Expressionist Abstract Prints
EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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Style: Expressionist
Rêve au cirque (Cramer 66; Mourlot 470), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 19.3 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc, ...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bauchredner und Rufer im Moor (Ventiloque criant dans le marais) by Paul Klee
By Paul Klee
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul Klee, After, Swiss (1879 - 1940)
Title: Bauchredner und Rufer im Moor (Ventiloque criant dans le marais)
Year: 1964 after 1920 Drawing
Medium: Pochoir on Rice Paper, Sig...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
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Rice Paper, Stencil
MULTI PERSONAGE Signed Lithograph, Abstract Collage Portrait, CoBrA Artist
By Karel Appel
Located in Union City, NJ
MULTI PERSONAGE is an original limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. MULTI PERSONAGE is a lively abstract color collage portrait expressed in vibrant shades of red, blue, pink, green, purple, yellow with hints of multi color pastel tones and white creating an abstracted body and face. Bold black paint strokes define the face with its zany black eyes, head, body and limbs; collage effect torn paper bits fill in the body form. MULTI PERSONAGE is a very unique, fantastically playful and wild composition by Karel Appel, one of the founders of the avant-garde art movement CoBrA active during the late 1940's thru early 1950's. His paintings are known for incorporating applications of vibrant, violent colors often possessing a primal, childlike quality.
Print size - 30 x 20 inches, unframed, excellent condition, pencil signed by Karel Appel
Edition size - 175
Year published - 1980
Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co., NY
Karel Appel was one of the founders of the avant-garde art movement CoBrA, active during the late 1940's thru early 1950's. His paintings are known for incorporating applications of vibrant, violent colors often possessing a primal, childlike quality.
Karel Appel, (born April 25, 1921, Amsterdam, Netherlands—died May 3, 2006, Zürich, Switzerland), Dutch painter of turbulent, colorful, and semi-abstract compositions, who was a co-founder (1948) of the CoBRA group of northern European Expressionists. He was also a noted sculptor and graphic artist.
Appel attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam (1940–43), and helped found the “Reflex” group, which became known as CoBRA (for Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam), in 1948. He moved to Paris in 1950 and by the 1960s had settled in New York City; he later lived in Italy and Switzerland. Partly in reaction against what they perceived as the sterile academicism of the de Stijl movement, the CoBRA artists...
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1980s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Computer City
By Bruno Zupan
Located in Paonia, CO
Computer City is a frenzy of colors and action. This is a city scene with stop lights, parking signs, directional signs, stop signs, digital time clock, buildings, streets and a mass...
Category
1970s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Alberto Giacometti, rare vintage original poster
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare vintage original poster published by the famous Paris Gallery Claude Bernard pour an historic exhibition of Jean Dubuffet in the sixties (1964) a...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper
Sans titre (Mourlot 680), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc, et al. Chagall Lithographe, ...
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1970s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Estate No. 044059
By Otto Neumann
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed and dated "55" in pencil.
Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker. His monotypes evolved from sharp, angular, black and whites to late abst...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Printemps, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Artistique et ...
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1930s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,276 Sale Price
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Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Trois femmes
Located in Belgrade, MT
Walter Becker was born in 1893 in Essen, Ruhr, Germany. Considered an important graphic artist of the "lost generation", Becker is well known for his depictions of figures and portraits in a style that combined elements of German Expressionism, Dada, and French modernism. He worked in a variety of print media, including color lincut, lithography, woodcut and etching. After a short military service, Becker studied under the German Sculptor Karl Albiker at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He moved to southern France where he lived and worked from 1924-1935, and was in contact with George Braque, Thomas...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$560 Sale Price
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Nick's Coffee House in the Village - Rare Edition 1970s Modern Figurative Print
By Lenore SImon
Located in Soquel, CA
This bold screen print depicts a scene from the 1950s, set in a jazz coffee house in Greenwich Village called Nick's, which Simon patronized while in high school. The original stone ...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Screen
La Vache Bleue (Cramer 71; Mourlot 488), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc, and Fernand Mourlot. Chagall...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Estate No. 044021
By Otto Neumann
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed and dated "52" in pencil
Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker. His monotypes evolved from sharp, angular, black and whites to late abst...
Category
1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
'Improvisation 7' original first ed. woodcut from 'Klänge' by Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present woodcut print comes from 'Klänge (Sounds),' a book of original graphics and poetry by Wassily Kandinsky. This first edition was released in an edition of 300, each book signed and numbered by the artist. The title of the album and this particular print, 'Improvisation,' demonstrated Kandinsky's interest in music and how abstract musical forms could be translated into images on a two-dimensional surface. This particular composition is difficult to read, but through the abstraction, one can make out various figures and a landscape beyond.
7.5 x 5 inches, image
22 x 19.5 inches, frame
Woodcut in black ink on laid paper (watermark Van Gelder Zonen)
Signed with encircled 'K' in the block, lower right
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent acid free archival materials including silk-lined matting with 1/4 inch bevel, museum glass, and a gold-gilded moulding
Ref. Roethel 124
The Museum of Modern Art described 'Klänge (Sounds)' as follows:
Vasily Kandinsky's self-described "musical album," Klänge (Sounds), consists of thirty-eight prose-poems he wrote between 1909 and 1911 and fifty-six woodcuts he began in 1907. In the woodcuts Kandinsky veiled his subject matter, creating increasingly indecipherable images (though the horse and rider, his symbol for overcoming objective representation, runs through as a leitmotif). This process proved crucial for the development of abstraction in his art. Kandinsky said his choice of media sprang from an "inner necessity" for expression: the woodcuts were not merely illustrative, nor were the poems purely verbal descriptions. Kandinsky sought a synthesis of the arts, in which meaning was created through the interaction of, and space between, text and image, sound and meaning, mark and blank space. The experimental typography shows his interest in the physical aspects of the book.
Klänge is one of three major publications by Kandinsky that appeared shortly before World War I, alongside Über die Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art) and the Blaue Reiter almanac...
Category
1910s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Montreal Olympics 1976" Colorful Abstract Expressionist Figurative Lithograph
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract expressionist lithograph celebrating the 1976 Olympics in Montreal Canada by American artist LeRoy Neiman. The work f...
Category
1970s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Estate No. 091014
By Otto Neumann
Located in New Orleans, LA
Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was an expressionist painter and printmaker born in Heidelberg, Germany. He was one of the most versatile and original artists of...
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1970s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Vintage 1970s Kennedy Galleries poster, Hand signed & warmly inscribed by artist
By Jack Levine
Located in New York, NY
Jack Levine
Vintage 1970s Kennedy Galleries poster (Hand signed and warmly inscribed), 1972
Offset lithograph poster (Signed, dated and inscribed in black marker by Jack Levine)
Sign...
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1970s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Polish French Figurative Abstract Art Brut Expressionist Lithograph Maryan
Located in Surfside, FL
Pinchas Burstein, known as Maryan
Lithograph (after the drawing).
1960
Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches (315 x 240mm).
There is printed text on the back, as issued.
Signed in the...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
New York City Street Scene (L.18), Fairfield Porter
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Fairfield Porter (1907-1975)
Title: Street Scene (L.18)
Year: 1969
Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper
Edition: 69/100, plus proofs
Size: 22.25 x 30 inches
Condition: Excellen...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,396 Sale Price
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Air France Europe original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original AIR FRANCE EUROPE, Editions Perceval, artist: Jacques Nathan Garamond. Professional acid-free archival linen backed vintage travel post...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Estate No. 082031
By Otto Neumann
Located in New Orleans, LA
Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker. His monotypes evolved from sharp, angular, black and whites to late abstract prints in a variety of colors. Neumann lived through revolutionary changes in the art world of prewar and postwar Germany. He was a prolific artist in Germany during a time of the country’s unprecedented academic and intellectual growth. His early work shows the influence of both French masters like Cezanne and the contemporary style that was then being developed by German Expressionists like Kirchner. A master printmaker, Neumann was also inspired by the works of Albrecht Durer, whose allegorical subject-matter and unmatched drawing technique Neumann would emulate throughout his career. A lifetime preoccupation with the human figure informs his work, with frieze-like human figures recalling ancient Greek art...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Estate No. 091013
By Otto Neumann
Located in New Orleans, LA
Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker. His monotypes evolved from sharp, angular, black and whites to late abstract p...
Category
1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Polish French Figurative Abstract Art Brut Expressionist Lithograph Maryan
Located in Surfside, FL
Pinchas Burstein, known as Maryan
Lithograph (after the drawing).
1960
Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches (315 x 240mm).
There is printed text on the back, as issued.
Signed in the...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Plate 12
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate 12
From: 10 Origi, 1942
Signed in the block with the artist's initials lower left (printed)
From: 10 Origin
Not from the First edition 100, published by Allianz-Verlag, Zurich,...
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1970s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Polish French Figurative Abstract Art Brut Expressionist Lithograph Maryan
Located in Surfside, FL
Pinchas Burstein, known as Maryan
Lithograph (after the drawing).
1960
Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches (315 x 240mm).
Gold or bronze ink on black paper
Signed in the plate, not b...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Allerheiligen- All Saints Day.
Located in New York, NY
KANDINSKY, Wassily. Allerheiligen- All Saints Day. Original three-color woodcut (red, yellow ochre, blue – with olive green). 1911. Signed with the monogram...
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1910s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Estate No. 082126
By Otto Neumann
Located in New Orleans, LA
Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was an expressionist painter and printmaker born in Heidelberg, Germany. He was one of the most versatile and original artists of...
Category
1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Estate No. 054047
By Otto Neumann
Located in New Orleans, LA
Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker. His monotypes evolved from sharp, angular, black and whites to late abstract prints in a variety of colors. Neumann lived through revolutionary changes in the art world of prewar and postwar Germany. He was a prolific artist in Germany during a time of the country’s unprecedented academic and intellectual growth. His early work shows the influence of both French masters like Cezanne and the contemporary style that was then being developed by German Expressionists like Kirchner. A master printmaker, Neumann was also inspired by the works of Albrecht Durer, whose allegorical subject-matter and unmatched drawing technique Neumann would emulate throughout his career. A lifetime preoccupation with the human figure informs his work, with frieze-like human figures recalling ancient Greek art...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Ghosts of Philadelphia 2
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom...
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2010s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype, Archival Ink
Je sens monter en moi des chants de plaisir (I Feel Songs of Pleasure Rise in Me
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012)
Title: Je Sens monter en moi des chants de plaisir (I Feel Songs of Pleasure Rise in Me)
Year: Circa 1980
Medium: Color lithograp...
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1980s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Poême pour Georges Braque, L'Hommage à Georges Braque, Derrière le miroir
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued, with poem (translated from French), “Ne...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
UNTITLED (from the ARTSOUNDS Collection)
Located in New York, NY
YURA ADAMS
Untitled (from the Artsounds Collection), 1986
color offset print, ed. 200
12 x 12 cm. 30.5 x 30.5 cm.
Edition 49/100
signed and numbered in pencil by the artist on ver...
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1980s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Christus, 1961 (Expressionist, Spiritual Theme)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Richard Haizmann
Christus, 1961
Woodcut
Year: 1987 (printed)
Size: 33.66 x 24.01 inches (85.5 × 61 cm)
Stamped verso by the Estate, signed "Dr. Wolfgang Wesiack"
COA provided
*Will ...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
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Woodcut
Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Estate No. 082129
By Otto Neumann
Located in New Orleans, LA
Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker. His monotypes evolved from sharp, angular, black and whites to late abstract prints in a variety of colors. Neumann lived through revolutionary changes in the art world of prewar and postwar Germany. He was a prolific artist in Germany during a time of the country’s unprecedented academic and intellectual growth. His early work shows the influence of both French masters like Cezanne and the contemporary style that was then being developed by German Expressionists like Kirchner. A master printmaker, Neumann was also inspired by the works of Albrecht Durer, whose allegorical subject-matter and unmatched drawing technique Neumann would emulate throughout his career. A lifetime preoccupation with the human figure informs his work, with frieze-like human figures recalling ancient Greek art...
Category
1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Estate No. 082024
By Otto Neumann
Located in New Orleans, LA
Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was an expressionist painter and printmaker born in Heidelberg, Germany. He was one of the most versatile and original artists of the twentieth century. Neum...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Robert Rauschenberg - OVERDRIVE. Limited Skate Deck Modern Design Pop American
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Robert Rauschenberg - OVERDRIVE
Date of creation: 2017
Medium: Digital print on Canadian maple wood
Edition: 300
Size: 80 x 20 cm (each skate)
Condition: In mint conditions and never...
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2010s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Wood, Maple, Screen
La Baie de Trépassés
Located in New York, NY
An excellent impression of this large color aquatint. Numbered in pencil 99/175. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Published by Vollard, Paris.
Catalogue reference: Chapon/Rouault 141; ...
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1930s Expressionist Abstract Prints
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Color, Aquatint
Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Hommage à G. di San Lazzaro, San Lazzaro et ses Amis, XXe siècle
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, San Lazzaro et ses Amis, Hommage au fondateu...
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1970s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Salto Sobre La Cabeza
By Karel Appel
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Karel Appel
Title: Salto Sobre La Cabeza
Year: 1988
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Signed and dated '88, numbered 5/60 in pencil
Dimensions: 19.25" x 4.5"
Provenance: Gallery ...
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1980s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
$990 Sale Price
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'Improvisation 7' second ed. woodcut from 'Klänge' by Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Improvisation 7' second ed. woodcut from 'Klänge' is a woodcut print created by Wassily Kandinsky. The present woodcut print comes from the second edition of 'Klänge (Sounds),' a book of original graphics and poetry by Wassily Kandinsky. The title of the album and of this print, 'Improvisation,' demonstrated Kandinsky's interest in music and how abstract musical forms could be translated into images on a two-dimensional surface. This particular composition is difficult to read, but through the abstraction, one can make out various figures and a landscape beyond. Originally carved and printed in 1911, this second edition print was done ca. 1938. It is a woodcut in black ink on woven paper. Signed with encircled 'K' in the block, lower right (from the book, signed in ink, ed. 117/300)
Image Size: 7 1/2" x 5 inches
Frame Size: 22 1/4" x 18 3/4"
Ref. Roethel 124
Artist Bio:
The Museum of Modern Art described 'Klänge (Sounds)' as follows:
Vasily Kandinsky's self-described "musical album," Klänge (Sounds), consists of thirty-eight prose-poems he wrote between 1909 and 1911 and fifty-six woodcuts he began in 1907. In the woodcuts Kandinsky veiled his subject matter, creating increasingly indecipherable images (though the horse and rider, his symbol for overcoming objective representation, runs through as a leitmotif). This process proved crucial for the development of abstraction in his art. Kandinsky said his choice of media sprang from an "inner necessity" for expression: the woodcuts were not merely illustrative, nor were the poems purely verbal descriptions. Kandinsky sought a synthesis of the arts, in which meaning was created through the interaction of, and space between, text and image, sound and meaning, mark and blank space. The experimental typography shows his interest in the physical aspects of the book.
Klänge is one of three major publications by Kandinsky that appeared shortly before World War I, alongside Über die Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art) and the Blaue Reiter almanac...
Category
1910s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut, Laid Paper
Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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SPACE VOYAGE Signed Lithograph, Abstract Beings, Latin American Woman Artist
Located in Union City, NJ
SPACE VOYAGE is an original hand drawn lithograph by the Latin American Woman artist Raquel Forner(1902–1988) , paper size - 13 1/4 x 15 1/4 in., image size - 8 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. pri...
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1980s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
BLACK FACE
By Karel Appel
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KAREL APPEL (1921 - 2006)
BLACK FACE, 1969
Lithograph in colors signed in pencil. Edition 26/75, Image: 19 3/4 x 25 1/4, sheet: 22 x 30 inches. Just hint of a mat line
Appel was a member of the Cobra art movement
Category
1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Sans titre, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
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Find a wide variety of authentic Expressionist abstract prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, blue, green, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Otto Neumann, Karel Appel, Wassily Kandinsky, and Zvi Milshtein. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Monotype and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Expressionist abstract prints, so small editions measuring 4.25 inches across are also available. Prices for abstract prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $99 and tops out at $25,600, while the average work sells for $1,045.