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Contemporary Prints and Multiples

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
"Imagine" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Very rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Imagine," first released on the LP of the same name in 1971. The best-selling single of his s...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Other Medium

"Day Tripper" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Day Tripper" first released as a single by the Beatles in December, 1965...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Other Medium

Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

It's A Long Day, When You Get Up Early
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, It's A Long Day, When You Get Up Early, 2020 80 x 60 cm Off-set lithography Printed on 200g Munken Lynx paper Narayana Press in Denmark David Shrigley is a Briti...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Untitled, 1993-94, Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is the original opening invitation card for Donald Judd: The Last Editions at Brooke Alexander Editions in 1994. The invitation takes the form of a postcard that opens up to rev...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Pablo Picasso (After), 'Don Quixote', Signed Limited Edition Lithograph, 1955
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: PABLO PICASSO (AFTER ) Title: 'DON QUIXOTE' Year: 1955 Published by: Combat Pour La Paix, Paris Medium: Lithograph on arches paper (Blind stamp JPG attached) Printed by Mourl...
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1950s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1997 Gretchen Dow Simpson 'Block Island' USA Serigraph Vintage
By Gretchen Dow Simpson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This striking limited edition serigraph by celebrated graphic artist Gretchen Simpson, titled Block Island, was published in 1997 in an edition of 120 copies. Known for her distincti...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Pablo Picasso (After), 'La Colombe Bleu, 1961'
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: PABLO PICASSO (AFTER ) Title: La Colombe Bleu Year: 1961 Published by: Combat Pour La Paix, Paris Medium: Offset Lithograph Printed by Mourlot Edition: 200 plus EA Size: 20 ...
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1950s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Werner Bronkhorst - Sail Away
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst Sail Away, 2025 Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks 43 x 33 cm (16.9 x 13 in...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Canvas, Archival Ink, Giclée

I am elegant
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, I am Elegant, 2021 Screenprint in colours on wove paper 76 x 56 cm (30 x 22 in) Edition of 125 Hand-signed and numbered on the reverse David Shrigley British ar...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

No One is Happier than Me
Located in London, GB
11 Colour Screenprint on Somerset Tub Sized 410gsm Paper
 hand-signed and numbered 76 x 56 cm Edition 77 of 125
 published by Jealous Gallery and comes with publisher COA David Shri...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Mockney
Located in Manchester, GB
Werner Bronkhorst, Mockney, 2025 Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks 43 x 33 cm (16.9 x 13 in) ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Canvas

K, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Seascape XVIII - Diptych - abstract photograph of water color cloud horizon
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format abstract photograph of water color clouds and horizon from a series of photographic works capturing the sea blue color palette of the ocean SEASCAPE XVIII Diptych by F...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

David Shrigley - Everything is Good
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley Everything is Good, 2023 Screenprint on 300gsm BFK Rives paper 76 x 56 cm Edition of 125 Hand-signed and numbered by the artist published by NGV David Shrigley is a B...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Supercomb (Exhibition Poster)
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Created by Jean Michel Basquiat for his exhibition at Yvon Lambert, Paris in 1988. Super vibrant colors with many interesting details of images and words combined in Basquiat's styli...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Virtues 'Politeness', Limited Edition 'Cherry Blossom' Landscape
Located in New York, NY
The contemporary pop art cherry blossom landscape ‘Politeness' is one of the eight from the iconic ‘Virtues’ series by Damien Hirst, the laminated giclée print on aluminum panel was ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Panel, Giclée

French Contemporary Photo by Jean-Michel Rousvoal - Butinage
By Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Located in Paris, IDF
Title: Butinage Size: 97x130 cm (without frame) / $3,000 - 112x144cm (with frame) / $3,400 Printed art print on Epson printer with Epson pigment inks. This art print is the number ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Canvas, Varnish, Pigment

No Parking, London - Brutalist Architecture Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
No Parking, urban architecture photograph from Richard Heeps' series, A Short History of London. The stark Brutalist architecture has sense of beauty as the hypnotic symmetry draws y...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Coastal Fog
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Trees in fog. A band of fog off of the Pacific, pouring its way through the forest in Fiscalini Ranch, Cambria. Born in Berkeley, California, on December 21, 1949, he was raised in ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Japanese Garden
Located in Bristol, GB
51-colour screen print on Rising Museum board Edition info 19/40 65 x 60 cm (25.6 x 23.6 in) 72.2 x 69 x 5 cm, 28.4 x 27.2 x 2 in Numbered, dated and titled on the front Excellent, s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Flowers of Gratitude
Located in Bristol, GB
Offset lithograph in colours, on smooth wove paper Edition of 300 71 cm (D) (28 in) Signed and numbered on front Mint. Minor imperfections may appear due to the nature of the materia...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Walk On Water
Located in Manchester, GB
Werner Bronkhorst, Walk On Water, 2025 Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks 43 x 33 cm (16.9 x 13...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

GARDEN ROMANCE Signed Lithograph, Black Couple Portrait, Lovers, Flower Garden
Located in Union City, NJ
GARDEN ROMANCE by the artist James Denmark is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed on archival Somerset paper using t...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Night
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition of 30/100 45.4 x 52.8 cm (17.9 x 20.8 in) Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front Artwork in excellent condition. Minor imperfections may appear due to th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Reef - X large format photograph of sun reflections on a coral reef
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of sun reflections on a coral reef water surface, mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

The Elephant (Untitled)
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, The Elephant, 2023 Screenprint in colours on wove paper 56 x 76 cm (22 x 29 9/10 in) Edition of 125 Hand-signed and numbered on the reverse David Shrigley Briti...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Ellsworth Kelly (after)- Composition, 1958 Lithograph From DLM
By (after) Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (after) Title: Composition (Axsom No. I-G) Year: 1964 Dimensions: 15in. by 11in. Mount Board Size Inches: 20 x 16 inches Mount Board Color: White/Black Prin...
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1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Seascape I - large format photograph of blue tone horizon and sea
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph capturing the soothing tones of nature's calming blue hour color palette Seascape I by Frank Schott 48 x 64 inches / 122cm x 162cm signed edition of 7 30 x 40 inches / 76cm x 102cm signed edition of 25 archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered by artist on certificate label ------------------------- Frank Schott grew up in Germany and attended the prestigious Academy of Arts in Cologne, studying under Professor Arno Jansen, who was an early influence. Moving to California in 1998, Schott's work has evolved to include the epic landscapes and deserts of the American West as well as architectural, conceptual and more formal environments from both home and his travels. Influenced by a number of photographic peers and precursors such as Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, William Eggleston and Joel Sternfeld, Schott's images successfully blend technical, conceptual and formal rigor with a decisive sense of composition and color. Schott's images have an iconic sensibility and give us a bird's eye view onto humanity and its constructs. The specific is edged towards the abstract, often revealing the compelling and disjunctive moment where nature meets man. Frank Schott was born in Cologne, Germany in 1962. He currently lives and works in San Francisco. _________________________ Edition EKTAlux publishes an evolving curated selection of collectable large-scale photography in strictly limited editions, working closely with each artist to guarantee state-of-the-art museum level print and framing quality. Custom / larger print sizes available on request Images can be printed with white border ( 2in L prints / 4in XL prints )
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

"Bungalow Bill" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Bungalow Bill" first released on the Beatles "White Album" in 1968. This ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Other Medium

Untitled - Lithograph by Sandro Chia - 2008
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled, Olympic Games Beijing 2008 is a colored lithograph realized by Sandro Chia in occasion of the Olympic Games held in Beijing in 2008.  It is a part of the portfolio The Uni...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Be Yourself Just Be Yourself
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, Be Yourself Just Be Yourself, 2025 22 colour screenprint with varnish overlay on Somerset Tub Sized 410 gsm paper 56 x 76 cm (22.04 x 29.92 in) Edition of 125 Han...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Redwoods Study II - large format observation panorama of green redwoods forest
Located in San Francisco, CA
A large scale photograph of lush emerald green nature biotope, a highly detailed observation of the natural beauty of Northern California's coastal redwood forest Redwoods Study II ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

JUMPIN' & JIVIN' Signed Lithograph, Jazz Club, Band Musicians, Color Collage
Located in Union City, NJ
JUMPIN & JIVIN' is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the American artist James Denmark printed on archival Somerset pap...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

ICES Cornflower Blue, Bexhill-on-Sea - Pop Art Typography Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
ICES Cornflower Blue, bold pop art street photography from Richard Heeps' series, On-Sea. Created as an ode to Richard's childhood visits to his grandparents living on the Sussex co...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Balance The Ball On Your Nose
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, Balance The Ball On Your Nose, 2022 Screen print on paper 56 x 75 cm (22.04 x 29.52 in) Edition of 125 Hand-signed and numbered by the artist David Shrigley Brit...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

David Shrigley - I Woke You At Dawn, I Make No Apology - Edition of 30
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley I Woke You At Dawn, 2024 Woodcut 53 x 40 cm Edition of 30 hand-signed and numbered by the artist published by Shäfer Editions and comes with COA from the publishers D...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Faith Ringgold 'Groovin' High' 1996- Serigraph Unsigned, Printer's Proof
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a printer’s proof of Groovin’ High, created by the esteemed artist and civil rights activist Faith Ringgold. Unlike the official edition, this p...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Fishing Hut, Southwold - Blue Seaside Architecture Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Fishing Hut, Southwold, harbour architecture photograph from Richard Heeps' series, On-Sea. The modest fishing hut becomes a work of art set against a blue sky in the sunshine. This...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

David Shrigley - I'm Sorry I Can't Promise It Won't Happen Again - FRAMED
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley I'm Sorry I Can't Promise It Won't Happen Again, 2021 8 colour screenprint with a varnish overlay on Somerset Satin Tub sized 410 gsm 75 x 56 cm Edition of 125 + 4 APs...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

H17-2 Civilisation Falling (from Civilisation)
Located in Bristol, GB
Giclée print on Cotton Smooth Rag Edition of 459 143 x 112 cm (56.3 x 44.1 in) Signed and numbered on the front Mint. Minor imperfections may appear due to the nature of the material...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Digital Pigment

Walasse Ting '2 Parrots' 1990
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In this very large piece titled 2 Parrots, Walasse Ting captures a tender moment between two parrots sharing a moment of love on a branch. The artwork bursts with vibrant tropical hu...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Dahlias by Gary Bukovnik, 2001 (bouquet of flowers in vase)
Located in New York, NY
This image features a colorful arrangement of pink, red and purple flowers by American artist, Gary Bukovnik. Bukovnik is an internationally acclaimed painter and printmaker who prim...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Donald Sultan 'Seven Blues Jan. 24, 2024' - Limited Edition Silkscreen
Located in New York, NY
Donald Sultan's 'Seven Blues Jan. 24, 2024' is a masterful color silkscreen featuring enamel inks, flocking, and tar-like textures, limited to an edition of 30. Donald Sułtan Seven...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Los Angeles Olympics Poster (Signed)
Located in Manchester, GB
The colour offset lithograph on Parsons Diploma Parchment wove paper. Published in 1982 for the LA Olympic Games in 1984, David Hockney was one of the fifteen artists invited to create a poster for the Games. Hand signed by the artist in pencil lower right, un-numbered from the limited edition of 750, although there are said to be less than 200 prints in existence. Not to be confused with the unsigned LA Olympics poster...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

"Dear Prudence" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Dear Prudence" first released as on The White Album by the Beatles in 1968 . It was written when Len...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Other Medium

"Day by Daybed" 2023
Located in New York, NY
Justin Pollmann "Day by Daybed" 2023 Inkjet Transfer Collage, Monotype 25"x27.5" inches The inkjet transfer images are made by collaging transfers of inkjet prints to the paper’s ...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Inkjet

"Stepping Out" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Stepping Out" first released on "Milk & Honey," the final album released after his death in 1980. ...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Other Medium

David Shrigley - I Will Not Allow The Dark Skies To Affect Me
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley I Will Not Allow The Dark Skies To Affect Me, 2024 Screenprint on 300gsm BFK Rives paper 76 x 56 cm Edition 80 of 125 Hand-signed and numbered by the artist published...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

December 2020 A
Located in Bristol, GB
Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminium composite panel Edition of 25 42 x 60 cm (16.5 x 23.6 in) Signed and numbered 20/25 on a label affixed to the back After original ink drawing...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Polymer, Giclée

Summer Flowers Yayoi Kusama floral abstract signed print
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint Edition of 100 53 x 61 cm (20.9 x 24 in) Framed 71 x 78.5 x 5 cm, 28 x 31 x 2 in Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front Excellent condition. Minor imperfections ...
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20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Evenfall
Located in London, GB
Evenfall, 2024 Archival Inkjet with Screenprint Overlay on Somerset Enhanced Infinity 330 gsm Paper edition of 99 hand-signed and numbered by the artist Stanley Donwood is a British...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Inkjet, Archival Pigment, Screen

Self Portrait 2023 Signed Screen print Limited Edition
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: FAITH RINGGOLD Title: Self Portrait Year: 2023 Screen print on paper Edition: signed in pencil and marked 87/100 Size: 28 x 23 inches Hand-signed and numbered A striking se...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Walled Off Hotel Flower Thrower Wall Sculpture
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Super iconic and instantly recognizable Flower Thrower image featured on this Banksy Walled Off Hotel wall sculpture. This image was originally painted by Banksy in the West Bank are...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lariat Motel, Fallon, Nevada - Architecture Typography Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Lariat Motel, photograph from Richard Heeps Dream in Colour series. The neon in this classic Americana roadside sign glows in the evening light. It was captured in its original site ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

"A Bird Bath" Limited Edition Drawing From "Real Love" Collection
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's "A Bird Bath," " originally drawn in 1977, this limited edition was released by Bag One Arts (The Lennon Estate) in 1999 and has been...
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Other Medium

Gerhard Richter - Seestück (bewölkt), 1969
Located in London, GB
Gerhard Richter Seestück (bewölkt), 1969-2023 Hybrid print in five colours on 260g Rives handmade paper 70 x 70 cm unsigned edition of 500 Accompanied by the publisher's certificate...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Digital, Screen

Eloge de L'air, no. 23
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This offset lithograph page from Derrière le Miroir No. 90-91 (1956) features a striking photograph of one of Eduardo Chillida’s outdoor sculptures in Saint-Paul de Vence, a location...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

White Bunnies I
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: White Bunnies I Series: Bunnies Date: 2017 Medium: Lithograph on Paper Unframed Dimensions: 24" x 16" Framed Dimensions: 29" x 22" x 1.25" Signatur...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Olympia - Poster - Vintage Poster by Francesco Clemente - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Olympia - Poster is a vintage poster realized by the italian artist Francesco Clemente (Naples, 1952) in occasion of the XIV Winter Olympics games in Sarajevo, in 1984. Very good co...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Cosmos - abstract contemporary minimalist artwork by Günther Uecker ZERO
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Kosmos 06" is an original, hand-signed lithograph on hand-made paper from 2003 by internationally acclaimed German ZERO group artist Günther Uecker. E...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Lithograph

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
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 Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Through The Ages by Toko Shinoda, black and white signed lithograph calligraphy
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Through The Ages by Toko Shinoda, black and white signed lithograph calligraphy 11/35 obituary published by CNN March 2021 Celebra...
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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Gay Sexuality
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The lithograph titled "Gay Sexuality" by Kees Ruyter, measuring 33 x 23.25 inches, explicitly addresses themes related to gay sexuality, as indicated by its title. While specific det...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Washeteria Looking In, London - Vintage interior photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Washeteria - Looking In, vintage interior photograph from Richard Heeps series, A Short History of London. "I discovered this launderette while London was in lockdown during the pand...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

I Castelli Romani - Vintage Poster after Neal Slavin - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
I Castelli Romani  is a splendid poster realized by Neal Slavin, in 1983, for the exhibition held in Rondanini Gallery in Rome. Offset print, in very good conditions.
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Paper, Offset

Magical Thinking - Grayson Perry
Located in London, GB
7 colour silkscreen on bespoke 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Radiant White Rough Textured M-R 100% cotton paper. Edition of 1163 Hand-signed and numbered by the artist and comes with pub...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Pablo Picasso (After), 'La Ronde de la Jeunesse', Lithograph, 1961
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: PABLO PICASSO (AFTER ) Title: 'La Ronde de la Jeunesse (The Youth Circle)' Year: 1961 Published by: Combat Pour La Paix, Paris Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Printed by Mourlot Edition: 200 plus EA Size: 26 x 20 inches Signed and numbered in pencil by the master CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY INCLUDED ARTWORK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION Through the use of crisp vibrant colors and the fluid use of line, Picasso creates a sense of optimistic energy that is focused around the dove of peace in Pablo Picasso La Ronde de la Jeunesse...
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1950s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Panda Mother and Baby in a Flurry of Cherry Blossom Petals
Located in Bristol, GB
Silkscreen Edition of 100 51.3 x 51.3 (20.2 x 20.2 in) Signed, numbered and dated on the front Mint. Minor imperfections may appear due to the production process
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

I'm in the Midst of It (set of 7)
Located in Bristol, GB
Set of offset lithographs printed on 200g Arctic Volume paper Edition of 250 70 x 50 cm (27.5 x 19.6 in) each Not signed or numbered Mint. Minor imperfections may appear due to the p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Charge into the Center of Consciousness, Takashi Murakami, Flowerballs print
Located in Bristol, GB
Offset print, cold stamp and high gloss varnishing Edition of 300 Diameter: 71 cm (27.9 in) Signed and numbered on front Mint. Minor imperfections may appear due to the production pr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Offset

Pablo Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) La Grande Maternité – hand-signed lithograph 1963
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
After Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) La Grande Maternité 1963 pencil signed and annotated 'E.A.' (aside from the edition of 200), with margins Editions Combat de la Paix, Paris P...
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1950s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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