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Nets – Mid-Century Modernism, Atelier 17
By Sigismond Kolos-Vari
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Sigismond Kolos-Vari, 'Nets', color etching with soft-ground and aquatint, edition 200 (1 of 60 artist's proofs), 1952. Signed and dated in pencil. Numbered L/LX in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, off-white, Arches wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Published by the Guide de la Gravure, Switzerland, with their blindstamp in the bottom left sheet corner. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 11 3/4 x 15 5/8 inches (298 x 397 mm); sheet size 15 x 22 1/4 inches (381 x 565 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sigismund Kolos-Vari was born in Hungary and attended the School of Applied Arts in Budapest from 1915 to 1918 and then the School of Decorative Arts until 1925. The artist settled in Paris, and his first one-person show in 1928 at Galerie Miromesnil, which was highly successful, led to numerous subsequent exhibitions, including with the prestigious Galerie Bonaparte in 1929 and Galerie Povolosky in 1930.
Kolos-Vari’s early success was abruptly interrupted by the outbreak of WWII when he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Gurs internment camp. During this period, he created a sketchbook for a little girl, which is now preserved at the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris. He managed to escape after two years, crossing the border into Switzerland. After the war, he returned to Paris with a renewed dedication to his painting, producing increasingly powerful compositions. His work was highly acclaimed when shown at an important 1946 exhibition at the Musée National d’Art Moderne de Paris, organized by Jean Cassou. The artist was then approached by the eminent art dealer Jean Bucher, who gave Kolos-Vary a major one-person show at his gallery in 1948. During this post-war period, Kolos-Vary participated in the radical Salon de Mai, 1949-1958, the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, 1956-1961, and the Salon des Comparaisons, 1960-1962.
Supported by his association with Stanley William Hayter and the landmark printmaking workshop Atelier 17...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
'Salient in February' — Mid-Century Abstraction
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Salient in February', color serigraph, 1945, edition 25, Ryan 166. Signed in pencil. Titled, dated, and annotated 'ED. 40' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream, wove paper; with full margins (1 3/4 to 2 5/8 inches, top sheet edge deckle); in excellent condition. Image size 9 x 11 inches; sheet size 12 3/4 x 16 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Edward Landon dropped out of high school to study art at the Hartford Art School. In 1930 and 1931, he was a student of Jean Charlot at the Art Students League in New York, after which he traveled to Mexico to study privately for a year with Carlos Merida. In 1933 he settled near Springfield, Massachusetts, painted murals in the local trade school, and exhibited with the Springfield Art League. His painting 'Memorial Day' won first prize at the fifteenth annual exhibition of the League at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. Landon became an active member of the Artists Union of Western Massachusetts, serving as president from 1934-1938.
Landon acquired Anthony Velonis’s instructional pamphlet on the technique of serigraphy in the late 1930s. With colleagues Phillip Hicken, Donald Reichert, and Pauline Stiriss, he began experimenting with screen printing techniques. The artists' groundbreaking work in screen printing as a fine art medium was the subject of the group’s landmark exhibition at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts in 1940.
Landon became one of the founding members of the National Serigraph Society and served as editor of its publication, 'Serigraph Quarterly,' in the late 1940s and as its president in 1952 and 1953. The Norlyst Gallery in Manhattan held a one-person show of his prints in 1945. Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1950, Landon traveled to Norway, where he researched the history of local artistic traditions and produced the book 'Scandinavian Design: Picture and Rune Stones...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
TUBE STAIRCASE - Unique Trial Proof
By Cyril Power
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CYRIL POWER (1874 - 1951)
THE TUBE STAIRCASE, 1929 (Coypel CEP 11)
Linocut, a likely unique proof impression of the key block in reverse, suggesting a counterproof. Unsigned. 17 ½” x 10”, sheet 20 x 14 ¾”. On a sheet of brown wove paper similar to newsprint. A few repaired tears in the margins. Provenance: Redfern Gallery, 2014 with label and inventory no. Redfern Gallery has represented the Grosvenor School...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
$9,750 Sale Price
27% Off
Mercury
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Mercury
1963
Lithograph on BFK Rives paper, Edition of 20
60 .3 x 47.6 cms (23 3/4 x 18 3/4 ins)
SF16664
Literature:
The Prints of Sam Francis: A Catalogue Raisonne 196...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$8,500
'Salient in February' — Mid 20th-Century Surrealism
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'Salient in February', color serigraph, 1945, edition 40, Ryan 166. Signed in pencil. Titled, dated, and annotated 'ED. 40' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh col...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Mary, Mary
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in London, GB
Screenprint and offset lithograph in colours, 1987, on wove paper, signed in pencil by the artist, one of 10 printer's proofs, aside from standard edition of 72, published by Lincoln...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset, Screen
Delta (River delta in front of mountains in volcanic landscape, Iceland)
By Udo Claassen
Located in New Orleans, LA
Delta was first brought to attention as one of the dramatic images illustrated in Carol Wax's book, The Mezzotint, History and Technique. It was also exhibited at the New Orleans Mu...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
'Arrangement with Blue Major' — Musically Inspired Modernist Abstraction
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Arrangement with Blue Major', color serigraph, edition 40, 1942, Ryan 9. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 40' in pencil. A superb impression, with fresh colors, on cream, wove paper; the full sheet with margins (3/4 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 15 x 9 3/4 inches (381 x 248 mm); sheet size 17 15/16 x 11 3/4 inches (456 x 298 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed.
'Arrangement with Blue Major' was selected for the landmark ‘Artists for Victory’ exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1942. Impressions of this work are also in the collections of the Asheville Art Museum, Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, Georgetown University (Special Collections), Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Rutgers University, Smith College Museum of Art, and the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Edward Landon dropped out of high school to study art at the Hartford Art School. In 1930 and 1931, he was a student of Jean Charlot at the Art Students League in New York, after which he traveled to Mexico to study privately for a year with Carlos Merida. In 1933 he settled near Springfield, Massachusetts, painted murals in the local trade school, and exhibited with the Springfield Art League. His painting 'Memorial Day' won first prize at the fifteenth annual exhibition of the League at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. Landon became an active member of the Artists Union of Western Massachusetts, serving as president from 1934-1938.
Landon acquired Anthony Velonis’s instructional pamphlet on the technique of serigraphy in the late 1930s. With colleagues Phillip Hicken, Donald Reichert, and Pauline Stiriss, he began experimenting with screen printing techniques. The artists' groundbreaking work in screen printing as a fine art medium was the subject of the group’s landmark exhibition at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts in 1940.
Landon became one of the founding members of the National Serigraph Society and served as editor of its publication, 'Serigraph Quarterly,' in the late 1940s and as its president in 1952 and 1953. The Norlyst Gallery in Manhattan held a one-person show of his prints in 1945. Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1950, Landon traveled to Norway, where he researched the history of local artistic traditions and produced the book 'Scandinavian Design: Picture and Rune Stones...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
In White with Green Stripe
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Rober Motherwell
In White with Green Stripe
1987
Lithograph, relief print, embossing and collage
86.4 x 61 cms (34 x 24 ins)
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
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 Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
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 Abstract Prints
Materials
Watercolor
$750 Sale Price
25% Off
'Time Silhouette' —Mid-Century Modernism
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Time Silhouette', color serigraph, 1969, edition 30, Ryan 201. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 30' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wo...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Homme couche et femme accroupie
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Homme couche et femme accroupie
Lithograph on Arches paper, 1956
Signature stamp lower right )see photo)
Annotated in pencil lower left: "epreuve d'artiste" (see p[hoto)
Edition: 50...
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1950s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Plate VI, Le Cocu Magnifique
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate VI, Le Cocu Magnifique
etching & aquatint, 1968
Unsigned as usual
From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions printed on Rives BFK paper
There is also a signed edition of 30 i...
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1960s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Elegy Fragment II
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on Georges Duchene Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper
87.6 x 61 cm (34 1/2 x 24 inches)
Edition of 52
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
'Easter Sunday' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Easter Sunday', color lithograph, 1946, edition 31. Signed, dated, titled and numbered '116' and '17/31' in pen. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, off-white wove paper; full margins (1 1/4 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 21 x 13 1/2 inches; sheet size 24 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a well-known modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus. He received his degree in architecture and design from the Armour Institute in Chicago and worked at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1924-27, where he was influenced by Harry Kurt Bieg and Le Corbusier. Upon his return to Chicago, Faro worked with the important modernist Chicago architects George and William Keck under Louis Sullivan.
Faro founded the avant-garde printmaking group Vanguard in 1945. The group counted Atelier 17 artists Stanley William Hayter, Sue Fuller...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Double Personage
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Double Personage
Color lithograph, 1975 (?)
Unsigned (as issued)
Edition: Large Edition Limited, (estimated to be approximately 2000)
Published in: XXe Siecle, No. 52, Juin 1979
Published: G. di San Lazzaro
Printer: Mourlot Imprimeur, Paris, France
Reference: Lam-Tonneau-Ryckelynck L7513
Condition: Excellent, fresh colors
Traces of glue residue along margin edge where it was bound in the book
Image/sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches
Wilfredo Lam (1902-1982)
Biography
Wifredo Lam was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, on December 8, 1902. He was the eighth child born to Lam-Yam―born in Canton around 1820, an immigrant to the Americas in 1860―and to Ana Serafina Catilla―born in 1862 in Cuba of mixed African and Spanish ancestry.
The luxuriant nature of Sagua la Grande had a strong impact on Lam from early childhood. One night in 1907, he was startled by the strange shadows cast on the wall of his bedroom of a bat in flight. He often recounted the incident as his first magnificent awakening to another dimension to existence.
In 1916, Lam and part of his family settled in Havana. He was enrolled in the Escuela Profesional de Pintura y Escultura, Academia de San Alejandro, where he remained a student until 1923. This period, with exhibitions at the Salón de Bellas artes, was determinant in his choice to become a painter. In 1923, the municipality of Sagua la Grande awarded him a grant to study in Europe and by the autumn of that year, at the age of twenty-one, he left the country for Spain.
His time in Spain―initially intended as a short stay on his way to Paris―lasted 14 years. In Madrid, he was exposed to the ideas and movements of modern art. He spent long hours at the Archeological Museum and the Prado. He studied the great masters of Spanish painting, Velázquez and Goya, but felt particularly drawn to the works of Bosch and Bruegel the Elder. In 1931, his first wife, Eva (Sébastiana Piriz) and their son Wilfredo Victor died of tuberculosis. The terrible suffering he endured led to numerous paintings of mother and child. Lam found solace in the company of his Spanish friends and made contact with several political organizations. In 1936, with the help of his friend Faustino Cordón, he joined the Republican forces in their fight against Franco. He designed anti-Fascist posters and took part in the struggle by working in a munitions factory. The violence of the struggle inspired his painting La Guerra Civil.
In 1938, Lam left Spain for Paris. Shortly before leaving, he met Helena Holzer, who would become his wife in 1944. His meeting Picasso in his studio on the Rue des Grands Augustins proved decisive. Picasso introduced his new “cousin” to his painter, poet and art critic friends, Braque, Matisse, Miró, Léger, Eluard, Leiris, Tzara, Kahnweiler, Zervos. Lam also met Pierre Loeb, the owner of the Galerie Pierre in Paris, which hosted Lam’s first solo exhibition in 1939.
Shortly before the Germans arrived, Lam left Paris for Bordeaux and then Marseille, where many of his friends, for the most part surrealists, had gathered around André Breton in the Villa Air Bel: Pierre Mabille, René Char, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, Oscar Domínguez, André Masson, Benjamin Péret. In the Villa Air Bel, a meeting place for creativity and experimentation, Lam worked and produced, most notably, a series of ink drawings that set the tone for what would become his signature style of hybrid figures, a vocabulary he would develop more fully during his years in Cuba from 1941 to 1947.
In January and February 1941, Lam illustrated Breton’s poem Fata Morgana which was censored by the Vichy government. On March 25, Lam and Helena Holzer embarked on the “Capitaine Paul Lemerle” headed for Martinique, in the company of some 300 other artists and intellectuals―André Breton and Claude Lévi-Strauss among them. Upon arrival, the passengers were interred at Trois Îles. It was during this forced passage in Martinique and before leaving for Cuba that Lam and Aimé Césaire met for the first time to become life-long friends.
Newly settled in his native land after almost twenty years, Lam delved deeper into his artistic investigations, finding nourishment for his ideas in the surroundings of his childhood and youth. His sister Eloisa, whom he was closest to, explained to him in much detail the workings of Afro-Cuban rituals and he began attending ritual ceremonies with some of his friends. This contact with Afro-Cuban culture brought new impetus to his art. He painted over one hundred canvases, most notably La Jungla, making the year 1942 his most productive of this period. Over the next few years, a number of exhibitions followed in the United States, at the Institute of Modern Art of Boston, at the MoMA of New York, at the Galerie Pierre Matisse, where La Jungla was presented and created a scandal.
In 1946, Lam and Helena travel to Haiti and attend voodoo ceremonies in the company of Pierre Mabille and André Breton. Talking about his experience in Haiti, Lam said, “It is often assumed that my work took its final form in Haiti, but my stay there, like the trips I made to Venezuela, Colombia or to the Brazilian Mato Grosso only broadened its scope. I could have been a good painter from the School of Paris, but I felt like a snail out of its shell. What really broadened my painting is the presence of African poetry.”
Picasso_Lam_Vallauris_1954_vignette
Wifredo Lam et Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, 1954
Lam then went on to New York where he renewed contact with Marcel Duchamp and made new acquaintances: Jeanne Reynal, James Johnson Sweeney, Arshile Gorky, John Cage, Roger Wilcox, Mercedes Matter, Ian Hugo, Jesse Fernández, John Cage, Sonia Sekula and Yves Tanguy. By the end of the 1940s, Lam divided his time between Europe, Havana and New York, where they stayed with Pierre and Teeny Matisse...
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1970s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
'Feu sous L'eau' (Fire Under Water) —Mid-century Modernism, Atelier 17
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stanley William Hayter, 'Feu sous L'eau (Fire Under Water)', color engraving, soft-ground etching and scorper with yellow silkscreen, 1955, edition 50 plus 10 artist proofs, Black & Moorhead 221. Signed, titled 'Fire Under Water', dated and annotated 'Essai' in pencil. Dedicated in the artist’s hand 'for Adja & Dove WH Bill 17–5–55' in the top margin. A superb, richly inked impression with fresh colors, on heavy, cream wove paper; wide margins (2 1/2 to 3 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. One of 10 artist’s proofs. Image size 10 3/16 x 7 inches; sheet size 18 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
In 1950 Hayter returned to Paris and reopened Atelier 17. Works such as 'Fire Under Water' reveal newfound influences, such as that of the Ardèche area of southern France, where he acquired a house in 1951 and frequently visited. Hayter took great interest in the flowing Escoutay River, an experience that parallels the artist and co-director of Atelier 17 Krishna Reddy’s interest in depicting water. While some forms in this print evoke the natural world, the palette of contrasting tones of purple, yellow, black, and white reflects Hayter’s belief in using color intuitively to express emotions and evoke feelings. The sharp white relief lines from the paper and the textural effects realized through soft-ground etching operate in tandem with the sweeping curves and bold colors to give the composition a sense of vitality and dynamism.
—edited from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published by 'La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine', Paris.
Impressions of this work are in the following collections: British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris, now known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists he is credited with influencing are Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall.
The hallmark of the workshop was its egalitarian structure, breaking sharply with the traditional French engraving studios by insisting on a cooperative approach to labor and technical discoveries. In 1929 Hayter was introduced to Surrealism by Yves Tanguy and André Masson, who, with other Surrealists, worked with Hayter at Atelier 17. The often violent imagery of Hayter’s Surrealist period was stimulated in part by his passionate response to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism. He organized portfolios of graphic works to raise funds for the Spanish cause, including Solidarité (Paris, 1938), a portfolio of seven prints, one of them by Picasso. Hayter frequently exhibited with the Surrealists during the 1930s but left the movement when Paul Eluard was expelled. Eluard’s poem Facile Proie (1939) was written in response to a set of Hayter’s engravings. Other writers with whom Hayter collaborated included Samuel Beckett and Georges Hugnet.
Hayter joined the exile of the Parisian avant-garde in 1939, moving with his second wife, the American sculptor Helen Phillips...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Engraving, Etching
Sud (South)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is #5 out of 40
Anne Dykmans was born in Verviers, Belgium, in 1952. She is a graduate of l’École Nationale d’Architecture et des Arts Visuels de La Cambre in Brussels, where she studied printmaking. Specialist of the Mezzotint (mezzotinto) technique, she is especially known for her prints of interior scenes, where light and dark come together in amazing chiaroscuro effects. She has presented her work in solo and group shows in Belgium and in many countries including; among others: France, Germany, Spain, Canada, Japan, China, and the USA. She was awarded in 1983 the Prix de la Jeune Gravure Belge in Antwerp. In 1986 she received the Prize of the 8th Biennale of Engraving of Fredrikstad, Norway. She won in 1988 the Gold Medal at the 2nd Triennial of Mezzotint Engraving of Sopot, Poland. Her prints are included in many private and public collections around the world.
Anne Dykmans taught engraving from 1984 to 2017 at the Constantin Meunier...
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Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
'Forms in White' – Mid-Century Abstraction
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Forms in White', color serigraph, 1950, edition 30, Ryan 85. Signed in pencil. Dated, titled, annotated 'ED. 30' and '5 COLORS' in the screen, bottom center sheet edg...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Screen
Untitled II
By Thomas Nozkowski
Located in New York, NY
linocut printed in 25 colors on Hahnemuhle paper
For over thirty years, Nozkowski has practiced his own form of idiosyncratic abstraction, foregoing a signature style or subject mat...
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2010s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
ORANGE OVAL
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Portland, ME
Gottlieb, Adolph (American, 1903-1974) ORANGE OVAL, Screenprint in colors, 1972. Edition of 150, printed on wove paper. Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 143/150. Printed by Kelpr...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Screen
Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM
Color lithograph, 1968
Unsigned as issued in DLM
Published in Derriere le Miroir (Behind the Mirror), calle...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
THE MOST FORMAL GARDEN
By Leonard Edmondson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEONARD EDMONDSON (1916 – 2002)
THE MOST FORMAL GARDEN, c. 1965
Color intaglio signed titled and annotated “Artist’s Proof"
Irregular platemark 10 ¼ x14...
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1960s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
The Robot
By Mary Weatherford
Located in Houston, TX
Mary Weatherford
The Robot, 2018
Spit bite aquatint on gampi paper chine collé
35 1/4 x 28 1/2 in (89.5 x 72.4 cm)
Edition of 25
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Plate 12
By Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate 12
From: 10 Origi, 1942
Signed in the block with the artist's initials lower left (printed)
From: 10 Origin
Not from the First edition 100, published by Allianz-Verlag, Zurich,...
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1970s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
ENCLOSURE 12
By Kunihiro Amano
Located in Portland, ME
Amano, Kunihiro (Japanese, born 1929). ENCLOSURE 12. Color Woodblock, not dated. Edition of 30. Titled, Numbered 21/30, and signed in pencil. 18 x 13 1/2 inches. In excellent condit...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Elegy Black Black, a beautiful lithography from Motherwell's elegy series
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
extract from the catalogue raisonné:
CR 309
Signature:Signed Motherwell in pencil lower right
Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Soho Dreams
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in London, GB
Etching, aquatint and drypoint in colours, 1987, on Magnani paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 71 (there were also 8 artist’s proofs), published by 2RC E...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Indian Leaves
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Howard Hodgkin produced the lithograph Indian Leaves in 1982 on the occasion of his exhibition of the same title at Tate, London, in the same year. After it was decided that the pri...
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Carnival
By Richard Florsheim
Located in New York, NY
Richard Florsheim created this color lithograph entitled “Carnival” in 1972 in an edition of 30 pieces. Published by Associated American Artists and printed by Landfall Press, this i...
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1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
INTERFACE
By Thomas Barrett
Located in Portland, ME
Barrett, Thomas. INTERFACE. Screenprint in colors, not dated. Edition of 100. Numbered 48/100, titled and signed and dated in pencil. 22 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches. In excellent condition.
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20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Stones
By Marc Balakjian
Located in New Orleans, LA
Marc Balakjian was enigmatic in his subject matter creating images that are disturbing in their ambiguity. Is this image just striped fabric tied with ropes on a platform or is this is a flag-draped coffin symbolizing those who passed "in memory of an historic phrase"? Politicians may turn the phrase but a price must be paid. This small edition mezzotint was created in 1975 in an edition of only 5.
Armenian by descent, Marc Balakjian was raised in Lebanon. He spent his early years in the small town of Rayak, before moving to Beirut at the age of 10. He came to England in 1966, initially to study architecture with a firm in Oxford. He then decided to study art at Hammersmith College of Art and took up a postgraduate degree in printmaking at the Slade School of Art in 1971. After graduating he began working at Studio Prints in 1973, just as it was establishing itself in Queen’s Crescent. By 1976 he had become a full time partner, collaborating with other artists as well as continuing his own work, much of which is inspired by his Armenian and Lebanese culture and heritage.
By the 1980s work was falling off, so Balakjian and Studio Prints introduced in-house plate-making to serve painters and sculptors who had little experience with printmaking. Artists such as Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Ken Kiff...
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1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Mezzotint
$160 Sale Price
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Fleditwerk
By Jurgen Peters
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Fleditwerk
Serigraph, 1970
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil by the artist.
Publisher: Kunstverein Braunschweig blindstamp lower left
Edition: 100 (66/100)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 22 x 22...
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1970s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Screen
UNTITLED
By Ynez Johnston
Located in Portland, ME
Johnston, Ynez. UNTITLED. Etching, not dated (but likely 1950s). Edition of 20, signed in pencil and numbered 4/20. 6 7/8 x 9 inches (plate), 8 x 10 5/8 inches (sheet). In excellent ...
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Etching
$1,400
Oiseau solaire, oiseau lunaire, etincelles (Solar Bird, Lunar Bird, Sparks)
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Oiseau solaire, oiseau lunaire, etincelles
(Solar Bird, Lunar Bird, Sparks)
Color lithograph, 1967
Published in "Revue XXe Siecle, Volume 28
Published by San Lazzaro
Printed by A. Ma...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Untitled (Martha Jackson Gallery Poster)
By Walasse Ting
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Martha Jackson Gallery Poster)
Lithograph, 1960
Signed and dated in red crayon by the artist
Edition 90 (63/90)
1st state before letters for the poster created for the Martha Jackson Gallery, Ting Exhibition, April 23-May 31, 1960
Printed on wove paper with a ”JAPAN' watermark
Edition: 90
Provenance: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Anderson Gallery
David K. Anderson Collection (label)
Walasse Ting (Chinese: 丁雄泉, 13 October 1929 – May 17, 2010)[1] was a Chinese-American visual artist and poet. His colorful paintings have attracted critical admiration and a popular following. Common subjects include nude women and cats, birds and other animals.
He was born on 13 October 1929 in Shanghai, left China in 1946 and lived for a while in Hong Kong, then settled in Paris in 1952.[2] There, he associated with artists such as Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group CoBrA. Ting started his career as an artist in Paris in the 1950s, where he became friends with artists such as Sam Francis and Pierre Alechinsky. His early works were influenced by the CoBrA group, a European art movement known for its use of expressive, childlike imagery. In the 1960s, Ting moved to New York City and became associated with the Pop Art movement. Ting is perhaps best known for his series of paintings featuring women, which he called "Cat Women...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Fourteen
By Mary Lee Bendolph
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint.
Edition of 50
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Lino Litho BR, Planche IX
By Pierre Alechinsky
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lino Litho BR, Planche IX
Linocut and lithograph, 1970
Signed lower right of central image (see photo)
Edition: 99 (56/99) (see photo)
Published by London Arts Group, Detroit
Conditi...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate X
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate X
Color lithograph, 1976
Signed in pencil lower right corner (see photo)
From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buque Fantasma
(The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship (1868), 12 illustration by Wilfredo Lam
Edition: 99 (6/99)
This one of an edition of 99 from the delixe edition of the book of the same title
There was an additional edition of 200 books, signed and numbered on the justification page
Publisher: Poligrafa, Barcelona
Printer: Poligrafa, Barcelona
The Gabriel Garcia Marquez/Lam book is an illustrated version of the short story, a man recalls the night during his boyhood when an enormous passenger ship went aground in his small town on the shores of the Caribbean. It is considered a Latin American masterpiece of surrealism and transculturation. (See below analysis of the story)
Sheet size: 29 7/8 x 22 inches
Condition: Very fresh colors and condition
Slight scuffing verso from previous hinges
Reference: Lam-Tonneau-Ryckelnck CR360
About the author and the storyline of the book by Marquez:
Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927, he is a famous Colombian writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. In 1982 he received the Novel Prize for Literature. He is an author sometimes inherently related to magical realism and his best-known work is the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude...
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1970s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
$1,575 Sale Price
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Untitled #5
By Thomas Nozkowski
Located in New York, NY
2012, 4-plate aquatint with 22 colors, 21 7/8 x 29 3/8 inches, edition of 25
For over thirty years, Nozkowski has practiced his own form of idiosyncratic abstraction, foregoing a si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
TWO BARS
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Portland, ME
Gottlieb, Adolph (American, 1903-1974). TWO BARS. Color lithograph, 1969. Edition of 100, Signed and dated, and numbered 11/100, all in pencil. Exhibition label, verso. 29 1/2 x 21. ...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Calligraphy
By Ulfert Wilke
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Calligraphy
Lithograph, 1969
Edition: 260
Signed in script by the artist (see photo)
Signed with initials and dated by the artist (see photo)
Publication for the Print Club of Cleveland, No. 47 for 1969
Printer: Hollander Workshop, New York, with their chopstamp (see photo)
Ulfert Wilke (1907–1987) was an internationally recognized painter, calligrapher and art collector connected to the abstract expressionism movement. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1938. He is best known for his large canvas paintings and highly detailed lithographs that were inspired by calligraphic writing. Wilke was deeply intrigued by the written language, and much of his work was derived from his abstract interpretation of the shapes, colors and meanings of writing that he found in all languages and forms, including the poetry and ancient engravings...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Untitled
By Frank Stella
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A unique example of a section of color lithograph including hand editions by the artist, collaged on a support board.
Signed, dated, and inscribed "For Pat" in ink in the image. (s...
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1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Bouquet de reves pour Leila-Poemes d'Yuan Goll
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bouquet de reves pour Leila-Poemes d'Yuan Goll
Color lithograph, 1964
Unsigned (as issued)
From: XXe siecle, No. 24, December 1964
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro, Paris
Printer: Mourlot, Paris
Edition: c. 1500
Reference: Mourlot 546
Condition: Excellent
Glue residue on left amrgin from binding in the book
XXe Siecle (20th century-review) New series
Back in Paris in 1949, Gualtieri di San Lazzaro resumed 20TH century publishing in 1951.
It hosts many of the most important writers and art critics of the 1950s and 1960s, including Alain Bosquet , Genevieve Bonnefoi, Camille Bourniquel , Georges Borgeaud, Marcel Brion , Georges Boudaille, Jacques Brosse , Michel Butor , Jean Cassou , Denys Chevalier, Pierre Courthion, Hubert Damisch , Pierre Descargues, Bernard Dorival , Jacques Dupin , Mircea Eliade , Jean-Louis Ferrier , Pierre Francastel , André Frenaud , Roger Van Gindertael...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Meduse
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Meduse
Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1958
Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil
(see photos)
Edition: 50 (25/50)
Etching and aquatint printed in colors
...
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1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
AGM 167
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Portland, ME
Agam, Yakov. AGM 167.
Screenprint, not dated.
Published by Circle FIne Art.
Edition of 9, numbered 3/9 and signed in white ink.
5 1/2 x 26 3/4 inches (image),
In excellent condition.
Framed to 24 x 42...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
$2,250
For John Constable
By John Hoyland
Located in London, GB
John Hoyland
For John Constable
1976
Lithograph with acrylic
70 x 96.5 cms (27 1/2 x 38 ins)
JHE017
The ‘For John Constable’ series was commissioned and published by Bernard Jacobson in 1976 to celebrate the bicentenary of John Constable’s birth. It comprised individual works by nineteen artists including Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, Howard Hodgkin, Richard Smith, Duncan Grant, David Hockney, Michael Sandle, Ivor Abrahams, Bill Brandt, Robyn Denny, Barry Flannagan, Anthony Gross...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Acrylic, Lithograph
Composition
By Bernard Mandeville
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Composition
Screenprint in colors, n.d.
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.
(see photos)
Edition: 200 (15/200)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: Image: 9-3/8 x 7-1/2" (24.3 x 19 cm.)
The painter Bernard Mandeville, whose artistic career began in 1935 and ended in 2001, was preceded in name and surname by a famous author...
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20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Screen
Derriere Le Miroir-No. 190-Page 14-15
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derriere Le Miroir-No. 190-Page 14-15
Color lithograph, 1971
Unsigned (as issued)
From: Derriere Le Miroir, No. 190, 1971
Publisher: Aime Maeght, Paris
Printer: L’Imprimerie Arts, Pa...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Downtown, The El
By John Marin
Located in New York, NY
John Marin (1870-1953), Downtown, The El, etching, 1921, signed in pencil lower left (also signed and dated in the plate). Reference: Zigrosser 134, only state. Published initially by Alfred Stieglitz and then included as part of the Folio of American Etchings by the magazine The New Republic in 1924, in an edition of unknown size but probably above 500. In very good condition, the full sheet, on Van Gelder wove paper, 6 3/4 x 8 3/4, the sheet 11 x 13 3/4 inches.
Provenance: Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, New York.
A fine bright impression.
Initially the New Republic Set, sometimes known as Six American Etchings, contained Marin’s Brooklyn Bridge No. 6 (Swaying) (Zigrosser 112). But after a small number of sets were completed, Downtown the El was substituted for Zigrosser 112 (and so the number of Downtown The Els in the set would have been a bit fewer than the others in the set). Zigrosser, who apparently had not seen a complete set at the time he created the catalogue raisonne, conjectured that the substitution might have been because the original plate was damaged. But since the printer, Peter Platt, was the most renowned artist’s printer of his time, and worked alone, it is unlikely that he would have damaged the plate; a more likely possibility is that he switched to a print that was more comparable in size to the others in the set (The Brooklyn Bridge print...
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1920s Futurist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Etching
Dido
By John Hoyland
Located in London, GB
John Hoyland
Dido
1979
Etching, edition of 50
91.5 x 68.5 cms (36 x 27 ins)
JHE001
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
$5,365
Homage to the Square
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
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Embossed relief print on heavy paper
Signed, dated, titled and numbered
Edition: 10 (10/10)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
References And Exhibitions:
This work predates Josef Albers serigraph...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Other Medium
UNTITLED
By Charlie Hewitt
Located in Portland, ME
Hewitt, Charlie. UNTITLED COMPOSITION. Woodcut, not dated, but circa 1995. Edition of 100. Signed and numbered in pencil. 20 x 24 inches. In excellent condition.
Category
1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Woodcut
Annual Edition, 1994
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Annual Edition, 1994
Screen print, 1994
Signed and dated in pencil by the artist.
Small edition
Dedicated in pencil by the artist "For Bart and Ann"
Created as a gift to the artist'...
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1990s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Screen
Fields
By Mary Lee Bendolph
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint.
Edition of 50
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Untitled
By Henri Goetz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: 25 (9/25) (see photo)
Engraving, drypoint & carborundum
Printed by the artist
Condition: Excellent, slight residue on rever...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Debris
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Debris
Etching, engraving and color aquatint, 1947
Signed, dated, titled and number
Edition: 25 (1/25), never fully realized
Created in the artist's first year studying at the Univer...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Untitled
By Henri Goetz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Engraving, drypoint & carborundum, c. 1960's
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 25 (9/25)
Printed by the artist
Condition: Adhesive residue on the verso to...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
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