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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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Brittany Landscape with Figure
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Brittany Landscape with Figure Etching & color aquatint, c. 1920 Signed lower right (see photo) Numbered lower left: "No. 21" (see photo) An early color etching by the artist, based ...
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1920s American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Aquatint

Side (Beijing)
By Martin Puryear
Located in Berkeley, CA
COLOR HARDGROUND ETCHING WITH AQUATINT AND DRYPOINT. RIVES BFK PAPER IMAGE SIZE: 24” x 24”; PAPER SIZE: 35” x 34” EDITION OF 40
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2010s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Etching

The Dutiful Youth of Mino Province Collecting Wood to Warm His Old Father
By Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Dutiful Youth of Mino Province Collecting Wood to Warm His Old Father Color woodcut, c. 1842-43 Signed and sealed lower right (see photo) From the Series: "Honcho nijushi-ko" (Tw...
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1840s Other Art Style International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Woodcut

The Boy Botaro and his Nurse Otsuji and a Lotus Pond
By Taiso Yoshitoshi
Located in Burbank, CA
The boy Bôtarô watches his nurse Otsuji haul a bucket of water from the well. From the kabuki play Osanago no adauchi. Most interesting is the lush backdrop of lotus flowers and pump...
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1880s Other Art Style International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Mulberry Paper, Woodcut

Portrait du Prince de Phalsbourg
By Jacques Callot
Located in Chicago, IL
Watermark: Lion and Star (Lieure 38) References: Lieure No. 505 Notes: An early impression of the only state of this major work. According to Lieure (Jacques Callot: Catalogue de l...
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16th Century Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Etching

Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Untitled 1986 Colour lithograph and collage, on Guarro paper, Edtion of 100 55.9 x 37.8 cms (22 x 14 7/8 ins)
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1980s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Lithograph

UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A BOAT #1; LIKELY IN ITALY)
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000).; UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A BOAT #1; LIKELY IN ITALY). Ink and wash on paper. Not dated. Unsigned. 14 x 17 inches. In excellent condition. From a ske...
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Mid-20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Ink

Original Painting for a Japanese Magazine Cover or Romance Novel
By Tatsumi Shimura
Located in Burbank, CA
Painting for a Japanese magazine cover, or possibly a romance novel. One can infer from the dramatic juxtaposition that it may have been designed for a s...
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1960s Showa International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Paint, Paper

Kabuki Space
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut, Edition 30. Betty Woodman’s woodcut “Kabuki Space” places images of a pair of her pots in an exuberant Japanese inspired stage-like interior. Woodman blends colors,...
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Early 2000s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Woodcut

J. Becquet, Sculptor
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
J. Becquet, Sculptor Etching & drypoint, 1859 Unsigned as issued From: The Thames Set Printed on this Japanese tissue Rich impression Condition: Excellent Plate/Image size: 9 7/8 x 7...
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19th Century Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Drypoint, Etching

Crosshatch
Located in Storrs, CT
" "Crosshatch" is a classic example of my abstract PhotoLuminism technique. When light travels, the human eye cannot see its trails, but the camera can. Capturing images that are int...
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2010s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White

Avril
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Avril (April) Color aquatint and etching, c. 1906 Signed in pencil lower right Edition: c. 100 Excellent impression, fresh colors Reference: Merrill Chase Volume 1, No. 9 Condition: ...
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Early 1900s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Aquatint

Asian Massif - 1
By Jules Olitski
Located in London, GB
Jules Olitski Asian Massif - 1 1975 Water base acrylic on canvas 213.4 x 88.9 cms (84 x 35 ins) JO001
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1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Acrylic

'Doctor' from 'In Praise of Folly' — Mid-Century Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Doctor' from the series 'Moriae Encomium (In Praise of Folly),' mezzotint, 1943, no edition, proofs only. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/4 inches) in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce. 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). 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. 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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Mezzotint

'A Very Funny Story, Mongols' — Mid-Century Woodblock Print
By Paul Jacoulet
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Jacoulet, 'Une Histoire très Drôle, Mongols', color woodblock print, 1949. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on the artist's handmade, personally watermarked Japan paper, in...
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1940s Showa International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Woodcut

Birds & Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Birds & 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 4 7/8 x 3 1/8 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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Watercolor

'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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Engraving, Photogravure

Tunnel /Target
By June Wayne
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JUNE WAYNE (1918 - 2011) THE TUNNEL II, 1951 (B.69; G.14; Conway 67) Lithograph, signed, numbered, dated July 1951 and titled incorrectly The Target. Edition 35. 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inc...
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1950s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Lithograph

Tunnel /Target
Tunnel /Target
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La Cardeuse (Woman Carding Wool)
By Jean François Millet
Located in Storrs, CT
La Cardeuse (Woman Carding Wool). c. 1858. Etching. Delteil, Melot 15. only state. 10 x 7 (sheet 12 3/8 x 9 1/2). Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarterly 25 (1938): 146; Keppel, The...
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1850s Barbizon School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Etching

For John Constable
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 100 46.4 x 67.3 cms (18 1/4 x 26 1/2 ins)
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1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Lithograph

Winter Fun — Mid-century Modernism, Central Park, New York City
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Winter Fun', lithograph, 1940, edition 20, 250 (1941). Flint 188. Signed in pencil, with the artist’s monogram in the stone, lower left. A...
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1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Lithograph

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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Woodcut

Lily, from A Garden of Love
By Robert Indiana
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1982, on Fabriano paper, signed, dated, titled, and inscribed ‘AP’ in pencil, one of 15 numbered artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 100, printed by Do...
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1980s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Screen

Titre pour "Le Sourire"
By Paul Gauguin
Located in London, GB
Paul Gauguin Titre pour "Le Sourire" 1899 Woodcut Paper size 13.8 x 21.9 cms (5 1/2 x 8 5/8 ins) Image size 10.5 x 20.8 cms (4 1/8 x 8 1/8 ins) Kornfeld 61 Signed in lower left corn...
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1890s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Woodcut

Portraits: Jessica
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz uses outline drawings, called “cartoons”, as templates to transfer full size images onto the canvas prior to painting. Rendered in red chal...
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Early 2000s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Etching

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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Lithograph

Garden of Eden
By Leonard Edmondson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEONARD EDMONDSON (1906 – 2001) GARDEN OF EDEN c. 1960 Color intaglio (carborundum?) Signed and titled in pencil. Small edition, these larger prints...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Intaglio

Rolling Stock Series (For Trish)
By Robert Cottingham
Located in New York, NY
Robert Cottingham's Rolling Stock series is a significant part of his artistic portfolio, focusing on railroad imagery. The series features hand-colored etchings, collographs, and mo...
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1990s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Aquatint

Fourteenth Street. The Wigwam. (Tammany Hall).
By John Sloan
Located in Storrs, CT
1928. Etching. Morse catalog 235. state ii. Image: 9 3/4 x 7 (sheet 17 1/4 x 11 3/8). From the first printing of 100 proofs by Peter Platt. There were an additional 10 printed by Er...
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1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Etching

Skid-Row Self Portrait
By Robert Indiana
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Skid Row-Self Portrait Color lithograph, 1973 Unsigned (as usual) From: XXe Siecle, Volume XXVV, December 1973 Published by G. di San Lazzaro for A. Maeght, Paris Printed by Mourlot,...
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1970s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Lithograph

Four Knots
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 50 71 x 76 cm (28 x 30 ins) RSE023
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1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Etching

red ballboy or Studies for "Tennis Tournament"
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Red Ballboy or Studies for "Tennis Tournament" Crayon on paper, c. 1920 Unsigned Condition: three vertical folds created by the artist to transport the drawing from the tennis match ...
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1910s Ashcan School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Graphite

One Plate, from The Sister Troop portfolio
By Gary Hume
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours with collage on brushed aluminium card, 2009, on Somerset Satin paper, signed in pencil and dated, from edition of 60 (including eight artist's proofs), publis...
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Early 2000s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Screen

Graceland Mansion
By Jennifer Bartlett
Located in Houston, TX
Jennifer Bartlett Graceland Mansions, 1978-79 Drypoint, aquatint, silkscreen, woodcut, and lithograph on J. Green Cold Press paper and Rives BFK paper 24 x 120 inches, unframed Ed...
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20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Etching, Lithograph, Screen, Woodcut, Drypoint, Aquatint

'Old Cedars' – Early New Mexico Landscape, Southwest Regionalism
By George Elbert Burr
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Elbert Burr, 'Old Cedars – New Mexico', etching, 1920, edition 40, Seeber 218. Signed and annotated '(c) George Elbert Burr Del. et Imp.' in pencil. ...
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1920s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Etching

The Forge
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Forge Drypoint, 1861 Signed in the plate lower right (see photo) Published as part of the Thames Set, 1871 Printed between 1894 and 1896 when the plate was canceled. This impress...
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1860s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Drypoint

THE SMITH’S YARD
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEIL WHISTLER (1834 – 1903) THE SMITH’S YARD 1895 (Spink, Stratis & Tedeschi 124) lithograph, 1895, on wove paper, from the edition of 3000, published by The Inter...
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1890s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Lithograph

My Bicentennial Print
By Herbert L. Fink
Located in Fairlawn, OH
My Bicentennial Print Photo etching, 1976 Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo) Titled and numbered in pencil loer left (see photo) Edition: 21 (16/21) There also appears to be an additon of 100. Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 14 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches Sheet size: 22 1/8 X 30 inches The artist's commentrary on the Bicentennial Year of 1976 In 1965 Fink was awarded a Gugenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Fine Arts. Herbert Lewis Fink, painter, printmaker, sculptor, and educator, born was in Providence, Rhode Island on September 8, 1921. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1941, he received is B.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1949, his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1956, and he also studied for a year at the Art Students League and with John Frazier...
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1970s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Etching

Untitled
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Color lithograph, 1959 Unsigned (as issued) From: Derriere Le Miroir, No. 113, 1959 Publisher: Editions Pierre a Feu Editor: A. Maeght Small edition as it appeared in the ma...
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1950s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Lithograph

Impression B
By Toshi Yoshida 1
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Impression B Color woodcut, 1959 Signed and dated lower right (see photo) Titled lower left (see photo) A trial proof, prior to the edition of 100, signed and numbered Condition: Excellent Image size: 14 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist by decent to his heirs "Printmaker and painter Toshi Yoshida was born on July 25, 1911, into the respected Yoshida family of artists of Tokyo, Japan. Father Hiroshi was a celebrated landscape painter and printmaker, and mother Fujio established herself as the first female Yoshida artist as well as an Abstract artist later in her career. Younger brother Hodaka was an Abstract printmaker whose style, completely separate from his family's historic traditional bent, later influenced Toshi. Hodaka's wife Chizuko would become a pioneering female Japanese artist whose own exploration of Surrealism and Abstraction challenged the status quo. Toshi, however, as the eldest sibling, was expected to follow in his father's footsteps, and from an early age he was trained by Hiroshi in his studio. Unable to attend formal schooling due to the polio-induced paralyzation of his leg, Toshi would instead help with his family's printmaking studio and go on sketching trips with Hiroshi. As he got older, these trips would include India and Southeast Asia, working from morning to night taking night trains to get from one destination to another. Among Toshi's favorite subjects were the animals he discovered along the way. However, these trips ended as Japan entered military dictatorship in the mid 1930s, and artists whose work showed signs of Western influence were barred from exhibiting. At this time, Toshi left Japan for China and Korea, where he would remain for the duration of the war. He stuck to patriotic themes to remain in business, and after the end of World War II, as Japan struggled to recover from wartime economic depression, he earned his living creating traditional Japanese woodcut landscapes...
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1950s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Woodcut

Figured Base
By William Wegman
Located in New York, NY
2015, pigment print, mounted: 30 x 24 inches, edition of 7 Edition of 7 "Figured Base" is part of Wegman's artistic exploration of photography and staged scenes. The artwork is rep...
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21st Century and Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Archival Pigment

Inspiration
Located in Storrs, CT
"Inspiration" is a part of Christopher Kennedy's "Trees Revered" series that uses his abstract PhotoLuminism technique combined with trees from the real world to create an otherworld...
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2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Metal

America's Cup - 1967. Wing Mark, Intrepid and Dame Pattie.
By Joseph Webster Golinkin
Located in New York, NY
AMERICA'S CUP - 1967. WING MARK. INTREPID - DAME PATTIE [AUS]. This Joseph Webster Golinkin watercolor of the 1967 America's Cup depicts the...
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1960s Naturalistic International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Watercolor

'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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Lithograph

The Little Wheelwright's
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Little Wheelwright's. 1886. Etching. Kennedy 245; Glasgow 242. 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 (sheet 5 1/8 x 6 1/8). There was no lifetime edition. Glasgow lists only 13 other known impressions. A fine impression printed in black ink on white laid paper. Monogrammed with the butterfly in the plate. Housed in a 10 X 11 1/2 X 1-inch gold leaf period carved Celtic...
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Mid-19th Century American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Etching

Ecstasy
Located in Storrs, CT
"Ecstasy" 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 way...
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2010s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Metal

Cones
Located in Storrs, CT
Cones is a painting of light 'unseen.' When light travels, the human eye doesn't see its trails, but the camera does. My usual version of light painting involves leaving the light so...
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2010s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Metal

Discontiguous
Located in Storrs, CT
"Discontiguous" was created in the field behind my second house in Pennsylvania. It's a light painting captured in about 30 seconds. Printed on flat archival paper, double matted, ...
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2010s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Archival Paper, Inkjet

L'escargot
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952 From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54' Pr...
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1950s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Lithograph

Alexander Street
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from three zinc plates printed in emerald green, red brown, and grey with hand colouring in yellow watercolour and red gouache. On Velin Arches mould-made paper (300 gsm) ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Color, Lithograph

Alexander Street
$3,783 Sale Price
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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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

Materials

Linocut

Lithographie originale our XXe siecle
By Hans Hartung
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lithographie originale our XXe siecle Color lithograph, 1964 Unsigned (as issued) From: XXe siecle, Permanence du Sacre, No. 24 Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro, Paris Printed by Mourlot...
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1960s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Lithograph

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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Photogravure

Park Scene (Chelsea, Manhattan)
By Virginia Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Park Scene (Chelsea, Manhattan) Oil on artist's board, c. 1947-49 Signed lower right (see photo) Provenance: Estate of the artist Dehn Heirs Condition: Good, needs a light cleaning Original wormy chestnut frame Painting size: 9 1/4 x 12 inches Frame size: 14 1/4 x 17 inches One of the earliest know Virginia Dehn paintings after her marriage to Adolf in 1947. The lived in Chelsea at 433 West 21st St. Inscription by artist verso: Virginia Dehn 443 W. 21 St. New York City V.70 Virginia Dehn From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Virginia Dehn Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections. Life Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered. Early career Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut. Virginia and Adolf Dehn The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work. The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India. Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies. Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
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1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

Materials

Oil

VILLAGE SCENE / TOWN FESTIVAL
By Herbert Gurschner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HERBERT GURSCHNER (Austrian / English (1901-1975) VILLAGE SCENE / TOWN FESTIVAL ca.1924 Color woodcut 4 ¾ x 5 3/8” Signed in pencil. Good strong colors. On thin paper. Faint darkeni...
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1920s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Woodcut, Linocut

Loading the Catch [Katwyck Aan Zee]
By Charles Paul Gruppe
Located in Storrs, CT
Charles Paul Gruppé. Loading the Catch [Katwyck Aan Zee] c. 1892. Watercolor. 14 1/2 x 17 1/2 (framed 19 1/2 x 23 1/2). Signed, lower left. Housed in an archival French mat and champ...
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Late 19th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Watercolor

Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Brushed aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on German Etching paper 71.8 x 56.5 cms (28 1/4 x 22 1/4 ins) Edition of 32
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1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Spring (Fruling) (also known as Street in Frankfort)
By Max Beckmann
Located in New York, NY
Max Beckmann, Spring (Fruling) (also known as Street in Frankfort), etching and drypoint, 1918, signed lower right. Reference: Hofmaier 133IIb, from the edition of 60 on laid paper; ...
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1910s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

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Drypoint, Etching

THE FORGE - Rich Drypoint
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEIL WHISTLER (1834 – 1903) THE FORGE 1866 (Kennedy. 68 iv/vi: Glascow 86 vi/vi) Etching and drypoint. Signed and dated in the plate 1866. VERY GOOD IMPRESSION WITH...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

Materials

Drypoint

Tropic Fruit
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
80 x 94 cms (31.5 x 37 ins) Edition of 100
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1980s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art

Materials

Color, Screen

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