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Item Ships From: Continental US
Femme (Benhoura 397; Cramer 6; Dupin 40; Mourlot 196), XXe siècle
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Linocut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Musée d’art moderne de la ville de ...
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1950s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Linocut

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
By Alexander Calder
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 201, 1973. Published by Aimé Mae...
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1970s Modern Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Whitney Museum print hand signed inscribed by Jasper Johns to Museum conservator
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns The Drawings of Jasper Johns (hand signed and inscribed by Jasper Johns), 1991 Amazing provenance: Offset lithograph poster (hand signed and inscribed to Frank Martin, former conservator of the Whitney Museum) Hand signed and inscribed by Jasper Johns on the front Frame Included: matted in cream colored matting and held in original vintage frame Jasper Johns signed and inscribed this poster to Jack Martin, former Head Preparator at the Whitney Museum. This print was published by the Whitney Museum of American Art for the exhibition, " The Drawings of Jasper Johns Whitney...
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1990s Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Plate 4 From Lithographs III, Mourlot 1115 (hand signed lithograph)
By Joan Miró
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on Arches wove paper. Hand signed lower right by Joan Miro. Hand numbered LVIII/LXXX lower left. Sheet size: 19.37 x 14.87 inches. Mourlot 1115. Published by...
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1970s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Matisse, Composition, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
By Henri Matisse
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, De la couleur,...
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1940s Fauvist Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Eternal Hexagon" original serigraph
By Robert Indiana
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original serigraph / silkscreen. In 1964 Samuel Wagstaff, Jr. (at that time Curator of Paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartfordford, Connecticut) selected ten importan...
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1960s Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Screen

Sobreteixims I Escultures, Mourlot 848 (hand signed lithograph)
By Joan Miró
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on Guarro paper. Hand signed lower right by Joan Miro. Hand numbered 'HC' lower left (there is also a main edition of 150 and 15 artist's proofs in Roman numer...
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1970s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Praise, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, Agnes Martin
By Agnes Martin
Located in Southampton, NY
Printer’s ink from rubber stamp on vélin Dalton natural bond paper. Paper Size: 8 x 8 inches. Inscription: Unsigned, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, 1977. P...
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1970s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Printer's Ink

Jean Dubuffet Painted Sculptures at Pace Gallery-Lithograph-Vintage
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an original poster designed by Jean Dubuffet for his 1968 exhibition Painted Sculptures at Pace Gallery, held from April 13th to May 18th. Created by the artist specifically ...
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1960s Modern Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Série E, var. 1 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
By Henri Matisse
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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1940s Modern Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Le Serment des femmes (Bloch 267-272; Cramer 24), Lysistrata, Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Paper Size: 11.5 x 9 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Lysistrata, 1934. Published by The Limited E...
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1930s Cubist Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Every Bodies Been There (Signed twice with both printed AND rare hand signature)
By Tracey Emin
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin Every Bodies Been There (signed twice), 1998 Lithograph on paper Underneath that existing plate signature, Tracey Emin has, exceptionally hand signed and dated the work f...
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1990s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Flight Pattern - Contemporary Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2024
By Laura Moriarty
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological forma...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

'Maravillas Con Variations Acrósticas 7' by Joan Miró, Lithograpgh
By Joan Miró
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 29" x 36.75" signed lithograph was produced by Joan Miró. The lithograph floats on matt board and is presented in a white wooden frame with glass. This minimalist work incorpora...
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1970s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Die Deutsche Liebe, 1968, Pop Art Screenprint by Robert Indiana
By Robert Indiana
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Indiana, American (1928 - 2018) - Die Deutsche Liebe, 1968, Portfolio: The American Dream, Year: 1997, Medium: Screenprint on Wove Paper, Edition: 395, Image Size: 14 x 1...
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1990s Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Screen

Picasso, Dedicace (Cramer 84; Johnson/Stein 77) (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Collotype on vélin du Marais paper. Paper size: 14.5 x 11.125 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Goeppert, Sebastian, et al. Pablo...
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1950s Cubist Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Moholy-Nahy Konstruktion Z 1 Vintage
By László Moholy-Nagy
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This rare exhibition poster features László Moholy-Nagy's Konstruktion Z 1, part of the distinguished "Collection of European Masters" series published by Achenbach Editions for the ...
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1980s Constructivist Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Offset

Picasso, Composition, La Comédie Humaine, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, La Comédie Humaine, Suite d...
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1950s Cubist Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Interaction of Color: Homage to the Square, Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
This "Homage to the Square" print was created by Albers for the occasion of an exhibition at Grippi Gallery in Manhattan in 1973. It is in an excellent white contemporary frame. Art...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Screen

Glaspalast Edition print, Munich Germany, SCARCE when Hand Signed by Sean Scully
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully Munich 1996 (Hand Signed), 2001 Offset Lithograph print Hand signed and dated by Sean Scully in 2018 Boldly signed in black marker on the recto. Hand signed by Sean Scull...
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Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Ink, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset

Lichtenstein Paper Plate — Pop Art Icon
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Roy Lichtenstein, 'Paper Plate', serigraph, 1969, edition unknown, Corlett III.45. Printed in dark blue ink verso, 'Roy Lichtenstein © On 1st Inc. 1969'. A fine impression, on white paperboard pressure formed into a 3-dimensional plate; age toning verso, otherwise in very good condition. Published by Bert Stern, New York. Image size 10 1/4 inch diameter, 1-inch depth. Archivally sleeved, unmounted, unframed. Carefully protected for shipping. Literature: John Russell. 'Art: Time for Old-Master Prints', New York Times (July 27, 1979), p. C16. Jan Howard. 'Reflections on 'The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein', Print Collector's Newsletter 26 (July–August 1995), p. 82. Mark M. Johnson. 'The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the '60s', Art & Activities 123 (June–Summer 1998), ill. p. 37 (color). Mary Lee Corlett. 'The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné', New York, 2002, p. 286, no. III.45. Susan Dackerman, ed., 'Corita Kent and the Language of Pop', exhibition catalog, Harvard Art...
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1960s Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Screen

Sans titre (Duthuit 101), Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Matisse, Henri, et a...
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1940s Fauvist Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

untitled abstract village with horses , original lithograph
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is from my private collection of 20th Century -21st Century artists, many of which are from the School of Paris era. Pelayo produced this lithograph in colors. The Latin American spirit...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Paint, Lithograph

Original Unused 1964 Avant La Lettre Lithograph Gaspar Room Metras Belarte
By Joan Miró
Located in Miami, FL
Joan Miró (Spain, 1893-1983) 'Sala Gaspar, Metras and Belarte Gallery (avant la lettre)', 1964 Lithograph on Paper (Cahiers d'Art magazine Nº4-5) Original lithograph without signing ...
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1960s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Roland Garros French Open
By Antoni Tàpies
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The 2000 Roland Garros poster by Antoni Tàpies is a compelling fusion of sport and abstract art. Its textured, abstract composition and philosophi...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset

Roland Garros French Open
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'Man and Horse' by Harold Stevenson, Lithograph
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 28" x 32" lithograph was produced by Harold Stevenson in 1988. This print features a skeletal figure and horse. The skeleton, with elongated and angular features, is centrally p...
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1980s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Life Forces - 1978 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
By Kyohei Inukai
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Kyohei Inukai Life Forces - 1978 Print - Silkscreen   30'' x 22½'' in Edition: signed in pencil and marked 128/200 Since the 1940s, Kyohei Inukai has created his own brand of illusi...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Screen

Seascape I - large format photograph of blue tone horizon and sea
By Frank Schott
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 Continental US - Abstract Prints

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

Soulages, Sans titre, Pierre Soulages, Peintres d'aujourd'hui (after)
By Pierre Soulages
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.83 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Pierre Soulages, Peintres d'aujourd'...
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1960s Modern Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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

Materials

Lithograph

Calder, Sunburst, Braniff International Airways Flying Colors (after)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, embossed with the official Braniff Flying Colors Collection seal, and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Not...
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1970s Modern Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Fiesta, c. 1973, red, yellow & blue figurative abstract lithograph
By Alexander Calder
Located in Beachwood, OH
Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Fiesta, c. 1973 Lithograph in colors Signed lower right Edition: E. A. 20 x 28 inches 35.5 x 37.75 inches, framed One of America's best known ...
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1970s Modern Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Variation II on Mauve Corner (Harrison, 17), Color Lithograph, Signed/N, Framed
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in New York, NY
Helen Frankenthaler Variation II on Mauve Corner (Harrison, 17), 1969 Lithograph in colors on Chatham British paper Signed, dated and numbered 14/21 in graphite pencil on the front Published by ULAE, West Islip, NY, with their blind stamp Frame included Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee Lithograph in colors on Chatham British paper Signed, dated and numbered 14/21 in graphite pencil on the front Published and printed by ULAE, West Islip, NY, with their blind stamp Literature: Frankenthaler, A Catalogue Raisonné: Prints 1961-1994, Harrison, no. 17, ppg. 106-109 Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee Elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV plexiglass Measurements: Framed: 23.75 (vertical) x 28.75 (horizontal) x 2 inches Artwork: 20 inches (vertical) x 25 inches (horizontal) “What concerns me when I work is not whether a picture is a landscape… or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is, did I make a beautiful picture?” - - Helen Frankenthaler This is Frankenthaler's first silkscreen, produced for the portfolio New York Ten, which includes works by other New York-based artists at the time such as Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann and Claes Oldenburg. (She created her first lithograph in 1961) Other examples of this edition are found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, MOCA Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum, the Philadelphia Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and numerous regional museums and institutions in the United States and worldwide. Helen Frankenthaler, A Brief Biography Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, she expanded the possibilities of abstract painting, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. She produced a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound and continues to grow. Frankenthaler was born on December 12, 1928, and raised in New York City. She attended the Dalton School, where she received her earliest art instruction from Rufino Tamayo. In 1949 she graduated from Bennington College, Vermont, where she was a student of Paul Feeley. She later studied briefly with Hans Hofmann. Frankenthaler’s professional exhibition career began in 1950, when Adolph Gottlieb selected her painting Beach (1950) for inclusion in the exhibition titled Fifteen Unknowns: Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery. Her first solo exhibition was presented in 1951, at New York’s Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and that year she was also included in the landmark exhibition 9th St. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture. In 1952 Frankenthaler created Mountains and Sea, a breakthrough painting of American abstraction for which she poured thinned paint directly onto raw, unprimed canvas laid on the studio floor, working from all sides to create floating fields of translucent color. Mountains and Sea was immediately influential for the artists who formed the Color Field school of painting, notable among them Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. As early as 1959, Frankenthaler began to be a regular presence in major international exhibitions. She won first prize at the Premiere Biennale de Paris that year, and in 1966 she represented the United States in the 33rd Venice Biennale, alongside Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jules Olitski. She had her first major museum exhibition in 1960, at New York’s Jewish Museum, and her second, in 1969, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, followed by an international tour. Frankenthaler experimented tirelessly throughout her long career. In addition to producing unique paintings on canvas and paper, she worked in a wide range of media, including ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, and especially printmaking. Hers was a significant voice in the mid-century “print renaissance” among American abstract painters, and she is particularly renowned for her woodcuts. She continued working productively through the opening years of this century. Frankenthaler’s distinguished, prolific career has been the subject of numerous monographic museum exhibitions. The Jewish Museum and Whitney Museum shows were succeeded by a major retrospective initiated by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth that traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI (1989); and those devoted to works on paper and prints organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1993), among others. Select recent important exhibitions have included Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959 (Gagosian, NY, 2013); Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2014); Giving Up One’s Mark: Helen Frankenthaler in the 1960s and 1970s (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2014–15); Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler (Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2015); As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings and No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Josef Albers, Blue Reminding, dazzling 1967 silkscreen (signed/numbered) Framed
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Note: This is a unique text variant which Albers titled in pencil "Blue Reminder" instead of "Blue Reminding". The authenticity of this work has been kindly confirmed by Brenda Danil...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Pencil, Screen

Endless Summer No2
By Jessica Nugent
Located in New York, NY
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2010s Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Photographic Paper

Peintures Chez Iris Clert 1957 certified, stamped by Yves Klein Archives 105/200
By Yves Klein
Located in New York, NY
"...Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not.... All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Julie Mehretu - Easy Dark -
By Julie Mehretu
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Prints

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Offset

Julie Mehretu - Easy Dark -
Julie Mehretu - Easy Dark -
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By Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
Joan Miró Miro, L'oeuvre Graphique, 1974 Offset lithograph poster Unsigned Unnumbered 28 1/5 × 21 1/2 inches Unframed Published by the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
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1970s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

James Turrell, Key Lime, Scarce LACMA Museum Exhibition print offset lithograph
By James Turrell
Located in New York, NY
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Scarce offset lithograph: Cake Slices, for SFMOMA, Hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud
By Wayne Thiebaud
Located in New York, NY
Wayne Thiebaud Cake Slices, for the New SFMOMA (Hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud), 1996 Color Offset lithograph (hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud) B...
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1990s Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

"Untitled #164 " watercolor print on fine art paper
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Over the past 20 years, Michelle Oppenheimer has become well known for composing paintings that capture the imaginative and organic possibilities of abstract watercolor and acrylic. ...
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

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Bullfight No. 5 original signed limited edition lithograph by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
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1960s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Green Day" Framed Limited Edition Print, 24" x 36"
Located in Westport, CT
This Limited Edition giclee landscape print by Molly Doe Wensberg is an edition size of 195. It features a cool blue, green, and yellow palette and captures a landscape scene with lu...
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2010s Other Art Style Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Digital, Giclée

African Serengeti (Limited Edition of Only 30 Prints)
By Mauro Oliveira
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL JUNE 15TH ONLY** *This Price Won't Be Repeated Again This Year-Take Advantage Of It* **IMPORTANT: This is a limited edition print on canvas> ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Canvas

Miró, Composition (Mourlot 551; Cramer 118), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Chiffon de Mandeure paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Lithographies et Eaux-Fortes Originales, Livres Illustres Or...
Category

1960s Modern Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Projet de tapisserie, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N°4 (double) Janvier 195...
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1950s Op Art Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

La femme au miroir (Cramer 35; Mourlot 242), Derrière le miroir
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
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1950s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Large Cubist Modernist Color French Lithograph Zadkine Figures La Famille
By Ossip Zadkine
Located in Surfside, FL
Ossip Zadkine (French-Russian, 1890-1967), limited edition color lithograph on paper titled La Famille (The Family), depicting intertwined figures in a Cubist-inspired style. The pr...
Category

1960s Cubist Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Treasure Rute I, Relief, stamping, linocut, collage on handmade paper, Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Alan Shields Treasure Rute I, 1979 Relief, stamping, linocut, collage on handmade paper Titled, numbered, signed, and dated Treasure Rute I 1/11 Alan Shields 1979 on the bottom front...
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1970s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Linocut

Blue to Light Blue Circle
By Ruth Adler
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Color is the foundation of my work. My circles start as a mood or idea that eventually evolves into a colored circle. I am curious how different colours interact wh...
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2010s Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Photographic Film

Jean-Michel Basquiat Gagosian gallery Los Angeles 1986 (exhibition poster)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Gagosian Gallery 1986: Original 1980’s Basquiat exhibition poster, published on the occasion of: Jean-Michel Basquiat at Larry Gagosian Gallery, 510 North Robert...
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1980s Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper

LA Parking - large scale photograph of midcentury urban architectural element
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
LA Parking by Frank Schott a burst of red in an urban landscape of striking minimalism, from a series of photographs capturing the mid century modern architecture and architectural e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

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

"Beam of Wind" 2004 signed original engraving limited edition 15x15in Mexican
Located in Miami, FL
Francisco Castro Leñero (Mexico, 1954) "Haz del Viento / Bco / Azul/" from serie "El exilio de los sentidos", 2004 Engraving, aquatint on paper...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Engraving, Ink, Etching, Aquatint

untitled, color abstract, original lithograph
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is part of my private collection of 20th Century artists that were part of the School of Paris era. This piece is original and signed by Pelayo and numbered.
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Paint, Acrylic, Lithograph

Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games w/COA from Olympic Committee offset lithograph
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg Star In Motion, 1982 for the Los Angeles Summer 1984 Olympic Games (with COA from Olympic Committee) Offset Lithograph on Parson's Diploma paper Stamp signed (aut...
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1980s Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

Midnight Truth, published by N's Yard, Japan, offset print, stamped, unnumbered
By Yoshitomo Nara
Located in New York, NY
Yoshitomo Nara Midnight Truth, 2017 Offset lithographic poster Stamped with title, artist's name, copyright and year Unnumbered 20 1/2 × 14 1/4 inches Unframed published by N's Yard,...
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2010s Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Marc Chagall and Charles Sorlier, Carmen, Lithograph, signed 98/150 Mourlot CS39
By Marc Chagall
Located in New York, NY
Marc Chagall (After) and Charles Sorlier (his collaborator and printer) Carmen, Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 1966 Color Lithograph on Arches watermarked Paper with deckled edg...
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1960s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi gallery 1982 (set of 6 printed works)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi 1982: set of 6 printed works: A set of six, individual, double-sided lithographic inserts from the seminal, spiral bound 1982 Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi ca...
Category

1980s Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Distant Muses
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Brice Marden Distant Muses 2000 Screenprint 23 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches; 60 x 49 cm Edition of 300 Signed, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower recto) Frame available upon request Available from Matthew Marks...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

"A Summer Day in Nantucket" Limited Edition Rolled Canvas Print, 60" x 48"
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This Limited Edition abstract print, "A Summer Day in Nantucket," by Sofie Swann measures 60" x 48" and is an edition of 95. Printed on canvas, this print ships rolled with natural c...
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2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Prints

Materials

Digital, Giclée

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