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Period: 1990s
Eve
Located in Vancouver, CA
Discover "EVE," a vivid and expressive screenprint by Helen Frankenthaler, exemplifying her abstract expressionist style. Created in 1995, this artist's proof (9/16) is beautifully r...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Screen

Lunar Eclipse, by John Hogan, etching, landscape, red, brown, limited, edition
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Lunar Eclipse by John Hogan etching landscape red, brown, black limited edition ACPI © 1999 John Hogan A graduate of Northeast Louisiana State University with a bachelor's degree a...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Through The Ages by Toko Shinoda, black and white signed lithograph calligraphy
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Through The Ages by Toko Shinoda, black and white signed lithograph calligraphy 11/35 obituary published by CNN March 2021 Celebra...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

GRETCHEN DOW SIMPSON Waverly, Pennsylvania, 1991 - Signed
By Gretchen Dow Simpson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Waverly, Pennsylvania by the esteemed artist Gretchen Dow Simpson is a captivating limited edition serigraph that showcases the serene beauty and charm of Waverly, Pennsylvania. Publ...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

1997 Gretchen Dow Simpson 'Block Island' USA Serigraph Vintage
By Gretchen Dow Simpson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This striking limited edition serigraph by celebrated graphic artist Gretchen Simpson, titled Block Island, was published in 1997 in an edition of 120 copies. Known for her distincti...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

S, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Illeana II, John Kacere
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 23.5 x 31.5 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and unnumbered A.P., as issued. Notes: Published and printed by Galerie La Vigne, Paris, in an edi...
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Photorealist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original color woodcut. Reference: Dupin 1293. Published for the Jacques Dupin catalogue raisonne "Miro Graveur III" in 1992. Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (320 x 248 mm)...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Dance
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This open edition reproduction of Dance by Keith Haring captures the energy and movement for which Haring is famous. Published in France, the print is framed in a sleek black wood fr...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Untitled #10, Minimalist lithograph on vellum transparency paper unsigned Framed
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Martin Untitled #10, 1990 Lithograph on vellum transparency paper Unsigned Limited Edition of 2500 Publisher: Nemela & Lenzen GmbH, Monchengladback & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterda...
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Minimalist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Vellum, Lithograph

JUMPIN' & JIVIN' Signed Lithograph, Jazz Club, Band Musicians, Color Collage
Located in Union City, NJ
JUMPIN & JIVIN' is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the American artist James Denmark printed on archival Somerset pap...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Faith Ringgold 'Groovin' High' 1996- Serigraph Unsigned, Printer's Proof
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a printer’s proof of Groovin’ High, created by the esteemed artist and civil rights activist Faith Ringgold. Unlike the official edition, this p...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Illeana, John Kacere
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 22 x 31 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and unnumbered A.P., as issued. Notes: Published and printed by Galerie La Vigne, Paris, in an edition...
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Photorealist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

GARDEN ROMANCE Signed Lithograph, Black Couple Portrait, Lovers, Flower Garden
Located in Union City, NJ
GARDEN ROMANCE by the artist James Denmark is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed on archival Somerset paper using t...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marilyn Manson Punk Rock Concert Poster
Located in Pasadena, CA
Marilyn Manson is an icon, a figure synonymous with controversy within heavy metal music, embroiled in numerous contentious moments throughout his storied career. This signed poster, numbered 158/500, is likely part of the series promoting his 1994 concerts at the Houston International Ballroom. It embodies the vibrant creativity of its era, a time when independent artists infused their unique flair into promotional materials for punk rock and heavy metal gigs. With its captivating blend of colors, specific typography, and arrangement reminiscent of Russian Constructivism and horror movie posters...
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Post-Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Duke Ellington Jazz Music Legend African American Grammys NY Times Published
Located in New York, NY
Duke Ellington Jazz Music Legend African American Grammys NY Times Published Al Hirschfeld (1903 – 2003) Duke Ellington Sight Size: 12 x 12 1/4 inches Etching with aquatint Signed ...
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Performance 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Memory and Metaphor, The Art of Romare Bearden
By (after) Romare Bearden
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Original glossy poster, Published for the Studio Museum, Harlem, for the exhibition, April 14 - August 1, 1991. Note: This poster was created for the national touring exhibition org...
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Cubist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1991 Gretchen Dow Simpson 'Westport, Massachusetts' USA HAND SIGNED
By Gretchen Dow Simpson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This limited edition serigraph titled Westport, Massachusetts by renowned artist Gretchen Dow Simpson is a meticulously crafted piece that captures the serene and picturesque landsca...
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Realist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Walasse Ting '2 Parrots' 1990
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In this very large piece titled 2 Parrots, Walasse Ting captures a tender moment between two parrots sharing a moment of love on a branch. The artwork bursts with vibrant tropical hu...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Keith Haring 'World' Pop Art Framed 1998 Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage Keith Haring Postcard Estate Authorized 1998 Fold 'n Please Card Made In France. As the piece was designed to be folded there is a vertical fold line as issued. Framed and ma...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Jean Dubuffet 'New Orleans Jazz Band (No Text)' 1990
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Jean Dubuffet painted his New Orleans Jazz Band series in 1944, but there is no specific record of him having visited New Orleans. Instead, Dubuffet was inspired by American jazz mus...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Untitled (self portrait) By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Untitled (self portrait) By Billy Childish Billy Childish is a British artist, musician, and writer known for his raw, energetic, and often provocative approach to art and culture...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Digital

"Imagine Self Portrait" Limited Edition Drawing On Shikishi Board
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's most famous self portrait. originally drawn in 1968, this limited edition was released by Bag One Arts (The Lennon Estate) in 2000 an...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Other Medium

Composition, Poems of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Lois Mailou Jones
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on vélin paper. Paper Size: 22 x 17 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Poems of Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1996. Published by The ...
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Expressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Andy Warhol 'Diamond Dust Shoes' 1999- Poster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction poster of Diamond Dust Shoes by Andy Warhol, made in 1999, has the approval of the Warhol Foundation. It is part of a limited set of Warhol posters produced prior t...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

V, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Groovin' High
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This piece, titled "Groovin' High", is a printer's proof created by the renowned artist and civil rights activist Faith Ringgold. The print is signed and numbered, printed on heavy p...
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American Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Babar au Chapeau
By Laurent De Brunhoff
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This framed piece celebrates the beloved character Babar, the charming elephant who has captivated children and adults alike for generations. Created by Jean de Brunhoff in the 1930s...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Room For Montgomery, abstract lithograph sky blue clouds, Jim Alford, Santa Fe
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Alford lives and paints on the Galisteo plain just southwest of Santa Fe. His home and studio are situated on a land swell from which the view can only be described as wholly open, e...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Belkis Ayon Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Untitled 1994 Serigraphic 7.5x 5.5 in COA by Belkis Ayon State
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Playing Cards (9 of Clubs)
Located in Vancouver, CA
Donald Sultan Playing Card Prints - Artist Proofs (APs) We are excited to offer a rare collection of Artist Proof (AP) prints from Donald Sultan's acclaimed playing card series. Lim...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil, Aquatint

Bearden- Brown Versus Board of Education Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This powerful poster by Romare Bearden was created to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision that officially ended segregation in public education in...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Paintings & Drawings, from the Stedelijk Museum Portfolio Modern Lithograph Set
Located in Houston, TX
This complete portfolio is comprised of ten lithographs along with the original slipcase produced for the artist's 1991 retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and supplemen...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Vellum, Lithograph

"Dear Prudence" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Dear Prudence" first released as on The White Album by the Beatles in 1968 . It was written when Len...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Other Medium

Mark Rothko 'Untitled, 1969'
By Mark Rothko
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This exquisite reproduction of Mark Rothko's Untitled, originally painted in 1969 using oil on cardboard, showcases the artist's masterful use of pastel colors. Distributed by New Yo...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

SHARING THE CHORES Signed Lithograph, Farm Women Chickens Geechee Gullah Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
SHARING THE CHORES is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the acclaimed Charleston SC artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Gerhard Richter 'Two Candles' 1995- Poster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original museum poster titled Two Candles was created for the Fast Forward exhibition at the Dallas Art Museum in 1995. The artwork featur...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Robert Indiana 'Ahava, Invitation'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Ahava"—which means "LOVE" in Hebrew—is a vintage original postcard from the Flowers portfolio, created by Robert Indiana in 1995. The term "Ahava" translates to "LOVE" in Hebrew, re...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Bunny On The Run, Screenprint Poster by Keith Haring
Located in Long Island City, NY
Date: 1990 Screenprint Poster, signed and dated in plate, numbered in pencil Edition of 1000 Image Size: 28 x 20 inches Size: 32 x 23 in. (81.28 x 58.42 cm) Commissioned by Playboy. ...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Bearden-Mecklenburg Morning: Sunrise for China Lamp Serigraph
By (after) Romare Bearden
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This vibrant recreation of Romare Bearden's work, titled Mecklenburg Morning: Sunrise for China Lamp, was published by American Vision Gallery Inc. and reproduced with the consent of...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Untitled (self portrait) By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Untitled (self portrait) By Billy Childish Billy Childish is a British artist, musician, and writer known for his raw, energetic, and often provocative approach to art and culture....
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Digital, Paper

ELLA FITZGERALD Lithograph, Celebrity Caricature Portrait, Female Jazz Vocalist
Located in Union City, NJ
ELLA FITZGERALD is a limited edition lithograph by the renowned artist/caricaturist Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) printed using traditional lithography techniques on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free. ELLA FITZGERALD is an impressive black and white celebrity caricature portrait of "Lady Ella" wearing eyeglasses singing, holding a microphone in her left hand. Hirschfeld masterfully expresses her songful character using fluid black line drawing and cross hatching to create shadows and contours. Print size - 18.5 x 20.5 inches, image size - 13 x 15 in., unframed, excellent condition, unsigned printer's proof aside from the edition of 100 printed in the early 1990's. About the artist - Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Blake Edwards 'The Pink Panther Enjoying Someone Else's Sandwich' 1994
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 22 x 28 inches ( 55.88 x 71.12 cm ) Image Size: 22 x 28 inches ( 55.88 x 71.12 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Det...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Jean-Michel Basquiat 'Antar' 1992- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 4.25 x 6 inches ( 10.795 x 15.24 cm ) Image Size: 3.75 x 5.5 inches ( 9.525 x 13.97 cm ) Framed: Yes Frame Size: H: 17.25 x W: 13 x D: 1.25 in. Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details: This vintage blank...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

1990 original exhibition poster for Georges Braque’s “À tire d’aile”
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1990 original exhibition poster for Georges Braque’s “À tire d’aile” at the National Museum of Modern Art serves as a stunning testament to the enduring appeal of one of modern a...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Antillana
Located in Miami, FL
Mario Carreño "Antillana" 1993 Lithograph 64 of 120 18 x 23 in
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Surrealist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Fish Triptych - XX century, Figurative Etching Aquatint Print, small edition 7/X
Located in Salzburg, AT
The graphic is already framed. About Andrzej Juchniewicz - 1967–1972 Secondary School of Fine Arts in Gdynia-Orłowo. 1978–1983 studies at the Acad...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching, Aquatint

The Geometry Lesson
Located in Henderson, NV
In this work Singer demonstrates a cardioid , pseudosphere, ellipse, semicircle with collinear point intersects.
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Abstract Geometric 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Archival Ink

Georgia O'Keeffe-MoMA 1997 published-hardwood silver gilded frame included
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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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Wood, Adhesive, Archival Ink, Giclée

Walasse Ting 'Still-Life with Pink Cat'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 37.75 x 54.5 inches ( 95.885 x 138.43 cm ) Image Size: 27.5 x 54.5 inches ( 69.85 x 138.43 cm ) Framed: No?Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Shipping...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

"Imagine" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Very rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Imagine," first released on the LP of the same name in 1971. The best-selling single of his s...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Other Medium

Henri Matisse 'Editions du Desastre' 1992- Poster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 31.5 x 23.5 inches ( 80.01 x 59.69 cm ) Image Size: 31.5 x 23.5 inches ( 80.01 x 59.69 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Bearden- 'Carolina Shout' Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a poster titled Carolina Shout by Romare Bearden originally was created in 1967. Carolina Shout captures the vibrant energy and cultural significance of African American lif...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Rod Kennedy 'Route 66 (Black & White)' 1995- Poster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 39 x 8.5 inches ( 99.06 x 21.59 cm ) Image Size: 37 x 8 inches ( 93.98 x 20.32 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Shipping and Handling: We ship Worldwide. For Do...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

CHILDREN WITH FLOWERS Signed Lithograph, Multicultural Portrait, Smiling Faces
Located in Union City, NJ
Elizabeth Catlett - CHILDREN WITH FLOWERS 1995, limited edition lithograph printed in twelve colors using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid ...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

GARDEN ROMANCE Signed Lithograph, Black Couple, Collage Portrait Lovers, Flowers
Located in Union City, NJ
GARDEN ROMANCE by the artist James Denmark is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed on archival Somerset paper using traditional hand lithography techniques. GARDEN ROMANCE is one of Denmark's expressive, colorful collage compositions of everyday African American life - a lovely flower garden scene featuring a romantic black couple, the woman seated amid the blossoming plants wearing a green and yellow paisley print dress and head wrap; her standing male companion with flower in hand, dressed in blue denim jeans, and pastel color patchwork print shirt. Vivid coloration, watercolor patterns, and collage effect textures captivate the eye with visual variety in a striking palette of blues, greens, white, red, orange, magenta, touches of yellow, lavender and dark black - a fine example of the intricacies of hand lithography! Print size - 32 x 21.25 in., archival framing, double mat, excellent condition, pencil signed and numbered - Certificate of Authenticity provided 1 / 15 H.C. by James Denmark, publisher's chop embossed lower left corner Edition size - 250, plus proofs Year published - 1996 Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co. NJ Publisher - Mojo Portfolio...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Scarce offset lithograph: Cake Slices, for SFMOMA, Hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud
Located in New York, NY
Wayne Thiebaud Cake Slices, for the New SFMOMA (Hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud), 1996 Color Offset lithograph (hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud) B...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Alex Katz 'American Dance Festival 1998'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 59 x 35 inches ( 149.86 x 88.9 cm ) Image Size: 59 x 32 inches ( 149.86 x 81.28 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details:...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Frank Stella, Whale Watch Silkscreen on silk, hand signed 2x Lt. Ed Embossed COA
Located in New York, NY
Frank Stella The Whale Watch Shawl (signed in indelible black marker), held in red silk presentation box; also with embossed COA hand signed by both Frank Stella and Kenneth Tyler, 1...
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Abstract Expressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Silk, Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Screen

Keith Haring "Against all odds" 1990
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Untitled Year: 1990 Dimensions: 8.75in. by 10.25in. Framed: 18.75in. x 20.25in. Edition: From the rare limited edition of 500 Publisher: Bebert Publishing...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

Ten Marilyns II - Warhol, Andy - color offset (with seal) - 140 x 80 cm
Located in Winterswijk, NL
For Sale: Andy Warhol "Ten Marilyns II" This vibrant offset lithograph, based on the 1967 original, is printed on heavyweight quality paper and measures 80.5 × 140.0 cm. Published i...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset, Screen

Thomas McKnight 'Bel Air, California' 1991- RARE VINTAGE
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 27 x 26.25 inches ( 68.58 x 66.675 cm ) Image Size: 21.25 x 23.25 inches ( 53.975 x 59.055 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: In "Blue Couch", McKnigh...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Yves Klein 'Gold Leaf on Panel' 1994- Poster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rare exhibition poster from the series Collection of European Masters, published for the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen by Achenbach Editions. The museum features temporary and p...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Jan Voss 'Roland Garros French Open' 1992- Poster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Official poster designed and created for the tennis tournament held at Roland Garros French Open every year. The poster is a limited edition of 2000. First edition, unsigned and not ...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Silent Snow (Poetical imagery and Christmas memories in New England)
By Mary Teichman
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is from an exclusive edition published by Stone + Press in 1994 in an edition of 100. This impression is #98. It brings to mind the Robert Frost poem, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Mary Teichman...
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American Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Osage Sheep State II
Located in Kansas City, MO
Theodore Waddell Osage Sheep State II Year: 1994 Color Lithograph Edition: 30 Papers: Arches Cover, Black Paper Size: 22.5 x 30 inches Image Size: Same Signed and numbered by hand CO...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Imagine Self Portrait" Limited Edition Drawing
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's most famous self portrait. originally drawn in 1968, this limited edition was released by Bag One Arts (The Lennon Estate) in 1995, a...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Other Medium

1998 After Barnett Newman 'Canto XIV'
By Barnett Newman
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction, titled Canto XIV by Barnett Newman, was published by Art Edition in Düsseldorf, Germany. The print is of high quality and features Newman’s characteristic vertical...
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Minimalist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

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