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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Card Players (16/100), 1959 Framed Figurative Lithograph Print, Interior Scene
Located in Denver, CO
Lithograph by Kenneth Miller Adams (1897-1966) titled "Card Players 16/100" circa 1959. Interior scene with several male figures sitting around a table enjoying a card game. Presented in a black frame with archival materials, outer dimensions measure 25 ⅝ x 31 ¼ x 1 ⅛ inches. Image sight size is 18 ½ x 24 ¼ inches. Print is clean and in good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Provenance: Private Collection, Denver, Colorado Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Kenneth Adams was born in Kansas, and first started his art career in Topeka during 1913. He studied with artist, G.M. Stone, who became the basis for his formal education that began three years later at the Art Institute of Chicago. Adams served in WWI, and when he was discharged, he moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League. Soon after completing courses there, Adams moved abroad to study Italian and French art. In 1924, Adams was back in Kansas, where his friend Andrew Dasburg encouraged him to move to New Mexico. Adams settled in Taos, and remained there for the next twelve years. He was the youngest and last member of the Taos Society...
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1950s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Original "Zorba The Greek" US 1-sheet vintage movie poster 1965
Located in Spokane, WA
Original U. S. one sheet Zorba the Greek vintage movie poster. Linen backed. NSS: 65/70. Very fine condition and ready to frame. Starring: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas. Alan Bates and Irene Papas. A young British writer (Bates) comes to Crete to find himself working at his father's mine. He meets Zorba, an itinerant Greek laborer (Quinn), and they take lodgings together with an aging courtesan, who Zorba soon romances. On the other hand, the writer is attracted to a lovely young widow. When she responds to him, the townsmen jealously attack her. Zorba teaches the young man the necessary response to life and its tragedies. Based on a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. Masterpiece performance from Quinn. Beautifully photographed, somewhat overlong. The film was later written for a stage production. An aimless Englishman finds he has a small inheritance on a Greek island. His joyless existence is disturbed when he meets Zorba, a middle-aged Greek with a real lust for life...
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Offset

"Albert" Albert Einstein Portrait #5
Located in Soquel, CA
Albert Einstein portrait, "Albert", a color collotype print, watercolor by Lilya Vorobey (American, 21st C). Titled "Albert with his wry smile and electrifying white hair" lower righ...
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1980s Modern Portrait Prints

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Watercolor, Color, Etching

Trim Fit (Deconstructed Singer machine gives both steel and silk equal weight)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax deconstructs a Singer sewing machine in this mezzotint created in an edition of 75. The image gives equal weight to the steel of the machine and the silk of the fabric. It...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Prints

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Mezzotint

Original "RADIO L. M. T. La Meilleure Tonalite" vintage French radio poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Radio L.M.T. "La Meilleure Tonalite". Elle l'aime tant. French antique vintage poster for the L. M. T. Radio. The radio wit...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Jewish Student
Located in Surfside, FL
Maybe her name doesn’t ring a bell. Like everyone else who ever went into the old Mooresville Post Office at 305 N. Main St., across the street from the bank, I would look at the large mural over the door to the postmaster’s office — now the school district superintendent’s office — read the name of the artist, and wonder who she was. Alicia Wiencek (April 23, 1918- Feb. 17, 1961) has remained something of an enigma, at least locally. I set about finding more regarding the artist. The first clue I found about her came from a small, 1937 article in the old Mooresville Enterprise: “Miss Alicia Wiencek of New York City will paint the mural for the local [post office] building. She was in the city several days last week, looking over the various industries and talking with a number of ‘old–timers’ about Mooresville’s early history and present trend of development. She visited a number of places of business, the cotton gins and the mills, seeming to be impressed with the importance of the cotton industry, so that it is believed cotton will at least have its share of the subject matter of the decoration. “The mural will cover the space above the entrance to the postmaster’s office, a space of about 8 by 4 feet. It is not known whether Miss Wiencek will do the work here, or whether she will bring it with her completed, upon her return.” Fine, but what happened to her after she did the mural in Mooresville? What other works did she complete? Where might one go to view them? How long did Miss Wiencek stay in the Mooresville area, absorbing local color and sights? Alicia was born in Chicopee, Mass., and was apparently of Polish descent. She studied at the Art Students League in New York City. One of her instructors there was Ernest Feine (1894-1965), a naturalized citizen of German birth who was both a painter and a printmaker. He was also known for his fine murals and frescoes. Ernest, with Alicia as his assistant, worked on two murals, one for the post office in Canton, Mass., and one in Washington, D.C., in the Department of the Interior Building. The two must have worked well together, for Feine divorced his first wife and married Alicia on Aug. 13, 1945, in Connecticut. Of the two artists, Ernest is the more famous. But back to Mooresville. The official title of her oil-on-canvas work in Mooresville is “The Cotton Industry in North Carolina.” It is interesting to note that the post office building was completed and in use by August 1937, several months before Alicia received the government contract for the mural. Her work was part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal, a Works Progress Administration project to put artists and writers to work during the Great Depression. The old Mooresville Post Office Building is one of several in the same style in North Carolina built according to the town’s population. The old post offices in Beaufort, Laurinburg, Marion, Siler City, Wake Forest...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Woman's Head
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Edition of 50 printed by Charles White in 1951 for the estate Bibliography: Lincoln Kirstein, Elie Nademan (New York: The Eakins Press, 1973),, 20 Elie Nadelman Born 1882, Warsaw...
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1920s Modern Portrait Prints

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Drypoint

Woman's Head - Woman's Head in Profile (left) (Havard)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman's Head - Woman's Head in Profile (left) (Havard) Drypoint, 1920 Unsigned (as issued) From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from th...
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1920s Modern Portrait Prints

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Drypoint

Virgin and Child.
Located in Storrs, CT
. Wood engraving. Physick catalog 827. 5 3/4 x 2 3/4 (sheet 8 1/16 x 3 7/16). Proof printed on simili-Japan paper with one side deckle edge. Unsigned. Eric Gill was a painter, scu...
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1930s Modern Portrait Prints

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Engraving, Woodcut

The Girl Rush, original 1955 vintage movie poster.
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "The Girl Rush." linen-backed 1955 vintage film poster. Ready to frame. The Girl Rush is a 1955 American musical comedy film starring Rosalind Russell...
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1950s Modern Portrait Prints

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Offset

Original "One Girl's Confession" US 1-sheet vintage poster movie 1953
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “One Girl's Confession” vintage movie poster, theater release, 1953. The tagline for this film was "I'm the kind of girl every man wants ... but shouldn't marry". Archival ...
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1950s Modern Portrait Prints

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Offset

Original "Jobs, Peace Freedom" vintage poster. 20th Anniversary of 1963 March
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Jobs, Peace, Freedom. 20th Anniversary of the Historic 1963 March on Washington. August 37, 19983. Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C...
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1980s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Remembering/ My Years Fade With A Smile
Located in Surfside, FL
Side by side prints, signed, Ed. 143/180, and embossed with artist's stamp. Emanuel Schary Israel, b. 1924, d. 1994 A lively affection for humanity characterizes the work of the Isr...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Richard I
Located in New York, NY
Harold Cohen Richard I, 1967 Screenprint, edition of 40 27 x 30 1/2 inches
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Screen

Marco
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Nicola Simbari – Italian (1927-2012) Title: Marco Year: 1978 Medium: Screen Print Image size: 28.5 x 31.75 inches. Sheet size: 35 x 37.5 inches. Signature: Signed lower ri...
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1970s Modern Portrait Prints

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Screen, Paper

Original 1941 "World Premier" US 1-sheet vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "World Premiere." Vintage movie poster. Linen-backed and in good condition for a poster created during World War 2. NSS: 41/347. Certificate of Authenticity. This is an original, theater-used US 1-sheet to the comedy starring John Barrymore...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints

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Offset

James McBey /// Gerald Leslie Brockhust British Modern Portrait Etching Face Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (English, 1890-1978) Title: "James McBey" *Signed by Brockhurst in pencil lower right. It is also signed, dated, and titled in the plate (printed si...
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1930s Modern Portrait Prints

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Intaglio, Etching

Tourists, Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1930s Lithograph Print
Located in Denver, CO
Photo Opportunity (Tourists, Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado; edition of 30 is a lithograph circa 1935 by Charles Wheeler Locke (1899-19...
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1930s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Portrait of the Artist by Francis Bacon, Richard Hamilton modernist photograph
Located in New York, NY
This haunting portrait of Richard Hamilton is layered with textured lavender surrounding his form. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “In 1969, at the end of a characteris...
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1970s Modern Portrait Prints

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Screen

Chiquita
Located in Storrs, CT
Chiquita. 1923-4. Etching. Fletcher 44. 6 3/8 x 5 5/16 (sheet 11 x 8 3/4). Edition 76 (total 81 impressions). A dramatic impression with subtle plate tone, printed on cream wove pape...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

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Etching

Portrait head of a woman, Original French Mourlot Modernist Lithograph 1950s
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Original limited edition lithograph, printed by Mourlot in Paris, France on vélin du Marais watermarked paper. this is not signed as issued. This is from a signed and numbered ...
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1950s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Original 1950 'The Sundowners' vintage movie poster half sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage movie poster: "The Sundowners" is a 1950 American film directed by George Templeton. Horizontal half sheet U. S. Movie poster. The Sundowners is a 1950 American ...
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1950s Modern Portrait Prints

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Offset

Original "Maurice Chevalier, Alhambra Theatre" vintage poster medium size
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier vintage lithographic poster. Artist: Charles Kiffer (1902 - 1992). Size: 19.25" x 27.25". Archival linen-backed antique vintage poster; ready to frame. An original lithograph was done for the inauguration of the new Alhambra Theater, featuring Maurice Chevalier. Over the years; Kiffer designed 13 for Chavalier from 1927 - 1963. (Kiffer also designed for Josephine Baker, Edith Piaf, and many other performers.) Today this version with the text of the Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier is a rare poster. Mid-century-modern. The Alhambra was a music hall located at 50, rue de Malte in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. It opened on August 11, 1866. This image with the familiar tilted hat is a recognized image associated with several different poster designs created for the actor Maurice Chevalier. In addition to the images created for the French cabaret; a similar image is also associated with the liquor poster...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Original "Radio Point Bleu Musical!" vintage French poster, linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Radio Point Bleu Musical!” vintage French antique poster. Archivail linen backed in very fine condition, ready to frame. Signed J.L.B. in the plate at upper right. No specific year is indicated on the poster. Point Bleu / Radio Musical! Paris: Bedos & Cie. Lithograph poster for the French radio manufacturer, showing a woman’s face in silhouette with a treble clef over her ear; red and blue lettering against a bright yellow background. Printer: Paris: Bedos & Cie. The poster does not have a date, but most of the Point Bleu radio posters...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

14th Street Oriental
Located in Middletown, NY
New York, Associated American Artists, 1950. Drypoint and aquatint on cream wove paper, 5 7/8 x 3 15/16 inches (150 x 100 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 48/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Stephen Sholinsky...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

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Aquatint, Drypoint

Original "Save Your Cans, Help pass the Ammunition" vintage military poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. "Save Your Cans, Help pass the Ammunition" vintage poster. Prepare your tin cans for war. Linen-backed; very good condition, ready to frame. Produced for the Salvage Division War PRODUCTION Board. Text continues: 1. Remove tops and bottoms, 2. take off paper labels, 3. wash thoroughly, 4. flatten firmly. War Production Board seal in the bottom left corner. Artist: McClelland Barclay, USNR. During World War II, the U.S. Government aggressively asked Americans to contribute to the war effort through recycling measures such as saving cans. A woman's arm holding a tomato can appears on the bottom right side of the poster. The can image is repeated and runs into the vintage poster image...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints

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Offset

Original 'Somebody Loves Me' vintage 1952 movie poster US 1 sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Somebody Loves Me” vintage US 1-sheet movie poster, 1952. Archival linen backed, and ready to frame. Starring Betty Hutton, Ralph Meeker, a...
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1950s Modern Portrait Prints

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Offset

Marc Chagall – Le Cirque au Clown Jaune Original Lithograph Poster
Located in Pasadena, CA
Marc Chagall Marc Chagall Vintage Original Lithograph Poster created for an exhibition at Galerie Berggruen, Paris. Edition Printed by Mourlot, Paris, 1967. The Circus with the Yell...
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Burlesque Girl.
Located in Storrs, CT
Lloyd William Wulff. Burlesque Girl. 1938. Lithograph. 10 1/4 x 11 3/8 (sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/8). Edition 28, #16. Federal Arts Project blind stamp. Printed on cream wove paper with fu...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Jeremiah from Our Historical Heritage, by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali Portfolio: Our Historical Heritage Title: King Saul Year: 1975 Medium: Intaglio Etching and Color Pochoir on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition...
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1970s Modern Portrait Prints

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Etching, Intaglio

Three studies of Bloom Richard Hamilton James Joyce Ulysses illustration print
Located in New York, NY
Richard Hamilton began studying James Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) during his national service in 1947. Hamilton was inspired by the idea of illustrating Joyce’s complex, experimental novel in and began making sketches the following year, only to put the project to one side in 1950, with no publisher willing to front the exorbitant cost of resetting the novel for illustrations. It was not until 1981 that he made the decision to create one illustration for each of the novel’s eighteen chapters, and a nineteenth image – a portrait of one of the novel’s main protagonists, Leopold Bloom – destined as a frontispiece. He conceived these images as large intaglio...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints

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Engraving, Etching

"Albert", Albert Einstein Portrait Silhouette
Located in Soquel, CA
Albert Einstein silhouetted portrait, a collotype print, watercolor by Lilya Vorobey (American, 21st C). Unsigned. From a collection of her works. Image, 9.75"H x 5.88"W. Full Sheet...
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1980s Modern Portrait Prints

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Color, Etching, Watercolor

Pasiphae Frontispiece
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Pasiphae Frontispiece Portfolio: Pasiphae Medium: Linocut on Arches vellum Date: 1944 Edition: 200 Frame Size: 19 3/4" x 17 1/4" Sheet Size: 13 3/4" x 10...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

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Linocut

Original Let's Make Love US movie poster Marilyn Monroe half sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original first edition vintage U. S. movie poster: Let's Make Love, (20th Century Fox, 1960). Half Sheet (22" X 28"). Comedy. Japan acid-free backed. A very attractive price for a fine condition original compared to others. We work hard to find and present high-quality original vintage posters for your personal selections at reasonable prices. Starring Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughn, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Burns, Joe Besser, Mara Lynn, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, and Milton Berle...
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Offset

Original Vetements Forchic French fashion vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original lithograph, linen backed. Vetements Forchic. Pour Lui; Elle a Choise. Archival linen-backed vintage French fashion poster in fine...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Richard IV
Located in New York, NY
Harold Cohen Richard III, 1967 Screenprint, edition of 40 27 x 30 1/2 in. / 68.6 x 77.5 cm
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Screen

The Box at 'Faustus'
Located in Storrs, CT
The Box at 'Faustus'. 1929. Drypoint. 11 x 8 7/8. Edition 100, #39. Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil. A rich impression printed on the full sheet of pale blue/green-toned wove paper. Signed in pencil. A tongue-in-cheek image of the devil in the opera box...
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1920s Modern Portrait Prints

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Etching, Drypoint

La Pierre au Trois Croquis (The Stone with Three Sketches), 1904
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A warm and loving depiction of a group of three women, the delicate soft appearance of these portraits evokes a sense of the romanticism and sensitivity put forth by Renoir in this p...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Laura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Beniamino Bufano (1889-1970) Title: Laura Year: 1970 Medium: Lithograph Image size: 18 x 12.25 inches Sight size: 19.5 x 13.5 inches. Framed size: 27 x 21 inches Signature: Signed, lower right Edition: 125. This one: 83/125 Condition: Very good Frame: Framed in black lacquer frame, black mat. Frame in good condition. This fine lithograph is by Beniamino Bufano (1889-1970), a well-known artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Museo Italo-Americano has this work in their permanent collection and indicates that it was pulled in 1970 at he Bank Street Atelier in New York in 1970. The print is in very good condition. The frame is in good condition with some light scratches. Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano was born in San-Fele, Italy on Oct. 14, 1889. At age three Bufano's family brought him to NYC where he spent his childhood and was educated by private tutors. He studied at the ASL in NYC from 1913-15, the pupil of James L. Fraser, Herbert Adams, and Paul Manship. He came to San Francisco in 1915 to work on a sculpture for the PPIE. For awhile he worked in the studio of coppersmith Dirk van Erp. He then traveled extensively for four years in France, Italy, India, and China. After returning to San Francisco in 1921, he remained there the rest of his life except for visits to the Orient and Europe. Always a radical, he lost his teaching position at San Francisco Institute of Art in 1923 because he was too modern for the conservative faculty. He later taught at UC Berkeley and the CCAC (1964-65). Henry Miller wrote of him, "He will outlive our civilization and probably be better known, better understood, both as a man and artist, five thousand years hence." His work, simple in style and monumental in scale, includes smoothly rounded animals in granite and icons sheathed in stainless steel. Only five feet tall, Bufano was a controversial, free spirit until his death in San Francisco on Aug. 16, 1970. Member: SFAA; NSS; American Artists Congress. Exh: Whitney Museum (NYC), 1917; Arden Gallery...
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1970s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Original Menton Fete Internationale du Citron vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Menton Fete Internationale du Citron (Menton International Lemon Festival). Archival linen backed in very good condition, A-, and ready to frame. The art group that created this poster is Studio Bazzoli. Printer: Imprimerie Corogec. In 1929, Menton was still the leading lemon producer on the continent. The Menton Festival of the lemon started in 1934, and in 1935 the first Lemon Festival poster was created. This poster is one of the featured posters on the festival website. The image of a woman’s face decorated with yellow and green lemons creating huge hair! The background is done in Mediterranean blue. Note that this is larger than the standard French travel poster size. A very relaxing and beautiful original Menton poster...
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1980s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Richard II
Located in New York, NY
Harold Cohen Richard II, 1967 Screenprint, edition of 40 27 x 30 1/2 inches
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Screen

Ire by Abi Polinsky, Represented by Tuleste Factory
Located in New York, NY
Ire by Abi Polinsky 2022 W 44" x H 59" — Unframed. Signed limited edition of 5. — Please contact us for shipping quotes and customization options. S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Prints

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Photographic Paper

French Armenian Jean Jansem Lithograph Mod Woman in Orange Hand Signed Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed in pencil and numbered from the limited original edition. Jean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013 Bursa, Ottoman Turkish Empire Hovhannes "Jean" Semerdjian (Armenian: Հովհաննես "Ժանսեմ" Միրիջանի Սեմերջյան, 9 March 1920 – 27 August 2013), also known as Jean Jansem, was a French-Armenian painter. Jansem's artworks are internationally known, and are part of museum collections throughout France, Japan and the United States. A Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (2002). He was awarded by the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1953 and by the Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 2003. The President of Armenia awarded Jansem a Medal of Honor for his “reinforcement of Armenian-French cultural ties.” Hovhannes Semerdjian was born in 1920 in Bursa, then in the Ottoman Empire. In 1922, his family fled to Greece. He spent his childhood in Thessaloniki. They arrived to Issy-les-Moulineaux suburb of Paris, France in 1931 when he was 11 and that is when he begin to paint. The first professional schools for Jansem became the academies of Montparnasse (1934–1936). He studied in the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. His teachers were Maurice Brianchon, Raymond Legueult and Roland Oudot. Jansem also studied at the Sabatie studio for a year. Early paintings by Jansem were mainly on national issues. Known for his washy representational paintings of figure, landscape, marine and genre scenes of European subjects: fishermen and children of Greece, bullfighting in Spain, Italian landscapes and markets, scenes of Venice and French France village marketplaces and landscapes, nude women, still lifes, and figures, Jansem painted with a variety of media that included gouache, watercolor, ink, and oil painting in a stylized and textural aesthetic. had individual exhibitions in Paris, New York, Chicago, London, Tokyo, Rome, Brussels, Lausanne, Beirut etc. His work was shown by the prominent Wally Findlay Galleries in New York, Paris, Palm Beach and Beverly Hills (they show many important artists including Gaston Sebire, Henri Maik, Gen Paul, Jean Pierre Cassigneul, Jean Dufy, Gustavo Novoa, Nicola Simbari, Dietz Edzard, Suzanne Eisendieck, Constantin Kluge, Louis Valtat, Michael Vollbracht...
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Waiting For My Train(track crossings that create Chicago EL / Merchandise Mart)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Waiting for my Train is #55 from edition of 100. "Waiting for my train" is the stop right before the tracks cross, and create Chicago's famous "Loop", on the above ground EL. The M...
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1980s Modern Portrait Prints

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Aquatint, Etching

Private Property (Jamaica Bay in Queens NY - now a runaway of JFK airport)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Private Property was created in 1982 and is #25 from an edition of 40. Martin Levine (born 14 May 1945 in New York City) is an American artist. Levine...
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1980s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Skerikulla (Skerri Girl).
Located in Storrs, CT
Skerikulla.. 1912. Etching. Image 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 (sheet 15 5/8 X 12 5/8). Toned, in the image otherwise good condition. A fine impression printed on cream-colored laid paper on the...
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1910s Modern Portrait Prints

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Etching

Untitled ‘Liz Nelson’
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Alexander Calder Untitled ‘Liz Nelson’, 1968 is a unique original pen and ink drawing on folio with a red banner that reads 'NOBILIS' is init...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints

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Pen, Ink

Vintage Russian Shtetl Scene, Judaica Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Pencil signed and dated, colored Judaica Lithograph. Anatoli Lwowitch Kaplan was a Russian painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose works often reflect his Jewish origins. his father ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Richard H
Located in New York, NY
Harold Cohen Richard H, 1967 Screenprint, ed. of 40 27 x 30 1/2 inches
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Screen

Original 'Is YOUR trip necessary?' vintage WWII poster World War II
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster. Is Your Trip Necessary? Original American military poster: Millions of troops are on the move... Is YOUR trip necessary? ...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints

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Offset

Richard III
Located in New York, NY
Harold Cohen Richard III, 1967 Screenprint, edition of 40 27 x 30 1/2 in. / 68.6 x 77.5 cm
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Screen

Putting on the Coat
Located in Middletown, NY
A bright and silvery impression with warm plate tone by a female icon of the Union Square group. New York: Associated American Artists, 1943. Etching on cream wove paper, 5 7/8 x 3 ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

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Etching

Original "The Rose Bowl Story" vintage Football movie poster US 1 sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original ROSE BOWL STORY authentic 1952 vintage movie poster. Archival linen-backed vintage theater used film poster. Very fine condition, ready to frame. Original story and screenplay by Charles R. Marion. Actors: Marshall Thomas; Vera Miles; Natalie Wood; Keith Larsen; Thom Harmon; Ann Doran; James Dobson; Jim Backus; Clarence Kolb; Barbara Woodell; Bill Welsh; Jean Andren; Gertrude Astor; Lela Bliss; Herbert Brackett; Oran Breeland; Paul Bryar; Willam Cabanne; Richard...
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1950s Modern Portrait Prints

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Offset

Jewish Shtetl Mother-in-law Klezmer Wedding Dance Judaica Lithograph Yiddish WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed in pencil and numbered. A very small edition. Old Lower East Side of New York or East European Shtetl. Jewish Shtetl Hasidic Klezmer Musicians. humorous Yiddish Chassidic art. The New-York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social concerns, and was actively engaged in support of the organized labor movement throughout his career. This original color lithograph print is done in the iconic style of the artist's oeuvre. Born to Harry and Jenny Gropper in 1897, William was raised in New York City's Lower East Side. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Romania and Ukraine, and young William grew up in relative poverty, watching his family struggle to achieve that sought-after American dream. His father, a bright and college-educated man, was unable to find employment that worthy of his intellect. His mother, meanwhile, worked as a seamstress from home. Coupled with the devastating loss of an aunt to the infamous Triangle Factory fire of 1911, significant childhood factors created the foundation that led to Gropper’s exploration of the American experience. Early on, Gropper displayed an extraordinary, natural skill for art. By 1912, he was already studying under the instruction of George Bellows and Robert Henri at the Ferrer School in Greenwich Village. During his time at school, Gropper was also awarded a prestigious scholarship to study at the National Academy of Design. However, he refused to fit into convention and was swiftly expelled from the Academy. After his expulsion, Gropper returned home to help financially by assisting his mother and taking a shop position. However, he didn't abandon art academia and soon presented a portfolio to the New York School of Fine Art which earned him a scholarship for study. Gropper obtained his first significant job as a cartoonist for the New York Tribune in 1917. While working as a staff cartoonist for the Tribune, he also contributed drawings to publications like Vanity Fair, New Masses, The Nation, and Freiheit. His interest in the welfare of the American worker, class inequality, and social injustice was central in his work. After publishing the graphic novel Alley Oop in 1930, Gropper's illustration career extended well into the decade. However, he was never exempt from controversy, and his 1935 Vanity Fair cartoon; prompted anger from the Japanese government. As an involved labor organizer and Social Realist activist, Gropper continued to bring attention to his radical reputation with visits to the Soviet Union and Poland. However, his concern with European politics and U.S. social causes didn't slow down his artistic career, and by the late 1930s, he had produced significant murals for American cities like Washington D.C. His 1938 mural Construction of a Dam was commissioned for the Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and everyday societal life. Measuring at a staggering 27ft by 87ft, the piece portrays muscular, robust American laborers scaling rocky hillsides, building infrastructure, and operating heavy machinery. The mural feels undeniably American with golden scenery, denim blues, and steely gray colors. Gropper fits perfectly into Social-Realism because the style exhibits an illustrative flair with strong lines and simple, bold hues. The inspiration for Construction of a Dam sprang from his 1937 travels to the poverty-stricken Dust Bowl area. The trip was sponsored by a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and his drawings of the Grand Coulee and Boulder Dams...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Woodblock Portrait of a Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold woodblock print of a woman by J. Duffy (American, 20th Century). The subject is staring directly at the viewer, creating a compelling yet delicate composition. The ink appears t...
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1950s Modern Portrait Prints

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Ink, Woodcut, Paper

Original "Fireball 500" movie insert vintage poster 1966
Located in Spokane, WA
Original, archival linen backed, vintage movie poster: FIREBALL 500. Fireball 500, 1966. Original antique muscle car hot rod movie poster for sale, ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Richard V
Located in New York, NY
Harold Cohen Richard V, 1967 Screenprint, ed. of 40 27 x 30 1/2 in. / 68.6 x 77.5
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Screen

Amanda (Marguèrite), No. 1
Located in Storrs, CT
Amanda No. 1 (Marguèrite). 1920. Etching. Fletcher 18. 3 1/2 x 2 3/8 (sheet 9 x 7 1/4). Edition 55. . A rich proof printed with plate tone on cream laid paper with full margins. Sign...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

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Etching

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