Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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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PERSONNAGE VIRTUEL
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Portland, ME
Hayter, Stanley William. PERSONNAGE VIRTUEL. BM182. Engraving,
soft-ground etching and scorper, 1947. Edition of 70, signed, dated,
and numbered 42/70, all in pencil. 11 3/4 x 8 7/8...
Category
1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Edge of the Woods.
By William Harry Warren Bicknell
Located in Storrs, CT
Edge of the Woods. 1916. Drypoint. 7 7/8 x 9 3/4 (sheet 10 7/16 x 13 1/8). A rich impression in printed on Japanese paper with an oak leaf watermark. Signed and annotated '3rd state'...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Green Column/Figure
By Robert Mangold
Located in New York, NY
Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, Mangold developed a reductive vocabulary based on geometric forms, monochromatic color, and an emphasis on the flatness of t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Woodcut
Night Visitor
By Barbara Takenaga
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25
Barbara Takenaga is a painter who made her first lithograph at Shark's in the summer of 2002. Her abstract works are full of repeated, obsessive mark ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Red Sea I
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
105.4 x 74 cms (41 1/2 x 29 1/8 ins)
Edition of 100
Paper: Arches Cover
Signature: Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions: Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's c...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Avion
By Piero Dorazio
Located in New York, NY
This print is named Avion, meaning Airplane. It shows diverse, vertical colored stripes, some angular and some slightly curved. Different tones of blue dominate the foreground. Some...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
114.3 x 70.5 cms (45 x 27.76 ins)
Edition of 50
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
De trace de pas de trace de…
By Roberto Matta
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil lower right
Color etching with aquatint
From: Monsour and Matta, Les Damnations, 1966 (11 plates, this one of 7 hors text images)
Edition: 85 portfolios in the re...
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1960s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
'European Landscape' —Mid-century American Surrealism
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'European Landscape', drypoint, edition 50, 1942. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '7/50' in pencil. A superb, finely nuanced impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/4 inches); in excellent condition.
Image size 10 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
An impression of this work is included in the permanent collection of the Syracuse University Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
Category
1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Smoke Sulfur
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
64.8 x 85.7 cms (25.5 x 33.75 ins)
Edition of 30
Paper: Rives BFK
Proofs: 1 BAT, 6 AP (I on Japanese paper), I CTP
Signed lower right; numbered lower left; publisher's cho...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Untitled V (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled IV (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
'Evening' —Mid-Century American Surrealism
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Evening', color serigraph, 1958, edition 25, Ryan 71. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 25' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled VI (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled III (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled II (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled I (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006
Category
1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled
By Bruce McLean
Located in London, GB
Ink, card and painted collage on paper
Edition of 10
101.6 x 80 cms (40 x 31 1/2 ins)
Category
2010s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Paint, Paper, Ink
'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
Untitled
By Jesús Rafael Soto
Located in New York, NY
Jesús Rafael Soto
Untitled, 1970
embossing with etching, edition of 95
37 x 37 in.
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Desert Icon II
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Desert Icon II
Screen print, c. 1968
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition 100 (17/100)
Printed by the artist
This image is the most elaborate of three color var...
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1960s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
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
Royal Insurance Building of Canada. (Royal Globe Insurance Company Building)
By Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Located in Storrs, CT
Royal Insurance Building of Canada. (Royal Globe Insurance Company Building) 1927. Drypoint. 12 x 6 1/2 (sheet 17 1/2 x 10 1/2). A rich impression with selective plate tone printed in black/brown ink on cream wove paper. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
Rosenberg's first published print of 1927 was a drypoint of the Royal Insurance Building of Canada in New York. From his personal journal, we know that it was executed on January 18th in London and that 108 proofs were printed on 'modern' paper and signed.
The alternate name of the building is the Royal Globe Insurance Company Building. It is located in the financial district of Manhattan, 150 William Street to Gold...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads: Crooked Made Straight
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
9-color silkscreen print on plexiglass,
5 x 12” (12,5 x 31cm)
Printed by Atelier für Siebdruck,
Lorenz Boegli, Zurich
Ed. 45/XX, signed and numbered certificate
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Early 2000s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Proscenium IV (grid with lines and white patches)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 40
77.5 x 58.5 cms (30.5 x 23 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Angel (Little Egypt) State II
By Barbara Takenaga
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with pearlescent powder, Edition 15.
Barbara Takenaga writes: “About the prints, they’re part of a series of recent Angel paintings — which were influenced by seeing a small painting fragment of angel’s wings by Fra Angelico. I liked the way the feather pattern is similar to the Asian motif of fish scales or waves of water. There is a reference to the natural world, as well as the heavenly, but in an abstract, decorative approach. With the scale change of smaller elements in the center and larger dots on the edge, there is the implication of folded space that moves from near to distant — with some sensation of being pulled toward a far off place. The metallic background is dusted with gold or pearlescent powder over deep orange, which gives the surface some shimmer and color change. The title, Angel (Little Egypt), comes from the colors that are reminiscent of ancient Egyptian collars...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Accomplissements Libres
By Piero Dorazio
Located in New York, NY
"Accomplissement libres" is an abstract print composed of intensely colored ribbons on a white background. The ribbons are in the colors of a rainbow. They’re twisted which forces th...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Neon
By Carlos Davila 1
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Neon
Intaglio Etching, c. 1970
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 99 (76/99)
Image size: 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Sheet size: 22 x 17 inches
Condition: Excellent
Carlos Dávil...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Surrealist Abstraction II
By Gerome Kamrowski
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Gerome Kamroski, Untitled 'Surrealist Abstraction', drypoint, 1946, edition 28 (editioned in 1996). Signed, dated '1946, ed 1996", and numbered '7/28' in pencil.
A fine impression, ...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Paperclip Suite I (brown)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
44.5 x 44.5 cms (17 1/2 x 17 1/2 ins)
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
UNTITLED
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in Portland, ME
Arnoldi, Charles (American, born 1946). UNTITLED. Etching and aquatint in colors, 1982. Edition of 5, printed at Teaberry Press, San Francisco, with their blindstamps, lower left and...
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1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Proscenium III (hard line grid with border)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 40
77.5 x 58.5 cms (30 1/2x 23 ins)
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Proscenium I (square border around loose lines)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 40
77.5 x 58.5 cms (30 1/2 x 23 ins)
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Paperclip Suite II (yellow / blue)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Etching, Edition of 25
45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch)
By Kurt Seligmann
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KURT SELIGMANN (1900–1962 American, born in Switzerland,)
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch) 1934
Etching and aquatint, unsigned ? possibly a proof aside from The ...
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1930s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
'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
Materials
Screen
Paperclip Suite I (brown)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
44.5 x 44.5 cms (17 1/2 x 17 1/2 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Paperclip Suite IId (yellow/blue)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Paperclip Suite IIb (yellow / blue)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Paperclip Suite I (brown)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
44.5 x 44.5 cms (17 1/2 x 17 1/2 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Paperclip suite IIe
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Frame with Separation
By Robert Mangold
Located in New York, NY
Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, Mangold developed a reductive vocabulary based on geometric forms, monochromatic color, and an emphasis on the flatness of t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Suite Catalana, plate 4
By Antoni Tàpies
Located in London, GB
Aquatint in colours, 1972, on Guarro paper, signed and inscribed in pencil aside from the edition of 75, published by Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 75.7 x 100.5 cm. (29.8 x 39.6...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
'Danse du Soleil' (Sun Dance; Sun Dancer) — Mid-century Modernism, Atelier 17
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stanley William Hayter, 'Danse du Soleil (Danseuse du Soleil; Sun Dance; Sun Dancer)', color engraving, soft-ground etching and scorper; 1 of 10 artist's proofs, edition 200, 1951, Black & Moorhead 197. Signed and annotated 'Epreuve d’Artiste II/XII' in pencil. Inscribed 'Pour Nesto Jacometti avec amitié' in pencil, in the artist’s hand. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on handmade Arches cream wove paper; full margins (2 3/4 to 4 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 15 7/16 x 9 7/16 inches; sheet size 22 1/4 x 15 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Printed by Hayter and Atelier 17. Published by La Guilde Internationale de la Gravure, Geneva.
Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the British Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery.
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 American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
'Flyable Objects Identified' —Mid-Century Modern
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Flyable Objects Identified', color serigraph, 1969, edition 30, Ryan 83. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 30' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, o...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Love Apple (Black background)
By Jane Martin VonBosse
Located in Storrs, CT
Love Apple (Black background). 1967. Linoleum cut printed in brown, red, orange, black and tan. 19 1/2 x 12 1/2 (sheet 22 1/2 x 14 3/16). A vivid impression printed on wove paper pap...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut, Color
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. 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). 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.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sigismond Kolos-Vari (1899-1983) was born in Hungary and attended the School of Applied Arts in Budapest from 1915-1918, and then the School of Decorative Arts until 1925. The artist settled in Paris and his first one-man show in 1928 at Galerie Miromesnil, which was highly successful, led to numerous subsequent exhibitions including the prestigious Galerie Bonaparte in 1929, and Galerie Povolosky in 1930.
Kolos-Vari’s early success was abruptly interrupted by the outbreak of WWII. Imprisoned in a German concentration camp, he managed to escape after two years, crossing the border into Switzerland. After the war he returned to Paris and dedicated himself to his painting, producing increasingly powerful compositions. His work was highly acclaimed when shown at the important 1946 exhibition at the Musée National d’Art Moderne de Paris, organized by Jean Cassou. The artist was subsequently approached by the eminent art dealer Jean Bucher who gave Kolos-Vary a major one-man show at his gallery in 1948. During this post-war period Kolos-Vary participated in the avant garde exhibitions the 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
UNTITLED
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Portland, ME
Agam, Yaacov, (Jacob Gipstein) (Israeli, b. 1928). UNTITLED. Screenprint in colors, not dated. Edition of 180, signed in blue pencil, and numbered 80/180. 26 3/8 x 33 1/4 inches, 669...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Screen
Turkish Delight
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Carborundum etching on paper
Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition History: 'Graphics Drawings and Small Works', Bernard Jacobson Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Circus Wagon
By Louise Nevelson
Located in New York, NY
Louise Nevelson created the etching and aquatint entitled “CIRCUS WAGON” in 1953. This scarce EARLY impression was printed in an edition of 20. The imag...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Soleil Recerclé
By Hans Arp
Located in New York, NY
ARP, Jean. Soleil Recerclé 61 pp. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts plus a signed colour woodcut frontispiece on Rives. 1966. Large folio, 18 1/2 x 14 3/8"( 475 x 380 mm,) loose as iss...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'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
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Greeting Card for 1946-7
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Santa Monica, CA
STANLEY WILLIAM HAYTER (British 1901-1988)
GREETING CARD FOR 1946-7 (Black / Moorheard 176)
Engraving, soft-ground etching, signed and dated 1946. Wit...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
UNTITLED
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Portland, ME
Agam, Yaacov, (Jacob Gipstein) (Israeli, b. 1928). UNTITLED. Screenprint in colors, not dated. Edition of 165, signed with marker, and numbered 164/165. 18 1/2 x 47 3/4 inches, 470 x...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
'Sylvan Maze' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Sylvan Maze', color lithograph, 1946, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled and numbered '112' and '11/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression with fresh colors, on heavy, off-white wove paper; full margins (1 to 1 1/2 inch), in excellent condition. Image size 13 11/16 x 9 11/16 inches; sheet size 16 1/8 x 12 5/16 inches. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a 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
Une Fois Rien (Once Again / No Action)
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Christine Ravaux created Une Fois Rien which is signed by pencil. This impression is #12 of 30
Shades of blacks and grays on a fallen branch create a pleasing pattern contrasted wi...
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Early 2000s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
The World and Its Surroundings, from the Global Editions Series
By Ed Ruscha
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, torn and deckle edges
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
London Series II: Untitled (Blue/Pale Blue)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 150
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
