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Period: 1990s
Ellsworth Kelly, Westfalischer Kunstverein
Located in New York, NY
Publisher: Westfalischer Kunstervein, Munster Signed in pencil on recto
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Fra van Gogh Til Gerhard Richter, Hand signed by Gerhard Richter museum poster
Located in New York, NY
Gerhard Richter Fra van Gogh Til Gerhard Richter (From Van Gogh to Gerhard Richter) - Hand signed by Gerhard Richter, 1994 Offset lithograph (Hand Signed) Hand signed in black marker...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset, Permanent Marker, Lithograph

Quinteto Matancero
Located in Miami, FL
Cundo Bermudez "Quinteto Matancero" 1994 Lithograph 30 x 43 in Cundo Bermúdez was a Cuban painter known for his colorful depictions of figures and patterns. In works such as The Bal...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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

MICHEL DELACROIX Train, 1991 - SIGNED
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 26.25 x 30 inches ( 66.675 x 76.2 cm ) Image Size: 19.75 x 24 inches ( 50.165 x 60.96 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional De...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Three Abstract Figures Carborundum Etching 10/30
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Carborundum Etching, artist signed edition 10/30, 60"hx40"w (with or with out the frame). Pierre Marie Brisson French b. 1955 - one of the most talented contemporary artists. Bris...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

1990 Razzia's original poster - Automobiles Classiques avec Louis Vuitton
Located in PARIS, FR
In 1990, the celebrated artist Razzia crafted a captivating poster seamlessly blending classic automobiles, luxury fashion by Louis Vuitton, and the iconic Bugatti "Royale" cars. Thi...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Pablo Picasso, Le Repos du Sculpteur, I
Located in Chatsworth, CA
(after) Pablo Picasso Le Repos du Sculpteur, I from La Suite Vollard Bloch 171 Lithograph on Montval laid paper 1990 12.75 x 18 inches Facsimile signature Numbered 167/300 Authorize...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Mechanical Parrots - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1997
Located in Roma, IT
Mechanical Parrots is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1997. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower rig...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

1990 Javacheff Christo 'Wrapped Vestibule, Sydney, Australia
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 25.75 x 26 inches ( 65.405 x 66.04 cm ) Image Size: 25.75 x 26 inches ( 65.405 x 66.04 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Soyez Heureux! - BE HAPPY! Signed Hand Drawn Lithograph, Bride, Paris Wedding
Located in Union City, NJ
SOYEZ HEUREUX! is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the French artist Michel Delacroix, printed on Arches paper, 100% acid free. Portrayed in Delacroix's popular and recognizable naive style, Soyez Heureux! depicts a vintage Paris street scene of a wedding party complete with horse drawn carriage and happy Bride and Groom...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Set of 4 Signed Gordon House Limited Edition Etchings 27/30
Located in Brecon, Powys
Signed, inscribed and dated number 27/30 1998 Originally distrbuted by Alan Cristea Gallery London Each Frame 11.5" x 9.75" Gordon House produced many of his own prints first at K...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," first released on "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Other Medium

"Revolution" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Revolution," first released on The "White Album" by the Beatles in 1968 This limited edition was r...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Other Medium

Bom Boy with Workers and Traffic - digital print by Jane Alexander - 1999
Located in Roma, IT
Bom boy with workers and traffic  is an original contemporary artwork realized by Jane Alexander in 1999. Black and white pigment print on cotton paper. Hand signed and numbered. E...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Digital

Landscape with Philosopher ORIGINAL SERIGRAPH
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Landscape with Philosopher" by Roy Lichtenstein, Unsigned Serigraph printed in 1996 from an edition size of 1000. The overall size of the ...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Valentine for Mr. Wonderful
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler Title: Valentine for Mr. Wonderful Year: 1995 Medium: 7 Original color etchings, aquatint, engraving, and embossing printed from 11 copper plates and five...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph

Rupert Everett
Located in CANNES, FR
Karl Lagerfeld ( 1933 -2019 ) Kaiser de la Mode ! Photograph , dessinateur , designer ... " Rupert Evrett " , magnifique litho-photographie sepia de 1997 , d'un ensemble de modèles...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Ohio Art Modern Americana Patriotic Lithograph American Flag Attentive Patriots
Located in Surfside, FL
Sidney Chafetz Print Catalogue Raisonné. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. Medium: Lithograph. Print Image Size: 21 3/4 x 26 1/4 inches. Print Edition: 10. This is not signed or number...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

Colorful Abstract Silkscreen by Stephen Ellis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stephen Ellis, American (1951 - ) Title: Untitled Year: 1993 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 12/20 Paper Size: 34 x 26 inches
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

JAPANESE KIMONO Signed Lithograph, Blonde Woman White Silk Kimono Gold Cranes
Located in Union City, NJ
Japanese Kimono by the American photorealist artist Douglas Hofmann is an original hand drawn lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed using hand lithography techniques on Arches paper, 100% acid free. Print size - 31.25" x 24", unframed, excellent condition, pencil signed by Douglas Hofmann Image size - 24.25" x 18.25" Edition size - 300, plus proofs Year published - 1990 Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co. Japanese Kimono is a remarkable rendering of a young blonde woman, hair in a chignon, modeling a white Japanese silk kimono, embellished with red edging and elegant gold cranes...
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Photorealist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

MICHEL DELACROIX Seine et Arc en Ciel - Signed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 25.5 x 29 inches ( 64.77 x 73.66 cm ) Image Size: 19 x 23 inches ( 48.26 x 58.42 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Detail...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

In the Fitting
Located in Fairlawn, OH
(after) Mary Cassatt In the Fitting Drypoint & aquatint printed in colors, 1991 Signed with the artist's initials in the bottom edge center Note: This is a limited edition reproduct...
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Impressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Peter Halley, Jablonka Galerie, Köln rare exhibition poster (Hand Signed)
Located in New York, NY
Peter Halley Jablonka Galerie, Köln (Hand Signed), 1990 Offset lithograph (Hand Signed by Peter Halley) 26 1/2 × 30 inches (ships rolled in a tube 37 x 6 x 6) Signed by Peter Halley ...
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Abstract Geometric 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset, Permanent Marker, Lithograph

Original Lithograph Native American Female Figure Portrait Bold Stoic Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sophie-Broncheau" is an original lithograph by Leonard Baskin. This is a proof purchased directly from the artist. Baskin signed the work in the lower right margin and labelled the ...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Ink

Rolling Collar and Tie (Axsom/Platzker 259) iconic Pop Art lithograph Ed of 52
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg Rolling Collar and Tie (AXSOM/PLATZKER 259), 1995 Color lithograph on rice paper Pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of only 52 on the front Measureme...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Pencil

Original Lithograph Native American Figure Portrait Male Tribe Bold Stoic Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Little Crow-Sioux" is an original lithograph created by Leonard Baskin. This is a proof purchased directly from the artist. Baskin signed the work in the lower right margin and lab...
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Post-Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Ink

Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, collage with raised thermal silver paper, hand signed
Located in New York, NY
Christo Wrapped Reichstag: Project for Berlin, 1994 Collage on offset lithograph with raised silver thermal paper used to wrap Reichstag, on thin velincarton 15 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches E...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Fabric, Mixed Media, Offset, Crayon, Lithograph

Original Lithograph Native American Male Figure Geronimo Portrait Tribe Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Geronimo - Apache" is an original color lithograph by Leonard Baskin. TThis is a proof purchased directly from the artist. Baskin signed the work in the lower right margin and label...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Ink

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

Original Lithograph Native American Female Figure Portrait Bold Stoic Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Helen Goes Ahead- Crow" is an original lithograph proof signed by the artist Leonard Baskin. It depicts a Crow woman named Helen Goes Ahead in front of a red background. 19" x 12 ...
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Expressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Ink

Original Lithograph Native American Figure Portrait Male Tribe Bold Stoic Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Red Cloud-Oglala" is an original color lithograph by Leonard Baskin. It is an artists proof, and signed in the lower right under the image. It is a portrait of one of the most well ...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Warhol, Chanel (Blue), Chanel Ad Campaign
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Chanel Year: 1997 Medium: Offset lithograph on archival paper mounted on canvas Size: 30 x 21 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed in the plate Notes: This special ...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Canvas, Offset

Fence
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Robert Rauschenberg "Fence" 1992 Lithograph 44 1/2 x 30 1/4 inches Numbered from the edition of 57 Signed by the artist Framed
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

FATHER & SON Signed Lithograph, Horseback Riding Lowcountry SC, Gullah Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
FATHER & SON is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. FATHER & SON is a beautifully simple composition depicting a refreshing Lowcountry South Carolina landscape...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Columbus Ohio State Art Judaica Wedding Anniversary Lithograph Jewish Americana
Located in Surfside, FL
Sidney Chafetz Print Catalogue Raisonné. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. Variant Date: 1999. Medium: Lithograph. Print Image Size: 28 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches. Print Edition: no edition (with 1 artist's proof). Alternate Medium: Color lithograph. Ink(s): blue, yellow, black. Support: Rives wove paper. Gene and Irma Silverman, embracing on a sunny day in the park. Text at the bottom reads "Goddard Park, R.I., July, 1940. Irma Cohen and Gene Silverman. Married January 1941, parents of 3 children...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

CHRISTO 'PONTE NEUF EMPAQUETTE-SMALL - 1985
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Christo Title: Ponte Neuf Empaquette-Small Medium: Photograph Size: 26 x 27 inches Year: 1985 Publisher: Nouvelles Image Reference #: Schellmann 86 Hand signed by the artist ...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Molotov Cocktail
Located in New York, NY
Molotov Cocktail, 1991 Screenprint 37x44 inches Edition of 95 Alexander Kosolapov (Russian: Александр Семёнович Косолапов) (born January 1, 1943, in Moscow, Russia) is an American sculptor and painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1975 and has since lived and worked in New York. In the late 1950's Kosolapov attended the Art School of the Surikov Moscow Art Institute. Amongst his classmates were Leonid Sokov...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

JASPER JOHNS The Seasons, 1990 - Hand-Signed, Etching and Acquatint
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 53.75 x 48 inches ( 136.525 x 121.92 cm ) Image Size: 50.25 x 44.50 inches ( 127.635 x 113.03 cm ) Framed: Yes Frame Size: H: 53.75 x W: 48 x D: 2.5 inches Condition: A-:...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Tom Wesselmann ( 1931 – 2004 ) – Monica nude - 21/50 hand-signed Aquatint – 1991
Located in Varese, IT
Monica Nude with Yellow Curtain Aquatint in colors on wove paper , Edited in 1991 Limited edition of 50 copies signed in pencil by artist and numbered 21/50 in lower right corner pap...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Paper

Conked
Located in New York, NY
Alison Saar was born in 1956 to Betye Saar, a well-known African American artist, and Richard Saar, an art conservationist. Her parents inspired her to be...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"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

Untitled
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1990 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 57/60 Printer : Pons, Paris 80.00 cm. x 60.40 cm. | 31.5 in. x 23.78 in. (paper) 70.40 cm. x 50.40 cm. | 27.72 in. x ...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

CHRISTO 'WRAPPED FLOORS - 1984', HAND SIGNED OFFSET LITHOGRAPH
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Christo Title: Wrapped Floors Medium: Offset lithograph Size: 50 x 36 inches Year: 1984 Publisher: Architekturmuseum, Basel, Switzerland Reference #: Schellmann 110 Hand sign...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

MICHEL DELACROIX Chasse a Cour - Signed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 24.5 x 28 inches ( 62.23 x 71.12 cm ) Image Size: 18 x 22 inches ( 45.72 x 55.88 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Detail...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

LARGE: Silkscreen on silk hand signed with COA also signed by Frank Stella)
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, 1994 LARGE: (54 Sq inches) Silkscreen on 100% Italian Silk Shawl, hand signed by Frank Stella in indelible black marker, folded in Red Silk Box with Embossed Certificate of Authenticity (Brand New in Original Red Silk Box) - embossed COA is Hand Signed by Frank Stella and Kenneth Tyler Hand Signed and dated by Frank Stella on recto; signed by BOTH Stella & publisher Kenneth Tyler, and numbered on accompanying embossed COA 54 × 54 inches Unframed and held in original red Italian silk gift box Makes a terrific gift! Stunningly large -- 54 Square Inches. This work looks dazzling framed and hung on the wall -- but as it is a signed silkscreen on silk, but it can also be worn as a gorgeous and exclusive artistic fashion statement. Who else is wearing a Frank Stella scarf...
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Abstract Expressionist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Rice Paper, Archival Paper, Silk, Screen, Permanent Marker, Board, Mixed...

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

Kenny Scharf illustrated announcements 1995
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Kenny Scharf Cosmic Tavern: A set of 2 rare 1990s announcement cards designed by Scharf on the occasion(s) of the grand-opening of the Kenny Scharf Cosmic Tavern - a VIP room designe...
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Pop Art 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Pablo Picasso, Faune dévoilant une Femme
Located in Chatsworth, CA
(after) Pablo Picasso Faune dévoilant une Femme from La Suite Vollard Bloch 230 Lithograph on Montval laid paper 1990 12.75 x 18 inches Facsimile signature Numbered 169/300 Authoriz...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso, Sculpteur et Modèle admirant une Tête sculptée
Located in Chatsworth, CA
(after) Pablo Picasso Sculpteur et Modèle admirant une Tête sculptée from La Suite Vollard Bloch 154 Lithograph on Montval laid paper 1990 18 x 12.75 inches Facsimile signature Numb...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Peter Halley Small Paintings Rare European poster Minimalist Neo Geo Hand Signed
Located in New York, NY
Alpha 137 Gallery is honored to offer this historic offset lithograph of legendary American artist Peter Halley's 1998 exhibition of small paintings at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in...
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Minimalist 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset, Felt Pen

Pablo Picasso, Le Repos du Sculpteur et la Sculpture surréaliste
Located in Chatsworth, CA
(after) Pablo Picasso Le Repos du Sculpteur et la Sculpture surréaliste from La Suite Vollard Bloch 169 Lithograph on Montval laid paper 1990 12.75 x 18 inches Facsimile signature N...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso, Sculpteur et son Modèle devant une Fenêtre
Located in Chatsworth, CA
(after) Pablo Picasso Sculpteur et son Modèle devant une Fenêtre from La Suite Vollard Bloch 168 Lithograph on Montval laid paper 1990 12.75 x 18 inches Facsimile signature Numbered...
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Summer Day
Located in Toronto, ON
Standard Edition 16" x 12" Unframed Limited Edition Serigraph of 100 Hand Signed by Jason Alexander 1996 Artist Proof 16" x 12" Unframed Limited Edition Serigraph RP of 10 Hand Sign...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

"Black Gouache" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the gouache). Printed in 1992 by l'Imprimerie Karcher and published by Nouvelles Editions Seguier in an edition of 1000 for the Sol LeWitt "Black Gouaches" ...
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Abstract 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

CHRISTO ' PONTE NEUF EMPAQUETTE-LONG VIEW - 1985
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Christo Title: Ponte Neuf Empaquette-Long View Medium: Photograph Size: 25 x 38 inches Year: 1985 Publisher: Nouvelles Image Reference #: Schellmann 86 Hand signed by the art...
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Contemporary 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

City Lights
Located in Toronto, ON
Standard Edition 16" x 12" Unframed Limited Edition Serigraph of 100 Hand Signed by Jason Alexander 1996 Artist Proof 16" x 12" Unframed Limited Edition Serigraph with Hand Drawn Re...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

The Umbrellas (BOTH FRAMED - BLACK OR WHITE ... YOU CHOOSE + FREE U.S. SHIPPING)
Located in Kansas City, MO
COULD ALSO BE FRAMED IN A BLACK FRAME - SAME SIZE & MODEL Christo The Umbrellas (Yellow & Blue) Lithoserigraphs Year: 1991 Size: 14.6 × 16.4 on 19.1 × 19.9 inches (EACH) Framed: 20....
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Modern 1990s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Screen

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