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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
'Sailor and His Girl' —Mid-Century Modernism, WWII
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Brussel-Smith, 'Sailor and His Girl', wood engraving, 1941, edition 35. Signed, titled, and numbered '21/35' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-in...
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1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Nude - Lithograph by Paul Guiramand - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a colored lithograph on paper realized by the French artist  Paul Guiramand . Good condition.
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Matisse, Mademoiselle C.P., Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype, héliogravure, recto and verso, on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper, as issued Year: 1954 Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.05 x 6.69 inches Inscription...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Bignoniaceae - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Bechtold Original Vintage Exhibition Poster
Located in London, GB
Bechtold Original vintage 1975 Oversize size gallery exhibitions poster. 35.1 x 50.1 cm Sold as seen rolled - excellent condition. Exhibition detailed : Galería Carl van der Voo...
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1980s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper

Bridge, Framed Modern Lithograph by Bernard Buffet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bernard Buffet, French (1928 - 1999) - Bridge. Year: 1968, Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate, Size: 19.5 in. x 22.5 in. (49.53 cm x 57.15 cm), Frame Size: 23 x 27.5 inches
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1959 Israeli Yosl Bergner Modernist Color Woodcut Woodblock Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract Composition, 1959 Silkscreen Lithograph "Phoenix". This was from a portfolio which included works by Yosl Bergner, Menashe Kadishman, Yosef Zaritsky, Aharon Kahana, Jacob Wexler...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Screen

Chillida, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 124, 1961. Published by Aim...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original "Wagon Lits" pop art style serigraph travel by train poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Wagon Lits” serigraph poster by the artist Valerio Adami. It was printed in France by GrafiCaza (Michel Caza), one of the finest serigraph companies on woven paper—in exce...
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1990s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Atelier Mourlot - New York (NYC Skyline) by Bernard Buffet
Located in New York, NY
Arches Poster Paper - Perfect Condition A+ When The Mourlot Studio opened a branch in New York City, after a successful exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institute in 1963, it...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Picasso, Le Chardonneret, Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de ...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Christ - Original Lithograph by Jacques Beltrand - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Christ is an original print realized by Jacques Beltrand in 1928. Cromolithograph. Good conditions except for being aged and some rips on the lower margin and a cutaway on the top l...
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1920s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

At the Circus with Dancing Odalisque, 1968 (347 Series, B.1696)
Located in Greenwich, CT
"At the Circus with Dancing Odalisque" is an etching from Picasso's 347 Series, image size 6.5 x 8.75 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and annotated lower left and framed in a Sp...
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20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

La Promenade en Bateau - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
La Promenade en Bateau is an original modern artwork realized by Raoul Dufy in 1930s Original Lithograph. Good conditions. Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) He was a French artist and design...
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1930s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950. Copy on velin creme de Rives Artwork by Paul Jouve. Original copper engraving heightened with pochoir. Paul...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Braque, Etude (oiseaux), Georges Braque le solitaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin papier d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Georges Braque le solitaire, 1959. Published by Editions XXe Si...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Published by Tériade, éditeur, Édit...
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1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Jesus and the Disciples - Original Woodcut print by François Bouchot - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Jesus and the Disciples is an Original woodcut print realized by François Bouchot in 1922. The artwork is in good condition and included a brown cardboard passpartout (36.5x27.5 cm). No signature. François Bouchot (1800-1842), peintre et graveur, est né à Paris en 1800. Il étudia la gravure sous la direction de Richomme, puis devint élève de Regnault, puis de Lethière, et obtint le grand prix...
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1920s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Bijin and Children on a Porch with Lanterns-Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada II-1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Bijin and children on a porch with lanterns is an original modern artworks realized by Utagawa Kunisada II between 1860-1875 Mixed colored woodcut print (nishiki-e). Format: ôban vertical triptych...
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19th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Matisse, La Gerbe (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Li...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Can Can - Original Etching by Luigi Bonazza - 1905
By Luigi Bonazza
Located in Roma, IT
Can Can is a beautiful etching on paper, realized around 1905 by Luigi Bonazza (1877-1965). Signed in pencil on the lower left margin. Inscription in pencil in Italian on the lower ...
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Early 1900s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Five Ideas for Sculpture
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Five Ideas for Sculpture Lithograph, 1981 Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist lower margin. (see photos) Edition: (35/50) 50 There were also 15 Roman Numeral artist's proofs....
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Arc de triomphe (Champs-Elysées), Paris Capitale, Maurice Utrillo
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Johannot paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Paris Capitale, 1955; published by Joseph Foret, Editeur d'Art, Paris...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Figure - Linocut by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a linocut print realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Not signed. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an Italian...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

Freedom From Want - The Four Freedoms
Located in New York, NY
NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978) - The Freedom from want - [from the series THE FOUR FREEDOMS.] 1943. 40x28 1/4inches, 101 1/2x71 3/4 cm. World War II poster U.S. Government Printing Of...
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1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Paper

'Flowers and Ko-Imari' — Taisho/Showa Shin Hanga Woodblock Print
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Masami Iwata, 'Flowers and Ko-Imari', color woodblock print, c. 1960, edition 250. Signed, and with the artist’s seal, lower right. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors,...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Large French Judaica Lithograph Carborundum Etching Jewish Hebrew Embossing
Located in Surfside, FL
Theo Tobiasse Suite: Shavuot Festival Year: 1984 Medium: Original carborundum embossed etching lithograph in colors on Arches paper (deckle edged paper) Signature: Hand signed by the artist Publisher Nahan Gallery, New Orleans Theo Tobiasse, born Tobias Eidesas, 1927 in Jaffa then in British Mandate Palestine, died 2012 in Cagnes-sur-Mer in France. Well known painter, engraver, draftsman and sculptor. French Jewish artist. The youngest son of Chaim (Charles) Eidesas and Brocha (Berthe) Slonimsky from Kaunas, Lithuania, Théo Tobiasse was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1927, where his Jewish parents lived since 1925, far from the threat of pogroms and upheavals of East European policies. The family encountered material difficulties and decided to return to Lithuania, ultimately leaving for Paris in 1931 where his father typographer finds work in a Russian printing press. Theodore Tobiasse...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Lithograph

Hommage, Modern Abstract Aquatint Etching by Johnny Friedlaender
Located in Long Island City, NY
Hommage by Johnny Friedlaenderm German (1912–1992) Date: circa 1965 Aquatint, signed in pencil Edition of EA Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm) Frame Size: 36 x 28.5 inches
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Netherton Chapel
Located in Storrs, CT
Netherton Chapel. 1935. Etching. Comstock 53.v. 5 11/16 x 4 3/8 (sheet 8 15/16 x 6 1/2). Edition 85 in this state (total edition 88-89). Illustrated Fine Prints of the Year, 1936; Print Collector's Quarterly 26 (1939): 286. A fine impression on white laid paper with a partial crown watermark. Signed in pencil. Housed in a striking 11 1/2 x 10 7/8 wood and champagne gold frame. According to Comstock "The subject is a small memorial chapel, now much more ruinous than the etching shows, near Bredon Hill...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Dufy, La corbeille aux œufs, Vacances forcées (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper Year: 1970 Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les Tuileries, Regards sur Paris, Jean Carzou
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Regards sur Paris, 1963. Published by André Sauret, Paris;...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"El Espejo" Teal, Brown and Blue Toned Modernist Figurative Print
Located in Houston, TX
Teal, brown and blue tone abstract figurative original print by Amado Maurilio Pena. The piece depicts five women figures that either appear back-to-back or fa...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Hand with Enigmatic Symbol - Original lithograph (Atelier Michel Cassé), 1964
Located in Paris, IDF
Le Corbusier Hand with Enigmatic Symbol, 1964 Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate On vellum 42.5 x 35.5 cm (c. 16.5 x 13.7 in) Edited by Forces-Vives (Paris) in 1964...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le goût du Bonheur : Self Portrait with a Cigarette - Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Le goût du Bonheur, Self Portrait with a Cigarette, 1964 Lithograph Unsigned Printed date in the plate On vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (c. 12.6 9.8 in) INFORMATIO...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ancient View of Cyprus - Original Lithograph - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cyprus is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower margin in Capital Letters: Cyprus Hauptstad...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Vaso Antico della Galleria Farnese - Etching by G.B. Piranesi - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Original 18th century etching realized by Giovan Battista Piranesi. Representation of the vase in the centre, description below "Ancient marble vase...
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Late 18th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Vintage Poster Galerie Louis Carré - Lithograph and offset by A. Lanskoy - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster Galerie Louis Carré is a lithograph and offset print realized by André Lanskoy in 1957. Good conditions except for slight cutting and foldi...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Composition (Duthuit N° 17), Pierre à feu, Les Miroirs profonds, Henri Matisse
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin supérieur paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by Maeght, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, January 17, 1947. Notes: ...
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1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Horses : Riders and Flaming Forest - Original Lithograph, HANDSIGNED & Ltd /250
Located in Paris, IDF
Serge LASSUS (1933-) Horses : Riders and Flaming Forest, 1983 Original Lithograph Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 250 (the number you can see can be different) On Vellum 56 x 76 cm ...
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1980s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Underwater — Mid-century Modern
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Underwater', 1948, chiaroscuro wood engraving, edition 12. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '3/12' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, in dark brown and warm black, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/2 inch), in excellent condition. Scarce. ABOUT THE ARTIST Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929 and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters. After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter, to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium, which he learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’ In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later, Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’, were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’, and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’ was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’ At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951. Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’. An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
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1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Iuglandians - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable ...
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19th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Dufy, L’atelier de Impasse Guelma, Raoul Dufy, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1969 Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Raoul Dufy, IV, Col...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Braque, Composition, Braque Espaces, 13 Dessins, Lavis, Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du moulin richard de bas specialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued....
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
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1930s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, 1952. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; ...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Purgatory, Canto 19 - Dante's Dream
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Purgatory, Canto 19 - Dante's Dream Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publisher: Les ...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Original "American Labor ... Producing for Attack" vintage 1943 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original AMERICAN LABOR - PRODUCING FOR ATTACK vintage 1943 poster. Size: 19.5" x 22.25. Professional archival linen backed; ready to frame. War Production Board, Washington D.C. Original. Lithograph. printed by the US Government...
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1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Schwarzer Fleck (Roethel 145), XXe Siècle, Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°3, July-August-September 1938. Published and printed und...
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1930s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Le Vieux Port
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Le Vieux Port" c.1970 Is an original colors lithograph by noted French artist Denis Paul Noyer, b.1940. It is signed and numbered 129/260 in pencil by the artist. The i...
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Late 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Composition (Arntz 148-175; Hagenbach A 25; Bolliger 54), Dreams and Projects
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects, 1951-1952. Published by Curt V...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Matisse, Série L, var. 19 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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1940s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The New Cable British Modern Mid 20th Century Vorticist European Vorticism Woman
Located in New York, NY
The New Cable British Modern Mid 20th Century Vorticist European Vorticism Woman Sybil Andrews CPE (British/Canadian, 1898-1992) "The New Cable," 1931 12 x 16 1/2 inches Color linocut Signed, titled, inscribed 'Second State', and numbered 13/60 in pencil Framed: 19 x 24 inches Literature: Coppel Sa17 Illustrated on page 10 of the catalog The proposed edition of the first state of the Giant Cable was 50, but only 30 impressions were pulled. Andrews removed the blue background for the second state, which was published under the title The New Cable in an edition of 60. BIO Sybil Andrews was a printmaker, painter, graphic artist and educator who was born in Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England. She moved to London (England) in 1922. In 1947, she emigrated to Campbell River (Vancouver Island) British Columbia, Canada, where she worked, taught and lived for the rest of her life. She died at a hospital in Victoria (B.C.) Her mediums were the colour linocut (1) (most famous), etching, posters, pastels, ink, watercolour, monoprint and oil. Her subjects were human activity (at work, sports, travel, etc.), figures, animals, genre, allegory, architecture and landscape. Her style was Art Deco (see AskART styles), Futurism, Cubism and Vorticism (2). Her work is identified by a simple format, clean lines, distortion, vivid colours, drama and rhythm. Quote: "The colour linocut was just the medium for me, being interested in dynamics and ideas and patterns... It is impossible to be fussy with lines, you have to simplify, you are forced to simplify your idea to its fundamentals." Andrews produced 76 linocuts in her life, of which 43 were made from 1929 to 1939, which is considered to be her best period. John Hassall's art correspondence course (1918) was the beginning of her formal art education. She went from there to Heatherley's School of Fine Art (London/1922) where she studied under Henry Massey (see AskART) and met artistic partner Cyril Power (see AskART). At the same time, she studied independently with sculptor Henri Glicenstein (see AskART) who taught her drypoint etching and to draw from life. She also attended the Grosvenor School of Modern Art (1925). Iain McNab (1890-1967) was Principal and Claude Flight (3) (see AskART) an instructor who had a great influence on her choice of linocut as a primary medium. Some of his other students and her associates were Edith Lawrence (1890-1973), Lill Tschudi (1911-2001), Eileen Mayo (see AskART) and William Greengrass (1896-1970). After emigrating to Canada she taught art continuously until a month before her death. She was elected a member of the Canadian Painters - Etchers Society (after 1976 the Print and Drawing Council of Canada) in 1951. She began exhibiting her work in 1921.In 1929 she was included in "The First Exhibition of British Linocuts...
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1930s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Linocut

The Olaceae - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Tino - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Villon, Portrait d'une jeune fille, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes, 1972. Published by Fernand Mourlot, ...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Umbrellas (Yellow) (FRAMED - BLACK OR WHITE - YOU CHOOSE - FREE US SHIPPING)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christo The Umbrellas (Yellow) (FRAMED - either black or white frame - you choose) Lithoserigraph Year: 1991 Size: 14.6 × 16.4 on 19.1 × 19.9 inches Framed: 20.5 x 20.5 x 2.5 inches ...
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1990s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Screen

Miró, Composition (Mourlot 872-881; Cramer 164), El tapís de Tarragona (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Sarrió paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Tapís De Tarragona, il·lustracions, Joan Miró, 1972. Published by Sala Ga...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Composition (Duthuit 31), Apollinaire, Henri Matisse
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin a la forme des papeteries d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, 1952. Published by Éditions Raisons d'être, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, April 24, 1952. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Printing of this folio was finished on April, Twenty-Four, M.CM.LII for the Éditions Raisons d'être, 2 rue des Beaux-Arts in Paris, was produced by Fernand Mourlot, based on the models of Henri Matisse. The eight original lithographs were shot on the presses of Mourlot Frères who also printed the cover and case composed by the artist. The stones were erased after drawing. The text and letrins engraved by Henri Matisse were drawn by Coulouma S.A., printer in Paris. Justification of the draw— XXX examples on large vélin d'Arches a la form, signed by the author and the artist, accompanied by a series of original lithographs numbered from I to XXX; CCC examples on vélin d'Arches a la forme numbered from XXXI to CCCXXX; XX examples of non-commerce collaborators numbered from I to XX and in addition a few nominative copies on Grand Vélin. HISTORY OF THE EDITION: According to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, This publication was a joint effort by Matisse and author André Rouveyre...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Lauraceae - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of n...
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19th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Matisse, Crayon, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
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1920s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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