$1,500
H 28.5 in W 37.25 in
Robert Burkert Lithograph Landscape "Late Light" Poetic
By Robert Burkert
Located in Detroit, MI
"Late Light" by Robert Burkert is a lithograph landscape by the master printmaker that depicts a
Lithograph
Sold
H 35 in W 26.25 in
"W.C. Fields, " Original Serigraph and Collage Portrait by Robert Burkert
By Robert Burkert
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"W.C. Fields" is an original serigraph and collage by Robert Burkert. It depicts the American
Mixed Media, Screen
$2,000
H 28 in W 32 in
Antonio Lopez Saenz Aquatint "Hombres y Sillos" (Men and Chairs)
By Antonio Lopez Saenz 1
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY Antonio Lopez Saenz is a brilliant iconic creative artist from Mazatlan, Mexico. The aquatint “Hombres y Sillos” (Men and Chairs) was created in 1980 and signed,...
Aquatint
$3,800
H 27.25 in W 18.75 in D 10 in
Michael German "Leroy & Bertha's Bar and Grill" Mixed Media Sculpture Folk Art
Located in Detroit, MI
During the 1960s America’s storytelling sculptor, Michael Garman, lived a vagabond lifestyle on the cheap and in the run-down neighborhoods of Dallas, San Francisco, Philadelphia and...
Mixed Media
Robert Natkin Abstract Lithograph Signed Numbered
By Robert Natkin
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY Soft pastel colors in floating smudges lay between and around lyrical abstract geometric and organic forms giving a diaphanous color and shape harmony to the work...
Lithograph
$1,600
H 9 in W 6 in
Hitchhike - Distorted Drawing of Male and Female Nude Figures, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Jane Birch Hitchhike graphite on paper 9h x 6w in 16h x 12.75w in framed 22.86h x 15.24w cm JAB008 My drawings are lovingly objectifying. I’m an alien researcher, and my subject, h...
Archival Paper, Graphite
"Female Nude" Charcoal Sketch, Nude Female
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Nude Female" by Eric Saarinen is an intimate portrait of a female that appears to be in the throes of orgasm. It is aesthetically reminiscent of Gustave Courbet'...
Charcoal
$5,500
H 44 in W 50 in
"Red Harmony" Abstract, Geometric, Colors, Bright Red, Green
By William Antonow
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Red Harmony" is an abstract painting that does have a sculptural presence in the shapes of the red areas. The lush greens blend various shades into a background ...
Canvas, Oil
$2,900
H 38 in W 48 in
Helmut Gransow Landscape w/House & Barn "Springtime Reflections No. I"
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY “Springtown Reflections No. I” depicts the moment of change in the weather moving from harsh winter to the first warming days of spring melting the snow. The titl...
Linen, Oil
$1,800
H 9 in Dm 6 in
"Untitled" Ceramic Vase with Etched Figures, Green Glaze, Signed on Bottom
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY Douglas’s etched ceramic vase in a rich earthy green glaze expresses the Mid-Century Modern style of simplicity of lines, forms and color. Despite its formal shap...
Ceramic, Glaze
$1,500
H 16.25 in W 19 in
James Crawford "Pile Series" 6 Silkscreen Signed Numbered
Located in Detroit, MI
"Pile Series" was completed during the 1970s. It has a tongue-in-cheek affect as all the prints are photographs of stacks, or "piles", of industrial construction items silkscreened o...
Cardboard
Fanny Rabel Figurative Oil Painting Soulful, Prayerful
By Fanny Rabel
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY UNTITLED by Fanny Rabel a Mexican artist who was born in Poland in 1922 is a soul wrenching work depicting among other things, the children killed by Nazi bombing...
Oil, Canvas
"Dahlia", Clothed Female, Intense Blues, Reds
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Dahlia" by Andrey Skripka, a Russian, is an interesting psychological portrait of a young woman who's posture appears withdrawn and tightly composed, but who is ...
Oil
Antique Print of Antelopes, 1854
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Antilopés'. Print of antelopes. This print originates from 'Musée d'Histoire Naturelle' by M. Achille Comte. Artists and Engravers: Published by Gustave Hav...
Paper
Fred Cress Figurative Painting "Mirror, Mirror"
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY Complicated exchanges between individuals engaged in conversations, an argument, boredom, a caring exchange, toasting, so many human interactions within an almost...
Canvas, Acrylic
Mountains (Strange Love)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mountains (Strange Love) - 2003 40x60cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a 35mm film. Signature label and certificate. Not mounted. A piece of Ste...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
$3,600
H 11.57 in W 8.5 in
"Song of Songs Illustration", Pencil and Ink, Old Testament Story
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Song of Songs Illustration" renders an important bibilical story that is celebrated during Jewish Passover. Song of Solomon, also called Canticle of Canticles, o...
Paper, Ink, Pencil
$2,200
H 19.75 in W 38.25 in
"#24-80D Color Climb", Mixed Media Stencil Casting, Pencil Signed and Numbered
Located in Detroit, MI
"#24-80D Color Climb" is an exemplary work of Paul E. Maxwell's "stencil casting" works. This abstract but grid-like work employs a thickly textured and layered surface that has also...
Mixed Media, Stencil
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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