Brassaï, Girl Playing Snooker, Montmartre, Black and White Photograph, 1930s
By Brassaï
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with titled and numbered on publisher's label affixed to reverse Silver gelatin print mounted to board, printed 1973 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches From a portfolio of 10 silver gel...
Silver Gelatin
Brassaï, 'Bijou' of Montmartre, Black and White Portrait Photograph, 1930s
By Brassaï
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with titled and numbered on publisher's label affixed to reverse Silver gelatin print mounted to board, printed 1973 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches From a portfolio of 10 silver gel...
Silver Gelatin
Policemen in Paris 1930s, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
By Press Agency Keystone View Co.
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency Keystone View Co: Policemen in Paris, circa 1930. French police officers in Paris in front of a subway sta...
Silver Gelatin
Brassaï, Matisse with His Model, Black and White Portrait Photograph, 1930s
By Brassaï
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with titled and numbered on publisher's label affixed to reverse Silver gelatin print mounted to board, printed 1973 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches From a portfolio of 10 silver gel...
Silver Gelatin
Drape Dress By Mme. Gress, c.1930s - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Drape Dress By Mme. Gress, c.1930s - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography) Inscribed with various printer's marks and "Cecil Beaton" on mount Inscribed "Cecil Beaton" and stamped with ...
Silver Gelatin
$10,316
Brassaï, Portrait of Pablo Picasso with Stove, Black and White Photograph, 1930s
By Brassaï
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with titled and numbered on publisher's label affixed to reverse Silver gelatin print mounted to board, printed 1973 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches From a portfolio of 10 silver gel...
Silver Gelatin
Flood of the Seine River in Paris, 1930s, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
By Agence Meurisse
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare, unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Agence Meurisse, Paris, circa 1930. The flood of the Seine River at Port de la Tournelle. Features: Original silv...
Silver Gelatin
Paris, Les Halles Food Market, 1930s, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
By Press Agency Keystone View Co.
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency Keystone View Co, Paris, circa 1930. In Paris, we discover a view of the famous Les Halles Food Market. Fe...
Silver Gelatin
Street View in Paris in the 1930s Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin photograph capturing a timeless black and white street scene in Paris, France, circa 1930—a rare and authentic glimpse into the rhythm of a bygone era. Fea...
Silver Gelatin
Blind Musician, London, 1934 - Dora Maar (Vintage Contact Print)
By Dora Maar
Located in London, GB
A group of vintage contact prints from the 1930s reveals Dora Maar’s sensitivity to juxtapositions of form, surface, and the surreal.
Silver Gelatin
Lifeboat, Calais, c. 1935 - Dora Maar (Vintage Contact Print)
By Dora Maar
Located in London, GB
A group of vintage contact prints from the 1930s reveals Dora Maar’s sensitivity to juxtapositions of form, surface, and the surreal.
Silver Gelatin
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Booksellers [Couple], c.1935 - Dora Maar (Vintage Contact Print)
By Dora Maar
Located in London, GB
A group of vintage contact prints from the 1930s reveals Dora Maar’s sensitivity to juxtapositions of form, surface, and the surreal.
Silver Gelatin
Battersea Power Station, London, 1934 - Dora Maar (Vintage Contact Print)
By Dora Maar
Located in London, GB
Battersea Power Station, The Cathedral of Electrons, London, 1934 Unique silver gelatin contact print, printed c. 1934 2 x 2 1/4 inches Provenance: The Estate of Dora Maar A group ...
Silver Gelatin
Singers on Crutches, London, 1934 - Dora Maar (Vintage Contact Print)
By Dora Maar
Located in London, GB
A group of vintage contact prints from the 1930s reveals Dora Maar’s sensitivity to juxtapositions of form, surface, and the surreal.
Silver Gelatin
![Londoners Sitting [Park], London, 1934 - Dora Maar (Vintage Contact Print)](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/dora-maar-photography-londoners-sitting-park-london-1934-dora-maar-vintage-contact-print-for-sale/a_88/a_166843821753278323409/maar_5_master.jpg?width=240)
Londoners Sitting [Park], London, 1934 - Dora Maar (Vintage Contact Print)
By Dora Maar
Located in London, GB
A group of vintage contact prints from the 1930s reveals Dora Maar’s sensitivity to juxtapositions of form, surface, and the surreal.
Silver Gelatin
Woman in the Streets of Paris, c.1935 - Dora Maar (Vintage Contact Print)
By Dora Maar
Located in London, GB
, c. 1935 Vintage unique silver gelatin contact print 2 x 2 1/4 inches Provenance: The Estate of Dora Maar A group of vintage contact prints from the 1930s reveals Dora Maar’s (190...
Silver Gelatin
Woman with a Fur Collar, Paris, c.1935 - Dora Maar (Vintage Contact Print)
By Dora Maar
Located in London, GB
A group of vintage contact prints from the 1930s reveals Dora Maar’s sensitivity to juxtapositions of form, surface, and the surreal.
Silver Gelatin
$1,250
American abstract photograph by California artist Lloyd Ullberg circa 1938
By Lloyd Ullberg
Located in Colfax, CA
A great vintage photograph by the artist who did a series of images of rural Nevada and California in the 1930s. Gelatin silver print. From a collection of works by the artist that...
Silver Gelatin
Laszlo Willinger, Spencer Tracey, original photo from the original negative
By Laszlo Willinger
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger in the 1930's and printed at a later date. It depicts Spencer Tracey, who was an American a...
Photographic Paper
Price Upon Request
Benches on Park Walk
By Josef Sudek
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
On original triple mount in brown, off-white and black made by the artist. Printed in the 1930s.
Silver Gelatin
Corinne Griffith, 1930 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Corinne Griffith, 1930 - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Red inkwash signature on mount Inscribed 'Corinne Griffith' in unknown hand and stamped with Sotheby's Cecil Bea...
Silver Gelatin
$1,250
English mod British Pencil study of a cat by a window Watching Raindrops
By Lucy Dawson
Located in Woodbury, CT
Her work was widely reproduced in books and prints during the 1930s–1950s, celebrated for its warmth, character, and immediacy of observation.
Paper, Carbon Pencil
$1,800
Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Mexican Farm Worker Robert Freimark
By Robert Freimark
Located in Surfside, FL
Ceneri le Gerei, France, 1992 Art Expo, NYC, 2000 Dakar Biennale, Senegal, 2002 GROUP EXHIBITIONS: "Drawings of 12 Countries," Chicago Art Institute, 1952 Pennsylvania Academy of Fi...
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
70's Large Colorful Abstract Expressionist Art Protis Tapestry Wool Wall Hanging
By Robert Freimark
Located in Surfside, FL
Ceneri le Gerei, France, 1992 Art Expo, NYC, 2000 Dakar Biennale, Senegal, 2002 GROUP EXHIBITIONS: "Drawings of 12 Countries," Chicago Art Institute, 1952 Pennsylvania Academy of Fi...
Wool
Ex Libris Ernest Monteux - Etching by M. Fingesten - 1930s
By Michel Fingesten
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 11x9 cm Rare and beautiful ex libris realized by Michel Fingesten in the 1930s. Signed in pencil lower right. Includes passepartout. Very good conditions. Michel...
Etching
Ex Libris Mantero - Original Etching by M. Fingesten - 1930s
By Michel Fingesten
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 10x9 cm Original Ex libris realized for Gianni Mantero. Original Etching on paper hand signed in pencil. Includes passepartout. Very good conditions. Michel Fing...
Etching
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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