Skip to main content

Unframed Still-life Prints

to
1,391
1,449
605
789
399
259
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
942
679
242
194
152
72
64
60
40
30
21
17
12
11
107
66
40
34
34
173
171
1,910
1,247
12
11
31
18
77
210
315
393
454
144
151
2,057
1,088
350
673
616
563
377
355
314
215
205
203
167
149
135
121
120
114
110
107
100
99
83
1,236
673
446
443
278
536
1,098
2,265
871
Frame Included
Matisse's Cat, Matisse Style Artwork, Contemporary Animal Print, Blue Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Matisse's Cat is a limited edition hand made print by artist Mychael Barratt which takes inspiration from the paper cutting work of Matisse in the 1940s....
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Animal Prints

Materials

Paper, Screen

Morning Glories, Photorealist Screenprint on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A series of ghostly Morning Glory blooms set against a rich black background. These moon-toned flowers are rendered as a screenprint by Lowell Blair Nesbitt. This print is signed and...
Category

1970s Photorealist Still-life Prints

Materials

Screen

Apples and Zinnias, Modern Still Life Lithograph by Janet Fish
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Janet Fish, American (1938 - ) Title: Apples and Zinnias Year: 1995 Medium: Lithograph on Japon paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 65 Imag...
Category

1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Curtains, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - ) Title: Curtains Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: HC 10 Image Size: 22 x 26.5 inches Size: 26 ...
Category

1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Screen

Still Life #2, Hand-Colored Abstract Still Life by Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Still Life #2 Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz Chilean (1939–2021) Date: 1981 Hand-Colored Etching, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil Edition of 19/65 Image Size: 19.75 x 29 inc...
Category

1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Rhododendron Branch IV (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Pa-Twaing
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Marc Dennis is an American artist renowned for his paintings of subtly staged and slightly voyeuristic images of contemporary American culture. Interested in the tr...
Category

2010s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Photographic Paper

Motherwell, Composition, In Memory of My Feelings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper. Paper Size: 11.937 x 8.96 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, In Memory of M...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Composition - Vintage Offset Print after Giorgio Morandi - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.5 x 33.5 cm. Bottles Composition is an original offset print, reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi. Signature by the artist is perfectly repr...
Category

1970s Figurative Prints

Materials

Offset

Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'127. Entoloma lividum' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of French, Swiss, and Belgian fungi, ...
Category

Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs' Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs. Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
Category

Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Lotus /// Ellsworth Kelly Minimalism Botanical Flower Contemporary Lithograph
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015) Title: "Lotus" Portfolio: Derrière Le Miroir: Hommage à Aimé et Marguerite Maeght (No. 250) *Issued unsigned Year: 1982 Medium: Original Lithograph on smooth wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Imprimerie Moderne du Lion, Paris, France Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris, France Reference: "The Prints of Ellsworth Kelly - A Catalogue Raisonné: 1949-1985" - Axsom No. Ic, page 179 Sheet size: 15" x 11" Condition: In excellent condition Rare Notes: Produced for Kelly's collaboration with the August, 1982 No. 250 "Derrière Le Miroir: Hommage à Aimé et Marguerite Maeght" portfolio. Text on verso as issued. Kelly produced the drawing for "Lotus" in Spencertown, New York, and sent the transfer-paper study to Paris for proofing. It was included in the final memorial issue of 'Derriere Le Miroir' with prints by Eduardo Chillida, Takis, Pierre Alechinsky, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall, Shusaku, Arakawa, and Saul Steinberg, to name only a few of the 24 artists who provided original graphic work for this issue. "Lotus" was based on the ink drawing "Lotus" (EK No. P74.65). In October 1945, the French art dealer Aimé Maeght opens his art gallery at 13 Rue de Téhéran in Paris. His beginning coincides with the end of Second World War and the return of a number of exiled artists back to France. The magazine Derriere Le Miroir was created in October 1946 and published without interruption until 1982. Maeght's ambition in establishing his print shop and his publication magazine Derriere Le Miroir was to make available to a broader audience less expensive printed imagery by the artists of his time, many whom were represented by his Paris gallery. Its original articles and illustrations (mainly original color lithographs by the gallery artists) were famous at the time. The magazine covered only the artists exhibited by Maeght gallery either through personal or group exhibitions. Among them are (in alphabetical order): Henri-Georges Adam, Pierre Alechinsky, Bacon, Jean Bazaine, Georges Braque, Pol Bury, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Roger Chastel...
Category

1980s Minimalist Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'275. Aleuria vesiculosa 276. Otidea onotica 277. Peziza aurantia 278. Mitrula paludosa' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Su...
Category

Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Golden - large format photograph of conceptual iconic object in urban landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
GOLDEN by Frank Schott from a series of photographic observances - environmental still life capturing found objects in urban cityscapes 40 x 32 inches (102 x 81cm) signed edition ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

The Blind Fiddler, English antique engraving after Sir David Wilkie
By Sir David Wilkie
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Blind Fiddler' Engraving by John Burnet after Sir David Wilkie RA (1785-1841) India-laid. Proof before letters. 'Second Plate' printed under e...
Category

Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Engraving

Tiger Lily
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Tiger Lily" 1998 is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Gary Bukovnik, born 1947. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 96/200 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 10 x 9.75 inches, sheet size is 14.75 x 13.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright, has never been framed. About the artist. Born and educated in Cleveland Gary Bukovnik has lived in San Francisco for over 25 years. Primarily using the mediums of watercolor, monotype, and lithograph, Bukovnik creating colorful floral images of great depth and intensity. Bukovnik collaborates with Trillium Press, whose owner and master printer, David Salgado, studied at the Tamarind Workshop, formerly in Los Angeles. In 2003, the American Academy in Rome invited Bukovnik to attend the academy as a Visiting Artist for six weeks. He was asked to attend a second session in February 2005. In 2001, he was selected to create a poster for the prestigious List Collection, which creates posters to commemorate programs at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Lincoln Center past contributors have included Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray, and Donald Sultan. The work of Gary Bukovnik is held in public and private collections worldwide. Selected Museums Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario The Art Institute of Chicago Atlanta Botanical Garden Brooklyn Museum Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown Dallas Museum of Art Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Frye Art Museum, Seattle Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow Library of Congress, Washington, DC The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Richard L. Nelson Gallery, U.C. Davis, California The New York Public Library Oakland Museum of California Philadelphia Museum of Art Phoenix Art Museum Portland Art Museum, Oregon Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence San Francisco Museum of Modern Art University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson University of California, Berkeley Art Museum Selected public collections ALZA Corporation, Mountain View ART In Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State AT&T, New York Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles BankAmerica Corporation, Charlotte Citigroup, New York Cleveland Institute of Music Clorox Company, Oakland Comerica Bank, Costa Mesa & San Jose H.J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Chicago IBM, Atlanta, New York, San Francisco KPMG LLP, Atlanta Lincoln Center/List Collection, New York Macy's California, San Francisco MetLife, New York The Metropolitan Opera, New York MGM Mirage Hotel...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

1971 Tamarind Print Landscape Lithograph Paul Sarkisian Photo Realist Americana
Located in Surfside, FL
Paul Sarkisian (1928-) 1971 Brown Landscape Lithograph Silkscreen Print on calendred BFK Rives fine art paper. small edition of 15 from Tamarind print workshop with their blindstamp....
Category

1970s Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Interior with Cup and Kettle, Modern Lithograph by Robert Kipniss
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Kipniss, American (1931 - ) Title: Interior with Cup and Kettle Year: 1986 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 120, AP XV Image Size: 12 x 10 in...
Category

1980s American Impressionist Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

A Pale Angels Halo
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph, produced in an edition of 100, and signed and numbered by James Rosenquist, is offered by CLAMP in New York.
Category

1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Going Home with Etching and Aquatint on Paper, Print by Phil Greenwood
Located in Deddington, GB
Going Home By Phil Greenwood [2021] Going Home by artist Phil Greenwood is a limited edition print made using aquatint and etching. A figure is depicted walking through dense woodla...
Category

2010s Abstract Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

Original 'Banque Nationale de Credit Emprunt National 1920' vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Banque Nationale de Credit Emprunt National 1920” vintage Cappiello poster. Linen backed in B condition with touch-up restoration in various poster parts. The price ref...
Category

1920s Art Deco Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

R2D2 40x28 Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, Empire Strikes Back, Jedi Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
R2D2 from the original Kenner release of the Star Wars toys in May of 1977 This is pre release is the first release in the much anticipated series "The Toys" These iconic figures hav...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs' Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs. Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
Category

Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Double Decoy II, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - ) Title: Double Decoy II Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP Image Size: 19.5 x 23 inches Size: ...
Category

1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Screen

Triangle Architecture Still Life, Yellow, Pink, Green Vivid Tones, Architecture
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects ...
Category

2010s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, G...

Grape Hyacinth, English antique mauve flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Grape Hyacinth' Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890. Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Fre...
Category

Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'118. Cantharellus tubaeformis 119. Cantharellus carbonarius 120. Craterellus cornucopioides' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de Franc...
Category

Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'171. Coprinus picaceus 172. Coprinus atramentarius' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of Frenc...
Category

Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Hole Punch (Jim Dine 30 Bones of My Body portfolio) tool dry point
Located in New York, NY
The hand tool is undoubtedly Jim Dine’s most iconic motif. Meticulously catalogued in rows like scientific specimens or sketched individually, hammers, awls, brushes, saws and screwd...
Category

1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint

Euphorbia, German antique botanical plant chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Euphorbiaceen' (Euphorbia) German chromolithograph, circa 1895. 240mm by 155mm (sheet)
Category

Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Matisse, Découpage, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 4 (double)...
Category

1950s Fauvist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Flora ll - large format photograph of abstract floral and liquid cloud explosion
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph from a series of colorful floral explosions, flower power and liquid clouds captured in water FLORA lI by Christian Stoll 27 x 40 inches (68.5 x 102cm) sign...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

la fleur
Located in CANNES, FR
Fernand Leger ( 1881 -1955 ) " La Fleur " .1952 . Lithograph in colors on wove paper Framed with museal glass : Specially created by the artist in 1952 for the XXe Siècle Cahiers d...
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Archival Paper

la fleur
la fleur
$864 Sale Price
61% Off
Salvador Dali - Woman Holding a Veil - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Woman Holding a Veil - Original Stamp-Signed Etching Stamp signed by Dali Edition of 294 copies. Paper : Arches vellum. Dimensions : 16x12". Catalogue Raisonné : F...
Category

1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Oriental Cup by Vicky Oldfield, Collagraph print, Handmade print, Still life art
Located in Deddington, GB
Oriental Cup by Vicky Oldfield [2022] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Collagraph Edition number 30 Image size: H:10 cm x W:10 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:16 c...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper, Archival Pigment

Plane #300
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: This series explores the color and composition of our most recognizable form of transportation. A photographer and art director, Thomas Eigel brings an inspired eye...
Category

2010s Still-life Prints

Materials

Photographic Paper

Flowers, Pop Art Screenprint by Knox Martin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist:Knox Martin, American (1923 - ) Title: Flowers 8 Year: 1981 Medium: Silkscreen on Heavy Hand-Made Paper, signed in pencil Paper Size: 42 x 30 inches Printed by American Atelier...
Category

1980s American Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Screen

Carnations, Still Life Screenprint by John Grillo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Grillo, American (1917 - 2014) Title: Carnations Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 25 Image Size: 22.5 x 16.5 inches S...
Category

1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Screen

Late Night (Where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope)
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Late Night", Frederick Mershimer created a winter scene where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope. This image, the seventh in t...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Mezzotint, Aquatint

Pocahontas Pillow, Pop Art Serigraph by Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - ) Title: Pocahontas Pillow Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP 30 Size: 26 x 29 inches
Category

1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints

Materials

Screen

Sneezewort, Poppy, Strawflower: 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Ptarmica Vulgaris (Sneezewort), Papaver Spinosum (Mexican Poppy), Chrysocame Peregrina (Seaside Strawflower)", depicting flowering Sneezewort, Mexican Poppy and Seaside Strawberry plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713. This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper. The left margin is thinner than the others and the left edge is somewhat irregular where the engraving was previously bound in the original publication. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 20" high and 16.38" wide. Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category

1640s Academic Still-life Prints

Materials

Engraving

Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Paper Size: 11 x 8.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins d...
Category

1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Grape Flavor, Walasse Ting 丁雄泉
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Saunders Waterford, St Cuthberts Mill paper. Paper size: 21.75 x 29.5 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 200/200, as issued. Notes: Published by Atelier Dum...
Category

1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Neula, Forest Art, Landscape, Black and White Woodland Art, Monochrome Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Neula is a limited edition signed etching print on paper by Sarah Duncan of a black and white snowy forest in the winter with the trees bare and snow on the ground. This work is in a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching

Flowering Chestnut Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Castanea Equina, Chateignier amaire (Horse Chestnut)". It is plate 342 in...
Category

Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Engraving, Mezzotint

Sun in my room , 70x70cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
Located in Yerevan, AM
70x70cm, print on canvas Edition 20 pcs.
Category

2010s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Canvas, Color

Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs' Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs. Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
Category

Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs' Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs. Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
Category

Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Fruits and Flowers on Red Background - Original lithograph, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jules CAVAILLES Fruits and Flowers on Red Background Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Justified EA (artist proof) On Arches vellum 33 x 50 cm (c. 13 x 20 in) Excellent cond...
Category

1960s Post-Impressionist Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Thiebaud Paint Cans Vintage Pop Art
By (After) Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Reproduction of Paint Cans by Wayne Thiebaud exemplifies the artist's masterful ability to elevate everyday objects into vibrant works of art. Known for his bold use of color, textur...
Category

1990s Pop Art Still-life Prints

Materials

Offset

LeWitt, Composition, Ficciones (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on vélin Saunders Waterford, St Cuthberts Mill paper. Paper Size: 8 x 7.625 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Ficciones, 1984...
Category

1980s Conceptual Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Flower in Vase (Summer)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Flower in Vase (Summer) Color woodblock, c. 1950 Signed "B. Ohno" lower right (see photo) Sealed lower right (see photo) Series: Flowers of the Four Se...
Category

1950s Other Art Style Still-life Prints

Materials

Woodcut

NY Different Photography Fine Art Print Limited Edition
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine art print, limited edition of 10, photographed in NY 2017. Signed by the author.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints

Materials

Archival Pigment

Samuel Bak Surrealist Etching Israeli Bezalel Artist "Hidden Pear", Fruit Bowl
Located in Surfside, FL
HIDDEN PEAR, color etching, signed in pencil, numbered 7/50, Jerusalem Print workshop blind stamp, image 7 ½ x 5 ½”, sheet 15 x 10 ¼”. Samuel Bak (born 12 August 1933) is a Polish- American painter and writer who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel in 1948. Since 1993, he has lived in the United States. Samuel Bak was born in Wilno, Poland, Bak was recognized from an early age as having an artistic talent. He describes his family as secular, but proud of their Jewish identity. By 1939 when Bak was six years old, the war began and Wilno was transferred from Poland to Lithuania. When Wilno was occupied by the Germans on June 24, 1941, Bak and his family were forced to move into the ghetto. At the age of nine, he held his first exhibition inside the Ghetto. Bak and his mother sought refuge in a Benedictine convent where a Catholic nun named Maria Mikulska tried to help them. After returning to the ghetto, they were deported to a forced labour camp, but took shelter again in the convent where they remained in hiding until the end of the war. By the end of the war, Samuel and his mother were the only members of his extensive family to survive. His father, Jonas, was shot by the Germans in July 1944, only a few days before Samuel's own liberation. As Bak described the situation, "when in 1944 the Soviets liberated us, we were two among two hundred of Vilna's survivors--from a community that had counted 70 or 80 thousand." Bak and his mother as pre-war Polish citizens were allowed to leave Soviet-occupied Wilno and travel to central Poland, at first settling briefly in Lodz. They soon left Poland and traveled into the American occupied zone of Germany. From 1945 to 1948, he and his mother lived in Displaced Persons camps in Germany. He spent most of this period at the Landsberg am Lech DP camp in Germany. It was there he painted a self-portrait shortly before repudiating his Bar Mitzvah ceremony. Bak also studied painting in Munich during this period, and painted "A Mother and Son", 1947, which evokes some of his dark memories of the Holocaust and escape from Soviet-occupied Poland. In 1948, Bak and his mother immigrated to Israel. In 1952, he studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. After serving in the Israel Defense Forces, he continued his studies in Paris (from 1956 at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts) and spent various periods of time in Rome, Paris, Switzerland and Israel before settling permanently in the United States. In 2001, Bak returned to Vilnius for the first time and has since visited his hometown several times. Samuel Bak is a conceptual artist with elements of post-modernism as he employs different styles and visual vernaculars, i.e. surrealism (Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte), analytical cubism (Picasso), pop art (Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein) and quotations from the old masters. The artist never paints direct scenes of mass death. Instead, he employs allegory, metaphor and certain artistic devices such as substitution: toys instead of the murdered children who played with them, books, instead of the people who read them. Further devices are quotations of iconographical prototypes, i.e. Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam" on the Sistine Ceiling or Albrecht Dürer's famous engraving entitled "Melencholia" . In the late 1980s Bak opened up about his paintings, stating they convey “a sense of a world that was shattered.” He turns these prototypes into ironical statements. Irony in the art of Samuel Bak does not mean parody or derision, but rather disenchantment, and the attempt to achieve distance from pain. Recurring symbols are: the Warsaw Ghetto Child, Crematorium Chimneys or vast backgrounds of Renaissance landscape that symbolize the indifference of the outside world. These form a disturbing contrast with the broken and damaged images in the foreground. Samuel Bak's paintings cause discomfort, they are a warning against complacency, a bulwark against collective amnesia with reference to all acts of barbarism, worldwide and throughout the ages, through his personal experience of genocide. In Bak's piece entitled Trains Bak creates a vast grey landscape with large mounts creating the structure of a train. Massive taper candles burn in the distance further down the train tracks, surrounding an eruption. The smoke from the candles and volcano pour into a sky of dark ominous clouds that lurk over the landscape. Here Bak has created a whole new meaning for “trains.” Many of Bak’s pieces incorporate aspects of Jewish culture and the holocaust with a dark and creative twist, such as Shema Israel...
Category

20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

"60x48" FRIDA KAHLO Photomosaic Pop Art Archival Fine Art Photography Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frida is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

30x50 Tupac Shakur 2pac "All Eyez On Me" Cassette Photography Pop Art Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of 2Pacs iconic "All eyez on me" cassette tape. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro These iconic ta...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ancient Still Life 11 - Etching by Nicola Fiorillo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Fiorillo in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some folding and foxi...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Still-life Prints

Materials

Etching

Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs' Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs. Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
Category

Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs' Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs. Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
Category

Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Celestial Hippocampus (Ed. 88/140)
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Scar by China Miéville is a novel which has been a part of my life for many years, and has travelled as my companion through since adolescence. I've attempted to depict the Avan...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Recently Viewed

View All