Modern Prints
MODERN STYLE
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
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Item Ships From: Europe
Style: Modern
Pollux ( Italian, 1980s) Tennis
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Pollux (Italian, 1980s)
Tennis, after 2020
Off-set print on premium paper
Open Edition
98 x 68 cm, sheet
Hand-signed, blind embossed
Condition: perfect condition, the colors are bri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Large Scale Joe Tilson, 'Apollo Pythion' 1990, Signed & Dated in Pencil
By Joe Tilson
Located in London, GB
Joe Tilson (British, born 1928), 'Apollo Pythion' 1990. Signed and dated in by the artist in pencil. Artist's proof.
Screen print and mixed media, hand embellished by the artist.
...
Category
Late 20th Century English Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Diane Guyot de Saint Michel Cantillana Artwork, 2017
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lithography intervened by Diane Guyot de Saint Michel, 2017.
Limited edition of 50 copies.
Each lithographies are different from the others and are unique pieces. Hand signed b...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Diane Guyot de Saint Michel Contemporary Art Lithography Cantillana Artwork 2017
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lithography intervened by Diane Guyot de Saint Michel, 2017.
Limited edition of 50 copies.
Each lithographies are different from the others and are unique pieces. Hand signed by the artist.
The collaboration with José Pérez...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Diane Guyot de Saint Michel Cantillana Artwork, 2017
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lithography intervened by Diane Guyot de Saint Michel, 2017.
Collaboration with the serigraphy workshop of the dead artist José Pérez Ocaña.
Limited edition of 50 copies.
Each...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Diane Guyot de Saint Michel Cantillana Artwork, 2017
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lithography intervened by Diane Guyot de Saint Michel, 2017.
Limited edition of 50 copies.
Each lithographies are different from the others and are unique pieces. Hand signed b...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Diane Guyot De Saint Michel Contemporary Art Lithography Cantillana Artwork 2017
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lithography intervened by Diane Guyot de Saint Michel, 2017.
Collaboration with the serigraphy workshop of the dead artist José Pérez Ocaña.
Limited edi...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Huai-Qing Wang "Stand" Etching, 2008
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Huai-Qing Wang "Stand"
Etching, 2008
Edition 60
Size: 112 x 76 cm
Number of the edition photographed might differ.
Category
Early 2000s Chinese Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Serigraph by Alberto BIASI, dated 1972
By Alberto Biasi
Located in Vicenza, VI
Silkscreen print on paper and plexiglass by Italian artist Alberto Biasi.
The work belongs to the artist's characteristic kinetic artistic production, which through his art implement...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Paper
David Urbano Contemporary Land Photography, Rewind or Forward N04
By David Urbano
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rewind or forward serie, N04
Analogue photography, giclée print in Hahnemüler Paper.
Signed, stamped and numbered.
Edition of 9.
Year 2018 printed 2018.
Measures: Fram...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
David Urbano Contemporary Land Photography, Rewind/Forward N05
By David Urbano
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rewind/Forward Serie - N05
Analogue photography, giclée print in Hahnemüler Paper.
Signed, stamped and numbered.
Edition of 9.
Year 2016 printed 2018.
Measures: Framed...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Chaim Gross, Engraving, Composition Avec Visages, 1942
By Chaim Gross
Located in Saint ouen, FR
Chaim gross, engraving, composition avec visages, 1942
Signed by the artist
Measures: 30 x 22.5 cm.
Category
1940s Central American Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Diane Guyot de Saint Michel Cantillana Artwork, 2017
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lithography intervened by Diane Guyot de Saint Michel, 2017.
Limited edition of 50 copies.
Each lithographies are different from the others and are unique pieces. Hand signed b...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Diane Guyot de Saint Michel Cantillana Artwork, 2017
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lithography intervened by Diane Guyot de Saint Michel, 2017.
Limited edition of 50 copies.
Each lithography’s are different from the others and are unique pieces. Hand signed b...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Diane Guyot de Saint Michel Cantillana Artwork, 2017
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lithography intervened by Diane Guyot de Saint Michel, 2017.
Limited edition of 50 copies.
Each lithography’s are different from the others and are unique pieces. Hand signed b...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Signed, Numbered and Dated Limited Edition Colored Lithograph by Corneille
Located in Little Burstead, Essex
This example is untitled, but depicts a cat and bird with head of a woman, and is numbered 54/99 and signed and dated 1999 and is in perfect condition.
The artist is Guillaume Bever...
Category
1990s Dutch Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Diane Guyot de Saint Michel Cantillana Artwork, 2017
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lithography intervened by Diane Guyot de Saint Michel, 2017.
Limited edition of 50 copies.
Each lithographies are different from the others and are unique pieces. Hand signed b...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
André Derain, Canvas Portfolio, Pierre Levy Collection, 1970
By Mourlot
Located in Saint ouen, FR
André Derain canvas portfolio between 1935 and 1949 V - Pierre Levy Collection
8 lithographs
Complete Portofolio
Measures: 68 x 52 cm
1000 copies printed on arches vellum
Publi...
Category
1970s European Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
"Rapto" Silkscreen by Álvaro Siza Vieira
By Alvaro Siza
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
Rapto (The Abduction of Hippodamia) - The subject from the Greek mythology describes the kidnapping of the bride Hippodamia during her wedding by the centaur Eurytus, resulting in a battle between humans and centaurs.
Álvaro Siza started drawing at the age of six. With a great variety of drawings on his portfolio, many of them are inspired by mythology and historic scenes.
“The drawings are what came to my mind in this very moment. I like mythology and expressing the stories in images. I have made a lot of mythological drawing...
Category
2010s Portuguese Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
François-xavier Lalanne, The Bat, 2005
Located in Saint ouen, FR
Techniques : vernis mou et pointe sèche sur papier, signé au crayon par François Xavier Lalanne, en parfait état.
Dimensions du papier : 38 x 28 cm (14,96 x 11 inches)
Dimensions...
Category
Early 2000s French Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Picasso Pablo, Céramiques et Pâtes Blanches, 1958
Located in Holmfirth, GB
Original color linocut, executed for a ceramics exhibition at the Municipal Museum of Céret. Print limited to 875 copies. Czwiklitzer No. 33. Poster from an edition of 875 prints 65 ...
Category
1950s French Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
21st Century Shawl "E" Print on Canvas with Frame in Wood by Etro Home Interiors
By Etro
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
SHAWL Print on canvas. Frame in matte wood with black finishing.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Prints
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Vallauris 1951 Exposition, 1951
Located in Holmfirth, GB
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Vallauris 1951 Exposition, 1951
Date: 1951
Medium: Linocut
Printer: Hidalgo Arnera
Size: 65 x 50 cm
Signed: In plate.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Original Color Linocut by Werner Büttner "Nachleben" in Yellow and Black
By Werner Büttner
Located in Hamburg, DE
Original color linocut by Werner Büttner "Nachleben" in yellow and black. Printed on laid paper and signed and dated in pencil on the right. The paper has some compressions and slight creases, otherwise the condition is good.
Shortly before the Wall was built in 1961, Büttner moved with his parents from the GDR to Munich. Moved to Berlin in 1968 and studied law at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1973 to 1977. After his studies he worked as a social worker in the Tegel prison. He was a co-founder of several humorously titled organizations such as the "Dum-Dum-Liga-Journal", setting up a seed bank for GDR refugees. In 1976, together with Albert Oehlen, he founded the League to Combat Contradictory Behavior. In the 1980s, together with the brothers Albert and Markus Oehlen and Martin Kippenberger, he was counted among the so-called "newcomers" or "young wild ones" in painting, who turned away from conceptual art and propagated a "return of painting...
Category
1990s German Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian modern colorful marine screen printing by Bruno Contenotte, 1982
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern Colorful marine screen printing by Bruno Contenotte, 1982
Screen printing on paper. The painting is divided into two parts, which present the same marine subject in di...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Wood, Paper
Italian Silk-Screen Print on Paper of Two Women and a Musician, 1900-1980s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian silk-screen print on paper of two women and a musician, 1900-1980s
Silk-screen print depicting two women and a musician. In beige paper passepartout and white varnished woode...
Category
20th Century Italian Modern Prints
Materials
Wood, Paper
Pablo Picasso, ‘Tauromachies' at La Hune, 1954
Located in Holmfirth, GB
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Tauromachies
Year: 1954
Edition: 500
Catalogue Raisonnée: Czwiklitzer n° 99
Size: 41 x 57 cm.
Category
1950s French Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Dutch Corneille 1922 - 2010 Limited Edition Lithograph Print of Women & Tiger 87
By Corneille 1
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely, Limited Edition Lithograph print 154/200 signed in pencil by the artist Corneille and dated 87
Corneille was a Dutch Postwar & Cont...
Category
1980s Dutch Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Pine
Italian Modern Picture Lithographic Print of Still Life by Paolo Manaresi, 1980s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern Picture Lithographic print of still life by Paolo Manaresi, 1980s
Print made with the lithographic technique on paper, representing a still life with shell and apple. It probably was print test for a bigger artwork...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Wood, Paper
Italian modern Abstract print acrylic relief texture by Clelia Cortemiglia, 1972
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern Abstract print with acrylic relief texture by Clelia Cortemiglia, 1972
Print on cream yellow paper with white acrylic relief texture. The subject is abstract in black ...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Metal
Super Rare Dutch Corneille 1922 - 2010 Lithograph "Artist Proof" Print 98
By Corneille 1
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely, super rare Lithograph print signed in pencil by the artist Corneille and EA for “épreuve d'artiste,” meaning Artist's Proof in French ...
Category
1990s Dutch Modern Prints
Materials
Pine
Italian Modern Rectangular Silk-Screen Printing of a House in Frame, 1980
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern Rectangular silk-screen printing of a house in frame, 1980
Rectangular silk-screen printing on white paper, representing a silhouette of house. The colors present are ...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Wood, Paper
Bernard Buffet, 1928-1999, Color lithography, Title: Le micrscope, Dated 1968
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Bernard Buffet, 1928-1999. Color lithography. Title: Le micrscope.
Dated 1968. Numbered 14/200.
In very good condition.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Visible dimensions: 57 x 43.5 ...
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Selma Daffre, Listed Brazilian Artist, Collograph on Paper, "Linhas"
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Selma Daffre (b. 1951), listed Brazilian artist.
Collograph on paper. "Linhas".
Numbered 6/9.
Dated 1997.
Measures: Visible dimensions: 25 x 20 cm...
Category
1990s Brazilian Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Selma Daffre, Listed Brazilian Artist, Collograph on Paper, "Linhas"
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Selma Daffre (b. 1951), listed Brazilian artist.
Collograph on paper. "Linhas".
Numbered 7/9.
Dated 1997.
Visible dimensions: 25 x 20 cm.
Total di...
Category
1990s Brazilian Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Selma Daffre, Listed Brazilian Artist, Collograph on Paper, "Linhas"
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Selma Daffre (b. 1951), listed Brazilian artist.
Collograph on paper. "Linhas".
Numbered 2/9.
Dated 1997.
Visible dimensions: 25 x 20 cm.
Total d...
Category
1990s Brazilian Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Selma Daffre, Listed Brazilian Artist, Collograph on Paper, "Linhas"
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Selma Daffre (b. 1951), listed Brazilian artist.
Collograph on paper. "Linhas".
Numbered 9/9.
Dated 1997.
Visible dimensions: 25 x 20 cm.
Total di...
Category
1990s Brazilian Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Selma Daffre, Listed Brazilian Artist, Collograph on Paper, "Linhas"
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Selma Daffre (b. 1951), listed Brazilian artist.
Collograph on paper. "Linhas".
Numbered 5/9.
Dated 1997.
Visible dimensions: 25 x 20 cm.
Total di...
Category
1990s Brazilian Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
"Cavalo de Troia" Silkscreen by Álvaro Siza Vieira
By Alvaro Siza
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
Cavalo de Troia (The Trojan Horse) - The drawing is a representation of the wooden horse, developed by Odysseus, which the Greeks used during the Trojan War to enter the city of Troy. The Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy, not knowing there was a selected force of men hiding inside, who came out after reaching the city.
Álvaro Siza started drawing at the age of six. With a great variety of drawings on his portfolio, many of them are inspired by mythology and historic scenes.
“The drawings are what came to my mind in this very moment. I like mythology and expressing the stories in images. I have made a lot of mythological drawing...
Category
2010s Portuguese Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Modern Print on Paper for the Milan Furniture Fair by Beb Italia, 1983
By B&B Italia
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern Print on paper for the Milan Furniture Fair by BeB Italia, 1983
Print on paper in Metaphysical style representing a square with mod...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Modern Engraving Print of Priests by Gianfilippo Usellini, 1900-1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern Engraving print with color of two priests by Gianfilippo Usellini, 1900-1970s
Fantastic Colored print made with the technique of engrav...
Category
20th Century Italian Modern Prints
Materials
Wood, Paper
James Coignard B. Tours 1925, d. Cannes 2008, Color Lithography
Located in Copenhagen, DK
James Coignard b. Tours 1925, d. Cannes 2008.
Color lithography. Composition. "Personnage et noir", 1980.
90 examples.
Signed on the back: J. Coignard.
Sheet size 45 cm. X 39 cm....
Category
1980s French Vintage Modern Prints
Meridiana "Leonardo" Perpetual Calendar Nava Confalonieri Design Cuts, 1978
Located in Biella, IT
perpetual calendar Meridiana "Leonardo" by Studio Paolo Nava Milano production in 1978
by Giulio Confalonieri design and exclusively version for Cuts Torino 1982,
very rare,...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Metal
English Antique Woodcut Engraving, William Blakes's Milton
Located in Cirencester, GB
Woodcut Engraving of an extract of William Blake's "Milton" "And did those feet in ancient time...." with two landscape woodcut images, one signed in the impression print, the other ...
Category
20th Century Modern Prints
Materials
Other
English Antique Woodcut Engraving, Signed, of Prose by Robert Bridges
Located in Cirencester, GB
Woodcut engraving of "The Love of all Beauteous Things", poem by Robert S Bridges (1844-1930, British poet and poet laureate 1913-1930.
by Henry Clarence Whaite (British 1895-1978)....
Category
20th Century Modern Prints
Materials
Other
English Antique Woodcut Engraving, Inscribed, of Bunyan Hymn
Located in Cirencester, GB
Woodcut Engraving of John Bunyan's hymn "Who Would True Valour See" with a decorative surround frieze of images, of knights, animals, angels etc
by Henry Clarence Whaite (British 18...
Category
20th Century Modern Prints
Materials
Other
Exposition De Dessin's D'Etude, 1949
Located in Holmfirth, GB
A vibrant poster for an exhibition of Matisse’s studies for the Dominican Chapel in the medieval town of Vence on the French Riviera.
Artist: Henri ...
Category
1940s French Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Print by Philippe Vogelenzang, Bathe
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
" Print by Philippe Vogelenzang - Bathe "
White wood frame clear glass
Dimensions : Length : 104 / Height : 124 / Depth : 6 cm.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
1971. Tuan, Poster / Advert
By Archi Design
Located in Perpignan, FR
authentic 70s poster / vintage.
Exhbition poster from museum in Paris.
design by the artist Tuan.
In good condition.
Category
1970s French Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Etching Signed and Dated by Rolf Rose
By Rolf Rose
Located in Hamburg, DE
Etching signed and dated by Rolf Rose.
This etching by Rolf Rose is signed and dated in pencil lower right.
The print is unframed and will be sent in a roll.
Rolf Rose is an autodidact artist, he is a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund, lives and works in Krempe and Berlin.
Rose left figurative painting at...
Category
1980s German Vintage Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
21st Century Shawl "T" Print on Canvas with Frame in Wood by Etro Home Interiors
By Etro
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
SHAWL Print on canvas. Frame in matte wood with black finishing.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Prints
Materials
Canvas, Wood
21st Century Shawl "O" Print on Canvas with Frame in Wood by Etro Home Interiors
By Etro
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
SHAWL Print on canvas. Frame in matte wood with black finishing.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Prints
Materials
Canvas, Wood
21st Century Shawl "R" Print on Canvas with Frame in Wood by Etro Home Interiors
By Etro
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
SHAWL Print on canvas. Frame in matte wood with black finishing.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Prints
Materials
Canvas, Wood
21st Century Papier Powder Print with Frame by Etro Home Interiors
By Etro
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
PAPIER Powder Print with white passe-partout and frame in gold finishing.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Prints
Materials
Canvas
Wallpaper "Happy Rain", Marta Bakowski
Located in Geneve, CH
Wallpaper "Happy Rain", Marta Bakowski
Dimensions: 53 W x 0.2 D x 1000 H cm
Materials: Wallpaper (paper quality 150g)
Different colors are available
Happy rain is a wallpaper f...
Category
2010s French Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
21st Century Papier Lilac Print with Frame by Etro Home Interiors
By Etro
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
PAPIER Lilac Print with white passe-partout and frame in gold finishing.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Prints
Materials
Canvas
21st Century Papier Pale Pink Print with Frame by Etro Home Interiors
By Etro
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
PAPIER Pale pink Print with white passe-partout and frame in gold finishing.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Prints
Materials
Canvas
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