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Item Ships From: Continental US
Untitled from In the Bottom of My Garden (Plate 17)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol Title: Untitled (Plate 17) Portfolio: In the Bottom of My Garden Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper Date: 1956 Frame Size: 15 3/4" x 18 3/8" Sheet ...
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1950s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

1969 Signed Limited Edition Etching Abstract Nude
By Barbara Kwasniewska
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Name: Barbara Kwasniewska Year: 1969 Medium Type: etching Size-Width Size-Height: 22.5'' x 30" inches Signed Edition Size: Signed, Titled, and Numbered 2/75 Barbabra Kwas...
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1960s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Etching

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 - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Livre du cœur d'amour épris, 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. Notes: From the album, Livre du cœur d'Amour épris...
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1940s Fauvist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Tête, 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: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Art...
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1930s Fauvist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Conversation 1979 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
By Romare Bearden
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Conversation Year: 1979 Print - Lithograph on Somerset Paper Paper size: 22'' x 30'' inches Edition: signed & numbered in pencil, HC 5/15 Image Size ...
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1970s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Cramer 102; Mourlot 428-449), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 151-152, 1965. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éd...
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1960s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'Drop of Life' — from 'Solitude' for Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Naoko Matsubara, 'Drop of Life' for the portfolio 'Solitude', color woodcut, 1971. A fine impression with fresh, vivid colors, on cream laid Japan paper, the full sheet with margins,...
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1970s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

original lithograph
By Yasse Tabuchi
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 at the atelier of Clot, Bramsen et Georges and published in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist ...
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1960s Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Jacqueline à l'étamine (Cramer 115), Diurnes
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Goeppert, Sebastian, et ...
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1960s Cubist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Paradis II (Mourlot 230-77; Cramer 42)
By Marc Chagall
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 references: Mourlot, Fernand. C...
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1960s Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 by Clot, Bramsen et Georges and issued in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist Times -- a radical...
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1960s Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Night Shadows
By Edward Hopper
Located in Storrs, CT
Night Shadows. 1921. Etching. Levin 82. 7 x 8 3/8 (sheet 10 x 13 7 1/16).s Series: Six American Etchings: The New Republic Portfolio, 1924. Edition approximately 500-600. Illustrate...
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1920s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Etching

Night Shadows
Night Shadows
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Confident - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. Mikio Watanabe created "Confident", a side view of a sensuous female nude, exclusiv...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint

Place de la Concorde (Cramer 23; Mourlot 83), Verve: Revue Artistique
By Marc Chagall
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 references: Cain, Julien, and F...
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1950s Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Anadyomine 1969 Signed Limited Edition Etching
By Barbara Kwasniewska
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Name: Barbara Kwasniewska Title: Anadyomine Year: 1969 Medium Type: etching Size-Width Size-Height: 22.5'' x 30" inches Signed Edition Size: Signed, Titled, and Numbered 5...
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1960s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Etching

David Hockney, The Rake's Progress 100% Silk British Pocket Scarf in bespoke box
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney The Rake's Progress Silk Pocket Scarf, ca. 2020 100% silk scarf made in Italy and printed in the UK, held in the original presentation box 16 1/10 × 16 1/10 inches Bear...
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2010s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Silk, Screen

Pastorale, Surrealist Etching and Aquatint by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Long Island City, NY
Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) - Pastorale, Portfolio: Historia de Don Quichote de la Mancha, Year: 1981, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed and numbered in penc...
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1980s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Picasso, 8.10.64. X (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
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1970s Cubist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, 8.10.64. VIII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
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1970s Cubist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, 8.10.64. I (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
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1970s Cubist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, 20.5.64. VIII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
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1970s Cubist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, 8.10.64. XVII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
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1970s Cubist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, XII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
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1970s Cubist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, 8.10.64. X (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
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1970s Cubist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Jim Dine Red Design for Satin Heart "The Picture of Dorian Grey" bleeding heart
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This proof depicts one of Jim Dine's signatures motifs, a deep red heart, which drips down the page. Along the right side of the heart, hand-drawn text reads: “Red design for satin h...
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1960s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Songs of Songs, Hand-Signed Lithograph Poster after Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, After, Russian (1887 - 1985) - The Songs of Songs, Year: 1975, Medium: Lithograph Poster, signed in color pencil lower right, Edition: 8500, Size: 30 x 20.25 in. (7...
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1970s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Diving Lesson
By Jessica Brilli
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information. ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Jessica Brilli (Sayville, NY 1977) has been drawing and painting sin...
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2010s Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Photographic Paper

KEITH HARING 'THE STORY OF RED AND BLUE - 1990, L. pp. 128-13, SIGNED & NUMBERED
By Keith Haring
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Plate 5 from Story of Red and Blue (L. pp. 128-133) Medium: Screen print in colors on wove paper Sheet Size: 22 x 16.5 inches Frame Size: approx 28.5 x 22...
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1980s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Screen

Magritte, Ma Mere l'Oye (after)
By René Magritte
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph in Colours on Vélin d'Arches paper. Edition: 350, plus proofs. Signed in the plate by the artist; hand signed in pencil by the printer, Fernand Mourlot. Good Condition; ne...
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1960s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Magritte, Ma Mere l'Oye (after)
Magritte, Ma Mere l'Oye (after)
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Lillies, Art Nouveau Giclee Print after Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Louis Icart, After, French (1888 - 1950) - Lillies, Year: 2000, Medium: Giclee on paper, numbered in pencil verso with printers stamp, Edition: 8/375, Size: 45 x 31 in. (114.3 x ...
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Early 2000s Art Nouveau Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Giclée

original lithograph
By Max Ernst
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference Spies/Leppien 202. Published in 1971 by XXe Siecle. Sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (310 x 238 mm). Not signed.
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1970s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original Andy Warhol Brillo Pasadena Art Museum serigraph vintage poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in Spokane, WA
Original serigraph: Andy Warhol Brillo soap pads. Artist: Andy Warhol. Size 26" x 30" Year: 1970. Archival linen-backed original serigraph ready to frame. Warhol's Billo ...
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1970s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Screen

Mystery of Sleep (The Hermit), Signed Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Long Island City, NY
A clock-faced figure wearing monk's robes floats in a blue void above a roiling storm cloud. This Surrealist lithograph by Salvador Dali shows the figure in movement, traveling with ...
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1970s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, 8.10.64. II (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
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1970s Cubist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Hope - Progress, Pop Art Screenprint Diptych by Steven Gagnon
By Steven Gagnon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Two silkscreen prints by Steven Gagnon from 2011. Political commentary in pop art style imagery with a farcical tone. Unframed, hand signed in lower right corner. Artist: Steven Ga...
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20th Century Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Screen

Pablo Picasso, Le Repos du Sculpteur II, from La Suite Vollard, hand signed
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso Le Repos du Sculpteur II, from La Suite Vollard Hand signed by Picasso in pencil in the lower right, Watermark "Vollard" Reference: Bloch 172; Baer 325 Original etching...
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1930s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Etching

Keith Haring Talk To Us! 1989 (Keith Haring Aids hotline)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Talk To Us! 1989 (The Aids Hotline): Designed & illustrated by Keith Haring one year after Haring's own diagnosis, this RARE poster advertisement was displayed by the N...
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1980s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

original lithograph
By Samuel Buri
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 by Clot, Bramsen et Georges and issued in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist Times -- a radical...
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1960s Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Figure in Movement
By (after) Francis Bacon
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an original offset lithograph poster created for the 1985 Francis Bacon exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, featuring the haunting and visceral work Figure in Movement. Kno...
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1980s Modern Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Offset

original 1971 poster Paintings-Drawings show in Sala Gaspar Barcelona Spain
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Miami, FL
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973) 'Pintura - Dibujo. Sala Gaspar', 1971 lithograph on paper 39.6 x 20.4 in. (100.5 x 51.7 cm.) Unframed Ref: PIC2001-P003 Conservation: Not previo...
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1970s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Figure, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Georges Braque
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph 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, Verve: Revue Art...
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1930s Cubist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Light Up!
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
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2010s Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Photographic Paper

"Le Sacre Du Printemps" original lithograph
By Marino Marini
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1973 for the art revue XXe Siecle and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (310 x 238 mm). Not signed.
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1970s Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (ULAE S13), Jasper Johns, Screenprints, Jasper Johns
By Jasper Johns
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen on Patapar printing parchment paper. Paper Size: 10.125 x 10.125 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Jasper Johns, Screenprints...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Screen

Vision de Paris (Cramer 43; Mourlot 287), The Lithographs of Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.216 x 9.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and Fernand Mourlot. Chaga...
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1960s Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Tauromachie
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In 1982, the Musée d'Art Moderne in Céret, France, hosted the exhibition "Picasso et la Tauromachie" (Picasso and Bullfighting), celebrating Pablo Picasso's profound connection to bu...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Tauromachie
Tauromachie
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Les Masques, Art Nouveau Color Etching by Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950) - Les Masques, Year: 1926, Medium: Color Etching, Signed in Pencil, Edition: 308, Size: 18.68 in. x 14.38 in. (47.43 cm x 36.51 cm), Frame Size:...
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1920s Art Nouveau Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Etching

Young Man in a Velvet Cap (Ferdinand Bol) by James Bretherton, after Rembrandt
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on heavy cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches (96 x 83 mm), narrow margins. In very good condition with some minor surface soiling. [Björklund's second state ...
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18th Century Old Masters Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Etching

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 - Figurative Prints

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Linocut

Keith Haring, Untitled (1984), 1988, Vintage Poster
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Haring's background in street art and graffiti also influenced this practice. His spontaneous creations in public spaces were often produced quickly and without formal titles, emphas...
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1990s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Offset

La tristesse du roi (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 20.50 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue r...
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1950s Fauvist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Blackfeet Indians, Great Northern Railway 14 prints
By Winold Reiss
Located in Spokane, WA
A group of 14 Blackfeet Indians prints created by the artist Winold Reiss. The Great Northern Railway printed and released these prints in c. 1940. This is for the entire group...
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1940s American Realist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Chagall, Die Zauberflöte (Mourlot CS. 38), The Metropolitan Opera (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Die Zauberflöte (Mourlot CS. 38), The Metropolitan Opera Year: 1973 Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Size: 39.5 x 25.75 inches Notes: From the opening of Mozart's 'The Magic F...
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1970s Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original 1966 poster Harlequin Museo Picasso Palacio Aguilar Barcelona Spain
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Miami, FL
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973) 'Museo Picasso. Palacio Aguilar.', 1966 Original four-color offset printing on paper 30 x 21.5 in. (76 x 54.5 cm.) Unframed Ref: PIC2001-P011 Co...
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1960s Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Offset

Margit Smiles
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
signed and numbered lower image edition 7/40 Catalogue raisonné 00269 Internationally recognized painter and printmaker Alex Katz was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. Over a thir...
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1990s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

False Start
By Jessica Brilli
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Jessica Brilli (Sayville, NY 1977) has been drawing and painting since her childhood. Working in a style that encompasses American realism and 20th century graphic...
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2010s Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Photographic Paper

'Together' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Together', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1946, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '22/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 7/8 to 5 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 5 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (149 x 124 mm); sheet size 15 x 11 1/8 inches (381 x 283 mm). Collection: Indianapolis Museum of Art. Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945 and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions. “The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.” —Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’ ABOUT THE ARTIST Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature. Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research. Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June. Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages." In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking. Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...
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1940s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Prints

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Engraving

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 - Figurative 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 - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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