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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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
Mere
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mere
Etching and soft ground, 1970
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil
Printed in colors by Hector Saunier on BFK Rives paper
Published by Georgetown Graphics, Washington, D...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Miracle
By Marino Marini
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARINO MARINI (1901-1980)
MIRACLE - Etching, Signed and numbered 70 / 75 in pencil. Image 15 ½ x 10 ½ inches,. Full sheet 22 3/8 x 15 inches with deckle edges.
Plate IV of the serie...
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1970s Abstract Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
'Interlinear K50' — Mid-Century Geometric Abstraction
By Josef Albers
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Josef Albers, 'Interlinear K50', zinc plate lithograph offset to stone printing, 1962, edition 20, Danilowitz 151. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '14/20' in pencil. A superb, ri...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Jahn 84)
By Fred Sandback
Located in New York, NY
Fred Sandback was a minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints. He majored in philosophy at Yale Universit...
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1980s Minimalist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Tamarind H)
By Leon Polk Smith
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
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1960s Hard-Edge Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
'The Orange Point' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Thomas A. Robertson
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'The Orange Point', color serigraph, edition 54, c. 1940. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed/54' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; the full sheet wi...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview F
By Leon Polk Smith
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
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...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
COUNTRY CHURCH
Located in Portland, ME
Gerardia, Helen (American, born Ukraine, 1903-1988). COUNTRY CHURCH. Color lithograph, 1956. Signed in pencil. There is also an example of this work in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Ar...
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
#6 — Modernist Abstraction — African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hilliard Dean, '#6', color lithograph, 1970, edition 9. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed 9' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on Arches, ...
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1970s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Flyable Objects Identified' — Mid-Century Modernism
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
Deux Fois Rien (double or nothing)
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Christine Ravaux created Deux 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 w...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Z
By Alicia McCarthy
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color sugarlift aquatint and drypoint.
Edition of 35
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Five Ideas for Sculpture
By Henry Moore
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Five Ideas for Sculpture
Lithograph, 1981
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist lower margin. (see photos)
Edition: (35/50) 50
There were also 15 Roman Numeral artist's proofs....
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1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Astral Comic' — Modernist Abstraction
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'Astral Comic', color serigraph, 1978, edition 25, Ryan 12. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 25' in pencil. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on ...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Screen
ENFANT WITH YELLOW BACKGROUND (BETSY)
By Will Barnet
Located in Portland, ME
Barnet, Will. ENFANT WITH YELLOW BACKGROUND (BETSY). Szoke 108, Cole 106, not in Johnson. Color lithograph, 1951. Edition of 10, titled and signed in pencil. Printed by Barnet and Ro...
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Typografie mit Letraset, Gottschalk, Fritz & Ash Int'l.
By Fritz Gottschalk
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Typographical Exhibition poster for the Kunstgewerbemuseum
Sept 1979, Zurich, Switzerland.
Fritz Gottschalk is a leading exponent and proponent of Swiss graphic design...
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1970s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
POEMS
By Willem de Kooning
Located in Portland, ME
O'Hara, Frank. POEMS. Limited Editions Club, NY, 1988. Edition of 550 copies. Illustrated with 17 original lithographs by Willem De Kooning, and with his authorized facsimile signatu...
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1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Diptych' — Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stanley William Hayter, 'Diptych', color engraving and scorper, 1967, edition 50, Black & Moorhead 314. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '10/50' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh, vibrant colors on antique-white wove BFK Rives paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches). Minor skinning and tape residue on the top and bottom sheet edges, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 13 7/8 x 19 1/2 inches (146 x 108 mm); sheet size 19 7/8 x 25 3/8 inches (394 x 292 mm).
Hayter created this work using engraving and scorper on 2 plates, printed side by side. He used alkali blue, printed intaglio, and a phthalo green with a hard roller on the surface. The proofing was in three states, the first with engraving (a single proof); the second adding further engraving and scorper (a single proof); the third added further engraving and editioned: color trial proofs, 5 artist's proofs, edition of 50. The edition was completed in three printings: 8 in 1967; then Hector Saunier printed numbers 9 through 18 in 1968, and numbers 19 through 50 in 1969. This impression is from the Saunier 1968 printing.
Note: the online image cannot accurately convey the vibrancy of the printed alkali blue/phthalo green.
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 in this way 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...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
'Blue Eyes' — Erotic Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hans Bellmer, 'Blue Eyes', engraving and drypoint, edition 99, 1971. Flahutez 89. Signed and numbered '74/99' in pencil. A fine impression, on Arches cream wove paper; the full sheet...
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1960s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview E
By Leon Polk Smith
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U.S. as the state of Oklahoma, Smith’s parents, who were of Cherokee ancestry, raised him with both a strong sense of his heritage and an abiding respect for the land.
Art would eventually draw Smith to New York where he would quickly embrace elements of geometric abstraction in his work. Many of Smith’s hard-edge compositions could be viewed as distillations of imagery drawn from the Oklahoma landscape...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Eight Variations for Galerie Heiner Friedrich
By Fred Sandback
Located in New York, NY
Fred Sandback was a minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints. He majored in philosophy at Yale Universit...
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1970s Minimalist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Stars - 8 Pointed
By Sol LeWitt
Located in New York, NY
LeWitt has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide since 1965. A leading figure of the Conceptual and Minimalist movements, his prolific ...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Monoprint
Stars - 4 Pointed
By Sol LeWitt
Located in New York, NY
LeWitt has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide since 1965. A leading figure of the Conceptual and Minimalist movements, his prolific ...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Monoprint
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...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
After Echolocation #2
By Fred Tomaselli 1
Located in New York, NY
2000, Iris print on paper, 17 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches (45.1 x 33.7 cm), edition of 100, signed and numbered by the artist
Fred Tomaselli creates psychedelic works that explore human per...
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Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Inkjet
'Dialogue Erudite' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Dialogue Erudite', color lithograph, 1945, edition 16. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '98' and '4/16' in pen. A fine, richly-inked impression with fresh colors, on heavy, off-white wove paper; full margins (1/2 to 1 1/4 inch), in excellent condition. Image size 20 1/2 x 14 3/8 inches; sheet size 22 1/2 x 17 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
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
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Aquatint
Still Life — Mid-century Modern
By Charles Quest
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Still Life', 1947, wood engraving, edition 8. Signed, dated, and numbered '3/8' in pencil. Titled and annotated 'wood engraving' in the bottom left margin. A fine impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929 and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters.
After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter, to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium, which he learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’
In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later, Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’, were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’, and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’ was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’
At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951.
Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’.
An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
ORBITS - Large Hoeckner lithograph
By Carl Hoeckner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CARL HOECKNER (1883 – 1972)
ORBITS, c. 1935
Lithograph, edition unknown but small. Image 11 3/3 \4 x 18 3/8 inches, sheet 12 3/8 x 19. In good condition aside from small margins an...
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1930s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Bird Dog' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Bird Dog', color lithograph with relief collagraph, 1946, edition 14. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '123' (the artist's inventory number) and '12/14' in pen. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, cream, wove paper; the full sheet with margins(1 3/4 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 10 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches (257 x 174 mm); sheet size 17 x 11 7/16 inches (432 x 291 mm).
A collagraph is a relief print made from a collage of various materials adhered to a metal, plastic, hardboard, or other type of ground plate. In this work, the artist appears to have combined a lithograph with a collagraph to achieve the intricately textured image.
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, and Anne Ryan as New York members and Francine Felsenthal of Chicago. The Brooklyn Museum mounted a show of Vanguard artists' work in 1946, which subsequently toured several other institutions in the United States.
Faro's visionary graphics from the 1940s are a sophisticated blend of Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and Indian Space...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Whistle
By Leonard Pytlak
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Whistle
Silkscreen printed in colors, c. 1950's
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist
Condition: very good
Image: 23-1/2 x 18-1/2"
Courtesy British Museum:
Biography
Born ...
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1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Screen
Consequence of an Absence ( A loss makes one more appreciative)
By Marc Balakjian
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is from an edition of 50. The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
'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
'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
Pure Water
By Hiroki Morinoue
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut, Edition 30.
In this print Morinoue uses symbolic, stylized and realistic images to evoke the play of light on water. In each of the four panels we see the reflectio...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
A Sunset in Ireland.
By Seymour Haden
Located in Storrs, CT
A Sunset in Ireland. 1863. Etching and drypoint. Schneiderman catalog number 47 state vii/xiv. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 (sheet 6 7/8 x 9 1/2). An extremely rich impression with drypoint burr, p...
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19th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Tommy's Pond
By Gabor F. Peterdi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Tommy's Pond
Etching, aquatint and intaglio, 1966
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Image/Plate size: 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches
Sheet size: : 20 1/16 x 14 7/16 inches
From: The Portf...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Untitled (Tamarind K)
By Leon Polk Smith
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
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1960s Hard-Edge Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview J
By Leon Polk Smith
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
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
Materials
Screen
'Hold that Tiger' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Hold that Tiger', color lithograph, 1945, edition 16. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '91' and '15/16' in pen. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, coated, off-white wove paper; the full sheet with margins (13/16 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 14 x 9 3/8 inches (356 x 239 mm); sheet size 17 x 11 1/4 inches (432 x 285 mm).
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, and Anne Ryan as New York members and Francine Felsenthal of Chicago. The Brooklyn Museum mounted a show of Vanguard artists' work in 1946, which subsequently toured several other institutions in the United States.
Faro's visionary graphics from the 1940s are a sophisticated blend of Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and Indian Space...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mediterranean Light
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on white Tyler Graphics Ltd. (TGL) handmade paper
32 1/2 x 76 in. (82.6 x 193 cm)
Edition of 40
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
'Segments' — 1930s Geometric Abstraction
By Josef Albers
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Josef Albers, 'Segments', linoleum cut, 1934, edition 20, 25, plus proofs, Danilowitz 79. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated '(proof)' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression on...
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1930s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
#4 — Modernist Abstraction — African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hilliard Dean, '#4', color lithograph, 1970, edition not stated but small. Signed, titled, and annotated 'AP' in pencil. Dated 'May 1970' in pencil in th...
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1970s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cosca II “VP 100”
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cosca II “VP 100”
Screen print, 1982
Signed and numbered by the artist (see photo of signature)
Edition: 325 plus 65 Vasarely Foundation (127/325)
Editor: no editor/publisher is prov...
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1980s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
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
Tsillag
By Victor Vasarely
Located in London, GB
Hand-painted acrylic on wood three-dimensional multiple, 1990, signed and numbered from the edition of 175 in ink, 52.7 x 61 x 7.9 cm. (20 3/4 x 24 x 3 1/8 in.)
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1990s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Standard Oil Building.
By Joseph Pennell
Located in Storrs, CT
Standard Oil Building. 1923. Etching. Wuerth 817. 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 (sheet 13 1/2 x 10 1/16). Edition probably 50. A glowing impression, printed by the artist on antique cream wove paper. Signed and annotated 'imp' in pencil. Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat
proof printed by the artist. $875.
26 Broadway" is the home of the Standard Oil...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Two Open Squares Within a Red Area
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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2010s Minimalist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Drawing Boards I (red / yellow)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 60, Set of 5
74.9 x 56.5 cms (29.5 x 22.25 ins)
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
86.4 x 71.8 cms (34 x 28.25 ins)
Edition of 17
Paper: Somerset Textured
Proofs: 9 AP, I CTP (on handmade paper)
Signed right, under image; numbered left, under image; publisher's chop lower right
Publisher: The Litho Shop Inc., Santa Monica, California
Printed by Jacob Samuel...
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1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Color
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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
JEAN ARP - SONIA DELAUNAY - ALBERTO MAGNELLI - SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP.
By Hans (Jean) Arp
Located in Portland, ME
A Rare and important collaboration by four of the leading artists of pre- and post-WWII French artists.
Arp et al, Jean. JEAN ARP - SONIA DELAUNAY - ALBERTO MAGNELLI - SOPHIE TAEUBER...
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1940s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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