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."
1890s Chinese Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
Early 20th Century Edwardian Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
Early 2000s British Contemporary Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
1990s Finnish Art Deco Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Zircon, Silver
Early 20th Century Russian Russian Empire Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver, Enamel
Mid-20th Century American Modernist Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
17th Century English Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
20th Century Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
20th Century American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
Mid-20th Century Mexican Modern Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
Mid-20th Century Mexican Arts and Crafts Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
19th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
1970s British Retro Vintage Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Yellow Gold, Silver
1910s Russian Russian Empire Vintage Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
Early 20th Century American Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
1920s American Art Nouveau Vintage Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
Late 19th Century American Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Contemporary Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Contemporary Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
2010s Italian Contemporary Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Contemporary Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
19th Century British William IV Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver, Silver
19th Century British Georgian Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver, Sterling Silver
17th Century Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
1920s Vintage Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
Early 20th Century Chinese Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
Early 1900s German Belle Époque Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Contemporary Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Contemporary Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Contemporary Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
1990s British Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
20th Century American Edwardian Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
Mid-20th Century English Modernist Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
2010s Italian Contemporary Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
19th Century German Baroque Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
Late 19th Century Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
Mid-18th Century British Georgian Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
1990s British Modern Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
20th Century Unknown Art Deco Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Mid-20th Century American Modernist Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
Late 19th Century Persian Artisan Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver
Late 19th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
Late 19th Century English Art Nouveau Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
Mid-20th Century Unknown Modern Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver, Gilt Metal
1890s Art Nouveau Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
19th Century English George III Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver Plate
20th Century Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
20th Century Danish Modern Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
Early 20th Century German Jugendstil Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver Plate
21st Century and Contemporary Ifpda Print Fair 2014
20th Century Modern Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Silver Plate
1920s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
Mid-20th Century Finnish Modernist Ifpda Print Fair 2014
1960s British Retro Vintage Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
Mid-19th Century American Antique Ifpda Print Fair 2014
Sterling Silver
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