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One Down -- Print, Lithograph, Hand-coloured, Abstract Art by Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
One Down, 1981-82 Howard Hodgkin Lithograph printed in classic black, transparent brown/black and violet black, with hand-colouring in gouache (three different greys), on buff Velin...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Field -- Print, Lithograph, Contemporary Art by Antony Gormley
Located in London, GB
Field, 2007 Antony Gormley Lithograph, on 300g. Velin d’Arches paper Signed and numbered from the edition of 40 Published by Edition Copenhagen, Copenhagen Sheet: 79 × 116.5 cm (31...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Victor Vasarely "Axo-Charga" Hand-Signed Limited Edition Serigraph, Framed
Located in Miami, FL
"AXO-CHARGA" BY VICTOR VASARELY (1906-1997) Serigraph on Black Paper ⚜ Signed ⚜ Numbered ⚜ Framed A VISIONARY MASTERWORK OF OP ART "Axo-Charga" is a striking original serigraph by V...
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1970s Op Art Abstract Prints

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Screen, Paper

Carlos Cruz Diez, Induction chromatique a double frequence Madris B, 2008
Located in Miami, FL
Carlos Cruz Diez Induction chromatique a double frequence Madris B 2008 Pigment chromatography on canvas Ed 2 of 8 28 x 79 in Signed on verso
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21st Century and Contemporary Kinetic Abstract Prints

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Canvas, Screen

Mineral Memory - Contemporary Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Yellow, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on a scroll of lightweight mulberry 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

Generated (SF-275) /// Huge Diptych Sam Francis Abstract Expressionism Yellow
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sam Francis (American, 1923-1994) Title: "Generated (SF-275)" *Signed by Francis in pencil (on second sheet) lower right Year: 1983 Medium: Original Lithograph on two sheets ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Enduring Beauty Marilyn Monroe 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

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Spirale Nebula
Located in Miami, FL
Spirale Nebula, 1970 Lithograph in colors on wove paper Printed by Mourlot, Paris 29.5 x 43.3 inches Signed and numbered in pencil, edition of 100 copies Professionally framed Alex...
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1970s Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Spirale Nebula
Spirale Nebula
$9,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Paper Lake, Large Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by Kikuo Saito
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kikuo Saito, Japanese (1939 - 2016) Title: Paper Lake Year: 1979 Medium: Silkscreen with Collage, Signed in Pencil l.r. Edition: 160 Size: 42 x 29.5 inches (124.46 x 74.93 cm)
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Ross Bleckner, Floating Red
Located in New York, NY
Ross Bleckner FLOATING RED Year: 2019 Medium: Archival pigment print on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper Size: 42 x 70 inches (107 x 178 cm) Edition: 30 Price: $7,000 Also sold as a set with Floating Red Glowing and contemplative, Ross Bleckner’s work blends abstraction with recognizable symbols to create meditations on perception, transcendence and loss. Ross Bleckner was born in 1949 in New York and grew up in the prosperous town of Hewlett Harbor on Long Island. The first art exhibition he saw—The Responsive Eye, a show of Op art on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965—had a strong impact on him. He decided to become an artist when he was in college, studying with Sol LeWitt and Chuck Close at New York University, where he earned a BA in 1971. Two years later, he completed an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, where he met David Salle. After moving back to New York, Bleckner purchased and moved into a Tribeca loft building in 1974. Painter Julian Schnabel rented three floors of the building, and the Mudd Club, a nightclub frequented by musicians and artists, occupied space there from 1977 to 1983. Bleckner sold the building in 2004. His first solo exhibition was held in 1975 at Cunningham Ward Gallery in New York. In 1979 he began his long association with Mary Boone Gallery in New York, which championed several of the so-called art stars of the 1980s. In 1981 Bleckner met Thomas Ammann, an important Swiss art dealer who went on to collect his work. Bleckner’s early 1980s Stripe...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Pigment

Friedel Dzubas-Multi (Community Holiday Festival)-ORIGINAL
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This unsigned and unnumbered poster is an overrun from the limited edition of 144 signed and numbered pieces created by Friedel Dzubas for the Community Holiday Festival in 1973. In ...
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20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Split Infinity #B6S, Abstract Screenprint by Herbert Aach
Located in Long Island City, NY
This serigraph was created by German Op artist Herbert Aach. Aach's prints play with geometry and form, and trick the viewer's eyes by juxtaposing bright neon colors. This print is s...
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1980s Op Art Abstract Prints

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Screen

Donald Sułtan, Mimosa, September 29, 2021
Located in New York, NY
MIMOSA, SEPT 29, 2021 2021 Silkscreen with enamel inks and flocking on Rising 4-ply museum board 42 x 42 inches (107 x 107 cm) Edition of 40 Signed and numbered DONALD SULTAN (b. 1...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Screen

Scholes I, Large Framed Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Al Held
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Al Held, American (1928 - 2005) Title: Scholes I Year: 1991 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 80 Image Size: 23 x 29 inches Size: 29 x 34 in. (73.66...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

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Screen

Falls Ten - Contemporary Waterfall Landscape Silver Pale Grey Blue Woodcut, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
A contemporary woodcut print of a waterfall in a forest in silver ink. The monotype brings to mind the tradition of Japanese printing while being distinctly contemporary. Edition 1...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Ink, Archival Paper, Woodcut

"Nocturne in Blues and Magentas" by Alvin Hollingsworth (Abstract, Lithograph)
Located in New York, NY
Alvin Hollingsworth (b. Harlem, New York, 1928 - 2000) One of the first African-American comic book artists, he illustrated Captain Aero Comics and Wings Comics. Hollingsworth then ...
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1990s Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

Damien Hirst, Spin Spin Sugar
Located in Hamburg, DE
Damien Hirst (British, b. 1965) Spin Spin Sugar, 2002 From the portfolio: In a Spin, the Action of the World on Things, Volume II Medium: Etching in colour on wove paper Dimensio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

"Hill and Dale" Framed Limited Edition Print, 36" x 48"
Located in Westport, CT
This Limited Edition giclee landscape print by Molly Doe Wensberg is an edition size of 195. It features a cool green palette and captures a landscape scene with lush foliage and rol...
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2010s Other Art Style Landscape Prints

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Digital, Giclée

NV15, unique print, abstract art, minimalist art, relief print, blue art
Located in Deddington, GB
NV15 [2016] Relief Print Edition number Unique Image size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:76 cm x W:111 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look. NV15 is an original minimalist print...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Paper

Lit Rouge
Located in Missouri, MO
Color Lithograph Pencil Signed and Numbered 48/50 Image Size: approx 22 x 29 inches Framed Size: approx 30.25 x 41 inches Antoni Tàpies was born December 13, 1923, in Barcelona and ...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Lit Rouge
Lit Rouge
$3,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Towers of Silence from In the Realm of the Carceral
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Morris, American (1931 - ) Title: Towers of Silence from In the Realm of the Carceral Year: 1978 Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 1...
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1970s Minimalist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

NV23, Original Blue Abstract Art, Contemporary Blue and White Minimalist Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
NV23 is an original minimalist print by Jonathan Moss. The N.V series of unique, one-off, relief prints find their origin in his videos of fl...
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2010s Minimalist Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Monoprint

The Octopus Hunter - Spanish Surrealism
Located in London, GB
This original etching and aquatint with carborundum is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Miró" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil 2 from the edition of ...
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1960s Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

"Tangerine Evening II, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 40" x 40"
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract landscape limited edition print by Ken Elliott features a warm, vibrant palette and captures a landscape with the sun just along the horizon. The painting has an impres...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Digital, Giclée

Then Came a Fire and Burnt the Stick (AXSOM 275)
Located in New York, NY
color lithograph, linocut, and screenprint with hand-coloring collage on T.H. Saunders and hand-cut Somerset paper Edition 48 of 60 signed, dated, and numbered in pencil (sheet) 52....
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1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Linocut, Screen

The Hartley Elegies - KvF IX, Large Pop Art Screenprint by Robert Indiana
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Indiana Title: The Hartley Elegies - KvF IX Year: 1991 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 50 Paper Size: 60 x 60 inches Printer: Bob Blant...
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1990s Pop Art Abstract Prints

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Screen

Myopic Abstract Triptych of Pastel Gradient Dream, Giclée Print in Soft Tones
Located in Barcelona, ES
Cyd Fontaine (Lausanne, 1992) is a contemporary artist renowned for her captivating use of dreamy atmospheric gradients, which has helped her carve a distinctive niche in the world o...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée, Archival Pigment

America La France Variations III
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) is one of the essential American abstract painters that radically defined post-war abstraction in New York City. Today, his work appears in museum coll...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Abstract Expressionist Poster (Hand signed and inscribed by Helen Frankenthaler)
Located in New York, NY
Helen Frankenthaler (after) Frankenthaler (autographedand inscribed), 1988 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed and inscribed to renowned collectors) Hand signed and warmly inscribed in ink on the front Frame included: Museum frame with UV plexiglass included Inscribed "to Paul and Joan, love Helen Frankenthaler" (Paul and Joan Gluck were major art collectors) Measurements: Framed 42 inches vertical by 34 inches by 1.75 inches Print 34.5 inches vertical by 27 inches Helen Frankenthaler, A Brief Biography Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, she expanded the possibilities of abstract painting, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. She produced a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound and continues to grow. Frankenthaler was born on December 12, 1928, and raised in New York City. She attended the Dalton School, where she received her earliest art instruction from Rufino Tamayo. In 1949 she graduated from Bennington College, Vermont, where she was a student of Paul Feeley. She later studied briefly with Hans Hofmann Frankenthaler’s professional exhibition career began in 1950, when Adolph Gottlieb selected her painting Beach (1950) for inclusion in the exhibition titled Fifteen Unknowns: Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery. Her first solo exhibition was presented in 1951, at New York’s Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and that year she was also included in the landmark exhibition 9th St. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture. In 1952 Frankenthaler created Mountains and Sea, a breakthrough painting of American abstraction for which she poured thinned paint directly onto raw, unprimed canvas laid on the studio floor, working from all sides to create floating fields of translucent color. Mountains and Sea was immediately influential for the artists who formed the Color Field school of painting, notable among them Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. As early as 1959, Frankenthaler began to be a regular presence in major international exhibitions. She won first prize at the Premiere Biennale de Paris that year, and in 1966 she represented the United States in the 33rd Venice Biennale, alongside Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jules Olitski. She had her first major museum exhibition in 1960, at New York’s Jewish Museum, and her second, in 1969, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, followed by an international tour. Frankenthaler experimented tirelessly throughout her long career. In addition to producing unique paintings on canvas and paper, she worked in a wide range of media, including ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, and especially printmaking. Hers was a significant voice in the mid-century “print renaissance” among American abstract painters, and she is particularly renowned for her woodcuts. She continued working productively through the opening years of this century. Frankenthaler’s distinguished, prolific career has been the subject of numerous monographic museum exhibitions. The Jewish Museum and Whitney Museum shows were succeeded by a major retrospective initiated by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth that traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI (1989); and those devoted to works on paper and prints organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1993), among others. Select recent important exhibitions have included Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959 (Gagosian, NY, 2013); Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2014); Giving Up One’s Mark: Helen Frankenthaler in the 1960s and 1970s (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2014–15); Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler (Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2015); As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings and No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

"At the Creek s Edge, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 40" x 40"
Located in Westport, CT
This colorful abstract landscape piece is a Limited-Edition giclee print by Ken Elliott with an edition of 195. Printed on canvas, this giclee ships framed in a gold floater frame wi...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Digital, Giclée

Hark!
Located in New York, NY
From the artist’s, Waves II series created in 1988, Hark! is an absolutely stunning work of art. An original lithograph, linoleum cut and screenprint in colors with hand-coloring, m...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Linocut, Screen

"Bloom Algorithm No. 1" from the Bloom Series, Digital Print, Abstract, Organic
Located in New York, NY
Bloom Algorithm No. 1 from the Bloom Series by Norman Mooney Digital pigment print, mounted and framed Edition #6 of 25 Inspired by the work of the 19th century biologist Ernst Haec...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Digital Pigment

"Cross Things Off, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 24" x 48"
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract limited edition print by Teodora Guererra features a warm palette, with large strokes and washes of grey, muted yellow-orange, burnt sienna, and white, which move acros...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Digital, Giclée

Colorful RainBow Epicenter II-White Background (Limited Edition Print On Canvas)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**STORE CLOSURE - UP TO 80% OFF - TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT** ***EVERYTHING MUST GO BY DECEMBER 31ST!*** The artist is moving to a new full time venture in 2026 __...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Cotton Canvas

Hand-Signed 1972 Olympische Spiele Munchen, Munich Olympics
Located in London, GB
Colour lithograph on BFK Rives paper 1970 105.5 x 69.8 cm Edition of 200 Hand signed, numbered and dated in pencil by Hockney Printed by Matthieu AG, Zurich, for the 1972 Munich Olym...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Werkbund – Original Swiss Exhibition Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Swiss Exhibition poster by Hermann Eidenbenz (lithograph, printed by Art. Institut Grafica in Basel) advertising a show of the Basel section ...
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1930s Modern Abstract Prints

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Paper

Place I Leku I - Spanish Abstract Art
Located in London, GB
EDUARDO CHILLIDA 1924-2002 1924 - San Sebastián - 2002 (Spanish/Basque) Title: Place I Leku I, 1969 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching on Chiffon de Mandeure Wo...
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1960s Abstract Prints

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Etching

Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Igazea
Located in Paris, IDF
Archival pigment ink print on archival paper, Edition of 20 Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Master of Scienc...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Canvas, India Ink, Archival Paper

PKZ Coat
Located in New York, NY
Baumberger, Otto. PKZ 1923, Color lithograph, On Linen 50 1/2 x 35 1/2” Baumberger was one of the most prolific Swiss poster artists, with well over 200 designs to his credit. Beginning in 1917, he regularly worked for PKZ. This poster is not only the best he produced for the company but is also an icon in poster history. The tweed coat is rendered in near-photographic perfection to the point where you can practically feel the fabric. Baumberger took a totally new approach to advertising by ingeniously incorporating the poster's text into the image in the form of the label in the coat. With this poster Baumberger cemented his role as master of the "Object Poster," (a title he earned four years earlier with a classic image of a top hat), and began the trend of "New Objectivity" within the Swiss school of Graphic Design. A sensation from the day it was issued, this image remains compelling and proves to be one of the finest of the PKZ posters...
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1920s Art Deco Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Shooting Gallery #2, colorful playful whimsical pattern graphic serigraph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Silkscreen Edition of 200 Philomena Marano has spent decades “penetrat[ing] the soul of Coney Island to reveal its twin promises of candy-colored paradise and garishly ornate nightm...
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2010s Hard-Edge Prints and Multiples

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Robert Rauschenberg "Broken Harp" Pencil Signed Lithograph 24/500 executed 1989
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed and numbered lithograph on woven paper designed by Robert Rauschenberg titled "Broken Harp". An early edition, number 24 of only 500 prints ever made. Executed on woven paper ...
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1980s More Art

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Paper

Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Blue Flame Lily
Located in Paris, IDF
Archival pigment ink print on canvas Ediiton of 12 Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Master of Science in In...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Canvas, Archival Pigment

“Three Movements" Limited Edition Hand-Signed Serigraph by Yaacov Agam, Framed
Located in Encino, CA
"Three Movements," an original silkscreen by Yaacov Agam, is a piece for the true collector. Agam is considered the father of Kinetic art. His iconic style is recognizable across the...
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1970s Kinetic Abstract Prints

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Screen

"Bedford II"
Located in Astoria, NY
Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992), "Bedford II", Lithograph in Colors on Arches paper, 1981, from the Bedford series, signed in pencil lower right and numbered edition "61 / 70", p...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sarah Morris, Taurus (Origami) - Signed Leporello Print, Abstract Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Sarah Morris (American, born 1967) Taurus (Origami), 2009 Medium: 9-part leporello, digital pigment print on paper Dimensions: 32 x 225 cm (12½ x 88½ in) Edition of 75: Hand-signed a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Digital Pigment

EVEN THE HEART SKIPS A BEAT Abstract Silkscreen Print with Diamond Dust, 2024
Located in New York, NY
'EVEN THE HEART SKIPS A BEAT' is a signature stylistic print by RETNA. The large-scale glittering artwork is a silkscreen print with layers of genuine diamond dust. This exquisite p...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Black and White, Screen

Los Alamitos
Located in London, GB
Screenprint, in colours, 1972, on Gemini rag Board, signed, dated and numbered 53 from the edition of 75, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles., sheet: 51.4 × 203.5 cm. (20 1/4 x 80 1/8 in.), framed: 52.4 x 204.5 cm. (20.6 x 80.5 in.) The three large scale, extended horizontal screenprints of the ‘Race Track Series’ are named after horse-racing tracks in Southern California and Mexico : Del Mar (San Diego County), Los Alamitos...
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1970s Abstract Prints

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Screen

John Baldessari, Give me a B, give me an A… - Signed Print, 10-Part Leporello
Located in Hamburg, DE
John Baldessari (American, 1931-2020) Give me a B, give me an A …, 2009 Medium: 10-part leporello, digital pigment print, on photo rag paper Dimensions: 32 × 250 cm (12½ x 98½ in) Ed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Abstract Prints

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Digital Pigment

"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

"Untitled" by Peter Young (Abstract, Modern, Screen Print, Red, Yellow)
Located in New York, NY
b. 1940, Pittsburgh, PA Peter Young has been described by art critics as “a maverick Zenned-out hedonist who is also a process-oriented formalist with a sharp painterly intelligence...
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1970s Post-Minimalist Abstract Prints

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Screen

"Untitled" by Peter Plagens. (Abstract, Formalist, Symbolism, Geometric, Print)
Located in New York, NY
Peter Plagens (b. 1941) received his B.F.A. from the University of Southern California and his M.F.A. from Syracuse University. He is well known for his abstract, formalist paintings...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

HOPE (R/W/B), large original 4 panel painting
Located in Aventura, FL
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on triple primed canvas. Hand signed, dated, titled and numbered "P/P" on verso by Robert Indiana. Printer's Proof edition. Total of 4 panels. Each pan...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Canvas, Screen, Acrylic

Cocotte 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 (Set of 2)
Located in New York, NY
Theodoros Stamos’s 'Untitled' (1977) pair of screenprints is a powerful example of his mature abstract language, created during a period when he had fully developed his distinctive f...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Screen

Serie Madrid B, 1990
Located in Miami, FL
Jesus Soto (1923-2005) Serie Madrid B, 1990 Denise Rene Editeur, Paris (with Denise Rene's blind-stamp) Screen print in heavy paper 59 x 45.3 in (150 x 115 cm) Professionally framed...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

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Screen

"Abstract I" Framed and Matted Print with Gold-Leaf (part of set)
Located in Chesterfield, MI
"Abstract I" is a Framed and Matted Mixed Media Print with Gold-Leaf. The artist signature is illegible. It measures 40.5 x 34.5 inches. The date of creation is unknown but is believ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Prints

Materials

Gold Leaf

DNA: Etching: IV
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Moro II, Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by Larry Zox
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Larry Zox, American (1937 - 2006) Title: Moro II Year: 1981 Medium: Screenprint, Signed and numbered in Pencil Edition Size: 185 Size: 42.5 x 30 inches
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Untitled (Cubes)
Located in Astoria, NY
Al Held (American, 1928-2005), Untitled (Cubes), Lithograph on Strathmore Paper, 1969, signed in pencil and numbered edition "67 / 100" to verso, Strathmore blindstamp lower right co...
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1960s Post-Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Pop Art Screen Print, Colour Chart Aluminum Panel with Glitter, 2017
Located in New York, NY
The glittering contemporary pop-art ‘Colour Chart’ by Damien Hirst is a study of “pinning down the joy of colour” - a concept that began in the 1980s with his iconic ‘Spot Series’ pa...
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2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Abstract Prints

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Glitter, Panel, Screen