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International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)

Launched in 1987, the International Fine Print Dealers Association has continually set the bar for quality and ethics while promoting prints as original works of art to generations of collectors, curators and art lovers. With over 160 members in 13 countries, the IFPDA is a worldwide community of leading dealers and editions publishers who represent the full spectrum of printmaking. Each year, the IFPDA hosts the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, the only major fair dedicated to fine-art prints.

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Sunset - Ardgour
By Percival Gaskell
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Percival Gaskell, 'Sunset - Ardgour", aquatint, edition not stated, c. 1920. A superb, atmospheric impression, in brown/black ink, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2 to 3 inches), in excellent condition. Signed, titled, and numbered '2' in pencil. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Ardgour is a district of Lochaber on Ardnamurchan peninsula on the western shore of Loch Linnhe...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Aquatint

Everyone is an Alienígeno
By Enrique Chagoya
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with plastic eyes, Edition 30. Enrique Chagoya makes paintings and prints about the changing nature of culture. “My artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultu...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

Night Visitor
By Barbara Takenaga
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25 Barbara Takenaga is a painter who made her first lithograph at Shark's in the summer of 2002. Her abstract works are full of repeated, obsessive mark ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

LANTERN ON A HILL - NIKKO - AUTUMN
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LILIAN MILLER (1895 - 1943) LANTERN ON A HILL - NKKO - AUTUMN, 1934 (Brown 104) Color woodcut, signed and dated in ink in the image. Titled in pencil by the artist at lower sheet edge. Circular, 10 inches in diameter. Beautiful fresh impression In very good condition with full margins, sheet 10 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches. Miller carried on a tradition started by woman, Americans Helen Hyde, Berta Lum and Englishwoman Elizabeth Keith, who learned and used Japanese color woodcut making techniques in the first part of the 20th century. Illustrated in "Between Two Worlds - The Life and Art of Lilian May Miller...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Color, Woodcut

'Theater' — 1920s German Expressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A German Expressionist woodcut, with original hand-coloring in watercolor, depicting a parent and child watching a theatrical production; ...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Woodcut

'Composition # 4' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Thomas A. Robertson
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Robertson, 'Composition #4,' color serigraph, edition 47, c. 1940. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed/47' in pencil. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper, the full sheet with margins (1 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size: 10 9/16 x 8 1/2 inches (268 x 216 mm); sheet size 13 x 12 1/2 inches (330 x 318 mm). An impression of this work is represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Thomas Arthur Robertson (1911-1976) was the son of an attorney. Although his father, a co-owner of the Arkansas Law School, insisted that his son study there, after graduating, Robertson enrolled at the Adrian Brewer...
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1940s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Screen

'Pope' from 'In Praise of Folly' — Mid-Century Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Pope' from the series 'Moriae Encomium (In Praise of Folly),' mezzotint, 1943, no edition, proofs only. Signed in pencil. Annotated 'POPE - CARDINAL - BISHOP' - 1943 in ink, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 to 1 7/8 inches) in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce. Created by the artist for 'Erasmus's Moriae Encomium,' or 'In Praise of Folly,' published by the Limited Editions Club, 1943. A rare, signed, proof impression apart from the Limited Editions Club publication. Image size 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (197 x 121 mm); sheet size 10 11/16 x 8 1/16 inches (271 x 204 mm). 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,’ 1932, ‘Prelude to a Million Years,’ 1933, ‘Song Without Words,' 1936, ‘Vertigo,’ 1937; and ‘Last Unfinished Wordless Novel’ (created in the 1960s and published in 2001) were comprised solely of Ward's wood engravings. Ward designed each graphic image to occupy an entire page, the sequence of which conveys the story's narrative. In 1937, Ward was named Director of the Graphic Arts Division of the Federal Art Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In the following years, Ward went on to illustrate more than one hundred books (some of which he wrote), including classics for the Limited Editions Club Goethe’s ‘Faust,’ Faulkner’s ‘A Green Bough,’ and Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ and several children’s books. He also produced single-subject wood engravings, paintings, and drawings. His print ‘Sanctuary,’ 1939, was shown at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, and ‘Clouded Over,’ 1948, received the 1948 Library of Congress Award and was included in ‘American Prize Prints of the 20th Century’ by Albert Reese. He received the National Academy of Design Print Award (1949), the New York Times Best Illustrated Award (1973), and the Regina Award (Catholic Library Association, 1975). ‘The Biggest Bear,’ a children’s book with illustrations by Ward, was the recipient of the esteemed 1952 Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Ward was a member and board member of the National Academy of Design and the Artists’ League of America. He served several terms as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists and was a member of the American Artists Congress and the Society of Illustrators. Ward exhibited at the American Artists Congress; the National Academy of Design; the John Herron Art Institute; and the Library of Congress. He had a one-person show at Associated American Artists, NY, on the publication of his monograph 'Storyteller Without Words,' 1974; AAA mounted a memorial exhibition in 1986. The May 1976 issue of 'Bibliognost,' a book collector’s publication, was dedicated to Ward. ‘Lynd Ward, His Bookplate Designs,’ an article by Dan Burne Jones, was published in the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers Yearbook, 1981/82. In 2001, sixteen years after his death, Rutgers University Libraries published ’Lynd Ward’s Last Unfinished Wordless Novel.’ The blocks were intended to be part of a novel in woodcuts, the first since Vertigo, but Ward did not live to complete the project. Master printer and book designer Barbara Henry collated and printed the twenty-six finished blocks out of the forty-four initially planned for the still unnamed narrative. In 2010 the Library of America honored Ward’s achievements with the meticulous production of a collection of Ward’s woodcut novels—the first time the Library had gone wordless. The publication replicated his original editions with a single full-size image printed on the right page of each double-page spread. In his introduction to the books, renowned cartoonist/illustrator Art...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Mezzotint

The Loop III (the artist's memories of days at Chicago's Art Institute)
By Richard Gilbert
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Loop III was created in a small edition of 15. The Loop is a vibrant area featuring eclectic eateries, shops, theaters and parks. Comprised mostly of high-rises, it’s also home to the 108-story Willis Tower. The iconic “Cloud Gate...
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1990s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Etching

UNTITLED
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Portland, ME
Agam, Yaacov, (Jacob Gipstein) (Israeli, b. 1928). UNTITLED. Screenprint in colors, not dated. Edition of 180, signed in blue pencil, and numbered 80/180. 26 3/8 x 33 1/4 inches, 669...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Screen

City Scene II — Mid-Century Modernism, Precisionism
By Bernard Brussel-Smith
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Brussel-Smith, 'City Scene II', wood engraving, 1949, artist's proof, edition 100. Signed, titled, and annotated 'A.P.' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on whit...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Woodcut

The Marshlands
Located in Storrs, CT
A marsh landscape in the style of Max Weyl. Oil on board measures 12 3/4 x 23 5/8; frame dimensions measure 16 1/4 x 27 x 1 1/4. Unsigned. Housed in a gold-to...
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20th Century Barbizon School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Oil

MARKET IN ERONGARICUARO
By Morton Dimondstein
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MORTON DIMONDSTEIN (NY 1920 - LA 2000) MARKET IN ERONGARICUARO 1954 Serigraph, silkscreen. Signed titled and dated in pencil. Image 10 ¼ x 25 ½ inches. Large full sheet 17 1/4 x 30...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Screen

Plate X, from Album 19
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1961, on BFK Rives wove paper, signed with the artist's monogram in black ink, numbered from the edition of 75 (the total edition included 15 impressions numbe...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

CARNIVAL
By Louis Schanker
Located in Portland, ME
Schanker, Louis CARNIVAL. Color woodcut, 1948. Edition of 30. Signed, titled and numbered 24/30 in pencil. 14 1/4 x 21 inches (image), 18 x 24 inches (sheet). Hinging residue, verso,...
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1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Woodcut

'Psychopathic Ward' — Socially-Conscious Realism
By Robert Riggs
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Riggs, 'Psychopathic Ward', 2-color lithograph, c. 1940, edition c. 50, Beall 60, Bassham 78. Signed, titled, and numbered '14' in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A ...
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1940s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

The Bridge
By Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
Located in Santa Monica, CA
B. J. O. NORDFELDT (Bror Julius Olsson) 1878-1955) THE BRIDGE, 1906 Color woodcut signed, dated 1906 and numbered 150 in pencil. Image 8 x 10 - small margins as issued. 4 corners tipped to acid free support board. Nordfelt is one of the most important early twentieth century American Masters of the Color woodcut. This 1906 work predates many of the other woodcut masters. Nordfeldt had a peculiar numbering system. The number is not necessarily the edition number. Frances H. Gearhart, Blanche Lazzell, William S. Rice, Gustave Baumann, Margaret Patterson, Norma Basset Hall. Waldo Chase.
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Early 1900s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Woodcut

Desolation, S.C. or Deserted Cabins, Beauford, S.C.
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Desolation, S.C. or Deserted Cabins, Beauford, S.C. Etching & Aquatint, c. 1930 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo) Annotated "Trial Proof" in pencil lower left corner of sheet Provenance: Estate of the artist By decent Note: An impression of this image is in the collection of the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina Condition: Excellent Plate/Image size: 8 x 9 3/4 inches Sheet size: 12 7/8 x 15 inches Louis Oscar Griffith (1875-1956) Born in Greencastle, Indiana, Griffith grew up in Dallas, Texas where Texas artist and teacher Charles Franklin Reaugh recognized young “Griff’s” artistic talent. At age 18, Griffith moved to St. Louis where he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. In 1895, he moved to Chicago where he worked making color prints for the firm Barnes and Crosby. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and during a brief stay in New York, the National Academy of Design. A successful commercial artist with a studio in the Chicago Loop...
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1930s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Aquatint

MON DOUX OU-ETES-VOUS? / MY SWEET COUNTRY, WERE ARE YOU?
By Georges Rouault
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) MON DOUX OU-ETES-VOUS? / MY SWEET COUNTRY, WERE ARE YOU? 1927 ( Chapon/Rouault 97; Wofsy 151) Miserere XLIV Aquatint, 1927, on laid Arches. watermark...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Aquatint

Broad Street (Wall Street)
By Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
B.J.O. Nordfeldt, 'Broad Street (Wall Street)', etching, edition not stated, c. 1915. Signed in pencil. A superb impression, with rich burr, selectively wiped plate tone, and inky plate edges, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (3/4 to 1 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Princeton University, Smithsonian American Art Museum. A view looking down Broad Street past the New York Stock Exchange Building on the right with the columned Federal Hall...
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1910s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Etching

Battery Mural - On the Threshold
Located in Storrs, CT
I was visiting Newfoundland when I spotted this opportunity for a wonderful picture, spanning two worlds. My wife and I had gone on a 2-hour hike with my sister ending in a beautiful...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

New York Speed
By Laurence Winram
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is # 1 of an edition of 30 Laurence Winram is a Scottish photographer based in Edinburgh. His projects are diverse but the work most personally re...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Photographic Paper

New York Speed
New York Speed
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'Central Railroad' — Mid-Century African-American Artist
By Charles Elmer Harris
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (Central Railroad), watercolor, c. 1945. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '697' in ink. A fine, modernist re...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Watercolor, India Ink

The Yarn
By John Buck
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut/relief, Edition 15 Using a pen, a nail or his fingernail, Buck incises the wood planks that form the base and background of his prints with images and symbols drawn ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Woodcut

Masque aux rouleaux
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Aquatint on BFK Rives paper, Edition of 25 Paper size: 56 x 38 cms (22 x 15 ins) Image size: 34.8 x 27.7 cms (13 3/4 x 10 7/8 ins)
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1940s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Aquatint

Ephemera
By Ida Applebroog
Located in New York, NY
Available individually ($2500), and also as a suite of five ($12,000). Born in Bronx, NY, Ida Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences (1949). She moved...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Aquatint, Photogravure

'Cascade' — Contemporary African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ralph Arnold, 'Cascade', mixed media: acrylic, pencil, conté crayon, marker, oil; 1986-88. Signed 'Arnold' and dated '86-88' in pencil, lower right. A fin...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Conté, Oil, Acrylic, Felt Pen

Ninth Inning
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Sylvia Mayzer Rantz, 'Ninth Inning', lithograph, 1949, edition 24. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '9/24' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper. The ful...
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1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

'Viel Gluck 1923' (Good Luck Wishes) — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Viel Gluck 1923 Wunscht der Graphikverlag, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothenfelde', woodcut, 1922, edition 20. Signed and numbered op. 135d and 20/20 in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream Japan paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/8 inches), in good condition. With the artist’s blind stamp in the top left margin. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards, unframed. New Year's Greeting - "1923, Good Luck Wishes from the Graphic Press, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothfelde." Image size 5 x 3 1/2 inches (127 x 89 mm); sheet size 6 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (168 x 149 mm). ABOUT THE ARTIST Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints. Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Woodcut

Les Boulevards
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Boulevards Color llthograph on china paper, 1900 Signed In graphite, below image, right: P. Bonnard A proof outside of the edition of 100 for Das Ma...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Colour screenprint on J.B. Green paper 104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins) Edition of 150
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Color, Screen

Essence of Life
Located in Storrs, CT
"Essence of Life" is a part of Christopher Kennedy's "Trees Revered" series. Please note that the image without the frame is a better representation of the actual image. "This parti...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Archival Paper

Camera sepolcrale
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Camera sepolcrale Etching 1743 Signed in the bottom left corner From: Prima Parte, 1743 Second edition: 1750-1778 Watermark: R 37-39 A lifetime impression printed during Piranesi’s life, before the plates are moved to Paris by his sons in the 1790’s Condition: Excellent Image size: 14 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches Reference: Robison 20 iii/V Piranesi In Rome: Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive "Although Piranesi studied architecture in Venice, he never was able to find work in the field other than a few jobs involving remodeling in Rome. While Piranesi was struggling to support his architectural endeavors upon his arrival in Rome in 1740, he spent a short period of time in the studio of master painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) in addition to his apprenticeship with Giuseppe Vasi. The first production of Piranesi’s early years in Rome and a culmination of his training under Vasi, Tiepolo, and his uncle, was the Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive (1743). The Prima Parte was a collection of twelve etchings of imaginary temples, palaces, ruins, and a prison. During this time, Piranesi was still developing the unique style of etching he is known for today, and as such the Prima Parte differs significantly in technique compared to later works. In the Frontispiece of the Prima Parte, Piranesi’s lines are definite and exact with very little flow to them, designed in the form of traditional etching. The detail is immaculate, and yet perspective of the piece is oddly simple and familiar to the viewer. Piranesi’s technique employs miniscule markings and lines, intricately woven together to create a stippling effect. The Prima Parte, described as “rigid” by art historian Jonathan Scott, came to be seen as a stark contrast to his later sketches, which were much lighter and freer. Influenced by the style of Tiepolo, which epitomized the lightness and brightness of the Rococo period, Piranesi adopted some of the more painterly techniques of the masters he apprenticed under. Piranesi made the medium of etching appear as though it was a sketch or a painting, hence a “freer” and more fluid design in his later works. For example, the frontispiece of the Prima Parte read as an etching to Piranesi’s audience, but in his later vedute, the style of etching almost appears to be made of brushstrokes. Moreover, at the same time Piranesi was working on the Prima Parte, he aided the artist Giambattista Nolli. There is a small section of Nolli’s map...
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1740s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Etching

Valpicon Bather
By McDermott & McGough
Located in New York, NY
Known for their work in painting, photography, sculpture, and film, McDermott & McGough comprises visual artists David McDermott and Peter McGough, who formed their partnership on th...
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20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Photogravure

'Navajo Medicine Ceremony of the Night Chant' — Southwest Regionalism
By Ira Moskowitz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ira Moskowitz, 'The Three Gods of Healing (Navajo Medicine Ceremony of the Night Chant)', lithograph, 1945, edition 30, Czestochowski 148. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/4 to 2 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 12 1/4 x 15 13/16 inches (311 x 402 mm); sheet size 17 1/8 x 20 7/8 inches (435 x 530 mm). ABOUT THIS WORK The nine-night ceremony known as the Night Chant or Nightway is believed to date from around 1000 B.C.E. when it was first performed by the Indians who lived in Canyon de Chelly (now eastern Arizona). It is considered the most sacred of all Navajo ceremonies and one of the most difficult and demanding to learn, as it encompasses hundreds of songs, dozens of prayers, and several highly complex sand paintings. And yet the demand for Night Chants is so great that as many as fifty such ceremonies might be held during a single winter season, which lasts eighteen to twenty weeks. The Night Chant is designed both to cure people who are ill and to restore the order and balance of human and non-human relationships within the Navajo universe. Led by a trained medicine man who has served a long apprenticeship and learned the intricate and detailed practices that are essential to the chant, the ceremony itself is capable of scaring off sickness and ugliness through techniques that shock or arouse. Once the disorder has been removed, order and balance are restored through song, prayer, sand painting, and other aspects of the ceremony. The medicine men who supervise the Night Chant ensure that everything—each dot and line in every sand painting, each verse in every song, each feather on each mask is arranged precisely, or it will not bring about the desired result. There are probably as many active Night Chant medicine men today as at any time in Navajo history due to the general increase in the Navajo population, the popularity of the ceremony, and the central role it plays in Navajo life and health. ABOUT THE ARTIST Ira Moskowitz was born in Galicia, Poland, in 1912, emigrating with his family to New York in 1927. He enrolled at the Art Student's League and studied there from 1928-31. In 1935, Moskowitz traveled to Paris and then lived until 1937 in what is now Israel. He returned to the United States in 1938 to marry artist Anna Barry in New York. The couple soon visited Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico, returning for extended periods until 1944, when they moved there permanently, staying until 1949. During this especially productive New Mexico period, Moskowitz received a Guggenheim fellowship. His work was inspired by the New Mexico landscape and the state’s three cultures (American Southwest, Native American, and Mexican). He focused on Pueblo and Navajo life, producing an extensive oeuvre of authentic American Indian imagery. He and Anna also visited and sketched across the border in Old Mexico. While in the Southwest, Moskowitz flourished as a printmaker while continuing to produce oils and watercolors. Over 100 of Moskowitz’s works depicting Native American ceremonies were used to illustrate the book American Indian Ceremonial Dances by John Collier, Crown Publishers, New York, 1972. After leaving the Southwest, printmaking remained an essential medium for the artist while his focus changed to subject matter celebrating Judaic religious life and customs. These works were well received early on, and Moskowitz was content to stay with them the rest of his life. From 1963 until 1966, Moskowitz lived in Paris, returning to New York City in 1967, where he made his permanent home until he died in 2001. Shortly before his death, Zaplin-Lampert Gallery of Santa Fe staged an exhibition of the artist's works, December 2000 - January 2001. Other one-person shows included the 8th Street Playhouse, New York, 1934; Houston Museum, 1941; and the San Antonio Museum, 1941. The artist’s work was included in exhibitions at the Art Students League, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Print Club, College Art Association (promotes excellence in scholarship and teaching), and the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts (shown at MOMA, 1955). Moskowitz’s lithographs of...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

Elegy Black Black, a beautiful lithography from Motherwell's elegy series
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Elegy Black Black 1983 Lithograph in colors, on TGL handmade paper, Edition of 98< AP XI/XVI 38.1 x 95.9 cms (15 x 37 4/5 ins) extract from the catalogue raisonné...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

Summer Light Series: Pauillac, No.2
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Summer Light Series: Pauillac, No.2 1973 Lithograph, screenprint, pochoir, and collage, Edition of 55 91.4 x 45.7 cms (36 x 18 ins) RM12795
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

A Sandstorm on the Little Colorado River, Arizona
By George Elbert Burr
Located in Storrs, CT
A Sandstorm on the Little Colorado River, Arizona. 1920. Soft-ground etching. Seeber 189. 6 7/8 x 9 3/4 (sheet 9 5/8 x 13). Edition 40, #6. Series: Desert Set. Illustrated: American ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Watercolor

{Floral Still Life of Roses}
By Les Bullene
Located in Storrs, CT
Elegant floral still life of a vase of roses. Oil on canvas measures 24 x 20; frame dimensions measure 30 3/4 x 26 3/4 x 2 3/4. Artist's signature, lower right. Housed in a decorativ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Oil

Africa Suite: Africa 7
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large autom...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Screen

Corkscrews
Located in Storrs, CT
"Corkscrew" is a classic example of my abstract PhotoLuminism technique. When light travels, the human eye cannot see its trails, but the camera can and does. Capturing images this w...
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2010s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Metal

Horizon I (orange with blue base)
By Richard Smith b.1955
Located in London, GB
33 x 71 cms (13 x 28 ins) Edition of 75, Set of 6
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

Aylesbury Estate
By Keith Coventry
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 2014, signed, edition of 50, 54 x 42 cm. (21¼ x 16½ in.) Keith Coventry was born in Burnley in 1958 and lives and works in London. He attended Brighton Polytechnic 1978– 81 and Chelsea School of Art London 1981– 82. He was featured in the seminal exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1997 and in 2006, he received a mid-career retrospective at Glasgow's Tramway (Art Centre). He was also a co-founder and curator of City Racing, an influential not-for-profit gallery in Kennington, South London from 1988-98. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and is included in collections worldwide, including the British Council; Tate Modern; Arts Council of England; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2010 Coventry was awarded the John Moores Painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Screen

La Persane
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse La Persane 1929 Lithograph on Arches Velin paper, Edition of 50 Paper size: 63 x 44.5 cms (24 3/4 x 17 1/2 ins) Image size: 44.8 x 29 cms (1...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

'Abstract Boats' — American Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Abstract Boats', color serigraph, 1938, edition 12. Signed, dated, and numbered ' /12' in pencil. A fine, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; t...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Screen

Bird & Flowers 1 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Bird & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 14 x 11 inches. ABOUT THIS WORK Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Watercolor

WHAT DOES ART MEAN HERE? - WAS HEISST HIER KUNST?
By Andreas Paul Weber
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893-1980) WAS HEISST HIER KUNST? (WHAT DOES ART MEAN HERE?) c 1953 Lithograph, signed in pencil and with the artist's Clan Press Stamp lower left corner. Image including the light PRINTED BORDER AROUND THE IMAGE is 15 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches. The full sheet 19 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches with deckle edges.. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. SHEET FRESH AND EVEN - PHOTO IS TOO DARK!! An image of EDVARD MUNCH''S "THE SCREAM" is below a satirical image of a man eating a sausage sitting on top of other works of art including - GOYA"S "SLEEP OF REASON...
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1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis Untitled 1968 Lithograph, Edition of 3, experimental proof 66 x 47 cms (26 x 18 1/2 ins) SF15155
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

'Set Pieces: Vanity of Trust' — Mid-Century American Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Set Pieces: Vanity of Trust', color lithograph, 1949, edition 40, Fine and Looney 279. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '23/40' in pencil. A fine, impression with fresh colors, on...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

Amanda (Marguèrite), No. 1
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Amanda No. 1 (Marguèrite). 1920. Etching. Fletcher 18. 3 1/2 x 2 3/8 (sheet 9 x 7 1/4). Edition 55. . A rich proof printed with plate tone on cream laid paper with full margins. Sign...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Etching

'Child and Seeing Hands' — after the artist's 1948 Surrealist masterwork
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hans Bellmer, 'Child and Seeing Hands', photogravure and engraving, edition 9, 1970. Flahutez 4-9. Signed by the artist and numbered '41/90' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impress...
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1670s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Engraving, Photogravure

Parisian Balcony — Mid-Century Photogravure
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rémy Duval, 'Parisian Balcony', photogravure, 1946. A fine, richly-inked impression in warm black ink, on cream wove B.F.K. Rives paper; the sheet with deck...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Photogravure

Octavio Paz Suite: Nocturne VIII
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph and chine appliqué 64.5 x 54 cms (25 3/8 x 21 1/4 ins) Edition of 50 Paper: Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper Other Collaborators: Image transferred from Mylar...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Handmade Paper, Color, Lithograph

Study for Mid-Manhattan II
By John Marin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study for Mid-Manhattan II Oil and graphite on paper, mounted to board, 1932 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right Sight size: 8 1/2 x 7 inches One of a series of studies for th...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Oil

'From the Sea' — Mid-Century American Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'From the Sea' also 'From the Sea — Pieta', lithograph, editions 30, 35, 1943. A superb, richly inked impression, on off-white wove paper; the full sheet, with decke...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Lithograph

On the Wing
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
46.75 x 30.5 ins (118.7 x 77.5 cms) Edition of 70 Signed in pencil lower right. Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop number "RM83-718" in pe...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

Materials

Mixed Media, Color, Lithograph

Fields
By Mary Lee Bendolph
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint. Edition of 50
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

Materials

Etching, Intaglio

Harbor with Sailboats — Early 20th-Century Modernism
By George Josimovich
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Josimovich, Untitled (Harbor with Sailboats) ', linocut, 1923, edition 35. Signed, dated, and annotated '4/35' in pencil. Initialed 'G J' in ...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Linocut

Still Life with Peonies — Italian Succession
By Carlo Alberto Petrucci
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Carlo Alberto Petrucci, 'Still Life with Peonies', color monotype, c. 1915. Signed in pencil, in the image, lower right. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on heavy c...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

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Monotype

Manhattan Bridge — 1920s New York City
By George Stimmel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Manhattan Bridge', etching, c. 1920, proofs only. Signed in ink in the image, lower right. A fine, rich impression, in warm black ink, on cream wove ...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

Materials

Etching

Trees in Ranchitos III — Taos Modernism
By Andrew Dasburg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Andrew Dasburg, 'Trees in Ranchitos III', two-color lithograph, 1975, edition 20. Signed 'A. D.' in pencil. Annotated 'Trial Proof' in pencil, verso. A superb impression, in grey-bl...
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1970s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association

Materials

Lithograph

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