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Royal Culture by Craig Alan
Located in New York City, NY
LIMITED EDITION PRINT - Edition of 75 signed by the artist. Price for unframed. Ask us for custom framing options for this piece. Craig Alan is a Pop Surrealist, internationally rec...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

Untitled, from: Graphic Portfolio University of St. Gallen 1963-66 - Kinetic
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Calder” at the lower right image. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 150, at the lowe...
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1960s Kinetic Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Never-Ending Spiral - Mixed Media by Jannis Kounellis - 2008
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Yannis Kounellis in occasion of the Olympic Games of Beijing, China, in 2008. Hand signed and numbered, perfect condition. This work is from the portfolio Th...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media

Imperfect Print for B.A.M.
Located in London, GB
Woodcut and screenprint in colours, 1987, on Arches wove paper, signed and dated in pencil from the edition of 75, published by Parasol Press, Ltd., New York, from The Brooklyn Acade...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Color, Screen, Woodcut

Stormy - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Blue Green, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on a scroll of lightweight Japanese paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Abstract Tree and Stamps - Original lithograh (Fournier 1969)
Located in Paris, IDF
Joan MITCHELL (1925-1992) Abstract Tree, 1969 Original lithograph (Atelier Arte) Signed on the plate On vellum, 77 x 56 cm (c. 31 x 22 in) INFORMATION: Rare proof on vellum, with ...
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1960s American Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled #1
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled #1" 1992 is a original monotype on paper by Swiss artist Barbara Diethelm, born 1962. It is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist. Printed and published by Aurobora Press, San Francisco. The artwork (image) size is 7 x 6.75 inches, framed is 18.5 x 17.5 inches. It is framed in a wooden maple frame. It is in very good condition, frame have very minor scratches. About the artist. Barbara Diethelm was born and raised in Zürich. After attending college in Zürich she moves to the United States in 1982. 1983 – 1988 Studies Graphic Design and Fine Art (with Mel Casas, Mark Pritchett und Tom Willome) at S.A.C. in San Antonio, Texas. Studies Humanities and Management at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio. 1988 – 1990 studies Painting (with Sam Tchakalian...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Monotype

17M2G-2017 (Abstract print)
Located in London, GB
17M2G-2017 (Abstract print) Aquatinte on BFK Rives paper - Unframed. Clément's work fluctuates between painting and sculpture, a back and forth that both results from, and contribu...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Aquatint

McGovern for McGovernment, Hand Signed by BOTH Calder and George McGovern Framed
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Calder McGovern for McGovernment (Signed by BOTH Alexander Calder and George McGovern), 1972 Lithograph on wove paper with deckled edges. Hand signed and Numbered by Calder...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Pencil, Lithograph

"the same mysterious animacy", Abstract, Collaged Monoprints, Watercolor, Photos
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "the same mysterious animacy" is an original piece by Cassie Normandy White and is made from collaged monoprints, microscopic scans, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Monoprint

Joan Miro, Figures Before the Sea, from D Aci i d’Alla, 1934
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Figures davant el mar (Figures Before the Sea), originates from the historic 1934 album D'Aci i d’Alla, Numero Extraordinari de Nadal dedicat a l’art del segle XX. Published by Llibreria Catalonia, Barcelona, under the direction of Antonio Lopez Llausas, Editeur, Barcelona, 1934, and under the supervision of Joan Prats, Barcelona, and Josep Lluis Sert, Barcelona; printed by Pochoir Publicity Art, Barcelona, under the direction of J. Mateu, Barcelona, 1934, the work reflects Miros early mastery of Surrealist biomorphism and his exceptional sensitivity to the pochoir technique, whose saturated, hand-applied colors were ideally suited to his luminous Mediterranean palette. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 13 x 11.1875 inches (33.02 x 28.42 cm). Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. Printed by Pochoir Publicity Art, Barcelona, under the direction of J. Mateu. Artwork Details: Artist: Joan Miro (1893–1983) Title: Figures davant el mar (Figures Before the Sea), from the album D'Aci i d’Alla, Numero Extraordinari de Nadal dedicat a l’art del segle XX, 1934 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper Dimensions: 13 x 11.1875 inches (33.02 x 28.42 cm) Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered as issued Date: 1934 Publisher: Llibreria Catalonia, Barcelona; under the direction of Antonio Lopez Llausas, Editeur, Barcelona, with the supervision of Joan Prats and Josep Lluis Sert Printer: Pochoir Publicity Art, Barcelona; under the direction of J. Mateu Catalogue raisonne reference: Dupin, Jacques, and Joan Miro. Miro Engraver 1928–1960. Rizzoli, 1984, illustration 13. Cramer, Patrick. Joan Miro: The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonne. Patrick Cramer, 1989, illustration 11. Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the album D'Aci i d’Alla, Numero Extraordinari de Nadal dedicat a l’art del segle XX, 1934, published by Llibreria Catalonia, Barcelona About the Publication: The 1934 album D'Aci i d’Alla, Numero Extraordinari de Nadal dedicat a l’art del segle XX, stands as one of the most ambitious, sophisticated, and culturally significant Catalan art publications of the interwar period, conceived at a moment when Barcelona was a thriving hub of artistic modernity. Produced by Llibreria Catalonia under the direction of Antonio Lopez Llausas, with the close involvement of Joan Prats and Josep Lluis Sert—two of the most influential Catalan cultural figures of the twentieth century—the album embodied a vision of Catalonia as an active, forward-looking center of international avant-garde thought, connected intellectually and aesthetically to Paris, yet deeply rooted in Mediterranean identity. Unlike standard periodicals, D'Aci i d’Alla functioned as a hybrid fine art album, design object, and critical journal, integrating essays, photography, architecture, poetry, and original artworks in a unified modernist aesthetic. The 1934 Numero Extraordinari, devoted to twentieth-century art, was particularly ambitious in scope: it surveyed the newest movements in modernism while highlighting Catalonia’s unique contributions to the international avant-garde. Its inclusion of an original Joan Miro pochoir...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

1960s Francis Bacon lithograph (from Bacon derrière le miroir)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1960s Francis Bacon lithograph from Derrière le miroir: Well-suited for matting & framing, this original 1960's print is derived from Bacon's ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Jubilation Larmoyennageuse - Lithograph by Asger Jorn - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Rare lithograph on wove paper realized by Jorn in 1969. Hand signed and dated in pencil lower right. Edition of 87/300. Printed by Clot, Bramsen et Georges Paris. Ref. Cat. Graphi...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Joan Miro, Untitled, from Cahiers d art, 1934
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the landmark 1934 album Cahiers d'art, ...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Letter E - Original Lithograph by Raphael Alberti - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Letter E from the Alphabet series is an original lithograph realized by Rafael Alberti in 1972. Hand-signed. Numbered. Edition, 22/99 prints. The state o...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

FELIPE PANTONE - CHROMADYNA MICAP #5 Op Art Abstract Street Art Black Modern
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Felipe Pantone CHROMADYNA MICAP #5 Date of creation: 2020 Medium: Lithograph on paper Edition : 30 Size: 75.5 x 55.5 cm Condition: New, in mint condition and never framed Lithograph ...
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2010s Op Art Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Geometric Black and White Lithograph by Eva Kolosvary-Stupler
Located in Pasadena, CA
Signed by Eva Kolosvary in 1972, this lithograph print titled "a" ' s and numbered "1/10" features a repeat pattern of the letter "a" in blank ink on paper. With nothing other than b...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"Hombre Blanco", Rufino Tamayo, Figurative Abstraction, Lithograph, 30x22 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
"Hombre Blanco" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction mixografia in color limited edition measuring 30x22 in. The piece is framed beautifully with...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Uprising - Aquatint and Etching by Arthur Secunda - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Uprising is a  contemporary artwork realized by Arthur Secunda in 1979. Mixed colored etching. Hand signed on the lower margin. Numbered and titled on the lower left margin. Edit...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

Composition II from, Untitled - Italian Conceptual Abstract Spatialism
Located in London, GB
This work is hand signed in pencil by the artist "L. Fontana" in the lower right image. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 80, in the lower left image. It was pr...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

Converse 2
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Jeff Kahm exists in an edition of 40. Paper size is 25"h x 24"w with an image size of 20"h x 20"w. Jeff Kahm was born in Edmonton Alberta, Canada in 1968 and attended the Institute of American Indian Arts...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Pigment

Miró, Composition (Cramer 145; Mourlot, 738-740), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 193-194. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur,...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

15AV1G-2015 (Abstract print)
Located in London, GB
15AV1G-2015 (Abstract print) Aquatinte on BFK Rives paper - Unframed. Clément's work fluctuates between painting and sculpture, a back and forth that both results from, and contrib...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Aquatint

Raymond Pettibon Punk flyer 1982 (Raymond Pettibon prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Raymond Pettibon 1982: Rare original punk flyer featuring artwork by Pettibon for a gig by Hari-Kari, Wasted Youth at Dancing Waters, in downtown San Pe...
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Western Moonrise
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Siobhan O’Dwyer is a creative artist splitting her time between New York City and Southern California. Working as a full-time pharmacist in the beginning of her cr...
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2010s Abstract Prints

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Photographic Paper

KAWS, Gone - Screenprint incl. Limited Edition Catalogue, Signed Print
By KAWS
Located in Hamburg, DE
KAWS (American, b. 1974) Gone, 2019 Medium: Screenprint on Arches Aquarelle 300gsm (incl. limited edition catalogue for the exhibition of KAWS: Companionship in the Ages of Lonelines...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art More Art

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Screen

Martin Lewis 20th Century Master Printmaker, Etching, 1932 "White Monday"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Original drypoint etching and aquatint in mint condition by well-known artist and printmaker Martin Lewis, (1881-1962) The print has full margins with deckle edges and is signed in p...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints

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Paper

Plate No. 248, The Women s March (Women s History Month, Women Artists)
Located in Brighton, GB
Please be aware that all prints are produced to order. Lead times expected between 15-20 days. Prices may change due to currency fluctuations. Giclée prints on Archival Matte Paper ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée

Hand painted Limited Edition #3-First Moon-UK Awarded Artist-oil, gold on Giclée
Located in London, GB
This Limited Edition is 90% hand painted, each edition is painted with hand mixed original paint by the artist, Shizico Yi, therefore the colour of each painting may very depended on...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Metal

"Light on Water" Original Color Lithograph signed on verso by Emmi Whitehorse
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Light on Water" is an original 13 color lithograph with pochoir from 4 aluminum plates and 1 mylar stencil. It was created by the artist Emmi Whitehors...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Two
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Robert Indiana Medium: Serigraph Title: Two Portfolio: The American Dream Year: 1997 Edition: PP 14/30 Image Size: 16 7/8 x 14 inches Sheet Size: 22 x 17 inches Framed Size: ...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

L Antilope - Lithograph by Jean Dubuffet - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on wove paper. Not signed, as issued. Published by Galerie René Drouin, Paris. Plate no. from the portfolio "Les Phénomènes". A striking monochrome lithograph from Jea...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Improvisation 7 original first ed. woodcut from Klänge by Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present woodcut print comes from 'Klänge (Sounds),' a book of original graphics and poetry by Wassily Kandinsky. This first edition was released in an edition of 300, each book signed and numbered by the artist. The title of the album and this particular print, 'Improvisation,' demonstrated Kandinsky's interest in music and how abstract musical forms could be translated into images on a two-dimensional surface. This particular composition is difficult to read, but through the abstraction, one can make out various figures and a landscape beyond. 7.5 x 5 inches, image 22 x 19.5 inches, frame Woodcut in black ink on laid paper (watermark Van Gelder Zonen) Signed with encircled 'K' in the block, lower right Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent acid free archival materials including silk-lined matting with 1/4 inch bevel, museum glass, and a gold-gilded moulding Ref. Roethel 124 The Museum of Modern Art described 'Klänge (Sounds)' as follows: Vasily Kandinsky's self-described "musical album," Klänge (Sounds), consists of thirty-eight prose-poems he wrote between 1909 and 1911 and fifty-six woodcuts he began in 1907. In the woodcuts Kandinsky veiled his subject matter, creating increasingly indecipherable images (though the horse and rider, his symbol for overcoming objective representation, runs through as a leitmotif). This process proved crucial for the development of abstraction in his art. Kandinsky said his choice of media sprang from an "inner necessity" for expression: the woodcuts were not merely illustrative, nor were the poems purely verbal descriptions. Kandinsky sought a synthesis of the arts, in which meaning was created through the interaction of, and space between, text and image, sound and meaning, mark and blank space. The experimental typography shows his interest in the physical aspects of the book. Klänge is one of three major publications by Kandinsky that appeared shortly before World War I, alongside Über die Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art) and the Blaue Reiter almanac...
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1910s Blue Rider Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Aus dem Totenbuch einer Stadt (IV) - The presence of the submerged -
Located in Berlin, DE
Karl Ludwig Mordstein (1937 Füssen - 2006 Wilszhofen), From the Book of the Dead of a City (IV), 1983. Color etching, copy 16/60, 15.5 x 18.5 cm (imag...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1980s Abstract Prints

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Engraving

Hand painted Edition#1-Golden Benton Irises-British Awarded Artist-Oil on Giclée
Located in London, GB
This hand painted Limited Edition is 90% hand painted by artist Shizico yi with original oil paint, gesso and acrylic on giclée made on premium aluminium panel. On offer here is the ...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Metal

13F3G-2013 (Abstract print)
Located in London, GB
Aquatinte on BFK Rives paper - Unframed. Clément's work fluctuates between painting and sculpture, a back and forth that both results from, and contributes to, an ongoing exchange o...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Paper, Aquatint

Joan Miro, Garden in the Moonlight, from Homage to Teriade, 1973
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Jardin au clair de lune (Garden in the Moonlight), originates from the 1973 album hommage a Teriade (Homage to Teriade). Pu...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Expo 67 Mural--Firepole 33 x 17
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on Italia handmade paper. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 35/41 in pencil by Rosenquist. Printed and published by ULAE, West Islip,...
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1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints

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Handmade Paper, Color, Lithograph

The New Glory Penny, from The American Dream
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Robert Indiana Title: The New Glory Penny Portfolio: The American Dream Medium: Serigraph Date: 1997 Edition: 395 Sheet Size: 22" x 17" Image Size: 14" x 9 3/4" Signature: Un...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Basque Suite #12
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in Ameri...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Joan Miro - Original Abstract Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro Miro Original Abstract Lithograph Artist: Joan Miro Medium: Original lithograph on Rives vellum Portfolio: Miro Lithographe II Year: 1975 Edition: 5,000 Image Size: 10" x 1...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Victor Vasarely, Untitled (Spiegel 70) - Signed Screenprint, Op Art, 1970
Located in Hamburg, DE
Victor Vasarely (Hungarian-French, 1906–1997) Untitled (Spiegel 70), 1970 Medium: Screenprint on paper Dimensions: 83 x 62 cm Edition of 150: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil
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20th Century Op Art Abstract Prints

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Screen

Inset - iPhone drawing, pigment print, wall, grid
Located in Köln, DE
Since Sean Scully figured out to draw on the iPhone display, these drawings are published as archival pigment prints. The depictions is the same as in his paintings and prints...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Archival Pigment

M336 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
M336 (Abstract Drawing) Digital creation, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag de 308 gr - Unframed. Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and bi...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Digital

Monogram "J" with Landscape (Plate XI), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Monogram "J" with Landscape (Plate XI) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper Year: 1949 Edition: 289 Sheet Size: 13" x 10 3/16" Signed:...
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1940s Abstract Prints

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Etching

Untitled - Original Monotype by Gastone Novelli - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful artwork, a colored monotype, representing an abstract composition, realized by Gastone Novelli. Image dimensions: Cm 23.5 x 18 Signed "G. Novelli" on the lower right. Ve...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Monotype

Pink Mama (Abstract print)
Located in London, GB
Pink Mama (Abstract print) Screen print - Unframed Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing and the animated image.” He...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Abstraction in Black - Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Eduardo CHILLIDA (after) Abstraction in Black Lithograph Printed signature in the plate On kraft paper 81 x 55,5 cm (c. 32 x 22 in) Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Composition - Original Etching by Marcel Fiorini - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original etching and aquatint realized in the 1960s Century by Marcel Fiorini (1922-2008). Good Conditions. Edition of 36/100. The artwork is depicted th...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Bridget Riley, Rare historic LT Ed Richard Feigen Gallery 1965 Op Art print
Located in New York, NY
Bridget Riley Richard Feigen Gallery 1965 Op Art poster, 1965 Offset lithograph poster Limited Edition of approx. 300 (unnumbered) 21 × 17 inches Unframed Very rare early Bridget Riley poster...
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1960s Op Art Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

"India, " Abstract Woodcut and Monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"India" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. Here, Summer's abstract language for landscape imagery is taken to its most extreme: The image offers a view of a highly stylized waterfall, with red water falling down behind green foliage below. A hint of light blue at the lower left suggests a continuation of the water's flow. Above, purples and yellows mist upward from the power of the water. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Summers' signature can be found in pencil at the bottom of the rightmost blue form, with the title and edition at the bottom of the leftmost blue form. A copy of this print can be found in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 37.25 x 24.88 inches, artwork 48.5 x 35.5 inches, frame Numbered 44 from the edition of 75 Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MoMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Monotype, Woodcut

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Located in Barcelona, ES
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2010s Modern Abstract Prints

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Watercolor, Lithograph, Monotype, Paper

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Located in NEW YORK, NY
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Category

1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

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Located in Wilton Manors, FL
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Category

1980s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset

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Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Arlecchino" 1965, is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by renown Italian artist Gino Severini, 1883-1966. It is hand signed and numbered 43/80 in penci...
Category

Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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Located in Hamburg, DE
John Baldessari (American, born 1931) Two Bags and Envelope Holder, 2011 Medium: Archival inkjet print Dimensions: 61 x 45.8 cm Edition of 40: Hand-signed and numbered Condition: Exc...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Inkjet

Lt Ed. Lithograph from the Deluxe (Hand Signed) 1984 Olympic Committee portfolio
Located in New York, NY
Sam Francis Untitled Abstract Expressionist print for the 1984 Olympics, 1982 Offset Lithograph on Parsons Diploma Parchment paper, hand signed with COA from publisher for Olympic Co...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Pencil, Lithograph, Offset

Sunset with Reflection, Blue Tones Unique Monotype Cyanotype, Desert Modernism
Located in Barcelona, ES
Sunset with Reflection is a unique cyanotype monotype on watercolor paper, blending the timeless beauty of ocean horizos with the clean, geometric serenity inspired by Desert Moderni...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Monotype

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Located in Hamburg, DE
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Category

20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

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