New York City - Abstract Prints

Peter Halley, Frank Kozik Halley/Kozik, 1997 Offset Lithograph. Hand signed by both Peter Halley and Frank Kozik on the lower front. Edition 75/100 22 1/2 × 35 inches Unframed This color lithograph was created on the occasion of the Peter Halley and Frank Kozik exhibition at Wooster Gardens from May 3 - June 14, 1997. Hand signed by both artists on the lower front and is annotated as a study proof: S/P 75/100. Frank Kozik was born in Madrid, Spain in 1962 . At the age of 14 he moved to the United States and settled in Austin, Texas. Credited with single handedly reviving the “lost” art of the concert poster, his creative career rose largely out of his enthusiasm for Austin’s growing underground punk rock scene in the mid-eighties. Starting with black and white flyers for friends’ bands posted on telephone poles, his reputation grew as an artist whose work was graphically compelling as well as culturally gripping. This exhibition was an installation featuring an eight-year survey of punk rock posters...

An abstract expressionist lithograph by Karel Appel from 1979. Artist: Karel Appel Title: Walking with my Bird Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, Signed and numbered in pencil...

Terence La Noue New Monuments of Quetzalcoatl, 1976 Offset lithograph on wove paper Signed, dated and numbered 1/500 by the artist on the lower right front (although the stated editi...

Artist: Josef Albers Title: Portfolio 1, Folder 29, Image 1 from Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation (Double Portfolio) Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol pa...

This abstract serigraph was created in 1981 by American Optical artist Evelyn B. Johnson. It is signed and numbered 17/25 in pencil, and the plate size is 25.5 x 25.5 inches. It is d...

From the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 original silkscreens that are a definitive survey of the artist...

Trinity III - Variant Henry Pearson, American (1914–2006) Date: 1972 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of AP XII, 150 Image Size: 12 x 12 inches Size: 14 in. x 18 in...

A geometric abstract print by Japanese artist Takaaki Matsumoto. Computer Takaaki Matsumoto, Japanese (1954) Date: 1991 Screenprint Edition of 198 Size: 24 x 24 in. (60.96 x 60.96 cm)

Robert Cottingham Blues, from the American Signs Portfolio (hand signed by Robert Cottingham), 2009 Screenprint in colors on wove paper Pencil signed, numbered 66/100, dated, and tit...

This abstract composition features a cropped view of the words SIGHT SEEING, in bold all-capital lettering. Roses fill the top line of text, and the bottom line of text in white is s...

Artist: Darryl Hughto, American (1943 - ) Title: Tug Hill Year: 1981 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 101/150 Image Size: 39 x 29 inches Size: 42 x 30 in. (...

Artist: Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, Russian (1955 - ) Title: Tabula A from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990 Year: 1990 Medium: Etching on German Rag paper, signed and nu...

This colorful abstract lithographic poster was printed in 1966 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris to promote an exhibition of Miro's works at the Musee d'Art Moderne De La Ville in Paris. Certificate of Provenance: Each individual work of art carefully curated by Mourlot Editions comes with a Certificate of Provenance, signed, dated, stamped, and numbered by Eric Mourlot...

Untitled ( Paper Piece I ) 1978 color laminated handmade paper by Richard Hunt produced by Twinrocker Handmade Paper and published by Lakeside Studio. Example number 27 from an editi...

Rendered in dark shades of brown and purple, this portrayal of the head of a man is a prime example of the Cubist style. Forgoing the traditional perspective, Pablo Picasso creates his own view of the subject by including multiple angles of vision into one composition, resulting in this wavy and curving representation of a man. A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Tete de Homme...

Robert Indiana’s (American, 1928-2018), Star of Hope is a reoccurring image, in fact, he named his charitable foundation the Star of Hope Foundation in 20...

Gerald Laing City Center Light Opera, 1968 Lime colored Screenprint on die-cut Mylar Hand signed, numbered 6/144 and dated in pencil on the front 25 × 35 inches Unframed Gerald Laing Biography Born in 1936, Gerald Laing attended the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst 1953-1955 and after a short army career attended St Martin’s School of Art between 1960-1964. After art school, Laing lived in New York for five years and then became artist in residence at Aspen Institute...

A dynamic and textured screenprint by American Abstract Expressionist, Larry Poons. This series of prints resemble canvases that have been splashed violently with paint. This piece i...

Artist: Frank Roth, American (1936 - ) Title: Untitled - Four Green Shapes in Continuous Space Year: 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 125, AP 30 Image S...

Antoni Clavé Untitled, from the Album International 2 Portfolio, 1977 Mixed media: Lithograph in relief 29 1/4 × 19 3/4 inches Edition 1/50 Signed and number on front Unframed This is a rare lithograph by the world renowned Catalan graphic artist, painter and sculptor, signed and numbered in pencil from the limited edition of only 50. Superb provenance as it is was acquired from the original Album International Portfolio, number 1 of 50. Text from the Colophon page reads as follows: Born in Barcelona, living in St. Tropez, France. Lithograph in relief, edition of 50, each numbered and signed by the artist. Antoni Clavé biography Antoni Clavé was born in Barcelona on April 5th, 1913. From 1926 he attended evening courses at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios "Llotja", a school both Picasso and Miró attended in their youth. In 1927, one of Clavé's teachers found him a position as a house painter's apprentice because of his growing fascination with the hands-on nature of painting and especially with the materials used for such work, like learning how to prepare paints. In 1932, Clavé stopped attending evening classes and, on the recommendation of Illescas, an architect, was employed at the firm of Cinaes, where he designed the weekly cinema posters. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), he served as a draughtsman for the Republican government but eventually was forced to flee to France. After a brief internment at Les Haras camp in Perpignan, Clavé settled in Paris in 1939 without any papers, drawing comics and working as an illustrator to get by. In the 1940s Clavé's work showed the stylistic influence of Bonnard and Vuillard, until he met fellow Spanish expatriate Pablo Picasso in 1944. This meeting marked a pivotal change in Clavé's style, and he was forever grateful to be considered a lifelong friend of Don Pablo, as he called him. From 1946, Clavé created numerous designs for the ballet and theatre in Paris, Munich, London and New York and in the 1950s, he turned to book illustration. He was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen. In 1954, Clavé ceased working as a stage-set designer and illustrator to devote himself entirely to painting, visiting Spain again. His paintings became more abstract and enigmatic; inspired by wall...

Artist: Harry Bertoia Title: Untitled 1 Year: circa 1945 Medium: Monoprint on Rice Paper Paper Size: 9 x 11 inches Frame: 14.5 x 17.5 inches

ROBERT INDIANA Santa Fe Opera (Hand signed, numbered), 1976 Silkscreen on wove paper 37 1/2 × 27 inches Edition AP 7/50 Hand Signed and dated lower rig...

Peter Halley Heterotopia 2 (Hand Signed by Peter Halley), 2019 Offset lithograph poster (Hand signed by Peter Halley) 23 × 16 1/2 inches. Signed in black marker on the front Published by Greene Naftali, New York Unframed Alpha 137 Gallery is honored to offer this historic offset lithograph of American artist Peter Halley's 2019 exhibition Heterotopia 2, at Greene Naftali Gallery in New York City which the artist hand signed in black marker. Scroll images for a photograph of our director Nadine Witkin with the artist. Below is Peter Halley's official biography. What it doesn't mention is that Andy Warhol famously painted his portrait in 1986! Peter Halley is that legendary. According to Halley, he didn't realize until after Warhol's death that the polaroids Warhol took of him with his famous "big shot" camera were made into an original painting. Warhol's painting of Peter Halley was included in the recent Andy Warhol retrospective...

Artist: Antoni Clave, Spanish (1913 - 2005) Title: Carmen Year: 1978 Medium: Intaglio Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: XXV/XXV Size: 30.25 in. x 22.5 in....

Space Balls Monotype print Natasha Karpinskaia's paintings are characterized by their vibrant colors, bold shapes, and dynamic compositions. She uses a variety of media, including a...

In this minimalist composition, Pablo Picasso depicts a ballet dancer as she rests in a chair and massages her leg. Slightly faded into the background, the dancer is rendered in a si...

Giovanni Pintori Olivetti (Fully Automatic Printing Calculator), 1951 Offset lithograph Framed: held in original vintage metal frame Evocative mid ...

Abstract expressionist print by American artist Michael Steiner, who is most commonly known for his large scale sculptures. Michael Steiner, American (1945) Date: 1979 Screenprint,...

PROPOSITION is a hand-tooled aluminum intaglio print on Rives BFK 250g paper with deckle edge. It is a framed monotype in white matte wood with spacers under glass to maintain the de...

Larry Bell Rare, historic Signed and Inscribed Poster, 1981 Silkscreen Poster Exhibition entitled "Fragments and other Considerations" Hand Signed, inscribed and dated by the artist ...

Artist: Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, Russian (1955 - ) Title: Glass Tower II from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990 Year: 1990 Medium: Etching o...

Artist: Italo Scanga, Italian (1932 - 2001) Title: Musicians Year: 1982 Medium: Woodcut, Signed and numbered in Pencil Edition: 20 Paper Size: 30.5 x 20.5 inches (77.47 x 52.07 cm)

Unknown Artist - Quiet Rooms, Medium: Screenprint, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 20 x 28.5 inches, Size: 23 x 30.5 in. (58.42 x 77.47 cm), Descrip...

Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes poster (hand signed and dated), 2006 Offset lithograph poster Hand signed and dated 2006 in black marker by Maya Lin on the front 16 1/2 × 26 inches U...

Thelma Appel Meeting Plaza, 2018 25 Color Silkscreen on 320 Gram Coventry paper with full margins and deckled edges. Accompanied by ARTIST SIGNED, gallery issued Certificate of Authenticity (COA) - hand signed by BOTH the artist and gallery director 23.5" (vertical) x 29.25" (horizontal) Hand signed, titled, annotated & dated on the lower right front - a rare Artists Proof, aside from the limited edition of 75 Unframed This magnificent silkscreen, Meeting Plaza is signed, dated and numbered in graphite pencil on the front from the limited edition of 75. Other examples of this work were exhibited in the 2021 show "New York and No Place Else: Art that Celebrates New York" at the Chashama Foundation, New York, and it was also featured in the invitational exhibition "Women on Paper" in April, 2021 at the Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. "Meeting Plaza" is a place where people from all over the world are always welcome to meet in peace and enjoyment; an exquisite 25-color limited edition silkscreen done in collaboration with master printer Gary Lichtenstein. The work is evocative of New York's Rockefeller Center and the United Nations, but the flags are abstracted, to emphasize international unity, rather than single out any individual country. The artist explained: "I wanted to convey a city that welcomed all nationalities and all people… The flags for me are a counterpoint to the city’s geometric architecture, and their suggested movement and irregular shapes echo the organic morphology of the people below. I painted an evening sky. It is dusk. Nobody is rushing. People are conversing with each other, walking slowly or gathering in small groups enjoying a calm evening in the New York City…I, too, am one of the people converging at the 'Meeting Plaza' ...” Other examples of "Meeting Plaza" were exhibited in the 2021 show "New York and No Place Else: Art that Celebrates New York" at the Chashama Foundation, New York, and the print was featured in the invitational exhibition "Women on Paper" in April, 2021 at the Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. Thelma Appel biography A co-founder of the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, Thelma Appel is a representational and abstract painter who has been working and teaching for more than six decades. Most recently, she was subject of a 50-year career survey (October, 2019 -February 2020) at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont, entitled Thelma Appel: Abstract/Observed curated by Mara Williams, and she exhibited at the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut which acquired one of her fabric collages for their permanent collection. Thelma Appel was raised in Darjeeling, India and educated in London, England, at St. Martin's School of Art (now Central St. Martins) and Hornsey College of Art before emigrating to the United States in the 1960s. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including the Bennington Museum, the Berkshire Museum in North Adams, Mass., the Children's Museum of the Arts in New York City, the Mattatuck Museum, the Brattleboro Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont and the University of Pennsylvania Fine Arts Gallery. In 1974 she was awarded a YADDO Fellowship, and in 1975, Thelma Appel, along with the painter Carol Haerer, co-founded the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, where many distinguished painters of the day, both abstract and representational, conducted master classes. Among them were Neil Welliver, John Button, Alice Neel, Larry Poons, Friedel Dzubas, Stanley Boxer, Elizabeth Murray and Doug Ohlson – a program that continued until 1980. She has also taught drawing at Parsons School of Design, painting at Southern Vermont College and at the University of Connecticut. Appel’s work has been presented at Art on Paper, Texas Contemporary, Market Art & Design and Art New York art fairs and has been exhibited at Alpha 137...

Cris Gianakos, Robert Rauschenberg RAUSCHENBERG (Scarce and collectible early invitation), 1970 Offset Lithograph Invitation 8 7/10 × 11 9/10 inches Unframed Offset lithograph invitation created on the occasion of Robert Rauschenberg's exhibition at SVA's Visual Arts Gallery in 1970. The poster was designed by Cristos Gianakos, with Rauschenberg's approval, who was also a professor at SVA, and the show was curated by Felice Wender, the director of Dayon's Gallery 12 in Minneapolis. The invitation states that "after completing its New York debut, the show will open at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in January 4...

Lee Adler, American (1926 - 2003) - Steam Engine II, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Screenprint, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 12/50, Image Size: 17.5 x 24 inches, Siz...

Lithography oil inks on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper. Unframed. 11" x 8.5" At the core of the dialogue between the artist and the work is an attempt to push the medium to its l...

Mark Gonzales Untitled, ca. 2008 Silkscreen on paper Hand signed and numbered 2/50 on the front Unframed and affixed to matting Rare early print by the renowned skateboard artist Mark Gonzales, known as "The Gonz" He is considered to be the godfather of modern street skateboarding and was named the "Most Influential Skateboarder of All Time" by the Transworld Skateboarding magazine in December 2011. Gonzales famously collaborated with KAWS on a popular limited edition skateboard. This work is unframed but affixed to matting with beveled edges (as it had been previously framed) and ready to be re-framed Matting 15.5 inches x 12 inches Artwork 11 inches x 8.5 inches Mark GONZALES “If skateboarding had a Mount Rushmore, it features Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen and two sculptures of Mark Gonzales. His influence and contributions to modern street skating can only be compared to what Michael Jordan did for basketball.” – TheBoardr Mark Gonzales’ skateboarding, personality and artwork has helped sculpt skateboarding into the internationally revered subculture it is today. Not only is he one of its most influential professional athletes, but his paintings have been featured in galleries across the world. Plus, his signature characters have appeared in collaborations with the likes of Tom Sachs, Harmony Korine and Spike Jonze...

Larry Rivers Happy 20th Birthday Lincoln Center, 1979 Lithograph on wove paper Hand signed, numbered 80 from the limited edition of 108 and dated on the front by Larry Rivers 26 × 35 inches Unframed This hand signed and numbered limited edition lithograph was commissioned by the prestigious Vera List print program in NYC which invited artists to create works that would help fundraise for Lincoln Center, which many New Yorkers consider the cultural center of the city. This is Larry Rivers' clever homage to...

Superimposed over a background of pastel hues in green, blue, and red, Pablo Picasso has portrayed a flautist serenading a gazelle that watches him. Comprised of straight lines, this...

A large, abstract monotype diptych containing rich textures and color, by American artist Betsy Margolius. The work is signed and titled verso. Each Sheet measures 26 x 21 inches.

A large, unique print on canvas by American Artist, Mitch Lyons (1938-2018), signed lower right. The canvas is unstretched and will be shipped rolled in a tube. Mitch Lyons earned ...

Artist: Nassos Daphnis, Greek (1914 - 2010) Title: SS 1-82 Year: 1982 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 22/120 Size: 35.75 x 30 in. (90.81 x 76.2 cm)

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "La Couple". The original painting was completed in 193o. In the 1970's after Picasso's death,...

Artist: Mike Collins Title: Twenty Structured Rectangles Year: 1975 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Image Size: 15 x 20 inches Size: 20 x 26 inches

Comprised of several shapes, the composition by Pablo Picasso exemplifies his manipulation of form to produce new perspectives and views of his subjects that would otherwise be unsee...

Vincent Longo Squaring Four, 1972 Etching on off-white J.B. Green paper Signed, named, dated, and numbered AP by the artist on the front 20 × 15 inches Unframed A unique signed, titl...

Artist: Arman, French (1929 - 2005) Title: Squeezed Blue Fiddle Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 30 in. x...

Viewed from an angle, Pablo Picasso's print of this woman showcases his versatility as an artist. Set against a deep plum background, the angled sitter is represented in a less radic...

Sketches VI Monotype print Natasha Karpinskaia's paintings are characterized by their vibrant colors, bold shapes, and dynamic compositions. She uses a variety of media, including a...

Untitled Chezan Date: circa 1980 Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 250 Size: 26 x 33.5 in. (66.04 x 85.09 cm)

Eaux-fortes Pour Alcools de Guillame Apollinaire: Nuit Rhenane," 1934. Original etching signed in pencil and inscribed `a Mola bien amicalement Marcoussis /New York le 26 Mai 1935...

Akio Wakasa Miyakawa - The Primitive Toy B, Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 5/20, Image Size: 8.75 x 11.75 inches, Size: 11 x 14.5 in....

Artist: Jasha Green, American (1923 - 2006) Title: Untitled 8 Year: circa 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250 (on Arches), L (on Japon) Size: 22 x 30 ...

Artist: Arthur Boden, American Title: Seasons 3 Year: 1974 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 75 Size: 25 in. x 24 in. (63.5 cm x 60.96 cm)

Métamorphose Des Fleurs Arthur Secunda, American (1927) Date: 1989 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 98/150 Image: 43.5 x 25.5 inches Size: 46.5 x 28.5 in. (118.1...

This print was made for the American Abstract Artists Portfolio, 1937. All the images were lithographs made on zinc plates. Usually they were signed or initialed in the image -- on t...