Manhattan - Figurative Prints

An amazing New York City subject, Canarsie Meadows, is a lithograph by New York native Hyman J. Warsager (1909-1974). He was a painter and printmaker, technical innovator, and song w...

Ludmila Tcherina (French, 1924-2004) "Untitled: From Original Danse Lithographs" (Edition 46/125), Abstract Figurative Lithograph signed and numbered in Pencil, 23.88 x 17.13, Mid 20th Century, 1967 Colors: Black, White, Yellow, Blue Ludmilla Tchérina (10 October 1924 – 21 March 2004) was a French prima ballerina, sculptor, actress, painter, choreographer and author of two novels. Tchérina was born Monique Tchemerzine, into Circassian aristocracy as the daughter of Kabardian Prince Avenir Tchemerzine (Shamyrze), a former Russian general...

Robert Israel (American, b. 1939), "Punch and Daney Baby Diddy (From Punch & Judy, Seven Hand Colored Lithographs) Edition. 35/65, 15.50 x 22.75, Late 20th Century, 1970 Colors: Bl...

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...

This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of ecstasy and repose. The loose sketches were drawn directly onto the plate by the artist, a master draftsman whose erotic etchings are largely unknown. The composition is based on the drawing: Clinical Study, Towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comic Style...

Lowell Nesbitt Orchid, 1979 Silkscreen on wove paper Pencil signed, dated and numbered 144/175 by Lowell Nesbitt on the front Published by Charles Cardinale Fine Creations, Inc., with blind stamp on the front 25 × 25 inches Unframed This work is pencil signed, dated and numbered 144/175 by Lowell Nesbitt on the front. About Lowell Nesbitt. Lowell Nesbitt, who was born in Baltimore on Oct. 4, 1933, was a graduate of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and also attended the Royal College of Art in London, where he worked in stained glass & etching. In 1964, the Corcoran Gallery or Art in Washington gave him one of his first museum exhibitions, and by the mid 1970's he had decided to leave the museum a bequest of more than $1 million. But in 1989, he publicly revoked the bequest after the Corcoran canceled a disputed exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, who was an old friend. Mr. Nesbitt named the Phillips Collection as a beneficiary instead. He was frequently grouped with the Photo Realists, but his images were more interpretively distorted, somewhat loosely painted and boldly abbreviated. He had many subjects: studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes and groupings of fruits and vegetables. He also painted his dog, a Rottweiler named Echo, the Neoclassical facades of SoHo's 19th century cast-iron buildings and several of Manhattan's major bridges. Despite such variety, Lowell Nesbitt was best known for gargantuan images or irises, roses, lilies and other flowers, which he often depicted in close up so that their petals seemed to fill the canvas. Dramatic, implicitly sexual and a little ominous, they earned the artist a popularity with the general public that tended to overshadow his reputation within the art world. In 1980, the United States Postal Service issued four stamps based on Mr. Nesbitt's floral paintings. He also served as the official artist for the space flights of Apollo 9...

Thomas Cornell (American b. 1937), "Michaelangelo", Edition 96/100, Figurative Drypoint/ Etching signed and numbered in pencil, 24 x 18.50, 1964, Late 20th Century Colors: Black and...

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le Souper des Dockers, engraving, 1919-1920, signed in pencil lower left, titled lower left, and numbered (27/35) lower right. Reference: Laboureur ...

Bernard Sanders (1906-1967) was a master of minimalist prints. In several I've posted the subject is really atmosphere and tension. This could be r...

Alexander Calder Braniff Airlines poster 1976: Medium: Offset lithograph. Dimensions: 23 x 33 inches. Signed in plate An original 1st printing in very good overall vintage conditio...

Wolf Kahn Untitled, 1982 Original Etching 10 × 15 inches Edition AP (aside from the regular edition of 90) pencil signed, dated and inscribed to Cynthia Frame included: Ships framed ...

Watch Us: Together We Can Do It, II 2020 by Chin Chih Yang is a signed limited edition print on archival paper: 29/75 - edition number, date of creation, and artist's signature on re...

Poster for Harper's March, 1895. Woman in Green dress with Rabbit New York: Harper & Brothers,1895. Signed in stone bottom right: EDWARD PENFIELD. On Linen. Color Zincograph. Very...

Anna Barry (1907-2001), and her husband, the artist Ira Moskovitz, spent years in New Mexico in the late 1930s and 40s. They returned permanently to New York City in 1949. The screen print (also known as silk screen or serigraph) Navajo Yei...

Skatedeck print In 1999 BustArt began his artistic career with classic Graffiti. Until 2005, he became familiar with the whole spectrum of Graffiti and reached a new level of identi...

Rare coveted silkscreen in museum quality frame: Allen Jones Red Feat (Lloyd, 73), 1976 Lithograph on Arches paper Hand signed, dated and numbered 49/60 in pencil recto, with Landfal...

Stanley William Hayter Torero (de-accessioned from the Denver Art Museum), 1929-1933 Engraving on laid paper, third (final) state, on heavy BFK Rives...

David Feintstein is a master draughtsman working in the genre of everyday life in New York City. His style is highly original, especially in this work. Here he's used Visitors' Day (...

Raymond Pettibon 1986-2001 poster/announcement cards: A curated set of 4 vintage Raymond Pettibon illustrated announcement cards plus a copy of Picturebook, a 1993 art publication (with a Raymond Pettibon original poster inside). Medium: 4 offset printed announcement cards, 1 fold-out poster. Dimensions ranging from: 4.25x6 inches to 11x17 inches. Condition: Each in good to very good overall vintage condition with some minor signs of handling. Each unsigned from an edition of unknown. Included in the collection: - Raymond Pettibon, Feature gallery, New York, NY, February 18-March 18, 1989. - Raymond Pettibon, A&P Gallery Closing Announcement, New York, NY, October 3, 1986. - Raymond Pettibon Poster...

Philip Pearlstein Olga Hirshhorn is 90, 2010 Lithograph on Aquarelle Arches Paper Pencil signed, dated and numbered 158/185 by the artist on the front 31 1/2 × 24 inches Unframed Thi...

Sidney Chafetz was known for his clever compositions and his many portraits, all made in the most 'difficult to control' medium of woodcut.. This charmi...

This (Street Scene) is undoubtedly O'Callahan's hometown of Buffalo, NY, where he lived and spent most of his career. The artist's name appears in pencil at the bottom edge on the re...

Joseph (Joe) Leboit made this extremely intense image of a supposedly happy recipient of a 'Derby Winner.' (Probably refers to the Irish Derby.) In fact the couple and seventeen chil...

Robert Irwin Fold-out PACE Gallery invitation (hand signed by Robert Irwin), 2012 Offset lithograph fold-out invitation (hand signed by Robert Irwin) Boldly signed by Robert Irwin on...

Daniella Dooling Untitled 1996 Signed and numbered Lithograph (Edition of 50) 12 x 9 inches

In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography. The deluxe editions of...

Ivan Chermayeff Lincoln Center Film Festival Poster (Hand Signed by Ivan Chermayeff), 1999 Offset Lithograph Poster (Hand Signed) - Framed Boldly ...

"Untitled: 4 Figures"Edition 132/200, Abstract Figurative Lithograph on Paper, 28.13 x 20.75, Late 20th Century Colors: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple, P...

This hand-drawn black and white portrait of Dominie, Kitaj’s adopted daughter, is one of the few etchings produced by the artist. The shape of Dominie’s wide sunhat and its patterned...

Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Jim Dine, Roberto Matta, Sam Francis, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, John Hultberg, Adolph Gottlieb, Paul Jenkins, Hassel Smith, Jack Youngerman, Ray Parker, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Larry Rivers, Mark Tobey, David Budd, Hans Hofmann, Various Artists, Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky. La Grande Occassione Della Pittura Americana Milano (Hand Signed by Jim Dine), 1963 Offset Lithograph invitation poster (hand signed by Jim Dine) Hand signed by Jim Dine on the front -signed in person for the present owner, so provenance is direct. 12 1/4 × 16 3/4 inches Unframed Uniquely signed. The gallery acquired this historic 1963 invitation and then Jim Dine graciously signed it years later in black marker - as he was/is the only artist of the entire group who was still alive. We know of no other one in the entire world with any hand signature by any of the artists exhibited. This very rare invitation/poster was published on the occasion of this important 1963 exhibition of American painting at the Galleria Ariete, Mostra n. 94, in Milan, Italy. The roster of artists represented is literally a Who's Who of American Abstract Expressionists of the era. The Galleria dell'Ariete in Milan, Italy, opened in 1955, and ran an active exhibition until its closing in the mid-1980s. It was among the most important galleries in Italy for contemporary art, and had extensive connections with dealers, collectors, artists, and critics in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Beatrice Monti della Corte opened the Galleria dell'Ariete at Via San Andrea, 5, Milan, Italy in 1955, when she was twenty-five years old, principally as a showplace for modern art; Galleria dell'Ariete rapidly became one of the foremost Italian galleries...

A moody evening in New York City. The buildings capture the quiet that New York sometimes achieves. Signed and dated in pencil.

Ben Messick perfectly captures the world of the 'Ashcan' period: Everyday life, local characters, people we could still meet today. He could draw like a son-of-a-gun! The date of 194...

It's clear to me that that baby carriage is so beautifully drawn that it could be re-constructed from here if necessary. Without really knowing anything about Lucile Haynes I'm sure...

Saul Raskin's Cry of Union Square, has all my favorite things: a view of Union Square with S. Klein's department store on the right and a Chop Suey restaurant on the left. There's a ...

Marilyn Minter Merry Merry: Limited Edition Large Christmas Stickers, 2007 One oversized sheet of die-cut vinyl stickers which rolls up and ships in a tube with original tube from ar...

Lucian Freud Solicitor's Head 2003 Etching on Somerset soft white paper 23 1/4 x 19 inches; 59 x 48 cm Edition of 46 Initialed and numbered in graphite (lower recto) Frame available upon request Published by Matthew Marks Gallery...

The etching (Crucifixion) is signed and titled in pencil. Signed 'Fred' and possibly dated '27' in the image at lower left. It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Nagl...

Add a piece of Parisian glamour to your collection with this Art Deco "Folies Bergere La Grande Folie" Lithograph Poster Print from France, circa 1927. This striking poster captures ...

Paul Cadmus, Arabesque 1947/1979 Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil, recto; Also blindstamped, l.l. Etching (Edition of 35) 18 x 14.5 inches, sheet

Moody, expressive large scale black and white abstract interior scene with grey watercolor and gouache, depicting a bust, indian Mugal carpet, floral design...

Jean-Emile Laboureur, Anzacs, woodcut, 1918-22, signed and numbered (7/45), the second state (of 2). Reference: Sylvain Laboureur 713. In good condition, with remains of old hinges ...

Jan De Ruth (American/ Czech, 1922-1991), " After the Bath" Edition 19/250, Figurative Lithograph on Paper signed and titled in Pencil, 30 x 21 (Image: 25 x 15.50), ca. 1970s, Late 20th Century Colors: Blue, Yellow, Red, Grey, White, Purple Jan De Ruth enjoyed special popularity as a portrait artist and has become one of the best known painters of the nude female in the world today. It's a long way from sketching in leftover coffee to painting a portrait of Ethel Kennedy for the cover of Time Magazine, twenty-five years in fact; and during that period, Jan De Ruth's personal experiences have been enough to fill two ordinary lifetimes. Through them all, art has sustained him and been his primary interest. To begin with, De Ruth, a native of Czechoslovakia and now an American citizen, spent the years of World War II being shunted through 5 different concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz. He made four escape attempts and finally made good on his fifth try. De Ruth constantly sought materials with which to draw, but "The only things we had were the few pieces of cloth we wore," he recalls. By chance, he was transferred to Germany as part of a labor detail and managed to sneak a pencil away from the camp supervisor-"I became a perfect thief during those years," he says. Jan drew a mother and child on a scrap of paper he scrounged from the factory where he worked, filled it in with shadings of coffee in various strengths-his finger was his brush. He exchanged the sketch for a piece of bread from a camp guard, and in effect, sold his first painting. In March of 1945, after being transferred to his native Czechoslovakia, he made his successful escape "knowing every step of the way." After the war, De Ruth became the commissar in a small Czech town and remained in the post for one year, just long enough to forge some documents that allowed him to flee to England. He took up residence in London and enrolled at the Ruskin Art School in Oxford University. He arrived in the USA in 1948. There are times in the life of a painter when his dedication to his art is overshadowed by the immediate requirements of self-preservation. This was one of those times! From '48 to 1955 he supported himself by working at night, earning his way painting designs on neckties and bathroom cups; as a fashion designer, illustrator, vacuum cleaner salesman, theatre manager, and actor. In '55 Jan De Ruth made his professional debut as a full-time artist and two years later his first one-man show established him as a serious painter. His work has been acclaimed for combining the technique of the old masters with a modern manner, and has been exhibited in more than 40 one-man shows in galleries and museums across the United States. He has been judged positively by juries in 28 national exhibitions and his numerous awards include the Purchase Prize of the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Gold Medal of the National Arts Club. De Ruth, author of the books "Portrait Painting" and "Painting the Nude," has devoted his entire life to painting the female face and form. He enjoys special popularity as a portraitist and has become one of the best known painters of the nude female in the world today. Often asked why he concentrates on this most demanding of all art subjects he replies: . . . "Each painting of the nude becomes a new experience . . . It (the human figure) is nature's most perfect and most imperfect creation, communicating, even in silence and immobility, the physical and spiritual power-and frailty-of humanity." Articulate, sophisticated, outspoken and well informed, De Ruth has also been a welcome guest on radio and television shows. But, it is painting that gives a purpose to Jan De Ruth's existence: "It is an unending challenge-there is no end, no final result-to be found in painting the human body. I have never seen two gestures that are alike, but so are the possibilities of expression. There will always be painters who will find one more way of saying: "See! This is what I feel about humans." . . . So until a greater challenge and a more profound symbol comes along, it is the human figure I wish to paint." AWARDS Butler Institute of American Art Purchase Prize Oguniquit Art Center Knickerbocker Artist 1964 Audubon Artist, Grumbacher Purchase Prize National Arts Club of America Gold Medal Windsor-Newton Award of the National Arts Club ONE MAN MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS B'nai B'rith Museum - Washington D.C. Florida Gulf Coast Art...

Philip Pearlstein The Complete Paintings, 1984 Hardback monograph with dust jacket Hand signed, dated and inscribed to Nadine by Philip Pearlstein 12 × 10 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches This i...

Alfred Rozelaar (British, 1917-2013), "Untitled" , Abstract Figurative Lithograph numbered 24/120 and signed in pencil, 25 x 18.50, Late 20th century Colors: Orange, Yellow, White, ...

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...

Robert Indiana ERR (Sheehan 29), 1963 Photoengraving and Etching on off-white Rives BFK paper Hand signed, dated and annotated on lower front with artist's blind stamp from Coenties ...

Öyvind Fahlström One Hundred and Eight Inflated Dollars, from the Collection of Ileana Sonnabend and the Estate of Nina Castelli, 1973 Lithograph on rag paper. Signed. Numbered. in o...

The etching (Road to Calvary) is signed in pencil. It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Nagler did use occasionally. Here it emphasizes the meagerness of the scene. T...

Howard Kanovitz Paris Review, 1968 Lithograph on wove paper 33 × 26 inches Pencil signed and numbered 9/200 Published by The Paris Review, New Y...

This work was published for the exhibition, American Jesus, held 13 July - 18 September 2010 at Paul Kasmin, New York in cooperation with Fred Torres Colla...

Couple embracing, kissing bold and dark English translation: Hideaway Date

ROBERT INDIANA Hope Wall, 2010 Silkscreen on wove paper 24 × 25 inches Edition IV/IV (aside from the regular edition of 33) Hand signed, numbered IV/IV and dated on lower front Unframed Robert Indiana created Hope Wall, or Wall of Hope in support of future president Barack Obama in 2008, and the print was published in 2010. This is an extremely rare Artist's Proof - one of only four in the world. It is pencil signed, dated and numbered IV of IV on the recto. The regular edition is only 33. Extremely scarce. This print has appeared on the market fewer than a handful of times over the past decade. “I’d like to cover the world with hope,” said Robert Indiana, the artist whose iconic “LOVE” series became a global symbol of unity during the turmoil of the 1960s. In 2008, Indiana felt the world was ready for a new message, and designed “HOPE” for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. “I wanted to help name and empower the next generation and I felt that HOPE encompassed the needs of our time,” he said. With its forward-leaning O, “HOPE” symbolizes perseverance, and pushing ahead toward a brighter future. To coincide with the artist’s 86th birthday, the first annual “International Hope Day” launched on September 13, 2014 and included the public display of Indiana’s “HOPE” sculptures...

Christo, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Javacheff Christo The Pont Neuf, Paris Wrapped (Hand Signed), from the Estate of Aviva and Jacob Bal Teshuvah, 1985 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed Christo et Jeanne-Claude) Signed Christo et Jeanne-Claude in orange crayon on the front Unnumbered 24 × 36 1/2 inches Unframed Hand signed Christo et Jeanne-Claude in orange crayon on the front unframed Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee & provenance This elegant vintage poster was published to promote and raise funds for Christo's famous The Pont Neuf Wrapped Project in the mid 1980s. From the estate of Jacob and Aviva Bal Teshuva - authors of books on Christo, collectors, philanthropists and friends of the artist. Provenance Estate of Aviva and Jacob Bal-Teshuva ABOUT THE PONT NEUF WRAPPED PROJECT: On September 22, 1985, a group of 300 professional workers completed the temporary work of art The Pont Neuf Wrapped. They had deployed 450,000 square feet (41,800 square meters) of woven polyamide fabric, silky in appearance and golden sandstone in color, covering: The sides and vaults of the twelve arches, without hindering river traffic. The parapets down to the ground. The sidewalks and curbs (pedestrians walked on the fabric). All the street lamps on both sides of the bridge. The vertical part of the embankment of the western tip of the Île de la Cité. The Esplanade of the Vert-Galant. The fabric was restrained by 8 miles (13 kilometers) of rope and secured by 12.1 tons of steel chains encircling the base of each tower, 3.3 feet (1 meter) underwater. The Charpentiers de Paris headed by Gérard Moulin, with French sub-contractors, were assisted by the USA engineers who had worked on Christo and Jeanne-Claude's previous projects, under the direction of Theodore Dougherty: Vahé Aprahamian, August L. Huber, James Fuller, John Thomson and Dimiter Zagoroff. Johannes Schaub, the project's director had submitted the work method and detailed plans and received approval for the project from the authorities of the City of Paris, the Department of the Seine and the State. 600 monitors, in crews of 40, led by Simon Chaput...

George Segal (signed and inscribed by George Segal), 1989 Hardback monograph with dust jacket (signed, dated and inscribed for Tera by George Segal) Warmly signed, dated 3/27/1998 an...

Tina Barney Players (Signed and dated by Tina Barney), 2010 Hardback monograph with dust jacket (Hand signed and dated by Tina Barney) Signed and dated 3/9/2011 by Tina Barney 9 × 12...

Alexander Calder McGovern for McGovernment, 1972 Lithograph on wove paper Pencil signed and numbered 194/200 on the front Frame included In 1972, Alexander Calder was commissioned by...

Robert Indiana 4, from the original Numbers portfolio (Sheehan 46-55), 1968 Color Silkscreen on Wove Paper Limited Edition of 2500 Not Signed Frame included: Elegantly matted and fr...

Karel Appel Miss World First Class Pretty (Deluxe hand signed edition of the 1 Cent Life Portfolio, from the estate of artist Robert Indiana), 1964 Lithograph splayed across two sheets on wove paper (Hand signed by Karel Appel) Pencil signed on the lower right front; numbered 85/100 on the portfolio colophon Frame included Floated and framed in a museum quality wood frame with UV plexiglass., bearing the colophon with the edition number page on the back Measurements: Frame: 20.25 x 27 x 1.25 inches Print: 16 x 23 inches This lithograph was part of the complete portfolio acquired from the estate of Pop Artist Robert Indiana, who also contributed a work to the portfolio. Documented prints from the hand signed edition of 100 rarely appear on the market. This is one of them. The work is pencil signed by Karel Appel on the front and all of the prints are unnumbered, as the complete portfolio is numbered on the colophon page - a copy of which is included for provenance. (There was also an unsigned edition of 2000) Chinese American artist and writer Walasse Ting, in collaboration with Sam Francis, assembled a group of the most significant Pop and Abstract Expressionist artists in America, including Andy Warhol, along with the European COBRA artists to create the definitive artistic portfolio of lithographs with accompanying text by Walasse Ting. The Deluxe edition, which features hand signed prints, was published in a limited edition of only 100. This is one of them. Of the 100, editions numbered 60-100, or 40 portfolios, were reserved exclusively for Artists & Collaborators. This hand signed Karel Appel lithograph...

Lithograph on paper (Edition of 25) Signed in pencil, l.r. Numbered in pencil, l.l. This print is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Joan Brossa (1919-1998) was a Cata...

Jim Dine Olympian Gestures (Hand Signed by Jim Dine), 1984 Limited Edition lithograph and offset lithograph poster Hand signed on the front 38 1/5 × 25 inches The limited edition, h...