenter's gouge, and the flat surfaces sandpapered and engraved with a sharp in-strument, perhaps an engraver's burin. A few trial proofs were printed in black ink only. Then the hollows were deepened with a woodcutter's gouge and highlights were added. An edition of thirty to fifty impressions of each subject, with the addition of color blocks (one, two or three), was made by Louis Roy...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Published by Tériade, éditeur, Éditions de la Revue Verve, Paris; printed by Draeger Frères, Paris, February 1943. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This Manuscript entirely painted by Georges Rouault was engraved by the Master Printers, Draeger Frères and finished printing by them in February 1943 under the direction of Tériade for the Éditions de la Revue Verve. It was taken from this volume: XL examples on papier de Chine ancien with suite, numbered from I to XL, MCC examples on vélin d'Arches made especially for this volume numbered from XLI to MCCXL and XXX examples on Arches marked from I to XXX. GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance. Rouault was born in a cellar in Paris during a bombardment of the city by the forces opposed to the Commune. His father was a cabinetmaker. A grandfather took an interest in art and owned a collection of Honoré Daumier’s lithographs...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Orangerie Des Tuileries (after) Pierre Bonnard, 1947
Located in New York, NY
This original lithographic poster was designed after Pierre Bonnard, for the Orangerie Des Tuileries in 1947. This work encompasses still life as this table set takes center stage. Bonnard was a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

untitled (Duck taking to flight, flushed by a dog)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Duck taking to flight, flushed by a dog) Drypoint & Aquatint, c. 1940 signed lower right Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis, after his ...
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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

Two Women and Child, Lithograph by Raphael Soyer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raphael Soyer Title: Two Women and Child Year: circa 1950 Medium: Lithograph on paper, signed in pencil l.r. Image Size: 11 x 9.5 in. (27.94 x 24.13 cm) Frame Size: 20 x 17.5...
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Expressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

A Careless World ...A Needless Sinking original 1942 vintage World War 2 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage World War 2 poster: A Careless Word … A Needless Sinking. A Careless Word ... A Needless Sinking. Linen backed origin...
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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

"The Covered Wagon" On the Oregon Trail Prairie Schooner Horseman and Cattle
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Covered Wagon" On the Oregon Trail Prairie Schooner and Cattle Facsimile in oil or silk screen Oil print by Gilbert Ross Tonge (American, 1883 - 1970...
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American Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Oil, Illustration Board, Screen

'Together' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Together', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1946, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '22/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 7/8 to 5 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 5 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (149 x 124 mm); sheet size 15 x 11 1/8 inches (381 x 283 mm). Collection: Indianapolis Museum of Art. Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945 and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions. “The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.” —Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’ ABOUT THE ARTIST Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature. Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research. Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June. Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages." In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking. Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...
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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Picasso, La Petite Colombe (Mourlot 174; Cramer 55) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Executed in 1949 and issued as the frontispiece of the Picasso Lithograph...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1946 at the atelier Quesneville on BFK Rives paper and published in a limited edition of 300 for the "Alternance" portfolio (a collective art and...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Original 'The Evergreen Playground' Easter Washington State map
Located in Spokane, WA
Original The Evergreen Playground Kroll Map Company vintage poster. Archival linen backed in fine condition. A- condition with only 1 small repair on the outer border in the white area. No tears nor stains. This map was originally drawn during the Great Depression by Ed Poland, Chief Cartographer of many years here at Kroll Map Company. A pictorial bird's eye view of the Puget Sound...
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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Grande masque
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse Grande Masque 1948 Aquatint on Marais paper, signed in pencil and numbered 11/25, there were also 5 artist’s proofs. Signed, dedicated "à Nadia Sednaoui" and inscribed ...
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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Original Normandie 1935 cruise line vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original French Line Normandie horizontal cruise line shipping lithograph. Artist Albert Sebillle with signature in the plate, lower right corner. Arch...
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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

'Interim' from the series 'Graphic Tectonics' —Mid-Century Geometric Abstraction
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Josef Albers, 'Interim' from the series 'Graphic Tectonics', zinc plate lithograph, 1942, edition 30, Danilowitz 101. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '3/30' in pencil. A fine imp...
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Abstract Geometric 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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