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Two Flags, Large (46" x 30") Limited Edition 5000 Lithograph for Whitney Museum
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns 50th Anniversary of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, 1979 Original lithograph on heavy wove paper 46 × 30 inches Limited Edition of 5000 (unnumbered) Stamped with copyright mark and publisher's blindstamp Published by Stony Johns, Inc. and Gemini G.E.L. Accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee issued by Alpha 137 Gallery Unframed This stunning, impressive, large vintage lithograph...
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1970s Pop Art USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

The Lake
By Udo Claassen
Located in New Orleans, LA
German artist Udo Claassen created a dramatic landscape of this Icelandic scene in 1985 in an edition of 40. This is #33. Claassen was born in Itzehoe in the state of Schleswig-Hol...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

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

Materials

Etching

Monumental Frank Stella Unique Painting Over Limited Edition Screenprint
By Frank Stella
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Frank Stella (American, 1936-2024) Marking(s); notes: signed, FS76-332, printer's inkstamp; ed. 4/10; 1979 Materials: screenprint hand-colored with acr...
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1970s Abstract USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen, Oil Crayon, Glitter, Acrylic

Seeing Voices 1, Abstract Lithograph by Paul Jenkins
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the portfolio "Seeing Voices", a collection that also includes several poems. This abstract piece by Paul Jenkins is signed and numbered on the front of the print i...
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1960s USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Magic Rainbow II, Limited Edition Signed Print
By Yaacov Agam
Located in San Rafael, CA
Yaacov Agam (b. 1928) Magic Rainbow II, late 20th century Screenprint in colors on wove paper LXIII/XC (edition 63/90) Signed and numbered in pencil along lower edge 13 x 15...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Abstract Expressionist Lithograph for the Carnegie Museum of Art, Lt Ed. of 1000
By Joan Mitchell
Located in New York, NY
Joan Mitchell Untitled Abstract Expressionist Print for the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1972 Lithograph on wove paper 15 × 22 inches Limited Edition of 1000 (unnumbered) Printer: Maeght...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Sans titre, San Lazzaro et ses Amis, XXe siècle
By Alexander Calder
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, San Lazzaro et ses Amis, Hommage ...
Category

1970s Surrealist USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

original lithograph
By Maria Elena Vieira da Silva
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed by Mourlot in 1962 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue No. 18). Size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (313 x 242 mm). Not signed. Condition: there is cre...
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1960s USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Walled Off Hotel Boxed Set Assemblage w/original embossed receipt from Bethlehem
By Banksy
Located in New York, NY
Banksy (after) Walled Off Hotel Boxed Set Assemblage, 2018 Mixed Media assemblage: unique piece of concrete/cement wall with framed lithograph. Accompanied by original embossed rece...
Category

2010s Street Art USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Concrete

abstract composition
By Marie Raymond
Located in Belgrade, MT
This color lithograph is part of my private collection since the 1970's. Marie Raymond was a pioneer post WWII painter of her generation. She was a lyrical abstractionist of her time...
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Color, Lithograph

Free Space /// Lee Krasner Screenprint Abstract Expressionist Female Artist Art
By Lee Krasner
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Lee Krasner (American, 1908-1984) Title: "Free Space" Portfolio: An American Portrait, 1776-1976 (Vol. 3) *Signed and numbered by Krasner in pencil lower left Year: 1975 Medi...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Rose Art Museum (Open Wall) Poster /// Helen Frankenthaler Female Abstract Art
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011) Title: "Rose Art Museum (Open Wall)" Year: 1981 Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper Li...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Original Absolut Vodka Absolument Galerie Lavignes, Paris poster
By (after) Andy Warhol
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Absolut Vodka Absolument vintage exhibition poster. Archival linen backed invery good condition, ready to frame. Like most Warhol artwork, this is very vibrant and colorful. This 1994 poster was used for the exposition of contemporary artists at Galerie Lauvigne in Paris. Andy Warhol...
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1990s Pop Art USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset

UNTITLED
By Werner Drewes
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WERNE DREWES (1899-1985) UNTITLED, 1934 Woodcut on paper, Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil Ed. 15/20. Image 13 3/8 x 11 1/8 inches. Full sheet, 17 x 12 1/8 inches deckle edge o...
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1930s Abstract USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Notes on Organisation of Paradise, Pop Art Lithograph by Eduardo Paolozzi
By Eduardo Paolozzi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eduardo Paolozzi, British (1924 - 2005) - Notes on Organisation of Paradise, Portfolio: General Dynamic F.U.N. Portfolio, Year: 1970, Medium: Photolithograph, stamp signed verso, Edi...
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1970s Pop Art USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Escape"
By Anne Sager
Located in Astoria, NY
Anne Sager (American, 1930-2024), "Escape", Computer Drawing, Print on Paper, signed and with descriptive label to verso, cerused wood frame. Image: 4.5" H x 4.25" W; sheet: 8" H x 8...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Digital

"Jim Dine Paintings", Limited Edition Pace Gallery NY exhibition offset print
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine Jim Dine Paintings", Pace Gallery poster, 1979 Offset lithograph poster on lithographic paper Signed in plate, with the Pace Editions, INC stamp Limited Edition 500 30 × 38...
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1970s Pop Art USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Basquiat Annina Nosei Gallery 1982 (Basquiat anatomy announcement)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1982: Rare Basquiat announcement card published by Annina Nosei Gallery to advertise the release of ‘Basquiat Anatomy’ (a suite ...
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1980s Pop Art USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph, Offset

Geometric Abstraction, Ex-Bank of New York Collection Lithograph SIgned/N Framed
By Piero Dorazio
Located in New York, NY
Piero Dorazio Abstract Composition (Bank of New York Corporate Collection), 1971 Lithograph on wove paper Pencil signed, numbered 73/75 and dated on the front. The back bears a label...
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled 4, Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by Larry Zox
By Larry Zox
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Larry Zox Title: Untitled 4 Year: circa 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 175 Image Size: 30.5 x 19 inches Paper Size: 42 x 30 in. (106.68 x 7...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Blankless Tone, lithograph & silkscreen with embossing & folded corner. Signed/N
By Shusaku Arakawa
Located in New York, NY
Shusaku Arakawa Blankless Tone, 1979 Color lithograph and silkscreen with embossing on Arches paper with deckled edges and folded collage upper left Hand-signed by artist, Titled "Bl...
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1970s Conceptual USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Screen

Jaillie du Calcaire, Surrealist Framed Lithograph by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro Title: Jaillie du Calcaire from Souvenirs de Portraits d'Artistes. Jacques Prévert: Le Coeur à l'ouvrage. (Cramer 156) Year: 1972 Medium: Lithograph, signed in the ...
Category

1970s Modern USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

JHM - II /// Bauhaus Abstract Geometric Josef Albers Screenprint Minimalism
By Josef Albers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Josef Albers (German-American, 1888-1976) Title: "JHM - II" Portfolio: Josef Albers Honors the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden *Monogram signed and dated by Albers in p...
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1970s Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
By Eduardo Chillida
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 124, 1961. Publ...
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1960s Modern USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Andre Lanskoy Abstract Limited Edition Signed Print from La Genese
By André Lanskoy
Located in San Rafael, CA
Andre Lanskoy (French / Russian 1902-1976) Untitled from the portfolio La Genese, 1966 Color lithograph on wove paper Signed 'Lanskoy' lower right Edition 11 of 30. Numbered lower ri...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Lithograph

Variant I /// Josef Albers Abstract Geometric Screenprint Minimalism Bauhaus Art
By Josef Albers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Josef Albers (German-American, 1888-1976) Title: "Variant I" Portfolio: Ten Variants *Unsigned edition Year: 1967 Medium: Original Screenprint on Rives BFK paper Limited edit...
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1960s Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Historic Leo Castelli Gallery print, hand signed & dated by Frank Stella, Framed
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Frank Stella at Leo Castelli (Hand Signed and Dated), 1969 Offset Lithograph Invitation Boldly signed and dated 2014 in black marker; Stella signed this f...
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1960s Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Altitudes /// Abstract Expressionism Helen Frankenthaler Female Post-War Modern
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011) Title: "Altitudes" *Signed, dated, and numbered by Frankenthaler in pencil lower right Year: 1978 Medium: Original Lithograph on light yellow-pink J.B. Green Hayle Mill Bodleian handmade paper Limited edition: 29/42 Printer: Bill Goldston and John A. Lund of Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, NY Publisher: Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, NY Reference: "Frankenthaler: A Catalogue Raisonné - Prints 1961-1994" - Harrison No. 72, page 264, 268-270; "ULAE" - Sparks No. 33, page 88, 323; Clark No. 67; Williams No. 67 Sheet size (irregular margins): 22.25" x 30.88" Condition: Remnants of previous mounting tape on verso. In excellent condition with strong colors Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - New York, NY; private collection - notable fashion illustrator Jay Hyde, Crawford, New York, NY; acquired from an art gallery in New York, NY; likely acquired directly from the publisher Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, NY. Lithograph drawn with tusche wash. Printed in two colors from two stones: red and green. Universal Limited Art Editions chop mark/blind stamp lower right. "Frankenthaler: A Catalogue Raisonné - Prints 1961-1994" - Harrison - "Frankenthaler carefully chose a European handmade paper that would add another color and texture to the print" ... "By contrast, in "Altitudes", the artist created a bleed image so that the sheet of paper is smaller than the stone's image and the large red tusche wash sweeps across the surface of the yellow-pink J.B. Green Hayle Mill Bodleian paper, becoming warmed and enhanced by its color and texture." "Universal Limited Art Editions - A History and Catalogue: The First Twenty-Five Years" - Sparks - "In "Bronze Smoke" (cat. no. 32), "Altitudes" (cat. no. 33), and "Door" (cat. no. 34), minimal compositions were replaced by fields of drifting, multilayered color, as rich and satisfying as her work on a much grander scale." Biography: Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Lithograph

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

Materials

Lithograph

Nature Morte
By (circle of) Pierre Ambrogiani
Located in Belgrade, MT
This colorful lithograph is part of my private collection. It is a limited edition , 1 print available, signed and numbered 25/150. It is in very good condition. Vibrant and colorful.
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Plate XII, from 1972 Lithographe I
By Joan Miró
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Joan Miro Title: Plate XII Portfolio: Lithographe I Medium: Lithograph Date: 1972 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 19 3/4" x 17" Sheet Size: 12 1/2" x 10" Image Size: 12 1/2" ...
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1970s USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Mourlot 872-881; Cramer 164), El tapís de Tarragona (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Sarrió paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Tapís De Tarragona, il·lustracions, Joan Miró...
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1970s Modern USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Untitled #260 " watercolor print on fine art paper
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Over the past 20 years, Michelle Oppenheimer has become well known for composing paintings that capture the imaginative and organic possibilities of abstract watercolor and acrylic. ...
Category

2010s Abstract USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Inkjet

"CM", Silkscreen with Collage by John Urbain
By John Urbain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Urbain, Belgian/American (1920 - 2009) Title: CM Year: circa 1975 Medium: Silkscreen with Collage, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 20 Image Size: 28 x 34 inches S...
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1970s Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

It's My Party & I'll Cry If I Want To, 24ct gold leaf embellishment, Mixed Media
By Yinka Shonibare
Located in New York, NY
Yinka Shonibare It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To, 2013 24ct gold leaf embellishment, hand applied dutch wax batik fabrics on 225gsm Somerset Enhanced Paper Boldly signed and n...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Gold Leaf

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Fauvist Lithograph Woman Portrait Marie Therese
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Portrait de Marie Therese" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 274/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Picasso with an embossed blindstamp in the lower right side of the piece. After Pablo Picasso's death in 1973, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of these original lithographs, which have come to be known as the Picasso Estate Collection. The lithographs were meticulously created after the original works (Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, Charcoal Drawings, etc.) by Master Chromist Marcel Salinas, who worked closely with Picasso in his lifetime. They are printed in an edition of 500 on Arches paper. Embossed with the estate and chromist's stamp seals, along with the legend on the reverse "Approved by the heirs of Pablo Picasso". Image: 19 1/2" x 15". Paper: 28" x 20 3/4". Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881 – 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War...
Category

20th Century Modern USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled (floral, still life, watercolor, bright colors, white space, flowers)
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor on paper
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2010s Contemporary USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Physichromie Panam 87 2012
Located in Miami, FL
Carlos Cruz Diez Physichromie Panam 87, 2012 Chronographic on Aluminum and Plastic EDA 2 of 2 19 x 19 in Provenance: Private Collection, Miami.
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21st Century and Contemporary Kinetic USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Metal

Abstract Linocut Print, circa 1955 by Eric Newton
By Eric Newton
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eric Newton, British (1893 - 1965) Title: Untitled - Abstract with Red and Yellow Year: circa 1955 Medium: Linocut Print, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: EA Image Size...
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1950s Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Linocut

T Series (Yellow), Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Arthur Boden
By Arthur Boden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arthur Boden, American Title: T Series (Yellow) Year: circa 1970 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 29 in. x 23 i...
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1970s Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Les Revolutions Sceniques du XXe Siecle - I, Lithograph by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Les Revolutions Sceniques du XXe Siecle - I (Cramer 207) Joan Miro, Spanish (1893–1983) Date: 1975 Lithograph Image Size: 12 x 10 inches Size: 14.5 in. x 10 in. (36.83 cm x 25.4 cm) ...
Category

1970s Modern USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Joni Mitchell Pencil Hand Signed Invitation Iris Digital Photo Print Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Joni Mitchell “Green Flag Song,” Published by Lev Moross Gallery. Los Angeles, CA From an exhibition of 60 large photographic triptychs. When Mitchell’s television set broke, it b...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Color

Untitled, 1993-94, Vintage
By Donald Judd
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is the original opening invitation card for Donald Judd: The Last Editions at Brooke Alexander Editions in 1994. The invitation takes the form of a postcard that opens up to rev...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset

Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1 Pochoir, 1934 Unsigned as issued in Cahier's edition Published in Cahier's d'art, 1934 Unsigned Edition of 1200 There was also a pencil signed...
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1930s Surrealist USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Stencil

Birds Included (floral, still life, watercolor, bright colors, flowers, birds)
Located in New York, NY
Monotype and watercolor on paper 44 x 33 inches framed
Category

2010s Contemporary USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Monotype

Winner, offset lithograph by Robert Rauschenberg
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
A composition resembling a collage, created by American Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg. Multiple images of noteworthy American figures, such as the Kennedy family, are overlaid above...
Category

1970s Conceptual USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset

Homage to the Square - P2, F19, I1
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Homage to the Square - Portfolio 2, Folder 19, Image 1" from the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 origin...
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1970s Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Cubist Abstract Lithograph Two Pigeons or Doves
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Deux Pigeons" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 146/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Picass...
Category

20th Century Modern USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Union II, Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Union II Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928) Date: 1976 Screenprint, signed in pen lower right Image Size: 27 x 22.75 inches Size: 33 x 28.75 in. (83.82 x 73.03 cm)
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1970s USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Transformable Dialogue #1
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Yaacov Agam Title: Transformable Dialogue #1 Medium: Lithograph with magnetic paint palette Signed: Hand Signed by Yaacov Agam Edition Number: 6/90 Measurements: Lithogra...
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1970s Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Fondation Maeght (Red, Yellow, Blue) /// Abstract Geometric Ellsworth Kelly
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015) Title: "Fondation Maeght (Red, Yellow, Blue)" *Issued unsigned Year: 2005 Medium: Original Litho...
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Early 2000s Minimalist USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled, from the Lehman Brothers Art Collection unique signed framed monotype
By Andrea Belag
Located in New York, NY
Andrea Belag Untitled, from the Lehman Brothers Art Collection, 2003 Watercolor monotype on paper Pencil signed and dated on the front Framed Gorgeous ...
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Early 2000s Abstract USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Monotype, Graphite

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

Materials

Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Provence #7 (Provence France Landscape)
By Roger Mühl
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roger Muhl (1929-2008) Provence #7, 1986. Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, lower margins. Artwork is in excellent condition with no damage or conservation. Frame shows ...
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1980s Abstract USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Mid-Century Modern Abstract Monotype Print
By Toma Yovanovich
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mid century modern abstract expressionist monotype print by American artist Toma Yovanovich. Toma Yovanovich (1931-2016) Yovanovich was a painter/printmaker whos...
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1960s Abstract Geometric USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Monoprint, Monotype

'Exhortation' (Priest) — Mid-Century Modernism
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'Exhortation (Priest)', color serigraph, 1957, edition 28, Ryan 72. Signed, titled, and numbered '21/28' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with strong color...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Composition (Terenzio/Belknap 5; Engberg/Banach 16), X + X, Robert Motherwell
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, X + X, Ten Works by Ten Painters, 1964. Publishe...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Modern Abstract Lithograph by Joan Miró
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro is known for his abstract, expressive, and child-like Modern style. Original lithograph published in Miro Lithographe II Catalogue Raisonne. Nicely framed. Lithographs II ...
Category

1980s Modern USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

TallerOr
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Fairlawn, OH
TallerOr Screen print printed on "card board" (cream poster board), 1968 Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 (54/150), plus 11 for the Vasarely Fou...
Category

1960s Op Art USA - Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

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