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Period: Mid-20th Century
1 (One), from, original Numbers portfolio (Sheehan 46-55). Edition 2500, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana 1, 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...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Screen

Le Rieurs et les Poissons - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Chagall in 1929, and printed by Tériade in 1952. It belongs to the Series "Les Fables de La Fontaine". Edition of 200. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Pri...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Seurat, Le peintre au travail, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From th...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Henri Matisse, Series B, Var. 5, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie B, var. 5 (Series B, Variation 5), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...
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Fauvist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Rabbit in Vase - Lithograph By Jean Lurçat - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Rabbit in Vase is an original artwork realized by the french artist Jean Lurçat (1892 Bruyeres - 1966 St.-Paul-de-Vence) Lithograph print, mid-20th century. Very good condit...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Mac-Avoy, Panorama de Paris, Au Temps de Paris Seine (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on grand vélin des Papeteries de Lana paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Au Temps de Paris Seine...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Girls with Dachshund, Impressionist Lithograph by Constantin Terechkovitch
Located in Long Island City, NY
Constantin Terechkovitch, Russian (1902 - 1978) - Girls with Dachshund, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 91/150, Image Size: 25.5 x 19.75 inches, Size: 28....
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Bonnard, Marchand des quatre-saisons, Bonnard Lithographe (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper. Year: 1952 Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches; image size: 8.27 x 9.45 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Not...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Many Cities from the Rilke Portfolio, Minimalist lithograph by Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969) Title: Many Cities from the Rilke Portfolio Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in the plate Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 in....
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Such a Tall Woman - Original etching - 1951
Located in Paris, IDF
Andre DERAIN Such a Tall Woman Original drypoint etching Stamp signature of the artist On vellum 45 x 34 cm (c. 18 x 14 in) Excellent condition
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Still Life with White Pot and Pears - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY Still Life with White Pot and Pears, 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor With printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch) E...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Leonor Fini, Untitled, from The Story of O, 1962
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph, titled Sans titre, after Leonor Fini, from the folio L'Histoire d'O (The Story of O), 1962, was published and printed by La Compagnie des Vibliophiles, au ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Anna ed Emma nei Boschi - Etching by Luigi Bartolini - 1933
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 28 x 23.5 cm. Anna e Emma nei boschi (Anna and Emma in the Woods) is an original artwork realized by Luigi Bartolini in 1933. Original etching applied on China paper. Dimensions of the plate: 280 x 235 mm. Titled, numbered and signature in pencil of the artist on the lower margin: "Anna e Emma nei boschi 16/50 Luigi Bartolini". Signed and dated on plate on the lower right corner: "L. Bartolini 1935". Excellent conditions. Other titles: Anna e Emma nel bosco; Anna e Emma. Illustration for the book "L'Alipio". Reproduced in "Amata dopo", Nistri-Lischi, 1949; reproduced on the cover of “Il mezzano Alipio”, Vallecchi, 1951. Bibliography: 1951 Petrucci, Calcografia n. 411 1952 Gli esemplari unici o rari p. 103 1959 Severini, Timpanaro n. 525 1960 Milano, riprodotta su Il Fazioso, Edizioni Il Borghese 1962 Ronci, Calcografia n. 411 1972 Barsanti, Galleria Marino n. 463 1997 Ficacci, Calcografia n. 65b 1998 La collezione Timpanaro n. 46 2003 Gli anni meranesi pag. 47 Main exhibitions: 1942 Venezia, XXII Biennale 1943 Roma, IV Quadriennale Luigi Bartolini Cupramontana (Ancona), 1892 – Rome 1963 An accomplished Twentieth Century Italian engraver, painter, writer, art critic and engraver. He spent his early years living in Rome, Siena, and Florence and was professionally formed through university courses in art and medicine, museums, and the Academy Belle Arti. He begins to study art in 1912 with a special preference for Goya, Rembrandt, and Fattori. His success as an engraver arrives in 1924 with his exhibitions at Bragaglia’s House of Art and Casa Palazzi di Roma (70 etchings). In 1925 he participates in the II Roman Biennial and then in the Venice Biennial from 1928 to 1936. He is considered, along with Morandi, the greatest Italian engraver. His expositive work continues with intensity in the post-war period with one-man exhibitions in both Italy and abroad. His last one-man exhibition takes place at the XXXI Venice Biennial and at the National Chalcography in Rome in 1962. Bartolini lives through his era in complete liberty, dedicating himself to painting, to art criticism, to literature and teaching. This intellectual and artistic autonomy is well reflected in his engravings and it is exactly because of this characteristic of intellectual autonomy that he has never really belonged to the Scuola Romana although he was very attached to it because he frequented the Roman environment and it’s artists who he would often exhibit with. His literary production is gathered the volumes Polemiche (1940), Credo d’artista (1945), Il Fallimento della Pittura (1948) and Poesie 1911-1963(1964). As a critic, he collaborates with numerous magazines such as “Il Selvaggio”, “Quadrivio”, “La Tribuna”, “L’Ambrosiano” etc. After the war, “Bicycle Thieves...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Calder, Composition, A Bestiary (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Letterpress printing on spécialement fabriqué Curtis Rag vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.1875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, A Best...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Surrealist Figure, Dorothée, 1969 - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitsky, aka) Surrealist Figure, 1969 Handsigned original etching Also printed signature in the plate On vellum, 23 x 17 cm (c. 9 x 6,6 inch) Numbered /50 copie...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec, 1950. Published by Librairie Au Pont des Arts, Paris; rendered by Daniel Jacomet; and, printed by Ateliers Daniel Jacomet et Cie, Paris, Monday, October 30, 1950. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This album, including all the prints dedicated by Toulouse-Lautrec to Yvette Guilbert, was printed for the Librairie Au Pont des Arts, by D. Jacomet. The color state of the Colombine plate in Pierrot and the twenty-seven plates of the French and English series were executed according to the original lithographs (before the letter for the French suite) from the Toulouse-Lautrec workshop and kept in the Cabinet des Stampes of the National Library. The collection includes three plates in color and twenty-eight plates in black. All copies also include a lithograph: Colombine à Pierrot, taken, after special authorization from the Musée d'Albi, on the original stone of Toulouse-Lautrec, by Lucien Détruit. It was taken from this album: A non-trade and nominative example; L examples on a large vélin of Rives including: III proofs of the lithography Colombine à Pierrot printed...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Seurat, Fort de la Halle, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From th...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Sunrise
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sunrise" 1978, is an original color aquatint on rice paper by noted Indian artist Kaiko Moti, 1921-1989. It is hand signed and numbered LXXIV/LXXV in red pencil...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

Ninetta - Etching by Arthure Greuell - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ninetta is an artwork realized by Arthur Greuell (1891-1966) in 1950. Etching on paper. Hand-signed on the lower right margin. Limited edition n. 25/65 ex. Good condition on a yell...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Femmes De Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper Year: 1954 Paper Size: 9.5 x 13.5 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Femmes de Lau...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Maurice Utrillo, The Sacred Heart, 1956 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955), titled Le Sacre-coeur (The Sacred Heart), from the album Eloge de Maurice Utrillo (In Praise of Maurice Utrillo), originates from the 1956 edition published by Editions d'Art Manuel Bruker, Paris, and printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, June 5, 1956. The work embodies Utrillos mastery of atmospheric mood, architectural clarity, and emotional restraint, distilling the quiet poetry and introspective spirit that define his modernist vision. Executed as a lithograph on papier velin Vidalon blanc, fabrique au Moulin de Vidalon, Canson paper, this work measures 13.18 x 21.1 inches (33.5 x 53.6 cm), with centerfold as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. The edition exemplifies the refined craftsmanship of Mourlot Freres, Paris. Artwork Details: Artist: After Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955) Title: Le Sacre-coeur (The Sacred Heart), from the album Eloge de Maurice Utrillo (In Praise of Maurice Utrillo) Medium: Lithograph on papier velin Vidalon blanc, fabrique au Moulin de Vidalon, Canson paper Dimensions: 13.18 x 21.1 inches (33.5 x 53.6 cm), with centerfold as issued Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Date: June 5, 1956 Publisher: Editions d'Art Manuel Bruker, Paris Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the album Eloge de Maurice Utrillo (In Praise of Maurice Utrillo), published by Editions d'Art Manuel Bruker, Paris; printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, June 5, 1956 Notes: Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This album was completed and printed on June 5, 1956 on the presses of madame Jean-Gabriel Daragnes for typography and by the Mourlot Freres for lithographs. It was shot on Vidalon blanc. Two hundred numbered examples from I to CC, including the first XX with a suite on velin paper of the Marais. It has been attached to each example a simulated fac of the Sonnet d'Utrillo: "Lyric art...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Tribute to Design - Original lithograph (Atelier Michel Cassé), 1964
Located in Paris, IDF
Le Corbusier Tribute to Design, 1964 Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate Limited to 250 copies On vellum 42.5 x 35.5 cm (c. 16.5 x 13.7 in) Edited by Forces-Vives (P...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

l Entree du Port, Netherland
By Heran Chaban
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "l'Entree du Port, Netherland" c. 1930 is an original color aquatint on wove paper by French/Armenian artist Heran Chaban, 1887-1939. It is h...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

Pablo Picasso, vintage poster
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Texte : vintage original poster published by the famous Paris Gallery Claude Bernard for a Pablo Picasso exhibition in 1980. This poster depicts a Pi...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Paper

Gravure XXII from Poemes, Surrealist Woodcut Print by Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) - Gravure XXII from Poemes, Year: 1968, Medium: Woodcut, Size: 14.5 x 11.25 in. (36.83 x 28.58 cm), Printer: Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Aliyah, Convenant: Eternal Circumcision lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Salvador Dali's Aliyah, Convenant: Eternal Circumcision is from the Aliyah, Rebirth of Israel Suite which was created by Salvador Dali for the 20th anniversary of the proclamation...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Composition (Cramer 88), Dans l Atelier de Picasso (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches à la forme savoir paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Dans l'Atelier de Picasso, 1957. Published by Fernan...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, TLautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper Year: 1946 Paper Size: 13 x 17 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, TLautrec, 1946. ...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Chat Perché - Lithograph by Edouard Chimot - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Edouard Chimot in 1932. Belongs to the suite "Le Chat", in which the author classifies and represents pubic hairstyles that become progressively more surreal....
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

James Penney, Corridor
Located in New York, NY
James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints. Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NY...
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Ashcan School Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Tomi Ungerer Nude Gun (Tomi Ungerer underground sketchbook)
By Tomi Ungerer
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Tomi Ungerer Nude Gun: a selection from Underground Sketchbook: First printing, 1965. Medium: Vintage poster. Dimensions: 23 in. x 29 in. (58.42 cm x 73.66 cm). Very good overall vi...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Woman - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Woman" is an original woodcut realized by Mino Maccari (1898-1989). In good conditions. This artwork represents a standing woman at the top left and a detailed leg while a hand is...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Axel Crieger Audrey Hepburn Fotocollage Print "Fragility Adored" Ltd Ed
By Axel Crieger
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Fragility Adored" a Fotocollage print on photographic paper by Axel Crieger (1955 - ) of an Audrey Hepburn publicity photo for "Sabrina" now placed in a cafe. It is mounted on upper edges of sheet under paste-partout, monogrammed and numbered #77/99 in a felt-tip pen on the lower right. He has signed it both on the photo and on the surrounding mat. Alex Crieger is a world-reknown artist, designer and photographer. He lives and works in Los Angeles. His digital paintings have a rich and profound pictorial space that invites the viewer into it and makes him/her a silent participant of the story. His digital collaged images depict celebrities in dreamlike settings as advertisement of luxury products giving the images an original new look. Alex’s digital paintings are composed of a variety of photographic quotes, designs, drawings and special effects to create photographic images he has not always taken but collaged into new uniquely composed settings. Crieger is a photographer who makes art photographs we wish to be real. He’s created compositions of Steve McQueen or Brigitte Bardot that are more beautiful than the truth. A combination of sketches, digital effects and a spectacular design yield classic photographs that have never been photographed. For example, Brigitte still exudes in Paris and an eternally young James Dean poses for a propeller plane. Crieger has already produced several exhibitions at international art shows and galleries. Many museums of contemporary art also exhibit his work.   He studied visual communications and has worked as a photographer, director and designer for international clients in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London and Milan. His work as garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards and is produced in small editions. In addition to photography, Crieger also worked as a director and designer for international clients in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London and Milan. He has created advertisements, exhibitions and a variety of designs and large paintings. Alex Crieger even published the book American Night...
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Conceptual Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Photographic Paper

Vuillard, Le Jardin devant l´atelier, L œuvre gravé de Vuillard (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 19.25 x 12.5 inches; image size: 15.35 x 11.42 inches, with centerfold, as issued Inscription: Unsigned and unnu...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Nativity - Original Etching by R. Cazanove - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Nativity is a superb black and white etching on cream-colored and laid paper, realized by Raymond Cazanove, as it is reported on the lower left margin. A touching scene of the nati...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Paper, Etching

Don Freeman, (At the Booking Desk)
Located in New York, NY
Don Freeman is best known for his paintings and works on paper of New York City's theatre industry: the signage, the stages and sets, the actors, the costumers and ushers, anything a...
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Ashcan School Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Les Affiches De Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Filigrané a sa marque paper Year: 1950 Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches; image size: 12.2 x 7.87 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbere...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Homage to Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1969 From the revue XXe Siecle, edition of 12,000 Unsigned, as issued Dimensions: 32 x 24 Condition : Excellent Reference: Mourlot 572 Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion. With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way. Haunted Harbors Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Hommage a Jean Cocteau for the Ville de Nantes 1964 (after) Cocteau, Jean
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Hommage a Jean Cocteau for the Ville de Nantes 1964 By (after) Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) was a versatile French artist whose influence spanned across literature, film, ...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Donne a Ischia - Lithograph - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated. Edition of 125 prints. In “Donne a Ischia” (“Women in Ischia”), a lithograph dated 1952, there are three bathers, two of which are seen from behind. Their red ...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"Drowsy Bums" - Mid Century Figurative San Francisco Dock Landscape
By John Stoll
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative landscape capturing dock workers' afternoon break by John Theodore Edward Stoll (b. Germany; 1889, d. California; 1974). Signed "John Stoll" lower right. Titled "Drowsy Bu...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Paper, Printer s Ink, Etching

Despues de la Corrida, Surrealist Etching by Guillermo Silva Santamaria
Located in Long Island City, NY
Guillermo Silva Santamaria, Colombian (1922 -2007) - Despues de la Corrida, Year: circa 1963, Medium: Etching with Aquatint on Fabriano Cotton paper, signed, titled and numbered in...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Aracne - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Aracne -  "The Divine Comedy" - Song 12 -  Purgatory  is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not s...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Ubac, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 155, 1965. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeu...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Rider and Dancer - Original Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Rider and dancer, 1949 Color etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11in) INFORMATION : Created by Laurencin and engraved by Lo...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Ubac, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 161, 1966. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Clowness, from The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Clownesse (Clowness), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-Lautrec. Published by Paris ...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Geno Pettit, Seated Figure
Located in New York, NY
Seated Figure by Geno (sometimes Genoi) Pettit, made in 1945, is a wonderfully 'moderne' image. The woman is wearing a roman-inspired blouse or dress and is shown against a yellow/green, chartreuse background. There is the feeling she is about to lead an ancient procession at any moment! Pettit and her husband, Guy McCoy...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Screen

Vintage Russian Ukrainian Shtetl Scene Judaica Lithograph Jewish Portrait
Located in Surfside, FL
Pencil signed and dated, Judaica Lithograph. Anatoli Lwowitch Kaplan was a Russian painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose works often reflect his Jewish origins. His father was a b...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Chapel of the Agricultural School, Chapingo (Ceiling Detail, Workers)
Located in Missouri, MO
(after) Diego Rivera "Chapel of the Agricultural School, Chapingo" (Ceiling Detail, Workers) 1933 from the portfolio "Frescoes of Diego Rivera" Published by the Museum of Modern Art, NY Size with the Matt: 18.5 x 13.5 inches Hand-Signed by the Artist Diego Rivera was born on December 13, 1886 in the mountain town of Guanajuato in Mexico. His mother was an ardent Catholic and his father was a rich and aristocratic revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swore his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his diatribes against the Church. When he was eleven he attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts; his real teacher was Jose Posada...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Adam Eve, Folk Art Woodblock by W Hahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
W Hahn - Adam & Eve, Year: 1954, Medium: Woodblock on Japon, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 5/50, Image Size: 15 x 11 inches, Size: 18.5 x 15 in. (46.99 ...
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Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Beaudin, Composition, André Beaudin, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, André Beaudin, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Signpost - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Manet, Composition, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Foreign Affairs paper mounted on Foreign Affairs museum board, as issued . Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles, 1944. Published by Pantheon Books, New York; rendered and printed by Raymond and...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Headdress
Located in Columbia, MO
Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, in the full swing of the Surrealist movement....
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Jean Lurcat, The Capricorn, from The Signs of the Zodiac, 1959
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Jean Lurcat (1892–1966), titled Le Capricorne (The Capricorn), from the folio Les Signes du Zodiaque (The Signs of the Zodiac), originates fr...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Jean Cocteau, Untitled, from The White Book, 1930
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 frontispice et accompagne de 17 dessins de Jean Cocteau (preceded by a frontispiece and accompanied by 17 drawings by Jean Cocteau), originates from the 1930 edition published by Editions du Signe, Paris, printed by Maitres-Imprimeurs, Ducros et Colas, Paris, and hand colored by M.B. Armington (a probable pseudonym of Jean Cocteau), May 10, 1930. The work reflects Cocteaus mastery of linear elegance and psychological nuance, distilling intimacy, vulnerability, and symbolic clarity into a composition that occupies a pivotal place in early twentieth-century modernism and queer cultural history. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring on velin d'Arches paper, this work measures 11.81 x 9.06 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. The edition exemplifies the refined craftsmanship of Ducros and Colas, Maitres-Imprimeurs, and the exceptional hand-coloring attributed to Cocteau himself. ARTWORK DETAILS Artist: After Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) Title: Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Le Livre blanc (The White Book), precede dun frontispice et accompagne de 17 dessins de Jean Cocteau (preceded by a frontispiece and accompanied by 17 drawings by Jean Cocteau) Year: 1930 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring on velin d'Arches paper Size: 11.81 x 9.06 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Publisher: Editions du Signe, Paris Printer: Maitres-Imprimeurs, Ducros et Colas, Paris Catalogue Raisonne References: Bezit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. Gründ, 1976, vol. 3, p. 744. Carteret, Leon. Le Tresor du Bibliophile: Livres Illustres Modernes, 1875–1945. Editions Carteret, 1958, vol. 5, p. 51. van der Veen, H. In Liefde Verzameld: Homoseksualiteit en de Nederlandse Literatuur. De Buitenkant, 1992, no. 136. Monod, Luc. Manuel de Lamateur de Livres Illustres Modernes: 1875–1975. Ides & Calendes, 1992, no. 2912. Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the album Le Livre blanc, published by Editions du Signe, Paris; printed by Ducros et Colas, Paris; hand colored by M.B. Armington (a probable pseudonym of Jean Cocteau), May 10, 1930 NOTES Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This album, whose plates have been entirely colored by hand by M.B. Armington, an artist-painter, was completed to print on May 10, 1930, by Ducros and Colas, Maitres-Imprimeurs in Paris. The draw has been limited to: XVIII examples on japon nacre, each containing one of the XVIII original drawings and a suite on Hollande, numbered from I to XVIII; VI examples, H.C., marked from A to F; XVIII examples on japon imperial, numbered from XIX to XXXVI; VI examples, H.C., marked from G to L; CCCLXXX examples on velin d'Arches, numbered from XXXVII to CDXVI; XXII examples, H.C., marked from A to V. ABOUT THE PUBLICATION Le Livre blanc (The White Book), published in 1930 by Editions du Signe with plates printed by Ducros et Colas and hand colored by the enigmatic M.B. Armington (likely Cocteau himself), occupies a singular and foundational place in the history of LGBTQ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Marc Chagall David and Bathsheba
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: David and Bathsheba Portfolio: The Bible Lithographs Medium: Lithograph Date: 1956 Edition: 6500 Frame Size: 22 1/2" x 19" Sheet Size: 14" x 10 3/8" Image...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Wedding Party
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mid century modern woodblock print. This work is hand signed illegibly and titled "Wedding Party".
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

Wedding Party
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