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Composition - Original Lithograph - 1978

Composition - Original Lithograph - 1978

Located in Roma, IT

Composition is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1978 by an Italian artist

Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Sunset - Original Lithograph - 1970s
Sunset - Original Lithograph - 1970s

Sunset - Original Lithograph - 1970s

Located in Roma, IT

Sunset is an original print realized in the 1970s. Mixed colored lithograph This lithograph is

Category

1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Vegetation - Original Lithograph - 1980s

Vegetation - Original Lithograph - 1980s

Located in Roma, IT

Vegetation is an original litograph artwork, realized by an unknown artist in 1980s. Hand-signed

Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Nausicaa - Original Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Nausicaa - Original Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Nausicaa - Original Lithograph

By Enki Bilal

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Enki Bilal - Nausicaa - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pigment

Enki Bilal - Circe - Original Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Circe - Original Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Circe - Original Lithograph

By Enki Bilal

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Enki Bilal - Circe - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions: 42

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pigment

Enki Bilal - Cyclops - Original Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Cyclops - Original Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Cyclops - Original Lithograph

By Enki Bilal

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Enki Bilal - Cyclops - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pigment

Enki Bilal - Mermaids - Original Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Mermaids - Original Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Mermaids - Original Lithograph

By Enki Bilal

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Enki Bilal - Mermaids - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pigment

Enki Bilal - Athena - Original Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Athena - Original Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Athena - Original Lithograph

By Enki Bilal

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Enki Bilal - Athena - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions: 42

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pigment

Enki Bilal - Calypso - Original Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Calypso - Original Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Calypso - Original Lithograph

By Enki Bilal

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Enki Bilal - Calypso - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pigment

Enki Bilal - Dream - Original Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Dream - Original Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Dream - Original Lithograph

By Enki Bilal

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Enki Bilal - Dream - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions: 42

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pigment

Enki Bilal - Feet - Original Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Feet - Original Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Feet - Original Lithograph

By Enki Bilal

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Enki Bilal - Feet - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions: 42 x

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pigment

Enki Bilal - Gaze - Original Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Gaze - Original Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Gaze - Original Lithograph

By Enki Bilal

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Enki Bilal - Gaze - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions: 42 x

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pigment

Enki Bilal - Ulysses - Original Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Ulysses - Original Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Ulysses - Original Lithograph

By Enki Bilal

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Enki Bilal - Ulysses - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pigment

Composition - Original Lithograph by Vedan - 1970s
Composition - Original Lithograph by Vedan - 1970s

Composition - Original Lithograph by Vedan - 1970s

Located in Roma, IT

Composition is an original print realized by Vedan in 1970s. Beautiful black and white lithograph

Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Composition - Original Lithograph by Vedan - 1970s
Composition - Original Lithograph by Vedan - 1970s

Composition - Original Lithograph by Vedan - 1970s

Located in Roma, IT

Composition is an original print realized by Vedan in 1970s. Beautiful black and white lithograph

Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Cyclops Eating - Original Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Cyclops Eating - Original Lithograph

Enki Bilal - Cyclops Eating - Original Lithograph

By Enki Bilal

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Enki Bilal - Cyclops Eating - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pigment

Enki Bilal - The Kiss - Original Lithograph
Enki Bilal - The Kiss - Original Lithograph

Enki Bilal - The Kiss - Original Lithograph

By Enki Bilal

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Enki Bilal - The Kiss - Original Lithograph Publisher: Amis du Livre Edition: 240 2012 Dimensions

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Pigment

Signs - Original Lithograph by Leo Guida - 1970s
Signs - Original Lithograph by Leo Guida - 1970s

Signs - Original Lithograph by Leo Guida - 1970s

By Leo Guida

Located in Roma, IT

Signs is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1970s by the italian artist Leo Guida

Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Signs - Original Lithograph by Leo Guida - 1970s
Signs - Original Lithograph by Leo Guida - 1970s

Signs - Original Lithograph by Leo Guida - 1970s

By Leo Guida

Located in Roma, IT

Signs is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1970s by the italian artist Leo Guida

Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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Original Lithographs Contemporary For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the original lithographs contemporary you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. There are many Contemporary and Abstract versions of these works for sale. If you’re looking for an original lithographs contemporary from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 19th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right original lithographs contemporary for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of beige, gray, black and brown. Creating an original lithographs contemporary has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Rafael Alberti, Andrea Quarto, Sergio Barletta, Orfeo Tamburi and Antoni Tàpies are consistently popular. Artworks like these of any era or style can make for thoughtful decor in any space, but a selection from our variety of those made in lithograph, paper and paint can add an especially memorable touch. A large original lithographs contemporary can be an attractive addition to some spaces, while smaller examples are available — approximately spanning 0.2 high and 0.04 wide — and may be better suited to a more modest living area.

How Much is a Original Lithographs Contemporary?

The price for an original lithographs contemporary in our collection starts at $158 and tops out at $71,498 with the average selling for $370.

A Close Look at Contemporary Art

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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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.)

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Questions About Original Lithographs Contemporary
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 16, 2024
    No, a lithograph is not an original. Lithographs are prints, which are authorized reproductions of works produced by artists. To produce a lithograph, an artist applies an image to a stone. Then, they treat the stone with chemicals to impart the image into it. Finally, they apply ink and transfer the image onto paper or another medium. Shop a large selection of lithographs on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertOctober 19, 2021
    An original lithograph is a print made by way of a specific printing method (one of the most commonly used methods in the 20th and 21st centuries). With respect to lithography, the process begins by drawing on or painting on a stone surface with an oil-based substance, such as a greasy crayon or tusche (an oily wash). The stone is then covered with water, which is repelled by the oily areas. Oil-based ink is then applied to the wet stone, adhering only to the oily image. The stone is then covered with a sheet of paper and run through a press.
  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 31, 2023
    To tell a lithograph from an original, look for the signature. On originals, the signature will usually be on the back, while a lithograph will showcase the artist's mark on the front. On 1stDibs, shop a variety of lithographs from some of the world's top dealers.
  • 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 9, 2024
    To tell if a lithograph is original, first look at it closely with a magnifying glass. Originals will typically display noticeable dots, while copies may lack these details. The artist's signature can also be a clue. Most original lithographs will be hand-signed with ink or pen on the back or in a margin. The signature will be printed on a reproduction. Because it can be difficult in some cases to tell reproductions apart from originals, experts often recommend having prints authenticated by a certified appraiser or knowledgeable art dealers. Explore a variety of lithographs on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertAugust 26, 2024
    The difference between a lithograph and an original is that one is used to produce the other. An original is the term for the stone upon which an artist paints an image using an oil-based substance, such as a greasy crayon or tusche, a type of oily wash. The lithograph is the print that an artist makes with an original. To create a lithograph, oil-based ink is applied to the wet stone, adhering only to the oily image. The stone is then covered with a sheet of paper and run through a press. On 1stDibs, shop a diverse assortment of lithographs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertOctober 7, 2024
    The difference between an offset lithograph and an original lithograph is that the former is made using the other. To produce an original lithograph, a printmaker begins by drawing on or painting on a stone surface with an oil-based substance. The stone is then covered with water, which is repelled by the oily areas. Oil-based ink is then applied to the wet stone, adhering only to the oily image. The stone is then covered with a sheet of paper and run through a press. An offset lithograph is a copy of an original lithograph produced with mechanical processes, usually without the artist's involvement. On 1stDibs, explore a collection of lithographs and other art prints.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    No, a lithograph isn’t technically an original work of art. It’s a type of print, but a lithograph is generally more prized than a common print because each lithograph is hand-made by the artist through the process of lithography. They’re usually made in much lower quantities than prints, which are easier to produce on a large scale. On 1stDibs, shop a large collection of lithographs from various artists.