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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'Nocturnal Adversary' — Mid-Century Surrealist Abstraction
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'Nocturnal Adversary', color serigraph, 1946, edition 50, Ryan 137. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled, dated, and annotated '6 COLORS EDITION 50' in th...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
A Sandstorm on the Little Colorado River, Arizona
By George Elbert Burr
Located in Storrs, CT
A Sandstorm on the Little Colorado River, Arizona. 1920. Soft-ground etching. Seeber 189. 6 7/8 x 9 3/4 (sheet 9 5/8 x 13). Edition 40, #6. Series: Desert Set. Illustrated: American ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Watercolor
The Ruswarp Suite 3
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Ruswarp Suite 3
2023
Etching, aquatint on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 6
Plate size: 39.4 x 39.4 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins)
Paper size: 57.2 x 57.8 cms (22 1/2 x 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Grey
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 50
60.3 x 61 cms (23 3/4 x 24 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Cheval
By Jacques Villon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Cheval
Etching, 1921
Signed in pencil lower left
Edition: Signed edition of 50 (as here)
Unsigned edition is 400 for the book Du Cubisme
Printer: R. Girard et Cie
Pr...
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1920s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Sister Kate — Mid-century, Jazz-inspired Modernism
By James Houston McConnell
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Houston McConnell, 'Sister Kate', color serigraph, 1947, edition 24. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '24' in pencil. Annotated '10.00 - 19 colors - 24 copies - #24' in pencil. A fine impression, with vibrant, fresh colors, on heavy tan wove paper, with full margins (11/16 to 1 1/2 inches). Tack holes in the four margin corners, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Another of McConnell's mid-century modernist, jazz-inspired serigraphs, 'Combo', is featured in the British Museum's 2008 publication (and traveling exhibition) 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock'.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
"I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate", often simply "Sister Kate", is an up-tempo jazz dance song, written by Armand J. Piron and published in 1922. The lyrics of the song are narrated in the first person by Kate's sister, who sings about Kate's impressive dancing skill and her wish to be able to emulate it. She laments that she's not quite "up to date", but believes that dancing like "Sister Kate" will rectify this, and she will be able to impress "all the boys in the neighborhood" like her sister.
Over the years this song has been performed and recorded by many artists, including Frances Faye and Rusty Warren, a 1959 version by Shel Silverstein...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Temples of New York
By Christopher R. W. Nevinson
Located in Storrs, CT
Temples of New York. 1919. Drypoint. Leicester 44, Guichard 26, Black 55. 7 3/4 x 6. Edition 50. New York set. Trinity Church facade from the back, which faces Wall Street. Illustrat...
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1910s Futurist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint
The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
104.1 x 71.8 cms (41 x 28.25 ins)
Edition of 150
Paper: J.B. Green Paper
Signed "RM" in pencil lower right; signed "Motherwell" in screen lower right
Inscriptions: Numbered in ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Screen
Paris Suite 4 (Winter)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Paris Suite IV (Winter)
1980
Lithograph on J.B. Green handmade paper, Edition of 60
47 x 45.7 cms (18.5 x 18 ins)
RM17036
CR 267
18 1/2 ...
Category
1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Quintet
By Terry Haass
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Quintet', etching and aquatint, edition 20, c. 1948. Signed, titled, and numbered '12/20' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Glowing Tree
By Gabor F. Peterdi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Glowing Tree
Etching, engraving & lift ground, 1958
Signed, titled and annotated in pencil (see photos)
Edition: Artist Proof (there was a published addition of 30 with five stencil ...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
The Ruswarp Suite 1
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Ruswarp Suite 1
2023
Etching, aquatint on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 6
Plate size: 39.4 x 39.4 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins)
Paper size: 57.2 x 57.8 cms (22 1/2 x 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
'Cheerleader' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Cheerleader', wood engraving, 1945, edition 15. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '104' (the artist's inventory number) and '8/15' in pencil. A fine, black impression, with full margins (1 1/2 inches), on heavy, cream wove paper, in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a well-known modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Grey Folded Clouds - IV Grey
By Joe Goode
Located in London, GB
Joe Goode
Grey Folded Clouds - IV Grey
1971
Lithograph, Edition of 50
50.8 x 75 cms (20 x 29 1/2 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Mulgrave Suite
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
William Tillyer
The Mulgrave Suite
2023
Etching, aquatint and embossing with hand colouring in watercolour on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 7
Image size: 40 x 40 cms ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Mirrors (brown)
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
63 x 46 cms (25 x 18 ins)
Edition of 40
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Screen
The Mulgrave Suite
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
William Tillyer
The Mulgrave Suite
2023
Etching, aquatint and embossing with hand colouring in watercolour on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 7
Image size: 40 x 40 cms ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Florentine I (red/orange)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 75
51 x 71 cms (20 x 28 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Aquatint and drypoint
75.9 x 60.6 cms (29 7/8 x 23 7/8 ins) paper size
60.3 x 45.4 cms (23 3/4 x 17 7/8 ins) plate size
Edition of 5
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Soleil rouge (Red Sun)
By Raoul Lazar
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Soleil rouge (Red Sun)
Etching and embossing, c. 1974
Signed and editioned in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Condition: Paper has yellowed. There is a white square at top of shee...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
HIEROGLYPHIC
By John Stockton De Martelly
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOHN S. de MARTELLY (1903 - 1979)
HIEROGLYPHIC, 1954
Lithograph, signed, no. 20 and dated '54 in pencil by the artist. 12 x 16
inches, large sheet 17...
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1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Proscenium II (loose lines around square centre)
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
The Ruswarp Suite 6
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Ruswarp Suite 6
2023
Etching, aquatint on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 6
Plate size: 39.4 x 39.4 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins)
Paper size: 57.2 x 57.8 cms (22 1/2 x 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled Abstraction (Figures in Red)
By Albert Urban
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Albert Urban, Untitled Abstraction (Figures in Red), color serigraph, 1944. Signed and dated in blue ink. A fine, painterly impression, with fresh, rich colors, on cream wove paper;...
Category
1940s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Garden of Eden
By Leonard Edmondson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEONARD EDMONDSON (1906 – 2001)
GARDEN OF EDEN c. 1960
Color intaglio (carborundum?) Signed and titled in pencil. Small edition, these larger prints...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
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
The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 150
104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Chinese Wall
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Chinese Wall
1969
Lithograph, Edition of 20
76.5 x 57.2 cms (30 1/8 x 22 1/2 ins)
SF15156
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Generations 16
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper
53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins)
Edition of 35, Set of 24
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
Prin...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Horizon I (orange with blue base)
By Richard Smith b.1955
Located in London, GB
33 x 71 cms (13 x 28 ins)
Edition of 75, Set of 6
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'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
An Other Set (Y) – From the Pasadena Box
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
An Other Set - Y (From The Pasadena Box)
1964
Lithograph, Edition of 100, experimental proof
39.4 x 57.2 cms (15.51 x 22.52 ins)
SF15493
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Calligraphy
By Ulfert Wilke
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Calligraphy
Lithograph, 1969
Edition: 260
Signed in script by the artist (see photo)
Signed with initials and dated by the artist (see photo)
Publication for the Print Club of Cleveland, No. 47 for 1969
Printer: Hollander Workshop, New York, with their chopstamp (see photo)
Ulfert Wilke (1907–1987) was an internationally recognized painter, calligrapher and art collector connected to the abstract expressionism movement. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1938. He is best known for his large canvas paintings and highly detailed lithographs that were inspired by calligraphic writing. Wilke was deeply intrigued by the written language, and much of his work was derived from his abstract interpretation of the shapes, colors and meanings of writing that he found in all languages and forms, including the poetry and ancient engravings...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
For John Constable
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 100
46.4 x 67.3 cms (18 1/4 x 26 1/2 ins)
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
'River View' — Mid-Century American Modernism
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'River View, color serigraph, 1942, edition 50, Ryan 159. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled, dated, and annotated '9 COLORS – 50 PRINTS' in the screen,...
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1940s American Modern 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
Suite Catalana, plate 1
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
Enterieur (Outside)
By Jurgen Peters
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Enterieur (Outside)
Screen print, 1973
Signed lower right in pencil (see photo)
Edition: A.P., annotated lower left corner
Published by Edition Ltd., Indianapolis
Image size: 21 3/4 ...
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1970s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
'Composition # 4' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Thomas A. Robertson
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Robertson, 'Composition #4,' color serigraph, edition 47, c. 1940. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed/47' in pencil. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper, the full sheet with margins (1 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size: 10 9/16 x 8 1/2 inches (268 x 216 mm); sheet size 13 x 12 1/2 inches (330 x 318 mm).
An impression of this work is represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Thomas Arthur Robertson (1911-1976) was the son of an attorney. Although his father, a co-owner of the Arkansas Law School, insisted that his son study there, after graduating, Robertson enrolled at the Adrian Brewer...
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1940s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Red Mountain
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Red Mountain
Three color lithograph, 1986-7
Signed, titled and dated in pencil lower right
Annotated "B.A.T." for Bon a Tire lower left corner
This example is the printers guide for ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview C
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
Compounded Red
By Julian Stanczak
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and numbered in pencil
Publisher: Eugene Shuster, London Arts
Printer: Vistec Graphics, Rochester, New York
Stamp verso: London Arts Copyright 1980
Edition: 175 (85/175)
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1980s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled #050106 (Green)
By Harold Cohen
Located in London, GB
Harold Cohen
Untitled # 050106 (Green)
2005
Digital print on paper, Edition 30
147.5 x 119.5 cms (58 1/8 x 47 ins)
HC11093
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Arkoi
By Matt Magee
Located in Houston, TX
Matt Magee
Arkoi, 2022
Monotype on BFK Rives
26 1/4 x 19 3/4 in (66.7 x 50.2 cm)
JPHB 5644
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
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)
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
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
Open Action.
By Kerr Eby
Located in Storrs, CT
Published edition, not trial proof
Open Action. 1926/1928. Etching. Giardina 124. 7 x 15 1/8 (sheet 12 3/4 x 15 1/4). Trial proof, prior to the edition of 90. A rich, tonal impressi...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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Etching
Senza Titolo II (Untitled II)
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
86 x 107 cms (33 7/8 x 42 1/8 ins)
Edition of 66
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Etching
Les Marionettes I — Erotic Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hans Bellmer, Les Marionettes I, etching with hand coloring, 1969, edition 150. Signed and annotated 'HC' in pencil. A fine impression on brown Roma hand-made laid paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 2 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 11 13/16 x 11 1/8 inches; sheet size 15 5/8 x 13 1/4 inches.
A 'Hors Commerce' impression. From a suite of 11 etchings created by Bellmer to illustrate 'On the Marionette Theatre...
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1960s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
'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...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Pointed Shapes and Black Half Moon
By Werner Drewes
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Werner Drewes, 'Pointed Shapes and Black Half Moon', etching, 1935, edition 20, Rose l.198. Signed, dated, and numbered 'I-XX' in pencil. A fine, rich impression, in warm black ink...
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1930s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
'Going My Way?' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Going My Way?', lithograph, 1946, edition 14. Signed in pen, recto. Titled, numbered '#118 14/14' and dated '5/5/46' in pen, verso. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 5/8 to 2 15/16 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 13 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches; sheet size 17 x 12 3/8 inches. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
An impression of this work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art.
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
Little Hall's Island.
By Kerr Eby
Located in Storrs, CT
Little Hall's Island. 1940. Etching and sandpaper ground. Giardina 199. 10 x 15. Edition 100. Little Hall's Island is located off the coast of Friendship. Maine. Signed and annotated 'imp' (imprimit) in pencil, indicating a proof printed Eby. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat.
Eby was an Associate of the National Academy NA (1930); National Academy of Design (1934); Society of American Etchers; Chicago Society of Etchers; Philadelphia Society of Etchers; National Institute of Arts and Letters. Kerr...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled
By Henri Goetz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Engraving, drypoint & carborundum, c. 1960's
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 25 (9/25)
Printed by the artist
Condition: Adhesive residue on the verso to...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Brushed aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on German Etching paper
71.8 x 56.5 cms (28 1/4 x 22 1/4 ins)
Edition of 32
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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