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Period: 20th Century
"Nature morte" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: Cailler 135. This is an interpretation by Maurice Denis of one of Paul Cezannes's still life compositions, printed in 1914 and publi...
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20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Brown Still Life from Chagall by Jacques Lassaigne
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Lithograph Title: Brown Still Life Portfolio: Chagall by Jacques Lassaigne Year: 1957 Edition: 6,000 Framed Size: 13 3/4" x 15 1/2" Sheet Size: 9" x 7 3/...
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Fauvist 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Unexpected Meetings from the Rilke Portfolio, Minimalist Lithograph by Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969) Title: Unexpected Meetings from the Rilke Portfolio Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in the plate Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 1...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

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...
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American Realist 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

DAYTIME KEY Signed Lithograph, Mini Beachscape, Red Box, Sand, Sea, Blue Sky
Located in Union City, NJ
DAYTIME KEY is a rarely seen, hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches paper, 100% acid-free. DAYTIME KEY is an engaging miniature beachscape scene depicting a sandy shoreline, blue sky, and vibrant red locking...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

La Fleur (Saphire 120), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 9.65 x 12.4 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Léger, Fernand, and Lawrence Saphire. Ferna...
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Cubist 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Papier collé, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil 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° 6...
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Cubist 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Monmousseau Votre Vin original sparkling Champagne vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage French poster: MONMOUSSEAU VOTRE VIN. Anonymous artist. Methode Champenoise. Produced in the same manner as Champaign. Archival linen backed, ready to frame. In fine condition. This fine sparkling wine comes from J. M. Monmousseau in Montrichard, France. (Is a French town and former commune in the Loir-et-Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire.) Original Champagne posters or French methode Champenoise posters are now difficult to find because everyone wants one for their bar. Here is your chance to own a very fine condition original antique French stone lithograph. Champagne-style posters are one of the most popular of the vintage liquor posters...
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Art Deco 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

“Still Life of Flowers” Poster, Copyright 1969 New York Graphic Society
Located in Chesterfield, MI
JAN BRUEGHEL, THE ELDER (Flemish, 1568-1625). Poster/Print. Measures 38 x 29 in. Unframed. Copyright 1969 New York Graphic Society. Printed in USA. Fair/Mildly Distressed Condition- ...
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20th Century Still-life Prints

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Screen

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 141...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Iris on Beige, Photorealist Screenprint on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Photorealist flower screenprint by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt, signed and numbered in pencil. Iris on Beige Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993) Date: Circa 1980 Scr...
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Photorealist 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Screen

Roy Lichtenstein 'Blue Grapes' Invitation 1972 FRAMED
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 17 x 13 inches ( 43.18 x 33.02 cm ) Image Size: 4 x 5.5 inches ( 10.16 x 13.97 cm ) Framed: Yes Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details...
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Pop Art 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Les poissons rouges, Une Aventure méthodique, Georges Braque
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Une Aventure méthodique, 1950; published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, a...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Standing in the Visionary Field Screenprint by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 002)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Standing in the Visionary Field (1979). Edition 46/100 Screenprint [13 screens, 13 colors, 13 runs] 40.8 x 52.2 cm (image) 50.8x 65 cm (sheet) Edition of 100 + 10 Artist Proofs Published in 1979 on Hakou-shi paper by Ishida Ryoichi (printer) Provenance: Art Factory Gallery, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo Shinwa Art Auction, Tokyo Publications: A specimen of the same edition is represented in full page at plate 2, page 12 of the Catalogue Raisonné of Kusama's prints: "Yayoi Kusama Prints 1979...
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Pop Art 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Screen

Vase of Flowers, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Vase of Flowers Year: 1979 Edition: 138/350, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Somerset paper Size: 30 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: S...
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Pop Art 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 156, 1966. Published by Aimé Mae...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

"Coffee" the Perfect Meal - Menu - Beverages - Intaglio by Raymond Perez
Located in Soquel, CA
"Coffee" the Perfect Meal - Menu - Beverages - Intaglio by Raymond Perez The artwork "Second Course Fish" by Raymond Perez, created one of a group show at San Francisco State Univer...
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American Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio

Calder, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 113, published by Aimé Maeg...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

CHINESE VASE Signed Lithograph, Tony Bennett, Still Life, Flowers, Orange Lilies
Located in Union City, NJ
CHINESE VASE is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the renowned American jazz and traditional pop singer Tony Bennett. CHINESE VASE, an interior still life scene depicting lilies in a round glass vase and a figurative Chinese porcelain vase, was printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper. Eye-appealing colors of orange, yellow, green, brown, blue, dark gray, touches of black and white. Print size - 9.75 x 10.75 in., unframed, pristine condition, dedicated Printers Proof hand signed in pencil "Benedetto" by Tony Bennett on lower margin Image size - 8.5 x 7.5 in. Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co. Publisher - Eleanor Ettinger Gallery NY Anthony Dominick “Tony” Benedetto (1926-2023), Tony Bennett, a world-renowned singer and performer, was also an accomplished visual artist whose subjects span nearly every topic. Working under his birth name of Anthony Benedetto, he utilized watercolors, oil paints, charcoal, or whatever else was handy to depict his chosen theme. Benedetto's artistic career began at the age of five with sidewalk chalk drawings outside his childhood home in Astoria Queens...
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Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Sans titre, Hommage à Aimé et Marguerite Maeght, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 250, Hommage à Aimé et Marguerit...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Bunch of Flowers - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY Bunch of Flowers, 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor With printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 37.5 cm (c. 11 x 14.8 inch) Very good condition
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

YELLOW CALLA LILLIES
Located in Portland, ME
Dine, Jim (American, born 1935). YELLOW CALLA LILLIES. D'Oench and Feinberg 19. Etching, soft-ground, drypoint, photogravure and electric tools, with hand-...
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20th Century Still-life Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

TREMOR Signed Mini Lithograph, Surreal Landscape Multicolor Sewing Thread Spools
Located in Union City, NJ
TREMOR is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches pa...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Composition, Les Peintres mes amis (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Peintres mes amis, 1965. Published by Éditions d'art Les Heures Cla...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Sunflowers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sunflowers by Bernard Buffet, published by MaGraff, a French-Canadian publisher renowned for its fine editions in the early 1970s (now defunct). This reproduction, created as a scree...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Screen

Sunflowers
$300 Sale Price
20% Off
Banana (original drawing on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original colored crayons and pastel drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on front by David Hockney. Artwork size 16.75 x 14inches. Frame size approx 27 x 24 inches. Provenance: Annely Juda Fine Art; Richard Gray Gallery. Artwork in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Perhaps best known for his serial paintings of swimming pools, portraits of friends, and verdant landscapes, the artist’s oeuvre ranges from collaged photography and opera posters to Cubist-inspired abstractions and plein-air paintings of the English countryside. Often returning to a certain motif again and again, he probes the manifold ways one can see an image or a space. Hockney’s exploration of photography’s effect on painting and everyday life is evinced in his hallmark work A Bigger Splash (1967). “In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time,” he has explained. Born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, United Kingdom, Hockney attended the Royal College of Art in London alongside R.B. Kitaj. At school, he studied under both Francis Bacon and Peter Blake, but also credits Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse for influencing his distinctive and varied style. In 1963, the artist traveled to Southern California for the first time and fell in love with the bright sunshine and easygoing lifestyle. Since then, he has alternated living and working between Yorkshire, United Kingdom, and Los Angeles, CA. In November 2018, his 1972 painting...
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Pop Art 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Paper, Crayon, Pastel

Still Life (Sixth Annual Community Holiday Festival)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Artist: John Moore Title: Still Life (Sixth Annual Community Holiday Festival) Year: 1976 Signed: No Medium: Serigraph Paper Size: 47.25 x 31.25 inches ( 120.015 x 79.375 cm ) Image ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Screen

Matisse, Vigne (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Fruit By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Fruit By Henri Matisse Henri Matisse, a towering figure of 20th-century art, is celebrated for his revolutionary contributions to modern painting and sculpture. Known for his bold...
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Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Végétaux (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Dufy, Composition, Eaux-de-vie, Esprit de la fleur et du fruit (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Bernard Klein, éditeur, Paris, February 26, 1954. Notes: ...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 221, 1976. Published by Aimé Mae...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 173, 1968. Published by Aimé Mae...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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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....
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20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Still life, Pale Roses in a vase - Lithograph, 1971
Located in Paris, IDF
Paul Cezanne Still life, Roses in a vase, 1971 Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet workshop) Unsigned Numbered / 225 On paper applied on Arches vellum 53.5 x 41.5 cm (c. 21 x 16.5 in) ...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Spring, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Spring Year: 1982 Medium: Unique, mixed media with lithography and hand coloring on Arches paper Size: 6.25 x 5.25 inches Condition: Excellent Inscrip...
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Pop Art 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Mixed Media, Lithograph

Spring, Peter Max
$636 Sale Price
33% Off
Paintbrushes in a Pitcher - Still Life Etching by Don Weygandt (#20/150)
Located in Soquel, CA
Paintbrushes in a Pitcher - Still Life Etching by Don Weygandt (#20/150) Elegant lithograph of a pitcher holding paintbrushes by Don Weygandt (American, 1926-2018). This piece has a...
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American Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Paper, Ink, Etching

Still Life - Offset Print after Giorgio Morandi - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Still life is a vintage offset print, realized in 1929 reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi. Very Good conditions.
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Offset

Original MOMA, Information Art, Diagramming Microchips pop-art poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Museum of Modern Art, New York poster. “Information Art” Diagramming Microchips. This exhibition was made possible by the Intel Corporati...
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20th Century Still-life Prints

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Offset

Hyacinth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hyacinth Color woodcut, 1917-1918 Unsigned From: Seiyo Kusabana Zufu (Illustrations of Western Plants and Flowers) 1st edition Publisher: Unsodo, Kyoto Condition: Centerfold...
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Other Art Style 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Woodcut

In Tangier
Located in London, GB
Howard Hodgkin In Tangier, 1991 Screenprint in 22 colours on huntsman velvet 300gsm paper Signed with initials HH, numbered (63/72) and dated ('91) in pencil 82 × 86 cm Edition of 7...
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Post-Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Screen

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...
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Naturalistic 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Chrysanthemums
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chrysanthemums Color woodcut, c. 1950's Signed lower right (see photo) Publisher: Uchida (see photo of red seal) Note: Chrysanthemums, a symbol of the sun, the Japanese consider the ...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Woodcut

Still Life With Coffee Cup And Carafe
Located in Roma, IT
Original etching by Giorgio Morandi. Hand signed lower right and hand numbered lower left. Edition of 40 prints. The artwork is also signed and dated on plate. Image dimensions: 24 x...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Etching

"Iris" Botanical Etching on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Iris" Botanical Etching on Heavy Paper Realistic etching of an iris by Nancy Nevin (American, b. 1963). An elegant bearded iris is shown against a white background, in the style of...
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Photorealist 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Ink, Laid Paper, Etching

Anemone per Antipasti, Lithograph by Salvador Dali 1972
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) Title: Anemone per Antipasti (Anemone of the Toreador) Year: 1972 Medium: Lithograph with embossing on heavy Arches paper, signed and num...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Original Gustave Rouquier Bijouterie - jewelry art nouveau vintage poster
By Charles Naillod
Located in Spokane, WA
Original turn of the century French poster: Gustave Rouquier turn of the century stone lithograph for jewelry. Artist: Charles Naillod. Size: 47" x 63". "The most important choice in jewelry, watches, and goldsmith objects". This antique art nouveau authentic vintage poster...
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Art Nouveau 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Campbell's Soup I: Vegetable Soup (F&S II.48)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Campbell's Soup I: Vegetable Soup" is a Post War screen print on paper by Andy Warhol in 1968. It is edition 198/250. The artwork is 40 x 28 1/2 inches and weighs less than 50 lbs. It is signed in ballpoint pen, verso, "Andy Warhol" and stamped verso, "198/250". With Campbell's Soup Can, Andy Warhol takes as his subject a ubiquitous staple food found in millions of American homes and turns it into high art. With the unique candor he displayed in the best of his early Pop art works...
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Post-War 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Paper, Screen

Le pot et la faucille, Une Aventure méthodique, Georges Braque
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Une Aventure méthodique, 1950; published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, a...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

La chaise de jardin, Une Aventure méthodique, Georges Braque
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Une Aventure méthodique, 1950; published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, a...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

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...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Etching

Matisse, Découpage, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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) ...
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Fauvist 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

After the Party FS II.183 (Warhol estate stamped)
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print in colors on Arches 88 wove paper. Unsigned edition, lacking the pencil signature, but with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,...
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Pop Art 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Paper, Screen

Yellow Peppers 1993 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Donald Sultan Title : Yellow Peppers   1993 Medium: Print - Screen Print Paper size : 22.75'' x 21.75'' inches Image size : 12" x 12" inches Edition: signed in pencil, title...
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Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Screen

Garden Flowers & Vase of Flowers (Suite of Two Artworks), Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Garden Flowers & Vase of Flowers (Two Artworks) Year: 1979 Edition: 347/350, plus proofs; 143/350, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Somerset paper Si...
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Pop Art 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Double Bubble, Photorealist Silkscreen by Charles Bell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Bell Title: Double Bubble Year: circa 1990 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: 150 Image: 26 x 26 inches Size: 33 in. x 33 in. (83.82 cm x 83.82 cm)
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Photorealist 20th Century Still-life Prints

Materials

Screen

Hollyhocks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hollyhocks Color woodcut, 1953 Signed with the artist's stamp lower left Printer: Niimi Carver: Nagashima An early printing Condition: Excellent Image size: 15 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches "...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Prints

Materials

Woodcut

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...
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Pop Art 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Offset

Eight 18th century-era fashion plates from the portfolio Modes, by M. Connat
Located in Middletown, NY
Eight 18th century-era fashion plates from the portfolio Modes, by Madeleine Connat. Paris: Paris Etching Society, 1951. Each an engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream ...
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French School 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Engraving

Rare Abstract Expressionist flower lithograph, 1969 Top Chinese-US artist Signed
Located in New York, NY
Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 Abstract Expressionist Flower, 1969 Color lithograph with publisher's blindstamp Pencil signed, dated, and numbered IV/XV by Walasse Ting on the front 23 × 30 inche...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pencil

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