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Paper Cutting Art

"I Said to the Universe...", Handcut Archival Paper Diorama, Watercolor, Stars
Located in Philadelphia, PA
aspires to be in space some day. He fell in love with paper cutting art after seeing Balinese shadow
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

LED Light, Watercolor, Archival Paper

A Glimpse of Beauty
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
in Spring. Her window is decorated with a piece of Paper Cutting art. Because of its affordability
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Glimpse of Beauty
A Glimpse of Beauty
$18,000
H 36 in W 26 in D 1.75 in
Cutting Edge
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
iconography of that era with Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw art, mythos and social structures. While I naturally progressed
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Ink

Cutting Edge
Cutting Edge
$4,600
H 22 in W 14 in
Cutting Edge
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
iconography of that era with Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw art, mythos and social structures. While I naturally progressed
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Ink

Cutting Edge
$4,600
H 14 in W 22 in
Cutting Edge
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
iconography of that era with Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw art, mythos and social structures. While I naturally progressed
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Ink

Cutting Edge
Cutting Edge
$4,600
H 22 in W 14 in
"Cutting Dies", 2010
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Pigment

Vintage Judaica Lithograph "Cutting the Challah Bread"
By George Crionas
Located in San Diego, CA
Lithograph print with image entailing to a rabbi cutting challah bread. Stylistically similar to
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Vintage 1960s American Folk Art Prints

Materials

Wood, Paper

Frank Sinatra - Cutting the rug
By Ken Veeder
Located in Chicago, IL
1955 Capitol. Released in April 1955. "In the Wee Small Hours" is the 9th studio album by Frank Sinatra. "In the Wee Small Hours" has been called one of the first concept albums. The...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

The cutting lady -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
By Timothy Archer
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Signed and dated by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

"Cutting Power" - tools, saw, graffiti, contemporary, rock pigment, moody, dark
By Andrew Herzog
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Cutting Power" features black, white and grey with pops of purple. It is a stretched and framed
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Pastel, Oil, Spray Paint, Archival Paper, Pigment

Untitled (de Kooning) Collage, offset lithograph hand-cutting, hand-paint Signed
By Richard Prince
Located in New York, NY
Richard Prince Untitled (de Kooning), 2008 Collage with color offset lithograph, hand-cutting, hand
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Graphite, Offset

Butterfly & Flowers 1 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Butterfly & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Butterfly & Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Butterfly & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Fish & Underwater Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, 1950s Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Fish & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Birds & Flowers — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Birds & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed by Buddhist temples. Paper-cutting has been a popular art
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Flowers 3 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed by Buddhist temples. Paper-cutting has been a popular art
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Flowers 1 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed by Buddhist temples. Paper-cutting has been a popular art
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Fish & Underwater Flowers 1 — Hopei Folk Art, 1950s Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Fish & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Fish & Underwater Flowers 3 — Hopei Folk Art, 1950s Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Fish & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Bird & Flowers 1 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Bird & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Birds & Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Birds & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Hungarian Rabbi Akiba Eger 19thC Judaica Folk Art Tapestry Needlepoint Sampler
Located in Surfside, FL
their hands even as they focused on study and discussion. Paper-cutting was an inexpensive art — no
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Early 1900s Folk Art More Art

Materials

Wool, Mixed Media, Thread

MAN Signed Woodcut, Ethnic Face Portrait, Standing Figures, Mexican Culture
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
Mexican folk art paper-cutting, Artist: Catlett, Elizabeth (1915-2012) Title: Man Date: 1975, printed
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Woodcut

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Cutting Fish
By Dorothy Rising
Located in Boothbay Harbor, ME
G. Keller at the Cleveland Art Institute. Keller and his students favored watercolor and other
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Cutting Corners - Mixed Media Acrylic Painting Abstract Expressionism, 2023
Located in Newport Beach, CA
fine art occurred relatively late in life on the heels of personal tragedy. But in the two decades
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Wax, Acrylic

Original Vintage Food Poster Sausage Cutting Standard Methods Meat Slices Cook
Located in London, GB
Original vintage food poster showing the different methods of cutting sausage meat slices with the
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1940s More Prints

Materials

Paper

Michael Raedecker "Ballenberg Switzerland" Scherenschnitte
Located in Hudson, NY
Scherenschnitte, German for "scissor cuts," is a paper cutting art that dates back to the 16th
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Antique Early 18th Century Dutch Other Decorative Art

Materials

Paper

Cutting Through - illustrative London cityscape architecture watercolor on paper
By David Walker
Located in London, GB
on illustration and fine art painting David trained and practiced as an architect. As a painter
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

A CHILD CUTTING
By Milton Avery
Located in Aventura, FL
condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. Image size is 5.25 x 6.75 inches and the paper size is
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Paper

Cutting Through
By Barbara Wagner
Located in Brecon, Powys
Original one off linocuts (wet on wet) on Japanese paper and are 30 x 30cm printed area.
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Parchment Paper

Cutting Through
H 11.82 in W 11.82 in D 0.04 in
Polish Hand-Cute Paper Roosters
Located in New York, NY
Roosters and floral designs done in wycinanki, the Polish art of paper cutting, made in 1961
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1960s More Art

Materials

Paper

Judaica Hebrew Folk Art Embroidery Punchwork "Mizrach" 1901 Palestine Sampler
Located in Surfside, FL
,” the tradition of Jewish visual expression includes paper-cutting, creation of the mizrach and shivitti
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Early 1900s Folk Art More Art

Materials

Wool, Glass, Wood, Mixed Media

MAN, Signed Woodcut, Indigenous Portrait Head, Mexican Culture
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
of paper doll like figures, reminiscent of Mexican folk art paper-cutting printed in gradient shades
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Woodcut

MAN Signed Woodcut, Indigenous Portrait Head, Mexican Culture
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
of paper doll like figures, reminiscent of Mexican folk art paper-cutting printed in gradient shades
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Woodcut

MAN, Signed Woodcut, Mexican Culture
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
of paper doll like figures, reminiscent of Mexican folk art paper-cutting printed in gradient shades
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Woodcut

MAN, Signed Woodcut, Indigenous Portrait Head, Mexican Culture
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
of paper doll like figures, reminiscent of Mexican folk art paper-cutting printed in gradient shades
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Woodcut

MAN, Signed Woodcut, Mexican Culture
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
of paper doll like figures, reminiscent of Mexican folk art paper-cutting printed in gradient shades
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Woodcut

MAN, Signed Woodcut, Indigenous Portrait Head, Mexican Culture
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
of paper doll like figures, reminiscent of Mexican folk art paper-cutting printed in gradient shades
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Albert Chubac, Composition, Collage and Cutting, 1980 France
By Albert Chubac
Located in Saint Rémy de Provence, FR
Albert Chubac (1925-2008), Composition, Collage artwork, Circa 1980 France sign 1/8 Paper
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Vintage 1980s French Post-Modern Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Paint, Paper

Albert Chubac, Composition, Collage and Cutting, 1980, France
By Albert Chubac
Located in Saint Rémy de Provence, FR
/8 Paper, gouache, wood Albert Chubac, born December 29, 1925 in Geneva and died May 4, 2008 in
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Vintage 1980s French Post-Modern Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Paint, Paper

Albert Chubac (1925-2008), Composition, Collage and cutting, 1980 France
By Albert Chubac
Located in Saint Rémy de Provence, FR
Albert Chubac, Composition, Collage, gouache and cutting, Sign and dedication, around 1980, France
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Vintage 1980s French Post-Modern Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Paint, Paper

Albert Chubac '1925-2008', Composition, Collage and Cutting, 1980 France
By Albert Chubac
Located in Saint Rémy de Provence, FR
Albert Chubac, Composition, Collage, gouache and cutting, Sign and dedication, around 1980, France
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Vintage 1980s French Post-Modern Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Paint, Paper

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Old Fishing Boats in Laoshan
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Artist Statement "I visited Qingdao City in northeast China in 2019 with a group of artists. Qingdao is also spelled Tsin...
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Old Fishing Boats in Laoshan
Old Fishing Boats in Laoshan
$11,000
H 28.375 in W 38.375 in D 1.35 in
Wa Market
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance On consignment to the gallery from a private collector in Newport Beach, California. Artist Statement "The location is in a small town within the province of Yunnan in So...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wa Market
Wa Market
$90,000
H 46.5 in W 60 in
Gloria
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist. Description Mian Situ portrays his wife, Gloria, as a woman of beauty, dignity, culture and grace. She seems to magical...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Gloria
Gloria
$8,500
H 37.375 in W 33.375 in D 1.375 in
Family Helping Hands
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provnance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist. Description Three Miao sisters from the Guizhou Province of China, accompanied by their dog, descend on a mountain trail ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Family Helping Hands
Family Helping Hands
$30,000
H 42.25 in W 37.25 in D 1.875 in
Prepare to Celebrate
By Mian Situ
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Description Charged with uplifting energy, this beautiful oil painting by Mian Situ is brilliantly executed and appears t...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Prepare to Celebrate
Prepare to Celebrate
$27,500
H 37 in W 31 in D 1.75 in
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How Much is a Paper Cutting Art?

The average selling price for a piece of paper cutting art we offer is $2,775, while they’re typically $375 on the low end and $4,701 for the highest priced.
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