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Period: 20th Century
Whimsically rendered forest scene
Located in Belgrade, MT
Paul Charlot ( French, 1906- 1985) was a French painter and printmaker influenced by the intense use of colors in Fauvism and the whimsical biomorphic abs...
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Fauvist 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ellsworth Kelly - Composition (Axsom No. I-C), 1964 Lithograph From DLM
By (after) Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly Title: Composition (Axsom No. I-C) Year: 1964 Dimensions: 15in. by 11in. Mount Board Size Inches: 20 x 16 inches Mount Board Color: White/Black Print Border...
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Contemporary 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

David Hockney - Yves Marie - 1974 Lithograph - HAND SIGNED
Located in Brooklyn, NY
David Hockney's Yves Marie (1974) is a signed lithograph measuring 30 x 22.25 inches (76.2 x 56.515 cm). This piece is part of a limited edition of 75 prints, and is in mint conditio...
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Pop Art 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Poster-Artworks Fall ’81. Distributed through Kenro Publishers, Toronto
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Artworks Fall ’81-Poster. Publishing Information: Lithographed in Canada by Matthews Ingram & Lake, Inc. Distributed through Kenro Publishers, Toronto. Measures 25 x 36 in. Unframed....
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Keith Haring Help the Homeless 1985 (Keith Haring 1985 announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring 1985: Keith Haring off-set illustrated announcement card, NY, 1985: "NY for NY, Help The Homeless" at The Roxy, West 18th St., NYC. Off-set printed, 1985 (folds open in...
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Pop Art 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Offset, Lithograph

Henry Miller 'Dream of Spring' Signed Artist's Proof Lithograph Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Henry Miller (American, 1891-1980) Dream of Spring, circa 1966 Color lithograph on wove paper Signed and titled, annotated 'Artist's Proof' (Aside from the edition of 200) Image: 14i...
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Abstract 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

One Sheet, Photorealist Screenprint by Lennart Nyström
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lennart Nyström, Swedish (1944 - ) Title: One Sheet (Green) Year: circa 1975 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 70/95 Size: ...
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Minimalist 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Screen

20th century color lithograph poster cartoon Snoopy animal print dog bird text
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Snoopy Come Home" is an original lithograph poster by Charles Schulz. It features the popular characters from Peanuts, Snoopy and Woodstock, on top of ...
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Pop Art 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Limited edition Keith Haring spray paint can (set of 2)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Limited Edition Keith Haring spray paint can set published circa 2018 featuring the Estate trademark of Keith Haring. A unique Keith Haring collector’s set that makes for standout ho...
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Pop Art 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Metal

la Tour Eiffel, Paris Capitale, Maurice Utrillo
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Johannot paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Paris Capitale, 1955; published by Joseph Foret, Editeur d'Art, Paris...
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Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Beacon
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on Arches. Signed, dated and numbered 14/100 in pencil by Gottlieb. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York. Catalogue refe...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Color, Lithograph

Important German Expressionist Etching Hamburg, Reiherstiegdock 1910 Emil Nolde
Located in Portland, OR
Highly important German Expressionist etching by Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Hamburg, Reiherstiegdock, 1910. This is a very rare signed and titled etching of Hamburg, Reiherstiegdock, is...
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Expressionist 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Plate 19, from 1965 Peintures Sur Cartons
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Joan Miro Title: Plate 19 Portfolio: Peintures sur Cartons Date: 1965 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 17 1/4" Sheet Size: 15" x 11" Image Size: 15" x 11" Signature:...
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Abstract 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

S, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall Movie Stars Hollywood Broadway Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall Movie Stars Hollywood Broadway Mid 20th Century Fred Astaire Dancer Movie Start Oscars Academy Award Mid 20th Century Hollywood Al Hirschfeld (1903 ...
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Performance 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

San Lazzaro, Framed Abstract Lithograph by Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: San Lazzaro Year: 1975 Medium: Lithograph Edition: 400/575 Paper Size: 14 x 10 inches (35.6 x 25.4 cm) Fram...
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Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled print by Hans Hofmann. Framed in a light wood frame with a front profile of 1/2 inch and a side profile of 1 3/4 inch. The piece is seated behind a 3 1/2 inch mat. Shipping...
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Contemporary 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Le charron de Monsaunes
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: offset lithograph (after the watercolor). Printed in 1970 on velin bouffant paper from the Papeteries Casteljoux and published in France by Edito-Service Geneve. This reprodu...
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Offset

"Gertrude" - Eleven Color Woodcut on Laid Rice Paper 2/45
Located in Soquel, CA
"Gertrude" - Eleven Color Woodcut on Laid Rice Paper 2/45 Portrait of a woman by artist, Dan Miller (American, b. 1928) made by layers of color in woodcuts in Miller's signature sty...
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Contemporary 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Rice Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 at the atelier of Clot, Bramsen et Georges and published in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist ...
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Paris - Seine and Eiffel Tower - Original Lithograph Handsigned and Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Urbain HUCHET Seine and Eiffel Tower Original lithograph, 1960 Handsigned in pencil by the artist Numbered / 295 copies On velllum paper, size 19 x 28 cm Very good condition
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Devil Cat
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Karel Appel Title: Devil Cat Portfolio: 1978 Cats Medium: Lithograph in colors on Japon paper Date: 1978 Edition: XV/LXV Sheet Size: 24 3/4" x 32 1/4" Signature: Hand signed ...
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Abstract 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original poster for the 1998 exhibition titled "James Bond: Die Welt des 007"
Located in PARIS, FR
This poster, created for the 1998 exhibition titled "James Bond: Die Welt des 007" (translated as "The World of 007"), held at the Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany,...
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Flower Field (FRAMED + FREE US SHIPPING) (Provence, landscapes, countryside art)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort Flower Field (Champ Fleuri) Color Lithograph Signed, numbered or inscribed Edition: 390 + 250 Size: 7.8 × 11.7 on 11.7 × 15.6 inches Framed: 16.25x20 inches COA provided *Framing Options Available - Please Inquire **edition number might vary from shown in listing image Tags: Provence landscapes, French countryside art...
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Contemporary 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Mao - Screenprint by Andy Warhol - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Mao is a contemporary artwork realized by Andy Warhol in 1974. Colour screenprint on wallpaper. Includes frame: 113 x 86 x 3 cm Hand signed by lower left. Prov. Galerie Vayhinger...
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Pop Art 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Pablo Picasso - The Painter - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Lithograph Title: Painter and his Model From the illustrated book "Regards sur Paris" (Paris: André Sauret, 1962) Pulled from the folio numbered 85 from the edition o...
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Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – hand-signed Screenprint on Rives paper – 1969
Located in Varese, IT
Screenprint on Rives paper, Edited in 1969 Limited Edition of 250 copies Signed and dated in pencil by artist in lower rith corner , numbered as 88/250 in lower left corner Paper siz...
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Pop Art 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

Constellation aux cinq formes
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1956 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Edition : 125 ex. Publisher : Société suisse des arts graphiques Catalog : [Arntz 333] 65.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.59 in. x 19.69 i...
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Abstract 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Vallauris (Beige) by Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Pablo Picasso Medium: Lithographic Poster, 1952 Dimensions: 25.5 x 18.25 in, 64.8 x 46.4 cm Our mission for over 170 years, the name Mourlot has been associated with impor...
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Affiches Paul Mohr Compagnie Nationale des Papers 1932 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original small format poster Affiches Paul Mohr, 1932. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. The rare Paul Mohr posters are incredibly elusive; many have had only one remaining known copy survive. Printing method: Helio-Typo or Typelo. Before television, beautiful lithographs adorn the streets and walls of Paris and other European cities. Art for the street, art for the public. Weather and rain would destroy these works of art by renowned artists, only to be replaced. The artist: Paul Gustave Mohr, a French Avant-garde poster designer from the Art Deco period was born Sept. 4, 1890 in Ham, France and died on April 13, 1959 in Paris. He lived most of his life in Paris, and then settled in the small town of Asnieres, France, just outside of Paris. He attended the Sorbonne University, as well as several art schools. During World War I, he was a pilot in the French Army from 1914-1917. Paul Mohr married Jeanne Levy in 1917 and they had three daughters: Helene, Genevieve, and Jacqueline. As an artist, he designed advertising posters from 1920 to 1940. His posters advertised Wonder cycles, Dainty cycles, Lustucru pasta, Banania sugar, Bremsit brakes, Champigneulles beer, L'Union beer, Dubonnet wine, as well as shoes and ham. This information was provided to me by my mother, Helene Mohr Breitenbucher, who was his eldest daughter. Carol Schuler (granddaughter) Advertising posters, the affiches of Paul Mohr. This is an original advertising poster for the affiches (posters) created by the master artist Paul Mohr (1890-1959). Archival linen backed in very good condition. No stains, no tears, no paper loss. Grade A condition. Ready to frame. Compagnie Nationale des Papier, Paris. The crowd on the street looks up in amazement at the art deco-style images that the artist created. Images on the wall feature incredible image that this artist created such as Lustucru, Amer...
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Art Deco 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Matisse, Plume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
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Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1986 by Imprimerie Arte for the art revue Noise (issue number 6) and published by Maeght in an edition of 2000. Size: 14 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches (...
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

THE LAST PRIVATE PERSON - DER LETZIE PRIVATIER
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893-1980) THE LAST PRIVATE PERSON - DER LETZIE PRIVATIER Lithograph signed in pencil and with the artist's Clan Press Stamp l...
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Surrealist 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Niki de Saint Phalle, Last Night I Had a Dream, Rare Silkscreen Signed/N Framed
Located in New York, NY
Niki de Saint Phalle Last Night I Had a Dream, 1968 Silkscreen on colored paper Signed and numbered 67/75 in graphite pencil on the front Frame included It is elegantly floated and f...
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Pop Art 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Screen

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1950 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

'Taxco Market' — American Modernist Scene of Mexico
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Taxco Market', aquatint and etching, 1932-33, edition 30, Duffy 181. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full shee...
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American Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

1967 original exhibition poster by Marc Chagall - Fondation Maeght - Saint-Paul
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1967 original exhibition poster by Marc Chagall, titled "Fondation Maeght - Saint-Paul (Profil Bleu)," was created to promote Chagall's exhibition of paintings from 1947 to 1967 ...
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper, Linen

Camilla, Pop Art Serigraph by Mel Ramos
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mel Ramos, American (1935 - ) Title: Camilla Year: 1989 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 161 Image Size: 37 x 32 inches Paper Size: 42 in. x ...
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Pop Art 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Keith Haring Fun Gallery exhibition poster 1983 (vintage Keith Haring)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Fun Gallery 1983: Original 1983 Keith Haring illustrated exhibition poster published on the occasion of Haring's historic 1983 show at the Fun Gallery in the East Village. A classic array of early Haring imagery that reveals red and black interlocking figures. A rare example in very good overall vintage condition. Offset lithograph in colors on smooth wove paper. 23 x 29 inches. Only some minor signs of handling; in otherwise very good overall vintage condition with strong colors; one of the better examples we've come across. Stored away from light; never mounted or framed. Unsigned from an edition of unknown; scarce. Catalog Raisonne: Keith Haring: Posters (Prestel Publishing). References: Included in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. About the Fun Gallery: Historic, short-lived, East Village gallery known for giving Keith Haring, Basquiat & Kenny Scharf some of their first solo shows. “FUN Gallery was a place where neighborhood kids, downtown artists, b-boys, rock, film, and rap stars mixed with museum directors art historians and uptown collectors at wild openings featuring artists like Futura, Fab 5...
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Pop Art 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Untitled (Edition 195/225)
Located in New York, NY
Mihail Chemiakin (Russian b. 1943) "Untitled" Edition 195/225, Abstract Lithograph signed and numbered in pencil, 29.25 x 20.25, Late 20th Century, 1976 Colors: Teal, Maroon, Black,...
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Abstract 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1935 Original poster for the Loterie Nationale by René Ravo
Located in PARIS, FR
Step into the glamour of 1930s France with the enchanting poster created by René Ravo for the Loterie Nationale in 1935. Renowned for his captivating illustrations, Ravo brings to li...
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph, Linen

Ferrocemento, Screenprint by Giuseppe Uncini
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Giuseppe Uncini, Italian (1929 - 2008) Title: Ferrocemento Year: circa 1970 Medium: Mixed Media Print, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 110/150 Image Size: 16.5 x 13 in...
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Minimalist 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Reclining Nude Holding a Necklace
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Nude Holding a Necklace Lithograph, c. 1908 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Edition: c. 15 Reference: Belleroche No. 525 Condition: Excellent Image: 16 3/4 x 20" ...
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Impressionist 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"La seance de trois heures" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor). Printed in 1924 and published in Paris by Albert Morance for "L'Art d'Aujourd'hui", and now very scarce. The publisher's provenance inscriptio...
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

1993 original exhibition poster from Pierre Soulages at the Galerie de France
Located in PARIS, FR
This original exhibition poster from 1993 showcases the works of Pierre Soulages, one of the most renowned French painters of the 20th century, at the prestigious Galerie de France. ...
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper, Linen

This was just a man by Salvador Dali from the Biblia Sacra series
Located in Paonia, CO
This was just a man is a colored lithograph from the gouache original on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite published in Rome by Rizzoli , 1965-...
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Surrealist 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine Lithograph from 1954. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and s...
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Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Virgin - Woodcut after Albrecht Durer - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Virgin and the Child is an original Woodcut on cream-colored paper. realized after Albrecht Durer, a reproduction of the early 20th Century from the...
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Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Hiroshima
Located in New York, NY
Bound volume with complete text and 8 color screenprints. One of 1500 numbered copies. Signed by John Hersey, Robert Penn Warren and Lawrence and numbered ...
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Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Color, Screen

HUNTER HAULING A SEAL - IMPORTANT INUIT PRINT -
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PARR (1893-1969) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET) HUNTER HAULING A SEAL, 1966 #2, Stonecut, signed, titled numbered 28/50 Dorset 1966. Image 14 x 22 ¼. Full sheet ...
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Other Art Style 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Stone

Amours légendaires, Surrealist Etching by André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Amours légendaires, Year: 1959, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 7/30, Image Size: 11.75 x 9.75 inches, Frame Size: 2...
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Surrealist 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Picasso, Composition (Bloch 1276; Czwiklitzer 23), Toros y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, 1961. Published by aux Éditions Cercle d'...
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Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Potpourri en ciel, Alexander Calder
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper size: 29 x 21.875 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 88/90, as issued. Notes: Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris; printed by Art...
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Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Very Large Marine Shipping Scene Impressive Statement Piece
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Large Marine Scene Dutch or Flemish, 20th century color print on canvas, framed framed: 27 x 34 inches canvas: 20 x 27.5 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: very goo...
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Old Masters 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Color

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
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American Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

HORSE FRIGHTENED BY LIGHTNING - Proof imp - One of Sheet's Most Important Prints
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MILLARD SHEETS (1987 – 1989) HORSE FRIGHTENED BY LIGHTNING, 1939 Lithograph signed in pencil, annotated “TRIAL PROOF”. The published edition is 75. Image, 17 x 22”. Sheet 19 ½” x 2...
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American Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Peaches
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Peaches" 1976, is an original color linocut print on paper by American botanical artist Henry Evans, 1918-1990. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 53...
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American Realist 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Executed for Derriere le Miroir (No. 148) in 1964, and published in Paris by Maeght. This lithograph was published on the occasion of the inauguration of...
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Coloquio
Located in New York, NY
Color lithograph with full margins. Artist's proof inscribed "E II", from "Estado II" edition of 30, aside from the edition of 63. Signed, dated and numbered XXIV/XXX in pencil, lowe...
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Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929. Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne. Edition of 2...
Category

Modern 20th Century Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

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