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About Petersburg Press

Petersburg Press is a publisher of limited edition prints and has worked with many of the most significant European and American Post War and Pop artists of their generation. Founded by Paul Cornwall-Jones in London in 1968 Petersburg Press opened additional studios and an exhibition facility in New York in 1972. Cornwall-Jones began working with artists while studying architecture at Cambridge University, where he founded his earlier business Editions Alecto in 1960. On moving to London in 1963 he engaged with a young generation of British artists including Richard Ham...Read More

Petersburg Press

Established in 19681stDibs seller since 2019

Featured Pieces

Vintage Rene Ricard Mal de Fin: Paintings 1989-1990 poster with poetry and ocean
By Rene Ricard
Located in New York, NY
Original poster commemorating Rene Ricard's 1990 exhibition Mal de Fin: Paintings 1989-1990 at the Petersburg Press Gallery, New York. The image reproduces his painting, Mal de Fin, ...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Vintage MOMA Francesco Clemente Museum of Modern Art 1986 dream myth poster
By Francesco Clemente
Located in New York, NY
This three-part work spanning 10 feet was printed from the plates of Francesco Clemente’s mythological landscape Untitled A on the occasion of the 1986 MoMA, New York show of Clement...
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1980s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Vintage Le Corbusier '69 David Hockney Exhibition Poster Kilim southwest rug
By (after) David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Shading in bright turquoise above a Southwestern style thunderbird Kilim rug adorns this original exhibition poster for David Hockney's 1969 show at Andre Emmerich, New York. This po...
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1960s Realist Interior Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Artist and Model Howard Hodgkin abstracted orange and black watercolor gouache
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in New York, NY
Large black and marigold orange abstract interior scene of a bust in front of a window with fingerprints and painterly brushstrokes. Rich color and texture ideal for hanging in minim...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Interior Prints

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Watercolor, Gouache, Etching

Venice Walk 1983 Vintage David Hockney Exhibition Poster in turquoise teal
By (after) David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. Hockney’s keen eye and uncanny ability to capture his subjects’ individuality is evident in this casual...
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1980s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Tool Drypoint: Paintbrush by Jim Dine, black and white tool still life sketch
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine drew the plate for this image in the same period as his “Thirty Bones of My Body” 1972 portfolio of drypoint tool images. Crisbrook paper (30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 56 cm.) and p...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Drypoint

Dorian Gray at Opium Den from "The Picture of Dorian Gray" surreal portrait
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This surreal etching portrait of Dorian Gray by Jim Dine in blue ink features the literary protagonist dressed in a white suit. His face is obscured by a mass of hair, tangles of whi...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Jim Dine: Dorian Gray's Stomach from "The Picture of Dorian Gray" black etching
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This humorous black and white Jim Dine etching features what is ostensibly the imprint of an inked stomach. Around the print, black marks, scribbles, ...
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1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

So I lean back (Oo La La) Jim Dine lithograph and Ron Padgett poetry pink bird
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
A sparrow perches at the center of a swath of pale pink, around which wraps hand-written lines from Ron Padgett’s poem “Ode to Clemens Laurrell”: “So I lean back against the willows ...
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1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Jim Dine Rimbaud, the Coffee Exporter poet portrait drawing in earth tone sepia
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine has expertly sketched the accomplished French poet and coffee trader Arthur Rimbaud. A vignette of dark brown surrounds his thin, fine features, which are defined with a flu...
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1970s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching

Vintage David Hockney Poster San Francisco Opera 1982, whimsical color drawings
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
Vintage poster for the 1982 Summer Festival season of the San Francisco Opera. David Hockney designed the whimsical sets and costumes for the San Francisco Opera's production of Igor...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Thinking Aloud in the Museum of Modern Art, Hodgkin, abstract black and white
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in New York, NY
Large scale black and white abstract interior scene with dots, lines, brushstrokes, paint daubs, fingerprints, squares and rectangles, and hand painting in grey. Hang in contemporary...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

More About Petersburg Press

Paul Cornwall-Jones, founder of Petersburg Press, photographed by David Hockney at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1968.

Jasper Johns and Samuel Beckett "Foirades/Fizzles" at The Broad, Los Angeles exhibition of Jasper Johns 2018. 33 etchings by Jasper Johns and 5 essays by Samuel Beckett. Published by Petersburg Press. The bound volume published in 1976 may be seen in the foreground.

James Rosenquist "Paper Clip" large scale lithograph published by Petersburg Press in 1974

Francesco Clémente "The Departure of the Argonaut" 1986 live d'artiste with Alberto Savinio text. One of the 50 double page spreads. Published by Petersburg Press.

Michele Zalopany "Chinese Celebration Tsien Min Square" 1987 pastel on canvas 110 x 119 inches. Michele has made many mono prints and lithographs with Petersburg Press.

Royal Academy, London 2017 Jasper Johns exhibition: Jasper Johns and Samuel Beckett "Foirades/Fizzles" 2017 portfolio published by Petersburg Press. Paul Cornwall-Jones, founder of Petersburg Press can be seen in the center.

One of the mixed media prints from Frank Stella's "Polar Co-ordinates" 1980 series. Each print is made from more than 30 plates drawn by the artist to complete the image and include metallic inks and glitter together with more traditional lithography and screen printing.

Marcel Duchamp "The Oculist Witnesses" 1967 glass multiple published by Petersburg Press.

Roy Lichtenstein "Red Apple and Yellow Apple" 1982 woodcut, one from a series of 7 published by Petersburg Press.

David Hockney "Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm" double page spread. One of the 39 etchings drawn by the artist and published by Petersburg Press in 1969.