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Conceptual Prints and Multiples

CONCEPTUAL STYLE

In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.

LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.

Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.

Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.

The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.

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Style: Conceptual
"Painting's", 1975, Silkscreen by Shigeru Taniguchi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Shigeru Taniguchi, Japanese (1948 - ) Title: Painting's Year: 1975 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 12/20 Size: 23 in. x 19 in. (58.42 cm x 48.26 cm)
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1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Wustteller (plate)
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 245 published by Buchholz + Schipper Koln
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Porcelain

Tree in Tree (Green and Purple), Conceptual Art Screenprint by Menashe Kadishman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (1932 - 2015) Title: Tree in Tree (Green and Purple) Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 125 Size: 41 x ...
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1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Tree in Tree (Burgundy and Gold), Conceptual Screenprint by Menashe Kadishman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (1932 - 2015) Title: Tree in Tree (Burgundy and Gold) Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 125 Size: 41 x...
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1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Peking, Silkscreen by Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: Peking Year: 1973 Medium: Silkscreen on BFK Rives, Signed, titled and numbered in pencil Edition: 250, AP 20 Size: 30 in. x 22 in. ...
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1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Paco and J.J., Abstract Lithograph by Glenn Goldberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Glenn Goldberg, American (1953 - ) Title: Paco and J.J. Year: 1987 Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP 5/6 Paper Size: 35.5 x 29.5 inches
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Blackpath Air, Contemporary Screenprint on Rice Paper by Joe Tilson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joe Tilson Title: Blackpath Air Year: 1971 Medium: Silkscreen and Collage on Japon Paper, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 9/70 Size: 38 in. x 26 in. (96.52 cm x 66.04 cm)
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1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Rice Paper, Screen

Bode-Museum, Berlin (Suite of Rooms with Portals)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bode-Museum, Berlin 62 1/2 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 1/2 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, ...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Lambda

Bode-Museum, Berlin (Suite of Rooms with Portals)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bode-Museum, Berlin 62 1/2 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 1/2 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, ...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Lambda

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Art Against AIDS
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over the course of 25 years, they made a significant cont...
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Mujer en sofá
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

AIDS
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over the course of 25 years, they made a significant cont...
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Ink

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and an authenticity certificate
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Mixed Media, C Print

Marx
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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C Print

Christo, Monuments: Portfolio with Ten Prints and One Sculpture, Signed Original
Located in Hamburg, DE
Christo's portfolio of 10 prints and a scale model sculpture of the ‘5,600 Cubic Meter Package’ for Documenta 4 in Kassel, 1968 (height 68 cm). Sold in white vinyl portfolio box. The...
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1960s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Metal

Elmwood and Oaklawn
Located in New York, NY
archival pigment print image size: 23.5"x 31.5" on 26.75"x 34.5" sheet edition of 10 available unframed This print is a surreal depiction of an aerial view of a ...
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2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Spheres of Influence
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942) is one of the most-distinctive American conceptual artists. His philosophy and aesthetic developed concurrently to Sol LeWitt yet Weiner has focused far more on (text-based) installation - typically in public spaces. Exhibited at Leo Castelli during the 1970's, Weiner has been an institutional darling with major exhibitions at most of the world's top museums. As a significant portion of his output is temporary installation, his multiples (which are few and far between) are sought-after and cherished by collectors. This rare silkscreen was published in conjunction with Weiner's solo exhibition "SPHERES OF INFLUENCE...
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Screen

"Working Drawing for an Unfinished Project, " Lithograph by Robert Stackhouse
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Working Drawing for an Unfinished Project" is an original lithograph by Robert Stackhouse, numbered 99 578. It depicts abstract, sculptural drawings of a project the artist was work...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Medaglia D Oro - Whiskers, Stallion Studio Portrait
Located in London, GB
Medaglia d'Oro (foaled April 11, 1999) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won several major stakes races including the 2002 Travers Stakes and the 2003 Whitney Handicap. He also finished second in the 2002 Belmont Stakes, the Breeders' Cup Classic in both 2002 and 2003, and the 2004 Dubai World Cup. Since retiring to stud, he has become an excellent stallion whose progeny include 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, two-time champion filly Songbird and two-time Hong Kong Horse of the Year Golden Sixty. Medaglia d'Oro - 'Whiskers' by John Reardon...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival P...

Blind Date
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Dye-Sublimation print on aluminum
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Metal

Two Figures (One with Shadow), from Hegel's Cellar Portfolio
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: John Baldessari Two Figures (One with Shadow), from Hegel's Cellar Portfolio 1986 Photogravure and sugar-lift acquatint on torn Rives BFK deckle, printed almo...
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Apple Temptation
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Dye-Sublimation print on aluminum
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Metal

Certificate, from The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving
Located in London, GB
Etching on paper, 1962/64, signed and numbered E.A. from the edition of 60, printed by Atelier Georges Leblanc, Paris, published by Galleria Schwarz, Milan, 25.2 x 19.2 cm. (9.9 x 7.6 in.) Various Artists with George Brecht...
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1960s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Ink

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Ink

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Ink

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Ink

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Ink

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Ink

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Printer's Ink

Head Honcho, 2012
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Mel Bochner's Head Honcho, 2012, is a unique monoprint that exemplifies his exploration of language's power and ambiguity. This work is part of his ongoing series inspired by thesaur...
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2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Oil, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Monoprint

Loops & Curves Blue/Red
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1999, this etching and aquatint on white Somerset Textured paper is hand-signed by Sol LeWitt (Hartford, 1928 - New York, 2007) in pencil in the lower right margin and is ...
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Karl Lagerfeld
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 2015, this color screenprint is hand signed by John Baldessari (National City, 1931- Los Angeles, 2020) in pencil in the lower right margin and is from the edition of 50. ...
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2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Six Rooms
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION John Baldessari Six Rooms 1993 Suite of 6 color offset lithographs with varnish and handwritten text 21 x 17 1/4 in. each Edition of 150 Pencil signed and numb...
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Varnish, Lithograph, Offset

Left to Right - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
Left to Right - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Three unique colour Polaroid prints, printed 1989 24 x 20 inches each The dogs, bewigged and bede...
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Polaroid

Dressed from Below - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
Dressed from Below - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Two unique colour Polaroid prints, printed 1994 24 x 20 inches each The dogs, bewigged and b...
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Polaroid

Towelling - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
Towelling - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1993 24 x 20 inches The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with outfit...
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Polaroid

Climber - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
Climber - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1991 24 x 20 inches The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with outfits ...
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Polaroid

Side Views - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
Side Views - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Unique black and white Polaroid print, printed 1998 24 x 20 inches The dogs, bewigged and bedecked w...
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Polaroid

Posed on Pedestal - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
Posed on Pedestal - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1994 24 x 20 inches The dogs, bewigged and bedecked wit...
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Polaroid

Primary Trio - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
Primary Trio - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1991 24 x 20 inches The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with out...
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Polaroid

Chair Piece - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
Chair Piece - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1991 24 x 20 inches The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with outf...
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Polaroid

3 Out of Four - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
3 Out of Four - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1988 24 x 20 inches The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with ou...
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Polaroid

My Coo Kie - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Located in London, GB
My Coo Kie - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1991 24 x 20 inches The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with outfi...
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1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Polaroid

Helmsmen (With Various Fires)
Located in New York, NY
It is hard to characterize John Baldessari’s varied practice—which includes photomontage, artist’s books, prints, paintings, film, performance, and installation—except through his ap...
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20th Century Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Mo'jam
By Farah Khelil
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Farah Khelil, Mo’jam, Fine Art Print, 99.7 x 150 cm, 2015 antoine lefebvre editions bookworm, curated by Antoine Lefebvre The boundaries between passion and destruction fade away. bookworms is an transnational transmedia artists’ project about book-loving and book-eating, conservation and conservatism, passion and destruction. From the encounter with a destroyed book stems a reflection between two artists who are both passionate about books. It is important for us to present this project in different countries because the issues of transmission of knowledge are everywhere the same. This project is about the ignorants for whom knowledge, intelligence and education has become a threat and who seek to drag others with them into darkness. For Khelil, the book eaters are thinkers and intellectuals against conservatism and dogmatism. *** bookworms is an artists’ project about book-loving and book-eating, conservation and conservatism, passion and destruction This project is the fruit of a very special encounter with an object… After the death of her grandfather in 2012, Tunisian artist Farah Khelil (b. 1980) explored his library and found an old family dictionary in Arabic (Mo'jam Arabia), at least what was left of it, for it had been devoured by book eaters. She decided to collect some fragments without knowing what she would do with them. Impressed by how carefully cut the pieces were, she wanted to transform them into artworks that would honor the memory of her grandfather. Because she knew how important the book object is in my artistic practice, she showed me the fragments and invited me to participate in an exhibition at the Tunisian gallery A.GORGI in her hometown Sidi Bou Said. I then thought about introducing her to Barbara Denis-Morel, the curator of the Avranches Library. This library conserves, among other treasures, more than 200 medieval manuscripts from the abbey of the Mont Saint-Michel, but it also holds a few books that were entirely devoured. Thanks to the curator, we could consult old books that were infected, quarantined, pierced by galleries and routes that revealed the passage of book-eating insects. We filmed these pages to create a video that we entitled ALL THE MEMORY IN THE WORLD, Toute la mémoire du monde, which is an appropriation of the eponymous film by Alain Resnais. Farah had also kept some intact pages of the devoured dictionary. Then we used this sequence of 120 pages to build the lay-out structure of an artist’s book. The idea was to empty all the textual content —captions and definitions— to keep only the figures, the dropped initials, and the page numbers. The emptied columns of the dictionary were then filled with artistic contributions and texts that we commissioned to invited authors. Printed in an edition of 500 copies, this artist book was made by Farah Khelil and antoine lefebvre editions from the remains of a devoured book. It will be a key element, of this second presentation of the project, and a special edition with a bookstand will produced especially for the fair. Behind the idea of book-eating insects, there is the issue of conservation but also of conservatism, as in Solitaire, an installation Khelil made with a peg solitaire game and mothballs. This work is a “portrait” of her grandfather, Abdelaziz Majdoub, who taught Arabic at the Sadiki High School for a long time where he specialized in “ilm al-kalam,” the science of language. This project is imbued with nostalgia, it is reminder for the artist of the time she spent as a child with this thinker always with his head in books. These encyclopedic pieces transformed into artworks draw the territories and communal places of knowledge. They are extensions of a family memory and reflect a culture going back and forth between book-loving and book-eating, conservation and conservatism. This idea of book destruction is one of the main dangers threatening the library and the books that compose it: fire, water and confinement. But there is also this minor or mediocre scourge that intend to harm the books: the book eaters. This exhibition is a metaphor, a reflection on ignorance, not as opposed to knowledge but as an enemy of knowledge. Ignorance is what attempts to undermine the intelligence, kill or reduce it. Just like the bookworms...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media

Mo'jam
Mo'jam
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Hegel's Cellar Portfolio
Located in New York, NY
It is hard to characterize John Baldessari’s varied practice—which includes photomontage, artist’s books, prints, paintings, film, performance, and installation—except through his ap...
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Etching

How to Brutally Construct an Absurd Sense of Pride
By Alexis Fidetzis
Located in New York, NY
Alexis Fidetzis How to Brutally Construct an Absurd Sense of Pride digital print on paper 30 x 150 cm (7 pieces)
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Sonica Whispers
Located in New York, NY
Sonica Whispers
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Conceptual prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual prints and multiples available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add prints and multiples created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Risaburo Kimura, Dennis A. Oppenheim, Heidler & Heeps, and Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali. Frequently made by artists working with Screen Print, and Lithograph and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 2.56 inches across are also available. Prices for prints and multiples made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $128 and tops out at $97,750, while the average work sells for $985.

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