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Style: Abstract Expressionist
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1959 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 116) and published in Paris by the Maeght atelier. Size: 15 x 22 inches (377 x 560 mm)...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Still life with oysters, 80х80cm, print on canvas.Edition of 20 pieces
Located in Yerevan, AM
Edition of 20 pieces
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Canvas, Color
Spring 69
By Nancy Genn
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Spring 69" 1969 is an original color lithograph by American artist Nancy Genn, b. 1929. It is hand signed, titled and inscribed Artist Proof in pencil by the artist. The size is 23.75 x 34.65 inches. It is in excellent condition, it has very small marks in the back due to tape removal from previous framing, not visible from the front.
About the artist:
Nancy Genn is an American artist living and working in Berkeley, California known for works in a variety of media, including paintings, bronze sculpture, printmaking, and handmade paper rooted in the Japanese washi paper making tradition Her work explores geometric abstraction, non-objective form, and calligraphic mark making, and features light, landscape, water, and architecture motifs. She is influenced by her extensive travels, and Asian craft, aesthetics and spiritual traditions.
Genn's first noted solo exhibition was in 1955 at Gump's Gallery in San Francisco. She received international recognition through her inclusion in French art critic Michel Tapié’s seminal text Morphologie Autre (1960), which cited her as one of the most important exponents of post-war informal art. Her abstract expressionist paintings of this period, continuing through the mid-1970s, featured all-over compositions of colorful layers of gestural brushwork and calligraphic mark making resembling asemic writing.
In 1961, Genn began creating bronze sculptures using the lost-wax casting method. Influenced by noted sculptor and family friend Claire Falkenstein, who used open-formed structures in her work, Genn cast forms woven from long grape vine cuttings, and produced vessels, fountains, fire screens, a menorah, a lectern, and, notably, the Cowell Fountain (1966) at UC Santa Cruz. In 1963 her sculptural work was exhibited with Berkeley artists Peter Voulkos and Harold Paris in the influential exhibition Creative Casting curated by Paul J. Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York.
Genn was one of the first American artists to express herself through handmade paper, first receiving wide recognition via exhibitions at Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, beginning in 1977, and in traveling exhibitions with Robert Rauschenberg and Sam Francis. In 1978-1979, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Japan Creative Arts Fellowship, she studied papermaking in Japan, visiting local paper craftspeople, working in Shikenjo studio in Saitama Prefecture,[5] and exhibiting her work in Tokyo. She also learned techniques from Donald Farnsworth...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Lyrical Abstraction Screenprint Serigraph Ronnie Landfield Color Field Abstract
Located in Surfside, FL
Ronnie Landfield (1947- American)
1969
Hand signed, numbered, and dated in pencil
Serigraph on handmade paper. With the blindstamp of the Tanglewood Press.
From the portfolio Various Artists that Included works by Alan Cote, David Diao, Ronnie Landfield, Lee Lozano, Brice Marden, William Pettet, Alan Shields, Kenneth Showell, Lawrence Stafford, and Peter Young. co-printed by Bank Street Atelier, Chiron Press, Fine Creations, Inc., Tom Gormley, Maurel Studios and S.D. Scott & Co., New York and published by Tanglewood Press, Inc., New York.
Ronnie Landfield (American, 1947-) is an abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction (related to Postminimalism, Color Field painting, and Abstract expressionism), and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery.
Landfield is best known for his abstract landscape paintings, and has held more than seventy solo exhibitions and more than two hundred group exhibitions.
Born and raised in Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, Landfield first exhibited his paintings in Manhattan in 1962. He continued his study of painting by visiting major museum and gallery exhibitions in New York during the early sixties and by taking painting and drawing classes at the Art Students League of New York and in Woodstock, New York. He graduated from the High School of Art and Design in June 1963. He briefly attending the Kansas City Art Institute before returning to New York in November 1963. At sixteen Landfield rented his first loft at 6 Bleecker Street near The Bowery (sublet with a friend from the figurative painter Leland Bell), during a period when his abstract expressionist oil paintings took on hard-edged and large painterly shapes. In February 1964, Landfield traveled to Los Angeles; and in March he began living in Berkeley where he began painting Hard-edge abstractions primarily painted with acrylic. He briefly attended the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute before returning to New York in July 1965.
From 1964 to 1966 he experimented with minimal art, sculpture, hard-edge geometric painting, found objects, and finally began a series of 15 - 9' x 6' mystical "border paintings". After a serious setback in February 1966 when his loft at 496 Broadway burned down, he returned to painting in April 1966 by sharing a loft with his friend Dan Christensen at 4 Great Jones Street. The Border Painting series was completed in July 1966, and soon after architect Philip Johnson acquired Tan Painting for the permanent collection of The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska.
In late 1966 through 1968 he began exhibiting his paintings and works on paper (painting, lithograph and silkscreen) in leading galleries and museums. Landfield moved into his loft at 94 Bowery in July 1967; there, he continued to experiment with rollers, staining, hard-edge borders, and painted unstretched canvases on the floor for the first time. Briefly in 1967-1968 he worked part-time for Dick Higgins and the Something Else Press.
Landfield was part of a large circle of young artists who had come to Manhattan during the 1960s. Peter Young, Dan Christensen, Peter Reginato, Eva Hesse, Carlos Villa, William Pettet, David R. Prentice, Kenneth Showell, David Novros, Joan Jonas, Michael Steiner, Frosty Myers, Tex Wray, Larry Zox, Larry Poons, Robert Povlich, Neil Williams, Carl Gliko, Billy Hoffman, Lee Lozano, Pat Lipsky, John Griefen, Brice Marden, James Monte, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Robert Smithson, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Noland, Clement Greenberg, Bob Neuwirth, Joseph Kosuth, Mark di Suvero, Brigid Berlin, Lawrence Weiner, Rosemarie Castoro, Marjorie Strider, Dorothea Rockburne, Leo Valledor, Peter Forakis...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Red, Orange, Blue, Purple
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Raymond Parker – American (1922-1990)
Title: Red, Orange, Blue, Purple
Year: 1969
Medium: Color Lithograph
Sight size: 22.25 x 30 inches.
Sheet size: 22.25 x 30 inches
Sig...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Color, Lithograph
Chinese Israeli Modernist Still Life Lithograph Abstract Flowers in Vase
By Efraim Fima
Located in Surfside, FL
On Arches French art paper.
Fima (born Efraim Roeytenberg) (1914 – 2005) was an Israeli artist born in China. He spent most of his career in France.
Ephraim (Yafim) Roeytenberg, know...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Flashback VIII, Flashback Series
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 28 x 20 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 163/175, as issued. Notes: Published by London Arts, Inc., Detroit; printed by ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
$2,600 Sale Price
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Litografia Original VIII (Abstract, Modern, Surrealism, Colorful, 50% OFF)
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró
Litografia Original VIII (Abstract, Modern, Surrealism, Colorful, Iconic)
Color Lithograph
Year: 1975
Size: 13.25 x 20 inches (33.65 x 50.8 cm)
Catalogue Raisonné: Queneau,...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Parade Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
By Arman
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Pierre Fernandez Arman
Year: 1978
Parade
Medium Type: Screen print on Arches Paper
Size-Width Size-Height: 22'' x 30''
Edition Size: Signed in pencil and marked 9/150
Step into ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Galerie Pudeklo, Abstract Expressionist Poster by Sam Francis
By Sam Francis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sam Francis, American (1923 - 1994) - Galerie Pudeklo, Year: 1972, Medium: Poster, Size: 27.5 x 19.75 in. (69.85 x 50.17 cm)
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Kelly, Composition (Axsom No. I-b, p. 178), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 149, published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
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Antoni Tapies Post Modern Abstract Expressionist Aquatint
Located in Surfside, FL
Size includes frame. There is a plate impression at the image that leads me to believe this is an aquatint.
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquis of Tàpies (Catalan: 13 December 1923 – ...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
La Mélodie Acide - 9 (Surrealism, Colorful, Modern, ~26% OFF LIMITED TIME ONLY)
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró
La Mélodie Acide - 9
Color lithograph
Year: 1980
Edition: 1500
Artist Dry Stamp lower right,
Annotated "H.C" (hors commerce) in pencil lower left
Size: 8.2 × 6.6 on 12.9 ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Nothing to Do, Karel Appel
By Karel Appel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Karel Appel (1921-2006)
Title: Nothing to Do
Year: 1974
Medium: Silkscreen on Somerset paper
Edition: H.C.;110, plus proofs
Size: 27 x 39.25 inches
Condition: Good
Inscriptio...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
$3,400 Sale Price
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Untitled (Man)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled (Man)" 1977, is an original colors etching with with aquatint on Wove paper by noted American artist Charles Eckart, b.1935. It is hand signed in pencil by the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Large Abstract Expressionist Silkscreen by Michael Steiner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Abstract expressionist print by American artist Michael Steiner, who is most commonly known for his large scale sculptures.
Michael Steiner, American (1945)
Date: 1979
Screenprint,...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
La Mélodie Acide - 4 (Surrealism, Colorful, Vibrant, Modern)
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró
La Mélodie Acide - 4
Color lithograph
Year: 1980
Edition: 1500
Artist Dry Stamp lower right,
Annotated "H.C" (hors commerce) in pencil lower left
Size: 8.2 × 6.6 on 12.9 ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled 14, Large Abstract Screenprint by Ray Parker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raymond Parker, American (1922 - 1990)
Title: Untitled 15
Year: 1980
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 70
Image Size: 31 x 36 inches
Size: 32 x 37.5 ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Bond
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Tosin Oyeniyi is Inspired by his unquenchable passion to preserve and project the African culture to the global arena. Through my craft, I am unrepentantly determined to give beauty to the sight; heal emotional wounds and injuries; emphasis on love; preach peaceful co-existence; highlight societal ills and injustices; advocate for the teeming poor; unite families and bind lesions that are occasioned by inevitable disagreements; educate the black youths...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linen, Ink
$1,200
Sward Poem: The House, Abstract Expressionist Screen Print by Peter Kalen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Peter Kalen - Sward Poem: The House, Year: 1963, Medium: Screenprint on wove paper, signed, numbered, titled and dated in pencil, Edition: 11/25, Size: 20 x 14.25 in. (50.8 x 36.2 cm)
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Untitled
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" c.1990, is an original colors woodcut monoprint on artisanal hand made paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is unsigned as issue. The image...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monoprint
Composition, Poems, Willem de Kooning
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier Kitakata à la main, mounted on papier Cartiere Enrico Magnani à la main paper, as issued. Paper Size: 23.5 x 19 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$7,996 Sale Price
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Zao Wou-ki - Original Lithograph - Abstract Composition
By Zao Wou-Ki
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Zao Wou-ki - Original Lithograph
1962
From La tentation de l’Occident
Dimensions: 39 x 28.5 cm
Publisher: Les Bibliophiles Comtois
Edition of 170
Reference: Jørgen Ågerup 137 - 146...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Luna by Jill Moser
By Jill Moser
Located in New York, NY
Jill Moser, Luna, 2021
Woodcut print on Khadi 100 % cotton paper
Signed and numbered by the artist on recto
Paper size: 8.25 x 8 in
Edition of 18
Published by Eminence Grise Editions, New York
Printed by Andrew Mockler...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Sunset in the mountains, 80x80cm, print on canvas.Edition of 20 pieces
Located in Yerevan, AM
Edition of 20 pieces
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas, Color
Sunset in the mountains, 80x80cm, print on canvas.Edition of 20 pieces
Located in Yerevan, AM
Edition of 20 pieces
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas, Color
Still life with oysters, 80х80cm, print on canvas.Edition of 20 pieces
Located in Yerevan, AM
Edition of 20 pieces
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas, Color
Oysters, 80х80cm, print on canvas.Edition of 20 pieces
Located in Yerevan, AM
Edition of 20 pieces
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas, Color
$240 Sale Price
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Still life with oysters, 80х80cm, print on canvas.Edition of 20 pieces
Located in Yerevan, AM
Still life with oysters, 80х80cm, print on canvas
Edition of 20 pieces
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas, Color
Hand Signed and Inscribed Abstract Expressionist Poster
Located in New York, NY
Stanley Boxer
Hand Signed and Inscribed Abstract Expressionist Poster, 1979
Offset Lithograph Poster
Hand signed and warmly inscribed by ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Offset
Untitled Abstract Expressionist lithograph, from Carnegie Museum (155 Lembark)
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Sam Francis
Untitled (from Fresh Air School), 1972
Lithograph on wove paper, for the Carnegie Museum of Art
15 × 22 inches
Limited Edition of 6,000 (unsigned edition; there is a sepa...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Invisible Flying Object 1977 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Pierre Alechinsky
Invisible Flying object - 1977
Print - Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper 25.75'' x 19.5''
Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 10/100
After completing his studies at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in 1947, Pierre Alechinsky immediately became one of the founders and most active members of the CoBrA group . He began working with other members 'four-handed', especially with Appel and Dotremont, producing oil paintings filled with a multitude of small figures; his taste for ironical titles and curved lines was already becoming evident.
After Cobra disbanded, Alechinsky moved to Paris where he studied printmaking and moved in Surrealist circles. His work contains residual figurative motifs, such as goblins, reptiles of every description, volcanoes, and rushing streams. The beasts and geographical elements arouse disquiet as well as smiles of complicity.
The recipient of the Andrew Mellon...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Artaud's Arms (Exhibited at Brooklyn Museum)
By James Nares
Located in New York, NY
JAMES NARES
Artaud's Arms (Exhibited at Brooklyn Museum), 1988
Color Monotype on Gampi Torinoko Paper
36 × 27 inches
Signed James Nares and dated '88 l...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Monotype
Untitled (SF- 349), Abstract Expressionist Lithograph by Sam Francis
By Sam Francis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sam Francis, American (1923 - 1994) - Untitled (SF- 349), Portfolio: Papierski Portfolio, Year: 1992, Medium: Lithograph on BFK Rives, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 5...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Lithographier Originale (Les Peintures Sur Carton) (Abstract, Fun, Gestural)
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miro
Lithographier Originale (Les Peintures Sur Carton De Miro)
Original Color Lithograph
Year: 1965
Size: 14.5x10.5in
Edition: 150
Portfolio: DLM 151-152
Publisher: Maeght Ed...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
John Chamberlain, Signed Western Union cable re: sculpture show at Leo Castelli
Located in New York, NY
John Chamberlain
Hand Signed Letter re: Leo Castelli Exhibition, 1982
Typewriter on paper (hand signed)
6 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches
Hand-signed by artist, Signed in purple felt tip marker
Hand signed telegraph/letter refers to Chamberlain's exhibition at the legendary Leo Castell Gallery.
A piece of history!
John Chamberlain Biography
John Chamberlain (1927 – 2011) was a quintessentially American artist, channeling the innovative power of the postwar years into a relentlessly inventive practice spanning six decades. He first achieved renown for sculptures made in the late 1950s through 1960s from automobile parts—these were path-breaking works that effectively transformed the gestural energy of Abstract Expressionist painting into three dimensions. Ranging in scale from miniature to monumental, Chamberlain’s compositions of twisted, crushed, and forged metal also bridged the divide between Process Art and Minimalism, drawing tenets of both into a new kinship. These singular works established him as one of the first American artists to determine color as a natural component of abstract sculpture. From the late 1960s until the end of his life, Chamberlain harnessed the expressive potential of an astonishing array of materials, which varied from Plexiglas, resin, and paint, to foam, aluminum foil, and paper bags.
After spending three years in the United States Navy during World War II, Chamberlain enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago and Black Mountain College, where he developed the critical underpinnings of his work. Chamberlain lived and worked in many parts of the United States, moving between New York City, Long Island, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Connecticut, and Sarasota, before finally settling on Shelter Island. In many ways, each location provoked a distinct material sensibility, often defined by the availability of that material or the limitations of physical space. In New York City, Chamberlain pulled scrap metal and twelve-inch acoustic tiles from the ceiling of his studio apartment. He chose urethane in Los Angeles in 1965 (a material he had been considering for many years), and film in Mexico in 1968. He eventually returned to metal in 1972, and, in Sarasota, he expanded the scale of his works to make his iconic Gondolas (1981 – 1982). The movement of the artist and the subsequent evolution of the work is indicative not only of a kind of American restlessness but also of Chamberlain’s own personal evolution: he sometimes described his use of automobile materials as sculptural self-portraits, infused with balance and rhythm characteristic of the artist himself.
Chamberlain refused to separate color from his practice, saying, ‘I never thought of sculpture without color. Do you see anything around that has no color? Do you live in a world with no color?’. He both honored and assigned value to color in his practice—in his early sculptures color was not added, but composed from the preexisting palette of his chosen automobile parts. Chamberlain later began adding color to metal in 1974, dripping and spraying—and sometimes sandblasting—paint and lacquer onto his metal components prior to their integration. With his polyurethane foam works, color was a variable of light: ultraviolet rays or sunlight turned the material from white to amber. It was this profound visual effect that brought the artist’s personal Abstract Expressionist hand into industrial three-dimensional sculpture. Chamberlain moved seamlessly through scale and volume, creating material explorations in monumental, heavy-gauge painted aluminum foil in the 1970s, and later in the 1980s and 1990s, miniatures in colorful aluminum foil and chromium painted steel.
Central to Chamberlain’s works is the notion that sculpture denotes a great deal of weight and physicality, disrupting whatever space it occupies. In the Barges series (1971 – 1983) he made immense foam couches, inviting spectators to lounge upon the cushioned landscape. At the end of his career, Chamberlain shifted his practice outdoors, and through a series of determined experiments, finally created brilliant, candy-colored sculptures in twisted aluminum foil. In 2012, four of these sculptures were shown outside the Seagram Building in New York, accompanied by playful titles such as ‘PINEAPPLESURPRISE’ (2010) and ‘MERMAIDSMISCHIEF’ (2009). These final works exemplify Chamberlain’s lifelong dedication to change—of his materials, of his practice, and, consequently, of American Art.
Chamberlain has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including two major Retrospectives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York NY in 2012 and 1971; ‘John Chamberlain, Squeezed and Tied. Foam and Paper Sculptures 1969-70,’ Dan Flavin Art Institute, Dia Center for the Arts, Bridgehampton NY (2007); ‘John Chamberlain. Foam Sculptures 1966–1981, Photographs 1989–2004,’ Chinati Foundation, Marfa TX (2005); ‘John Chamberlain. Current Work and Fond Memories, Sculptures and Photographs 1967–1995,’ Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Traveling Exhibition) (1996); and ‘John Chamberlain. Sculpture, 1954–1985,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA (1986). Chamberlain’s sculptures are part of permanent exhibitions at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa TX and at Dia:Beacon in upstate New York. In 1964, Chamberlain represented the United States in the American Pavilion at the 32nd International Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. He received many awards during his life, including a Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit (2010); the Distinction in Sculpture Honor from the Sculpture Center, New York (1999); the Gold Medal from The National Arts Club Award, New York (1997); the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture by the International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C. (1993); and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, New York NY (1993).
-Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Leo Castelli
Leo Castelli was born in 1907 in Trieste, a city on the Adriatic sea, which, at the time, was the main port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Leo’s father, Ernest Kraus, was the regional director for Austria-Hungary’s largest bank, the Kreditandstalt; his mother, Bianca Castelli, was the daughter of a Triesten coffee merchant.
With the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the Kraus family relocated to Vienna where Leo continued his education. A particularly memorable moment for Leo during this period of his life was the funeral of Emperor Francis Joseph which he witnessed in November of 1916. Leo and his family returned to Trieste when the war ended in 1918. With the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Trieste embraced its new Italian identity. Motivated by this shift Ernest decided to adopt his wife's more Italian-sounding maiden name, Castelli, which his children also assumed.
In many ways the Castelli’s return Trieste after the war marked an optimistic new beginning for the family. Ernest was made director of the Banca Commerciale Italiana, which had replaced the Kreditandstalt as the top bank in Trieste. This elevated position allowed Ernest and Bianca to cultivate a cosmopolitan life-style. Together they hosted frequent parties which brought them in contact with a spectrum of political, financial, and cultural luminaries. Growing up in such an environment fostered in Leo and his two siblings, Silvia and Giorgio, a strong appreciation of high culture. During this time Leo developed a passion for Modern literature and perfected his fluency in German, French, Italian, and English.
After earning his law degree at the University of Milan in 1932, Leo began his adult life as an insurance agent in Bucharest. Although Leo found the job unfulfilling and tedious, the people he met in Bucharest made up for this deficiency. Among the most significant of Leo’s acquaintances during this time was the eminent businessman, Mihail Shapira. Leo eventually became friendly with the rest of the Shapira family and in 1933 he married Mihail's youngest daughter, Ileana.
In 1934 Leo and Ileana moved to Paris where, thanks to his step-father’s influence, Leo was able to get a job in the Paris branch of the Banca d'Italia. In the same year, Leo met the interior designer René Drouin, who became his close friend. In the spring of 1938, while walking through the Place Vendôme, Leo and René came across a storefront for rent between the Ritz hotel and a Schiaparelli boutique. The space immediately impressed them as an ideal location for an art gallery, a plan which became reality the following spring in 1939. The Drouin Gallery opened with an exhibition featuring painting and furniture by Surrealist artists including Léonor Fini, Augene Berman, Meret Oppenheim, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dali. Despite the success of this initial exhibition, the gallery proved short-lived. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 marking the start of World War II and consequently the temporary end of the Drouin gallery. René was called to serve in the French army, while Leo, Ileana, and their three-year-old daughter Nina moved to the relative safety of Cannes, where Ileana’s family owned a summer house.
As the war escalated, it became evident that Europe was no longer safe for the Castelli family—Leo and Ileana were both Jewish. In March of 1941, Leo, Ileana and Nina fled to New York bringing with them Nina’s nurse Frances and their dog, Noodle. After a year of moving around the city, the family took up permanent residence at 4 East 77 Street in a townhouse Mihail had bought. Nine months after his arrival in New York, in December of 1943, Leo volunteered for the US army, expediting his naturalization as a US citizen. Owing to his facility with languages, Leo was assigned to serve in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corp, a position which he held for two years, until February 1946.
While on military leave in 1945 Leo visited Paris and stopped by Place Vendôme gallery where René had once more set up business selling work by European avant-garde artists such as Jean Dubuffet and Jean Fautrier. The meeting not only rekindled René and Leo’s friendship but also the latter’s interest in art dealing, a pursuit which Leo began to view as more than a mere hobby but as a potential career. After reconnecting, the two friends decided to go back into partnership with Leo acting as the New York representative for the Drouin Gallery. Working in this capacity, Leo began to form relationships with some of the New York art world’s most influential figures, including Peggy Guggenhiem, Sydney Janis, Willem De Kooning, and Jackson Pollock.
By the late 40s Leo’s ties with René Drouin had begun to slacken, while his alliance with the dealer Sydney Janis became closer. Janis opened his New York gallery in 1948 and in 1950 invited Leo to curate an exhibition of contemporary French and American artists. The show drew a significant connection between the venerable tradition of European Modernism and the emerging artists of the New York School. Not long after this, in 1951, Leo was asked by these same New York School artists to organize the groundbreaking Ninth Street Show. This exhibition was instrumental in establishing Abstract Expressionism as the preeminent art movement of the post-war era.
Leo founded his own gallery in 1957, transforming the living room on the fourth floor of the 77th Street townhouse into an exhibition space. Perhaps the most critical moment of Leo’s career occurred later that year, when he first visited the studios of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In 1958 Leo gave Johns and Rauschenberg solo shows, in January and March respectively. For Johns, this was the first solo show of his career. These exhibitions received wide critical acclaim, solidifying Leo’s reputation not only as a dealer but as the arbiter of a new and important art movement.
Over the course of the 1960s Leo played a formative role in launching the careers of many of the most significant artists of the twentieth century including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenberg, Cy Twombly, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner. Through his support of these artists Leo likewise helped cultivate and define the movements of Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and Post-Minimalism.
As business expanded over the course of the 60s and artistic trends shifted in favor of larger artworks, Leo realized that his townhouse gallery was not sufficient to meet these new demands. Indicative of the trend toward maximal art...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Ink, Lithograph, Offset
Monograph titled FLARE Thomas Nozkowski Images (hand signed by Thomas Nozkowski)
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Nozkowski
Flare: Thomas Nozkowski Images (hand signed by Thomas Nozkowski), 2009
Limited Edition monograph on fine art paper (hand signed and dated by Thomas Nozkowski on the ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
"Hombre Blanco", Rufino Tamayo, Figurative Abstraction, Lithograph, 30x22 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
"Hombre Blanco" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction mixografia in color limited edition measuring 30x22 in. The piece is framed beautifully with...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Mojo, Signed Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by Dan Christensen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mojo by Dan Christensen, American (1942–2007)
Date: circa 1980
Screenprint, Signed and numbered in Pencil
Edition Size: 175
Size: 43 in. x 29.5 in. (109.22 cm x 74.93 cm)
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Screen
After the Party 1977
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
John Hultberg
After The Party - 1977
Print - Silkscreen 26'' x 34''
Edition: signed in pencil and marked 168/200
Unframed In Excellent Condition
Jo...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Homely Girl, A Life, Volumes I & II Signed by Louise Bourgeois AND Arthur Miller
Located in New York, NY
Louise Bourgeois
Homely Girl, A Life, Volumes I and II (Literary books with 10 original etchings) Hand signed by both artist Louise Bourgeois and Pulitzer winning playwright Arthur M...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Mixed Media, Etching, Lithograph, Offset
Dove of Peace, Screenprint by Jean Paul Riopelle
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jean-Paul Riopelle
Title: Dove of Peace
Year: 1988
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 290/300
Paper Size: 35 x 23.5 in. (...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Untitled
By Henri Goetz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Engraving, drypoint & carborundum, c. 1960's
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 25 (9/25)
Printed by the artist
Condition: Adhesive residue on the verso to...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Elaine de Kooning, Composition, In Memory of My Feelings (after)
By Elaine de Kooning
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...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$1,596 Sale Price
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Abstract Expressionist Print by famed sculptor (signed/n lt edition of only 58)
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Untitled Abstract Expressionist Print, ca. 2010
Digital photo lithograph
Boldly signed and numbered in graphite pencil from the limited edition of only 58.
13 x 17 in...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Digital Pigment, Pencil
Untitled, Yellow by Allison Gildersleeve
Located in New York, NY
Allison Gildersleeve
Untitled, Yellow (2017)
Etching on Rives BFK paper
Image size: 12 x 12 inches
Paper: 26 x 19 ½ inches
Edition of 18
Published by Eminence Grise Editions
Printed ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Untitled - Offset and Lithograph after Willem De Kooning - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an offset and lithograph print realized on Fabriano Paper after a drawing by Willem De Kooning of 1980.
The print suite was realized in 1985 in a limited edition of 2500...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Offset
$225 Sale Price
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Lyrical Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Cleve Gray Lithograph Silkscreen Print
By Cleve Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
Cleve Gray, American (1918-2004)
Composition, (1976)
serigraph or lithograph
Hand signed lower right, and editioned 9/50
Dimensions: 19.25 X 23.75 inches sheet.
unframed
Cleve Gray (1918 – 2004) was an American Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.
Gray was born Cleve Ginsberg, the family changed their name to Gray in 1936. Gray attended the Ethical Culture School in New York City (1924–1932). From the age of 11 until the age of 14 he had his first formal art training with Antonia Nell, who had been a student of George Bellows. From 15 to 18 he attended the Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts; where he studied painting with Bartlett Hayes and won the Samuel F. B. Morse Prize for most promising art student. In 1940 he graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude, with a degree in Art and Archeology. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Princeton he studied painting with James C. Davis and Far Eastern Art with George Rowley, under whose supervision he wrote his thesis on Yuan dynasty landscape painting. Best known for his calligraphic abstractions which melded elements of Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, and traditional Chinese scroll painting. After graduation in 1941 Gray moved to Tucson, Arizona. In Arizona he exhibited his modernist landscape paintings and still lifes at the Alfred Messer Studio Gallery in Tucson. In 1942 he returned to New York and joined the United States Army. During World War II, he served in the signal intelligence service in Britain, France and Germany, where he rose to the rank of sergeant. After the liberation of Paris he was the first American GI to greet Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. He began informal art training with the French artists André Lhote and Jacques Villon, continuing his art studies in Paris after the war. Gray returned to the United States in 1946. In 1949 he moved to the house his parents had owned on a 94-acre property in Warren, Connecticut, and lived there for the rest of his life. In the 1960s he formed a close friendship with Barnett Newman. It was during this time that he experienced an artistic metamorphosis, dissolving his earlier cubist compositions in a sea of distilled color. This dramatic body of work marked the beginning of an artistic meditation that would last for over 40 years. The rigors of French modernism, the ethos of Abstract Expressionism and the meditative restraint of Chinese and Japanese scroll painting commingle with astounding affect. The atmospheric, subdued tones of his 1960s paintings gradually gave way to bright, monochromatic fields of color, hazily washed onto the canvas in stain like swathes. Much of his work from the last three decades of his career feature striking graphic brushwork that conjures the influence of Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. He married the noted author Francine du Plessix on April 23, 1957. They worked in separate studios in two outbuildings with a driveway in between. Gray was a veteran of scores of exhibitions throughout his career, as listed below, from the early days Tucson, through to postwar Paris and New York, and most recently in 2002 at the Berry-Hill Gallery in New York City. His paintings are held in the collections of numerous prominent museums and institutions. In 2009 the art critic Karen Wilkin curated a posthumous retrospective of his work at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, and other posthumous exhibitions have been held.
Museum collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
The Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Columbia University Art Gallery, New York City
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York City
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Jewish Museum, New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
The Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Oklahoma City Art Center, Oklahoma
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.[14]
The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey[6]
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
He was included in the show 1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery. Mino Argento...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Color Embossed Lithograph Print New York Abstract Expressionist Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
This print depicts a non-objective composition of organic shapes rendered in vibrant hues of color upon a field of white.
Hand signed by artist in pencil lower right. Title and numb...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Color, Lithograph
Future Shadow II Abstract Expressionist lithograph pencil signed numbered 3/5
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Future Shadow II, ca. 2001
Lithograph on Arches 88 Paper with Deckled Edges
Signed and numbered from an edition of 5 by the artist on the front
32 × 23 inches
Unframed
The work was gifted directly by the artist to the present owner. This is a variation of a print the artist created as a donation to the Venice California...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
What mask are you wearing? 80x80cm, print on canvas.Edition of 20 pieces
Located in Yerevan, AM
What mask are you wearing? 80x80cm, print on canvas
Edition of 20 pieces
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Canvas, Color
What mask are you wearing? 80x80cm, print on canvas.Edition of 20 pieces
Located in Yerevan, AM
What mask are you wearing? 80x80cm, print on canvas
Edition of 20 pieces
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Canvas, Color
What mask are you wearing? 80x80cm, print on canvas.Edition of 20 pieces
Located in Yerevan, AM
Edition of 20 pieces
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Canvas, Color
What mask are you wearing? 80x80cm, print on canvas.Edition of 20 pieces
Located in Yerevan, AM
Edition of 20 pieces
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Canvas, Color
Original 1972 Olympic Games Munich Germany vintage sports poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Olympische Spiele Munchen 1972 vintage Olympic poster. Printed in 1969 for the 1972 Munich Olympics, this antique poster is archival...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Offset
Mid Century Modern Abstract -- Similar Objects
By Anthony Luchessi
Located in Soquel, CA
Non-objective mid-century abstract block print by Anthony "Tony" Luchessi (American, b. 1934). Signed and dated "Lucchesi '64" upper left. Displayed in a wood frame, without glass. I...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Ink
$1,200 Sale Price
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Untitled, 1982 by Joan Thorne (abstract with bright colors)
By Joan Thorne
Located in New York, NY
The limited edition was printed at Fine Creations Inc. and has the printer's blind stamp on the bottom right. It was published by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The availab...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Self-Portrait - Offset and Lithograph after Willem De Kooning - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Self-portrait with Imaginary Brother is an offset and lithograph print after Willem De Kooning in 1938.
The print suite was realized in 1985 in a limited edition of 2500, and curate...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Offset
$216 Sale Price
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Notations Series
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Notations Series" c.1980, is an original woodcut monoprint with embossing on thick Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed an...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Monoprint
Those who Fire, Those Who Run (Boston Massacre), Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Larry Rivers (1923-2002)
Title: Those who Fire, Those Who Run (Boston Massacre)
Year: 1970
Medium: Silkscreen and collage on wove paper
Edition...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Mixed Media, Screen
$3,600 Sale Price
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