Etching Abstract Prints

Letter From Vienna Artist signed, dated, paper sheet 30x22.5 Krystyna Smiechowska was born in 1935 Krakow -2014 Paris France. Printmaker Krystyna Smiechowska draws her inspiration f...

Hayter, Stanley William (English, 1901-1988). PLONGEON. B/M 374. Engraving and soft-ground etching in colors, 1974. 23 x 19 1/4 inches; 583 x 460 mm. (plate), 29 3/4 x 22 inches (sh...

This original etching and aquatint in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Miró" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil 5 from the edition of 30, a...

Artist: Barry Nelson, British/American (1937 - ) Title: Vega Year: 1978 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 50 Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.8...

George Dannatt (1915-2009) Dartmoor 1996 Etching Edition of 10 signed by George Dannatt Image measures: 29.5 x 20.6 cm Paper size: 38.8 x 26.0 cm Reference no: 1194 George Dannatt’...

After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975) Surrealist engraving, etching after drawings from a 1942 notebook, engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris, Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4 Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company. Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life. Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington. Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work. Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton. He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940. After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...

A very good impression of this scarce color etching and drypoint. Fourth state (of 4). Signed and numbered 54/100 in pencil, lower margin.

Aquatint and etching on paper. Hand signed lower right by Roberto Matta. Hand numbered 90/100 lower left. Image size: 14.1 x 18.6 inches. Sheet size: 26 x 19.6 inches. Frame siz...

Signed, titled and numbered in pencil, edition of 15. Abstracted image of rain ferns featuring shaades of green and blue. Rosalyn Richards has been a member of the Bucknell Universi...

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...

Julius BALTAZAR (1949 -) Dreamy Landscape Etching with aquatint on Japon paper Signed on the right bottom and marked Bon à tirer (BAT = "Ready for press") on the left Size : 32 x 2...

Henri Laurens: 1885-1954. Well listed French artist with Auction records in the millions of dollars and over $8000 for a print. This rare print came in a small edition of Which I bel...

Artist: Roberto Matta Title: La Dulce Aqua Vita Medium: Carborundum etching on handmade paper Signed: Hand Signed Size: 41 x 48 Inches Framed: 51 x 58 Inches Edition: 23/125 Year: 20...

IRIS 2 Date of creation: 2006 Medium: Etching on Paper Edition: 50 Size: 100 x 70 cm Condition: In very good conditions and never framed Observations: Etching on paper signed by the ...

Tim Southall Destination Unknown Limited Edition Print Edition of 45 Image Size: H 15cm x W 20cm Sheet Size: H 26cm x W 32cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Pleas...

Trees (Trees in Circle) Etching & drypoint with monotype inking, 1953-1955 Signed in pencil An unrecorded trial proof, printed on heavy wove proofing paper at Atelier 17, before the ...

Karl Ludwig Mordstein (1937 Füssen - 2006 Wilszhofen), Undeutlicher deutlich, 1982. Color etching, e.a. (Epreuve d'artiste) 4/9, 22.5 x 28 cm (image), 40 x 45 cm (sheet), 43 x 48 cm ...

Hayter, Stanley William. LA NUIT. B&M 258. Etching and aquating, in color, 1960. Edition of 50 (there were also 5 artist's proofs, and several trial proofs in other color variants. S...

Abstract Composition is a mixed-colored Etching realized by Amintore Fanfani in 1972. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left. Edition 4/80.  The stat...

Menashe Kadishman was born in Tel-Aviv in 1932. He is a Graduate of St. Martin's School of Art, University of London Studies with Anthony Caro, Reg Butler. From 1947 to 1950, Kadish...

Last Book of Life. (Photos from a dinner of Richard Nixon’s with Chou En Lai’s various views of Chinese chopsticks) Photograph etchings Printed on Stonehedge black paper Hand signe...

This one is a metallic silver gray color. Menashe Kadishman was born in Tel-Aviv in 1932. He is a Graduate of St. Martin's School of Art, University of London Studies with Anthony Ca...

Artist: Louisa Chase, American (1951 - ) Title: Baby, Baby Year: 1991 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 35/35 Size: 21.5 x 25.75 in. (54.61 x 65.4...

Max Papart (1911-1994) "The Blue Rider" Original Etching with Aquatint, circa 1973 This is a rare artist proof. The artist proof is pencil signed and titled by the artist. The regu...

"Matiére et Graffiti" is an original etching with aquatintin black adn whtie from 1969 by renowned Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies. It is an edition of 75 (67/75) on Guarro handmade pa...

Last Book of Life. (Photos from a dinner of Richard Nixon’s with Chou En Lai’s various views of Chinese chopsticks) Photograph etchings Printed on Stonehedge black paper Hand signe...

Etching and aquatint, 1972 Edition : 52/99 Publisher : Levi Art Center (Milan) 50.50 cm. x 71.00 cm. 19.88 in. x 27.95 in. (paper) 37.00 cm. x 47.50 cm. 14.57 in. x 18.7 in. (image...

Etel Adnan "Fil du Temps" 2021. Etching on wove paper. Edition of 100. A critical work by Adnan, the final etching in this series. Etel was unable to put pencil to paper due to her ...

Carborundum etching on zinc printed on BFK Rives 250 gr/m2 paper - Unframed. Edition 1/7 Pierre Muckensturm added printmaking to his oeuvre in 2010. The engraving and printing pro...

Joanne Greenbaum’s prints are an energetic profusion of overlapping techniques and colors, featuring clusters of architectural forms, irregular shapes, and doodle-like lines. Greenba...

Hayter, Stanley William. EXPANSION. B&M 334. Etching and soft-ground etching, in color, 1969-70. Edition of 100 (there were also 20 artist's proofs, and several trial proofs in other...

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...

Donald Judd (American 1928-1994) Untitled, 1978-79. Aquatint on etching paper Signed and numbered 18/175 in pencil (there were also 15 artist's proofs) Published by the artist, with ...

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...

Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition IX Date of creation: 1977 Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper Edition: 75 Size: 56 x 76 cm Condition: In very good conditions and never fram...

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...

A study in grays, this signed and numbered etching is by celebrated artist Gretchen Dow Simpson (1939–2025), whose distinctive architectural paintings appeared on 58 of “The New York...

A very good impression of this color aquatint on J. B. Green paper. Signed and numbered 5/50 in pencil by Motherwell. Printed by Catherine Mousley in the artist's studio, Greenwich, ...

Untitled. SFE-080RC. Artwork size : 56 x 76 cm. Frame size : 75 x 97 x 4 cm Museum glass anti-reflective. Signed and numbered 46/75 ex. Sam Francis Archive Number : SF-353. Free shipment worldwide. Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire. Alongside names such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Sam Francis is an artist who has succeeded in demonstrating a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre. The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that, characteristically enough, can be called the “musicality” of his paintings. The work of Sam Francis provides a visible meeting place for the conscious and the unconscious. His pictures are the cross-fertilisation of what has already been experienced with what exists still only as desire, a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking. Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, Sam Francis spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide, the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. He was also fascinated by the four ancient elements – earth, water, air and fire – which developed into a leitmotif in his work. Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of around twenty, he soon found himself increasingly consumed by the power of art. He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he not only made frequent excursions to a number of European cities, but also embarked on many journeys to South America and Asia. He continued to move from place to place, primarily in the USA and Japan, right up until his death in 1994. Sam Francis’s first...

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...

Joan Ponç - SIN TÍTULO 1 Date of creation: 1975 Medium: Etching on paper Edition number: 70/75 Size: 56 x 76 cm Condition: In perfect conditions and never framed Observations: Etchin...

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...

Günther Uecker (German, born 1930) Untitled (from Nagelbuch Portfolio), 1970-1971 Medium: Etching on wove paper Dimensions: 34.6 x 34.5 cm Edition of 500: Hand-signed in pencil

This artwork titled "Le reve" 1960 is an original colors carborundum etching with embossing on thick wove paper by noted French artist Max Papart, 1911-1994. It is hand signed and n...

Abstract Composition is an etching and collage on paper realized by Hans Richter in 1973. Published by La Nuova Foglio, a publishing house of Macerata. Monogrammed by Frida Richte...

Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...

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:...

Gillian Ayres Song Beneath the Stars, 2010 Sugar-lift aquatint and etching with carborundum printed in colours, extensively hand-coloured in acrylic paint, on BFK Rives wove paper, w...

Lithograph, screenprint, etching and aquatint printed in colours, with relief, 1998, signed in pencil, dated, numbered from the edition of 51 (there were also twelve artist's proofs)...

Aquatint on Strathmore Bristol paper. From the 6 + 4 portfolio. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. From the main edition of 35. Artwork size 16 x 13 inches. Custom fra...

Donald Baechler, Szechuan Garden, 2003: Medium: Aquatint and soft-ground etching. Sheet size: 27 x 34 inches. Edition of 35 (30 + 5 artists proofs). Hand-signed, dated and numbered on bottom of sheet. Printed on Hanhnemuhle paper. Unframed. Acquired directly from publisher. Artist Biography: Donald Baechler, a member of the East Village art scene in 1980s New York, is known for his painting-collage-drawing works depicting of childhood imagery and nostalgic ephemera like grammar school primers, old maps, and children’s drawings...

Color spitbite aquatint with chine colle. Edition of 50

Etching and aquatint in colours on Arches paper Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right on recto 68 x 52 cm, 71.8 x 56.8 cm (framed) Edition 98 of 100 Michel Leiris (1901-1990) ...

A superb impression of this color engraving, soft-ground etching, scorper and screenprint on Japan paper. Fifth state (of 5). Signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/50 in pencil, lower...

Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - Untitled - Figurative Accumulation II, Year: 1976, Medium: Etching with Watercolor, signed in pencil, Edition: 52/99, Image Size: 16 x 23...

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...

Etching and aquatint, 1982 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 53/300 Publisher : Fédération Française de l'Audition Printer : Atelier Lejeune, Atelier Lalou 51.00 cm. ...

JAMES ROSENQUIST (B. 1933) Sunglass Lens-Landing Net-Triangle Original etching, 1974 Catalog #80 Sheet size: 19 1/2” x 35 1/4” Edition number 11 of 80 Signed, numbered, and date...

Georg Baselitz (German, born 1938) Untitled (from Eine Woche), 1972 Medium: Etching on chine-collé, on wove paper Dimensions: 50 × 70 cm (19 7/10 × 27 3/5 in) Edition of 52: Hand-sig...

Saunier, Hector (French, born Argentina, 1936-) . KITES. Aquatint and engraving in colors, 1974. Edition of 50. Titled, numberd, dated, and signed in pencil. 17 1/8 x 16 7/8 inches (...