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Period: 1990s
Hand Colored Etching Vintage Hollywood Legends Etching with Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Titled: Birds of a Feather Ann Chernow (Connecticut b. 1936) etching. hand signed 'Ann Chernow' in pencil lower right. Numbered '5/15' in pencil lower left. Titled in pencil lower ce...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Etching

Hammam - Original Screen Print on Paper by Deanna Frosini - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Hammam is an original contemporary serigraph artwork on paper realized by Deanna Frosini. Hand-signed on the lower right. Artist's proof. Good condit...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Rainbow II, Colorful Geometric Silkscreen by Barbara Lynch Zinkel
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful geometric screenprint by American artist Barbara Lynch Zinkel. Date: 1991 Medium: Screenprint, numbered in pencil lower left, estate stamped verso Edition: 250 Image Size...
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Abstract Geometric 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Emilio Tadini Vintage Poster Exhibition - 1992
Located in Roma, IT
Emilio Tadini Poster Exhibition is an original offset poster realized in 1992, for his exhibition at Rondanini Gallery, Rome 1992. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right. Go...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Offset

'Q' (II) From 'Hockney's Alphabet' By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
'Q' (II) From 'Hockney's Alphabet' By David Hockney David Hockney is a renowned British artist known for his vibrant paintings and innovative use of technology in art. His work of...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Naona - Original Lithograph by Felicita Frai - 1992
By Felicita Frai
Located in Roma, IT
Naona is a Contemporary artwork realized by the Italian artist Felicita Frai (Prague, 20 ottobre 1909 – Milan, 14 aprile 2010) in 1992. Original 19 colors Lithograph on paper. Imag...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Four Color Quartets, Abstract Lithograph by Mel Bochner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mel Bochner, American (1940 - ) Title: Four Color Quartets Year: 1990 Medium: Four Lithographs, signed and numbered verso Edition: 8/35 Overall Size...
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Conceptual 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Interior of the Tunisian Architecture - Photolithograph - 1995
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 120 pieces and many Artist's proofs. Published in the Portafoglio "Tunisiaca 1995: d'aprés Auguste Lumière". Signed, numbered in the bottom with pen with dedication "To Giuseppe Marino".
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Bazaar - Lithograph on Paper by Deanna Frosini - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Bazaar is an original contemporary lithograph on paper realized by Deanna Frosini in 1990. Hand-signed on the lower right and numbered on the lower lef...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Voeux Banque De La Cite, Surrealist Lithograph by Wolf Vostell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wolf Vostell, German (1932 - 1998) - Voeux Banque De La Cite, Year: 1990, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, Edition: 500, Size: 11.5 x 8.5 in. (29.21 x 21.59 cm), Printer: Clot Bramsen...
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Surrealist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Caribbean Abstract Pattern & Decoration Monoprint Monotype Painting Print Obando
Located in Surfside, FL
Pierre Andre Obando creates process oriented abstract paintings. He was born in Belize City, Belize and grew up in the Caribbean, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Miami, Fl and Jackson, MS. ...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Monoprint, Monotype

Balustrade Vase C
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype collage/woodcut. Since 1985, Woodman collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark to produce monotypes, woodcuts and lithographs with the same inventiveness and exubera...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Monotype

UNTITLED (FROM 8 PLANTS X 6 = 48)
Located in Aventura, FL
From 8 Plants x 6 = 48 series. Unique color inkjet print variants on Hewlett Packard Satin-Gloss photo paper. Each is hand signed and dated by the artist. Sheet size 11 x 8.5 inches...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

TV Man, Screenprint Poster by Keith Haring 1990
Located in Long Island City, NY
A limited edition screenprint poster Keith Haring designed for Playboy. This limited edition run of 1000 was published in 1990 by Special Editions Ltd. The signature and date 'K. Har...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Leeds Station original vintage poster by Brendan Neiland
Located in London, GB
Brendan Neiland (born 1941) RA (Expelled) Leeds (1991) Lithographic poster 101 x 71 cm Signed 'Brendan Neiland 1991' and inscribed 'to Alan best wishes', both in pencil. Proof copy ...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Grande signe personnage IX
Located in Columbia, MO
Etching Biography Olivier Debré is a French abstract painter born in Paris in 1920. He is one of the main representatives of lyrical abstraction, along with Hans Hartung, Pierre Soul...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Clock Serpent - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and aquatint realized by Fifo Stricker in 1990s. Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 25. Excellent condition.
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Broadway
Located in Toronto, ON
32" x 22" Unframed Artist's Proof Serigraph Hand Signed by Melanie Taylor Kent 1990
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Angel /// Contemporary Pop Art Screenprint Blue Minimal Religious Portrait Bird
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Angel" *Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left Year: 1992 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded white wove paper Limited editio...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Johns, Paintings and Drawings
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Paintings and Drawings Year: 1991 Medium: Lithograph on premium paper, exhibition poster Size: 39 x 26 inches Condition: Excellent Notes: Published by the Leo Castelli Gallery...
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Abstract Expressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Winding Leaves, Colorful Etching by Lisa Falls
Located in Long Island City, NY
Leaves Winding from the Women's Portfolio, Brooklyn College Art Department Lisa Falls, American Date: 1990 Etching and Aquatint on Arches paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Untitled - XX, Signed Abstract Monoprint by Charlie Hewitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charlie Hewitt, American (1946 - ) Title: Untitled - XX Year: circa 1995 Medium: Woodblock Monoprint, Signed in Pencil Edition: 1/1 Size: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm)
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Monoprint, Woodcut

96-C-1
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Yutaka Yoshinaga – Japanese (1948- ) Title: 96-C-1 Year: 1996 Medium: Color spit bite aquatint with drypoint and hard ground etching. Image si...
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Abstract Geometric 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Theorbes et Belieres
Located in Wilton, CT
Beautiful example of Roberto Matta's book with 1 full color/ full page engraving and 4 black and white vignettes. On Arches. Signed on the justification page by the author and the ...
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Surrealist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Aquatint

Vintage Poster Gilardi Exhibition at Galerie Di Meo, Paris - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Gilardi Exhibition - Galerie Di Meo is an original colored lithograph realized in 1991. Hand-signed and dated 16/5/1991 by the artist on the lower right margin. This artwork was re...
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Arte Povera 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Whimsical Tim Engelland Cafe Woodcut
Located in New York, NY
Tim Engelland (American, 1950-2012) Untitled (TEE), 1998 Woodcut 8 x 9 in. Signed, dated, and numbered bottom: 94/200, T. Engelland, 1998 A lifelong artist, Engelland specialized in oil portraits and landscapes, and also worked extensively in woodcuts and linocuts. He was born on Jan. 5, 1950, in Ames, Iowa, the son of Charles Wilbur “Will” Engelland and Patricia Fairman Engelland.. Tim grew up in Terre Haute, IN, attending Fairbanks Elementary School and Indiana State University’s Laboratory School. He knew he wanted to be an artist from an early age, and was mentored by Lab School’s John Laska, graduating in 1968. He received a BFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art; was a Norfolk Fellow at Yale University; and received his MFA from Cornell University, teaching there for two years after graduation. He spent the majority of his career, from 1976-2004, at Deerfield Academy...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Aureus III - Original PhotoLithograph by Bettino Craxi - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 35.5 x 21 cm. One of the Artist's proofs of the portfolio "Aureus". Realized at the beginning of the 1990s. Signed in the bottom with ballpoint pen. Excellent co...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Layers of Each Other
Located in San Francisco, CA
This abstract monotype is by Sarah Smelser (1971-). It measures 6 x 6 inches the plate and 16.5 x 12.75 inches framed. It is titled in the lower left, “Layers of Each Other” and signed and dated in the lower right, “Sarah Smelser 1997.” It is matted with an acid-free mat and framed in brushed metal. The print, mat and frame are in very good condition. Sarah Smelser received her BA from University of California at Santa Cruz, her MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center; The Franz Masereel Center in Kasterlee, Belgium; Artica in Bilbao, Spain; Kala Art Institute in Emeryville, CA; Jentel Artist Residency in Banner, WY; and Skopelos Foundation for the Arts in Skopelos, Greece, Anchor Graphics in Chicago; and the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland. Her work is in such collections the Readers' Digest Association, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, the Spencer Museum at University of Kansas, Hallmark Corporate Collection, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Smelser has had solo exhibitions at Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld in New York City, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York City, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI, Carnegie Mellon University, Bradley University, University of Wyoming, Diablo Valley College, Luther College and Spencer College. Her work has been included in many invitational and juried shows, and been shown at numerous art fairs including Art Frankfurt, Estampa (in Madrid), the Affordable Art Fair in New York, Art Miami, Red Dot Art Fair in New York and Miami, Art Santa Fe, Art Chicago, EDITION Chicago, Boston Print Fair, Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair, Editions/Artists’ Book Fair, and the Los Angeles Art Show. Smelser's work has been reviewed in Art on Paper: The Journal of Prints, Drawings and Photography, as well as Abstract Art Online, and has been reproduced in New American Paintings. Most recently Smelser was the featured interview in Monotype, Monoprint, & Strappo Ezine. Smelser is a Professor of Art at Illinois State University and a co-founder of Manneken Press...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Monotype

Zitouna Mosque - Tunisiaca - Original Photolithograph by Bettino Craxi - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 30 x 30 cm. Zitouna Mosque - D'Aprés Lumière is a wonderful black and white photolithograph on parchment, realized in 1996 by the Italian politician Bettino Craxi....
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Crisis of the Foreign Debt and Developmen - Screen Print by Bettino Craxi - 1994
Located in Roma, IT
Crisi del debito estero e sviluppo is an original lithograph realized by Bettino Craxi in 1994. The artwork is from the portfolio "The World", Ed. Serigraph, 1994. The artwork show...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Three Faces of Jackie, Kenny Scharf
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Kenny Scharf (1958) Title: Three Faces of Jackie Year: 1998 Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper Edition: 95/150, plus proofs Size: 39.5 x 46 inches Co...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Theimer - Galerie Di Meo - Vintage Poster 1992
By Ivan Theimer
Located in Roma, IT
Theimer - Galerie Di Meo is a vintage poster. This artwork was realized in occasion of the exhibition by Ivan Theimer held at Galerie Di Meo in Paris in 1992. Ivan Theimer (Olomou...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Brendan Neiland Christ Church Cathedral Oxford Rose Window Signed Print 1996
Located in London, GB
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

1992 original poster Europe death camps in Bosnia Herzegovina - War
Located in PARIS, FR
This original poster denounces the atrocities of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It intervenes in a context of national disarray when the existence of a concentration camp in Omarska ...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Spring Love, Alexandra Nechita
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Alexandra Nechita (1985) Title: Spring Love Year: 1997 Edition: 205/250, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Size: 36 x 25 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription:...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

DAILY CHORES Signed Lithograph, Seaside Landscape, Lighthouse, New England
Located in Union City, NJ
DAILY CHORES is an original hand drawn lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the American woman artist Sally Caldwell-Fisher, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper 100% acid free. DAILY CHORES by Ms. Caldwell-Fisher presents a nostalgic look back at New England life - a refreshing seaside summer landscape featuring a brick red colored house and quintessential white light house set atop a lush green seaside overlook. A lone woman stands shading her eyes, looking toward the sea dressed in Victorian clothes...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Zitouna Mosque - Tunisiaca - Original Photolithograph by Bettino Craxi - 1994
Located in Roma, IT
Zitouna Mosque - Tunisiaca is a wonderful black and white photolithograph on parchment, realized in 1994 by the Italian politician Bettino Craxi. A rare and precious specimen, an (u...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Recital
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful Artist's Proof. Hand signed lower right. Titled and numbered lower left. Image Dimensions : 24.5 x 36.8 cm
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Color

'Y' From 'Hockney's Alphabet' By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
'Y' From 'Hockney's Alphabet' By David Hockney David Hockney is a renowned British artist known for his vibrant paintings and innovative use of technology in art. His work often e...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Children in Colors - Original Lithograph by M. Capitani - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Children In Color is a beautiful artwork realized by Mauro Capitani in the 1990s. Colored lithograph on paper. The print is hand-signed in pencil on t...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Casualty" Pop Art Homage to Andy Warhol Silkscreen 3/3
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling pop art silkscreen of hot lips and target after Andy Warhol titled "Casualty" by David Mar(American, 20th Century). Edition 3/3. Signed and dated "Mar 1991" below lower ed...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Ink, Handmade Paper

Thru the Woods
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Abstract print in earth tones from a series inspired by ground cover and vegetation. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil, this is #2 of 4. Charles Eckart was born in Oakland, Cal...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Bull and Bullfighter - Original Lithograph by José Guevara - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Bull and Bullfighter is an original artwork realized by Josè Guevara in the 1990s. Colored lithograph on paper. Edited by Fondazione Di Paolo. The lithograph is hand-signed in penc...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Casualty" Pop Art Homage to Andy Warhol Silkscreen 1/3
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling pop art silkscreen of hot lips and target after Andy Warhol titled "Casualty" by David Mar (20th Century). Edition 2/3. Signed and dated "Mar 1991" below lower edge. Image...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Ink, Handmade Paper

Butterfly's tragedy - XX Century, Abstract Etching Print, Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
Irena Snarska (b. 1934, d. 2013) Irena Snarska was born in 1934 in Lviv. She studied at the Faculty of Interior Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Between 1956 and 1...
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Other Art Style 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

"Inverosimile" no.5 - Lithograph by Piero Gilardi - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Illustration 5 From "Inverosimile" is a beautiful original lithograph on Graphia paper realized by Piero Gilardi in 1990. Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil and numbered on th...
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Arte Povera 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Red and Green Modern Abstract Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Red abstract shapes on a green and blue field by Patricia Pearce (American, b. 1948). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of other Pearce work. Presented in a ...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Plane Tree - A
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: hard ground etching and aquatint Image size: 7.5" x 5.5" Paper size: 13" x 11" Printing element: 1 copperplate Edition Size: 135 Beautiful etching and aquatint from an artis...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Flowering Tree -- Moonlight
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist; The Print Club of Cleveland stamp lower left Edition: 260 The Print Club of Cleveland Publication No. 69, 1991 Printer: Am...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Eclipse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Joel Stewart – American (1959- ) Title: Eclipse Year: circa 1997 Medium: Aquatint on heavy paper Sheet size: 34.5 x 28 inches. Signature: Signed, dated lower right. Numbered lower left Edition:14. This one: 5/14 Condition: Very good Unframed This large aquatint is by the noted American artist, Joel Stewart (1959- ). The print is a bold composition with rich, yet soft colors. Stewart has lived and worked in Kyoto, Japan since the early 1990s. This print was printed in Kyoto in 1997 in a very small edition of 14. It is in very good condition with no flaws to note. JOEL STEWART – BIOGRAPHY (source: Artist's website) SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2008 “MAKING WAVES – CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PRINTS”, PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, Phoenix, AZ., Group exhibition Solo exhibitions on hold while construction of “Crossroads” folding screen installation project (begun January 2007) continues. Kyoto, Japan 2007 “ON THE CUTTING EDGE: CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PRINTS”, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Washington D.C., Group exhibition “Crossroads”- Folding screen installation project initiated in January – Kyoto, Japan 2006 “MAHAFFEY FINE ART: 14 YEARS, 14 ARTISTS”, PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, Portland, OR., Group Exhibition “MODERN JAPANESE PRINTS: ETCHINGS”, LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Los Angeleges CWAJ NATIONAL PRINT SHOW , Tokyo, Japan, Group exhibition 2005 “JOEL STEWART – RECENT WORKS”, AZUMA GALLERY, Seattle, WA., Solo exhibition CWAJ NATIONAL PRINT SHOW , Tokyo, Japan, Group exhibition 2004 “NEW PAINTINGS”, KATO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan, Solo exhibition CWAJ NATIONAL PRINT SHOW , Tokyo, Japan, Group exhibition 2003 “20 YEARS”, VERNE GALLERY, Cleveland, OH, Group exhibition CWAJ NATIONAL PRINT SHOW , Tokyo, Japan, Group exhibition 2002 “JOEL STEWART: NEW WORKS ON PAPER”, AZUMA GALLERY, Seattle, WA, Solo exhibition “RECENT PAINTINGS”, KATO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan, Solo exhibition CWAJ NATIONAL PRINT SHOW , Tokyo, Japan, Group exhibition 2001 “JOEL STEWART – PAINTINGS”, KEIHAN ART GALLERY, Osaka, Japan, Solo exhibition CWAJ NATIONAL PRINT SHOW , Tokyo, Japan, Group exhibition 2000 “EAST MEETS WEST: TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN MODERN JAPANESE PRINTS”, CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART, Cleveland, OH “NEW WORKS ON PAPER”, AZUMA GALLERY, Seattle, WA. Solo exhibition CWAJ NATIONAL PRINT SHOW , Tokyo, Japan, Group exhibition “JOEL STEWART – PAINTINGS AND PRINTS”, REN BROWN...
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Impressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Aquatint

Ploughman's Cottage, Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire - Interior Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
Ploughman's Cottage, photograph from Richard Heeps' series, A View of the Fens from the Car with Wings. Richard Heeps is well known for documenting the unique Fenland landscape near ...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Untitled
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis Untitled 1991 Etching in colours, Edition of 19, Colour Trial Proof 119.4 x 71.1 cms (47 x 28 ins) SF17883
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Abstract Expressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"India, " Abstract Woodcut and Monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"India" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. Here, Summer's abstract language for landscape imagery is taken to its most extreme: The image offers a view of a highly stylized waterfall, with red water falling down behind green foliage below. A hint of light blue at the lower left suggests a continuation of the water's flow. Above, purples and yellows mist upward from the power of the water. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Summers' signature can be found in pencil at the bottom of the rightmost blue form, with the title and edition at the bottom of the leftmost blue form. A copy of this print can be found in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 37.25 x 24.88 inches, artwork 48.5 x 35.5 inches, frame Numbered 44 from the edition of 75 Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MoMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Monotype, Woodcut

Piano Player from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990
Located in Long Island City, NY
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Surrealist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Visit
Located in Roma, IT
Artist's Proof. Hand signed lower right. Titled and numbered lower left. Image Dimensions : 36.8 x 24 cm
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Color

Columbus Ohio State Judaica Lithograph Jewish Americana Family Reunion Portrait
Located in Surfside, FL
On deckle edged art paper. This is from a large collection of his pieces. This is not pencil signed and numbered. very small edition. Sid Chafetz (1922-) Born in Providence Rhod...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

Cirque du Soleil n.41
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Mixed technique and collage on cardboard. Passepartout included. This artwork is from the series "Cirque du Soleil" that the Italian arti...
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Surrealist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media

The Cellist, Lithograph by Branko Bahunek
Located in Long Island City, NY
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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