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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
Still Life - Offset and lithograph by Antonio Fomez - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a colored lithograph realized by Antonio Fomez in 1970s. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered, edition of 99 prints in pencil on the lower left. Good co...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Bending Pine, edition 1 of 5 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 11 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
The tree is a native Californian Monterey pine. They are found up and the down the coast of California from Carmel to San Francisco and all the way up north Mendocino. The moody scen...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Nude of Woman - Original Lithograph by Osvaldo Peruzzi - 1988
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an original artwork realized by Osvaldo Peruzzi in 1988. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right. Num...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Photogenic, by Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled, and numbered from the edition of 15. Image of a young girl with a bird perched on her head while someone takes her photo. While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, their sense of whimsy, satire and irony relate more closely to contemporary life and western sensibilities. Young women and their relationships to shoes, food, and fashion provide much of Hiratsuka’s subject matter. Another group of his prints focus on landscape, flowers, and floral patterns. Hiratsuka’s graphic work has been exhibited in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has received numerous awards in international competitions. During the last four years he has had 14 solo shows in the United States, and international solo shows in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, Munich, Germany and Geneva, Switzerland. Partial list of public collections: The British Museum, UK Tokyo Central Museum, Japan Panstwowe Museum, Poland The House of Humor and Satire, Bulgaria Cincinnati Art Museum, OH Jundt Art Museum, WA The Portland Art...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Pine Ridge (29.5 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

The Lovers - Etching and Aquatint by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Lovers is an etching and aquatint realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. From the serie "The Tarots" Dry stamp by Il Cigno Stamperia d’Arte. H...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Untitled - Lithograph 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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Lithograph

Michel Canetti 'Lucia'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction of Lucia by Michel Canetti, published by Graphique de France, features a striking portrayal of a woman wearing a long, flowing dress complemented by an elaborate fe...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Michel Canetti 'Lucia'
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Zodiaco-Toro - Lithograph 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 an...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Manifest of Simbari - Lithograph by Nicola Simbari - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Manifest of Simbari i is an original offset and lithograph realized by Nicola Simbari in 1970. Hand-signed on the bottom center. The artwork represents a woman and two girls playin...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Enrico Castellani Exhibition Poster - 2004
Located in Roma, IT
Castellani Exhibition is a vintage exhibition poster realized in 2004. Mixed colored offset poster realized in the occasion of the exhibition of Castellani in 2004. Good conditions.
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Daniel Richter, Talk is Cheap. The War is not Over - Signed Print, Contemporary
Located in Hamburg, DE
Daniel Richter (German, born 1962) Untitled (Talk is cheap. The war is not over), 2013 Medium: Screenprint on paper Dimensions: 129.5 x 94 cm Edition of 4: Hand-signed and numbered C...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

'E' From 'Hockney's Alphabet' By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
'E' From 'Hockney's Alphabet' By David Hockney David Hockney is a renowned British artist known for his vibrant paintings and innovative use of technology in art. His work often e...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1967 Miriam Schapiro 'Silver Windows'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original first-edition exhibition poster was created for Miriam Schapiro’s 1967 show Silver Windows at the prestigious André Emmerich Gallery. Schapiro, a key figure in the femi...
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1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

"Angelique" Nude Photography 32" x 47" in Ed. of 15 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Angelique" Nude Photography 32" x 47" in Ed. of 15 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko Year photo was taken: 2020 Archival pigment print on Fine Art paper Limited Edition of 15 Picture size: H...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Ernst Fuchs - "Girl in Big Hat" - giclée print on canvas
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Ernst Fuchs - "Girl in Big Hat". Giclée print on canvas. A beautiful artwork that looks good in every room and especially in the living room or bedroom. Can be framed accordingly. Contact us for possibilities. About Ernst Fuchs: Ernst Fuchs was an Austrian art painter, born in Vienna in 1930. Fuchs studies at the Art academy there; his works at the start are influenced by people like Gustav, Klimt and Egon Schiele. In the 1950s Fuchs lived mainly in Paris. He met Salvador Dali and Arno Breker...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Giclée, Canvas

Nude of Woman - Lithograph by Carlo Marcantonio - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is a Lithograph realized by Carlo Marcantonio in 1970s. This print is hand signed. This is an edition of 50 prints plus some artist's proofs, numbered 22/50. Prints are the most affordable and reasonably priced artworks...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

New Wave Mini Print (Lottery Edition)
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Stunning Pejac New Wave featuring surfers. Limited timed mini print. Stamp numbered on reverse. Lottery edition as this also gave entry to purchase the larger print version also rele...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Digital

"Jungle, " Color Lithograph Landscape signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Jungle" is an important, rare color lithograph signed by Carol Summers from the early years of his production. The image offers a landscape of a dark jungle, printed mostly in black ink. In the center, a blue pool of water is shaded by two trees. Summers' technique in this print renders a painterly quality to the image: the grasses and leaves of the scene are all created with playful, energetic swiping motions much like watercolor paint. This technique and the use of fields of color predict the style Summers would adopt in the coming decades, making this an important early work. 30 x 22 inches, artwork Numbered 14 of the edition of 27 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 nonwestern 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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1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

PLAY Signed Lithograph, Young Woman In Tree Playing with Cats, Rainbow Sunset
Located in Union City, NJ
PLAY by the American painter and printmaker Will Barnet (born May 25, 1911 - died Nov. 13, 2012) is an original hand drawn lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on arc...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Listen # 6, Conservation Art, Animal Art, Street Art Banksy Style Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Listen # 6 by Harry Bunce [2021] Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Listen # 6 by Harry Bunce is a mixed media work of Bunce’s rabbit ch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Board

Peaches (floral, still life, watercolor, bright colors, fruit)
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor on paper
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Watercolor

The Lost Ball, Contemporary Norfolk Landscape Art, Seascape Art, Blue Art
Located in Deddington, GB
The Lost Ball' is a handmade linocut print by artist Colin Moore, featuring his signature graphic use of line and sophisticated colour palette. This handmade print uses layered tones...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Linocut

SERENADE
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by Linda Le Kinff. From the edition of 350. Sheet size 12 x 15.5 inches. Image size 9.5 x 13 inches. Artwork is in excellent c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

SERENADE
$450 Sale Price
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Science Is Truth Found Out
Located in London, GB
Silk twill scarf in colours. Edition of 500. Numbered and digitally signed. Within original presentation box. Gagosian Gallery / (RED)ition 2022.
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Textile

Untitled - Etching by Ossi Czinner - 1990
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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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Vista
Located in New York, NY
This charming beach image by the American painter, printmaker, photographer and stage designer David Salle evokes the joy to be found in a serene day by the ocean. The print was publ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1991 After Richard Artschwager 'At Castelli's'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This 1991 reproduction by Richard Artschwager presents an abstract work that visually resembles a hinge set in the corner of a wall. The artwork's design suggests a functional elemen...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Morning, Lithograph by John Hardy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Morning John Hardy, American (1923–2014) Date: 1980 Lithograph, signed in pencil Edition of AP Size: 22.5 x 30 in. (57.15 x 76.2 cm)
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Dichondra, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 40" x 40"
Located in Westport, CT
This Limited Edition giclee print by Roger Mudre features nearly transparent light blue circles, arranged in an overlapping pattern to create a larger circle shape. The outer layer o...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Digital, Giclée

Utilita I, Wellington, United States, Horse Portrait, Equine Beauty
Located in New York City, NY
Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series. The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

"Bungalow Bill" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Bungalow Bill" first released on the Beatles "White Album" in 1968. This ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Other Medium

Shepard Fairey Chinese Banner Letterpress Print Obey Giant Contemporary Street
Located in Draper, UT
Edition Details: Year: 2014 Class: Art Print Status: Official Released: 10/16/14 Run: 376/400 Technique: Letterpress Paper: 100% Cotton Lettre Fine Art Paper Size: 10 X 13 Markings: Signed & Numbered by the artist in pencil, Shepard Fairey. Frank Shepard Fairey was born February 15, 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Fairey's adolescence was shaped by the influences of punk-rock and skateboarding. In his teens, he began creating his own bootlegged clothing and skateboard decals featuring bands and brands he liked. Fairey’s early bootlegs were created because his generally conservative parents would not purchase the clothing he wanted. In 1986, he stumbled upon the Andre the Giant image for which he has become famous for, in a local newspaper. The image was selected when Fairey demonstrated to a friend how to make a stencil; it was modified slightly to include the meaningless caption “Andre the Giant has a Posse” and made into a sticker. The sticker was reproduced en masse and began to appear around Charleston as it spread through the skateboarding community. While the sticker had no inherent meaning, the public response varied from disregard to curiosity to out-right fear. Civic groups editorialized and theorized that the Andre image was affiliated with everything from a band to a hate group. Nevertheless, the stickers were considered vandalism and in time, Fairey would face numerous charges for defacing public property. Fairey's record includes 15 arrests as of March 2009, for defacing property as a result of his so called bombing campaigns. Fairey affixed the stickers on municipal properties nearly everywhere he went, and the Andre sticker was being seen in Boston and New York City, soon others procured the image and were encouraged to spread the campaign worldwide in the form of stickers, stencils and wheat-paste posters. Following high school, Fairey was accepted to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where, with an interest in screen printing, he majored in illustration. In 1992, while still attending RISD, Fairey started Alternate Graphics, a mail order catalog business through which he could merchandise his own t-shirts, skateboards, posters and stickers. He also took small commercial illustration jobs to help supplement his income. Shortly thereafter, the Andre the Giant Has a Posse logo was shortened simply to Obey Giant. The Obey, for which Fairey has also become synonymous, is derived from the 1988 John Carpenter film They Live. In the film, aliens who appear as human, rule the governments and economies of the world while the humans are reduced to an unwitting, hypnotized slave-class. Themes from the film continue to appear in Fairey’s work. Over time, the Andre the Giant face was modified into a more simplified and streamlined appearance, reminiscent of Russian Constructivist/Rodchenko style Soviet propaganda posters of the 20th Century. In 1994, filmmaker Helen Stickler featured Fairey and his sticker phenomenon in her documentary: Andre the Giant has a Posse. The following year, Fairey started Subliminal Projects with the late Blaize Blouin, his friend and pro-skateboarder. Subliminal Projects created and released several Obey-Giant themed posters and skateboard decks. Fairey directed a short skateboarding film featuring some of his friends through Subliminal Projects and Alternate Graphics titled A.D.D.(Attention Deficit Disorder). In 1996, Fairey moved to San Diego, California to create Giant Distribution with partner Andy Howell. Later, with Howell, Phillip De Wolff, Dave Kinsey, he formed First Bureau of Imagery (FBI), a branding, marketing and design firm established to focus on the increasingly lucrative sports market. FBI was closed in 1999 and Fairey, along with De Wolff and Kinsey created BLK/MRKT, similar to FBI. At this time, Fairey met and began working with Amanda Alaya, whom he would later marry. BLK/MRKT moved to Los Angeles in 2001. Here, they could expand and were able to incorporate a small gallery. Fairey and Kinsey eventually bought out De Wolff’s share of the partnership and by then had set up offices in the Pellissier Building (home of the historic Wiltern Theater...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Passion is the Very Fact of God in Man
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Sister Mary Corita Kent Passion is the Very Fact of God in Man screenprint on Pellon rice paper 30 x40" edition of 50 1963 signed *Slight condition issues due to aging.
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1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

1970 'Vasarely II' Cubism Blue Book
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a first edition, published in 1970 by Editions du Griffon, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The book is presented in French and spans 206 pages, offering a rich exploration of its sub...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Double Motorcyclists and Landscape (Icelandic)
Located in New York, NY
Color lithograph on Somerset white wove paper. Signed, dated and numbered 2/90 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Derriere L'Etoile Studios, New York. Published by Brooke Alexander ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Color

Liberty & Freedom I (Limited Edition Of Only 30 Prints on Canvas)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**Annual Summer Sale Until August 31st** **This Offer Won't Be Repeated Again This Year - Tale Advantage of it** **This is limited edition of only 30 prints on CANVAS. You will receive it rolled inside a Tube** ***The print will look like the Primary picture*** "Liberty&Freedom I" is a highly labored wing piece made with real feathers covered with several layers of clear varnish on the original piece. Now you can have a print of this awesome design. Bring this stunning and peaceful art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Canvas

Autumnal Botanical Portrait – 2022, UV Print on Dibond, Contemporary Figurative
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Limited edition print on Dibond featuring an autumnal anthropomorphic portrait composed of leaves, dandelions, and botanical forms on vibrant orange. This limited edition UV print o...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Metal

Clare Halifax, Penzance Harbour, Cornwall Art, Limited Edition Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax Penzance Harbour Limited Edition Silkscreen Print Edition of 75 Image Size: H 26cm x W 99cm Sheet Size: H 39cm x W 108cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Edition of Clare Halifax's limited edition screen print called 'Penzance Harbour' is in an edition of 75 and is sold unframed. Penzance Harbour is located in Penzance, Cornwall; Penzance town is filled with busy life, character and colour which is portrayed in Clare Halifax's contemporary screen print. Clare Halifax, artist, joins Wychwood Art selling art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Screen

The Gates (b)
Located in New York, NY
This offset lithograph in colors on wove paper from the Project for Central Park, New York City, was created in 2003. One of 300 prints hand-signed by the artist in pencil, from the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Morning Rise:Contemporary Limited Edition Etching
Located in Brecon, Powys
10/25 Signed Mounted 14 x 11 inches Ian Laurie was born in 1933 and is a self taught artist who made the transition from industry to artistry around 40 years ago when he & his wife opened a gallery specialising in original, hand made prints by artists working in that medium. His own hobby of sketching soon became etching and it wasn't long before he was producing his own limited edition etchings...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Bird in the Branches - Original Print by Giselle Halff - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Bird in the Branches is an original artwork realized by Giselle Halff in the mid-20th century. Original woodcut print. Good condition. Artist’s proof.
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Murex I, by Jakob Demus
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Murex I, Diamond drypoint by Jakob Demus. In the 1986-1988 period Demus immersed himself in the depiction of flowers, and it was then that the most important works in this genre wer...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

SLM I
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Male nude etching, from a series of 6 male and 6 female images. In January 2018, the Mexican Museum in San Francisco mounted an exhibition An Artist’s Evolution, a retrospective which has elevated Fernando’s exposure in the SF Bay Area...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

To Tell Such Stories - still life, hand signed, Roy Fairchild
Located in London, GB
This serigraph print is for sale from Roy Fairchild's Personal Collection. This print will come with a certificate of authenticity from London Contemporary Gallery and a unique signe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Composition - Original Screen Print by Andrea Ratto - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an Original Screen Print realized in the 1980s by Andrea Ratto. Good conditions.Hand-signed. Numbered. Edition,17/120 The artwork is depicted through soft strokes ...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

CHILDREN'S PLAYHOUSE (JUDAICA ART)
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 450. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reason...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Lion - Original Woodcut Print by P. C. Antinori - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Zodiac Signs - Lion is original Black and white woodcut print, realized by Italian artist Piero C. Antinori. Excellent condition. Written on the lower left; Original woodcut by Pie...
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20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Amsterdam X ed 28/50 - museum glass framed black-white aquatint etch print
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam X is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade and is bo...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Permafrost, landscape, skyscape, polar bear, saber tooth, husky, wildlife, gold
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Permafrost" by Alexis Kandra is a limited edition signed, titled, dated and numbered giclée print on Moab paper based on an original oil painting with metallic gold foil (edition total of 5). The image features a surreal wildlife scene of a fantastical grouping of animals -- in the foreground of the landscape is a (now extinct) saber tooth tiger...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée

Shepard Fairey Silkscreen Print Johnny Ramone Smokin' Strings Contemporary Rock
Located in Draper, UT
I have been a fan of the Ramones since I got into punk rock in 1984. The Ramones always impressed me with their style, blending a sense of humor with aggression and pop melody. I did...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Kalahari Crossing
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print Signed and numbered, verso 26.7 x 40 inches (Edition of 10) 40 x 60 inches (Edition of 5) 48 x 72 inches (Edition of 3) This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Please note that prices increase as editions sell. Zack Seckler's series, “Botswana,” is comprised of a series of exquisite aerial photographs taken in the Kalahari basin in south central Africa between 2009 and 2010. The body of work offers a quite different and almost magical view of the much-photographed and iconic landscape. In order to be able to capture these breathtaking images, Seckler enlisted the services of an expert pilot who flew a small, ultra-lightweight aircraft at low altitudes under 500 feet. Zack Seckler was born in Boston, and studied psychology at Syracuse University. Then, traveling solo with a point-and-shoot camera in northern India, his mind opened to the visual world. Upon returning to Syracuse, he took coursework in photography at the renowned Newhouse School. With an internship in a Hong Kong photo...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

'American Dance Festival 1989'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Jane Kaplowitz’s American Dance Festival poster from 1989 is a limited edition piece printed on heavy stock paper with deckled edges, hand-signed and numbered in pencil out of 100. T...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Chickens /// Contemporary Pop Art Screenprint Animal Funny Blue Farm Bird
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Chickens" *Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left Year: 2003 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded soft-cream wove paper Limite...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

1970 'Homage to Mozart' hand signed lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This exquisite black and silver silkscreen, printed on white by Wild Hawthorn Press in 1970, is a testament to the collaborative genius of Ian Hamilton Finlay and artist Ron Costley....
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le 1 - Lithograph by Erté - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Le 1 is a contemporary modern artwork realized in 1968 by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff). Mixed colored lithograph on paper. The artwork is from the Series "Les Chiffres". Hand signed o...
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1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

America's Mom II (Small Leticia)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
America's Mom II (Small Leticia) Lithograph, 2016 Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist Series: America's Family II (Four images) Edition: 40, of which 20 were retained by the ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Abstract Composition - Lithograph by Piero Sadun - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition  is a lithograph realized by Piero Sadun in the 1970s. The state of preservation of the artwork is good.
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Dog Dreams /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Screenprint Animal Pet Bones Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Dog Dreams" *Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left Year: 1985 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded turquoise wove paper Limited edition: 7/75 Printer: the artist May himself, Oakland, CA Publisher: the artist May himself, Oakland, CA Sheet size: 24" x 21.38" Image size: 18" x 18" Condition: Minor edge wear at upper left corner and some minor scuffing to image. In excellent condition Notes: Titled and dated by May in pencil lower right. Biography: Dan May is an American painter and printmaker born on March 11, 1955 in San Francisco, CA. Raised in aesthetic surroundings heavily influenced by his architect father, May grew up learning to view all things with an eye for design, color, and shape. At age 5, he remembers his father cutting up a book of drawings by Henri Matisse and hanging them on the walls of their home. The French master Matisse as well as Richard Diebenkorn and David Hockney are his favorite art influences. He began his first attempts at painting at age 15, and later began to experiment with printmaking, teaching himself various techniques such as woodblock printing, etching, silkscreen printing, and monoprinting. Monoprinting soon became May's medium of choice due to its wide range of expression and spontaneity that he felt other techniques lacked. May - "With monoprinting, you can only work a piece for as a long as the paint stays wet, so the resulting print has a feeling of movement and immediacy. I also like how monoprinting allows the brush strokes to transfer a transparent light quality to the print. For me, this is a technique that bridges drawing...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Face - Lithograph by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Face is an original contemporary artwork realized by Franco Gentilini in 1970s. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of XXVI/XXXV. Incl...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Contemporary prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary prints and multiples available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add prints and multiples created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Andrea Bonfils, Richard Heeps, Randal Ford, and Leo Guida. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Pigment Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available.

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