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Item Ships From: Bay Area
“Red Square” Serigraph on Paper
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
It almost makes one want to board Aeroflot to see this firsthand…maybe going out of Istanbul? Well no. And yet, there’s a universal energy on full display in this view by a master im...
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2010s American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Paper

Vivien in White Coat, 2021
By Alex Katz
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Alex Katz Vivien in White Coat, 2021 is a work of subtle admiration that the artist holds for her daughter-in-law, Vivien Bittencourt. The gentle hues...
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2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Screen

Ach-Hua Dlubh: Body II Half-Breed III
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Ach-Hua Dlubh: Body II Half-Breed III" 1991 is a color offset lithograph on paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- Ches) 1939-2016....
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Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Plate 11 from 'Album 19'
By Joan Miró
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Rhythmic serenity emanates from this delightful work. Miro creates a quirky yet sophisticated pattern of decorative and playful spots, irregular yet repetitive like a Dalmatian's coa...
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1960s American Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

“Winter” from the “Four Seasons Suite” Series
By Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos
Located in San Francisco, CA
This embossed, numbered and signed lithograph, part of the “Four Seasons Suite,” is by Alvar Suñol Muñoz-Ramos (b. 1935), a renowned Spanish ar...
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1970s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Qaravi Yaqona: Kava Ceremony
By Jean Charlot
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean Charlot (French 1898-1979) Title: Qaravi Yaqona: Kava Ceremony from Kei Viti (No. 2) Portfolio: Kei Viti – Melanesian Images Year: 1978 Printed by Lynton Kistler Medium...
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1970s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Afternoon
By Harold Altman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Harold Altman (American, 1924-2003) Title: Afternoon Year: c.1980 Medium: Original color lithograph Edition: Numbered 62/225 in pencil Paper: Arches Image size: 10.75 x...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Plate 15 from Album 19
By Joan Miró
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Rhythmic serenity emanates from this delightful work. Miro creates a quirky yet sophisticated pattern of decorative and playful spots, irregular yet rep...
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1960s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

November 1981 III (Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris)
By Harold Altman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Harold Altman (American, 1924-2003) Title: November 1981 III (Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris) Year: 1981 Medium: Original color lithograph Edition: Inscribed "Artist Proof" in pencil Paper: Arches Image size: 7.75 x 11.70 inches Framed size: 18.65 x 22.5 inches Signature: Hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist Condition: Excellent Frame: Custom framed in a wooden silver frame frame, with light light grey matting and brownish green fillet. About the artist. Print...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Rathaus in Vienna
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Rathaus in Vienna" c. 1960 is an original color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The plate mark...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Cavaliers dans les Dunes
By André Brasilier
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Andre Brasilier (French, born 1929) Title: Cavaliers dans les Dunes Year: 1974 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Inscribed "Bien Amicalement" (With Friendship) and "Epr...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Unter Den Linden Street, Berlin, Germany
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Unter Den Linden Street, Berlin, Germany" c.1930 is a color etching on watermarked Kasimir Vienna paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kas...
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Early 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

Les Petit Rats, Ballerinas V
By Graciela Rodo Boulanger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Les Petit Rats, Ballerinas V" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by noted Bolivian artist Graciela Rodo Boulanger, b.1935. It is hand signed and numbered XLII/C in pencil by the artist. The image size is 22.5 x 18 inches, framed size is 36 x 30.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold leaf frame, with off white matting and gold color spacer. It is in excellent condition. About the artist:   Born in La Paz, Bolivia in 1935, Graciela Rodo Boulanger was raised in an artistic environment. Her mother, a concert pianist, and her father, a businessman and art connoisseur, nurtured her talents. She studied the piano and at age 11 enrolled in the School of Fine Arts. At 17 she went to Vienna to study both art and music, and at 22 shetravelled to Argentina for the stimulating artistic environment of Buenos Aires. Continuing to study both piano and painting...
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Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Pineapple Hill, The old Day, Kapalua Maui.
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pineapple Hill, The old Day, Kapalua Maui" 1986, is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and num...
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Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Colibrí (Hummingbird) (P/E)
By Rafael Coronel
Located in San Francisco, CA
Serigraph by Mexican painter Rafael Coronel. The artist made 100 signed and numbered editions. This is a signed Artist Proof edition (handwritten as "P/E" on the lower left corner wh...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Screen

Kramer the Framer (The Frame Shop)
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Kramer the Framer (The Frame Shop)" c.1980 is an original etching by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed, and numbered 43/150 in pencil by...
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Late 20th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Merry Couple
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Merry Couple" c.1980 is an original etching by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed and numbered 157/300 in pencil by the artist. The image...
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Late 20th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

Interiors IV: Hotel Paradise Cafe
By Peter Milton
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Peter Milton (American, 1930-) Title: Interiors IV: Hotel Paradise Café Year: 1987 Medium: Resist-ground etching and engraving on copper Paper: BFK Rives Image size: 23.5 x ...
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1980s Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching

Fresh Gathered Peas: An 18th C. Engraving From the Series 'The Cries of London'
By Francis Wheatley
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a beautifully framed engraving, printed in colors with additional hand coloring, from the famous "Cries of London" series, depicting the lives and professions of the common p...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Cannes, La Croisette
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cannes, La Croisette" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on watermarked Arches paper by noted French artist Jean Claude Picot, 1933-2020. It is hand signe...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Jonah on the Way
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Jonah on the Way" 1975, is an original colors wood block print on thin paper by noted Austrian artist Bernd Kroeber, b.1942. It is hans signed, titled, dated and...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Untitled III
By Sunol Alvar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Alvar Title: Untitled III Year: c.1990 Medium: Color lithograph with embossing Edition: Numbered 148/225 in pencil Paper: Arches Image size: 16.5 x 22.5 inches Framed s...
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Late 20th Century Romantic Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Le Passeggiatrici
By Massimo Campigli, 1895-1971
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Passeggiatrici" 1957, is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by renown German/Italian artist Massimo Campigli, 1895-1971. It is hand signed and numbere...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

American Indian Navajo
By Ozz Franca
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "American Indian, Navajo" is a offset lithograph on paper by noted Brazilan artist Ozz Franca, 1928-1991. The image size is 21 x 14.75 inches, framed size is 31.25 x 27 inches. Custom framed in a wooden brown/grey frame, with lith purple matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Born October 2, 1928, França (pronounced FRON-suh) grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age showed talent as an artist, as well as exceptional prowess as a competitive swimmer. At 14 he won first prize at the annual Spring Salon Art Competition. At 15, he qualified for the Brazilian Olympic Swimming Team. With two amazing talents, França was unsure what he should do with his life. Fate stepped in, and the Olympic Games were canceled the year França was to compete due to the outbreak of World War II. At that point, he decided to devote his life to art. He held his first one-man show at the age of 18. Following what he would later say was the best advice anyone ever gave him, França came to the U.S, to accept a scholarship in Utah. A year later, he moved to Hollywood and began doing movie illustration for Walt Disney. His projects included Lady and the Tramp and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. He moonlighted as a swimmer when movie parts were available. França painted many subjects, but he is best known for his esoteric images of Native American women. França's art enters the world of fantasy and dreams, where the spiritual meets the sensual. His works, with their floating imagery and airy, muted colors, evoke an aura of mystery. França said he always painted his subjects, which primarily were women, either in profile, looking toward the edge of the painting, or looking over her shoulder, "so that anyone could walk into it." Joan Lee, print marketing professional, said that Ozz saw the spirituality and quiet dignity of Native American men and women. "there's a romance surrounding Native Americans that people appreciate seeing," said Lee. Ozz França died in 1991. Ozz Franca’s work is held in the collections of numerous celebrity, including: Jacqueline Onassis Lyndon B. Johnson Patty Duke Jerry Lewis Kim Novak Burt Lancaster Gig Young Tom Bradley Sammy Davis, Jr. Ronald Reagan Red Skelton...
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Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Groundspeed
By Derek Fordjour
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint, spitbite aquatint, flatbite and softground etching with white gold leaf. Paper Size: 28” x 54” Image Size: 24” x 50” Edition of 35
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21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Gold Leaf

Piazza Navona in Rome: A Framed Original 18th Century Etching by Barbault
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 19th century etching entitled "Veduta di Piazza Navona sopra le rovine del Circo" was created by Jean Barbault (1718-1762) after a painting by...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

“Femme à La Guitare”
By Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos
Located in San Francisco, CA
A woman with flowing hair plays her guitar so beautifully that she captivates the full attention of a bird. Entranced, the creature responds with a full display of its feathers. The ...
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1980s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Billie Coyne "Boulangerie Kiss" Original Signed Lithograph C.1995
By Billie Coyne 20th c
Located in San Francisco, CA
Billie Coyne "Boulangerie Kiss" Original Signed Lithograph C.1995 32" wide x 22" high The frame measures 43.25" wide x 33.5" high Numbered in the lower...
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Late 20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Woman with Arrow
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Woman with Arrow" 1661 is an etching on paper After Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1606-1669, plate engraved By French renown engraver Charles Armand Durand, 1831-1905. The...
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17th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

Innsbruck
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Innsbruck" is an color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991 It is hand signed dated and dedicated in pencil. The plate mark (image) siz...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

Unknown
By Mahmoud Farshchian
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" is a color off set lithograph by acclaimed Iranian artist Mahmoud Farshchian, born 1930. It is hand signed and numbered 23/3...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Andante II
By Guillaume Azoulay
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Andante" 1986 is an original color serigraph with remarque on wove paper by Maroccan artist Guillame Azoulay, born 1949. It is signed , titled and numbered 161/2...
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Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Songs of Songs of King Salomons
By Théo Tobiasse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Teo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012) Title: "The Songs of Songs of King Solomons" Year: 1975 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Numbered LVII/C in pencil Paper: Jap...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Le Bagnanti
By Massimo Campigli, 1895-1971
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bagnanti" 1955 is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by renown German/Italian artist Massimo Campigli, 1895-1971. It is hand signed and numbered 128/1...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Gondolas in the Front of St. Georges at Night
By Marcel Mouly
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Gondolas in the Front of St. Georges at Night" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by noted French artist Marcel Mouly, 1918-2008. It is han...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

London, Holborn House
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "London, Holborn House" 1920 is an etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower right corner. The image size is 14.75 x 13 inches, plate mark is 15 x 13.35 inches, framed size is 23.65 x 22 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black/silver frame, with light beige matting and black fillet. It is in excellent condition. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes...
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Early 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

Paris, Montmartre, Le Sacre Coeur
By Robert Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Paris, Montmartre, Le Sacre Coeur" c. 1970 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Robert Kasimir, 1914-2002. It is signed at t...
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Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

Paris, Place De La Concorde
By Urbain Huchet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Paris, Place De La Concorde" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by French artist Urbain Huchet, 1930-2014. It is hand signed and numbered ...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"La Lettre" Large color lithograph
By Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
Located in San Francisco, CA
This art work titled "La Lettre" 1990 is an original color lithograph on wove paper by French artist, Jean Pierre Cassigneul, born 1935. It is hand signed and Inscribed E.A. (Epreuve d'Artist) in pencil by the artist. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne by Mazo. plate #23. The image size is 29.75 x 22 inches, framed size is 42.5 x 32.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with fabric matting and silver color spacer. It is in excellent condition. Please note that the color of the frame on picture #1 is more gold that it is in reality, refer to picture # 7 for exact color. About the artist: Jean-Pierre Cassigneul is a French painter known for his serene portraits of women in hats that recall the French Post-Impressionist avant-garde, including the works of Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. He was born on July 13, 1935, in Paris. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and went on to exhibit in various group exhibitions, including the Salon d' Automne in Paris (of which he was member), the Salon de la Jeune Peinture, He exhibited at the Beaubourg Center in Paris in 1977 and solo as of 1952, on a regular basis in France but also in New York, and Tokyo and worldwide Jean PierreCassigneul is known for his charming and extremely popular Van Dongen-influenced paintings of women in floral hats, complete with frequent allusions to other aspects of the Années Folles. 1952 First private exhibition at the Galerie Lucy Kroge in Paris aged 17. 1954 Enters into the Académie Charpentier and then decides to study under Jean Souverbie at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. 1955 He passes his entrance exam a year later and enrolls at the "Ecole Nationale Superieure" des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Works in Chapelain-Midy’s studio. 1958 First exhibition at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts. 1959 Appointed member of the Salon d’Automne. 1956–1960 Instructed by the French painter Roger Chapelain-Midy. 1963 Present at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture for the first time. 1964 Private exhibition at the Galerie Tivey-Faucon, Paris. Meets Kiyoshi Tamenaga, who becomes his art dealer for Japan. 1965 Creation of his first lithographic works. Exhibition at the Galerie Bellechasse, Paris. 1966 Present at the International Exhibition of Figurative Art, Tokyo. Exhibition at the Galerie Bellechasse, Paris. 1968 Exhibition at the Galerie Juarez in Palm Beach, USA. Private exhibition at la Galerie Vital, Paris. 1969 Exhibition of lithographic works at the Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo. 1970 January : Exhibition at the Wally Findlay Gallery, Palm Beach, then in New York. First trip to Japan, where he stays for three months. Important private exhibition at the Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo. 1973 Exhibition at the Wally Findlay Gallery in Palm Beach, then in New York. Private exhibition at the Tamenaga Gallery, Tokyo. Meets art publisher Alain Mazo. 1974 Private exhibition at the Galerie Wally Findlay, Paris, then in New York. 1975 Exhibition at the Wally Findlay Gallery, New York. 1976 Private exhibition at the Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo. Publication of the album “Parcs” by Editions Mazo-Paris. 1977 June : Private exhibition at the Galerie René Kieffer, Paris Private show of paintings and pastels at the Galerie Wally Findlay, Paris. 1978 Retrospective exhibition of lithographic works at Vision Nouvelle. June-July : Exhibition at the Wally Findlay Gallery, New York. Important private showat the Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo. 1980 Designs his first tapestry, executed by Atelier 3...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Unknown
By Mahmoud Farshchian
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" is an original color lithograph by acclaimed Iranian artist Mahmoud Farshchian, born 1930. It is hand signed and numbered 20...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Paris, Place De La bastille
By Urbain Huchet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Paris, Place De La Bastille" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by French artist Urbain Huchet, 1930-2014. It is hand signed and numbered ...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Amos
By Leonard Baskin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Amos" 1960 is an original woodcut on paper by noted American artist Leonard Baskin, 1922-2000. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 35/50in pencil by the artis...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

L'efant aux biscuit (Child with Cookie)
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Palo Alto, CA
An intimate portrait of his second son, Jean Renoir (1894 – 1979), evokes a childlike sentiment and love that Renoir had for his children. Most likely no more than age 3, Jean is shown here with a cookie, beneath a frilly bonnet characteristic of late 19th century French society. His pink, rosy cheeks are defined with rich, glowing hues that contrast from the pale yellow and grey background in which he rests. Jean was also featured in a family portrait of the Renoirs, titled La Famille de l’Artiste (1896). Created in 1899, this Color Lithograph on Cream Laid Paper is from the edition of 100, from the unpublishedL’Album d’estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard; printed by Auguste Clot, Paris. Catalogue Raisonné: It is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work): 1. Delteil, Loys. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, l’œuvre grave...
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1890s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Songs of Songs of King Salomons
By Théo Tobiasse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Teo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012) Title: "The Songs of Songs of King Solomons" Year: 1975 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Numbered LVII/C in pencil Paper: Jap...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Paris, l'Opera
By Urbain Huchet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Paris, l"Opera c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by French artist Urbain Huchet, 1930-2014. It is hand signed and numbered 163/250 in pen...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

La Fete a Honfleur
By Fanch (Francois Ledan)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, "La Fete a Honfleur" c.1980 is a original colors serigraph on Wove paper by French artist (Fanch) Francois Ledan, born 1949. it is hand signed an...
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Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

String of Pearls
By Robert Peak
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "String of Pearls" 1988 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist Robert (Bob) Peak, 1927-1992. It is hand signed an...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Left Bank Cafe, Paris
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Left Bank Cafe, Paris" 1987 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered H.C 166/175 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 26 x 38 inches, sheet size is 32.25 x 44 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, two small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back. About the artist: Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival. Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes. Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions. When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union. In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care. Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out." His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995. LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather. He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess. As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid." After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war. On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s. When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint. While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine. In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician. Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation. In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter. Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world. "Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962. Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him. A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters. Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS. Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Screen

European Village
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978) Title: European Village Year: Circa 1950 Medium: Color etching with aquatint Edition: Unknown Paper: ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

Four Walking Figures
By Harold Altman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Harold Altman (American, 1924-2003) Title: Four Walking Figures Year: c.1980 Medium: Original color lithograph Edition: Inscribed "Artist Proof" in pencil Paper: Arches ...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

La Collana II
By Massimo Campigli, 1895-1971
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "La Collana II" 1952, is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by renown German/Italian artist Massimo Campigli, 1895-1971. It is hand signed and numbered 15...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Etude de femme (Study of a Woman), 1893
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Etude de Femme (Study of a Woman), 1893 is a lovely depiction of a nude subject delicately undressing at her bedside. She ap...
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1890s Post-Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Still Life with Fish and jugs
By Mihail Chemiakin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Still Life with Fish and Jugs" 1966, is an original colors lithograph on Japan nacre paper by renown Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin, b.1943. It is hand signed a...
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Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Les Fondations
By Arnau Alemany Batalla
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Les Fondations" c.1980 is an original color lithograph by noted Spanish surrealist artist Arnau Alemany Batalla, 1948-2020. It is ha...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Vienna Scene II
By Robert Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Vienna Scene II, Austria" c. 1970 is a color etching on wove paper by noted Austrian artist Robert Kasimir, 1914-2002. It is hand signed in pen...
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Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

When the Land was His
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "When the Land was His" 1985, is a color offset lithograph by renown western artist Arnold Friberg, 1913-2010. It is hand signed and...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Chinese Girl
By Edna Hibel
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Chinese Girl" c.1970, is a colors lithograph on Japan nacre paper by American artist Edna Hibel, 1917-2014. It is signed and inscribed Artist Proof in pencil by the art...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Happy Birthday Liberty, 100th Birthday of the Statue of Liberty. Large serigraph
By Hiro Yamagata
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Happy Birthday Liberty, 100th Birthday of the Statue of Liberty" 1986 is an original color serigraph on thick paper by renown artist Hiro Yamagata (Japanese, b. ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Screen

Vanity
By Louis Russomanno
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Vanity" 1980 is an original sepia etching by American artist Louis Russomanno, b.1946. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 113/185 in pencil by the artist. Th...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

Peintre et Femme Cuillant des Fleurs (Painter and Woman Picking Flowers), 1970
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Peintre et Femme Cuillant des Fleurs (Painter and Woman Picking Flowers), 1970 showcases a beautifully crisp work of art that Picasso imaginatively creates. Simple and ...
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1970s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Prints

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Etching

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