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Art Subject: Decor
Iris, Amaryllis, Lilies
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The formality, ornamental qualities and boldness of botanical art strongly influence Bardon's art. It is easy to see her inspiration in the patterns, line and simplicity of form found in Asian art. Some prints also include gold leaf, recalling the extensive use of gold on Japanese folding screens, and in early Renaissance painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

No title
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original lithograph on Arches paper Handsigned lower right with pencil and dedicated in french " Pour Andrée amicalement " Annotated lower left E.A for " Epreuve d'Artiste"
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21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Surrealist Still Life with Lemon - Original Lithograph Handsigned and Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges ROHNER Surrealist Still life with Lemon, 1972 Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Handsigned in pencil Justified HC (hors commerce) On Japan paper 76 x 54 cm (c. 29,9 x 2...
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1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

(There's A Place) Pensao Amor, Lisbon, Johnny Bull, Limited Edition Print, Bar
Located in Deddington, GB
(There’s A Place) Pensao Amor, Lisbon [2021] limited edition Digital on 315gsm etching paper Edition of 200 Image size: H:50 cm x W:50 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:60 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look I think the name suggests that this cosy little bar served a slightly more risqué purpose once upon a time. Johnny Bull...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Interior Prints

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Paper, Digital

PORTRAIT OF A VASE
Located in Portland, ME
Barton, John Murray. PORTRAIT OF A VASE. Color Woodcut, 1959. Edition of 100. Titled, numbered 1/100, signed and dated in pencil. 23 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (image), 11 1/2 x 27 inches (s...
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1950s Still-life Prints

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Color, Woodcut

STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES AND PEAR Signed Lithograph, Geometric Pattern, Fruit
Located in Union City, NJ
STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the American artist Lowell Nesbitt (b.1933-1993). Printed on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free using hand lithography techniques. STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES is a modern fruit still life depicting two bunches of plump green and red grapes, and green pear displayed on an Southwest style geometric Aztec patterned textile as a background. STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES is an eye-appealing composition using vivid colors including warm red, black, gray, yellow gold, light green, purple, burgundy and white. Print size - 21.5 x 28.25 inches, unframed, excellent condition, very fine impression, pencil signed by Lowell Nesbitt Edition size - 175, plus proofs Year published - 1978 Lowell Blair Nesbitt (October 4, 1933 - July 8, 1993) was an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. He studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Nesbitt worked in abstraction until Robert Indiana suggested in the early 1960s that he explore realism in his paintings. As subjects for his work he favored studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes, his Rottweiler, the Neo-Classical facades of 19th century cast iron buildings, and Manhattan's bridges. He was also famous for his enormous paintings and prints of roses, lilies, irises, and other flowers. He served as the official artist for the NASA Apollo 9, and Apollo 13 space missions; in 1976 the United States Navy commissioned him to paint a mural in the administration building on Treasure Island spanning 26 feet x 251 feet, then the largest mural in the United States; and in 1980 the United States Postal Service honored Lowell Nesbitt by issuing four postage stamps depicting his paintings. His first solo exhibition was mounted at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1958 and during his lifetime he had more than 130 solo exhibitions of his work at various galleries, museums, and universities, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Kent State University, the McNay Art Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Burpee Art Museum, and the Tyler Gallery...
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1970s Realist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Papel collé, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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° 9...
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1950s Cubist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

After Jonas Wood Jungle Kitchen Exhibit Poster Interiors & Landscapes Kordansky
Located in Draper, UT
Stamped on the Verso of the print and in Mint Condition. From the David Kordansky Gallery show in 2017. Very rare poster that has been stored flat since purchase. One of his most ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Clare Halifax, F is for Flamingo, Limited Edition Alphabet Print, Bright Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax F is for Flamingo Limited Edition 3 colour screen print Edition of 100 Sheet Size: H 38cm x W 37cm x 0.1cm Sold Unframed Hand printed by the artist onto somerset satin ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Nouveau Animal Prints

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Paper, Screen

Flower Arrangement (Red), Screenprint by Francesco Scavullo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Francisco Scavullo Title: Flower Arrangement (Red) Year: 1987 Medium: Screenprint, signed and dated l.r. in pencil Edition: 73/75 (verso) Si...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Screen

Floating
Located in Deddington, GB
Floating by Elaine Marshall [2014] limited_edition etching and aquatint Edition number 28 Image size: H:21 cm x W:20 cm Complete Size of Unframed W...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Three Flowers, Monochrome Vertical Colograph Print by Lizzie Wheeler, 2023
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Three Flowers by Lizzie Wheeler, 2023 Additional information: Medium:collograph 20 x 87.5 cm 7 7/8 x 34 1/2 in signed, titled, and numbered in pencil Lizzie studied Graphic Communications at Bath...
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20th Century Still-life Prints

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Linocut

Teapot, Still Life Lithograph by Andrew Lord
By Andrew Lord
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Andrew Lord, British (1950 - ) Title: Teapot Year: 1987 Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: PP II Size: 44 in. x 30 in. (111.76 cm x 76.2 cm)
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Eat Me with Ink on Paper, Print by Kate Willows
Located in Deddington, GB
Eat Me by Kate Willows [2019] An original limited edition linoprint celebrating the spread you either love or hate! Once I have designed the image, I transfer it to lino, which I then hand-carve. This print is made using six carved lino blocks. Each one of these is inked and printed separately, using six different coloured oil-based inks. Each print has the title, edition number and my signature hand-written in pencil beneath the image. This edition is limited to 40 prints. Additional Information: limited_edition Ink on Paper Edition number 40 Image Size: H:17 cm x W:17 cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Kate Willows, printmaker. Kate Willows began printmaking 15 years ago, initially working with etching and drypoint. Exploring printmaking methods that could be carried out safely in her home studio, Kate eventually settled on linoprinting as the best method for her style of printmaking. Kate creates original, colourful and playful linocut prints, which often reflect her quirky sense of humour. She is especially interested in the use of colour and how this can be used to create vibrant and bold prints. Influences include Antonio Frasconi, Eric Ravilious, Robert Tavener, Edward Bawden and Kathleen Hale.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints

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Ink

D is for Dog, Clare Halifax, Alphabet Art, Limited Edition Print, Animal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax D is for Dog Limited Edition 3 Colour Silkscreen Print Edition of 100 Image Size: H 35cm x W 35cm Sheet Size: H 37cm x W 38cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed (Please note that ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pointillist Animal Prints

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Paper, Screen

Labyrinth No. 1, by Francois Houtin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist, edition of 30. This Imaginary topiary and garden scene is the smallest that Houtin completed. . François Houtin was born in Craon en Maye...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

Jonas Wood (after), Large Shelf Still Life, Poster, 2017
Located in London, GB
Large Shelf Still Life Offset Lithograph Poster 2017 Excellent condition. The back of the print has the artist's name, title, date and exhibition on the reverse. 23 × 23 in (58.5 × 58.5 cm). Notes: Executed in 2017, this piece is from an edition of unknown size and is published on the occasion of Shio Kusaka...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

'O'Tannenbaum' original color silkscreen signed on verso, Christmas tree, winter
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'O'Tannenbaum' (Artist's #30129) is an original color silkscreen print by Ruth Grotenrath, signed by the artist on verso. Influenced by the works of Expressionists like Henri Matisse and the woodblock prints of early modern Japanese artists like Katsushika Hokusai, Ruth Grotenrath's 'O'Tannenbaum' combines the expressive use of color of the former with the precision of the latter to create a Christmas card that is as vibrant as it is subtle. Depicting a pine tree decked with ornaments and stockings, Grotenrath has rendered the tree-topping star as a ball of flames to analogize the warmth and spirit of the holiday season. Original color silkscreen 6.625 x 4 inches, silkscreen 14.375 x 11.375 inches, frame Signed in screen on verso inside-letter Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting and mounting materials, Museum Glass to inhibit UV damage and reduce glare, and housed in a gold finish wood frame. "The paintings of Ruth...
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1940s Expressionist Interior Prints

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Screen

"Orange Leaves" (2000) By Kate Breakey, Archival Pigment Print
Located in Denver, CO
"Orange Leaves" (2000) by Kate Breakey is a limited-edition archival pigment print that is hand colored using pencil and pastel that depicts a vase of wilted plants with orange leave...
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2010s Realist Still-life Prints

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Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment

Matisse, Danseuse Créole (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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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1950s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

“Still Life” Copyright 1965 New York Graphic Society Ltd. Printed in Holland
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster. Measures 31.75 x 39.75 inches Unframed. Copyright 1965 New York Graphic Society Ltd. Printed in Holland. Image is in Good/Fair Condition-indentation in the upper part of imag...
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1960s Still-life Prints

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Screen

Still Life - Lithograph by Gino Severini - 1964/1965
Located in Roma, IT
Still life is an original modern artwork realizeb by Gino Severini in 1964/65. Original LIthograph in 10 colors. Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of II/XV. R...
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1960s Futurist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Duchamp, Composition, View (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12 x 9 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, View, Surrealism in Belgium, vol. V, n°1, March 1945. Pu...
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1940s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Still life lithograph
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Moscardó (1953) - Still-life Lithograph - Hand signed Lithograph measures 38x52 cm. Frameless. Numbered 37/50 Barcelona, 1953 Painter, sculptor and draftsman of deep-rooted p...
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1990s Fauvist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Dahlia
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The formality, ornamental qualities and boldness of botanical art strongly influence Bardon's art. It is easy to see her inspiration in the patterns, line and simplicity of form found in Asian art. Some prints also include gold leaf, recalling the extensive use of gold on Japanese folding screens, and in early Renaissance painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Rose in Blue Glass Vase (Romantic Still Life Cyanotype Still Life Photo, Framed)
Located in Hudson, NY
Rose in Blue Glass Vase Photograph of Found Objects Printed in Cyanotype 10" x 8" image on 14" x 11" paper, edition of 5 19 x 15 inches matted and framed Wire backing, ready to hang Signed on front Available in additional sizes Other available sizes: 20" x 16" image on 24" x 18" paper, edition of 5 40" x 32", edition of 5 Contemporary still life cyanotype photograph of delicate rose poised in a blue glass vase. David Sokosh is a storyteller with a unique ability to internalize, synthesize, and recollect. If one of his tenderly photographed stills lifes was a tiny window into the workings of his mind, then on the other side you would discover a trove of collected treasures. Vintage teacups...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Paper

[Untitled] 2, lithograph in colours, on Somerset Satin paper, with full margins
Located in Bristol, GB
Monotype and lithograph in colours, on Somerset Satin paper, with full margins Edition of 30 61.3 x 48.7 cm (24 x 19.2 in) Framed 68 x 55.5 x 4 cm, 26.8 x 21.9 x 1.6 in Signed, numbe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Monotype

Peony
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Peony" 1974 is an original colors and gold leaf screen print by noted Japanese artist Kazutoshi Sugiura, b.1938. It is hand signed, dat...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Screen

Léger, La Femme et l'Enfant, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 79-81, 1955. Publishe...
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1950s Cubist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Geraniums, American Realist Screenprint by Lorna Patrick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lorna Patrick, American - Geraniums, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 295, Image Size: 24 x 26 inches, Size: 32 x 42 in. (81.28 x 106.6...
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1980s American Realist Still-life Prints

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Screen

Deep Ocean Whirlpool, Desert Modernism Style, Unique Cyanotype on Paper in Blue
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes and the desert modernism movement. It's made by layering paper cutouts...
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2010s Aesthetic Movement Still-life Prints

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Paper, Monotype

Matisse, Poisson chinois (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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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1950s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Chrysanthemums and the Rising Moon
Located in Middletown, NY
An image that originally appeared in an astrological calendar for the year 1766. Tokyo: Shuei-Sha, 1766. Woodblock print in colors printed on laid mulberry paper, 10 3/4 x 7 7/8 in...
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Mid-18th Century Edo Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut

Magritte, Composition, Les chants de Maldoror (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin papier pur chiffon paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Les chants de Maldoror, illustrat...
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1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Double Vision Bar Scene, Still Life Wine Bottles and Glass, Blue Tones Monotype
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Double Vision Bar Scene" is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype made by layering paper cutouts of bottle silhouettes and wine glasses using uv...
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2010s Analytic Cubist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Watercolor

"Watch for the Next Bloom", Still Life, Cat Depiction Patterns, Woodcut Print
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Watch for the Next Bloom" is an original print by Jun Lee and is made by reduction woodcut. This piece measures 35"h x 26"w framed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints

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Ink, Woodcut

Still Life - Vintage Offset Print after Giorgio Morandi - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 16 cm. Still Life is a magnificent original offset print, reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi of 1962. Even the signature is perfectly rep...
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1970s Figurative Prints

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Offset

Original Contemporary Etching, Roses, Flowers
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Etching, Gravure, Edition of 9. Handmade artwork. Ready to Hang. Medium : Etching and Aquatint Artist : Deniz Bayav Subject : Sen Karanfile Eğilimlisin (Title) Sign...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Driver's Line, State II (Glenn 167A)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching and aquatint on vélin Magnani Pescia paper. Paper size: 22.625 x 39.625 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 62/78, as issued. Notes: Published by Multiples, Inc., ...
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Still Life with Glass and Pipe - Original etching (Catalog Orozco # EAS 781)
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges BRAQUE Still Life with Glass and Pipe, 1959 Original etching with aquatint Printed signature in the plate Numbered / 350 On vellum 30 x ...
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1950s Cubist Still-life Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Bronze Urns with Citrus Trees, 2 prints
Located in Middletown, NY
Pair of reproductive prints after Jean le Pautre’s engravings after Claude Ballin, 1670s, heightened with gouache and gold, on Fabriano wove paper, a deckle edge at bottom. 22 x 14 3...
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Late 17th Century French School Still-life Prints

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Handmade Paper, Watercolor

Les Marguerites (Daisies)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: George Braque – French (1882-1963) Title: Les Marguerites (Daisies) Year: circa 1952 Medium: Color etching and aquatint Publisher: Maeght, Paris (bears Maeght blindstamp in ...
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1950s Cubist Still-life Prints

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Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Tour de Force (Rare Edition)
Located in Toronto, ON
31" x 18" Unframed Limited Edition Giclee Artist Proof of 135 Hand Signed by Thomas Arvid
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21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Giclée

Weed Wreath (edition 5/6)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Weed Wreath (edition 5/6)" is an original artwork made from hand colored cut-plate intaglio on Somerset by Katie VanVliet. This piece is the fifth in an edition of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Paper, Color, Intaglio

de Vlaminck, Les Anémones, Vlaminck (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper. Year: 1952 Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.5 inches; image size: 9.05 x 6.69 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From th...
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1950s Fauvist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

The Round Plate, April 1986 -- Print, Homemade, Still-life by David Hockney
Located in London, GB
The Round Plate, April 1986, 1986 David Hockney Homemade print in colours executed on an office colour copy machine On Arches rag paper Signed, dated and...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Rag Paper, Color

"Weed Wreath (edition 2/6)" Botanical Etching, Floral printmaking, tree branches
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Weed Wreath (edition 2/6)" is an original artwork made from hand colored cut-plate intaglio on Somerset by Katie VanVliet. This piece is the second in an edition o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Paper, Color, Intaglio

Picasso, Composition, Faunes et Flore d'Antibes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin pur chiffon d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Faunes et Flore d'Antibe...
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1960s Cubist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Interior with Cup and Kettle, Modern Lithograph by Robert Kipniss
Located in Long Island City, NY
A quiet still life of a vase with cup and kettle is the subject of this lithograph by Robert Kipniss from 1986. Kipniss is known for his rather moody graphic works-- using simple sha...
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1980s American Impressionist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Vintage Pressed Flowers in Blue, Botanical Nordic Style, Traditional Cyanotype
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. Details: + Title: Vintage Pressed Flowers Nº1 + Year: 2021 + Edition Size: 20 + St...
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2010s Baroque Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Other Medium

Three Eucalyptus Branches ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Although I spent 10 years as a traditional printmaker using a press, my botanical cyanotypes are each one-of-a-kind slow cameraless photographs made outdoors using natural light. The...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Tulips, Aileen Brown colour linocut, 2009
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour linocut, limited edition (13/16), titled, signed and dated in pencil. 2009. Aileen Brown is a Melbournian printmaker. Since 1983 she has worked e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Prints

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Linocut

I'm Afraid We're Going to Have to Cancel Our Reservation
Located in New York, NY
Matthew Brannon is best known for his letterpress and screen prints of incongruous combinations of images and text. These prints are rendered in a subtle, stripped-down aesthetic, ev...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

"Still Life" - Etching in Ink on Paper (Artist's Proof)
Located in Soquel, CA
Still life etching with jars by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Four jars sit on a countertop. Overlapping fabric patterns like cheesecloth are used to create shadows and tex...
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1980s American Impressionist Interior Prints

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Paper, Ink, Etching

The Green Sugarbowl — Mid-Century Color Woodcut
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Ross Abrams, 'The Green Sugarbowl', color woodcut, 1949, edition 24. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'Artist’s proof' in pencil. A fin...
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1940s Modern Still-life Prints

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Woodcut

Buds
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Buds Color lithograph, 1980 Signed, titled, and editioned in pencil by the artist Publisher: Art Matters Printer: Bud Shark, Shark's Ink, Lyons, CO Condition: Excellent Image: 31-1/8 x 41-1/4" (79 x 104.7 cm.) "An Abstract Expressionist when he left the Art Institute of Chicago in 1956, Beal has since become a dedicated realist who sees art as a potentially powerful moral force. He has great regard for Platonic ideals of truth, beauty, and goodness, and admires both the realism of seventeenth-century Dutch painting and the compositional authority of Renaissance art. Since moving to New York in the late 1950s with his wife, painter Sondra Freckelton, Beal has painted still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, although in recent years his most ambitious undertakings have been large-scale allegories and myths. In describing his approach, Beal calls himself a "life painter" and says he is committed to human over aesthetic concerns. Yet his intricate complexes of figures and surface patterns, along with his adroit handling of space, reveal his sophisticated, accomplished sense of composition. Virginia M. Mecklenburg Biography Jack Beal (1931-2013) was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He briefly attended the College of William and Mary, studying biology, but dropped out after two years. A decision to take evening art classes lead to his attending the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied from the old masters in the Institute’s collection and with Isobel Steele MacKinnon, a student of Hans Hoffman. His classmates there included Red Grooms, Richard Estes, Claes Oldenberg and Robert Barnes, and while abstract expressionism remained “the only valid way to paint,” it was a style that all would eventually reject. In 1956 Beal left the Art Institute and moved to New York with the aim of finding success as a painter, eventually becoming one of the first artists to settle in the SoHo neighborhood. A turning point came in 1962 when, spending the summer in upstate New York, Beal decided to begin painting outdoors. Dissatisfied with abstract painting, he “wanted to give Art one more try” and in working from nature “fell in love with painting all over again.” Over the next few years Beal worked toward a balance between expressionistic paint handling and realistic, narrative pictures. Clement Greenberg’s pronouncement around this time, that the figure was no longer a valid subject was taken as a challenge by many artists, Beal included. His subsequent adoption of the female nude - modeled by his wife, the artist Sondra Freckelton - was a break-through. Though the paintings retained the sensuousness of his earlier canvases, the rigorous formality of their composition and the masterful treatment of light and shadow offered a new approach to realist painting. Indeed, Beal was not alone in this transformation; friends and colleagues in New York were coming to similar conclusions and the group, who included painters such as Philip Pearlstein, Alfred Leslie, Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Jack Tworkov, Nell Blaine and Fairfield Porter, would eventually be considered the ‘New Realists.’ With the resurgence of figurative painting, Beal distinguished himself for his skillful handling of color and modeling as well as what was later described as his “pushing of representational forms to their interface with abstraction”. Through the later half of the 1960s, while his subject matter remained unchanged, his paintings were increasingly given over to wide areas of flat color. In 1969, he exhibited a series of Table Paintings which, with their hard-edge style and near complete abstraction of the form, were a radical departure for Beal. So radical in fact, he was accosted by fellow realist painters Alfred Leslie and Sidney Tillim, who berated him “for betraying realism and betraying [himself], for moving away from ‘the true path’.” The incident had its intended effect and Beal did return to a more naturalistic and humanistic style, eventually abandoning the nude in favor of increasingly allegorical portraits. In 1974, the United States General Services Administration commissioned Beal to produce a series of murals for the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters in Washington D.C. The result was The History of Labor, four, 12 x 13 foot paintings in the vein of George Caleb Bingham, each illustrating a century of American development. Following the completion of the murals in 1977, Beal continued to make use of narrative in his paintings, with portraiture and self-portraiture as a means of exploring moral and didactic themes. He and Sondra had purchased an old mill in upstate New York in 1974 and after extensive renovations, it became their permanent residence. Unsurprisingly, many of his later paintings are pastoral scenes based on his rural surroundings or still lives including flowers which they grew on the property. In 1986, Beal was commissioned by the Art in Transit Initiative to create a large-scale mural as part of the redevelopment of the Times Square Subway Station. The proposed mosaic mural, The Return of Spring, took over fifteen years to complete, with the two, 7 x 20 foot sections finally installed in 2001 and 2005. Together they update the Greek myth of Persephone with a New York setting, showing her abduction by Hades, initiating the arrival of winter, and her release, bringing the bountiful return of spring. Beal was a founder of the Artist’s Choice Museum, New York and the New York Academy of Art as well as the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including honorary degrees from the Art Institute of Boston and the Hollins College...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

White Iris, Folk Art Lithograph by Mary Faulconer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - White Iris, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 250, AP 35, Image Size: 24 x 18 inches, Size: ...
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1980s Folk Art Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Pencil Box, Folk Art Lithograph by Mary Faulconer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Pencil Box, Year: 1981, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm), Descripti...
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1980s Folk Art Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

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