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Nicolas de Stael, Celadon Composition, from Painters of Today, 1960 (after)
By Nicolas de Staël
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Nicolas de Stael (1914–1955), titled Composition Celadon (Celadon Composition), from the folio Nicolas de Stael, Peintres d'aujourd'hui (Nicolas de ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Monseignor St. Thomas
By Cyril Power
Located in New York, NY
Cyril Power (1872-1951) color linoleum cut, Monseignor St. Thomas, circa 1931, signed and titled in pencil at the lower right, apart from the edition of 60. Reference: Redfern 24. In very good condition, on buff oriental laid tissue, conservation matted, with margins, 13 7/8 x 11 1/8, the sheet 15 x 12 5/8 inches.
A fine impression, with the colors fresh and vivid. Printed in four colors (yellow, red, blue and dark blue).
The prints of the Grosvenor School artists were created by applying colors with successive blocks. The margins show the colors of each of these blocks (see illustration of the margin).
The subject matter of this print relates to TS Eliot...
Category
Futurist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
"Homage to the Square: Ten Works by Josef Albers" - Abstract, Set, Square
By Josef Albers
Located in Köln, DE
Set of 10 colour screenprints by Josef Albers.
Edition of 250 copies on Mohawk Superfine Bristol.
Sheet dimensions each: 43 x 43 cm
Illustrations each: 28 x 28 cm
All works labell...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
The Ring
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), The Ring, Abstract Figural Composition, Lithograph on Paper, mid 20th century, two nude figures in dangling hoop, numbered edition ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Abstract Lithograph by Johnny Friedlander
Located in Pasadena, CA
Art, a tangible manifestation of the imaginary and the sensitive, is translated through works capable of captivating and communicating beyond words. Friedlaender's lithographs, loade...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$600 Sale Price
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C.1950s Abstract Mid Century Lithograph "JO 23-1"
By Jerry Opper
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry and Ruth Opper
JO 23-1
1950's
Stone Lithograph on Paper
12.5" x 19", Unframed
Came from a portfolio of his work from his estate.
Jerry Opper (1924-2014)
He...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Stone
Henri Matisse, Teeny, from XXe siecle, 1938
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite linocut by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Teeny, from the album XXe siecle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue Valette (5e), Directeur G. di San Lazzaro, Sommaire du no. 4,...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
$2,396 Sale Price
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Red Composition - Lithograph by Virgilio Guidi - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Virgilio Guidi in 1960s.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Numbered on the lower left margin
Edition of 75
Good conditions except for some lights foxing and...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Henri Matisse, Decoupages, from XXe Siecle 1954 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Decoupages (Cutouts), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie N°4 (double) Janvie...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
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Mid-Century Modernist Lithograph Poster "Politiken" signed Ib Anderson
Located in New York, NY
This striking Mid-Century Modernist lithograph poster, designed for the Danish newspaper Politiken, is a masterful example of Scandinavian graphic design from the 1960s. Signed by th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fleur d
Helice
Located in Miami, FL
Fleur d'Helice, 1969
Lithograph in colors on Chiffon de Mandeure paper
Maeght Editeur, Paris
29.5 x 43.3 inches
Signed and numbered in pencil, edition 62 of 75
Professionally framed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mid Century 1960
s Original Colorful Abstract Woodblock Figurative Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original Mid Century woodblock print titled "Long Hot Summer" by American artist Toma Yovanovich. Hand signed in pencil and numbered 2 ...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Joan Miro, Seated Woman I/V, from Women, 1965
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Femme Assise I/V (Seated Woman I/V), from the folio Joan Miro, Femmes (Women), originates from the 1965 edition published...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,756 Sale Price
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Lithographier Originale (Abstract Expressionism)
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miro
Lithographier Originale
Original Color Lithograph
Year: 1961
Size: 14.5x10.5in
Edition: 1,500
Portfolio: DLM 125-126
Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris 1961
Additional text...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$255 Sale Price
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Henri Matisse, Zora, the Yellow Dress, Portraits by Henri Matisse, 1954 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Zora, la robe jaune (Zora, the Yellow Dress), from the album Portraits par Henri Matisse (Portraits by Henri Matisse...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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"Prints: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts"
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg
"Prints: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts" (Punching Bag)
Kornblee Gallery, New York, 1967
Exhibition Poster
22 x 20 inches
Signed
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Estate No. 044021
By Otto Neumann
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed and dated "52" in pencil
Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker. His monotypes evolved from sharp, angular, black and whites to late abst...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Robert Delaunay, The Window, No. 2, from XXe Siecle, 1957 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Robert Delaunay (1885–1941), titled La fenetre, n°2 (The Window, No. 2), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie N°9 (double), Juin 1957...
Category
Orphist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Akira Kito, Child, from Prints from the Mourlot Press, 1964
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Akira Kito (1909–1995), titled Enfant (Child), from the album Prints from the Mourlot Press, exhibition sponsored by the French Embassy, circulated by th...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Joan Miro, The Spanish Dancer, from Derriere le miroir, 1963
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled La danseuse espagnole (The Spanish Dancer), from the folio Derriere le miroir, No. 139–140, originates from the 1963 editio...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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9 (Nine), from the original Numbers portfolio (Sheehan 46-55) - FRAME included
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana
9, from the original Numbers portfolio (Sheehan 46-55), 1968
Color Silkscreen on Wove Paper
Limited Edition of 2500
Not Signed
Frame Included: Elegantly matted and fra...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Henri Matisse, Vence 1944–1948, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1948
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Vence 1944–1948, from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. VI, No. 21–22, originates from the 1948 issue publish...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original aquatint etching “Untitled” by the Germans artist, Ferdinand Springer. Signed in lower right margin in pencil by the artist and dated 1951. Condition is excellent. Edition size in pencil in lower left margin 98/200. Sheet size (full) is 115 by 22.75. Image size is 9.75 by 18.75. The artwork is housed in a thin antique silver contemporary frame. Overall framed measurements are 19.5 by 27 inches. Under glass. Provenance: A St. Petersburg, Florida collector.
Ferdinand Springer, painter and printmaker, was born to a German father and a Swiss mother in Berlin on October 1, 1907. After graduating from high school in Potsdam, he studied art history at the University of Zurich. He began painting in 1927 and visited Milan where he met the Italian painters Giorgio Morandi and Carlo Carrà.
Springer moved to Paris in 1928 where he studied with Roger Bissière at the Académie Ranson. In 1932, he learned intaglio techniques at Atelier 17 in Paris and, in 1937, he traveled to New York where he exhibited at the Julian Levy Gallery. During this time he met Alexander Calder and Salvatore Dali...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
$960 Sale Price
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The New Cable British Modern Mid 20th Century Vorticist European Vorticism Woman
Located in New York, NY
The New Cable British Modern Mid 20th Century Vorticist European Vorticism Woman
Sybil Andrews CPE (British/Canadian, 1898-1992)
"The New Cable," 1931
12 x 16 1/2 inches
Color linocut
Signed, titled, inscribed 'Second State', and numbered 13/60 in pencil
Framed: 19 x 24 inches
Literature: Coppel Sa17
Illustrated on page 10 of the catalog
The proposed edition of the first state of the Giant Cable was 50, but only 30 impressions were pulled. Andrews removed the blue background for the second state, which was published under the title The New Cable in an edition of 60.
BIO
Sybil Andrews was a printmaker, painter, graphic artist and educator who was born in Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England. She moved to London (England) in 1922. In 1947, she emigrated to Campbell River (Vancouver Island) British Columbia, Canada, where she worked, taught and lived for the rest of her life. She died at a hospital in Victoria (B.C.)
Her mediums were the colour linocut (1) (most famous), etching, posters, pastels, ink, watercolour, monoprint and oil. Her subjects were human activity (at work, sports, travel, etc.), figures, animals, genre, allegory, architecture and landscape. Her style was Art Deco (see AskART styles), Futurism, Cubism and Vorticism (2). Her work is identified by a simple format, clean lines, distortion, vivid colours, drama and rhythm.
Quote: "The colour linocut was just the medium for me, being interested in dynamics and ideas and patterns... It is impossible to be fussy with lines, you have to simplify, you are forced to simplify your idea to its fundamentals." Andrews produced 76 linocuts in her life, of which 43 were made from 1929 to 1939, which is considered to be her best period.
John Hassall's art correspondence course (1918) was the beginning of her formal art education. She went from there to Heatherley's School of Fine Art (London/1922) where she studied under Henry Massey (see AskART) and met artistic partner Cyril Power (see AskART). At the same time, she studied independently with sculptor Henri Glicenstein (see AskART) who taught her drypoint etching and to draw from life.
She also attended the Grosvenor School of Modern Art (1925). Iain McNab (1890-1967) was Principal and Claude Flight (3) (see AskART) an instructor who had a great influence on her choice of linocut as a primary medium. Some of his other students and her associates were Edith Lawrence (1890-1973), Lill Tschudi (1911-2001), Eileen Mayo (see AskART) and William Greengrass (1896-1970). After emigrating to Canada she taught art continuously until a month before her death.
She was elected a member of the Canadian Painters - Etchers Society (after 1976 the Print and Drawing Council of Canada) in 1951.
She began exhibiting her work in 1921.In 1929 she was included in "The First Exhibition of British Linocuts...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
Hands, Mid Century mod Surrealist mixed media Signed/N (Gemini 20 Anselmino 61)
By Man Ray
Located in New York, NY
MAN RAY
Hands, 1966
Silkscreen on Plexiglass
Published by Gemini GEL
Measurements:
Image: 20"h x 16"w
sheet plexi: 25.5"h x 19.5"w
overall (with frame): 26.75"h x 20.75"w.
Edition ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen, Plexiglass
Energia 1, Op Art Screenprint by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011)
Title: Energia I
Year: 1969
Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100, AP
Image Size: 17 x 17 inches
Size: 20 x 20 in...
Category
Op Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Augusto Marin exhibition poster (Puerto Rican artist)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful exhibition poster by Puerto rican artist, Rafael Tufino (1922-2008). Augusto Marin, Exposicion de Pinturas, 1965. Screen print on paper, 20 x 3...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel (Prefatio) Poster /// Bauhaus Josef Albers Art
By Josef Albers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Josef Albers (German-American, 1888-1976)
Title: "Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel (Prefatio)"
Year: 1957
Medium: Original Relief Print (Letterpress), Exhibition Poster on light wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Publisher: Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Sheet size: 24.75" x 17.63"
Image size: 11.75" x 15.63"
Condition: A few faint handling creases. Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition
Extremely rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Nuremberg, Germany. Poster produced for a special exhibition of Albers' work "Early Pictures from the Twenties and New Works" at the Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel from May 28 - June 8, 1957. The image featured on this poster is Albers' 1942 lithograph edition "Prefatio", (Danilowitz No. 103, page 76), from his 1942 "Graphic Tectonics" series of 9 lithographs, (Danilowitz No. 100-108, page 74-79). Printer's imprint upper right.
This is an extremely rare poster being if not the, one of the, earliest documented Josef Albers exhibition...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper
Ellsworth Kelly, Yellow, Blue, from Derriere le Miroir, 1964
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015), titled Jaune, Bleu (Yellow, Blue), originates from the historic 1964 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 149. Published by Maeght ...
Category
Hard-Edge Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
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Juan Gris, Bottle, from Au Soleil du Plafond, 1955 (after)
By Juan Gris
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Juan Gris (1887–1927), titled Bouteille (Bottle), from the folio Au Soleil du Plafond (In the Sunlight of the Ceiling), originates from the 1955 editi...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Eduardo Vera Cortes poster Antonio Maldonado exhibition (Puerto Rican artist)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Rare exhibition poster by Puerto Rican artist Carlos Osario. Una Gota de Sangre, 1963. Screen print on paper, 17.5 x 25 inches. Some wear and crea...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
L
Homme-Chat, Paroles peintes I, Ossip Zadkine
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on vélin Johannot d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Paroles peintes I, 1962. Published by Éditions O. La...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
$3,036 Sale Price
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Living Painting - Colour Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Sonia Delaunay
Full-page, colour pochoir after costume designs by Sonia Delaunay
Edition 331/500 copies on Velin Aussedat
Dimensions: 28.5 x 19.5 cm.
From 27 Living Paintings. [Milano, Edizioni del Naviglio, 1969]. Jacques Damase. Robes Poèmes, Introduction. Text by Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars.
Sonia Delaunay was known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker.
Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she was adopted in 1890 by her maternal uncle, Henri Terk, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she grew up, exposed to music and art, and learning several foreign languages. In 1903, she moved to Germany to study drawing with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler (1863–1909) at the Karlsruhe academy of fine arts; Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer-to-be, was among her classmates there. In 1905, she traveled to Paris where she attended art classes at the Académie de la Palette, learned printmaking from Rudolf Grossman (1889–1941), and met Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883–1943). Sonia spent much of her time at exhibitions and galleries in Paris, which showed works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Les Fauves, Henri Matisse and André Derain. She did, however, maintain contact with Germany, exhibiting at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, in 1913, 1920 and 1921.
During her first year in Paris, Sonia met the German collector and art-dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whom she married on December 5, 1908, and whose Montparnasse gallery, the Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs, showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement, married Delaunay that same year, and gave birth to their son, Charles, in January 1911.
Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the study of color, influenced by theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). Sonia’s interest in simultaneous contrast, as evidenced in her early collages, book bindings, small painted boxes...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Vellum
Serge Poliakoff, Red Green and Blue Composition, from XXe Siecle, 1961
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Serge Poliakoff (1900–1969), titled Composition rouge verte et bleue (Red Green and Blue Composition), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXIIIe ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L
oiseau de passage
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1961
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 30/75
Publisher : Maeght (Paris)
Printer : Maeght (Paris)
Catalog : [Vallier 166, p.235]
75.00 cm. x 56.50 ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Henri Matisse, Series D, Var. 1, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie D, var. 1 (Series D, Variation 1), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Henri Matisse, Series B, Var. 1, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie B, var. 1 (Series B, Variation 1), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Derrier le Miroir, cover, Volume 141
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derrier le Miroir, cover, Volume 141
Original color lithograph, 1963
Unsigned and unnumbered (as issued)
From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141
Published by A. Maeght, Paris
Condition: E...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wifredo Lam, The Veiled Birds, from Derriere le miroir, 1953
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Wifredo Lam (1902–1982), titled Les Oiseaux Voiles (The Veiled Birds), from the folio Derriere le miroir, No. 55-56, originates from the 1953 edition pub...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Robert N. Robathan, Canyon
Located in New York, NY
Robert N. Robathan was raised in Los Angeles. This lithograph has the blind stamp of the noted California printer, Lynton Kistler, at the lower left.
An impression of this subject i...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pierre Soulages, Plate No. 3, from Painters of Today, 1962 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), titled Planche No. 3 (Plate No. 3), from the folio Pierre Soulages, Peintres d'aujourd'hui (Pierre Soulages, Painters o...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Jean Cocteau, Untitled, from The White Book, 1930
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Le Livre blanc (The White Book), precede dun fronti...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$3,196 Sale Price
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Ubac, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
By Raoul Ubac
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 130, 1961. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Salient in February
— Mid 20th-Century Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'Salient in February', color serigraph, 1945, edition 40, Ryan 166. Signed in pencil. Titled, dated, and annotated 'ED. 40' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh col...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Les Chiens Ont Soif Cover, Surrealist Lithograph by Max Ernst
By Max Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Ernst, German (1891 - 1976) - Les Chiens Ont Soif Cover, Portfolio: Les Chiens Ont Soif, Year: 1964, Medium: Lithograph, Edition: 165/320, Image Size: 17 x 22 inches, Size: ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Stanley William Hayter, Trois Personnages
Located in New York, NY
Black and Moorehead 198, edition of 50.
Signed, titled, and numbered, in pencil.
Made shortly after Stanley William Hayter returned to his Paris Atelier 17 from New York, Trois Perso...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
European Landscape
—Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'European Landscape', drypoint, edition 50, 1942. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '7/50' in pencil. A superb, finely nuanced impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/4 inches); in excellent condition.
Image size 10 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
An impression of this work is included in the permanent collection of the Syracuse University Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint
3 (Three), Limited Edition from the Numbers portfolio (Sheehan 46-55) - FRAMED
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana
3, from the original Numbers portfolio (Sheehan 46-55), 1968
Color Silkscreen on Wove Paper
Limited Edition of 2500
Not Signed
Frame Included
This classic 1960s silks...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled By Alexander Calder
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Untitled
By Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder was a pioneering American sculptor known for his innovative mobiles and stabiles, which challenged traditional notions of sculpture b...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled 3, Minimalist Abstract Lithograph by K.R.H. Sonderborg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: K.R.H. Sonderborg, Danish (1923-2008)
Title: Untitled 3
Year: 1969
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 32/100
Size: 39.5 in. x 24.5 in. (100.33 cm x 62...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tunnel /Target
By June Wayne
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JUNE WAYNE (1918 - 2011)
THE TUNNEL II, 1951 (B.69; G.14; Conway 67)
Lithograph, signed, numbered, dated July 1951 and titled incorrectly The Target.
Edition 35. 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inc...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$975 Sale Price
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Alfonso Ossorio, Number X, from Initiatory Paintings, 1951 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite collotype after Alfonso Ossorio (1916–1990), titled Peinture initiatique X (Initiatory Painting X), from the album Peintures initiatiques d'Alfonso Ossorio (Initiatory...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Ellsworth Kelly, Oval and Rectangle, from Derriere le Miroir, 1964
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015), titled Ovale et rectangle (Oval and Rectangle), originates from the historic 1964 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 149. Publish...
Category
Hard-Edge Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Rise I (The swan on a blue-green background)
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1961
Edition : 41/100
Publisher : Maeght, Paris
Printer : Maeght, Paris
Catalog : [Vallier n°161 p.230; Mourlot n°100]
48.50 cm. x 65.50 cm. 19.09 in. x 25.79 in. (pap...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alfonso Ossorio, Number IV, from Initiatory Paintings, 1951 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite collotype after Alfonso Ossorio (1916–1990), titled Peinture initiatique IV (Initiatory Painting IV), from the album Peintures initiatiques d'Alfonso Ossorio (Initiato...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Nevelson, Louise. UNTITLED. Baro 36. Tamarind Number 801. Lithograph, 1963. Edition of 20, plus 2 Printer's Proofs, 1 Trial Proof, and 3 Artist's Proofs. Inscribed "Tamarind Impressi...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Taos Artist Gene Kloss Original Drypoint, Christmas Eve, Taos Pueblo
By Gene Kloss
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Drypoint etching by famous Taos Artist Gene Kloss (1903-1996).
Edition of 75. Titled: Christmas Eve - Taos Pueblo.
Image measures: 12" H x 15" W.
Unframed. Archivally matted.
Created...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper
Henri Matisse, Miss P.C., from Portraits by Henri Matisse, 1954 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Mademoiselle P.C. (Miss P.C.), from the album Portraits par Henri Matisse (Portraits by Henri Matisse), originates...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Marilyn Monroe Pop Art 1969 Color Screenprint Richard Merkin
Located in Surfside, FL
Poetry by J.D. REED Artwork by Richard Merkin screenprint in color, 1969, edition 22/50 Published by Bizzaro, Providence, R.I.
Richard Marshall Merkin (1938-2009) was an American p...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
The King
s Feast, King Ubu - Original Lithograph (Maeght #399)
By Joan Miró
Located in Paris, IDF
Joan MIRO
The King's Feast, King Ubu, 1966
Original lithograph (Atelier Mourlot, Paris)
Unsigned
Numbered / 75 copies
On Arches vellum 54 x 75 cm (c. 21.2 x 29.5 in)
REFERENCE : Ca...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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