Expressionist Prints and Multiples
EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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Style: Expressionist
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Sunflowers” collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #3, Sonnenblumen; multi-color collotype after 1908 painting in oil on canvas.
GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GUSTAV KLIMT AN AFTERMATH), a portfolio of 30 collotypes prints, 15 are multi-color and 15 are monochrome, on chine colle paper laid down on heavy cream-wove paper with deckled edges; Max Eisler, Editor-Publisher; Osterreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office), Printer; in a limited edition of 500 numbered examples of which: 200 were printed in German, 150 were printed in French and 150 were printed in English; Vienna, 1931.
2018 marks the 100th anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s death. It is a fitting time to reflect upon the enduring legacy and deep impact of his art. Recognizing this need for posterity with uncanny foresight, the publication of Gustav Klimt: An Aftermath (Eine Nachlese) provides a rare collection of work after Klimt which has proven to be an indispensable tool for Klimt scholarship as well as a source for pure visual delight.
Approximately 25 percent of the original works featured in the Aftermath portfolio have since been lost. Of those 30, six were destroyed by fire on 8 May 1945. On that fateful final day of WWII, the retreating Feldherrnhalle, a tank division of the German Army, set fire to the Schloss Immendorf which was a 16th century castle in Lower Austria used between 1942-1945 to store objects of art. All three of Klimt’s Faculty Paintings: Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence (1900-1907), originally created for the University of Vienna, were on premises at that time. Also among the inventory of Klimt paintings in storage there was art which had been confiscated by the Nazis. One of the most significant confiscated collections was the Lederer collection which featured many works by Gustav Klimt such as Girlfriends II and Garden Path with Chickens...
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1930s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Separe - Original Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Separe is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is the plate n.22 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of Der Malik-Ve...
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1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Offset
Air France Europe original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original AIR FRANCE EUROPE, Editions Perceval, artist: Jacques Nathan Garamond. Professional acid-free archival linen backed vintage travel post...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Promenade - Original Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Promenade is an original offset and lithograph print realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is the plate n.28 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of De...
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1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Offset
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 398; Cramer 56), Chagall Lithographe (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962, 1963; published by André Sauret, éd...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Seated Nude Figure in Red & Blue
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude in Blue, a collotype figure study by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Unframed. Signed "PP" on verso. Image: 8.5"H x 8"W.
Patricia Pearce was a California artist and art...
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1980s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Ink, Color
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 227), XXe Siècle (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°14, June 1960 in an edition of V̅MD; however, unsold...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
"Sleeping Woman" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #1 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Kli...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Coll Bardolet. Bolero Mallorquin original ceramic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Bolero Mallorquin original ceramic painting
Spanish painter maximum representative of the art of Mallorca at the end of the 20th century. Costumbrista work. With different own museu...
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1980s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Ceramic
Intimations sur La Vie
Located in Paonia, CO
Intimations sur la Vie.. from Le Miracle Quotidien suite 1974
Original signed lithograph
Edition no. 132/225
paper size 40 x 30
image size 33.50 x 24
condition ...
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1970s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 192-207; Cramer 34) (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall, 1957. Published by Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Mou...
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1950s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 401; Cramer 56), Chagall Lithographe (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962, 1963; published by André Sauret, éd...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 288; Cramer 43), Chagall Lithographe (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall Lithographe, 1960; published by André Sauret, éditeur, Mon...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 285; Cramer 43), Chagall Lithography (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall Lithographe, 1960; published by André Sauret, éditeur, Mon...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Sunflower" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Sunflower, no. 10 from the third installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts
Created during his residency in Litzlberg on Attersee, where Klimt and the Floge family summered from 1900-1907, Klimt explores nature’s transcendental qualities. His single sunflower is human-like, it’s golden halo is like a ring of sun-kissed hair surrounding a bald pate. It’s known that at the same time Klimt was creating this image, he was also at work on a photo essay about the Floge sisters’ clothing from their fashion salon. Their fashion house was best known for its “reform dresses” which featured loose-fitting long robes which billowed at the arms and torso. Viewed with this in mind, it is not a hard leap to imagine the lone sunflower as a self-portrait from reverse. Klimt’s balding head crowned in a golden corona forms the apex of a pyramidal flowing gown of foliage and flowers. By orienting the anthropomorphic flower at the garden’s central foreground and adorning it with repetitive motifs of round flowers of varying sizes, Klimt’s sunflower...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Paper
"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera (Variant)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, (Variant) 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka, 1886-...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
"He Made Fun of Hindenburg" original lithograph
By George Grosz
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1920 on smooth wove paper for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition ...
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1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 287; Cramer 43), Chagall Lithographes (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall Lithographe, 1960; published by André Sauret, éditeur, Mon...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Dead Bird for Craigie No. 2
By Colin Self
Located in New York, NY
A contemporary of David Hockney and Peter Blake, Colin Self is an important British printmaker whose innovative etching techniques and novel use of found materials have defined his diverse oeuvre. Yet unlike most artists associated with Pop Art, Self eschewed glossy, colorful bombast for nuanced drawings in a limited palette. Self's imagery has ranged from the geopolitical -- nuclear bombers, fallout shelters; to American icons -- hot dogs, Coca Cola cans; to the everyday -- intimate scenes of animals and plants, and whimsical figure drawings. This arresting portrait of a raven's body is executed in moody shades of black and grey. A tangle of short, sharp marks swirls against the white background, resembling flying birds. At the top, hand written text reads: "dead bird...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 192-207; Cramer 34) (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Chagall, 1957. Published by Maeght, Éd...
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1950s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Danaë" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Danaë, no. 2 from the fourth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts
Danae originates from Greek mythology. She is the daughter of the King of Argos. Because a...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Spring by Robert Engels, Medieval Art Nouveau lithograph with gold ink, 1897
Located in Chicago, IL
Allegorien-Neue Folge was a serialized folio published in installments between 1895 and 1900. Martin Gerlach, its publisher, was inspired by the rise of modernist design in Vienna an...
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1890s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 192-207; Cramer 34) (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Chagall, 1957. Published by Maeght, Éd...
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1950s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Stehendes nacktes Mädchen im Profil (Standing Naked Girl in Profile) /// Woodcut
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976)
Title: "Stehendes nacktes Mädchen im Profil (Standing Naked Girl in Profile)"
Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman)
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1918
Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany
Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany
Reference: Schapire No. 220, page 45; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118
Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38"
Image size: 6.5" x 3.57"
Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). In very good condition
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Biography:
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died...
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1910s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Woodcut
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 284; Cramer 43), Chagall Lithographe (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall Lithographe, 1960; published by André Sauret, éditeur, Mon...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 290; Cramer 43), Chagall Lithographe (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall Lithographe, 1960; published by André Sauret, éditeur, Mon...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Shower, Nude Etching by Rainer Fetting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Shower (Blue)
Rainer Fetting, German (1949)
Date: 1984
Color Etching, signed in pencil
Edition of Color Proof
Image Size: 23 x 36 inches
Size: 27.5 x 39...
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1980s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 192-207; Cramer 34) (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall, 1957. Published by Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Mou...
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1950s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Bouquet of Flowers - Original Lithograph - Signed in the Plate (Vallier #188)
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges BRAQUE
Bouquet of flowers, 1961
Original lithograph in six colors (Mourlot workshop)
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum 34 x 26 cm (c. 13 x 10 inch)
REFERENCE : Catal...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Omegas Død (Omega's Death) /// Edvard Munch Alpha and Omega Expressionist Litho
By Edvard Munch
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944)
Title: "Omegas Død (Omega's Death)"
Portfolio: Alfa og Omega (Alpha and Omega)
*Signed by Munch in pencil lower right
Year: 1908-1909
Medi...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 394; Cramer 56), Chagall Lithographe (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962, 1963; published by André Sauret, éd...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
"Dark Box" Drypoint Etching with Aquatint (no. 10/20)
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely balanced etching by Benjamin Vasserman (Estonian, b 1949). A squash sits atop a small black box with a latch. There is a drapery behind the squa...
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1980s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Ink, Drypoint, Aquatint
Chagall, Job in despair (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25) (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, ...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
"Seated Woman Semi-nude" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #2 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Two Women and Child, Lithograph by Raphael Soyer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raphael Soyer
Title: Two Women and Child
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Lithograph on paper, signed in pencil l.r.
Image Size: 11 x 9.5 in. (27.94 x 24.13 cm)
Frame Size: 20 x 17.5...
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1940s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Homeland Figures - Original Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Homeland figures from Ecce Homo is an original offset and lithograph, realized by George Grosz in 1922.
The artwork is the plate n. 47 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published betwee...
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1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Offset, Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 192-207; Cramer 34) (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall, 1957. Published by Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Mou...
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1950s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 395; Cramer 56) Chagall Lithographe (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962, 1963; published by André Sauret, éd...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chagall, Angel (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25), Drawings from the Bible (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Gold Dust
Located in East Hampton, NY
Black & White Photography
Gold Dust
Printed to Order
Unframed
Also available in 20"x30"
The area that would become Gold Point, one of Nevada’s best ghost towns, was first settled ...
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2010s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Archival Pigment
Rome, Italy original signed limited edition aquatint etching by J.J. Regal
Located in Paonia, CO
Rome, Italy original signed limited edition etching by French artist J.J. Regal This is a very bold design and an original depiction of a major European city. The print is in good...
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20th Century Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Portfolio: La Révolution Française 1789
Located in OPOLE, PL
Bernard Buffet (1928–1999, France)
Portfolio: La Révolution Française 1789, 1977
Bernard Buffet’s La Révolution Française 1789 (1977) is a striking portfolio of ten color lithograph...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chagall, Angel of Paradise (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25) (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, ...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Polish Israeli Artist Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in Poland in 1920, Bernstein completed his art studies in the Academy of Vilna in 1939. His family was wiped out in the Holocaust, but he survived the war and lived in Russia un...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
"Smiling Woman Reclined" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #14 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Jacob Pins "Lonely Walker" 1960 Woodcut
By Jacob Pins
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jacob Pins: 1917-2005. Was a German born Israeli woodcut artist and art collector. He has had auction results over $3000 for a print. This powerful scarce example...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Cavaliers dans les Dunes
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Andre Brasilier (French, born 1929)
Title: Cavaliers dans les Dunes
Year: 1974
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Inscribed "Bien Amicalement" (With Friendship) and "Epr...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 396; Cramer 56) Chagall Lithographe (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962, 1963; published by André Sauret, éd...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
'Improvisation 7' second ed. woodcut from 'Klänge' by Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Improvisation 7' second ed. woodcut from 'Klänge' is a woodcut print created by Wassily Kandinsky. The present woodcut print comes from the second edition of 'Klänge (Sounds),' a book of original graphics and poetry by Wassily Kandinsky. The title of the album and of this print, 'Improvisation,' demonstrated Kandinsky's interest in music and how abstract musical forms could be translated into images on a two-dimensional surface. This particular composition is difficult to read, but through the abstraction, one can make out various figures and a landscape beyond. Originally carved and printed in 1911, this second edition print was done ca. 1938. It is a woodcut in black ink on woven paper. Signed with encircled 'K' in the block, lower right (from the book, signed in ink, ed. 117/300)
Image Size: 7 1/2" x 5 inches
Frame Size: 22 1/4" x 18 3/4"
Ref. Roethel 124
Artist Bio:
The Museum of Modern Art described 'Klänge (Sounds)' as follows:
Vasily Kandinsky's self-described "musical album," Klänge (Sounds), consists of thirty-eight prose-poems he wrote between 1909 and 1911 and fifty-six woodcuts he began in 1907. In the woodcuts Kandinsky veiled his subject matter, creating increasingly indecipherable images (though the horse and rider, his symbol for overcoming objective representation, runs through as a leitmotif). This process proved crucial for the development of abstraction in his art. Kandinsky said his choice of media sprang from an "inner necessity" for expression: the woodcuts were not merely illustrative, nor were the poems purely verbal descriptions. Kandinsky sought a synthesis of the arts, in which meaning was created through the interaction of, and space between, text and image, sound and meaning, mark and blank space. The experimental typography shows his interest in the physical aspects of the book.
Klänge is one of three major publications by Kandinsky that appeared shortly before World War I, alongside Über die Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art) and the Blaue Reiter almanac...
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1910s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut, Laid Paper
Polish Israeli Artist Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in Poland in 1920, Bernstein completed his art studies in the Academy of Vilna in 1939. His family was wiped out in the Holocaust, but he survived the war and lived in Russia un...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Female semi-nude on bedding, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), 1922
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype lithograph of Gustav Kilmt’s Female semi-nude on bedding, published in the 1922 Handzeichnungen portfolio by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition of 375. This artwork is presented in archival rag mat and arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Klimt’s mastery of depth is most evident in the gentleness of his linework. Without the aid of shadow or the subtlety of values, the gestures of line allow the viewer a sense of a three-dimensional person or object. The meticulous lithographic process used to create Klimt’s Handzeichnungen portfolio ensures exceptionally crisp markings bearing a strong resemblance to the original sketches. This series showcases the quintessence behind Klimt’s signature visual style. This artwork arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Century Guild has curated collections of Gustav Klimt’s printed...
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1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Paper
Couple - Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Couple from Ecce Homo is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is the plate n. 57 from the porfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923,edition o...
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1920s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Offset, Lithograph
Chagall, Tribe of Benjamin, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, . Notes: From the album, Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem. Published by Musée des Arts Déco...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Ancestor Face - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Bengt Lindström (1925-2008)
Ancestor Face
Original Lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
Numbered / 400 ex
On vellum 31 x 22.5 cm (c. 12 x 9 in)
Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Swamp by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime landscape collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s The Swamp, painted in 1900. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Sta...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
"La Promanade" Black and White Print of a Women in a Carriage Edition
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white print of an upper class women in a carriage. There are other figures in the back riding in a carriage as well. Edition 17 of 58. Painting is signed by the artist and ...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Water Snakes II" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Water Snakes II, no. 9 from the fourth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts
The last painting Klimt exhibited with the Secession before resigning, Water ...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
A Second Generation, For My People, Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches 300gm paper. Paper Size: 21.8125 x 18.3125 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, For My People, 1992. Published...
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1990s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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