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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
COMMODORE Signed Lithograph, Ship Officer Portrait Uniform Sunglasses Gold Stars
Located in Union City, NJ
COMMODORE by the American woman artist, Robin Morris is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed in 14 colors with gold silkscreen accents, on archival Arches paper,...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Thursday could be a great day 2010 signed original Bon A Tirer engraving collage
Located in Miami, FL
Rigoberto Mena (Cuba, 1961) 'El Jueves puede ser un gran día' (Thusday could be a great day), 2010 engraving, mixed media, chine colle on paper Guarro Super Alpha 250g. 15.8 x 15.8 i...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Ink, Etching, Aquatint, Screen

Chimera III, Print of Original Relief Collage, Surreal, Creature, Bright, 2018
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Print of original relief collage on paper by Deming King Harriman Neo Surrealist style creature in bright colors: blue, pink, black, gold and white Limited Edition print, Total run:...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Color, Archival Paper

Homage to Frida Kahlo - Portrait with Scorpion (Hand Signed by Marina Abramović)
Located in New York, NY
Marina Abramovic Homage to Frida Kahlo - Portrait with Scorpion (Hand Signed by Marina Abramović), 2014 Silkscreen on 100% Silk (HAND SIGNED in indelible marker by Marina Abramovic) ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Silk, Screen

Brutalist Symphony II Kodak Film Rebate - London Architecture Street Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Brutalist Symphony', photograph by Richard Heeps from the London's Barbican Estate. There is a subtle beauty in the light and colour of this conceptual architectural photograph of t...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

YOUNG DOUGLASS Signed Linocut, Black Portrait Head African American Civil Rights
Located in Union City, NJ
YOUNG DOUGLASS is a hand pulled, original limited edition relief print created using linoleum cut printmaking techniques on white archival Somerset White paper, 100% acid free. Pencil signed by Elizabeth Catlett on the lower margin, embossed with printer's chop mark on lower left, print documentation provided. YOUNG DOUGLASS is an impactful graphic statement by the renowned African-American and Mexican woman sculptor and printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett, created as a tribute to Frederick Douglass, the most distinguished black American human rights leader of the 19th century. Strong impression printed in rich black ink on white wove paper, a powerful portrait of Douglass as a young man, with his distinct facial features, thick coiffured hair, dressed in a formal high collar shirt...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

Nizza - large format photograph of summer beach scene in South of France
Located in San Francisco, CA
observation of a Mediterranean beach scene in Nice, France, on a hazy summer day Nizza by Frank Schott 48 x 75.5 inches (122 x 192cm) signed edition of 7 44 x 69 inches (122 x 17...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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

"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" Woodcut & Monotype signed by Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. In the image, an abstracted volcano erupts in a joyous burst of purples and oranges. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Art: 8 x 11 in Frame: 17 x 19 in Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MoMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and non-western as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Monotype, Woodcut

Tree - Original Lithograph by E. Conciatori - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sole Tree is an original lithography artwork on cardboard realized by Emilio Conciatori artist of the 20th Century. Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered, edition of IX/X prints...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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

PONT NEUF LE SOIR Signed Lithograph Paris Night Scene Historic Bridge, Moon Boat
Located in Union City, NJ
Pont Neuf Le Soir is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper by the popular French artist Michel Delacroix, well known for his naif style paintings of a city he calls "the Paris of then". Pont Neuf Le Soir is a dramatic Paris night scene depicted with a deep gray blue moonlit evening sky as a backdrop for the oldest historic Paris bridge crossing the River Seine - the Pont Neuf. In the foreground, a nostalgic street scene of people in Victorian dress strolling beneath the glowing lampposts; women with a baby carriage, flowers, children, small dog, and a black tugboat billowing smoke heading up river toward a rosy...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ova Rosa
Located in Bristol, GB
Mixed media on white card Edition of 20 50 x 30 cm (19.7 x 11.8 in) Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the back Artwork in excellent condition. Under close inspection there is min...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media

NEGRO ES BELLO II Signed Lithograph, Black Is Beautiful, Black Power Movement
Located in Union City, NJ
NEGRO ES BELLO II is an original limited edition lithograph created by the African-American woman printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett using hand printmaking techniques on arch...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Elizabeth Taylor Exhibition Vintage Art Poster after Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Elizabeth Taylor Exhibition Vintage Art Poster Andy Warhol, a leading figure in the Pop Art movement, revolutionized the art world with his iconic works that celebrated consumer cu...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Talking to Rocks 23 - Contemporary Geological Encaustic Beeswax Monotype, 2023
Located in Kent, CT
Laura Moriarty's Talking to Rocks 23 is a contemporary encaustic monotype on kozo paper. Layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight paper create an undulating composition suggesting ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Kiki Smith, Tattoo Print, silkscreen and ink transfer on wove paper, S/N, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Kiki Smith Tattoo Print, 1995 Silkscreen and ink transfer on wove paper Signed, dated 1995 and numbered 96/100 in graphite pencil on the front Another example of this edition is in t...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Screen

The Gates Project for Central Park, New York (18370)
Located in New York, NY
Serigraph Signed in pencil
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Lithograph

Island Light, by Stephen McMillan
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: etching and aquatint Edition of 120 Year: 2023 Image Size: 4 x 5 inches Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. The view west from Cypress Island off the coast of Washin...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

My Heart is With You Always, framed textile with hand signed and inscribed tag
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin My Heart is With You Always, framed with hand signed and inscribed tag, 2015 Embroidered Linen Handkerchief, Hand Signed, dated and Inscribed in Ink on attached tag Signe...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Ink, Mixed Media, Thread

ICES Red, Bexhill-on-Sea - Pop Art Typography Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
ICES Red, bold pop art street photography from Richard Heeps' series, On-Sea. Created as an ode to Richard's childhood visits to his grandparents living on the Sussex coast, the art...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Segno Zodiacale Bilancia - Original Screen Print by Sergio Barletta - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Segno Zodiacale Bilancia is an original screen printh on grey paper realized by Sergio Barletta. Signed on the lower left margin. In good conditions ...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Untitled (Tree)
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Robert Longo Title: Untitled (Tree) Year: 2018 Medium: Archival pigment print on Epson hot pressed, bright white paper Edition: 25; signed, dated and numbered in pencil Sheet...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Cindy Sherman at Kunsthaus Bregen (Lt. Ed. print, hand signed by Cindy Sherman)
Located in New York, NY
Cindy Sherman Limited Edition Offset Lithograph on 200g Profisilk paper 33 × 23 1/4 inches Edition of 200 Limited Edition Offset Lithograph on 200g Profisilk paper Hand signed in re...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Felt Pen, Lithograph, Offset

Get Your Shit Together
Located in London, GB
Linocut on 300gsm Somerset paper. Paper size: 44 x 57 cm Edition of 100 Hand-signed and numbered by the artist published by Schafer Editions and comes with publisher COA David Shrig...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

James Jean - Traveler - Contemporary Art
Located in Asheville, NC
James Jean Traveler Archival Pigment-based Ink Printed on Archival 310gsm 100% cotton-rag Embossed, Signed & Numbered Edition of 1709 The print features de...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Pond, 60x60cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
Located in Yerevan, AM
Pond, 60x60cm, print on canvas Edition 20 pcs.
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Canvas, Color

Zodiaco-Capricorno - Etching by Ossi Czinner - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Burin engraving on Magnani-Pescia paper. Paper size 39cmx29,5cm, work size 22cmx17,5cm. Excellent condition, no defects. OSSI CZINNER - Central European artist, graphic designer and...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Anger Management
Located in London, GB
Anger Management By The Connor Brothers The Connor Brothers are a contemporary British art duo known for blending fiction with reality, often creating works that mix vintage imager...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Pigment

The Lucky Bear (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL MAY 15TH ONLY** Celebrating the CALIFORNIA wild life with this unique piece by Mauro Oliveira. **IMPORTANT: This is a Limited edition of 30 museum quality...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

1960's Alexander Calder lithographic cover Derrière le miroir
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder Lithographic cover c. 1968 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 11 x 15 inches. Very good overall vintage condition. Unsigned from an edition of unknown with crisp bright colors. Published by: Galerie Maeght, Paris, c. 1968. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Looks fantastic framed. Derrière le miroir: In October 1945 the French art dealer Aimé Maeght opens his art gallery at 13 Rue de Téhéran in Paris. His beginning coincides with the end of Second World War and the return of a number of exiled artists back to France. The publication was created in October 1946 (n°1) and published without interruption until 1982 (n°253). Its original articles and illustrations (mainly original color lithographs by the gallery artists) who were famous at the time. The lithographic publication covered only the artists exhibited by Maeght gallery either through personal or group exhibitions. Among them were, Pierre Alechinsky, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Eduardo Chillida, Alberto Giacometti, Vassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Saul Steinberg and Antoni Tapies. Related Categories: Mid century modern. Alexander Calder prints. Calder orange. Calder red...
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1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

CB HOYO YES YOU COULD HAVE MADE THIS BUT YOU DIDN'T... Street Art
Located in Draper, UT
Medium: Print Condition Print in good condition and has been stored flat since purchase. Signature Hand-signed by artist, Hand Signed and Numbered by the Artist in Pencil, CB HOYO. ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Carbon Pencil, Screen

Studio Marconi - Vintage Offset Print - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Expo 84 - Studio Marconi - Milano is a poster on coated paper realized in 1984 by Chin HSIAO EXPO 84 - STUDIO MARCONI - MILANO Printed by Stamperia Artistica Nationale - Torino Good...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

KAWS, Blame Game, 2014, Screen print, Printers proof edition of 5
By KAWS
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Printers proof 2 of an edition of 5, aside from the main edition of 100 88.8 x 58.4 cm (34.9 x 23 in) Framed: 101 x 70.5 cm Signed and dated on the front Artwork in e...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Seasons 1981 Photo Color Copier Print Photograph Museum Collected Art Xerography
Located in Surfside, FL
SEASONS (1981) This is for the single print listed here. (not the outside folder or title sheet) Title: Sea Fan. This one is hand signed and dated verso. Seasons explores the seasons of Man, Woman, Child, Civilization, Nature and Technology. First digital artwork purchased by the Metropolitan Museum. Date: 1980-1981 Medium: vintage color photocopy print. “I worked at The Metropolitan Museum in 1981, when they acquired [Lesley’s] SEASONS portfolio. We knew we wanted it, even though we didn’t have a category for it.” David Kiehl, Curator of Prints and Special Collections The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Lesley Schiff (born 1951) is an American fine artist. Schiff studied painting at the Art Institute Chicago before developing her signature practice using color laser printers to create images. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mead Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other major museums, corporate and private collections globally. Lesley Schiff revolutionized the photocopier from being an office tool to just another instrument in the artist's arsenal. Rather than addressing the tool in her work, Schiff instead uses the photocopier like a paintbrush to realize her vision. Once a painter, Schiff says: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct." Painting with light, Schiff's body of work outlines a cycle of life: man, woman, child, civilization, nature, technology. More recent works challenge the viewer to understand the concept of eye-levels and perspectives, reinventing the way we see. Schiff's work was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first digital acquisition, and most recently, was featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art in "Experiments in Electrostatics". She uses a color laser printer “like a paintbrush” to create her art. She has said about her work and her tool: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct—but no matter how hi-tech my tools become, I’m a painter, but instead of painting with oils, I paint with light. The Whitney Museum will show Lesley Schiff's pioneering SEASONS portfolio in its entirety. Many prominent collections acquired SEASONS as their first digital artwork. She participated in the Punk Art show in the 1970's. Her work kind of relates to Fluxus and Dada. Leslie Schiff moved from Chicago to New York in the early 1970s. Much of her art involves collage and the Xerox photocopy machine. Her images are rooted in her personal psyche and have an intuitive meaning that is not always easily understood. In exhibitions, Xerox sheets are combined and displayed decoratively on the wall. Schiff has also created books; and made video and sound tapes. She was included in the seminal New York/New Wave 1981 exhibition show at MoMA PS1 along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, William S.Burroughs, David Byrne, Larry Clark, Crash (John Matos), Ronnie Cutrone, Brian Eno, Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Ray Johnson, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kenny Scharf, Steven Sprouse, Andy Warhol and Lawrence Weiner. She did a “visual biography,” comprised of portraits of Bob Dylan—depicted at different ages, from his 20s to his 60s—illustrations of his lyrics, and images of iconic objects like his sunglasses and harmonica. Schiff collaborated with Matthew Carter...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Color

Presence - Vintage Offset Print After Franco Fontana - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Presence is a beautiful offset realized by Franco Fontana . Limited edition of 1.000. good conditions except for some foldimgs. Colored poster from a photograph by Franco Fontana ...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Lotus
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut, Edition 30. Lotus is a twenty-six color woodcut from seven woodblocks printed in an edition of 30, plus proofs, on white Thai Mulberry paper. In this print, a compe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Pop Shop II Plate 3 By Keith Haring
Located in London, GB
Pop Shop II Plate 3 By Keith Haring Keith Haring was a visionary American artist and social activist known for his iconic, colorful, and dynamic graffiti-inspired artwork that eme...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

Galvanizing - Lithograph by Renato Cenni - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Galvanizing is an artwork realized by Renato Cenni (1906-1977) in 1970s. Original Lithograph. Hand-signed on the lower right. At the bottom a text "Galvanizing: the zinc-coated st...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Venice - Etching by Gianpaolo Berto - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Venice is an Etching realized by Gian Paolo Berto in 1974. Hand signed, dated, and numbered by the artist with pencil on the lower right corner. Edition of 50. Good condition. Gia...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Untitled (Still Life with Chair)
Located in Bristol, GB
Xerox copy of facsimile drawing in 16 parts Unknown edition 88 x 142 cm (35.1 x 56 in) (Frame 99.5 x 155.5 x 4.3 cm / 39.2 x 61.2 x 2.1 in) Printed initials on the front Conditi...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Digital

"Elan" Photography Edition 4/28 36 x 36 inch by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Elan" Photography Edition 4/28 36 x 36 inch by Yevgeniy Repiashenko Photography Year photo was taken: 2019 Unframed - ships in a tube This picture is a part of Spirit series. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

You Captured My Heart
Located in Greenwich, CT
You Captured My Heart is a lithograph on paper, 9 x 9 inches image size, and initialed 'BD' lower right. From the edition of 395, numbered 15/275 (there were also 100 Roman and 20 AP...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Silk and Stone 24 - Geometric Abstract Monotype on Asian Paper, 2016
Located in Kent, CT
Geometric abstract monotype print by David Collins on Asian paper, a unique print with no other editions. Geometric shapes in navy, coral and light blue are layered on a background t...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Monotype

TAXI Hand Drawn Lithograph, Lady in Red, London Black Cab, British Humor
Located in Union City, NJ
TAXI is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the well known and loved British artist and humorist, Beryl Cook(1926-2008). Printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. TAXI presents a satirical city street scene depicting a male businessman dressed in a beige pin stripe suit assisting a vivacious, curvy, curly haired "lady in red" into an iconic London "Black" cab. TAXI's amusing scene takes place in front of an intriguing backdrop of building construction complete with rubble and beams, where a nonchalant construction worker stands whistling by his steam shovel in the background as the spectacle unfolds. Seeing the facial expressions portrayed on the faces of fellow passengers and cab driver add to the viewer's amusement in this quintessential Beryl Cook image. Print size - 34 x 27 inches, unframed, unsigned Printers Proof from the master printer's private collection Image size - 25" x 19" Edition size - 300, plus proofs Year published - 1990, printed at J K Fine Art Editions Co. NYC Publisher - Flanagan Graphics Beryl Cook's unique artistic humor documented familiar social situations...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Grave of Santa Anna's Leg" Original Woodblock Print, Signed Artist's Proof
Located in Soquel, CA
"Grave of Santa Anna's Leg" Original Woodblock Print, Signed Artist's Proof Boldly colored woodblock print by Carol Summers (American, 1925-2016). This piece is a segment of a grave, with a headstone that has a skull and cross. There are two bright green plants flanking the headstone. Below the headstone and plants, there is a large arched blue shape, with a crescent moon and stars. A red leg, bent at the knee, cuts across the blue arch. Signed "Carol Summers" along the right edge of the blue shape. Numbered and titled "A/P Grave of Sant Anna's Leg" along the left edge of the blue shape. Presented in a silver colored aluminum frame. Frame size: 32.245"H x 27.25"W Paper size: 29.75"H x 24.5"W Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Handmade Paper, Woodcut

Star Island. Limited Edition of 100 (print) by Yoshitomo Nara signed
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Star Island (2003), Edition 69/100. Silkscreen on paper. Signed, dated, and numbered on verso. Image: 30 x 30 cm. Sheet: 30 x 30 cm. BSS No. : E-2003-006. Catalogue Raisonne' No. : Y...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Thank You For The Wonderful Destiny
Located in Bristol, GB
Fine art inkjet print on photo rag 308 paper Limited edition of 100 Signed and numbered on the front Sold in the original packaging in mint condition, unframed Published by Kaikai Ki...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Inkjet

Repetitive sensations of Yves Klein Blue II
Located in Malmo, SE
The final print Shortly before his sudden and very sad passing in March this year, Yrjö Edelmann made this beautiful print, Repetitive sensations of Yves Klein Blue...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

David Byrne "Overloading the Grid" by Shepard Fairey Print Talking Heads Obey
Located in Draper, UT
Artists: Shepard Fairey: Bands: David Byrne Talking Heads Edition Details: Year: 2024 Class: Art Print Status: Official Edition 153/550 Technique: Screen Print with Gold Metallic I...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Natasha
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The reproduction titled "Natasha" is a work by the Dutch artist Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo), a co-founder of the CoBrA movement. Known for his vibrant and expressive ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

CHAMBERED NAUTILUS
Located in New York, NY
Etching, aquatint and sugarlift print of a Still-Life on a table. Edition of 100.
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Itayu, 1988, Lithograph by Raul Anguiano
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raul Anguiano, Mexican (1915 - 2006) Title: Itayu Year: 1988 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Image Size: 26 x 20 inches Size: 30.5 x 22.5 in. (...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Sebastião Salgado - Kampa do Rio Amônea, Brazil, 2016, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Kampa do Rio Amônea Indigenous Territory, State of Acre, Brazil" by Sebastião Salgado Sebastião Salgado spent six years traveling through the Brazilian Amazon, photographing the un...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Silver Gelatin

A Star of Unity
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Another Beautiful Judea themed limited edition by 3D Pop Artist Charles Fazzino. Each piece is hand cut, hand glued and hand embellished with glitter and Swarovski Crystals. Hand sig...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Playing Cards (Ace 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

FATHER & SON Signed Lithograph, Horseback Riding Lowcountry SC, Gullah Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
FATHER & SON is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. FATHER & SON is a beautifully simple composition depicting a refreshing Lowcountry South Carolina landscape...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Colours Of The Night #2 + #4 - 2 Art Prints, 11"x14" Each, Figurative, Women
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Colours Of The Night #2 and #4: This pair of figurative art prints on paper capture the essence of timeless style. A neutral, atmospheric background evokes an evening-like ambiance. ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Condo, Purple Compression, Drawing Paintings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Four color process print on vélin paper. Paper size: 10.75 x 18.5 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, George C...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

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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