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"The Angles of Sedation and Destruction" Shepard Fairey Screenprint Street Art
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
I’ve enjoyed bringing some of the spray paint textures from my fine art into my screen prints. I like the subtle color shifts and ethereal gradients that can be achieved with spray p...
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2010s Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Screen

The Hat Trick
By Robert Deyber
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Hat Trick is a lithograph on paper, 9.5 x 9" image size. From the edition of 395, numbered 92/275 (there were also 100 Roman and 20 AP). Robert Deyber’s lithographs were created...
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Early 2000s Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Doors of Perception 5
By Brad Faine
Located in Greenwich, CT
Doors of Perception 5 is one of a series of 12 unique color variations of this title. The digital pigment print with diamond dust on canvas is signed and titled on the verso, and fra...
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2010s Contemporary The Print Shop

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Canvas, Digital Pigment

El Caballo Raptor - Original Etching - 1875
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
El caballo raptor - from Los Proverbios is an original black and white etching realized by Francisco Goya (1746-1828). The artwork is the plate n. 1...
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1870s Old Masters The Print Shop

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

STEAMBOAT SUITE PORTFOLIO WITH AN EXTRA MONOTYPE ADDED, 2013
By Katherine Bradford
Located in Portland, ME
Bradford, Katherine (American, born 1942) STEAMBOAT SUITE PORTFOLIO WITH AN EXTRA MONOTYPE ADDED, 2013. Edition of 10, plus 7 Artist's Proofs and Collaborators copies. Of the editio...
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2010s The Print Shop

Materials

Etching, Monotype

Where is My Baby Tonight (from One Cent Life Portfolio)
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Tom Wesselmann Title: Where is My Baby Tonight (from One Cent Life Portfolio) Double lithograph, 2 sheets (printed on separate pages) Year: 1964 Medium: Lithograph Reference #: One Cent Life portfolio, page 72 (verso page 71) & 73 (verso is page 74) Page 71 is a lithograph by Kimber Smith...
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1960s Pop Art The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

Takashi Murakami Melting DOB New/sealed (Takashi Murakami DOB)
By Takashi Murakami
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Takashi Murakami Melting DOB, 2021: Takashi Murakami's signature DOB figure new/unopened in its original packaging. A standout Murakami limited edition collector's piece, rarely presented new/sealed in its original factory box. Medium: Painted cast vinyl figure with metallic disk stand...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art The Print Shop

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

Poems Secrets War 1914-1918
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Poems Secrets War 1914-1918 MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 108/145 MEASUREMENTS: 11" x 15...
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1960s Surrealist The Print Shop

Materials

Etching

Zephyr Bird, Lithograph by Joan Miro 1956
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original lithograph from the 1956 Derriere le Miroir “Miro-Artigas” folio. Printed by Mourlot, Published by Maeght, Paris. Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: Zephyr Bird...
Category

1950s Modern The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

David Gilhooly 'Agate Dog' Original Signed Print
By David Gilhooly
Located in San Rafael, CA
David Gilhooly (1943-2013) Agate Dog, 1988 Tiled in pencil on the verso Monotype on BFK Rives Paper Signed and dated in pencil, lower right Unframed: 30in H x 22 in L The monoprint i...
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1980s Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Monoprint

New York City Plaza (Plaza Fountain)
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: New York City Plaza (Plaza Fountain) MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 101/125 MEASUREMENTS: 30" x 22" YEAR: 1964 FRAMED: No C...
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1960s Surrealist The Print Shop

Materials

Etching

Untitled
By Piero Dorazio
Located in Summit, NJ
Gorgeous aquatint in reds and oranges by Piero Dorazio (Italian 1927-2005). This aquatint is on heavy "Umbria" Fabriano paper. It is signed and dated 1964 in the lower margin in penc...
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1960s Abstract The Print Shop

Materials

Aquatint

I-S #1 /// Abstract Geometric Sewell Sillman Screenprint Purple Pink Modern Art
By Sewell Sillman
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sewell Sillman (American, 1924-1992) Title: "I-S #1" *Signed and dated by Sillman in pencil lower right Year: 1968 Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded heavy white wove ...
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1960s Abstract Geometric The Print Shop

Materials

Screen

Pablo Picasso "Grand Tête" (Portrait de Jacqueline aux Cheveux lisses)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Grand Tête (Portrait de Jacqueline aux Cheveux lisses) linocut in colors, on Arches paper, 1962, signed in pencil, numbered ##/50, with full margins, pale ...
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20th Century Cubist The Print Shop

Materials

Linocut

Wild Garden
By Robert Kushner
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph/diptych, Edition 25. The artist describes this project: Two years ago, I had the very good fortune to be invited to paint in the South of France. My studio was an abandoned stone barn - no doors...
Category

2010s Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

Descending from the Cross, by Torchlight
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in New York, NY
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606 Leiden – Amsterdam 1669 The Descent from the Cross by Torchlight 1654 etching and drypoint; sheet 213 x 163 mm (8 3/8 x 6 7/16 inches) Bart...
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17th Century Old Masters The Print Shop

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Takashi Murakami Kanye West 2007 (Takashi Murakami Louis Vuitton)
By Takashi Murakami
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Takashi Murakami, Kanye West, Louis Vuitton; Los Angeles 2007 (Murakami Gala): Rare folding invitation published on the occasion of a 2007 reception honoring Takashi Murakami and fashion icon Marc Jacobs with a special performance by Kanye West; October 28th, 2007; MOCA Los Angeles; hosted by Louis Vuitton. Front side imagery features a reproduction of Murakami’s ‘Jellyfish...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art The Print Shop

Materials

Offset, Paper

Bumblebee by Guy Allen. Print from copperplate etching. Wooden Frame
By Guy Allen
Located in Coltishall, GB
The marvellous bumblebee… The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. St. John Chrysostom Guy Allen’s etchings inspired by the fauna of rural...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style The Print Shop

Materials

Paper, Etching

Flower: Soul to Soul
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Bristol, GB
Silkscreen Edition of 100 Signed and numbered on the front Mint
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Screen

Le Lézard aux Plumes d’Or - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1971
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, and han written in pencil "H.C." (hors commerce). Edition of 150 numbered in Arabic numerals on Rives with “Miro” watermark + 20 numbered in Roman numerals on Rives wit...
Category

1970s Surrealist The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

Night Visitor
By Barbara Takenaga
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25 Barbara Takenaga is a painter who made her first lithograph at Shark's in the summer of 2002. Her abstract works are full of repeated, obsessive mark ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Candlestick - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
The Candlestick, from Jean Leymarie, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (Jerusalem Windows), André Sauret, Monte Carlo, 1962 (see M. 366-72; see C. books ...
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1960s Surrealist The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

FIGURE WRITING REFLECTED ON MIRROR
By Francis Bacon
Located in New York, NY
Francis Bacon color lithograph on Arches paper. Edition 50 of 180. Not framed. MOURLOT IMP - stamped on bottom left DESCHAMPS LITH. - stamped on bottom right
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Late 20th Century Modern The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

MORNING Signed Lithograph, Interior Scene Black Women, African American Culture
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
MORNING is an original limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free. MORNING by the African Am...
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1970s Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

Five Greek Poets and a Philosopher
By Cy Twombly
Located in London, GB
Complete set of seven lithographs with embossment, 1978, on Richard de Bas mould-made paper, initialed and numbered in pencil from the edition of 40 verso, printed by Matthieu Studio...
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1970s Abstract The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

Mon Jardin Zoologique /// Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Animal Modern Art
By Serge Helenon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Serge Helenon (French, 1934-) Title: "Mon Jardin Zoologique" *Signed by Helenon in pencil lower right Year: 1989 Medium: Original Carborundum Engrav...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist The Print Shop

Materials

Engraving, Handmade Paper, Intaglio

Keith Haring 1986 cover art (Keith Haring new school)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Illustration art 1986: Rare seldom available 1980s Keith Haring illustrated New School university catalog featuring Haring double-sided cover art and a printed signature. Quite scarce, especially in good condition as presented here. Offset printed university catalog; Soft cover; 292 pages. 8.5 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition with the exception of surface creasing in a couple of areas; well-preserved with crisp colors. Printed signature on lower left ("1985 Haring"); from an edition of unknown; published 1985/1986 by the New School (New York, NY). Haring credit further appears on the lower left interior of 1st pg: 'Cover art for New School by Keith Haring.' (See the 2nd to last image in listing). Keith Haring rose to prominence in 1980s New York within the East Village art scene alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, and Jenny Holzer. He bridged the gap between the art world and the street, graffiting city subways and sidewalks before committing to a studio practice. Haring united the appeal of cartoons with the raw energy of Art Brut artists such as Jean DuBuffet as he developed a distinct pop-graffiti aesthetic that comprised energetic, boldly outlined figures against solid or patterned backdrops. His major themes included exploitation, subjugation, drug abuse, and the threat of nuclear holocaust; Haring boldly engaged with social issues, especially after receiving an AIDS diagnosis in 1987. Today, his work sells for seven figures at auction and has been the subject of solo shows at the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Albertina Museum in Vienna, among other institutions. Related Categories: Keith Haring 1986. Keith Haring prints. Keith Haring cover art. Keith Haring catalog...
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1980s Pop Art The Print Shop

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Paper

Lines of Force (Fire Red) State II
By Barbara Takenaga
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with hand coloring, Edition 20 Her most recent prints are "Lines of Force (Fire Red) State II" and "Lines of Force (TBR) State II." Vibrant hand-colored lithograp...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

Le Lézard aux Plumes d’Or - LIthograph by Joan Mirò - 1971
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or is a beautiful colored lithograph on mother-of-pearl Japan paper from the series realized by Joan Miró in 1971. Signed on the lower right corner. Printed by...
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1970s Surrealist The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

Prime Pump from ROCI USA
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A print by Robert Rauschenberg. "Prime Pump from ROCI USA" is a color screenprint on paper and Lexan print from the Wax Fire Works Series. "Prime Pump from ...
Category

1990s Post-War The Print Shop

Materials

Paper, Screen

Takashi Murakami Sea Breeze-Chan Pop Art, Limited Edition
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Draper, UT
One of the most acclaimed artists to emerge from post-war Asia, Takashi Murakami is known for his signature “Superflat” aesthetic: a colorful, two-dimensional style that straddles th...
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2010s Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Screen

Shaker Blue
By Barbara Takenaga
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25. Barbara Takenaga is a painter who made her first lithograph at Shark's in the summer of 2002. Her abstract works are full of repeated, obsessive mark...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

Village in a Red Rain
By Chu Teh-Chun
Located in London, GB
CHU TEH-CHUN 1920 – 2014 (ZHU DEQUN) Xiao County, China 1920 – 2014 Paris (French / Chinese) Title: Village in a Red Rain, 1960 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered L...
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1960s Abstract The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Cherries - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Cherries - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph Dimensions: P. 57 x 37 cm Sheet: 75 x 56 cm Handsigned Edition: EC.d (collaborator edition "d") Excellent Condition Refer...
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1960s Surrealist The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

Train Tracks
By Bob Dylan
Located in London, GB
Bob DYLAN (1941-) Train Tracks mixed media 76 x 61 cm Signed Dylan's iconic Train Tracks image has resonated with fans and collectors since the initial s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Mixed Media

Bouteilles – lithograph, hand-signed and numbered
By Le Corbusier
Located in Zurich, CH
Together with "Les Musiciennes" one of the largest and most sought after lithographs by Le Corbusier – a purist still-life –, printed by Mourlot on Arches after a collage by LC. Pr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern The Print Shop

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Paper

Sea Breeze Chan
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Bristol, GB
Silkscreen Edition of 100 (Edition number unknown as the print is unopened, to preserve condition) Signed and numbered on the front Mint, as issued Sold in the original KaiKai KiKi p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary The Print Shop

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Screen

The Gates (p), from the Project for Central Park, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
By Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Located in New York, NY
This offset lithograph in colors from the Project for Central Park, New York City, was created in 2004. One of 300 prints hand-signed by the artist in pencil, from the unnumbered edi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Lithograph

Transfiguration /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Landscape Etching Face Lips Surreal
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) Title: "Transfiguration" *Signed by Dali in pencil lower right Year: 1973 Medium: Original Etching on Auvergne paper Limited edition: 90/10...
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1970s Surrealist The Print Shop

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Etching, Intaglio

Ms. Rainbow Flower
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Bristol, GB
Silkscreen Edition of 100 Signed and numbered on the front Mint, as issued Sold in the original KaiKai KiKi packaging
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary The Print Shop

Materials

Screen

Robert Longo Men In The Cities record art 1981 (vintage Robert Longo)
By Robert Longo
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Robert Longo Men In The Cities album cover art: A rare highly sought-after 1981 record art cover featuring original artwork by Robert Longo on...
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1980s Pop Art The Print Shop

Materials

Offset

Figure Allongée devant un Carrelage (Figure Lying in front of a Tiled Floor)
By Henri Matisse
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954) Title: "Figure Allongée devant un Carrelage (Figure Lying in front of a Tiled Floor)" *Signed and numbered by Matisse in pencil lower right ...
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1920s Modern The Print Shop

Materials

Etching, Intaglio

Six Etchings, Abstract Print Portfolio by Louisa Chase
By Louisa Chase
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Louisa Chase, American (1951 - 2016) Title: Portfolio of Six Etchings Year: 1984 Medium: Six Drypoint Etchings with Aquatint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 30 Paper...
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1980s Contemporary The Print Shop

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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

Untitled - Expression no. 2 - Screen Print After Jackson Pollock - 1964
By Jackson Pollock
Located in Roma, IT
JACKSON POLLOCK (American, 1912-1956) Untitled, CR1093 (after painting Number 9, CR340), 1951–printed 1964 Screenprint, on Strathmore wove paper, numbered in pencil lower left, and with the Estate of Jackson Pollock 1964 blindstamp lower left(?) From the second posthumous printing of 50 authorized by his widow, Lee Krasner in 1964 (there was also a lifetime edition of 25) Published by Bernard Steffen...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist The Print Shop

Materials

Screen

Figure Endormie dans un Intérieur (Interior with Sleeping Figure) /// Matisse
By Henri Matisse
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954) Title: "Figure Endormie dans un Intérieur (Interior with Sleeping Figure)" *Signed and numbered by Matisse in...
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1920s Modern The Print Shop

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Etching, Intaglio

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
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1990s Contemporary The Print Shop

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Lithograph

La Dulce Aqua Vita
By Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002) Title: La Dulce Aqua Vita Year: 2002 Medium: Carborundum Etching on Hand-Made Paper, signed and numbered in marker Edition: 125, XXXV Pap...
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Early 2000s Surrealist The Print Shop

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Etching, Handmade Paper

Game of Chance
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
88.3 x 69.9 cms (34.7 x 27.51 ins) Edition of 100
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1980s Abstract Expressionist The Print Shop

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Mixed Media, Color, Aquatint, Lithograph

Teke
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Victor Vasarely Teke c. 1970 Screenprint 34 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. Edition of 250 Pencil signed and numbered Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art. C...
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1970s Op Art The Print Shop

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Screen

At the Edge
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on Auvergne a la Main Richard de Bas handmade paper 57.8 x 63.8 cms (22.75 x 25.1 ins) Edition of 34 Signed "Motherwell" in pencil ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist The Print Shop

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Mixed Media, Color, Etching, Aquatint

OBSEQUIO á el MAESTRO (‘A gift for the master’)
By Francisco Goya
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCISCO de GOYA y LUCIENTES (1746 -1828) OBSEQUIO á el MAESTRO (‘A gift for the master’) Plate 47 from the 1st edition of Los Caprichos (Blas, ...
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1790s Old Masters The Print Shop

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Etching, Aquatint

A Loosely Woven Flock of Rooks - original print feathers stencil Japanese paper
By Ruth Thomas
Located in London, GB
Original print from feathers and stencil on five layers of Japanese paper, limited edition. Framed size: 75 x 50 cm Artist's information: Ruth Thomas RCA is a contemporary printmake...
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2010s Contemporary The Print Shop

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Monoprint, Washi Paper

Etude Du Corps Humain D'après Ingres, Lithograph
By Francis Bacon
Located in Roma, IT
Etude Du Corps Humain D'après Ingres is a precious colored lithograph realized by Francis Bacon in 1984. Colored lithograph on Arches paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower r...
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1980s Contemporary The Print Shop

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Lithograph

Jellyfish Eyes - Black 5. Limited Edition (print) by Takashi Murakami signed
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Jellyfish Eyes - Black 5 by Takashi Murakami Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist 19 ¹¹/₁₆ × 19 ¹¹/₁₆ in 50 × 50 cm Edition 33/300 Takashi Murakami is best known for his...
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Early 2000s Pop Art The Print Shop

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Offset

Flower Jumper, Psychedelic Screenprint by Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Max Title: Flower Jumper Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 134/200 Image Size: 23 x 31 inches Size: 27 in. x 33.5 in. (...
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1970s Pop Art The Print Shop

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Screen

Mexican Night II
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
44.5 x 44.5 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins) Edition of 70 Signature:Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's chop mark lower right ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist The Print Shop

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Color, Etching, Aquatint

Black Yellow
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Ellsworth Kelly Black Yellow 1970 - 72 Lithograph 34 x 39 3/4 in. Edition of 55 Pencil signed and numbered Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art ...
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1970s Minimalist The Print Shop

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Lithograph

Poems by Frank O'Hara
By Willem de Kooning
Located in New York, NY
Impressive portfolio with 17 lithographs on Japanese Kitakata appliqué with de Kooning's authorized facsimile signature and numbered "23" in pencil on the justification page. Publish...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist The Print Shop

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Lithograph

Fred and Ginger, Pop Art Lithograph by Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Larry Rivers (American, 1923–2002) Title: Fred and Ginger Date: 1999 Medium: Lithograph, unsigned proof Paper Size: 40 x 35 in. (101.6 x 88.9 cm)
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1990s Pop Art The Print Shop

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Lithograph

BRASS SECTION(Jamming at Minton's) Signed Lithograph, Abstract Jazz Portrait
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
BRASS SECTION(Jamming at Minton's) is a limited edition color lithograph by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden, printed on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an edition size of 175. Brass Section 1979 from Romare Bearden's colorful JAZZ series of musical imagery, is an abstract portrait that captures the LIVE brassy sounds and energy created by the a jazz horn trio portrayed with expressive fluid brushwork for the musician portrait outlines, complete with brass horns - namely trumpets and trombones thrusting forward toward the viewer. A harmonious complementary color palette consisting of gold ochre yellow, deep navy blue, yellow green, taupe gray, brown beige, hints of burgundy red with the white of the paper creating contrast. Superb and FRESH interpretation of live jazz music...
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1970s Contemporary The Print Shop

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Lithograph

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