Decor Prints and Multiples

FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869 – 1958) GAILLARDIAS c. 1928 Color block print. Signed in pencil. Edition unknown but small. 7 ¼” x 5 ¾”. Gearhart did very few pure flower prints but wa...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1949 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 20-21- L'art abstrait) and published in Paris by the Maeght atelier. Sheet size: 15 x ...

Abstract patterns from reflections in water. Signed, titled and numbered from edtion of 120. Born in Berkeley, California, on December 21, 1949, he was raised in a home that had a s...

Robert Kipness was an American painter and printmaker who’s work focused on forms and a pronounced moodiness. This print is signed, numbered, dated, and...

Paper Size: 19.75 x 15.75 inches ( 50.165 x 40.005 cm ) Image Size: 14.75 x 9.75 inches ( 37.465 x 24.765 cm ) Framed: No Red Vest by Paul Klee is a vibrant and expressive work that ...

Martini Corner, interior photography by Richard Heeps, photographed in Arizona as part of his Dream in Color series. The artwork has rich orange colours and an elegant mid-century fe...

Artist: Quinn, Marc Title: Untitled 05 Series: Eye of History Date: 2013 Medium: Color Etching on 350gsm paper Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625" Signature: Signed by...

Paper Size: 24 x 36 inches ( 60.96 x 91.44 cm ) Image Size: 15.5 x 36 inches ( 39.37 x 91.44 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional D...

Linocut realized by Escher in March 1950. Released through linoleum cut in black and gray-brown on Japan paper, and printed from two blocks. Hand signed lower left, marked "eigen d...

Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: M 235. Printed in 1956 at the Mourlot atelier and published in Paris by Maeght for the Jacques Prévert catalogue. Size: 9 x 7 3/4 in...

Suite de Vases is an original artwork realized by the French artist Jacques François Saly (1717-1776) Etching print. drawing on the back, 1750 c. Passepartout cm 21x22,5 Good cond...

Artist: Robert Rauschenberg, American (1925 - 2008) Title: The Most Distant Visible Part of the Sea Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph and Screenprint, Signed and numbered in pencil Editi...

HERBERT GURSCHNER (Austrian / English (1901-1975) VILLAGE SCENE / TOWN FESTIVAL ca.1924 Color woodcut 4 ¾ x 5 3/8” Signed in pencil. Good strong colors. On thin paper. Faint darkeni...

Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....

Boomerang, 1974 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper Published by Transworld Art, New York, printed by Mourlot, Paris 29.5 x 43.3 inches Signed in pencil, "A.P." apart from the edit...

"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. In the image, an abstracted volcano erupts in a joyous burst of purples and oranges. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Art: 8 x 11 in Frame: 17 x 19 in 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 non-western 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...

'M' From 'Hockney's Alphabet' By David Hockney David Hockney is a renowned British artist known for his vibrant paintings and innovative use of technology in art. His work often e...

Screen print realized by Franco Gentilini in 1970s. Edition of 125. Hand signed and numbered. Belongs to the Series "Churches".

The only mention I can find of Evelyn G. Schultz is that she was a charter member of the San Diego Watercolor Society. But the medium of the linocut (here on tan paper) was frequentl...

Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting two women and two youths from an unidentified vase. Technique : Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring Background inf...

Artist: Gloria Vanderbilt, American (1924 - ) Title: Autumn Year: circa 1970 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches Paper, Signed and numbered in Pencil Edition: 250 Size: 31 in. x 24 in. (78....

Medium: original woodcut. (Catalogue reference Roethel 124). Printed in 1975 on Arches paper for the "Homage to Kandinsky" special edition of the art revue XXe Siecle. Image size: 7 ...

Henri MATISSE Underwater life, 1954 Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate On light wove paper 31 x 24 cm (c. 12.5 x 10 in) REFRENCES : Published by San Lazzaro / XXèm...

Art: 17" x 23 1/4" Frame: 27 5/8" x 33 7/8" Original color lithograph (VIII/L) Signed lower right. This original Weisbuch lithograph comes from th...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1966 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 160) and published in Paris by Maeght. Size: 15 x 11 inches (378 x 277 mm). Published ...

Jacques Herold (1910 - 1987) - Abstract Figure, Year: circa 1955, Medium: Monotype on laid paper, signed in pencil, Image Size: 6.25 x 4.5 inches, Size: 7.5 x 5.5 in. (19.05 x 13.9...

Lithograph on grand vélin d'Arches pur chiffon spécialement fabriqués paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Œdipe ...

Sole Tree is an original lithography artwork on cardboard realized by Emilio Conciatori artist of the 20th Century. Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered, edition of IX/X prints...

This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. Details: + Title: Vintage Pressed Flowers Nº4 + Year: 2022 + Edition Size: 20 + St...

Louis Rhead Art Nouveau Portrait of a Woman with Lilies: Jane, 1899 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) IN...

Paul KLEE (1879 - 1940) Happy character Color photolithograph after a painting Signed in the plate On vellum 83 x 60 cm (c. 32 x 24 in) Excellent condition

Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: M 235. Printed in 1956 at the Mourlot atelier and published in Paris by Maeght for the Jacques Prévert catalogue. Size: 9 x 7 3/4 in...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed on Arjomari paper in 1969 at the Mourlot Freres atelier and published by Editions Richelieu in a limited edition of 2400 for the L'Odyssee portfo...

49 Via Dezza at Sunset, Gio Ponti architecture photograph from Richard Heeps series A Short History of Milan. A Short History of Milan' began in Novembe...

Fine art inkjet print on photo rag 308 paper Limited edition of 100 Signed and numbered on the front Sold in the original packaging in mint condition, unframed Published by Kaikai Ki...

La Sirene Masuo Ikeda, Japanese (1934–1997) Date: 1969 Etching and Aquatint on BFK Rives, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 38/45 Image Size: 23.5 x 19.5 inches Size: 28 x 21....

Sku: RD0017-B Artist: Donald Sultan Title: Red Poppies I Year: 2007 Signed: Yes Medium: Serigraph Paper Size: 24 x 24 inches ( 60.96 x 60.96 cm ) Image Size: 24 x 24 inches ( 60.96 x...

Ceiling of the Paris Opera House This is a print made by Center Art Galleries-Hawaii, Inc. You can google their name to get a sense of the litigation surrounding this manufacturer,...

Printed in Italy by Egim in 1996, based on Matisse's 1951 original work. Paper Size: 39.25 x 27.5 inches ( 99.695 x 69.85 cm ) Image Size: 34.5 x 21.75 inches ( 87.63 x 55.245 cm )...

Medium: lithograph (after the watercolor). Charles Lapicque was one of the artists who contributed compositions to Marcelle Oury's "Lettre à mon peintre" in homage to Raoul Dufy. Thi...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1966 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 160) and published in Paris by Maeght. Size: 15 x 22 inches (378 x 557 mm). Published ...

Artist: Cruz-Diez, Carlos Title: Couleur Additive Gris Tres Date: 2017 Medium: Lithograph Unframed Dimensions: 23.6" x 23.6" Framed Dimensions: 29" x 29" Signature: Signed by ...

Lithograph on vélin vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Résurrection de l'oiseau, Georges Braque, 1958. Publ...

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,...

Still Life is a Photolithograph print, reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi created in 1932. The signature by the artist is perfectly reproduced on the plate and d...

"EROTIC DREAM" (1976) by Norbert Matzdorf Woodcut print on paper Limited Edition, numbered (10.3), dated and hand-signed by the artist 27,9 x 38,3 cm Norbert Matzdorf (1951 – 2013) ...

Joan Miro Femme dans la nuit (Woman in the Night), Plate IX From: Constellations, 1959 Lithograph in colours with pochoir From the edition of 350 Sheet size 43.1 x 35.5 cm Printed b...

Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches ( 38.1 x 27.94 cm ) Image Size: 15 x 11 inches ( 38.1 x 27.94 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details: C...

Toco Toucan Toucano (2020) Edition of 150 Nine colour lithographic print on Somerset Velvet 300 gsm. Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist Katherine Bernhardt is a contemporar...

This is a reproduction of an original print by Ben Schonzeit titled Wedgewood. The screen print showcases a vibrant bouquet of roses, carnations, and tulips arranged in a dark, sculp...

Héliogravure, collotype vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.86 x 17.91 inches; image size: 10.75 x 11.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the f...

Walt Kuhn Kuhn Family Holiday Card Lithograph on paper 5 1/2 x 4 inches Walter Kuhn was born on October 27, 1877 in Brooklyn, NY. His father, Francis Kuhn, was the owner of a ship ...

Artist: Keith Haring Title: Growing (Plate 3), from the Growing Portfolio Size: 40 x 30 Inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm) Medium: Screenprint in colors, on Lenox Museum Board, with full mar...

This architectural drawing showcases the intricate details of a classical column and entablature, focusing on the ornate pediment and frieze. The original plate was created in 1757 ...

This striking original poster, dating from the 1940s, was created to support the French Forces of the Interior (F.F.I.), the armed resistance movement that played a crucial role in t...

Print on canvas The still life Inner World is dedicated to the inner world of a person. It can be hidden from our eyes, but it can be very deep, interesting, bright, fantastic, alwa...

This is a reproduction of Etching XXX, created in 1974 by Pierre Soulages. The etching exemplifies Soulages' innovative approach to printmaking, showcasing his distinctive use of lin...

Medium: Collotype and lithograph on vélin gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on vélin paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 11.25 x 15 inches Catalogue ...