Storm
By Bruce Weinberg
Located in San Francisco, CA
Etchings were executed by use of traditional hard and soft ground etching technique.
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Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Prints
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Mixed Media
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Savared
By Bruce Weinberg
Located in San Francisco, CA
Etchings were executed by use of traditional hard and soft ground etching technique.
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Mixed Media
Médecine Expérimentale - Etching by Félicien Rops - 1854
By Félicien Rops
Located in Roma, IT
Médecine Expérimentale (Experimental medicine), is an original etching, soft ground, on Japanese paper realized by Félicien Rops in 1854, signed in the plate.
Category
1870s Symbolist More Prints
Materials
Etching
Abraham LacalleUntitled I Abstract Etching by Abraham LaCalle, 2004, 15x12.5 in, 2004
$400Sale Price|33% Off
Untitled I Abstract Etching by Abraham LaCalle, 2004, 15x12.5 in
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Executed using soft-ground and hard-ground etching, sugar-lift aquatint, open bite, and drypoint, the composition reflects LaCalle's distinctive approach to building images through f...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Finger Print
By Tom Marioni
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Tom Marioni – American (1937- ) Title: Finger Print Year: 1991 Medium: Color soft ground etching with sugar lift aquatint, drypoint, fingerprint and beer label chine colle Im...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Aquatint, Drypoint, Etching, Mixed Media
Le Chapeau Epingle or La fille de Berthe Morisot et sa Cousine (1e planche)
By Pierre Auguste Renoir
Located in Fairlawn, OH
He did not take up original printmaking until he was 50 years old, first with two small soft-ground etchings after his painting, “The Rustic Ball,” followed by an etching of Venus fo...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
George Overbury HartEarly 20th Century Santo Domingo Landscape Etching Proof, 1923
$1,400Sale Price|20% Off
Early 20th Century Santo Domingo Landscape Etching Proof
By George Overbury Hart
Located in Soquel, CA
More houses and figures in the hilly background create depth and interest to this genre landscape. Medium: Dry Point etching on soft ground on paper Signature: Signed in pencil lo...
Category
1920s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Abstract Drypoint Etching Cheryl Warrick African American Woman Artist
By Cheryl Warrick
Located in Surfside, FL
Cheryl Warrick (American, b. 1956), "Peace Makes Plenty" Color etching, soft ground, white ground, drypoint, and chine colle, on Hahnemuhle Copperplate paper Hand signed in pencil.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Web
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...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
La Grande Cascade de Saint Cloud
By Alfredo Müller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Very occasionally he combined drypoint or soft ground etching with aquatint. Müller's principal publisher was Pierrefort, who also issued prints by Toulouse-Lautrec.
Category
Early 1900s French School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
La Promenade Etching, Art Nouveau, Signed, Edition of 50, 1900s
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Promenade Etching, soft-ground, aquatint & drypoint, Signed in pencil lower left Published by Edmund Sagot, Paris Edition of 50 in black only, aside from the edition of 50 in co...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Bruce Weinberg"Unicorn Moebius II" - Trial Proof Lithograph in Ink on Laid Paper, 1982
$1,480Sale Price|20% Off
"Unicorn Moebius II" - Trial Proof Lithograph in Ink on Laid Paper
By Bruce Weinberg
Located in Soquel, CA
Etchings were executed by use of traditional hard and soft ground etching technique.
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Lithograph
Avril
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.
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Aardvark
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...
Category
1950s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Three Graces
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...
Category
1960s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Untitled (Seascape at night)
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...
Category
1960s American Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Tissue Paper
Crucifixion
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...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Crucifixion
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...
Category
1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Moon Rays
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...
Category
1960s Op Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Other Medium
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...
Category
1990s Pop Art Mixed Media
Materials
Porcelain, Screen
Olympian Games
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...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Lost Trace / - The Holy Night as a real dream -
By Ernst Fuchs
Located in Berlin, DE
- The Holy Night as a real dream - Ernst Fuchs uses the printmaking technique of soft ground etching, also called "vernis mou", rediscovered by Félicien Rops in the 19th century.
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Red GroomsHuge Red Grooms Monotype Oil Painting LA Hollywood Circus Film Cartoon Pop Art, 2006
$9,500
Huge Red Grooms Monotype Oil Painting LA Hollywood Circus Film Cartoon Pop Art
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...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Monoprint, Monotype
Earth
By Jennifer Bartlett
Located in Houston, TX
Jennifer Bartlett Earth, 1992 Etching, soft ground and aquatint 33 1/4 x 33 inches Edition of 80
Category
20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
David HockneyThe Princess after many years in the Glass Mountain by David Hockney fairy tale, 1969
$1,100
The Princess after many years in the Glass Mountain by David Hockney fairy tale
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This bit's done with hard-ground (line etching) and that's done with soft-ground (pencil on tissue paper) etching, so the line is soft.”
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
EL MOZO
By Mauricio Lasansky
Located in Portland, ME
Lasansky 188. Engraving, etching, soft ground, open-bite, drypoint and resist ground, 1966.
Category
1960s Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Mere
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mere Etching and soft ground, 1970 Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil Printed in colors by Hector Saunier on BFK Rives paper Published by Georgetown Graphics, Washington, D...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Die Loge im Gaite Montparnasse (Paris)
By Emil Orlik
Located in New York, NY
Emil Orlik (1870-1932), Die Loge im Gaite Montparnasse (Paris), drypoint, etching and soft ground, 1911, signed and numbered in pencil lower right, for the portfolio Zuschauer und Zu...
Category
1910s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Käthe KollwitzSCHWANGERE FRAU., 1910
$2,800Sale Price|20% Off
SCHWANGERE FRAU.
By Käthe Kollwitz
Located in Portland, ME
Kollwitz, Kathe. SCHWANGERE FRAU. Etching and soft ground, 1910. Klipstein 108(V) 14 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches (377 x 236 mm.).
Category
1910s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Couple Under a Tree
By Elyse Ashe Lord
Located in New York, NY
Elyse Ashe Lord (1900-1971), Couple Under a Tree, c. 1930, color etching, soft ground, drypoint; signed lower right in pencil and numbered by the artist lower left.
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Debris
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
French's 1959 etching Enchantment remains particularly illustrative of his characteristic use of etching and soft ground intaglio.
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Valton TylerTickle Me, 1970
Price Upon Request
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching
Valton Tyler154 Foot Sculpture That Never Was, 1971
Price Upon Request
154 Foot Sculpture That Never Was
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
(Reynolds, p.112) Media: soft ground, aquatint, and line etching on BFK Rives rag paper Paper size: 27 1/2 x 38 1/4 inches Edition: 5 Artists Proofs Imp. 50 Signed Prints Imp.
Category
1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Katie VanVliet"All the Small Things III" Intaglio, hand colored, etched still life objects, 2023
$950
"All the Small Things III" Intaglio, hand colored, etched still life objects
By Katie VanVliet
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "All the Small Things III" is a unique monoprint piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from hand-colored etching with soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece is a unique ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio
Valton TylerLove Me, 1970
Price Upon Request
Love Me
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
Paper size: 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches Edition: 5 Artists Proofs Imp. 50 Signed Prints Imp. soft ground and line etching on BFK Rives rag paper Bibliography: Edward M.
Category
1970s Outsider Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Nets – Mid-Century Modernism, Atelier 17
By Sigismond Kolos-Vari
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Sigismond Kolos-Vari, 'Nets', color etching with soft-ground and aquatint, edition 200 (1 of 60 artist's proofs), 1952.
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Valton TylerEagle's Nest, 1971
Price Upon Request
Eagle's Nest
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
This is to suggest a continuous process and movement taking place in the rather frozen design” (Reynolds, p. 110). Media: aquatint, soft ground, and line etching on BFK Rives rag pa...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Elephant
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
French's 1959 etching Enchantment remains particularly illustrative of his characteristic use of etching and soft ground intaglio.
Category
1950s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Strange Animals
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
French's 1959 etching Enchantment remains particularly illustrative of his characteristic use of etching and soft ground intaglio.
Category
1940s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Walruses
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
French's 1959 etching Enchantment remains particularly illustrative of his characteristic use of etching and soft ground intaglio.
Category
1950s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Vienna Lipizzaner
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
French's 1959 etching Enchantment remains particularly illustrative of his characteristic use of etching and soft ground intaglio.
Category
1960s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Untitled (Tuscan Landscape)
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
French's 1959 etching Enchantment remains particularly illustrative of his characteristic use of etching and soft ground intaglio.
Category
1960s American Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
La grande incognita (The great unknown)
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
French's 1959 etching Enchantment remains particularly illustrative of his characteristic use of etching and soft ground intaglio.
Category
1960s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Richard Diebenkorn#24 (Phyllis seated in rattan chair) from 41 Etchings Drypoints, 1965
Price Upon Request
#24 (Phyllis seated in rattan chair) from 41 Etchings Drypoints
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in New York, NY
Soft Ground Etching signed and dated in pencil: RD 65 numbered from the edition of 25
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Wayne ThiebaudDark Gumball Machine, 1964
Price Upon Request
Dark Gumball Machine
By Wayne Thiebaud
Located in New York, NY
Wayne Thiebaud Dark Gumball Machine, 1964/ 2017 Hard ground and soft ground etching 18h x 12w in
Category
1660s Post-War Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
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Soft Ground Etching For Sale on 1stDibs
On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate soft ground etching for your needs in our varied inventory. You can easily find an example made in the Abstract style, while we also have 1 Abstract versions to choose from as well. If you’re looking for a soft ground etching from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 18th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right soft ground etching for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of gray, beige, brown and black. Finding an appealing soft ground etching — no matter the origin — is easy, but Creighton Michael, Nancy Cohen, Bruce Nauman, Kumi Korf and John McDevitt King each produced popular versions that are worth a look. Frequently made by artists working in monoprint, monotype and intaglio, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years. A large soft ground etching can be an attractive addition to some spaces, while smaller examples are available — approximately spanning 8.27 high and 7.88 wide — and may be better suited to a more modest living area.
How Much is a Soft Ground Etching?
The average selling price for a soft ground etching we offer is $2,442, while they’re typically $120 on the low end and $25,000 for the highest priced.
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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