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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Coxuria, from The Geldzahler Portfolio
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1997, on White Lana mouldmade paper, signed and dated in pencil, 69th from edition of 75 (there were also 15 artist’s proofs), printed by Tyler Graphics, Ltd....
Category
1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Chamber
By Gregory Amenoff
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts ...
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$1,600 Sale Price
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NANIGOS - CUBA, 1927
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Portland, ME
Yunkers, Adja (American, born Latvia, 1900-1983). NANIGOS - CUBA, 1927. Miller 1. Color Woodcut. Edition of 250 published in Sweden in 1942 in the magazine Creation (Miller notes an ...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Orofena, from Imaginary Places III
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, screenprint, etching and aquatint printed in colours, with relief, 1998, signed in pencil, dated, numbered from the edition of 55 (there were also 14 artist's proofs), with the publisher's blindstamp, Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Mount Kisco, 54.6 x 55.2 cm. (21½ x 21¾ in.)
Catalogue Raisonne: Axsom 252
Over a period of four years, Stella created a body of prints whose titles all came from ‘The Dictionary of Imaginary Places’ by Alberto Mangual and Gianni Guadalupi. Each work from this series is recognisable for its teaming compositions of twisting, colliding and knotted forms. The shapes appear to spill out of their sheet, seemingly trying to escape their frames. As he had done since the ‘Swan Engravings...
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1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph, Screen
Out to Sea
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100 (55/100)
Image: 8 x 12"
Sheet: 11 x 14 3/4"
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
By decent
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Urania
By Gregory Amenoff
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$1,750 Sale Price
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Aztec
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition: 150
Serigraph on paper
Sheet: 22 1/4 x 30"
Category
1980s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
KITES
By Hector Saunier
Located in Portland, ME
Saunier, Hector (French, born Argentina, 1936-) . KITES. Aquatint and engraving in colors, 1974. Edition of 50. Titled, numberd, dated, and signed in pencil. 17 1/8 x 16 7/8 inches (...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
Orbelus
By Rodney Carswell
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with pochoir, Ed. 25
The artist describes his work:
My work has often been described as belonging to a category of ‘reductive, geometric abstraction’. In the l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Elegy Study
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Twinrocker handmade paper
1979
64.1 x 95.3 cm (25 1/4 x 37 1/2 inches)
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Snaggletooth
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
DNA: Etching: IV
By McArthur Binion
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Los Alamitos
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Screenprint, in colours, 1972, on Gemini rag Board, signed, dated and numbered 53 from the edition of 75, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles., sheet: 51.4 × 203.5 cm. (20 1/4 x 80 1/8 in.), framed: 52.4 x 204.5 cm. (20.6 x 80.5 in.)
The three large scale, extended horizontal screenprints of the ‘Race Track Series’ are named after horse-racing tracks in Southern California and Mexico : Del Mar (San Diego County), Los Alamitos...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Swing Boats
By Claude Flight
Located in New York, NY
Claude Flight (1881-1955), Swing Boats, circa 1919-1921, color linoleum cut on very thin Japan paper, signed and numbered by the artist lower left. In very ...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
Three of a Kind C
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 60
71 x 79 cms (28 x 31 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$750 Sale Price
6% Off
"Switchback (State III)"
By Barbara Takenaga
Located in Lyons, CO
Barbara Takenaga has had fun embellishing the last prints in the editions – Switchback State I and State II from 2011 – with extensive hand coloring. She has inverted and rearranged ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Stacked Bricks
By Essie Bendolph Pettway
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching with aquatint.
Edition of 50
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
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...
Category
1950s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
THE PLANETS
Located in Portland, ME
Tyler, Richard Oviet (American, 1926-1983).
THE PLANETS. Uranian Press, New York, 1958.
Uranian Press, New York, 1958.
The Second Edition of 20, with the plates loose in a portfolio, and with each of them titled, inscribed "Ed 2," numbered "6/20, signed in pencil by Tyler, and bearing the emossed seal of the Uranian Press at the lower right (the First Edition, of 5 copies, was a bound set of the plates, signed on the Justification page by Tyler, but with the individual plates unsigned).
Quarto, string-tied boards covered in white linen printed in black from woodblocks, endpapers printed in purple and red, paper folder enclosing 20 woodblock plates printed in colors.
The portfolio 14 x 10 1/2 inches, the plates each about 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches.
The whole in excellent condition except that the paper folder containing the plates is foxed.
We have seen a copy of the bound edition, but the work seems to very rare in either iteration.
The plates are as follows:
Plate 1: Title "The Planets,"
Plate 2: "Sun,"
Plate 3: "The Sun ever generous force of his being in the flow of self strength striving,"
Plate 4: "Moon,"
Plate 5: "The moon of our emotions surrounding memory influenced reflections of pleasant remembrance,"
Plate 6: "Mercury,"
Plate 7: "Mercury messenger of mind influence most observant and discriminating reaches attracts resembles snake a tree a heavy ___??," Plate
8: "Venus," Plate
9: "Venus upon us as into us the longing of love rules existence,"
Plate 10: "Mars,"
Plate 11: Mars infinitely delicate degree of devotion leads to deeds against falsehood destruction for the sake of creation inalienable dream of passion,"
Plate 12: "Jupiter,"
Plate 13: Jupiter father of forgiveness and sustaining belief of plenty keep faith favorable and optimism omnipresent,"
Plate 14: "Saturn,"
Plate 15: "Last planet of limitation leads us through purification into silence,"
Plate 16: "Uranus,"
Plate 17: "Cause ruler of spirit inspired in matter unknown and omnipotent,"
Plate 18: "Neptune,"
Plate 19: "Neptune dissolution unity divinity,"
Plate 20: "The Planets."
Richard Oviet Tyler...
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Color lithograph, 1963
Unsigned (as issued)
From:Derriere le Miroir, Volume 141
Large unsigned edition
Printed by Mourlot, Paris
Published by Aime Maeght, Paris
Condition: C...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Octavio Paz Suite: Nocturne VI
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph and chine appliqué
64.5 x 54 cms (25 3/8 x 21 1/4 ins)
Edition 50
Paper: Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper
Other Collaborators: Image transferred from Mylar to...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color, Lithograph
On the Wing
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
46.75 x 30.5 ins (118.7 x 77.5 cms)
Edition of 70
Signed in pencil lower right.
Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop number "RM83-718" in pe...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Color, Lithograph
DNA: Etching: II
By McArthur Binion
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint and drypoint.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Ramblas
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, drypoint, etching in colours, 1987/88, on handmade wove paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75, printed and published by Polígrafa Obra Gráfica, Barcelo...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, 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
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
Fatherwell
By Roberto Juarez
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
In the studies for this print, Juarez combined casual, small sketches made daily, found botanical prints and magazine illus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
York Factory II
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Screenprint, 1974, on Arches Cover Black paper, signed, dated and numbered an AP aside from the edition of 100, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles., sheet: 46.9 x 112.8cm (18½ x...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Book/object
By Lucas Samaras
Located in New York, NY
SAMARAS, Lucas. Book, New York: Pace Editions, 1968. Unusual book/object of 11 color silkscreens with offset, embossing, thermography, die-cut and collage mounted on masonite. Each page measuring 10 x 10 3/16"
Copy 46 of a total edition of 100. Numbered and initialled by the artist on the cover. Interesting comment on the traditional book. Samaras plays on the most sculptural books of all - chilren's pop-up books...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Landscape at Stanton Street
By Willem de Kooning
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, 1971, on paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 60,
published by Hollanders Workshop and Fourcade, New York, 75.7 x 56 cm. (30 x 2 2in.)
Category
1970s American Modern 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
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Colour screenprint on J.B. Green paper
104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins)
Edition of 150
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Screen
Drawn from Dust
Located in Lyons, CO
Terry Maker makes three-dimensional works that get to the “guts” of the materials used, such as discarded shoes, vinyl records, candy dust and shredded doc...
Category
2010s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Counterpoint' — Mid-Century Modernist Abstraction
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Counterpoint', color serigraph, 1942, edition 25, Ryan 45. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 25' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream, wove paper; the full sheet with margins (7/8 to 2 1/2 inches). A 1 1/2 inch crease across the top left sheet corner, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Scarce.
Image size 13 9/16 x 14 5/16 inches (344 x 364 mm); sheet size 14 15/16 x 17 inches (379 x 432 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Literature:
'A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking', David Acton, New York, London, 1990.
'American Screenprints', Reba and Dave Williams, New York, 1987.
'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock', Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, 2008.
Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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
Identical/Variation (red, yellow, blue)
By Amy Ellingson
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
The artist describes this project:
“In early September, I made my second trip to Shark's Ink in Lyons, CO. It was wonderful to be invited back to crea...
Category
2010s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Screenprint from 18 screens. On Velin Arches mould-made paper
Based on 'Still Life', textile dyes on hand-made Indian paper, 1978
Signed with initials and dated 1980 in pencil, lower...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
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
Moonlight
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from four aluminium plates using tusche and washes, printed in transparent red, orange and a red to orange blend, with hand colouring in ivory black watercolour and blue and green gouache. On two sheets of buff BFK Rives mould-made paper (300 gsm)
Hand-signed by artist, Signed with initials and dated 1980 in pencil, in the lower left on the left-hand sheet. Numbered in pencil in the lower right, verso
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd.
Exhibition History: 'Howard Hodgkin: Views. An Exhibition of Early Prints', Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 02 March - 02 April 2013; 'Howard Hodgkin Recollections’, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 21 April - 14 May 2022
Literature: Pat Gilmour, 'Howard Hodgkin', The Print Collector's Newsletter, vol. 12, no. 1, March-April 1981, p. 5 (ill. front cover); Deborah Phillips, 'New Editions: Howard Hodgkin', ARTnews, vol. 80, no. 7, September 1981, p. 161; 'Prints by Six British Painters: Stephen Buckley...
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
29.88 x 22.36 ins (75.9 x 56.8 cms)
Edition of 96
Signature:Signed "R. Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's chop mark lower right
...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled
Circa 1960
Lithograph, Edition of 40
71.9 x 50.8 cms (28.3 x 20 ins)
SF17686
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Expressionist Abstraction — Celebrated Contemporary Hawaiian Artist
By Tetsuo Ochikubo
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Tetsuo "Bob" Ochikubo, 'Untitled (Abstract Expressionist Composition)', color lithograph, 1963, edition 3. Signed, dated, and numbered '3-3' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (5/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Very scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 17 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches; sheet size 19 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tetsuo Ochikubo (1923–1975), also known as Bob Ochikubo, was a Japanese-American painter and printmaker who was born in Waipahu, Hawaii. After service in the US Army as an infantryman in Europe during World War II, Ochikubo studied painting and design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. He worked at the renowned lithography workshop Tamarind Institute in the 1960s and is best known for his non-objective paintings and lithographs.
Ochikubo was a member of the Metcalf Chateau, a group of seven Asian-American artists with ties to Honolulu which included Satoru Abe...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Poet II - Lithograph, Abstract Print, 20th Century by Robert Motherwell
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 35
75.6 x 53.7 cms (29.76 x 21.14 ins)
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Four Knots
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 50
71 x 76 cm (28 x 30 ins)
RSE023
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Small Yellow
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 50
66 x 57 cms (26 x 22 1/2 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
'Petrouchka's Predicament' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Petrouchka's Predicament', color lithograph, 1946, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '115' and '14/20' in pen. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, off-white wove paper; full margins (1 1/4 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 21 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches; sheet size 24 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
'Petrouchka', a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Michel Fokine, is based on the legend of Russian folklore. 'Petrouchka', a puppet made of straw with a bag of sawdust as his body, comes to life and has the capacity to love, a story conceptually resembling that of Pinocchio.
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...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Descente de Croix' (Descent from the Cross) — 1920s French Cubism
By Albert Gleizes
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Albert Gleizes, 'Descente de Croix', color pochoir, 1928, edition c. 50. Signed and dated in pencil. A fine, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (3 to 4 inches), in very good condition. The publisher's ink stamp 'EDITIONS MOLY-SABATA' beneath the image, lower left. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 12 x 14 inches (305 x 356 mm); sheet size 18 x 22 inches (457 x 559 mm).
ABOUT THE IMAGE
After the 1927 painting 'Descente de Croix', one of three religious-themed works that Gleizes developed as preliminaries for murals at the church at Serrières, France, the project was terminated at its final phase, and Gleizes commissioned master printer Robert Pouyaud to create prints of the paintings, closely overseeing the production.
ABOUT THE MEDIUM
Pochoir is a refined stencil-based technique employed to create multiples or to add color to prints produced in other mediums. Characterized by its crisp lines and rich color, the print-making process was most popular from the late 19th century through the 1930s, with its center of activity in Paris. The pochoir process began with the analysis of an image’s composition, including color tones and densities. The numerous stencils (made of aluminum, copper, or zinc) necessary to create a complete image were then designed and hand-cut by the 'découpeur.' The 'coloristes' applied watercolor or gouache pigments through the stencils, skillfully employing a variety of different brushes and methods of paint application to achieve the desired depth of color and textural and tonal nuance. The pochoir process, by its handcrafted methodology, resulted in the finished work producing the effect of an original painting, and in fact, each print was unique.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Albert Gleizes (1881-1953), born in Paris, France, was a pioneering figure in the development of abstract art and one of the leading proponents of Cubism. His contributions to the art world extended beyond his paintings; he was also a prolific writer and theoretician, advocating for a new approach to art that emphasized the geometric abstraction of form and a departure from representational traditions.
Gleizes initially studied painting at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was exposed to the academic conventions of the time. However, his artistic vision was profoundly influenced by encounters with avant-garde movements, including Fauvism and the work of Paul Cézanne. These influences led Gleizes to experiment with form and color, gradually moving away from traditional representation toward a more abstract and geometric style.
After completing his secondary schooling, Gleizes spent four years in the French army and then began pursuing a career as a painter, primarily doing landscapes. Initially influenced by the Impressionists, he was only twenty-one years of age when his work titled ‘La Seine à Asnières’ was exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1902. The following year, he was part of the first Salon d'Automne and soon came under the influence of Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, Jean Metzinger, and Henri Le Fauconnier. In 1907, Gleizes and some of his friends pursued the idea of creating a self-supporting community of artists that would allow them to develop their art free of any commercial concerns. For nearly a year, Gleizes , with other painters, poets, musicians, and writers, lived at a large house in Créteil, but a lack of funds forced them to give up their facility in early 1908, and Gleizes moved temporarily into La Ruche, the artist commune in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris.
In the early 1910s, Gleizes became associated with the Cubist movement, which was spearheaded by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque...
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1920s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Stencil
Four Color Quartets (First Quartet)
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
Suite $10,000. Individual Quartets $3,500.
First Quartet 35 in. x 35 in.
Second Quartet 35 in. x 45 in.
Third Quartet 45 in. x 35 in.
Fourth Quartet 45 in. x 45 in.
Signed and ...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
The Waves: Squid
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen, lithograph, linoleum block with hand-colouring, marbling and collage, 1989, on T. H. Saunders and Somerset paper, signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 60, publi...
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph, Screen
Truck Traffic (Colorful Gridlock in Manhattan)
By David Kapp
Located in New Orleans, LA
A six block woodcut published in an edition of only 23. It is signed and archivaliity
David Kapp is best known for his paintings of the contemporary urban landscape. His paintings ...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Woodcut
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled
1968
Lithograph, Edition of 3, experimental proof
66 x 47 cms (26 x 18 1/2 ins)
SF15155
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
SWING BOATS
By Claude Flight
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CLAUDE FLIGHT (1881 -1955)
SWING BOATS 1921 (Coppel CF5)
Color linocut, signed & no. 23/50, 8 5/8 x 11”. Sheet 10 x 13” on thin paper tipped to black-b...
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1920s Futurist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Linocut
South
By Ed Ruscha
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on white Rives BFK paper
Proofs: 10AP, 1BAT, 2CTP, 2PP, 4 publisher's proofs, 1 shop proof, 5TP
Inscriptions: Signed and dated in pencil lower right, "Ed Ruscha 91", numbe...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Color, Lithograph
$12,000
Birthday Party
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from a stone printed in sepia and green, with hand colouring in two shades of blue gouache. On Velin Arches mould-made paper (300 gsm)
Signed and dated 77 in pencil, lower...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph, Color
Summer Sign
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Carborundum on Whatman paper
Edition of 38
84.1 x 78.7 cms (33 1/8 x 31 ins)
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Color
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
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Color, Lithograph
'Expansion' — Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stanley William Hayter, 'Expansion', color etching and soft-ground, 1970, edition 100, Black & Moorhead 334. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '23/50' in pencil. A superb, richly inked impression with fresh, vivid colors on heavy off-white wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 17 1/8 x 19 7/16 inches (435 x 494 mm); sheet size 22 x 23 1/2 inches (559 x 597 mm).
This innovative graphic work was created in the first state using a plate covered with a plastic sheet; the sheet was cut, and the soft-ground texture was added. In the second state, the plate was covered again, and the sheet cut then etched with a deep bite, and a soft ground texture was added. Printed by Hector Saunier: intaglio fluorescent orange, hard roller phthalo green, soft roller transparent yellow.
Note: the online image cannot accurately convey the vibrancy of the printed fluorescent orange.
An impression of this work is held in the collection of the 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 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 Phillips...
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1970s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Etching
Untitled (A)
By Thomas Nozkowski
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Nozkowski (b. 1944, Teaneck, New Jersey; d. 2019, New York) was recognized for his richly colored and intimately scaled abstract paintings, drawings, and prints that push the...
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Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Color, Aquatint
Octavio Paz Suite: Nocturne VIII
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph and chine appliqué
64.5 x 54 cms (25 3/8 x 21 1/4 ins)
Edition of 50
Paper: Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper
Other Collaborators: Image transferred from Mylar...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Handmade Paper, Color, Lithograph
'Flight to Tomorrow' — Mid-Century American Modernism — Atelier 17
By Minna Citron
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Minna Citron, 'Flight to Tomorrow', aquatint and engraving, edition unknown but small, 1948. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'engr & aqua' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression with selectively wiped plate tone, on heavy cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (1 3/4 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 6 7/8 x 8 7/16 inches (175 x 214 mm); sheet size 11 1/8 x 14 7/8 inches (283 x 378 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Literature: The Women of Atelier 17, Modernist Printmaking in MidCentury New York, Christina Weyl, Yale University Press, 2019, p. 186.
Collections: Davis Museum (Wellesley), Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, Harvard Art Museums, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Palmer Museum of Art (Penn State...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Engraving, Aquatint
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