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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
Sunrise on the Lake - Original Lithograph by Mario Sportelli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sunrise on the Lake is an original lithograph realized by Mario Sportelli in the 1970s Hand-signed on the lower right Artist's proof The artwork represents a beautiful landscape w...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Artist eaten by a wolf
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, Artist eaten by a wolf, 2009 Coloured silkscreen on paper 44.9 × 32.7 cm (17 7/10 × 12 9/10 in ) Edition of 350 David Shrigley British artist David Shrigley is be...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Romare Bearden, Dreams of Exile (Green Snake), 1971, by African-American, signed
Located in New York, NY
A North Carolina native, the African-American Romare Bearden spent most of his career in New York City. For several decades he was a social worker in Harlem. But of course he traveled widely, read and studied with great care, and created a phenomenal body of work. This 1971 lithograph is a good example of his oeuvre -- far reaching though it may be. It speaks to his skill and knowledge of contemporary printmaking while featuring a complex subject representative of his interests. A lush jungles is packed with flora and fauna. 'Green Snake' is part of the title and there is a particularly winsome reptile showing up so well on the sand-colored border between the dense forest and the aquamarine water. There are of course many other land and sea animals showing themselves -- even a curious ginger cat...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Just An Illusion 2 (Silver Artist Proof)
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Stunning shimmer to this gorgeous silver print which looks like it is filled with butterflies. Has stardust which gives it a great texture and shine. Hand numbered, AP (Artist Proof...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Color

Gare du Nord - Naïve art, comical, colourful, Folk art, everyday life
Located in London, GB
Printer's Proof Edition Number /5. Beryl Cook's appeal was classless and she rapidly became Britain’s most popular artist. She was a ‘heart and soul’ painter, compelled to paint wi...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Screen

High five on East 5
Located in Kansas City, MO
Paul Kostabi High five on East 5 Giclee print on handmade paper Year: 2013 Size: 24.02x17.32in Signed by hand Edition: 75 COA provided Ref.: 924802-1187 Paul Indrek Kostabi (also known as Ena; born October 1, 1962 in Whittier, California) is an American artist, musician, music producer and audio engineer. He is the brother of artist Mark Kostabi. Kostabi was a founding member of the bands Youth Gone Mad, White Zombie, and Psychotica. Kostabi currently performs with Tony Esposito in the group Kostabeats and with Walter Schreifels band Dead Heavens. Kostabi became part of the CBGB Festival in 2014 exhibiting paintings alongside photographers Bob Gruen, Michael Lavine...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée, Handmade Paper

Michael
Located in New York, NY
Gary Hume Michael 2002 Screenprint 60 1/8 x 30 inches; 153 x 76 cm Edition of 80 Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower recto) Frame available upon request Gary Hume...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

“Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” Chuck Sperry Screenprint
Located in Draper, UT
I am very happy to reveal my poster to raise awareness for the Equal Rights Amendment. This issue means so much to me. Equality is the central issue of our day. “Equality is the flower of democracy. Passing the Equal Rights Amendment — at long last — will be the path to gender equality for our American democracy. I am grateful to be called upon to include my voice in the collective call to bring about gender equality by amending the Constitution with passage of the ERA, and I was quick to reach out to fellow artists to join the call to action.” — Chuck Sperry, artist statement for Artists 4 ERA VoteEqualityUS is a nonpartisan grassroots effort promoting equal rights for all Americans, working to ensure the addition of the fully-ratified 28th Amendment (Equal Rights) to the United States Constitution...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

"Avant" Black & White Art Print 36" x 24" in Ed. of 25 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Avant" Black & White Art Print 36" x 24" in Ed. of 25 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko Year photo was taken: 2020 Art Print Limited Edition of 25 Picture size: Height: 36" inch Width: 24"...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, Pigment

Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro, 25 mai 2021, 22h18, Paris, France, 202
Located in Bristol, GB
Giclée Print Laminated with G-gloss, Mounted on 3mm Dibond Edition 244 of 292 Signed and numbered on a label on the back Mint, as issued. Sold in the original HENI box
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Basquiat Bearbrick 1000% (Basquiat Be@rbrick)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat 1000% Bearbrick Vinyl Figure: A nicely sized (27 inch), highly collectible Bearbrick Basquiat statue piece, trademarked & licensed by the Estate of Jean-Michel ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Resin, Vinyl

Evolving by Drift - 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

La Chemise Blanche - B/W Etching by G. Arnulf - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
La Chemise Blancheis a black and white etching realized byGeorges Arnulfin 1969. Hand-signed, dated, hand-numbered and titled by the artist on the lower margin.  Our specimen is th...
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1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Mujer de San Felipe
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Mujer de San Felipe presents a richly colored woodcut that portrays a young woman standing in a rustic scene framed by lush foliage and architectural elements. The confident posture, stylized line work, and bold palettes align closely with Oñate’s characteristic depictions of indigenous and rural Mexican life, where he frequently blended cultural representation with modern graphic sensibility. Francisco Rodríguez Oñate (1940–2019) was a distinguished Mexican post-war and contemporary artist whose career extended over several decades throughout Mexico, the United States, and Latin America. Born in Michoacán, he received his education at the Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes at the University of Michoacán, where he studied under esteemed artists such as Alfredo Zalce, Roberto Martínez, and Javier Arévalo...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Egyptian Book
Located in New York, NY
Lucian Freud The Egyptian Book 1994 Etching on T.H.S. Saunders paper 18 1/4 x 16 3/4 inches; 46 x 43 cm Edition of 40 Initialed and numbered in graphite (lower recto) Frame available upon request Published by Matthew Marks...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ostrich - Lithograph by Alberto Mastroianni - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Ostrich is an artwork realized by Alberto Mastroianni in 1970 ca. Lithograph. Hand Signed. Numbered, Edition of 150 pieces.
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Lidded Jar with Design of a Lotus Pond (hand signed shaped lithograph)
Located in Aventura, FL
Offset lithograph in colors on shaped wove paper. Hand signed lower right by Takashi Murakami. Hand numbered 81/300 lower right. Artwork size: 24.6 x 22.2 inches. Frame size: 30 ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph, Offset

Rising I, lithograph by Trevor Southey
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Male nude lithograph by Trevor Southey. Charcoal gray. There was also an edition done in terra cotta. Trevor Southey was born in Rhodesia, Africa (now Zimbabwe) in 1940. His African...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

SEVENTH TORII Signed Lithograph Japanese Landscape, Mountains Water Gold Sky
Located in Union City, NJ
SEVENTH TORII is an original, hand drawn(not a photo reproduction or digital print), limited edition lithograph with gold silkscreen printed using hand lithography and serigraphy tec...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

New York Map of Days, Illustration New York Map, Blue Art, NYC, Geography print
Located in Deddington, GB
New York Map of Days is a limited edition etching by Mychael Barratt. The illustrative style of this piece brings New York, it’s landmarks and endless stor...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

Untitled (Pulse) Abstract print limited edition Julie Mehretu Lithograph
Located in Bristol, GB
Lithograph in colours on wove paper Edition 24 of 100 56 x 65 cm (22 x 25.6 in) Signed, numbered and dated on the front Mint Framed under Perspex in a silver painted dark wooden frame
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

MICKALENE THOMAS "UNTITLED" (BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL) USA, 2017
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Mickalene Thomas "Untitled" (Black is Beautiful) USA, 2017 Inkjet print Signed and numbered by the artist From an edition of 100 14"H 11"W (work) Framed Approx: 22"H x 17"W Excellent...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Inkjet

Swim Stop (Image 60 x 60, Sheet: 70 x 70cm), Art Print, Seascape, Blue, Sailing
Located in Deddington, GB
Swim Stop – Large print by Gordon Hunt [2020] Image Size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm Complete Size of Sheet/ Unframed Work: H:70 cm x W:70 cm x D:.1cm This is the only size remaining of thi...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Giclée

Paul Mann - Frankenstein - Contemporary Cinema Movie Posters
Located in Asheville, NC
Frankenstein Frankenstein is a 1931 American science fiction horror film directed by James Whale, produced by Carl Laemmle Jr., and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Frankenstein stars Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, an obsessed scientist who digs up corpses with his assistant in order to assemble a living being from body parts. The resulting creature, often known as Frankenstein's monster, is portrayed by Boris Karloff. The make-up for the monster was provided by Jack Pierce. Alongside Clive and Karloff, the film's cast also includes Mae Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye, and Edward Van Sloan. Artist: Mann, Paul Edition Details Year: 2020 Class: Cinema Status: Official Released: 07/14/20 Run: 165 Technique: Offset Lithograph Paper: 300gsm archival paper Size: 24 X 36 Markings: Numbered About Artist: For more than 40 years, Paul Mann...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Laser, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment...

Belgian Contemporary Art by Hugo Pondz - La Femme Essai
Located in Paris, IDF
C-Print on Argentic paper Others sizes are available upon simple request Shipping of the artwork will be done in a tube or flat in a crate with or without American box frame. Additio...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, C Print

ALEXANDER CALDER Galerie Maeght, 1976
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Supplemental Condition Information: This billboard advertising poster, published by Galerie Maeght in 1976, was used around Paris to promote the works of renowned sculptor and painte...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

FLOWER BLOSSOMS, LIGHT BLUE VASE Signed Lithograph, Magenta, Pink, Red, Green
Located in Union City, NJ
FLOWER BLOSSOMS, LIGHT BLUE VASE is an original hand drawn lithograph by the renowned Chinese born artist Walasse Ting (DING XIONGQUAN, Chinese, 1929-2010) printed on archival Somers...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

JOSEF ALBERS Formulation: Articulation III, 1972
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 15 x 40 inches ( 38.1 x 101.6 cm ) Image Size: 12 x 14.25 inches ( 30.48 x 36.195 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Detai...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

LA Pink Cityscape
Located in New Orleans, LA
Giclee print on archival cold press cotton rag, edition 9 of 25 with 5 APs. In this new series of paintings, Moore explores themes of wanderlust and memory. From glowing neon signag...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Rag Paper, Giclée

Rufino Tamayo 'Deux Tetes' from Mujeres Suite, Limited Edition, Signed Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991). Deux Tetes, from Mujeres Suite (P. 107), 1969. Lithograph in colors on wove paper  Signed in pencil and numbered 27/150 (there was also an edition...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Person with colors
Located in London, GB
Twenty six colour screen print on Somerset 410gsm tub sized satin radiant white paper. Published in 2024. Edition of 75. Mint condition, unframed, stored flat. Hand signed and numbe...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

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

E, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Vase (2)
Located in Bristol, GB
Lithograph Edition 14 of 50 44.6 x 31.7 cm (17.5 x 12.4 in) Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front Artwork in excellent condition. Minor imperfections may appear due to the ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Future Garden - Original Print by Leo Guida - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Future Garden is an original manifesto realized by Leo Guida in 1976. Edition 6/50. Dated, numbered and signed. Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic mov...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

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

Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan - Italian Church Interior Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Santa Maria delle Grazie, religious icon church architecture interior photograph from Richard Heeps series A Short History of Milan. A Short History of Milan' began in November 20...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

I Am Elegant
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition 119 of 125 Signed on the accompanying COA and numbered on the back Excellent. Minor soft creasing in bottom left and right and top middle of print. Please note ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

David Shrigley - See Me As I Really Am - Contemporary Art, Skeleton
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley See Me As I Really Am, 2024 Woodcut 65 x 50 cm Edition of 100 hand-signed and numbered by the artist published by Shäfer Editions and comes with COA from the publisher...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

New York (Golden Hour)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Giclee print on archival cold press cotton rag, edition 10 of 25 with 5 APs. In this new series of paintings, Moore explores themes of wanderlust and memory. From glowing neon signa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Rag Paper, Giclée

D1-2 Couloir 2
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Doig, Peter Title: D1-2 Couloir 2 Series: D1 Zermatt Date: 2022 Medium: Giclee Print on Cotton Smooth Rag Unframed Dimensions: 44.75" x 35.4" Framed Dimensions: 48.25"...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Cotton, Giclée

Cowboy TV - large format photograph of iconic western in American landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph of vintage TV set with iconic western movie in American wild west landscape Cowboy TV by Frank Schott is available in three edition sizes: 48 x 64 inches (122 x 162cm) signed edition of 7 30 x 40 inches (76 x 102cm) signed edition of 25 58 x 77.25 inches (148 x 148cm) signed edition of 7 archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered by artist on certificate label _____________________________________ Frank Schott grew up in Germany and attended the prestigious Academy of Arts in Cologne, studying under Professor Arno Jansen, who was an early influence. Moving to California in 1998, Schott's work has evolved to include the epic landscapes and deserts of the American West as well as architectural, conceptual and more formal environments from both home and his travels. Influenced by a number of photographic peers and precursors such as Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Ed Rusha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Peace Be Still
Located in London, GB
5 Colour lithograph on Somerset Satin Tub Sized White 410gsm. 60 x 76 cm (23.6 x 29.9 in) Signed, dated and numbered by the artist Edition of 125 ‘Peace Be Still’ (2022) showcases S...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Takashi Murakami - Flowers in a Qinghua Vase - 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. 70 x 52.8 ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Sketch for an Impossible Project - Lithograph by Costantino Persiani - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Costantino Persiani in 1971. Limited Edition of 120. Excellent condition.
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Bird Call
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Bird Call is a lithograph on paper, 9.5 x 9 inches image size, and initialed 'BD' lower right. From the edition of 395, numbered 125/275 (there were also 100 Roman and 20 AP). Fr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Full Moon Night. Limited Edition of 50 (print) by Yoshitomo Nara signed
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Full Moon Night (from "In the Floating World" series) Fuji Xerox copy print Signed, dated, and numbered 11/50 in pencil. Image: 29.5 x 41.5 cm. Sheet: 29.5 x 41.5 cm. BSS No. : E-199...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Color

House of Music (Soca Boat)
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Peter Doig Title: House of Music (Soca Boat) Year: 2023 Medium: Giclée Print on Cotton Smooth Rag, Oak frame with Optium Tru Vue Acrylic Glass Edition: 250; signed and number...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

"Marche des Méréides" Photography 47 x 36 in Ed 3/15 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Marche des Méréides" Photography 47 x 36 in Ed 3/15 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko Photography Year photo was taken: 2017 Unframed - ships in a tube This is an archival pigment print...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Rainbow Apartments, Milan - Italian Architecture Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Rainbow Apartments, Italian architecture photograph from Richard Heeps series A Short History of Milan. A Short History of Milan' began in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Nocturnal, by Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: mezzotin Year: 2022 Edition: 50 Image Size: 17.75 x 23.5 inches Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist Dramatic image of the streets of New York from the air. ....
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint

I Am Very Beautiful By David Shrigley
Located in London, GB
I Am Very Beautiful By David Shrigley David Shrigley is a British visual artist known for his distinctive, darkly humorous drawings, animations, and sculptures. With a style charac...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Paper

"S"
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The single letter "S", from the alphabet, illustrated by a seahorses. All letters from the Kelvin Mann's bestiary alphabet are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in folio box...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Metta Mattina
Located in Deddington, GB
Metta Mattina (Mid Morning) by Karen Keogh [2020] original Etching on Paper Image size: H:30 cm x W:40 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:58 cm x W:65...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

Forest, 1977
Located in London, GB
Ai Weiwei “Forest (1977)”, 2024 Limited edition offset lithograph print Edition of 200 Hand-signed by the artist Published by Damocle Edizioni, Venice, 2024 Each edition comes with...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Christo-New York, Central Park 'The Gates XXIII' 2004 Vintage
By Javacheff Christo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This rare exhibition poster features an early drawing by Christo titled "The Gates XXIII," depicting the view from Central Park West with the Dakota in the background. The drawing wa...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Gerhard Richter-Victoria I plate signed Limited Edition
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Reproduction of a 1986 painting, published in 2003, as a gift for the employees of the Victoria-Versicherung Insurance company. This is an offset lithograph of “Victoria I” which has...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Robert Motherwell 'M for Mozart' detail 1991- Serigraph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This first edition screenprint was created by renowned American artist Robert Motherwell for the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City in ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

'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

'Wrapped Vespa' 2004-
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TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE Signed Lithograph, Figurative Collage Night Sky
Located in Union City, NJ
TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE is a hand drawn, limited edition color lithograph by the renowned American artist Romare Bearden, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper, 100% acid free. TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE is a multicolored collage landscape portraying a mysterious, jigsaw-shaped starry night sky in shades of deep blue, hues of bright green, golden yellow, and touches of red. In the foreground of TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE two human figures stand face to face exchanging stars beneath a celestial blue sky showered with twinkling lights. Bearden created this image bearing in mind the importance of advancement through education. This very unique Romare Bearden lithograph...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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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