Hand Coloured Lithograph
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints
Lithograph, Gouache
1840s Other Art Style Landscape Prints
Lithograph, Paper
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Mid-19th Century English School More Prints
Paper, Lithograph
Mid-19th Century Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
20th Century Portrait Prints
Lithograph
19th Century Animal Prints
Lithograph
Mid-19th Century Figurative Prints
Lithograph
19th Century Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Lithograph
1930s Animal Prints
Lithograph
19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Lithograph
1930s Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
Mid-19th Century Landscape Prints
Lithograph
19th Century Figurative Prints
Lithograph
19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Lithograph
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Abstract Prints
Lithograph
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1960s Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1930s Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints
Printer's Ink, Rag Paper, Lithograph
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Lithograph
1830s Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1840s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Lithograph
John GouldWhite Eye-browed Partridges: Hand-colored Folio-sized Bird Lithograph by Gould , 1840-1848
1840s Academic Animal Prints
Lithograph
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Lithograph
1860s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Lithograph
19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Lithograph
Late 19th Century Victorian Interior Prints
Lithograph
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Lithograph
Early 2000s Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Etching, Photographic Film, Lithograph
Salvador DalíSalvador dali 'Passiflora lauigera - 1968' Lithograph/Etching, Signed & numbered, 1968
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1950s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Lithograph
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Lithograph
Early 1900s American Realist Landscape Prints
Lithograph, Ink
19th Century Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1910s Modern Landscape Prints
Lithograph, Ink
1910s American Realist Landscape Prints
Lithograph, Stencil, Ink
1820s Art Deco Mixed Media
Paper
20th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Offset
1880s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Engraving
John Nugent FitchOrchids" Framed 19th C. Hand-Colored Engraving of "Lycaste Skinneri" by Fitch, 1882
1880s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Engraving
1880s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Engraving
John Nugent FitchOrchids: Framed 19th C. Hand-Colored Engraving of "Laelia Anceps" by J. Fitch, 1882
1880s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Engraving
1960s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Screen
20th Century Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
Early 18th Century Animal Prints
Lithograph
Early 18th Century Animal Prints
Lithograph
Late 18th Century Animal Prints
Lithograph
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Hand Coloured Lithograph For Sale on 1stDibs
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Finding the Right Prints and Multiples for You
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.)
Find fine art prints for sale on 1stDibs today.
- 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 25, 2019
In a hand-pulled lithograph, the image is painted or drawn by hand on the plate, which is then inked and used to make an impression on the print medium; in an offset lithograph, the inked image is transferred to a rubber blanket or roller, which is then used to mass-produce the prints.
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