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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
Hokusai's Dog - The Great Wave & Red Fuji, diptych, original, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Woodcut Image Size H 50 x 66cm Framed Size H 73 x 88cm Edition of 100 Woodcut print on Paper Edition of 100 50 H x 66 W cm (19.69 x 25.98 in) Sold unframed Image size: Height: 50cm...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper

La Piscine/The Pool at Le Trayas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In 1983, artist David Lingwood created this stunning diptych poster, capturing the serene beauty of Le Trayas, a picturesque locale in the south of France. This two-panel composition...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

24th February 2021, Red, Yellow and Purple Flowers on a Blue Tablecloth
Located in Bristol, GB
From the series 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures inkjet (or digital printed) computer drawing/painting, iPad painting printed on paper Edition 32 of 50 88.9 x 63.5 cm (35 x 25 in)...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper

'Friends at Dusk'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Michel Rauscher's "Friends at Dusk" is an offset lithograph created in 2004, measuring 27.25 x 27.25 inches. The artwork portrays two women standing under the moonlight, holding hand...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

'Friends at Dusk'
'Friends at Dusk'
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Ringgold-Coming to Jones Road Under a Blood Red Sky #5, 2004 - Hand Signed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Faith Ringgold, one of America’s most celebrated artists, has built a profound body of work documenting the African-American experience. This signed, titled, dated, and numbered seri...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Lemon Branch - Print by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print on paper realized by Leo Guida in 1970s. Signed in the plate. Not numbered. Excellent condition.
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Faith Ringgold 'Groovin' High' 1996- Serigraph Unsigned, Printer's Proof
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a printer’s proof of Groovin’ High, created by the esteemed artist and civil rights activist Faith Ringgold. Unlike the official edition, this p...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Jean Rene Bazaine 'Composition VIII' 1968- Lithograph Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This lithograph page titled Composition VIII is part of the Derrière le Miroir (DLM) No. 170 series, showcasing the work of the French artist René Bazaine. Known for his contribution...
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1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Helmut Newton 'Big Nude' 1992 Vintage Photography
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an original exhibition poster featuring Helmut Newton's iconic photograph "Big Nude with Black High Heels." The poster was printed for the exhibition at Galerie Bodo Nieman, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Dusk from an Airplane, Abstract Aerial Diptych, Giclée, Deep Blue to Yellow Hue
Located in Barcelona, ES
Cyd Fontaine (Lausanne, 1992) is a contemporary artist renowned for her captivating use of dreamy atmospheric gradients, which has helped her carve a distinctive niche in the world o...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Surreal Botanical Female Portrait – Limited Edition Dibond Print Number 24/25
Located in FISTERRA, ES
“The Festive Ties” is a limited edition print (24/25) from Natasha Lelenco’s Fetiches series. In this surreal portrait, a human face is composed entirely of botanical elements—leaves...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Metal

Segui Roland Garros French Open 1999 Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The 1999 Roland Garros poster by Antonio Seguí is a vibrant and whimsical work that captures the lively spirit of the French Open through a playful and satirical lens. Seguí’s use of...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Call Box, Salton Sea Kodak Film Rebate - Road Trip Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Call Booth', photograph from Richard Heeps Salton Sea series. This cinematic neo-noir style picture shows the classic American roadside Phone Booth, something which we look at very ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Clemente Untitled B: surreal mythical landscape, voyage with ocean, Venus, snake
Located in New York, NY
A black and white, large-scale surreal mythical landscape of an ocean voyage, with a snake wrapped around a clock, a ship, Venus sculpture, greek urns, and snakes, printed in black o...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Countryside - Lithograph by Lucio Rofrano - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Lucio Rofrano in 1990s. Edition of 150, numbered and hand signed. Excellent condition.
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

ALL THE PEOPLE Signed Lithograph, For My People-Margaret Walker, Rainbow Faces
Located in Union City, NJ
ALL THE PEOPLE is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Vase of Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers - Screen Print by Franco Bocchi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print on paper realized by Franco Bocchi in 1980s. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Edition of 200 prints. Excellent condition. Franco Bocchi was born in Cologne (BS) o...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Red Jet - iconic vintage private jet plane on desert airport tarmac (26 x 40")
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large format photograph of iconic cherry red vintage private airplane on airport runway tarmac in the California desert - available in two edition s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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

Pablo Picasso (After), 'La Ronde de la Jeunesse', Lithograph, 1961
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: PABLO PICASSO (AFTER ) Title: 'La Ronde de la Jeunesse (The Youth Circle)' Year: 1961 Published by: Combat Pour La Paix, Paris Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Printed by Mourlot Edition: 200 plus EA Size: 26 x 20 inches Signed and numbered in pencil by the master CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY INCLUDED ARTWORK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION Through the use of crisp vibrant colors and the fluid use of line, Picasso creates a sense of optimistic energy that is focused around the dove of peace in Pablo Picasso La Ronde de la Jeunesse...
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1950s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Jean-Michel Folon 'Amnesty International'-Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original poster by Jean-Michel Folon is part of the Artists for Amnesty series, a collection of art posters created by 15 world-renowned artists to highlight Amnesty Internation...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Civilisation Exploding
Located in Manchester, GB
Damien Hirst, Civilisation Exploding, 2024 Giclée print on Cotton Smooth Rag 143 x 112 cm ( 56.3 x 44.09 in) Edition 246 of 507 Hand-signed and numbered on the front Civilisatio...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Rag Paper, Giclée

After Man Ray 'Lips' 1966 Original Poster, Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
First edition exhibition poster designed and created by Man Ray for the opening of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1966. It is unsigned and not numbered. An undetermined amou...
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1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

NEW DREAMS Original Lithograph, Black History, African American Women
Located in Union City, NJ
NEW DREAMS is an original limited edition lithograph by the Harlem Renaissance, social realist African-American artist ERNEST CRICHLOW (1914-2005). NEW DREAMS was printed from hand d...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Nichols Canyon
Located in Manchester, GB
David Hockney, Nichols Canyon, 1980 Colour giclee poster on 230 gsm paper 62 x 95 cm (24.40 x 37.40 in) Based on the original painting, Nichols Canyon,...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

"Hojas" 2006 (Portrait of woman 3) Artist Proof Digital Print 11x8.5in Cuban Art
Located in Miami, FL
Zaida del Rio (Cuba, 1954) 'Hojas' (Portrait of a woman #3), 2016 A/P (Artist Proof) Digital print on paper 11.1 x 8.3 in. (28 x 21 cm.) Hand signed in pencil. Unframed Ref: DER-203 ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Digital

Everyday I Pray For Love
Located in Manchester, GB
Yayoi Kusama, Everyday I Pray For Love, 2016 Vivid inkjet colours on synthetic paper. Stamped by Yayoi Kusama Foundation 59.4 x 74.1 cm Unknown edition size The first art poste...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Summer Flowers Yayoi Kusama floral abstract signed print
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition of 100 53 x 61 cm (20.9 x 24 in) Framed 71 x 78.5 x 5 cm, 28 x 31 x 2 in Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front Excellent condition. Minor imperfections ...
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20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

The Guitar Man
Located in Manchester, GB
Anna Weyant, The Guitar Man, 2023 Offset lithograph on wove paper Hand-signed in black marker pen 81 x 61 cm (31.89 x 24 in) This poster featuring The Return of The Girls Next D...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Gerhard Richter 'Abstrakte Bilder Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction of Abstrakte Bilder (No Text) by Gerhard Richter, a key work from the artist's acclaimed "Abstract Paintings" series, captures the essence of Richter's approach to ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Pablo Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) La Grande Maternité – hand-signed lithograph 1963
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
After Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) La Grande Maternité 1963 pencil signed and annotated 'E.A.' (aside from the edition of 200), with margins Editions Combat de la Paix, Paris P...
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1950s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Parapliers the Willow Dipped
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Parapliers the Willow Dipped by Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart from The Mothers of Invention, is part of the Collection of American Masters at the Nordfallen Museum in ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Topiary II - large format photograph of ornamental shaped sidewalk trees
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photogaph from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening and whimsical botanical art of topiaries' green minimalism TOPIARY II by Fran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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

Room 102 - Collector Portfolio # 6 out 7 - 12 Fine Art Prints Nude photography
Located in Brussels, BE
His series "Room" or "My carnival" evokes the fantasy of the mistress, fetishist eroticism, 5 to 7, free fantasy. Eric produces erotic art without ever biting into porn-chic always being more obsessed with aesthetics than with simulacrum. If he worships more than one of these predecessors who poured into more outrage, it is freely that he suggests to the imagination to imagine without capturing the fantasy of the viewer. The choice had been made of very high quality prints: cotton fiber base baryta paper without chlorine and high grammage (310 gr / m²), pigment inks. They carry on the back an authentication label signed by Eric Ceccarini The enhancement of this limited edition of 100 copies is ensured by the use of a unique high-quality box to keep the 12 fine art prints This is edition #1/100 Eric is a Belgian artist born in 1965. He gained a Degree in Photography from INFAC, Brussels in 1987. Since then he has been a fashion photographer working with many of the top houses. Elle, Marie-Claire, L'Oréal, Levi's, Coca Cola, Virgin, Saab, Delvaux, Lowe Lintas and Ogilvy are some of his clients. Among other distinctions, his photography for the Saab cabrio 9-3 campaign was awarded the Silver Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. Eric is set apart from many of his colleagues by his way of shunning technical artifice and working in natural light. This results in soft, velvety, almost painterly images. Nowadays in his artistic works, he captures women's essence and soul, transcending mere physical representation. Eric's "AMNIOS" series of soul portraits- the model appear in suspended animation, as if they were about to born, and full of hidden secrets. This represents a new conceptual departure for Eric, who began as a fashion photographer, moving on to classic artistic nudes...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment, Rag Paper

Mockney
Located in Manchester, GB
Werner Bronkhorst, Mockney, 2025 Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks 43 x 33 cm (16.9 x 13 in) ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Canvas

Room 217 - Collector Portfolio # 4 out 7 - 12 Fine Art Prints Nude photography
Located in Brussels, BE
His series "Room" or "My carnival" evokes the fantasy of the mistress, fetishist eroticism, 5 to 7, free fantasy. Eric produces erotic art without ever biting into porn-chic always b...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

I Will Not Allow The Dark Skies To Affect Me
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, I Will Not Allow The Dark Skies To Affect Me, 2025 22 colour screenprint with varnish overlay on Somerset Tub Sized 410 gsm paper 56 x 76 cm (22.04 x 29.92 in) Edi...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Girl in the Moon - Glazed Porcelain Plate by Yoshitomo Nara
Located in Manchester, GB
Yoshitomo Nara, Girl in the Moon Plate, 2023 Glazed porcelain plate Dimensions: Diameter 26.7 cm (10.5 in) Edition of 250 Created in 2023 to coincide with Yoshitomo Nara’s celebra...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Ceramic

"Texas Ranger" Contemporary Blue Dog in Cowboy Hat Silkscreen Ed. 391/800
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary colorful silkscreen by Louisiana born artist George Rodrigue. The work features Rodrigue's iconic blue dog character dressed in a yellow bandana and a cowboy hat set aga...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Pablo Picasso (After), 'Vive le Paix (Long Live Peace) Lithograph, 1954
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: PABLO PICASSO (AFTER ) Title: Vive le Paix (Long Live Peace) Year: 1954 Published by: Combat Pour La Paix, Paris Medium: Lithograph on Lana paper (Blind stamp JPG attached) P...
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1950s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Be Yourself Just Be Yourself
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, Be Yourself Just Be Yourself, 2025 22 colour screenprint with varnish overlay on Somerset Tub Sized 410 gsm paper 56 x 76 cm (22.04 x 29.92 in) Edition of 125 Han...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

K, 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

Margit Smiles
Located in New York, NY
signed and numbered lower image edition 7/40 Catalogue raisonné 00269 Internationally recognized painter and printmaker Alex Katz was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. Over a thir...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Alexander Calder, 'Skybird' from Flying Colors suite 1974-1975
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Title: "Skybird" (from the Braniff International Airways Flying Colors Collection) Year: 1974-75 Medium: Lithographs on Arches paper Size: 20 x 2...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pumpkin (White T)
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition 102 of 120 83.5 × 70.5 cm (32.9 x 27.8 in) Signed, titled, dated and numbered on front Artwork in excellent condition considering its age. Only visible under stud...
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20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Walk On Water
Located in Manchester, GB
Werner Bronkhorst, Walk On Water, 2025 Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks 43 x 33 cm (16.9 x 13...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Tape Collection, AILA Blue - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
AILA Blue, from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection - The B Sides. The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, personal pas...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number 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

Emerald Lady
Located in Palm Springs, CA
In "Emerald Woman" by Chinese artist Jiang Tie-Feng, a sensuous, jade-green female figure is depicted astride a vividly rendered horse, fusing human form with the spiritual energy of...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Seascape I - large format photograph of blue tone horizon and sea
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph capturing the soothing tones of nature's calming blue hour color palette Seascape I by Frank Schott 48 x 64 inches / 122cm x 162cm signed edition of 7 30 x 40 inches / 76cm x 102cm signed edition of 25 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, Hiroshi Sugimoto, William Eggleston and Joel Sternfeld, Schott's images successfully blend technical, conceptual and formal rigor with a decisive sense of composition and color. Schott's images have an iconic sensibility and give us a bird's eye view onto humanity and its constructs. The specific is edged towards the abstract, often revealing the compelling and disjunctive moment where nature meets man. Frank Schott was born in Cologne, Germany in 1962. He currently lives and works in San Francisco. _________________________ Edition EKTAlux publishes an evolving curated selection of collectable large-scale photography in strictly limited editions, working closely with each artist to guarantee state-of-the-art museum level print and framing quality. Custom / larger print sizes available on request Images can be printed with white border ( 2in L prints / 4in XL prints )
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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

Dog 38
Located in Manchester, GB
David Hockney, Dog 38, 1995 Original vintage exhibition posters from 1995 featuring Hockney's paintings of his beloved dachshunds, Stanley and Boodge, that appeared in many of his p...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Bearden Come Sunday Vintage African American
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The reproduction of Come Sunday by Romare Bearden is based on a piece he originally created in 1967. Come Sunday is a powerful work that reflects the significance of spirituality and...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Splash
Located in Manchester, GB
Andrew Scott, Splash, 2024 Giclee print on 315 gsm etching cotton rag paper 33 x 45 cm ( 13 x 17.7 in) Edition of 250 Frame included Hand-signed and...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Keeping the Culture, mixed media signed/N print by top African American artist
Located in New York, NY
Kerry James Marshall Keeping the Culture, 2011 Silkscreen and linocut in colors with full margins and deckled edges on Arches paper with full margins and deckled edges 20-1/4 x 30-1/...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Pencil, Linocut, Screen

Bearden- 'Carolina Shout' Vintage African American
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a poster titled Carolina Shout by Romare Bearden originally was created in 1967. Carolina Shout captures the vibrant energy and cultural significance of African American lif...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Ed Baynard 'Flowers in Vase on Black Stand' 1980- Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original exhibition poster was created for Ed Baynard: Watercolors, a 1980 solo show at the Alexander F. Milliken Gallery in New York City. Known for his elegantly stylized flor...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

I Can Still Love, coveted hand signed homemade print British Pop Art Tracey Emin
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin I Can Still Love, 2012 Home made Inkjet Print 11 7/10 × 16 1/2 inches Limited Edition Rare Edition of approx. 150 (unnumbered) Hand signed and dated 2012 with the red Em...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Inkjet

Little Boodge
Located in Manchester, GB
David Hockney, Little Boodge, 1993 Offset lithograph on paper 28 x 42 cm (11 × 16 1/2 in) Signed and dated in plate, recto Based upon Hockney's b...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

There There
Located in New York, NY
Sila Sehrazat Yucel is a talented artist based in Istanbul. Her background in landscape and interior architecture shapes her creative vision. With experience as an art director in ci...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

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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Thread, Ink, Mixed Media, Linen

Bearden - The Woodshed Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original exhibition poster for Romare Bearden's work titled The Woodshed refers to a piece he created in 1967. The Woodshed depicts a scene filled with rich, layered imagery tha...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Contemporary prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.

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