New York - Figurative Prints

ABOUT THIS PIECE: Amanda Pratt is known and admired for the energetic, inspiring brand of whimsy she brings to photography. Countless clients have benefitted from her technical preci...

Henri Matisse (After), French (1869-1954) Icare (Icarus) Portfolio: Jazz Year: Of Original: 1947 Year Printed: 1983 Medium: Lithograph Image Size: 14.75 x 9.75 inches Size: 15.25 x ...

Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) The Capture of Marmelade (from The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture series), 1987 Color screenprint on Bainbridge Two Ply Rag paper Sheet 32 1/8 x 22 1/16 inches Sight 29 3/4 x 19 1/4 inches A/P 1/30, aside from the edition of 120 Signed, titled, dated, inscribed "A/P" and numbered 1/30 in pencil, lower margin. Literature: Nesbett L87-2. A social realist, Lawrence documented the African American experience in several series devoted to Toussaint L’Ouverture, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, life in Harlem, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He was one of the first nationally recognized African American artists. “If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man’s continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being.” — Jacob Lawrence quoted in Ellen Harkins Wheat, Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938 – 40. The most widely acclaimed African American artist of this century, and one of only several whose works are included in standard survey books on American art, Jacob Lawrence has enjoyed a successful career for more than fifty years. Lawrence’s paintings portray the lives and struggles of African Americans, and have found wide audiences due to their abstract, colorful style and universality of subject matter. By the time he was thirty years old, Lawrence had been labeled as the ​“foremost Negro artist,” and since that time his career has been a series of extraordinary accomplishments. Moreover, Lawrence is one of the few painters of his generation who grew up in a black community, was taught primarily by black artists, and was influenced by black people. Lawrence was born on September 7, 1917,* in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was the eldest child of Jacob and Rosa Lee Lawrence. The senior Lawrence worked as a railroad cook and in 1919 moved his family to Easton, Pennsylvania, where he sought work as a coal miner. Lawrence’s parents separated when he was seven, and in 1924 his mother moved her children first to Philadelphia and then to Harlem when Jacob was twelve years old. He enrolled in Public School 89 located at 135th Street and Lenox Avenue, and at the Utopia Children’s Center, a settlement house that provided an after school program in arts and crafts for Harlem children. The center was operated at that time by painter Charles Alston who immediately recognized young Lawrence’s talents. Shortly after he began attending classes at Utopia Children’s Center, Lawrence developed an interest in drawing simple geometric patterns and making diorama type paintings from corrugated cardboard boxes. Following his graduation from P.S. 89, Lawrence enrolled in Commerce High School on West 65th Street and painted intermittently on his own. As the Depression became more acute, Lawrence’s mother lost her job and the family had to go on welfare. Lawrence dropped out of high school before his junior year to find odd jobs to help support his family. He enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal jobs program, and was sent to upstate New York. There he planted trees, drained swamps, and built dams. When Lawrence returned to Harlem he became associated with the Harlem Community Art Center directed by sculptor Augusta Savage, and began painting his earliest Harlem scenes. Lawrence enjoyed playing pool at the Harlem Y.M.C.A., where he met ​“Professor” Seifert, a black, self styled lecturer and historian who had collected a large library of African and African American literature. Seifert encouraged Lawrence to visit the Schomburg Library in Harlem to read everything he could about African and African American culture. He also invited Lawrence to use his personal library, and to visit the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition of African art in 1935. As the Depression continued, circumstances remained financially difficult for Lawrence and his family. Through the persistence of Augusta Savage, Lawrence was assigned to an easel project with the W.P.A., and still under the influence of Seifert, Lawrence became interested in the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, the black revolutionary and founder of the Republic of Haiti. Lawrence felt that a single painting would not depict L’Ouverture’s numerous achievements, and decided to produce a series of paintings on the general’s life. Lawrence is known primarily for his series of panels on the lives of important African Americans in history and scenes of African American life. His series of paintings include: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, 1937, (forty one panels), The Life of Frederick Douglass, 1938, (forty panels), The Life of Harriet Tubman, 1939, (thirty one panels), The Migration of the Negro,1940 – 41, (sixty panels), The Life of John Brown, 1941, (twenty two panels), Harlem, 1942, (thirty panels), War, 1946 47, (fourteen panels), The South, 1947, (ten panels), Hospital, 1949 – 50, (eleven panels), Struggle: History of the American People, 1953 – 55, (thirty panels completed, sixty projected). Lawrence’s best known series is The Migration of the Negro, executed in 1940 and 1941. The panels portray the migration of over a million African Americans from the South to industrial cities in the North between 1910 and 1940. These panels, as well as others by Lawrence, are linked together by descriptive phrases, color, and design. In November 1941 Lawrence’s Migration series was exhibited at the prestigious Downtown Gallery in New York. This show received wide acclaim, and at the age of twenty four Lawrence became the first African American artist to be represented by a downtown ​“mainstream” gallery. During the same month Fortune magazine published a lengthy article about Lawrence, and illustrated twenty six of the series’ sixty panels. In 1943 the Downtown Gallery exhibited Lawrence’s Harlem series, which was lauded by some critics as being even more successful than the Migration panels. In 1937 Lawrence obtained a scholarship to the American Artists School in New York. At about the same time, he was also the recipient of a Rosenwald Grant for three consecutive years. In 1943 Lawrence joined the U.S. Coast Guard and was assigned to troop ships that sailed to Italy and India. After his discharge in 1945, Lawrence returned to painting the history of African American people. In the summer of 1947 Lawrence taught at the innovative Black Mountain College in North Carolina at the invitation of painter Josef Albers. During the late 1940s Lawrence was the most celebrated African American painter in America. Young, gifted, and personable, Lawrence presented the image of the black artist who had truly ​“arrived”. Lawrence was, however, somewhat overwhelmed by his own success, and deeply concerned that some of his equally talented black artist friends had not achieved a similar success. As a consequence, Lawrence became deeply depressed, and in July 1949 voluntarily entered Hillside Hospital in Queens, New York, to receive treatment. He completed the Hospital series while at Hillside. Following his discharge from the hospital in 1950, Lawrence resumed painting with renewed enthusiasm. In 1960 he was honored with a retrospective exhibition and monograph prepared by The American Federation of Arts. He also traveled to Africa twice during the 1960s and lived primarily in Nigeria. Lawrence taught for a number of years at the Art Students League in New York, and over the years has also served on the faculties of Brandeis University, the New School for Social Research, California State College at Hayward, the Pratt Institute, and the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Art. In 1974 the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a major retrospective of Lawrence’s work that toured nationally, and in December 1983 Lawrence was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The most recent retrospective of Lawrence’s paintings was organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2020, and was accompanied by a major catalogue. Lawrence met his wife Gwendolyn Knight...

This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...

Alex Katz uses outline drawings, called “cartoons”, as templates to transfer full size images onto the canvas prior to painting. Rendered in red chal...

A three-dimensional lithograph mounted on cardboard with genuine gold-leaf detail by Mel Ramos from 2015. A woman's figure in seductive pose wearing iconic psychedelic printed pants ...

Jamie Wyeth Unsettled (hand signed and inscribed by Jamie Wyeth), 2024 Offset lithograph poster (signed and inscribed to Kevin in black marker) Boldly signed and inscribed "for Kevin" on the lower front. Accompanied by documentation of the event at Rizzoli's where Jamie Wyeth signed...

Utagawa Hiroshige Dawn Inside the Yoshiwara, circa 1857 Woodblock print 11 x 7 inches Utagawa Hiroshige is recognized as a master of the ukiyo-e woodblock printing tradition, havin...

Keith Haring ACT UP 1989: RARE 1989 Keith Haring illustrated mailer used as promotional material for the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Keith Haring designed & authored ...

Keith Haring San Francisco 1986: "Club DV8 Unveils the Keith Haring Room": San Francisco June 5th, 1986: Vintage original 1980s Keith Haring illustrated poster for Club DV8 San Francisco. During the time Haring was creating a mural for the St. Patrick's Day Care Center San Francisco, he painted several canvases to be installed above the bar at the famed Club DV8. Performance artist John Sex, whose name appears on the poster, was one of Haring's close friends. Offset lithograph. Image: 16 x 20 inches. Framed dimensions: 25 x 21 inches. Fair overall vintage condition; minor surface tear & age related wear. Framed in glass; frame in very good overall condition. Literature/Catalogue Raisonne: Keith Haring: Posters (entry 46; Prestel publishing) Further Background: Keith Haring DV8...

Keith Haring Fun Gallery 1983: Original 1983 Keith Haring illustrated exhibition poster published on the occasion of Haring's historic 1983 show at the Fun Gallery in the East Village. A classic array of early Haring imagery that reveals red and black interlocking figures. A rare example in very good overall vintage condition. Offset lithograph in colors on smooth wove paper. 23 x 29 inches. Only some minor signs of handling; in otherwise very good overall vintage condition with strong colors; one of the better examples we've come across. Stored away from light; never mounted or framed. Unsigned from an edition of unknown; scarce. Catalog Raisonne: Keith Haring: Posters (Prestel Publishing). References: Included in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. About the Fun Gallery: Historic, short-lived, East Village gallery known for giving Keith Haring, Basquiat & Kenny Scharf some of their first solo shows. “FUN Gallery was a place where neighborhood kids, downtown artists, b-boys, rock, film, and rap stars mixed with museum directors art historians and uptown collectors at wild openings featuring artists like Futura, Fab 5...

Lucian Freud The Egyptian Book 1994 Etching on T.H.S. Saunders paper 18 1/4 x 16 3/4 inches; 46 x 43 cm Edition of 40 Initialed and numbered in graphite (lower recto) Frame available upon request Published by Matthew Marks...

Keith Haring Luna Luna Karussell. A Poetic Extravaganza!, 1986 (Keith haring Luna Luna): Luna Luna "was organized by Andre Heller for “A Fair with Mod...

Keith Haring Resist in Concert! 1988: Vintage Keith Haring illustrated 1988 poster for a Refuse and Resist produced concert December 4, 1988 at New York'...

Although this work is titled Horses. It nice to think it could be (Horses in a Field in Woodstock, NY), but it was printed by Will Barnet at the Art Students League, about 1938, and Wilson, who visited Woodstock with Arnold Blanche...

Saul Steinberg Lithograph c. 1970 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 22 inches. Very good overall vintage condition; center gold-line as originally issued. ...

Artist: Peter Max Title: Flower Jumper Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 134/200 Image Size: 23 x 31 inches Size: 27 in. x 33.5 in. (...

Giulietta is an Art Deco depiction of a woman posing in a long gown against a plain black background. Around her, ghostly hands rise up offering beautiful temptations for her to cons...

Artist: Charles Amand-Durand, French (1831 - 1905) after Albrecht Dürer, German (1471 - 1528) Title: La Grande Fortune Year: 1873 (original circa 1502) Medium: Heliogravure on thin l...

Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) - Pepper Jelly Lady, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered, Edition: 113/150, Size: 26 x 21 in. (66.04 x 53.34 cm...

This exact work was exhibited at the Art Students League in an important show. (details below) Elizabeth Catlett Homage to the Panthers, 1993 Color Lithograph on wove paper with deck...

Artist: Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950) Title: Hiding Place Year: 1927 Medium: Etching, signed in pencil Image Size: 18 x 14.5 inches Size: 19 x 15.5 in. (48.26 x 39.37 cm) Frame S...

Alex Katz Looking at Art With Alex Katz (hand signed by Alex Katz), 2018 Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed in black pen on the title page) hand signed by Alex Katz in ...

Artist: LeRoy Neiman, American (1921 - 2012) Title: Black Break Year: 1973 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP, 300 Size: 26 in. x 20.2 in. (66.04 cm x 51.3...

Patrick Caulfield's cheeky, Pop Art take on a seaside favorite, dressed lobster, abstracted in graphic black strokes atop a field of red decorated with tiny sprigs. Signed by the art...

Niki de Saint Phalle Last Night I Had a Dream, 1968 Silkscreen on colored paper Signed and numbered 67/75 in graphite pencil on the front Frame included It is elegantly floated and f...

Mihail Chemiakin (Russian b. 1943) "Untitled" Edition 195/225, Abstract Lithograph signed and numbered in pencil, 29.25 x 20.25, Late 20th Century, 1976 Colors: Teal, Maroon, Black,...

A black and white, large-scale surreal mythical landscape of an ocean voyage, with a snake wrapped around a clock, female figure, greek urns, and an...

Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition 1 of 25. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...

Paris: Cadart & Luquet, 1865 Etching and engraving on Chine-collé mounted to watermarked Aqua-Fortistes cream laid paper 14 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches (367 x 268 mm), full margins. In very...

Keith Haring Milan c.1989 Rare vintage Milan exhibition announcement circa late 1980’s featuring offset printed artwork by Keith Haring. Uniquely rendere...

Corita Kent Yes to You, 1979 Color silkscreen Hand signed, numbered and uniquely inscribed with a heart doodle by the artist on the front. Artists Proof (aside from the regular editi...

Marcel Duchamp Coeurs Volants (Fluttering Hearts) (Schwartz 446C), 1961 Silkscreen in colors Hand signed in ball-point pen by Marcel Duchamp and annotated with the dateline "Stockhol...

Etching on cream laid paper mounted to a cream laid paper support, 9 x 12 7/8 inches (230 x 327 mm), thread margins. Three small areas of light skinning with one extremely small hole...

New York, Associated American Artists, 1950. Drypoint and aquatint on cream wove paper, 5 7/8 x 3 15/16 inches (150 x 100 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 48/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Stephen Sholinsky...

Note: This is from the hand signed and numbered limited edition of only 50 - extremely scarce collectors item; not to be confused with the larger edition signed (but not numbered) wo...

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...

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...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Tete". The original painting was completed in 1954. In the 1970's after Picasso's death, Marina Picasso, his granddaughter, authorized the creation of this lithograph by Laurent Marcel Salinas, who worked closely with Picasso during his lifetime. The limited edition print run was completed and published by Marina Picasso in conjunction with Jackie Fine Arts in 1982. The lithograph is printed on French Arches paper, ink-stamped by the Estate verso, and hand-signed and numbered edition of 500 by Marina Picasso on the recto. The embossed seal of the Estate is lower right and the printer's chop, lower left. The work is presented in an excellent brown wood frame with silk linen matting using all acid-free conservation materials. Tete Pablo Picasso (After), Spanish (1881–1973) Portfolio: Marina Picasso Estate Lithograph...

Joe Goode Floating Cards - Part IV, 1969 Lithograph on Arches paper with two deckled edges. Hand signed, dated and annotated Artists Proof on the lower front 22 1/4 × 29 4/5 inches Unframed Part of Joe Goode's five part 1960s series "Floating Cards". Rarely to market. The provenance of this print is from the Reese-Palley Gallery. The famous dealer and adventurer Reese Palley of Atlantic City New Jersey - was the second gallerist in the 1960s - after Paula Cooper - to set up shop in SOHO. Hand signed, dated, and annotated Artist's Proof aside from the regular edition. Pop art pioneer Joe Goode (born 1937) was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1937. In 1959 he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he attended the Chouinard Art Institute until 1961. First recognized for his Pop Art milk bottle paintings and cloud imagery, Goode's work was included along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Phillip Hefferton, Robert Dowd, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the 1962 ground-breaking exhibit New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps...

Keith Haring Safe Sex poster 1987: A fun, witty, classic Haring illustration created by the artist in conjunction with his many Aids Awar...

ABOUT THIS PIECE: Julio Larraz is an expert draftsman, adroitly sketching his subjects and enlivening them with vibrant color. Larraz is recognized for his precise and detailed techn...

Aquatint and etching with decorative embossing printed in colors on white wove paper with an unknown watermark and a deckle edge, 18 1/2 x 15 inches (470 x 380 mm); sheet 27 x 19 1/2...

Keith Haring 1985: Keith Haring off-set illustrated announcement card, NY, 1985: "NY for NY, Help The Homeless" at The Roxy, West 18th St., NYC. Off-set printed, 1985 (folds open in...

This etching features a nude woman in high heels. Whipping her head to the left, she gazes intently past the viewer through a wild tangle of tresses. A sunhat with a bow nearly floats off her head, a tongue-in-cheek nod to modesty. Taking a wide stance, she straddles a comically large phallus, which springs up eagerly from the ground like a plant. Unusually, this etching was drawn directly onto the plate from the artist’s imagination and not from a life model. This spontaneity is visible around the woman’s bust and arms, where Oldenburg sketched several variations of her anatomy, giving the impression of a figure in movement. Beside her left breast, Oldenburg extends this halo of lines by cheekily doodling a small, floating phallus. Paper 36 x 27.5 in. / 91.4 x 69.2 cm. Plate 23.5 x 17.7 in. / 59.7 x 45.1 cm. Etching in one color on white, thick, slightly textured Wookey Hole handmade paper watermarked with the artist’s signature. Signed by the artist and dated 1975 lower right in pencil. The edition of 60 includes ten prints in each of six different ink colors: Indigo blue, vermilion, mauve, burnt sienna, astral blue, and yellow-ochre. A copy of each color is available: this listing is for one copy in the color of your choice. As recorded in the artist’s unpublished notes: “In 1974 an ambitious project for a suite of large-scale etchings was hatched with Paul Cornwall-Jones, for production by Maurice Payne in Petersburg Press’s new Pembroke studios in London. The project would consist of meticulous transcriptions of a certain group of drawings...

Keith Haring Fault Lines 1986 (set of 4 printed works): A grouping of 4 lithographs from the book Fault Lines by Brison Gysin with illustrations by Keith Haring. These works are eac...

Georges Braque, French (1882 - 1963) - Athene, Year: circa 1963, Medium: Offset Lithograph, Image Size: 9 x 7.25 inches, Size: 13.5 x 11 in. (34.29 x 27.94 cm)

SAJIPPE KRAKA JOUJESH Year: 1998 Medium: Silkscreen Size: 39 x 46 inches (99 x 117 cm) Edition: 150 Price: $4,000 Kenny Scharf was born in 1958, in Hollywood, California. The artis...

London: Gebbie & Husson Co., 1879 Héliogravure and engraving on cream wove paper, 10 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (258 x 310 mm), full margins. In good condition with some very minor margina...

A view of lower Manhattan's Cherry Street as it appeared at the turn of the 20th century. One of only 5 proof impressions. New York: 1904. Drypoint with aquatint on watermarked, cr...

This delicate composition in black and tan features layers of sheer brushwork, inky daubs, and thin lines. Mark Tobey, one of the founders of the American Mystical school of painting...

From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel. This composition is sourced from Paolo Uccello’s St George and...

Chicago: A. Ackermann & Son, Inc., 1930. Aquatint with engraving on heavy wove paper with a deckle edge, 15 1/8 x 12 inches (384 x 304 mm); sheet 24 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (622 x 445 m...

These beautiful and colorful lithographic posters were hand reproduced by the Mourlot Studio's Master Printer Henri Deschamps in 1969. They are not to be mistaken with later cheap digital and giclée reproductions. Ed. 1,500 In December of 1894, Mucha visited a print shop contracted to create a new advertising poster for a play featuring Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress in Paris at the time. Mucha volunteered to produce a lithographic poster within two weeks, and on January 1, 1895, the advertisement for the play Gismonda by Victorien Sardou was posted in the city, where it attracted much attention. Bernhardt was so satisfied with the success of this first poster that she signed a six-year contract with the artist. Written by Alexandre Dumas (son) when he was 23 years old, and first published in 1848, "La Dame aux Camélias...

Robert Rauschenberg Leo Castelli Gallery 1986: Vintage Robert Rauschenberg exhibition poster published by Castelli Graphics in conjunction with the exhibition, Robert Rauschenberg: Tibetan Keys and Locks, May 21-June 18, 1986 at Leo Castelli New York. A unique vintage Rauschenberg collectible featuring the artist's signature collage style. Well-sized and suitable for framing. Off-set lithograph 1986. 20 x 29.75 inches. Double-quattro fold-lines as originally issued; minor edge wear to one fold-line; otherwise very good condition (no rips, tears, stains, etc.) Scarce form an edition of unknown; unsigned. First edition, 1st printing; postmarked 1986 on the verso. Artist biography Robert Rauschenberg’s enthusiasm for popular culture and, with his contemporary Jasper Johns, his rejection of the angst and seriousness of the Abstract Expressionists led him to search for a new way of painting. A prolific innovator of techniques and mediums, he used unconventional art materials ranging from dirt and house paint to umbrellas and car tires. In the early 1950s, Rauschenberg was already gaining a reputation as a true art world rebel rouser...

Israel Rubinstein, Israeli (1944 - ) - The Hunters, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 350, Image Size: 27 x 35.5 inches, Size: 3...

This vintage exhibition poster reproduces The Boy Hidden in an Egg by David Hockney from his Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, 1969. A shirtless young man curls up inside a d...

Keith Haring 1987: The Yale Vernacular 1987, featuring classic cover art by Keith Haring. A rare stand-out vintage 1980s Keith Haring collectible that would look fantastic framed. Fe...

Samuel Chamberlain was a superb draftsman and his architectural images are often very complex. This image is, by contrast, quiet and understated: serene to the point of lonely. It's ...

Keith Haring Nuclear Disarmament poster 1982: In 1982 Keith Haring created this poster for Nuclear Disarmament, which features his signature Radiant Baby in a mushroom cloud. This hi...