Ifpda Print Fair 2014

This week at New York's Park Avenue Armory, prints are allowed a rare moment in the spotlight. Amidst a larger week-long program of print-related events, lectures and exhibitions throughout the city, the International Fine Print Dealers Association’s annual fair (November 5 to 9) presents more than half a millennium of printmaking history.
Here our editors have selected their favorite prints and drawings from 1stdibs’ participating IFPDA galleries. The collection highlights such techniques as woodcutting, etching, lithography, silk-screening and digital printing across various motifs and palettes, including Andy Warhol’s vibrantly screen-printed Flowers from 1970 and Henri Matisse’s thinly drawn flower petals from the mid-1940s. Note that this particular Matisse, Branche de Fleurs, boasts a “verso,” or reverse side, that the artist used as a study for one of his “cut-outs,” a selection of which are on view at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The same gallery, David Tunick, also has an exceptionally rare and early impression of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Horseman of the Apocalypse from 1498 — likely the most famous woodcut in both Dürer’s prolific career if not in the history of fine art, posits Tunick — that appears to predate any other example of this print in any American museum collection.
Beyond the earliest forms of printmaking, the fair also covers such key 19th- and 20th-century art movements as Realism, Art Nouveau, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Minimalism. Says Michele Senecal, the executive director of the IFPDA, "Beyond being beautiful and easy to navigate, this fair is marked by the extraordinary caliber of works on offer. There are discoveries to be made in every booth."
Early 2000s American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
20th Century North American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
2010s French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Late 20th Century European Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Early 2000s American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
20th Century English Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Early 2000s French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
2010s French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
2010s French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
2010s French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Early 2000s French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
1960s American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
1990s Italian Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Ifpda Print Fair 2014
2010s Italian Ifpda Print Fair 2014
2010s Italian Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
2010s Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
1990s American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Ifpda Print Fair 2014
1990s Italian Ifpda Print Fair 2014
1990s Italian Ifpda Print Fair 2014
1990s Italian Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Early 2000s American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Mid-20th Century Danish Ifpda Print Fair 2014
20th Century English Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary North American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Late 20th Century British Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Late 20th Century North American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
1970s Ifpda Print Fair 2014
1970s English Ifpda Print Fair 2014
1990s Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Ifpda Print Fair 2014
20th Century French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
20th Century Italian Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Early 2000s Slovak Ifpda Print Fair 2014
20th Century Ifpda Print Fair 2014
20th Century Ifpda Print Fair 2014
20th Century Ifpda Print Fair 2014
20th Century Japanese Ifpda Print Fair 2014
20th Century American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
1980s American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Late 20th Century French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
21st Century and Contemporary French Ifpda Print Fair 2014
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