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Art Subject: People
Matisse Thoughts from 50 Drawings portfolio Modern
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This artwork by Henri Matisse is a lithograph from the book Cinquante Dessins, published by Les Soins de L'Artiste in 1920. First Edition. The portfolio was edited and printed by M...
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1920s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Tribute to Klimt - Original handsigned lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Philippe AUGE (1935-) Tribute to Klimt Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Limited /275 copies On vellum 63 x 79 cm (c. 24.8 x 31.1 in) Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Duchesse De Berry - Lithograph by Octave Tessaert - mid-19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Duchesse De Berry is an original print realized by Octave Tessaert (1800-1874), in the mid-19th century. Lithograph on paper. Good condition. 
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19th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition (Cramer 30; Horodisch D14; Bloch 307; Matarasso 28) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, L'indicatif présent ou l'infirme del qu'il est, 1938. Published by Éditions Sou...
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1930s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Xisco Mensua Spanish artist 1995 original signed framed engraving print n8
Located in Miami, FL
Xisco Mensua (Spain, 1960) Untitled from Portfolio "Junio - Julio", 1995 engraving on paper 12.6 x 9.5 in. (32 x 24 cm.) Edition of 6 Frame 16x20 in. ID: MEN1253-008 Hand-signed by a...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving

1966 original psychedelic poster by Wes Wilson Muddy Waters Blues band
Located in PARIS, FR
In 1966, Wes Wilson, a pioneering figure in psychedelic art, created a visually striking poster for the Muddy Waters Blues Band. This poster is a quintessential example of how psychedelic art intertwined with the burgeoning music scene of the 1960s, reflecting the era’s distinctive aesthetic and cultural dynamics. Wilson’s poster...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

For the Love of God (with diamond dust), Damien Hirst
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Damien Hirst (1965) Title: For the Love of God (with diamond dust) Year: 2009 Medium: Silkscreen, glazes, and diamond dust on wove paper Edition: 591/1000 Size: 12.75 x 9.5 i...
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Early 2000s New Media Figurative Prints

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Glaze, Screen

Werner Drewes, Winter, 1933, modernist woodcut
Located in New York, NY
A modernist fantasy winter scene created by Werner Drewes, this print brings key aspects of the period together. His cubist-inspired woodcut technique is utilized here to bring the s...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

There's No Biz Like Show Biz, Pop Art Lithograph by Al Hirschfeld
Located in Long Island City, NY
Al Hirschfeld, American (1903 - 2003) - There's No Biz Like Show Biz, Year: 1989, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 27/175, Size: 30 x 21 in. (76.2 x 53...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Venus Lamenting over the Death of Adonis
Located in Middletown, NY
c. 1654. Etching with engraving on thin laid paper with an early and large unidentified watermark with a sundial and a many-pointed star, and an unidentified collector's stamp in the...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

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Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching

Original Cigares Maestro vintage European art deco linen backed poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Cigares Maestro” Vintage European Cigar Poster, Linen Backed, Grade A-, Ready to Frame. Printer: Lithocart, Anvers, Belgium. Also known as Maëst...
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Original Vintage Thrilla in Manila Poster by Leroy Neiman Ali and Frasier
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This vibrant poster, created by LeRoy Neiman (1921–2012), captures the electricity of one of boxing’s greatest events—the legendary “Thrilla in Manila” between Muhammad Ali and Joe F...
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1970s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

La Lealtad - Original Etching - 1875
Located in Roma, IT
La lealtad - from Los Proverbios is an original black and white etching realized by Francisco Goya (1746-1828). The artwork is the plate n. 17 from of...
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1870s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Les Petit Rats, Ballerinas VI
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Les Petit Rats, Ballerinas VI" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by noted Bolivian artist Graciela Rodo Boulanger, b.1935. It is hand signed and numbered XLII/C in pencil by the artist. The image size is 22.75 x 18 inches, sheet size is 30 x 22.15 inches. About the artist:   Born in La Paz, Bolivia in 1935, Graciela Rodo Boulanger was raised in an artistic environment. Her mother, a concert pianist, and her father, a businessman and art connoisseur, nurtured her talents. She studied the piano and at age 11 enrolled in the School of Fine Arts. At 17 she went to Vienna to study both art and music, and at 22 shetravelled to Argentina for the stimulating artistic environment of Buenos Aires. Continuing to study both piano and painting...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Rolling Stones Tin Pan Alley B/W lifetime print, printed later
Located in Norwich, GB
Terry O’Neill CBE is one of the world’s most collected photographers, with work hanging in national art galleries and private collections worldwide. From presidents to pop stars, he ...
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20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Hokusai's Dog - The Great Wave & Red Fuji, diptych, original, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Woodcut Image Size H 50 x 66cm Framed Size H 73 x 88cm Edition of 100 Woodcut print on Paper Edition of 100 50 H x 66 W cm (19.69 x 25.98 in) Sold unframed Image size: Height: 50cm...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Paper

'Chion-in Temple Gate' from 'Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms' — Jizuri Seal
By Hiroshi Yoshida
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hiroshi Yoshida, 'Chion-in Temple Gate (Sunset)' from the series 'Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms (Sakura hachi dai: Sakura mon)', color woodblock print, 1935. Signed in brush 'Yoshida' and in pencil 'Hiroshi Yoshida'. A superb, early impression, with fresh colors; the full sheet with margins, on cream Japan paper; an area of slight toning in the top right sheet corner, not affecting the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Marked with a jizuri (self-printed) seal, upper left margin. Self-published by the artist. Image size 9 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches (444 x 375 mm); sheet size 10 7/8 x 16 inches (276 x 406 mm). Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Provenance: M. Nakazawa, Tokyo. Literature: Japanese Landscapes of the 20th Century (Hotei Publishing calendar), 2001, May. Collections: Honolulu Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ABOUT THE IMAGE Located in Kyoto, Chionin is the main temple of the Jodo sect of Japanese Buddhism, one of the most popular Buddhist sects in Japan, having millions of followers. The Sanmon Gate, Chionin's entrance gate, standing 24 meters tall and 50 meters wide, it is the largest wooden temple gate in Japan and dates back to the early 1600s. Behind the gate, a broad set of stairs leads to the main temple grounds. ABOUT THE ARTIST Painter and printmaker Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the Japanese 'shin hanga' (New Print) movement. Yoshida was born as the second son of Ueda Tsukane in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, a schoolteacher from an old samurai family. In 1891 he was adopted by his art teacher Yoshida Kasaburo in Fukuoka and took his surname. In 1893 he went to Kyoto to study painting, and the following year to Tokyo to join Koyama Shotaro's Fudosha private school; he also became a member of the Meiji Fine Arts Society. These institutions taught and advocated Western-style painting, greatly influencing Yoshida’s artistic development. In 1899 Yoshida had his first American exhibition at Detroit Museum of Art (now Detroit Institute of Art), making the first of many visits to the US and Europe. In 1902 he helped reorganize the Meiji Fine Arts Society, renaming it the Taiheiyo-Gakai (Pacific Painting...
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1930s Showa Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

"Un coin a Bruges" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Sanchez and Seydoux 1910-7. Printed in Paris and published in 1910 by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Plate size: 8 1/4 x 6 inches (210 x 155 m...
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1910s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Andy Warhol 'Portrait of Ingrid Bergman the Nun' 1983 Vintage pop Art
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This Ingrid Bergman nun portrait is among the most color-charged variants from Warhol’s 1983 Börjeson series — a radiant, electrified palette merging violet shadow, scarlet veil, and...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Norman Rockwell "Bottom Of The Sixth" Seriolithograph
Located in New York, NY
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978) Bottom of The Sixth Original painting produced 1948, authorized postumous estate print produced 2005 Seriolithograph Sight: 20 1/4 x 19 in. Fram...
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Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Le Chapeau Epinglé - Etching by Pierre Auguste Renoir - 1921
Located in Roma, IT
Le chapeau épinglé (La fille de Berthe Morisot et sa cousine) 3e planche. Etching realized by Renoir in 1894. Image dimension 11.5x8 cm. / sheet dimension 33.2x15.1 cm. The final s...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Most Distant Visible Part of the Sea, Pop Art Silkscreen by Rauschenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
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...
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1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

"The Barefoot Lumberjack" Etching from "Les Ames Mortes" by Marc Chagall
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Barefoot Lumberjack" Etching from "Les Ames Mortes" by Marc Chagall Playful etching of a lumberjack by Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985). A stout lumberjack is shown holing his...
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1940s Post-War Figurative Prints

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Ink, Laid Paper

Kabuki Actor, Mid 19th Century Figurative Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid 19th century figural Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in blue by Utagawa Toyokuni III (Kunisada) (Japanese, 1786-1864/5). Artist's chop is in the upper left corner of the piece. Presented in a cream mat, with a black and red frame and plexiglas. Image size ~13.5"H x 9.5"W During his lifetime Kunisada Utagawa...
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1860s Edo Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink

The Lovers - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature. On bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris. Ref. Mourlot,...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Photogravure

Olaolu Slawn "Batman" Print Contemporary Street Artist, 2025
Located in Draper, UT
Olaolu Akeredolu-Ale better known as Olaolu Slawn is a British Nigerian artist and designer. He began his career working at Wafflesncream, Nigeria’s first skate shop, catching the at...
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2010s Street Art Portrait Prints

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Giclée

Marc Chagall, The Blue Beast, from Color of Love, 1958 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled La Bete Bleu (The Blue Beast), from the folio Couleur amour, 13 Aquarelles, Gouaches, Lavis (Color of Lov...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Banksquiat (Grey)
Located in Manchester, GB
Banksy, Banksquiat (Grey), 2019 Screenprint on grey card, hand-signed in white crayon 70 x 75 cm (27.6 x 29.5 in) Edition 52 of 300 Mint condition, accompanied with a COA from Pes...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

View of Castello dell'Acqua Felice - Etching by G. B. Piranesi - 1751
Located in Roma, IT
View of Castel of Acqua Felice is an original etching realized by the italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1751. Very precoius and rare lifetime impression. Roman edition. I...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Etching

Les Gitanos - Etching by Edouard Manet - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Les Gitanos is a black and White etching realized by Edouard Manet in 1862.  Titled in the lower. Second state and lifetime impression realized by Société des Aquafortistes, with f...
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1860s Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Original vintage poster for Kupferberg Gold, designed by Julius Gipkens
Located in PARIS, FR
This original vintage poster for Kupferberg Gold, designed by Julius Gipkens, is a striking example of early 20th-century advertising art. Gipkens, a renowned German graphic designer...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Dali’s Inferno, Signed Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dali’s Inferno by Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904–1989) Portfolio: Dali's Inferno Date: 1978 Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 2...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Paresse, Art Nouveau Etching by Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950) - Paresse, Year: 1925, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 15 x 18.75 inches, Size: 23.5 in. x 27.5 in. (59.69 cm x 69.85 cm)
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1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Etching

David Shrigley - Fight the Fucking Asshole Fuckwit Bastards
Located in London, GB
80 x 60 cm Off-set lithography Printed on 200g Munken Lynx paper Narayana Press in Denmark David Shrigley is a British visual artist known for his distinctive, whimsical, and often ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

"Tribe of Joseph" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the watercolor). Printed in 1962 at the Mourlot atelier for "Jerusalem Windows". This piece was executed by Chagall in preparation for his famous stained-gl...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

La Roue Qui Tourne 1999 Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Raya Sorkine Title: "La Roue Qui Tourne" Title: Wedding in Venice Year: 1999 Print - Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper   39'' x 29.5'' Edition: signed in pencil and number...
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1990s Fauvist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

1895 original poster by Maurice Réalier-Dumas for Champagne Jules Mumm & Co
Located in PARIS, FR
This 1895 original poster by Maurice Réalier-Dumas was created to promote Champagne Jules Mumm & Co and was featured in the prestigious "Les Maîtres de l’Affiche" (Plate 111) series....
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1890s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

The Custody is as Barbarous as The Crime, Etching by Francisco de Goya
Located in Long Island City, NY
Francisco de Goya, Spanish (1746 - 1828) - The Custody is as Barbarous as The Crime, Year: circa 1810, Medium: Etching and burin on cream laid paper, Image Size: 3.75 x 3 inches, Si...
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1810s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

RENJISHI(The Lion Dance)Original Lithograph, Japanese Kabuki Theater, White Hair
Located in Union City, NJ
RENJISHI is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the renowned artist/caricaturist Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) printed by hand using traditional lithography techniques on archiva...
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1970s Contemporary Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)- Handcolored drypoint etching on Japanese paper - 1975
Located in Varese, IT
Hand-colored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1975. Limited edition, numbered in lower left corner as HC (horse commerce). Signed in pencil by artist in l...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Etching

Tribute to Cezanne : The Bather - Original handsigned lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Jules CAVAILLES Tribute to Cezanne : The Bather, 1966 Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil On Rives vellum 37 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 inch) Excell...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Notre Dame de Paris
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb, dark impression of a well known scene by Arms. Etching with aquatint on watermarked handmade F.J. Head & Co. laid paper, 12 3/8 x 13 15/16 inches (315 x 354 mm), full marg...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Cow
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol Title: Cow Medium: Screenprint on wallpaper Date: 1976 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 52 1/2" x 36 1/4" Sheet Size: 45 1/2" x 29 3/4" Signature: Unsigned Refere...
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1970s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Screen

First Row Orchestra
By Edward Hopper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Edward Hopper's "First Row Orchestra," originally painted in 1951, captures the quiet anticipation of theatergoers seated in the front row, awaiting a performance. In 1997, Achenbach...
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1990s American Modern Interior Prints

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Offset

Raphael Soyer Self-Portrait, Signed Lithograph, Man in Hat, Gray Jacket, Realism
Located in Union City, NJ
Raphael Soyer Self-Portrait is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Pai...
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1970s Realist Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Presso Ponza - Lithograph by Aldo Riso - 2003
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on Magnani-Pescia paper. Paper size 17,5 cm x 24,5 cm work size 14,5 cm x22 cm . Excellent condition, no defects. Aldo Riso was born in 1927 in Santa Maria di Leuca, in th...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Still Life, Flowers In Vase On Table
Located in Berlin, MD
Andre Minaux (French 1923 - 1986) Nature Morte: A still life of flowers in a vase. The colors are predominantly oranges and greens. This is a lithograph signed in pencil and marked e...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso, "Grand Tête" original linocut in colors, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Grand Tête, Portrait of Jacqueline with sleek hair Color linocut printed in beige, yellow, red, blue, and black on cream wove paper with Arches watermark Numbered 14/50 from the edit...
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints

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Linocut

Memories about Venice, Print on Canvas Limited Edition of 50 by Anatolii Kozakov
Located in Zofingen, AG
Contemporary Modern Print on Canvas with Venice city. "Memories about Venice." The print will be shipped in on stretched and ready to hang. Limited Edition collection of 50, in coope...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Interior Prints

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Offset

Fashion Designer
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Fashion Designer MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine for DALART EDITION NUMBER: I 234/250 MEASUREMENTS: 21" x 29" ...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Plage de Cadaques
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Plage de Cadaques MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: Epreuve d'Artiste MEASUREMENTS: 26" x 19.75" YEAR: 1967 FRA...
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1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Etching

Cuban artist original hand signed photo-engraving n6 22x30 in.
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964) 'Tarjetas postales', 2004 photoengraving on paper 22.1 x 30 in. (56 x 76 cm.) Edition of 99 ID: ALO1534-006 Hand-signed ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Paper, Photogravure, Engraving

Sator - Etching - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on chamois-colored laid paper, realized in 1968/69. Plate from "Faust (La Nuit de Walpurgis), published by Argillet, Paris. Edition of 49/150, hand colored. Hand signed an...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

1985 Martin Kippenberger 'Selling America and Buying El Salvador' Offset Print
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 33.75 x 24 inches ( 85.725 x 60.96 cm )?Image Size: 13 x 9 inches ( 33.02 x 22.86 cm )?Framed: No?Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling??Additional Details: Original exhibition poster for Martin Kippenberger...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Baden Baden, Casino
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Baden Baden, Casino" 1988 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 261/375 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 36 x 42 inches, sheet size is 42 x 48 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, three small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back. About the artist: Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival. Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes. Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions. When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union. In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care. Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out." His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995. LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather. He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess. As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid." After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war. On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s. When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint. While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine. In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician. Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation. In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter. Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world. "Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962. Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him. A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters. Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS. Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

After Picasso (1881-1973) - Offset lithograph in colors on Arches paper - 1966
Located in Varese, IT
Offset lithograph in colors on Arches paper, edited in 1966. Limited edition of 60 copies, numbered as 32/60 in lower left corner.
 Hand-signed by artist in pencil in the lower right...
Category

1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Mulier e Latere Viri - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Mulier e Latere Viri ("Woman from the Side of Man") is an artwork realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969...
Category

1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"The Little One" - Rare Signed Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Little One" - Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper Bold lithograph by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). A young child is kneeling, facing away ...
Category

1960s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Composition, Réflexions Simples Sur Le Corps, Hans Erni
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin chiffon de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Réflexions Simples Sur Le Corps, Ayant Inspiré Des Lithographie...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Knight, Nude Woman and Man Wearing a Mask - Lithograph (Mourlot)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973), Knight, Nude Woman and Man Wearing a Mask , 1954 Lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Unsigned Printed date in the plate On paper 26 .5 x 35.5 cm (c. 10,2 x 13....
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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