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Contemporary Prints and Multiples

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

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

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

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

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

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Style: Contemporary
"La tête" Nude Art Print 38" x 47" inch Edition of 15 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"La tête" Nude Art Print 38" x 47" inch Edition of 15 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko Year photo was taken: 2014 Art Print Limited Edition of 15 Picture size: Height: 38" inch Width: 47" i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, Pigment

Merging Lines, Limited edition print, Animal print, Zebra, Wild life
Located in Deddington, GB
Paul Bartlett is a highly acclaimed artist who has won many awards for his original depictions of nature which inform and educate the viewer on conservation issues. Merging lines is...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Giclée

"Bob Marley" limited edition print by Gered Mankowitz from Hard Rock Hotel
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Bob Marley" limited edition silkscreen print by artist Gered Mankowitz. Image size: 17 x 15 inches. Embossed with stamp on lower left and ? stamp on lower right. "An Original and Au...
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20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Color

1960's Joan Miro lithograph (from Derrière le miroir)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1960s Joan Miró lithograohic cover from Derrière le miroir: Lithographic cover in colors; 11 x 15 inches (folding out to 15 x 22 inches). Circa 1964. Very good overall vintage cond...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Palazzo del Quirinale, Sala Napoleonica, Rome, Italy
Located in New York City, NY
40 x 48 inches - edition of 5 Chromogenic Print – Unframed Signed by the artist - Certificate of Authenticity Free Shipping – Ask us foar custom framing options. As a world-renowned...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, C Print

Cosa si vede fuori
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM. Unframed. Edition of 140 ex. Signed by the artist. Free shipment worldwide. Adami is the maestro of the unadulterated line,” writes the Swedish poet Lasse Söderberg i...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

"Marilyn Crying Diamond (Hollywood Pink)" hand-pulled screen print on linen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Marilyn Crying Diamond (Hollywood Pink)" acrylic, oil-based ink and diamond dust hand-pulled screen print on linen by artist Russell Young. Dep...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Ink, Screen

Nudes on Towels /// Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Swimming Pool Screenprint
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Nudes on Towels" *Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left Year: 1983 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded cream wove paper Limited edition: 104/150 Printer: the artist May himself, Oakland, CA Publisher: the artist May himself, Oakland, CA Sheet size: 31.75" x 29.63" Image size: 24.13" x 24.13" Condition: Light wear to lower right corner. In excellent condition. A fantastic image 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...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Dog 38 after David Hockney
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Offset Lithograph, exhibition poster Edition of Unknown Size Unsigned 20.87 x 25.20 in 53.0 x 64.0 cm This is an original vintage David Hockney poster - it is not a later reproduc...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Cruising - Naïve art, comical, colourful, Folk art, everyday life
Located in London, GB
Printer's Proof /5 Her appeal was classless and she rapidly became Britain’s most popular artist. She was a ‘heart and soul’ painter, compelled to paint with a passion. Her painting...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Archival Paper

Reverend Ricky Wreck
Located in London, GB
Peter Blake Reverend Ricky Wreck, 2014 Etching on Somerset White 300gsm
 Paper size: 43 × 33 cm
 Edition of 30 hand-signed and numbered by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

GDP Flower Thrower
Located in Manchester, GB
Banksy, GDP Flower Thrower, 2019 One colour screenprint on 50gsm paper 57.5 x 76.5 cm (22.63 x 30.11 in) Limited Edition (Unknown quantity) During the two weeks in which Banksy's...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Four Seasons of Hope, The complete portfolio of 4 prints, Silver Edition
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana’s message of HOPE has been an important, poetic language spanning his long career. The Four Seasons of HOPE was created for his solo exhibition at the historic Four Seasons Restaurant in tribute to his friend and architect Philip Johnson. Robert Indiana Four...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

The Carriage Trade
Located in Lyons, CO
Color 3-D lithograph in wood frame In Red Grooms’ newest three-dimensional print, "The Carriage Trade", the artist once again casts his acute eye on ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

John Baldessari, Hand and Chin (with Entwined Hands) - Signed Print
Located in Hamburg, DE
John Baldessari (American, 1931-2020) Hand and Chin (With Entwined Hands), 1991 Medium: Photogravure with color spit bite aquatint on Somerset Dimensions: 83,5 x 56,5cm (33 x 22 in) ...
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19th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Aquatint, Photogravure

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

Mulata Que Sera
By Fernando Salicrup
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Fernando Salicrup was born in New York City in 1946, though he traveled between Puerto Rico and the United States throughout his childhood. He is a painter and printmaker, known for his work in experimental digital methods. After serving in the military, he returned to study art at the Philadelphia Academy of Art. He also won a scholarship to study at the New York School of Visual Arts, where he studied painting under Chuck Close, and printmaking under Robert Blackburn. In the late 1980's he began working with digital media, which he has continued to explore throughout his career. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions throughout the United States, Latin America, and Europe, including venues such as El Museo del Barrio...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Gift of Flowers
Located in Deddington, GB
Kit Boyd Gifts of Flowers Limited Edition Linocut Print Edition of 20 Image Size: H 30cm x W 41cm Sheet Size: H 40cm x W 50cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please no...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Linocut

Calypso
Located in New York, NY
Cyanotype on albumen-coated watercolor paper (Unique) Signed, titled, and dated, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “Ghost Ship” is a series of un...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Color

Equestrian Beauty #9 (Photography, Horse Portrait)
Located in New York City, NY
60 x 40 inches Archival Pigment Print Mounted and Framed - Black Matt Frame. Frame Profile 0.75 x 2 inches (see images) Non-glare Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty serie...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Original Munich Olympic Poster after David Hockney
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Original Munich Olympic Poster after David Hockney David Hockney, a prominent British artist, is celebrated for his versatile and innovative contributions to 20th-century art. Known...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Globe Flower
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Jack Brusca Title: Globe Flower Medium: Silkscreen Signed: Hand Signed Year: 1978 Edition: Edition of 200 Measurements: 26.5" x 25.5" Frame...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

"Evolution Of Jump" Photography 30" x 30" inch Ed. of 24 by Rob Woodcox
Located in Culver City, CA
"Evolution Of Jump" Photography 30" x 30" inch Ed. of 24 by Rob Woodcox Hahnemuhle Torchon Matte FineArt Paper (archival) 2018 ABOUT Rob Woodcox Rob Woodcox is a fine art and fa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper

SicMundusCreatusEst (vessel, flora, organic, pastel, monotype)
Located in New York, NY
Oil Monotype Chine Collé on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper Hand pulled by Artist on Etching Press Hand finished with Paper cuts, folds and Metal Leaf 29 x 29 inches framed This p...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Monotype

Tim Southall, Bear Hugs (Cerulean), Limited Edition Animal Print, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Bear Hugs (Cerulean) By Tim Southall [2021] Limited Edition Silkscreen Print Edition of 100 Image size: H:68 cm x W:48 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:76 cm x W:56 cm x D:0.01cm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Black/White/Black (A. 63)
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly Title: Black/White/Black (A. 63) Year: 1970 Medium: Lithograph on Special Arjomari paper Edition: 48/75; signed and numbered in pencil Sheet: 42 3/10 × 29 4/...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lemmy & Johnny Rotten at The Limelight Club 1986 25x17 b/w photograph
Located in Norwich, GB
David Koppel served his photographic apprenticeship in the rough-and-tumble world of the Fleet Street paparazzi in 1980’s London when his skills captured the very essence of the Me Decade that gave birth to the celebrity culture of today. Koppel’s classic photographs of Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton & the Royal Family appeared in every major newspaper and magazine and marked him out as that rarity amongst press photographers: the artist with a camera. Building on the reputation gained through the photographs for the book Still Waters, his black-and-white portraits of ordinary people now rank among the many famous names in his portfolio. Koppel also went one better and in 2002 bought the St Giles St Gallery , bringing the best of local and international contemporary art and photography to Norwich, including the works of Sir Peter Blake, Terry O’Neill, David Bailey, Maggie Hambling, Storm Thorgersson, Tim Woolcock...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment, Giclée

CY Twombly Paris 1986 (announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
CY Twombly Paris 1986: Vintage 1980s announcement card published on the occasion of Cy Twombly Yvon Lambert Paris, September 20th - November 6th, 1986. Medium: Offset printed anno...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Western Accumulation, Abstract Pop Art Screenprint by Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French (1929 - 2005) Title: Western Accumulation Year: 1979 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150, AP 30 Size: 30 in. x ...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Map of Days
Located in London, GB
Silk scarf framed with museum-grade 92% UV-resistant glass. 90 x 90 cm / 35 7/16 x 35 7/16 inches 103 x 103 cm (incl frame) / 40 9/16 x 40 9/16 inches (incl frame) edition size unknown Map of Days is an intricate work that serves as a self-portrait of the artist's identity and psyche. Drawing inspiration from medieval maps...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Silk, Screen

Joan Miró Vinyl Record Art
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1960s Joan Miró vinyl album art: Raimon and Joan Miró were close friends that first collaborated on the 1966 album Cançons de la roda del temps. In 1979, Miró designed a cover for t...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Miss Spring
Located in Dubai, Dubai
YOSHITOMO NARA MISS SPRING, 2012/21 Digital Pigment Print on Takeo Deep PV Hakou paper 27.9 x 22.9 cm Edition of 100 (numbered 72/100 on the ARTSPACE certificate of authenticity). Ha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Digital

Fast Sketch of Still Life with Fruit and Goldfish
Located in New York, NY
Screen Print in colors on Museum Board, # 12 from Edition of 100 Signed and Dated, lower right Published by International Images, Inc. Putney, Vermont Provenance: Private Collection...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Amalfi Belvedere (Amalfi Coast)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Amalfi Belvedere from the Amalfi Coast collection is a serigraph on paper with an image size 16 x 18 inches, signed 'McKnight' lower right and numbered lower left. Numbered XXII/L fr...
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20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

Avenger Blue
Located in Deddington, GB
Avenger Blue by Harry Bunce [2015] limited_edition Screenprint Edition number 39 Image size: H:57 cm x W:43.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:65.5 cm x W:50 cm x D:0.1cm Sold U...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

Murakami - Dokuro Yellow (Gold) - Silver backing
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: Dokuro Yellow (Gold) - Silver backing Edition: 300 Signed, numbered, edition 132/ 300. Print Size: 500 x 500 mm / 19.6 x 19.6 in. Medium: Offset print Publisher: Kaikai Kiki...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS black space holiday)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS:HOLIDAY SPACE (Black), is a celebration of 20 years of the KAWS Companion. Using a sounding balloon, the KAWS:HOLIDAY SPACE was sent up 41.5km into the stratosphere before retun...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Polyurethane

Heather Langenkamp as Nancy (Emerald Green)
Located in New York, NY
Two-color screen print, painted museum box (Edition of 3 + 2 APs) Signed and numbered on label, verso From the series, "Final Girls" This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Wood, Acrylic, Screen

Alex Katz Whitney Opening Area After Party 1986 (Area nightclub announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
The Whitney Museum "Alex Katz" Opening Area After Party invitation/announcement card 1986: Rare vintage Alex Katz invitation/announcement card publish...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

print poster girl
Located in London, London
print on paper artist: Anastasia Aureum title: "Mimmi" limited edition. hand signed Anastasia Aureumis an internationally renowned visual artist. To date, she has been exhib...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

print poster girl
print poster girl
$1,046 Sale Price
44% Off
Ancient Trackway 6
Located in Deddington, GB
Ancient Trackway 6 By Sarah Brooks [2022] limited_edition Mixed media Edition number 40 Image size: H:29.7 cm x W:42.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed W...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media

New England Street Scene
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Chiam Gross Title: New England Street Scene Medium: Lithograph Signed: Hand Signed Edition: From the edition of 250 Measurements: ...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Chrysler Building (Day), Art Deco Lithograph by Saul Steinberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Saul Steinberg, Romanian/American (1914 - 1999) Title: Chrysler Building (Day) from Derrier le Mirroir Year: circa 1965 Medium: Lithograph Size: 14 x 10.5 in. (35.56 x 26.67 ...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Untitled (Set of 2 from a Fleet of Buses)
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Set of 2. Sold framed. Very rare Artist Proof and Trial Proof from Jones' 'Fleet of Buses' series are amongst the greatest prints of his major 1960's Pop period. Only 20 prints in the regular edition, this one being a rare Trial Proof. Allen Jones’ firsts works are considered to be among those which launched British pop art. A display of several school buses...
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1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Ballerinas - Lithograph by Franco Marzilli - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Franco Marzilli in 1980s. Hand signed lower right. Not numbered.
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Venice Beach Lifeguard Hut, Vibrant Landscape Artwork, Contemporary Beach Print
Located in Deddington, GB
The bright colours of the rainbow coloured Lifeguard hut seem a perfect fit for the Venice Beach lifestyle. I love the contrast of the hut's colours against the lightness of the sand...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Metal

Leg, Straw, Diver
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: John Baldessari Title: Leg, Straw, Diver Year: 1986 Medium: Etching with aquatint on Rives B.F.K paper Sheet: 26 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches (66.68 x 49.53 cm) Edition: 35; signed, n...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Bezalel School Jerusalem Israeli Artist Contemporary Offset Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Some Artists included in Lithograph - Esther Knobel, Ron Reisman, Emmanuel Rapaport, Yossi Waxman amongst others. Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Hebrew: בצלאל, אקדמיה לאמנות ו...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Limed Blossom
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Walton Ford (b. 1960) is an American artist renowned for his artworks that vividly portray historic wildlife, flora, and fauna reminiscent of naturalist illustrations heightened with...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Limed Blossom
Limed Blossom
$11,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Operazione 7000 Eichen - Original Receipt by Joseph Beuys- 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Operazione 7000 Eichen is an original receipt realized in 1985  by Joseph Beuys in occasion of his solo exhibition held at the Marino Gallery (in Mignanelli Square, Rome)  In good c...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Blue Emperor, Linocut, Limited edition print, Dragonfly, Nature, Floral, Purple
Located in Deddington, GB
This print features a Blue Emperor Dragonfly flying over verbena and cornflowers. Printed in a palette of lilac, green and blue. It is a Hybrid Print - Tr...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Linocut, Paper, Inkjet

"Hidden Lake" diamond-dusted archival print and mixed media encased in resin
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Hidden Lake" by Raphael Mazzucco. Diamond-dusted archival print of bird and woman with mixed media encased in resin.
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Resin, Mixed Media, Color

Harvest Moon Hares, Animal Art, Minimalist Artwork, Linocut Print, Hare Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Harvest Moon Hares is a limited edition linocut print depicting a pair of Hares out on the fields under a harvest moon. Wild berries and rose hips are silhouetted in the foreground. Printed in Indigo blue Kate Heiss is available with Wychwood Art online and in our gallery. Kate Heiss is a textile designer and print-maker who has worked with a wide range of fashion brands including Fenchurch, Miss...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Linocut

Flores para la Ñusta II
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with cut outs, Edition 30. Flores para la Ñusta translates as "Flowers for the Ñusta". The artist states: "In the Andean cosmology, the Ñusta is the feminine ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Hypha will cover the world, little by little..." (2009)
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Hypha will cover the world, little by little. 'We should be able to get our hands on that door to the alien world soon. Wait 'til we get there!'" is an offset lithograph 25.87 x 50....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Offset

"Circus 5" Black & White Photography 39" x 39" in Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Circus 5" Black & White Photography 39" x 39" in Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian Printed on Epson Professional Paper Signed and numbered by the artist Not framed. Ships in a tub...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper

Mimosa with Green, Jan 25, 2023
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Donald Sultan Title: Mimosa with Green, Jan 25, 2023 Year: 2023 Medium: Archival pigment ink print on 315 gsm fine art paper Edition: 100; signed, titled, dated and numbered ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

1970 'L'Album De La Ferrage'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This introductory page comes from L'Album de la Ferrage, a portfolio of 10 prints by Alberto Magnelli, a key figure in modern abstract art. Known for his geometric abstraction and re...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"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

Araquém Alcãntara - Lion and lioness II, Tanzania, Africa
Located in New York City, NY
ARAQUÉM ALCÂNTARA Lion & Lioness II, Tanzania, Africa, 2012 60 x 48 inches - Edition of 10 Archival Pigment Print - Framed Araquém Alcântara, 64 ye...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

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