1980s Still-life Prints

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Buena Fortuna, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 35, Image Size: 15 x 11.5 inches, Si...

Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg. While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting. Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked. Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium. Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print. There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...

Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Farrah's Original Harrogate Toffee, Year: circa 1981, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, Image Size: 26 x 2...

Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Post and Thistle, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 35, Image Size: 17.5 x 13 inches,...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Personnage et Colombe". The original painting was completed in 1913. In the 1970's after Pic...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Guitare Verre et Bouteille". The original painting was completed in 1919. In the 1970's afte...

Photorealist flower screenprint by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt, signed and numbered in pencil. Title: Spotted Leopard and Iris Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and num...

"The Rose" is an original intaglio print by Fred Reichman. It depicts a single rose on a hazy blue and beige background. 8 1/8" x 8" art Fred Reichman ...

Poster. Measures 22 x 28 in. Unframed. Copyright Donald Art Co, 1985. Good Condition (i.e. creasing and indentation).

Rufino Tamayo, Mexican (1899 - 1991) - Bodegon, Portfolio: Rufino Tamayo 15 aquafuertes, Year: 1980, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in crayon, Edition: 16/99, Size: 22 x 3...

"The Roses are Coming" is an intaglio print AP. VIII from an edition of 100. It is signed lower right by the artist Fred Reichman. It depicts sticks and ...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Made in China", explores the irony that glass, a transparent material alters perceptions of reality. This is the first instance in which Wax explores that iro...

KATSUNORI HAMANISHI (b.1949) SITUATION X (S. 32) Mezzotint Signed, titled and numbered 6/90 in pencil. 13 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches, sheet 18 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches. Excellent condition. She...

Vintage Leonard of Paris 100% silk scarf, warm-toned flowers on vivid red ground. "Leonard" designer printed along lower edge and also within the floral design itself. 27" x 27", ca....

Studio Flowers Lithograph, 1982 Signed lower right (see photo) Numbered lower left Edition: 120 (42/120) (see photo) Condition: Mint condition Two bits of hinge residue verso Image s...

Flowers is a modern artwork realized by Renzo Vespignani in 1980. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Numbered on the lower left. Artist's proof....

 Weightlifter is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1981. Mixed colored aquatint and etching. Original title: Gewichtheber

Howard Hodgkin Tropical Fruit, 1981 Colour screenprint on Velin Arches paper, signed with initials, dated and numbered 69/100 in pencil 78.5 x 93.8 cm - Sheet 91.4 x 106.3 cm - Frame...

A hand-signed lithograph of still life images by Israeli artist, Michael Eisemann. The print is hand-signed and numbered in pencil. unframed.

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, Hommage à Aimé et Marguerite M...

Artist: Hunt Slonem Title: Lobster Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250; AP 30 Image: 19 x 19 inches Paper Size: 22 x 30 inches

Four Flowers Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993) Date: 1980 Screenprint, signed, numbered and dated in pencil Edition of 137200 Image Size: 25 x 25 inches Size: 31.5 x 31.25 i...

Richard Claude Ziemann (American, b 1932) 'Weland Grasses' 1980 Etching on wove paper Edition 138/175 Titled in pencil lower left Signed and dated in pencil lower right Image (plate)...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, 1984. Published by Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Ni...

Nora Speyer Untitled, from the Long Point Gallery Portfolio, 1988 Lithograph on paper with deckled edges Hand signed, numbered 22/30 and dated on lower front 22 × 15 inches Unframed Hand signed, numbered 22/30 and dated on lower front Publisher: Long Point Gallery, Inc., Provincetown, Massachusetts; Printer: Bruce Porter from Trestle Editions Limited, New York Rarely to market, this stunning 1988 woodcut was created by Nora Speyer as part of a portfolio produced for sale by Long Point Gallery, an artist's cooperative in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Superb provenance as it is was acquired from the original Long Point Portfolio. This will be the first time the work will be removed from the portfolio. It is hand signed and numbered from a very small edition of only 30; it is in fine condition, unframed and never framed, and housed in the original portfolio box, with the original colophon page, which also included works by 11 other artists. For reference and provenance we have included an image of the colophon page from the complete portfolio. About Nora Speyer: The most exciting place to me is where I can communicate with the greatest number of artists. I can't live without some artists around. I'm not saying artists are likable. They can be very objectionable, but they are still my world. Nora Speyer Born in Pittsburgh, Speyer enrolled at Temple University's Tyler School of Art when she was sixteen. It was there she became roommates with Lillian Lent...

Lowell Nesbitt Red Rose, 1985 Silkscreen on wove paper Signed, dated, and numbered AP 9/25 by Lowell Nesbitt on the front 24 × 24 inches Unframed Hand signed,...

Still Life #2 by Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz, Chilean (1939–2021) Date: 1981 Etching, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil Edition of 65 Image Size: 19.75 x 29 inches Size: 26.2...

Harry McCormick, American (1942 - ) - The Landmark Tavern II. Year: circa 1985, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 60, Size: 26 x 31 in. (66.04 x 78.74 cm)

This black and white mezzotint is in an edition of 30. It is titled, numbered #1/30 and signed in pencil. Holly Downing is a painter and printmaker who has been making mezzotint e...

Amsterdam VI is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both ...

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Waterlilies Year: 1981 Edition: 42/200, plus proofs. Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Size: 23.25 x 41.5 inches Condition: Good Inscriptio...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, 1984. Published by Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Ni...

Bright and colorful lithograph of still life with fruit bowl on tabletop by French artist Roger Worms, circa 1980. Signed lower left. Original artwork ...

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...

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Rose Year: 1980 Edition: 92/175, plus proofs. Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Size: 29 x 29 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Signed an...

Brauerei is a  contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1985. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Violent Monochrome Year: 1980 Edition: 56/200, plus proofs. Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Size: 31.5 x 31 inches Condition: Good Inscri...

Artist: Arman, French (1929 - 2005) Title: Manches de violons bleus Year: 1987 Medium: Screenprint on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: EA Image: 14 x 13.25 i...

This original serigraph poster was designed for an in-store advertising campaign and printed in 1982. It is part of an unnumbered edition featuring collage-style images intended for ...

Still Life with Sugars Ralph Goings American (1928–2016) Date: 1981 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of AP 34/40 Image Size: 19 x 20 inches Size: 22 in. x 23 in. ...

Purpura and Dragon, Op. 211, Diamond drypoint by Jakob Demus. Demus said of this print: ""I found the shell in Naples, the Taoist dragon was inspired by the famous handscroll by Chen...

Artist: Kate Delos – Mexican/American (1945- ) Title: Untitled – Abstract Flower Year: 1983 Medium: Monotype Image size: 15.5 x 11.75 inches. Paper si...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, Hommage à Aimé et Marguerite M...

A Lemon, Two Lemons is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1980s by the italian artist Leo Guida. Original Etching on cardboard. Numbered titled and hand-signed in pen...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, Hommage à Aimé et Marguerite M...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 117, 1959. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...

Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - ) Title: Ocelot Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP 30 Image Size: 27.5 x 24 inches Size: 31 in. x 26.5 in. (78.7...