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By Max Pollak
Located in Plano, TX
Max Pollak excelled in all printmaking techniques, particularly drypoint, soft-ground etching and aquatint. By the 1910s, he was already gaining a reputation by creating portraits of...
Drypoint
Warrington Colescott, Your Day in Court mixed media graphic signed Artists Proof
By Warrington Colescott
Located in New York, NY
Warrington Colescott Your Day in Court, from the portfolio Wisconsin Graphics, 1971 Drypoint, etching, aquatint, woodcut, & soft-ground etching, w roulette, vibrograver, letterpress ...
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Woodcut
Sold|$2,200
Robert Bechtle 'House near Stinson Beach' Signed Limited Edition Print
By Robert Bechtle
Located in San Rafael, CA
Robert Bechtle (American, b. 1932) House Near Stinson Beach, 1998. Color soft-ground etching with spit-bite aquatint, 1998.
Aquatint
Sold|$4,717
In Full Cry
By Henry Alken
Located in London, GB
From about 1816 onwards Alken "produced an unending stream of paintings, drawings, and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity," and his soft-ground etchings we...
Oil
Sold|$1,500
Le Bibliothecaire
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
This was followed by heating the plate and working with the soft-ground etching process until the desired result was achieved.
Aquatint
Sold|$1,500
Louisiana Heron
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Shortly thereafter, Ray’s treatment of animals developed further into larger format mixed intaglio prints utilizing hard ground, soft ground, etching, and engraving, as exemplified i...
Engraving
Red Grooms Moonstruck Porcelain Sculpture Plate 3D Manhattan NYC Cartoon
By Red Grooms
Located in Surfside, FL
He has experimented with numerous techniques, creating woodblock and silkscreen prints, spray-painted stencils, soft-ground etchings, and elaborate three-dimensional lithograph const...
Porcelain, Screen
Sold|$4,400
THE POET
By Mauricio Lasansky
Located in Portland, ME
PORTRAIT OF A POET (THE POET). engraving, etching, soft ground, water ground, drypoint, electric stippler, 1962. 15 x 16 inches. 395 x 406 mm.
Engraving, Etching, Adhesive
Sold|$2,500
LOSBRUCH
By Käthe Kollwitz
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KATHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945) LOSBRUCH, 1903 (Klipstein 66 viii/xi). Etching and soft ground signed in pencil lower left below image slightly rubbed.
Etching
Sold|$300
Tickle Me
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
It is felt in the delicacy of the line as it twists and curves leading the eye upward to the apparently weightless volumes suspended upon their spindly stems and bases and in the ric...
Etching, Rag Paper
Celestial Nymph I
By Elyse Ashe Lord
Located in New York, NY
Elyse Ashe Lord (1900-1971), Celestial Nymph I, c. 1930, color etching, soft ground, drypoint; signed lower right in pencil and numbered by the artist lower left.
Drypoint, Etching
THE OLD COTTAGE ( La Masure)
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
(Delteil 20 vii/vii) Aquatint, etching & soft ground. Very Good Condition. On fine Whatman watermark paper.
Aquatint
Sold|$1,200
The Swan
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Swan Etching and soft ground intaglio, 1957 Signed and dated lower right (see photo) Titled and numbered lower left (see photo) From the second edition of 75 impressions, printed...
Intaglio
Red Lion Inn (Stratford upon Avon)
By May Gearhart
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Marilyn Pink Fine Arts, LA Gearhart worked mainly in soft-ground color etching but also made block prints.
Watercolor
Bird
By Wayne Thiebaud
Located in New York, NY
Color Soft Ground Etching with Aquatint Publisher: Crown Point Press
Etching, Aquatint
Beige Open
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Soft-ground etching 19 7/8 x 26 1/4 inches Edition of 80 Initialed and numbered MOTX278A
Etching
Persian II
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Edition 70. Aquatint, lift-ground and soft-ground etching.
Dynamite
By Jim Dine
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Dynamite, 1998 Woodcut, aquatint, soft-ground etching and power-tool drypoint 29 7/8 x 23 3/4 inches Edition of 18 Signed, dated and numbered in pencil DIXM121A
Aquatint, Etching, Woodcut
Wilshire, Grant, from Los Francisco San Angeles
By Ed Ruscha
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Wilshire, Grant, from Los Francisco San Angeles, 2001 Soft ground etching Image: 4 x 5 1/2 inches Sheet: 8 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches Edition of 45 Signed and numbered RUS014C
Etching
Columbus, Sunset, from Los Francisco San Angeles
By Ed Ruscha
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Columbus, Sunset, from Los Francisco San Angeles, 2001 Soft ground etching Image: 4 x 5 1/2 inches Sheet: 8 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches Edition of 45 Signed and numbered RUS011C
Etching
Sold|$16,000
Red Open with White Line
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell Red Open with White Line, 1979 Aquatint from one copper plate printed in red: soft-ground etching from one copper plate printed in black 18 x 36 in. (45.7 x 91.4...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$17,528
Tete de Faune
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Zeist, UT
Pablo Picasso – Tete de Faune Color soft ground Etching & Aquatint on wove paper, 1958 Hand signed and numbered (225/ 300) in pencil Published by Crommelynck, Paris Image size: 30.3 ...
Etching, Aquatint
Femme-Oiseau II
By Joan Miró
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original soft-ground etching and aquatint printed in colors on wove paper bearing the “BFK RIVES” watermark.
Etching
Jumps Out at You, No?
By Jim Dine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original etching and soft-ground etching printed in black ink on Arches Cover Buff wove paper, with hand-coloring added in several acrylic colors.
Etching
Sold|$11,000
Night Farm (TPA/35)
By Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Austin, TX
. - Night Farm was created through a multi-layered printmaking process that included aquatint, soft-ground etching, drypoint, and spit bite aquatint.
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$2,400
Woman in a Pose
By Norman Rubington
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Under the guidance of the master printer Roger Lacourière, he also achieved a remarkable proficiency, using aquatint to eloquent effect and mastered the technique of soft ground etch...
Foil
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery
By Edgar Degas
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original etching, soft-ground, aquatint, and drypoint printed in black ink on wove paper.
ABS, Etching
Sold|$3,350
Valasquez Hands
By Christopher Brown
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Color aquatint with soft ground and hard ground etching and burnishing 38 x 37.75 inches 96.5 x 95.9 cm Edition of 50 signed on the lower right corner on front framed
Aquatint
Sold|$1,100
"Ms. Spring Child in Vermillion", abstract soft ground etching, vermillion red.
By Kumi Korf
Located in Long Island City, NY
Spring Child in Vermillion" is a beautiful abstract soft ground etching with bold lines reminiscent of Japanese calligraphy superimposed over a soft pastel textural ground.
Color, Etching, Intaglio
Sold|$2,000
Stradine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Delicate hatch lines create shadows and a soft shadowy grey completes the background. Hard ground and soft ground etching with aquatint.
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$3,000
Lick My Hand
By Jockum Nordström
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jockum Nordstrom Lick My Hand, 2008 Color spit bite and sugar lift aquatints with aquatint and soft ground etching. Image size: 19¼ x 27½"; paper size: 19¼ x 27½".
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$3,495
Claes Oldenburg Original Color Etching Aquatint Signed Ice Cream Desserts Art
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Bloomington, MN
Claes Oldenburg Authentic Color Soft-Ground Etching and Aquatint "Ice Cream Desserts", Professionally Custom Framed and Listed with the Submit Best Offer option.
Aquatint
Sold|$2,500
Flatiron Building
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Flatiron Building, 1995 etching, soft-ground aquatint in 5 colors on Somerset textured paper, ed. of 75 45 x 26 in. / 114.3 x 66 cm
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$2,250
Cyclone
By William Steiger
Located in New York, NY
His paintings have been represented in New York by Margaret Thatcher Projects since 1999 and he has collaborated with Pace Editions since 2004. This soft ground and aquatint etching...
Etching
La Danse a la Campagne
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French 1841-1919) Title: La Danse a la Campagne Medium: Etching Signed: Signature stamp by Renoir appears in lower right Dimensions: Framed 13 x 16",...
Etching
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.
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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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