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Period: 1990s
Mother to Son, Sunrise Is Coming After While
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 14 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Bookmarks in the Pages of Life, 1998. Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York; printed by Drexel Press, Inc. Long Island City, 1998. Excerpted from the folio, CCC examples, designed, hand-set in Monotype Perpetua, printed, and hand-bound by Michael and Winifred Bixler, Skaneateles, New York. Paper made in France at Arches. Silkscreens printed by the Drexel Press, Inc. Long Island City, New York. PHOEBE BEASLEY...
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Expressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

'Storm Showers' 1990- Serigraph- Signed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The piece Storm Showers by Bruce Paul Helander, featuring a bather in a bathtub with water surging upwards, interweaves advertising elements in a collage-like style reminiscent of po...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Christo, 'Wrapped Trees Vertical', Lithograph, 1998
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Christo (1935 - 2020) Title: Wrapped Trees Vertical Size: 31" x 23" inches Type: Lithograph Poster Hand Signed Christo was born in 1935 in Gabrova, Bulgaria. (He would drop ...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Original "Rimini" vintage poster woman on beach holding the sun
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage travel poster for the city of Rimini by the poster artist Rene Gruau. Size: 27.25" x 39". Excellent condition. Paper. An original poster was created for the cit...
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American Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

JASPER JOHNS Two Cups Picasso, Lithograph Pop Art Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Currently framed in a light wood frame with a face profile width of .5 inch and side profile depth of 1 inches with plexiglass. The overall outside dimensions of the frame are 8.5 X...
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Cubist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Guys and Dolls" Broadway Musical Tony Awards Signed Nathan Lane & Faith Prince
Located in New York, NY
"Guys and Dolls" Broadway Musical Tony Awards Signed Nathan Lane & Faith Prince Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) "Guys and Dolls" Lithograph on heavy pape...
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Performance 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching, Lithograph

"I'm Losing You" Framed Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "I'm Losing You" first released on "Double Fantasy" in 1980. It was written when Lennon was in Bermu...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Other Medium

Signed John Baldessari print 1991 (Baldessari Love and Work)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
John Baldessari Love and Work 1991: Baldessari’s Love & Work 1991, photogravure and color aquatint, features clasped hands clutching surrealistically amidst a black background. Classic, timeless Baldessari imagery that is sure to work well in any setting. Medium: Color photogravure and aquatint on wove paper. 1991. Dimensions: 26 x 11.5 inches. Well-preserved and in very good overall condition. Framed in acrylic plexiglass. One of the 15 numbered artist's proofs, aside from the general edition of 60. Signed, inscribed "A.P." and numbered 12/15 in pencil, lower margin. Published by Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York. Collections: MoMa New York John Baldessari: It is hard to characterize John Baldessari's varied practice—which includes photomontage, artist’s books, prints, paintings, film, performance, and installation—except through his approach of good-humored irreverence. Baldessari is commonly associated with Conceptual or Minimalist art, though he has called this characterization “a little bit boring.” His two-dimensional works often incorporate found images, composed in layers or presented as distinct pieces with an element of surprise, like a brightly colored geometric shape in the place of a face or a starkly printed sardonic caption. Baldessari has demonstrated a lasting interest in language and semantics, articulating these concerns through the use of puns or the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated images and words, as in his 1978 work Blasted Allegories. His self-referencing photomontages and use of text have been sources of inspiration for countless artists, including Cindy Sherman, David Salle, and Barbara Kruger. Baldessari identifies his own artistic lineage, saying, "I would prefer to go to the source with Duchamp rather than credit Warhol as an influence." Related Categories: Surrealist. Ed Ruscha. Los Angeles. Conceptual art. Photography. Minimalist. John Baldessari prints.
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Photogravure, Lithograph, Screen

Autumn Leaves Always, Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by Robert Goodnough
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Goodnough Title: Autumn Leaves Always Year: 1992 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150, A/P Image: 23 x 31.5 inches Size: 27.5 x 39.5 in. (6...
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Minimalist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Diego Rivera 'Indigenous Woman with Corn Stalks' 1999- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Published and distributed by New York Graphic Society Paper Size: 36 x 19.5 inches ( 91.44 x 49.53 cm ) Image Size: 31 x 15.5 inches ( 78.74 x 39.37 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: V...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Mark Rothko 'Red, Orange'
By Mark Rothko
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Poster advertising the National Gallery of Art, Washington, featuring Mark Rothko’s Red, Orange. This stunning piece reflects Rothko’s masterful use of color fields, evoking deep emo...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

"The End" Ed Ruscha Lithograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Signed, numbered (17/50), 1991, three-color lithograph by superstar American artist, Ed Ruscha (b. 1937). Printed by Hamilton Press, Venice, CA. Pop-Art sensibility and Hollywood-...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Ink

Line Drawing No.1
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
George Dannatt (1915-2009) Line Drawing No.1 1996 Etching Editions available: Artists Proof, Horizontal signed by George Dannatt Image measures: 12.5 x 16.5 cm George Dannatt’s lon...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Untitled 90-13
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype.
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Monotype

Exibition Print from “ Vibrazioni” by Miller Null - Vintage Photograph - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Exibition print from “ Vibrazioni”  is a vintage photographic print on color paper applied on cardboard realized by Harold Miller Null in 1990 Hand signed and dated on the lower rig...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper

Heart Series V, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Heart Series V Year: 1998 Edition: 300/300, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Coventry Smooth paper Size: 5 x 4 inches Condition: Excellent Inscriptio...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Heart Series I, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Heart Series I Year: 1998 Edition: 130/300, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Coventry Smooth paper Size: 5 x 4 inches Condition: Excellent Inscriptio...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Roy Lichtenstein 'Crying Girl' 1994 Pop Art Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Crying Girl is one of Roy Lichtenstein's most iconic works, epitomizing his mastery of Pop Art with its bold Ben-Day dots, comic book style, and emotionally charged subject. This ima...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

HAJIME SORAYAMA, JAPAN, B. 1947, EROTIC FEMALE, SIGNED & NUMBERED
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Hajime Sorayama, Japan, b. 1947 Size: 17" x 24" Medium: Lithograph on High Gloss Paper Signature: Lower Left Subject: Nude Female in Black Leather Jacket and Boots, Urinating...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Rowboat
Located in New York, NY
Although best known for his portraits, Katz has depicted landscapes both inside the studio and out of doors since the beginning of his career. This print of a boat on the water feat...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Invierno Primaveral (Sexual Spring-like Winter)
Located in New York, NY
Julian Schnabel Invierno Primaveral, 1995 Hand-painted, 17-color screenprint with poured resin 40 x 30 inches (102 x 76 cm) Edition of 80 signed in pencil and stamped on verso ...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Rod Kennedy 'Route 66 (Black wtih Ivory)' 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

BOSTON PUBLIC GARDEN Signed Lithograph, Boston Park, Fall Foliage, Swan Boat
Located in Union City, NJ
The limited edition lithograph BOSTON PUBLIC GARDEN is a stylized Boston park landscape scene that combines the real and the surreal. Created in 1990 by the Iowa born artist Jim Buckels(b.1948) known for his dream-like images, rendered in a meticulous, modern airbrush technique. BOSTON PUBLIC GARDEN was printed using hand lithography techniques(not a photo reproduction or digital print) on archival Arches printmaking paper displaying very fine details and superb craftsmanship. BOSTON PUBLIC GARDEN is an intriguing, imaginative composition with delightful city park imagery including the famous swan boats...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Edouard Manet 'The Waitress' 1996- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 39.5 x 24.5 inches ( 100.33 x 62.23 cm ) Image Size: 31.25 x 24.5 inches ( 79.375 x 62.23 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B-: Good Condition, Signs of Handling and Age Sup...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

David Hockney, Letter H, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by David Hockney (born 1937), titled Letter H, from the folio Hockney's Alphabet, Drawings by David Hockney, originates from the 1991 edition published by A...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Hinterstoisser - Mezzotint by Piero Ruggeri - 1992
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Edition of 60 pieces. Mezzotint and Carborundum print. Diffused foxing.
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint

Mother Goose, Children's Art Screenprint by Maurice Sendak
Located in Long Island City, NY
A traditional children's illustration-style print of Mother Goose, sitting on a stack of books and writing down stories on a scroll. She is elaborately dressed in striped trousers, a...
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Folk Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Dixie's
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 75. Red Grooms is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, and showman par excellence. His major installations, “Ruckus Manhattan”, “The City of Chicago”, and “Tut’s Fever” have stretched the boundaries of sculpture and painting and excited the imaginations of thousands of viewers. Red Grooms and Master printer Bud Shark began their many print collaborations in 1981 with “Mountaintime”, followed in 1982 by their first three-dimensional lithograph, “Ruckus Taxi”. The range of prints produced by Grooms and Shark include `flatsos’, flat-color lithographs, like “Elvis” and “Van Gogh with Sunflowers”, three-dimensional lithographs, “London Bus”, “Little Italy” and “Times Square”, three-dimensional lithographs with moving parts, “Red’s Roxy”, and “Holy Hula”, woodcuts, “Noa...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Smoking Blonde, Pop Art Screenprint by Allan D'Arcangelo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Smoking Blonde Allan D’Arcangelo, American (1930–1998) Date: 1990 Screenprint, signed, numbered and dated in pencil Edition of 57/65 Size: 37 x 46.5 in. (93.98 x 118.11 cm) Frame Siz...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Cosmic Runner (Retro Suite I), Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Cosmic Runner (Retro Suite I) Year: 1994 Edition: 137/300, plus proofs Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Size: 11 x 11 i...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

歌麿筆Utamaro Hitsu as Sealed-From Six Houses of Yoshiwara-Publisher Omiya Gonkuro
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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Edo 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Washi Paper, Woodcut

Dennis Simon 'Sixth Annual Monterey Vintage Sports and Race Car Auction' 1991
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 31.5 x 19.5 inches ( 80.01 x 49.53 cm ) Image Size: 30 x 19 inches ( 76.2 x 48.26 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Shipping ...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Seascape, Abstract Expressionist Aquatint by Alison Hildreth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Alison Hildreth, American (1934 - ) - Seascape, Year: 1995, Medium: Aquatint, signed, dated and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 14.5 x 21.5 inches, Size: 15.5 x 22 ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Full Moon Night. Limited Edition of 50 (print) by Yoshitomo Nara signed
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Full Moon Night (from "In the Floating World" series) Fuji Xerox copy print Signed, dated, and numbered 11/50 in pencil. Image: 29.5 x 41.5 cm. Sheet: 29.5 x 41.5 cm. BSS No. : E-199...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Color

Greg Van Alstyne 'Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design' 1995 Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Poster created for an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1995. Greg Van Alstyne is a Canadian designer, researcher, and educator whose work bridges design, media, and f...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Flowers In Vase
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a high-quality reproduction of Flowers in Vase by Henri Rousseau, presented as a Museum Reproduction Edition serigraph. Printed by Editions Limited in 1991 and published by G...
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Impressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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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

Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled 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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Robert Natkin Abstract Lithograph Signed Numbered
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY Soft pastel colors in floating smudges lay between and around lyrical abstract geometric and organic forms giving a diaphanous color and shape harmony to the work...
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Abstract Expressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Donald Lipski 'Roland Garros French Open' 1995- Poster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In 1995, American sculptor Donald Lipski was commissioned to design the official poster for the French Open at Roland Garros. Known for his innovative installations and large-scale p...
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Abstract Impressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Prizma VI (Geometric Abstraction)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Prizma VI Color silkscreen Signed and titled by hand Size: 20.3 × 20.3 on 28.9 × 25.0 inches COA provided Marko Spalatin was born in Zagreb, Croatia. He immigrated to the US in his ...
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Abstract Geometric 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

1995 After David Hockney 'Dog Painting 43' Pop Art Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In the mid-1990s, David Hockney was deeply devoted to his two miniature dachshunds, Stanley and Boodge, who became his constant companions and artistic muses. Their presence inspired...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Boudoir
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Erté Title: Boudoir Medium: Embossed serigraph Year: 1991 Edition: 290/300 Sheet Size: 41 3/4" x 29 1/4" Image Size: 35 1/4" x 23 1/4" Signature: Stamped signature
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Surrealist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

DREAMING Signed Lithograph, Seaside Landscape, New England Woman, Boat
Located in Union City, NJ
DREAMING is an original hand drawn lithograph by the American woman artist Sally Caldwell-Fisher, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper 100% acid free. D...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart, 25th Anniversary, Lithograph by Robert Motherwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Motherwell, American (1915 - 1991) Title: Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart, 25th Anniversary Year: 1991 Medium: Lithograph and Screenprint on ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Screen

Monoprint with screenprint collage acrylic, stitching & embossing Signed, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Monoprint with screenprint, collage, acrylic, stitching and embossing in colors on handmade paper, 1994, signed, dated, titled, and numbered 10/40 (each unique) in black and silver i...
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Abstract Expressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Screen, Rag Paper, Acrylic, Thread

Untitled (XX) (Abstract, Red, Grey) (25% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Barbara Keidel Untitled (XX) (Abstract, Red, Grey) Linocut 1996 Edition: 3 Numbered and dated by hand in pencil Size: 9 x 8.25 inches (22.86 x 20.95 cm) COA provided Tags: Abstr...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

VICTOR VASARELY - OEUVRES PROFONDES CINETIQUES VIII - 1973
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Victor Vasarely Title: Profound Works VIII Year: 1973 Not signed or numbered, as published Dimensions: 12 in. by 12 in. Framed Edition: From the Rare Limited Edition Publisher: Editions du Griffon Neuchatel Suite: Profound Works Medium: 3D, Serigraph on Acitate Over Serigraph on Paper Condition: Excellent Victor Vasarely (French/Hungarian, 1906–1997) is known as the father of the Op Art movement. As a painter, he created intricate abstractions that suggested depth and dimensionality using a variety of optical illusions, with surfaces seeming to bulge out of the canvas. His works present color, form, and pattern as a single interconnected element—a concept that was critical to the foundation of the Op Art movement and the focus of his mature works. Vasarely initially studied medicine at the Budapest University in his early 20s, only to abandon his medical studies to attend to the Muhely Academy, the center of the Bauhaus movement in Budapest. While there, he was profoundly influenced by the work of color theorist and artist Josef Albers, as well as the Constructivist methods promoted by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky. While Vasarely’s earlier work was concerned more with color theory, during the 1950s and 1960s his work became more focused on the optical potential of the two-dimensional surface. He began to use complex and colorful patterns to actively engage the viewer’s eye, and to convey a sense of kinetic energy across the two-dimensional surface. Vasarely’s work was heavily influenced by his time spent at Breton Beach of Belle Isle...
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Op Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Roseville Bouquet, Pop Art Screenprint on Paper by Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Roseville Bouquet Peter Max, German/American (1937) Date: 1991 Screenprint on Paper, signed and numbered in color pencil Edition of 33/300 Size: 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm) Frame S...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Poems of W.B. Yeats (with 6 Etchings by Richard Diebenkorn, ~21% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Richard Diebenkorn Poems of W.B. Yeats (with 6 Etchings by Richard Diebenkorn) Year: 1990 Size: 10.5 x 8.25 (26.67 x 20.95 cm) (each) Edition: 314 of 400 Signed in pencil “R Diebenko...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

La Prière - PhotoLithograph by Bettino Craxi - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 22.5 x 19 cm. Editions of 50 pieces (XVIII / L). Published in the Portfolio "La Prière". Signed and numbered on bottom left in pencil.
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Roy Lichtenstein 'Water Lilies with Japanese Bridge' 1994
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Lichtenstein reinterprets MonetÕs iconic subject through his Pop Art lens, transforming the Impressionist water garden into bold comic-inspired forms with flat colors and Ben-Day dot...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

First Row Orchestra
By Edward Hopper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Edward Hopper's "First Row Orchestra," originally painted in 1951, captures the quiet anticipation of theatergoers seated in the front row, awaiting a performance. In 1997, Achenbach...
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American Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Francesco Clemente, Geography, North
Located in New York, NY
NORTH Year: 1992 Medium: 2-color, soft ground etching Paper Size: 28 x 25 inches (71 x 64 cm) Plate Size: 19 x 18 inches (48 x 46 cm) Edition: 60 Price: $6,000 Suite of four also a...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Basquiat Boxing Poster 1997
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat boxing poster 1997: This rare double-sided 1997 Basquiat boxing poster was published on occasion of the 1990s exhibition, “Jean-Michel Basquiat Works and Portraits” at Parco...
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Street Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Basquiat Boxing Poster 1997
Basquiat Boxing Poster 1997
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Late Night (Where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope)
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Late Night", Frederick Mershimer created a winter scene where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope. This image, the seventh in t...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint, Aquatint

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

Kiki Smith Collage/Lithograph Various Flying Creatures "moth" Signed Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
A collage lithograph from her series Various Flying Creatures by Kiki Smith titled: "moth." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figures f...
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American Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

di Auguri, rare etching by famed Italian sculptor SignedN, museum de-accession
Located in New York, NY
Arnaldo Pomodoro di Auguri, 1992-1993 Etching on art paper Hand signed, numbered 69 from an edition of 100 and dated by the artist on the front Frame Included This uncommon limited e...
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Abstract Geometric 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Robert Mapplethorpe 'Antinous' 1994
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This striking image by Robert Mapplethorpe, titled Antinous, reflects the artist’s deep engagement with classical form and idealized beauty. Featuring a statue of Antinous—beloved of...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

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