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Art Subject: Women
Original 1966 poster Museo Picasso Palacio Aguilar Barcelona Spain
Located in Miami, FL
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973) 'Museo Picasso. Palacio Aguilar.', 1966 Four-color offset printing on paper 30 x 21.5 in. (76 x 54.5 cm.) Unframed Ref: PIC2001-P010 Conservatio...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Offset

OPHELIA (the artist's mistress / second wife) - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. This elegant etching titled the gilded youth is of the second wife of the artist ...
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1940s American Modern Portrait Prints

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Etching

Japanese Original Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Japanese Original Woodblock Print Harunobu Suzuki (né Hozumi) (Japanese, 1724 - 1770) Presented in a black mat. Mat: 16"H x 12"W Paper: 12"H x 9"W I...
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18th Century Edo Figurative Prints

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Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut

Madman's Drum (Brothel) — 'Story Without Words' Graphic Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Madman's Drum, Plate 41', wood engraving, 1930, edition small. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white tissue-thin Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 2 1/2 inches); a small paper blemish in the upper right margin, away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. A scarce, artist-printed, hand-signed proof impression before the published edition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (140 x 95 mm); sheet size 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches (244 x 181 mm). From Lynd Ward’s book of illustrations without words, 'Madman’s Drum', Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1930. Reproduced in 'Storyteller Without Words, the Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward', Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974. ABOUT THE ARTIST Lynd Ward is acknowledged as one of America’s foremost wood engravers and book illustrators of the first half of the twentieth century. His innovative use of narrative printmaking as a stand-alone storytelling vehicle was uniquely successful in reaching a broad audience. The powerful psychological intensity of his work, celebrated for its dynamic design, technical precision, and compelling dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers, Ward was concerned with the themes of man’s inner struggles and the role of the subconscious in determining his destiny. An artist of social conscience during the Great Depression and World War II, he infused his graphic images with his unique brand of social realism, deftly portraying the problems that challenged the ideals of American society. The son of a Methodist preacher, Lynd Ward, moved from Chicago to Massachusetts at an early age. He graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University, New York, in 1926, where he studied illustration and graphic arts. He married May Yonge McNeer in 1936 and left for Europe for their honeymoon in Eastern Europe. After four months, they settled in Leipzig, where Ward studied at the National Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookmaking. Inspired by Belgian expressionist artist Frans Masereel's graphic novel ‘The Sun,’ and another graphic novel by the German artist Otto Nückel, ‘Destiny,’ he determined to create his own "wordless" novel. Upon his return to America, Ward completed his first book, ‘God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts,’ published in 1929. ‘Gods’ Man’ was a great success for its author and publisher and was reprinted four times in 1930, including a British edition. This book and several which followed it, ‘Madman’s Drum,’ 1930, ‘Wild Pilgrimage...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

1957 Unknown 'A Hatful of Rain'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 41 x 27 inches ( 104.14 x 68.58 cm ) Image Size: 37 x 25 inches ( 93.98 x 63.5 cm ) Framed: No Condition: D: Heavy signs of wear, Torn, Damaged. SOLD AS IS. Price Refl...
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1950s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
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 ...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) - Coloured Lithograph - 1950
Located in Varese, IT
Bateau Bleau - The Grotto Coloured lithograph, edited in 1950. Limited edition of 200 copies, numbered 156/200 in lower right corner. Signed in pencil by artist in lower left corne...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Bernard Villemot's 1968 original poster for SNCF French Riviera - Côte d'Azur
Located in PARIS, FR
Bernard Villemot's 1968 poster for SNCF, inviting exploration of the French Riviera by trains and coaches, emerges as a visual masterpiece, transcending th...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Lithograph, Paper

1992 After Leon Golub 'Twin Faces' Contemporary Multicolor Offset Lithograph
By Leon Golub
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 39.5 x 27.5 inches ( 100.33 x 69.85 cm ) Image Size: 39.5 x 27.5 inches ( 100.33 x 69.85 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling S...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Adam & Eve, Folk Art Woodblock by W Hahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
W Hahn - Adam & Eve, Year: 1954, Medium: Woodblock on Japon, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 5/50, Image Size: 15 x 11 inches, Size: 18.5 x 15 in. (46.99 ...
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1950s Folk Art Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

My Brothers and Sisters
Located in Toronto, ON
26" x 40" Unframed Limited Edition Giclee and Silkscreening of 50 Hand Signed by Tom Everhart
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2010s Animal Prints

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Giclée, Screen

PIGEONS
Located in Aventura, FL
Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of t...
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1980s Cubist Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

PIGEONS
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Blondie Blue by BATIK signed limited edition Oversize POP ART
Located in London, GB
Blondie Blue by BATIK signed limited edition POP ART print Paper Size OVERSIZE 24 x 20" inches / 51 x 41 cm Signed & numbered by artist on front Archival Pigment print Limited to ...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Prints

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Color, Archival Pigment

Au Concert
Located in Chicago, IL
Commissioned by The Ault & Wiborg Co., USA. Color Zincograph on wove paper, 1896. Hand-signed in black crayon. Wittrock C (of C) edition. Reference: Wittrock; P28, vol. 2 pg 810. ...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Paper

"Lait Pur Sterilise de la Vingeanne" Antique Poster by Steinlen
Located in Hinsdale, IL
Steinlen, Theophile "Lait Pur Sterilise de la Vingeanne" Original lithograph, c. 1894 Rennert 12 Printed by Charles Verneau, Paris Bright Fresh Colors, RARE...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Lamp : Evening Work - Original Lithograph - 1898
Located in Paris, IDF
Francois GUIGUET The Lamp : Evening Work , 1898 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) INFORMATION: Lithogra...
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1890s Art Nouveau Nude Prints

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Lithograph

David saved by Michal
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - David saved by Michal Lithograph from 1960. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and se...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

19th Century Japanese Woodblock - Discarded Lovers
Located in Corsham, GB
A charismatic Japanese woodblock print depicting a woman denying the attention of two disgruntled men. Signed and inscribed with characters. Presented in a contemporary wooden frame....
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19th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Peter Blake, To Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Signed/N print British Pop Artist
Located in New York, NY
Peter Blake To Her Majesty, The Queen Elizabeth II, 2016 Color giclee print on wove paper with full margins 11 73/100 × 6 3/5 inches Pencil signed, titled, dated and numbered 119/150...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Prints

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Pencil, Giclée, Lithograph

Seated Nude Figure in Red & Blue
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude in Blue, a collotype figure study by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Unframed. Signed "PP" on verso. Image: 8.5"H x 8"W. Patricia Pearce was a California artist and art...
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1980s Expressionist Nude Prints

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Ink, Color

Chagall, Composition (Cramer 104; Mourlot 917), Derrière le Miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 225. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"Bodhisattva and Other Deities" by Unknown Tibetan Artist. Printed in Italy.
Located in Chesterfield, MI
New York Graphic Society, 1980. Printed in Italy In Good Condition Measures 33 in x 24 in
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20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Actor Onoe Eisaburo - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada - 1830s
Located in Roma, IT
The actor Onoe Eisaburo is an modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada in 1830s. Woodcut Print Oban Format. The actor Onoe Eisaburo in the role of the high-ranking courtesan Miy...
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19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Original Jules Cheret Antique Poster Musee Grevin Paris 1900
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Musee Grevin Avant La Lettre (Before Text), created in 1900, is one of the best known images by the great French artist, Jules Chéret. The poster advertises a show performance at the...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Mystery : Picasso (Clouzot) - Original Vintage Poster (Cannes Film Festival)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) (after) Picasso à la cigarette, 1982 Original vintage poster Printed signature in the plate On paper 65 x 45 cm INFORMATION: Poster published for the rele...
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1980s Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

Paul Gauguin, "Untitled" Beach Scene, framed lithograph
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Paul Gauguin is a famous French Post-Impressionist most well known for his paintings created in Tahiti. This is probably from the middle years of his painting career known as his syn...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition (Orozco 238), Picasso, La flûte double (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas paper, spécialement filigrané pour cette édition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Circa 1930 Original poster for Odeon was a phonographic company of German origin
Located in PARIS, FR
Odeon was a phonographic company of German origin, founded in 1903 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz in Berlin, Germany. The company takes its name from the famous Paris theater, whos...
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1930s Art Deco Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Linen, Paper

Picasso, Composition (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
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1970s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Loguivy le Soir (Loguivy at Evening)
Located in New York, NY
Henri Rivière (French, 1864-1951), Loguivy le Soir (Loguivy at Evening), 1904,Plate 7 for Le Beau Pays de Bretagne. Published by Eugène Verneau, Paris. Color...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Ileria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Ileria" 1972 is an original color lithograph on watermarked Arches paper by noted Italian/Argentinian artist Leonor Fini, 1907-1996. It is signed and numbered E....
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Some Like it Hot Qualcuno Piace Caldo original vintage Italian movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Some Like it Hot vintage movie poster. A Qualcuno Piace Caldo". Linen-backed Italian size 39" x 55", in Good condition. Ready to frame. The images are of the exact poster you will receive. These Italian vintage movie...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Prints

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Offset

Person with colors
Located in London, GB
Twenty six colour screen print on Somerset 410gsm tub sized satin radiant white paper. Published in 2024. Edition of 75. Mint condition, unframed, stored flat. Hand signed and numbe...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

William Hogarth's "Analysis of Beauty": A Set of Two Framed 18th C. Engravings
Located in Alamo, CA
The two plates in this set were created utilizing both engraving and etching techniques by William Hogarth in 1753, originally as illustrations of his book on aesthetics, entitled "Analysis of Beauty". Due to their popularity, these plates were later published separately. The publication line in the lower right reads: "Designed, Engraved, and Publish'd by Wm. Hogarth, March 5th 1753, according to Act of Parliament." Hogarth's original copper plates were refurbished where needed by James Heath and engravings were republished in London in 1822 by Braddock, Cradock & Joy. This was the last time Hogarth's copper plates were used for printing. Most were melted during World War I for the construction of bombs. These large folio sized "Analysis of Beauty" engravings are presented in antiqued gold-colored frames with double mats; the outer silk mats are light brown-colored and the inner mats are dark brown. Each frame measures 27.38" x 31.25" x 1.13". There is one tiny spot in the right margin of plate 1 and another in the lower margin; the latter could be from the printing process. The prints are otherwise in excellent condition. The "Analysis of Beauty" series is in the collection of many major museums, including: The British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Tate Museum, The Chicago Art Institute and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The first engraving (Plate 1) depicts a courtyard of statues which is filled with some of the most famous works of classical sculpture. The most important sculptures are surrounded by less impressive works. The Medicean Venus (#13) is in the center with a statue of Julius Caesar (#19) to the right, elevated on a pulley with a short, overdressed Brutus stands over the falling Caesar. The Apollo Belvedere (#12) is next. A judge stands to the right with his foot on a cherub (#16). Another crying cherub holds a gallows and wipes his tears with the judge's robe. A sphinx (#21) and the drunken Silenus (#107) are below the Venus. Michaelangelo's torso (#54) and a statue of Antonius (#6) are seen in the foreground. The Farnese Hercules (#3) and a bust of another Hercules (#4) under two statuettes of Isis are also included in the scene. The key to these objects is included in the form of a serpentine line winding around a cone (#26), Hogarth's "Line of Beauty". For Hogarth the winding line is an essential element of beauty in art. Hogarth's theory of beauty is communicated in this plate. Plate 2 is thought to represent the Wanstead Assembly, with the Earl of Tynley and his household. It is an adaptation of a scene in the Happy Marriage series, which complements Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Interior Prints

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Engraving, Etching

Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife
Located in Middletown, NY
Sadeler, Aegidius II, after Bartholomeus Spranger Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife, Christina Muller Engraving on hand made laid paper wit...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Engraving

Untitled (Nude Dancer)
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, 'Untitled (Nude Dancer)', lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 12 in pencil. Number 12 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithogr...
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1920s Art Deco Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Isolation Art: Pandemic, Surreal digital collage figurative portrait, gold frame
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Pandemic" from the artist's Isolation Art series. Full moon rays shine behind figurative portrait of crowned and masked woman. Sky behind her with clouds and stars, mystical imagery, framed in beveled edge gold frame ABOUT THE ARTIST Deming King...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Digital

Jesus Christ Expirant sur la Croix etching by Amand-Durand after Albrecht Durer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Amand-Durand, French (1831 - 1905) after Albrecht Dürer, German (1471 - 1528) Title: Jesus Christ Expirant sur la Croix Year: 1873 Medium: Heliogravure on wove paper ...
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1870s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Nature Morte
Located in Belgrade, MT
This colorful lithograph is part of my private collection since the 1970's. It is signed in the plate and also pencil signed on the print on the lower left corner. Publisher: La Guil...
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Early 19th Century Abstract Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Ceramic, Tapestry, Oil, Lithograph

Calla, by Mark Jenkins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from an edition of 25, this simple elegant image captures the grace of a single Calla Lilly against a black background. Based in San Francisco, Mark Jenkins has ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Digital Pigment

Night: William Dunas Dance (Suite of Four)
Located in Long Island City, NY
A beautiful set of prints displaying a dancer (Pamela) in motion. Pamela is a recurring subject in Alex Katz’s work, regularly showing up named in the titles of various pieces. This ...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Mediterranean Landscape - Original Lithograph - Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Charles CAMOIN Mediterranean Landscape, 1946 Original lithograph Signed in pencil bottom right Numbered / XX On Lana vellum 26 x 36 cm (c. 10...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

MICKALENE THOMAS "UNTITLED" (BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL) USA, 2017
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Mickalene Thomas "Untitled" (Black is Beautiful) USA, 2017 Inkjet print Signed and numbered by the artist From an edition of 100 14"H 11"W (work) Framed Approx: 22"H x 17"W Excellent...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Inkjet

David Shrigley - I Woke You At Dawn, I Make No Apology - Edition of 30
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley I Woke You At Dawn, 2024 Woodcut 53 x 40 cm Edition of 30 hand-signed and numbered by the artist published by Shäfer Editions and comes with COA from the publishers D...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Woodcut

1952 Original exhibition poster realized by Diego Rivera Mexican Art
Located in PARIS, FR
Very beautiful poster of exhibition realized by Diego Rivera in order to promote the exhibition "Mexican Art, from pre-Columbian to our days", which took place in 1952 in the National Museum of Modern Art. Diego Rivera was a leading Mexican painter. His large frescoes...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

Ecole de Peinture - Drawing by Adolphe Willette - Late-19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ecole de Peinture is a drawing in China Ink on paper realized by Adolphe Willette in the Late 19th Century . Good conditions. Hand-signed. The artwork is depicted through soft st...
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19th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink

"Tomorrow my fair one shall have a dove…" (In the Land of the Gods, M.538), 1967
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Tomorrow my fair one shall have a dove…(M.538)" is one of twelve lithographs that Marc Chagall created for the portfolio "In the Land of the Gods" from 1967. The title refers to wri...
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20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Bicentennial Bandwagon, Pop Art Lithograph by Red Grooms
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bicentennial Bandwagon by Red Grooms, American (1937) Date: 1975 Offset Lithograph (unsigned as issued) Image Size: 10 x 13 inches Size: 14 in. x 17 in. (35.56 cm x 43.18 cm) Frame S...
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1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Offset

Tokion poster
By KAWS
Located in Washington , DC, DC
This rare poster was produced in 1999, very early into KAWS's career with Tokion Magazine as part of a set of 4 high quality posters printed on thicker paper. It features a photo of ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

La Licorne (The Unicorn), Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
A woman with flowing gold hair kneels before a unicorn. The horse theme was frequently used by Dali throughout his career. The horse is seen as a symbol of beauty and elegance as wel...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

un couple pensif
Located in Belgrade, MT
This woodcut black and white is part of my private collection. It is in very good condition. It is artists signed in the lower right and numbered o the left. Atelier Othon-Friesz
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Early 20th Century Fauvist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Woodcut

Pop Quiz
Located in Paris, FR
Edition : 29/50 Publisher : Galerie-F Edition Very good condition Handsigned by the artist in pencil
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2010s Landscape Prints

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Silk

Kabuki - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada II - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Kabuki is an original artwork realized in 1862 by Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880). Boatman with elegant passenger in snowy landscape. Sign: Kochoro Kuni...
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1860s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

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

Seated woman with shawl, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), 1922
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype lithograph of Gustav Kilmt’s Seated woman with shawl, published in the 1922 Handzeichnungen portfolio by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition of 375. This artwork is presented in archival rag mat and arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Klimt’s mastery of depth is most evident in the gentleness of his linework. Without the aid of shadow or the subtlety of values, the gestures of line allow the viewer a sense of a three-dimensional person or object. The meticulous lithographic process used to create Klimt’s Handzeichnungen portfolio ensures exceptionally crisp markings bearing a strong resemblance to the original sketches. This series showcases the quintessence behind Klimt’s signature visual style. This artwork arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Century Guild has curated collections of Gustav Klimt’s printed...
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1920s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Promenade dans la Neige - Etching by J. Tissot - 1880
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful print on verge crème, 2° state on 3, with letters printed in red. Stamp “Lugt 1545”. Little crack and fold on lower left margin of the sheet. Some small traces of oxidati...
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1880s Post-Impressionist Portrait Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Circa 1970 poster by René Gruau for Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960)
Located in PARIS, FR
The circa 1970 original poster by René Gruau for Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) is a masterpiece of cinematic art and graphic design, capturing the allure and decadence of o...
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1970s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

Le Cirque Chinois
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Le Cirque Chinois MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 166/175 MEASUREMENTS: 26.25" x 21" YEAR: 1965 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Excel...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

INFRATERRESTRIALS ADORED BY DALI AT THE AGE OF SIX ...
Located in Aventura, FL
Engraving with lithographic color on paper. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. From the series La Conquete du Cosmos (Conquest of Cosmos). Frame approx size 45 x 35 inches. Sheet ...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Engraving, Lithograph

The Old Hippie
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Old Hippie Series: The Hippies Date: 1969 Medium: drypoint with added color Signature: Pencil signed Edition: I...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Drypoint

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