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Contemporary Prints and Multiples

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Bearden-Mecklenburg Morning: Sunrise for China Lamp Serigraph
By (after) Romare Bearden
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This vibrant recreation of Romare Bearden's work, titled Mecklenburg Morning: Sunrise for China Lamp, was published by American Vision Gallery Inc. and reproduced with the consent of...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Night: William Dunas Dance (Suite of Four)
Located in Long Island City, NY
A beautiful set of prints displaying a dancer (Pamela) in motion. Pamela is a recurring subject in Alex Katz’s work, regularly showing up named in the titles of various pieces. This ...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lee Wells 'End of the World Party #8'
Located in New York, NY
Lee Wells End of the World Party #8 2023 Archival pigment print Edition of 1 Caption: Smoky Serenity: In a verdant embrace, Isabel, Maurice, an...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

ICES Blue, Pink and Yellow Trio of Framed Colour Photography Artworks
Located in Cambridge, GB
ICES Blue, Pink and Yellow A set of three pop art prints by Richard Heeps from his Great British Staycation series 'On-Sea'. Taken between lockdowns in September 2020, it has proved ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Seascape XVI - large format photograph of monochrome water surface and clouds
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mesmerizing large scale photograph from artist's Seascape series, a body of works capturing the tactile surfaces and monochromatic nature of oceanic water and cloudscapes Seascape ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Guy Allen, Horse Study Fuschia, Horse Art Prints, Limited Edition Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Horse Study Fuchsia [2020] Limited Edition Figurative Etching, Aquatint, and Screen Print on Paper Edition of 45 Image size: H:53.5 cm x W:56 cm Work: H:76...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint, Screen

PEJAC Drain I Show Poster
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Stunning and rare Pejac Drain I show poster. Meant to look like an artists palette it has an actual hole in the poster that is use to make the whirlpool in image. It is based on the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Color

Botero The Violinist, Mostly Mozart Festival , 1984 Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original poster by Fernando Botero, created for the Mostly Mozart festival and published by the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, exemplifies Botero's signature humor and ...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1997 Cindy Sherman 'Untitled Film Still #21' HAND SIGNED
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: YY2947-B Artist: Cindy Sherman Title: Untitled Film Still #21 Year: 1997 Signed: Yes Medium: Offset Lithograph Paper Size: 26.5 x 29.25 inches ( 67.31 x 74.295 cm ) Image Size: ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Munich Olympics Poster - Olympische Spiele Munchen, 1972
Located in Manchester, GB
David Hockney, Munich Olympics Poster - Olympische Spiele Munchen, 1972 Offset lithograph poster Signed in plate Issued in a run of 4000 101 x 64 c...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

THE CONVERSATION Signed Lithograph, Black Women, Train, African American Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
THE CONVERSATION is an original limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free. THE CONVERSATION...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Shower Power
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Katherine Bernhardt Title: Shower Power Year: 2023 Medium: 14 Colour lithograph on Somerset Tub Sized Radiant White 410gsm paper Sheet: 40 × 32 9/50 in (101.6 × 81.7 cm) Edit...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Playing Cards (10 of Hearts)
Located in Vancouver, CA
Donald Sultan Playing Card Prints - Artist Proofs (APs) We are excited to offer a rare collection of Artist Proof (AP) prints from Donald Sultan's acclaimed playing card series. Lim...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil, Aquatint

Red Flowers with Painting, Folk Art Lithograph by Guy Charon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Red Flowers with Painting Guy Charon, French (1927) Date: circa 1977 Lithograph, signed in pencil Edition of 250, EA Image Size: 19.75 x 25.5 inches Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Best Men
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Johns Baldessari Title: Best Men Year: 2017 Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition: 50; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet: 32 1/2 x 28 inches (82.5 x 71.1 cm...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Takashi Murakami - Flower Sparkles - Pop Art Japanese Flowers Colours
Located in London, GB
Edition of 300. Murakami signed and numbered in silver marker pen along the lower right edge. Offset lithograph with cold foil stamp and high gloss varnishing on UV paper 60 x 60 cm ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Flight Pattern - Contemporary Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological forma...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Unitled 11
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Framed in an ornate wood frame with a front profile of 1 1/2 inches and a side profile of 1 inch, this piece is elegantly seated behind a 4-inch mat. This is Edition #669/900, publis...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Albert Einstein - Etching by Pierre-Yves Trémois - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Albert Einstein is an etching on paper, realized in 1955 by the French artist Pierre-Yves Trémois (Paris, 1921). From Edition of 140 copies of the Suite "Cynégétique", including 3...
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1950s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Marc Chagall 'Passage du Jordain - 1958' Etching With Watercolor
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Marc Chagall, 1887-1985 (Russian, French) Passage du Jordain - The Israelites Crossing the Jordan 1956, From bible 1931-1958 Etching with watercolor signed lower right, numbered '26/...
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1950s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Etching

La Grande Preugne - by Skadi Engeln Contemporary Abstract Wood Print
Located in DE
Skadi Engeln, a Berlin- and France-based artist, studied sculpture at FH Ottersberg with Robert van de Laar and painting with Michael Kohr and Hermanus Westendorp. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in cities like Berlin, Düsseldorf, Paris, New York, and more, and is part of international collections. Engeln explores landscape as a dynamic, ever-changing entity dissolving into light, water, and weather, only to reassemble itself. Like painting, landscapes blur the line between the visible and the hidden, revealing deeper truths in their transitions. The horizon plays a central role in her work, both separating and connecting what lies above and below, the seen and the concealed. Rather than decoding these layers, she preserves their mystery and beauty. Since 2001, she has focused on abstract landscape painting. Her recent works depict landscapes veiled by lines, stripes, and distortions, creating a sense of distance, like reflections in a train window...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

''Joy'' Limited edition print of surrealistic collage with portrait of a woman
Located in Utrecht, NL
Maria Rivans is a contemporary British artist, known for her scrapbook-style collage aesthetic. A mash-up of Surrealism meets Pop-Art, Rivans’s work re-ap...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Mixed Media

Shepard Fairey "Paint It Black" Letterpress Edition Contemporary Rolling Stones
Located in Draper, UT
I've made a few Paint it Black themed images and this letterpress print was made especially for my New Clear Power show at AMUSEUM in Munich, Germany. Unfortunately, the topic r...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

After Christopher Wool, Untitled (The Show is Over), 1993
Located in London, GB
After Christopher Wool, Untitled (The Show is Over), Offset Lithograph on Paper, 1993 Offset lithograph on white poster paper Excellent conditi...
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20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph, Offset

"Poster For George Harrison" Shepard Fairey Silkscreen Print Obey The Beatles
Located in Draper, UT
Signed to lower margin Edition 239/400 Published by Obey Giant, Los Angeles "My parents were Beatles fans and introduced me to them at a young age. In college I grew to especially love the later Beatles albums like Sgt. Peppers, The White Album, and Abbey Road. George Harrison started to contribute more songs to the later Beatles albums that were just as strong as any Lennon...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Foliage (Black and Blue)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed in bottom right corner. Also signed and on the reverse, This is unique color woodcut monoprint numbered 1/1. An abstracted view into foliage at night.. In January 2018, the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut, Monoprint

Richard Yarde "Savoy: The Pirouette" limited edition giclée on fine art paper
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Savoy: The Pirouette" limited edition giclée on fine art paper of a pair of dancers by African American artist Richard Yarde. Part of Yarde's "Savoy Bal...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Giclée

The Long Memory
Located in New York, NY
The Long Memory is an 18-color screenprint on paper by the artist Betye Saar The Long Memory 1998 Signed and numbered, recto 18-color screenprint on paper (Edition of 100) 14.5 x...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

Save the Whales, Foil Embossed Poster, by Hundertwasser 1982
Located in Long Island City, NY
This colorful foil-embossed poster was created by the effervescent Austrian-born New Zealand artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Hundertwasser (1928-2000) stood out as a truly indivi...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Foil

Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Saturday Night Cowboy
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 30. One of several prints done on the image of some modern day cowboys. Viramontes was the subject of a 1-hour documentary Xavier Vir...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

"Huipil III", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Huipil III" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a reductive woodcut print. This piece measure 46"h x 36"w frame...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut, Paper, Ink

Lincoln Center, Psychedelic Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Joyce Kozloff
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled, Lincoln Center by Joyce Kozloff, American (1942) Date: 1982 Screenprint, signed, numbered, and dated in pencil Edition of 38/144 Image Size: 2...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Mandala Blue
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Jack Youngerman (American, 1926-2020) Title: Mandala Blue Medium: Pochoir in colors with screenprint and embossing Date: 1980 Dimensions: 37" x 36" Signed, dated and numbered...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Sex and the City hand signed/n lithograph of beloved TV series, by famed artist
Located in New York, NY
Al Hirschfeld Sex and the City, 2002 Color lithograph on Arches cover paper with deckled edges Pencil signed and numbered 274/300 on the front 20 × 20 inches Unframed Classic color l...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Sebastião Salgado - Rio Gregório, State of Acre, Brazil, 2016, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Manda Yawanawá, from the Village of Escondido, Rio Gregório Indigenous Territory, State of Acre, Brazil" by Sebastião Salgado Sebastião Salgado spent six years traveling through th...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Silver Gelatin

Penny Farthing, Llandudno Wales
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition 1 of 25. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Flamenco Flamingo, Jane Peart, Limited edition print, Animals and wildlife art
Located in Deddington, GB
Flamenco Flamingo [2014] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Etching/aquatint Edition number 100 Image size: H:46cm cm x W:31cm cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:56cm c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Mychael Barratt, Yayoi Kasuma's Dog, Bright Art, Affordable Art, Humorous Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Mychael Barratt Yayoi Kasuma’s Dog Limited Edition Etching Edition of 100 Image Size: H 21.5cm x W 22cm Sheet Size: H 40cm x W 38cm Signed and titled Sold...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Paper

Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Large Landscape India Heritage Lake Nature Wildlife Birds Sunset Orange
Located in Norfolk, GB
Aditya Dicky Singh, Untitled, photograph on fine-art Hahnemuhle archival paper 42" x 63" unframed, 2022 Edition 1/10 *Should you wish the photographs to be printed at a different...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Lucio Muñoz Martinez Spanish Artist Original Hand Signed engraving 1994
Located in Miami, FL
Lucio Muñoz Martinez (Spain, 1929-1998) 'S/T', 1994 engraving on paper 19.7 x 27.6 in. (50 x 70 cm.) Edition of 75 ID: MUÑ1114-004-075 Hand-signed...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving, Screen

Alex Katz from 'A Tremor in the Morning' signed, limited edition woodcut print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Alex Katz (b. 1927) Untitled, from the portfolio 'A Tremor in the Morning', 1986 Woodcut on wove paper Edition 32/45 Signed and numbered in pencil lower left Sheet: 20 x 19.75 inches...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Woodcut

Flora Italiana (Papavero Arancio Piene) - large botanical still life photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's botany study series "Flora Italiana", an intensively beautiful body of works exploring the botanical splendor of the natural world and vibrant color palette of Italian origin flowers with highly detailed captures. Flora Italiana ( Papavero Arancio Piene ) bright orange poppy flower petals 40 x 30 inches (102 x 76cm) signed edition of 25 64 x 48 inches (162 x 122cm) signed edition of 7 archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered by artist on label custom/larger sizes are available on request ___________________ About the artist Linda Rosewall’s artistic path was cemented during her childhood. She was inspired by her farther, an accomplished musician and composer who raised his six children as a performing family act. The experience of traveling the United States and Canada in a small airplane piloted by her father provided the opportunity for Linda to capture these moments on her small Kodak Instamatic Camera. At the age of 18, she enrolled at Columbia College of Fine Arts Chicago. During her studies, Linda apprenticed under photographer Norman Bilisko and later worked with Dennis Manarchy...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Swimmer - Lithograph by Kim Hyang - 2008
Located in Roma, IT
Swimmer is a contemporary artwork  realized by Kim Hyang in 2008 Mixed colored lithograph Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin Realized in occasion of the Olympic Games in...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

T.F. Chen 'Salute to Liberty' 1986- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original poster was created by Chinese-American New Yorker T.F. Chen for the Statue of Liberty Centennial in 1986. Chen’s signature use of vibrant, bold colors forms the backdro...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Sunday Afternoon
Located in London, GB
Bob Dylan Sunday Afternoon, 2012, Giclée print on Hahnemühle Museum paper, published by Washington Green Fine Art, framed. Edition of 295 signed and numbered in pencil Original Wash...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Composition, Float Series, Dale Chihuly
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen in five colors and acrylic on Saunders Waterford, St Cuthberts Mill paper. Paper size: 37 x 25 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 18/110, as issued. Notes: Pub...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Acrylic, Screen

Ed Ruscha - Actual Size
Located in London, GB
Ed Ruscha Actual Size (Spam), 2024 UV pigment print with yellow silkscreen details and a matte varnish seal, printed on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Radiant White paper. Individually nu...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Pigment, Screen

"Spirits Through Time V, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 48" x 36"
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract portrait limited edition print by Ned Martin features a warm neutral palette. It depicts a woman in profile, with a soft, realistically depicted face and ornate neckpie...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Digital, Giclée

Landscape - Screen Print by Renato Guttuso - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a mixed colored screen print realized by the Sicilian artist Renato Guttuso. Sheet dimension: 50 x 69 cm. Good conditions. Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, Palermo 1912 - Ro...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

Tram, Milan - Italian Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Tram, photograph from Richard Heeps' series A Short History of Milan. 'A Short History of Milan' began in November 2018 for a special project featuring at the Affordable Art Fair Mil...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

THE DOOR OF JUSTICE Rare Poster Edition Lithograph, Black Lawyers, People
Located in Union City, NJ
THE DOOR OF JUSTICE is a rare poster edition lithograph printed in seven colors using traditional hand lithography techniques (not a photo reproduction or digital print) on heavyweig...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Redwoods - large format nature observation panorama of green redwoods forest
Located in San Francisco, CA
a large scale photograph of lush emerald green nature biotope, a highly detailed observation of the natural beauty of the Northern California redwood forest Redwoods by Erik Pawassa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

S/N print of King Henry III, Leonardo da Vinci, Ronald Reagan, Marilyn Monroe +
Located in New York, NY
Al Hirschfeld A & E Biography 10th Anniversary, ca. 1994 Lithograph on Arches cover paper Signed and numbered 173/400 in graphite pencil on the front 19 × 15 inches Unframed This undated print was published on the occasion the 10th Anniversary of A & E's (the Arts & Entertainment network) acclaimed "Biography" documentary series. It is hand signed and numbered 173/400 by the legendary Al Hirschfeld. This lithograph depicts Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Leonardo Da Vinci, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, President Ronald Reagan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, General George C. Patton, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Peter...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Retour au Noir III, by Miguel Conde
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Sexual tension and ambiguity in this dynamic etching of a man making advances on a sleeping woman. in the background a beast approaches another man. Signed, titled and numbered in pe...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Marching on a Butterbur Leaf
Located in London, GB
Yoshitomo Nara Marching on a butterbur leaf, 2019 Offset lithograph 24.02 x 17.99 in 61 x 45.7 cm Yoshitomo Nara’s prints are a captivating extension of h...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Parchment Series XXXlV - abstract, embossed, monoprint on parchment paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary embossed white mono print was inspired by nature. Susan Collett is a masterful printmaker and an award-winning ceramic artist whose work is collected international...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Monoprint, Parchment Paper

#38256, 28 August, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
#38256, 28 August, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: Renewable Energy and the Shifting Human Landscape is a long-term aerial and ground-based photography project documenting global renewable energy development. Chile is the world's leading copper exporter and the second-largest lithium producer. We use Chilean copper...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

'Wrapped Vespa' 2004-
By Javacheff Christo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This 2004 poster, titled Wrapped Vespa, was published by Dr. Fils Art Edition and stands as a unique and sought-after collectible within Christo’s celebrated body of work. Printed on...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

The Cow, etching by Stan Washburn
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered etching from the edition of 100. In individual prints, and his illustrated books, Washburn cleverly skewers human frailties with Renaissance-style engravi...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Walasse Ting '2 Parrots' 1990
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In this very large piece titled 2 Parrots, Walasse Ting captures a tender moment between two parrots sharing a moment of love on a branch. The artwork bursts with vibrant tropical hu...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Damien Hirst - H13-8 Woody Bay - Contemporary Art
Located in London, GB
Damien Hirst H13-8 Woody Bay, 2023 Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite panel. Hand-signed on the label and numbered. This artwork can be hung any way up. 90 x 90 xm Edition...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Large Steven Klein “Mad Magic Magnificent” C-Print, 39.5"W
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Designer & Manufacturer: Steven Klein (b. 1965) Markings/Notes: signed, marking(s); ed. 1/5; 2004 Country of Origin & Materials: American; chromogenic print on aluminum Dimensions...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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C Print

Mychael Barratt, Anish Kapoor’s Dog, Limited Edition Print, Animal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Mychael Barratt Anish Kapoor’s Dog Limited Edition Etching Edition of 100 Sheet Size: H 40cm x W 38cm Signed and titled Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images are purely an in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

Flower Eye, by Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
By: Yuji Hiratsuka Medium: Intaglio and Chine Colle Year: 2024 Image Size: 16 x 11 inches Edition: 15 A Japanese celadon decorated vase with flowers hiding the face of a young woman...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

Toucans
Located in Greenwich, CT
Toucans is a lithograph on paper, initialed lower right 'BD', 9 x 9" image size. From the edition of 395, numbered LI/C (there were also 275 Arabic and 20 AP), framed in a contempora...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

The Painter's Atelier - Lithograph by M. Kostabi - 2012
Located in Roma, IT
"The Book of Love" is a lithograph realized by Mark Kostabi in 2012. The artwork is hand-signed, numbered and dated. This is an edition of 150 prints. Good condition.  Mark Kostab...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Clemente Untitled A: surreal mythical landscape, voyage with ocean and animals
Located in New York, NY
A black and white, large-scale surreal mythical landscape of an ocean voyage, with a snake wrapped around a clock, female figure, greek urns, and an...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Flight Path, Linocut Print, Poppy Field, Remembrance, Pheasants, Rural art
Located in Deddington, GB
Flight Path By Rob Barnes The inspiration for this came from looking across a poppy field and seeing pheasants taking flight. Where I live we are surrounded by fields full of wildlife and have pheasants visiting the back garden. I love the time of year when there are swathes of poppies to be seen. They make such a bright red statement...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

"Changes with the wind" 1972 original signed engraving lithograph American artis
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Smith (United States, 1944) 'Changes with the wind', 1972 Engraving 21.7 x 29.6 in. (55 x 75 cm.) Edition of 75 ID: SMI1158-003-075 Hand-signed by author
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Engraving, Etching

Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin 2000 (Green)
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint in colours, on Colorplan paper with full margins Edition of 100 Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front Pristine Our mission is to connect art collectors to oppo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Crown of Thorns
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Crown of Thorns" is an original artwork made from hand-colored intaglio with chine colle of Somerset paper by Katie VanVliet. This p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Color, Intaglio

Contemporary prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Andrea Bonfils, Richard Heeps, Randal Ford, and Leo Guida. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Pigment Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available.

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