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Abstract Figurative Prints

ABSTRACT STYLE

Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.

Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.

Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.

Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.

Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.

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Style: Abstract
Robert Kushner, abstraction for the Paris Review Lithograph hand signed 142//200
Located in New York, NY
Robert Kushner Paris Review, 1982 Lithograph with Deckled Edges. Hand signed and numbered 142/200 by the artist on the front 30 × 44 inches Unframed This work was part of a series o...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

American Bulgarian original 1975 poster Galeria Ciento show Barcelona Spain
Located in Miami, FL
Christo (Bulgaria, 1935-2020) 'Galería Ciento', 1975 lithograph on paper 28 x 22.1 in. (71 x 56 cm.) Unframed Ref: CHR1038-P001 Condition: Not previously owned, and no signs of use....
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Alexander Calder lithograph derrière le miroir
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder Lithograph c. 1971 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition; well-preseved. Unsigned from an edition of u...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

"Black Nude" Minimal Figurative Black and White Abstract Monotype Print
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white minimal monotype print of an abstracted female torso. The work is signed and titled by the artist in pencil along the front lower margin. Currently hung in a black fr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Prints

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Monotype

White Lotus Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
White Lotus Lithograph A limited edition lithograph by listed artist Hoi Lebadang, (Vietnamese/French, 1922 – 2015). This print displays an ethereal lotus flower to center, known to ...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Paul Klee 1981 Exhibition poster, Florence, Italy, a.k.a. Biting Woman
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Paul Klee 1981 exhibition poster for the Florence, Italy in the Orsanmichele Museum. (The Orsanmichele is known as the kitchen garden of St. Michael.) The church - mus...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Offset

Women s Equality, Contemporary Lithograph by Marisol Escobar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Date: 1975 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 250 Size: 41.5 in. x 29.5 in. (105.41 cm x 74.93 cm)
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Flowerball Sexual Violet No.1 (3D) 2013 limited print by Takashi Murakami signed
Located in Hong Kong, HK
"Flowerball Sexual Violet No.1 (3D)," created by Takashi Murakami in 2013, is an offset print with cold stamp and high gloss varnish, measuring 71 cm (28 inches) in diameter. This v...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Offset

Mid Century Chevaux et Cavalières La Nuit Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Nocturnal Horses with Riders Under Moonlight Lithograph Limited Edition Compelling nocturnal lithograph of two women on horseback by ...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Untitled (signed multidimensional silkscreen on two plexiglass panes)
Located in Aventura, FL
Interspaceograph - multidimensional silkscreen print on two clear plexiglass panes. There is space between the two silkscreen print plexiglass panes in the custom frame giving the a...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Screen, Plexiglass

Olympische Spiele Muenchen (Foot), Pop Art Screenprint Poster by Tom Wesselmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Tom Wesselmann (1931 - 2004) Title: Olympische Spiele Muenchen (Foot) Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint Poster mounted on linen Edition: 3000 Size: 40 in. x 25 in. (101.6 cm x 6...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Screen

Des Ongles et Du Bec (abstract female portrait)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Artist Georges Rouault (1871, France - 1958, France) Main title "Des ongles et du bec" Etching and aquatint on wove paper. Creation date 1926 / 1948 Publisher: Etoile Filante, P...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Miracle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARINO MARINI (1901-1980) MIRACLE - Etching, Signed and numbered 70 / 75 in pencil. Image 15 ½ x 10 ½ inches,. Full sheet 22 3/8 x 15 inches with deckle edges. Plate IV of the serie...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Etching

"Orange Row", Abstract Geometric Minimalist Composition w Ovals, Limited Edition
By Geoffrey Bowman
Located in Soquel, CA
"Orange Row", Abstract Geometric Minimalist Composition w Ovals, Limited Edition Delicate and perfect ovals in orange, yellow, red, and blue are purposefully arranged on lined paper...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph, Etching

Angel Delgado, ¨Halar la cadena¨, 2010, Silkscreen, 17.5x14.8 in
Located in Miami, FL
"Angel Delgado (Cuba, 1965) 'Halar la cadena', 2010 silkscreen on toilet cover 17.6 x 14.8 in. (44.5 x 37.5 cm.) Edition of 10 ID: DEL-101"
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2010s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Found Objects, Screen

Mid-20th Century Signed Nature Morte Harvest Scene Lithograph
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is original and pencil signed an numbered by the artist. It is one of a kind in black and white.
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Engraving

Signed Lithograph on Japanese vellum A man tells me the morning of his distant f
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Theo Tobiasse Title: Un homme je Conte les Matins Lointain de sa Famille Title: A man tells me the morning of his distant family  Print - Lithograph on Japanese vellum   Si...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Large Mexican Figurative Expressionist Lithograph Women Juan Sebastian Barbera
Located in Surfside, FL
Juan Sebastian Barbera (Spanish, Born 1964 ) Litho on Guarro Paper Titled : La Comision (from the Los Conjuros Suite) Circa, 1994. Hand signed in pencil lower right with edition size number 62 / 75. Frame: 38" X 46" Image: 22" X 30" Juan Sebastián Barberá Durón Plastic artist Cd. de México 1964 Son of the great musical artist Luisa Duron, Mexican harpsichordist, daughter of pianists Jesús Durón Ruiz and Julia Crespo considered a pioneer of the movement and musical flourishing of the Renaissance and Baroque periods and the initiator of the harpsichord school in Mexico .he grew up in an almost Renaissance environment, among artists and under the main protection of the baroque music of Bach and Hotteterre, Couperin and Scarlatti , among others. Since a very young age, he had a great talent for drawing, painting and sculpture and at the age of ten he won the National School contest of art. From there on, he studied painting and engraving with significant teachers, and was dedicated in a very clear way to the plastic arts from the age of 17 years, after a mystical trip to India. He continued his studies at the academy of San Carlos...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

abstract composition
By Marie Raymond
Located in Belgrade, MT
This color lithograph is part of my private collection since the 1970's. Marie Raymond was a pioneer post WWII painter of her generation. She was a lyrical abstractionist of her time...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints

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Color, Lithograph

Harry Bowden, (Seated Figure)
Located in New York, NY
This print was made for the American Abstract Artists Portfolio, 1937. All the images were lithographs made on zinc plates. Usually they were signed or initialed in the image -- on t...
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1930s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Witness my Joy, 2022, Limited edition Screenprint by David Shrigley
Located in Hong Kong, HK

David Shrigley  

Witness My Joy (2022)

Limited edition screenprint numbered and signed by the artist.

16 colour screenprint with a varnish overlay
75 x 56 c...

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2010s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Screen

ICARUS I Signed Lithograph, Abstract Male Figure, Greek Mythology, Black, Grey
Located in Union City, NJ
ICARUS I is an original hand-drawn lithograph created in 1986 by the French American artist Marius Sznajderman, printed in neutral warm grays and intense black on archival Arches pap...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) "Daphnis Discovers Chloe"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) "Daphnis Discovers Chloe" from ...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Rare 1923 Cubist Reuven Rubin Woodcut Woodblock Print Israeli Hasidic Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the original first edition 1923 printing. there was a much later edition done after these originals. These are individually hand signed in pencil by artist as issued. This listing is for the one print. the other documentation is included here for provenance and is not included in this listing. The various images inspired by the Jewish Mysticism and rabbis and mystics of jerusalem and Kabbalah is holy, dramatic and optimistic Rubin succeeded to evoke the spirit of life in Israel in those early days. They are done in a modern art style influenced by German Expressionism, particularly, Ernst Barlach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Franz Marc, as introduced to Israel by Jakob Steinhardt, Hermann Struck and Joseph Budko. Reuven Rubin 1893 -1974 was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania. Rubin Zelicovich (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galati to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Finding himself at odds with the artistic views of the Academy's teachers, he left for Paris, France, in 1913 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He was of the well known Jewish artists in Paris along with Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine, At the outbreak of World War I, he was returned to Romania, where he spent the war years. In 1921, he traveled to the United States with his friend and fellow artist, Arthur Kolnik. In New York City, the two met artist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in organizing their first American show at the Anderson Gallery. Following the exhibition, in 1922, they both returned to Europe. In 1923, Rubin emigrated to Mandate Palestine. Rubin met his wife, Esther, in 1928, aboard a passenger ship to Palestine on his return from a show in New York. She was a Bronx girl who had won a trip to Palestine in a Young Judaea competition. He died in 1974. Part of the early generation of artists in Israel, Joseph Zaritsky, Arieh Lubin, Reuven Rubin, Sionah Tagger, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Mordecai Ardon, Yitzhak Katz, and Baruch Agadati; These painters depicted the country’s landscapes in the 1920s rebelled against the Bezalel school of Boris Schatz. They sought current styles in Europe that would help portray their own country’s landscape, in keeping with the spirit of the time. Rubin’s Cezannesque landscapes from the 1920s were defined by both a modern and a naive style, portraying the landscape and inhabitants of Israel in a sensitive fashion. His landscape paintings in particular paid special detail to a spiritual, translucent light. His early work bore the influences of Futurism, Vorticism, Cubism and Surrealism. In Palestine, he became one of the founders of the new Eretz-Yisrael style. Recurring themes in his work were the bible, the prophet, the biblical landscape, folklore and folk art, people, including Yemenite, Hasidic Jews and Arabs. Many of his paintings are sun-bathed depictions of Jerusalem and the Galilee. Rubin might have been influenced by the work of Henri Rousseau whose naice style combined with Eastern nuances, as well as with the neo-Byzantine art to which Rubin had been exposed in his native Romania. In accordance with his integrative style, he signed his works with his first name in Hebrew and his surname in Roman letters. In 1924, he was the first artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Tower of David, in Jerusalem (later exhibited in Tel Aviv at Gymnasia Herzliya). That year he was elected chairman of the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Palestine. From the 1930s onwards, Rubin designed backdrops for Habima Theater, the Ohel Theater and other theaters. His biography, published in 1969, is titled My Life - My Art. He died in Tel Aviv in October 1974, after having bequeathed his home on 14 Bialik Street and a core collection of his paintings to the city of Tel Aviv. The Rubin Museum opened in 1983. The director and curator of the museum is his daughter-in-law, Carmela Rubin. Rubin's paintings are now increasingly sought after. At a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2007, his work accounted for six of the ten top lots. Along with Yaacov Agam and Menashe Kadishman he is among Israel's best known artists internationally. Education 1912 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 1913-14 École des Beaux Arts, Paris and Académie Colarossi, Paris Select Group Exhibitions Eged - Palestine Painters Group Eged - Palestine Painters Group, Allenby Street, Tel Aviv 1929 Artists: Chana Orloff, Abraham Melnikoff, Rubin, Reuven Nahum Gutman, Sionah Tagger,Arieh Allweil, Jewish Artists Association, Levant Fair, Tel Aviv, 1929 Artists: Ludwig Blum,Eliyahu Sigad, Shmuel Ovadyahu, Itzhak Frenel Frenkel,Ozer Shabat, Menahem Shemi...
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1920s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Hand Painted Limited Edition#7-Constant Gardener series-British Awarded Artist
Located in London, GB
This hand-painted Edition is one of the Summer Bloom series Shizico Yi started in 2022. Veronica and Hydrangea (in the painting) are the summer elements in her garden, Shizico cultiv...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Metal

M. Kennedy, (Interior)
Located in New York, NY
This print was made for the American Abstract Artists Portfolio, 1937. All the images were lithographs made on zinc plates. Usually they were signed or initialed in the image -- on t...
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1930s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Flowers- Lithograph by Ernesto Treccani - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an Original Lithograph realized by Ernesto Treccani in 1973. Limited edition of 125 copies, editor "La Nuova Foglio SPA". Very good condition on a white cardboard. Hand...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original Mondorf-les-Baines vintage spa poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Mondorf-les-Baines lithograph created by the artist Lex Weyer in 1959. Archival linen back in very fine to excellent condition; ready to frame. Grand-Duche de Luxembour...
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1950s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Cup 2 Picasso (Sparks 113; Field 168; ULAE 123), Jasper Johns
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Jasper Johns (1930) Title: Cup 2 Picasso (Sparks 113; Field 168; ULAE 123) Year: 1973 Medium: Color lithograph on wove paper Edition: 1,500 Size: 14 x 10.5 inches Inscription: Signed & dated with the artist's plate-signed signature. Condition: Excellent Notes: This image, as well as a companion print Cups 4 Picasso, is based on Marcel Duchamp’s 1958 collage Self-Portrait in Profile. Printed by Bill Goldston and James V...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

1971 The Tarahumara Indians - Figurative Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
1971 The Tarahumara Indians - Figurative Etching on Paper Black and white etching of The Tarahumara Indians by Kelly English (American). The figures are outlined in thick black ink ...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink

Richard Anuszkiewicz Celebrate New York, hand signed inscribed silkscreen poster
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz Celebrate New York (hand signed limited edition poster), 1974 Silkscreen on wove paper Hand-signed by artist, signed, dated and inscribed "to Lowell" on the fron...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Screen

Skiing Girls with Screen Print by Anne Storno
Located in Deddington, GB
Skiing girls by Anne Storno [2021] This work is inspired by collage and surrealist artworks. I like combining images removed from their original narrative c...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Screen

Costruzione Arancio - Lithograph by Luigi Veronesi - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
The proposed print is a lithograph with a print run of 99 copies, in very good condition. On the lithograph are the print number in the lower margins with its print run and the hand...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition for Lisa, Willem de Kooning
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) Title: Composition for Lisa Year: 1984 Medium: Color silkscreen on wove paper Edition: 250, plus proofs Size: 17.75 x 23.25 inches Condition: Ex...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Large Italian Aquatint Etching Francesco Clemente Neo Expressionist Avant Garde
Located in Surfside, FL
Francesco Clemente (Italian b. 1952), 'This side up / Telemone #2, 1981 Medium: Intaglio hard ground etching, color aquatint, drypoint, and soft-ground etching with chine collé (ha...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

Nude Study (10)
Located in Columbia, MO
Norman Carton Norman Carton (Russian American, 1908–1980), a vibrant force in Abstract Expressionism, was known for his dynamic use of color and expressive, gestural brushwork. Born...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink

Espriu Plate I
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Joan Miro Title: Plate I from Espriu-Miro Series: From the series Espriu-Miró, which contains 8 engravings printed on Gvarro paper with the publisher's stamp. Date: 1971 Med...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Etching

Espriu Plate I
Espriu Plate I
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Mecklenburg Autumn
Located in Washington, DC
Title: Mecklenburg Autumn Medium: Lithograph in colors Year: 1979 Edition: AP (artist's proof, aside from the edition of 175) Signature: Stamped signature Image Size: 22 1/4" x 17 1/...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract India Edition 5/8 Linocut Print Nature Orange Black Red Love
Located in Norfolk, GB
There is a natural and raw understanding in Mukesh Sharma’s prints that both depict, and are influenced by, the Rajastani communities of his home town in rural India. In these Limited Edition fine-art prints, made over a period of twenty years, we are offered the colours of India’s ancient land, the textures, light and the patterns that are everywhere. In the patterns of the arable fields to the jali's (carved screens) in the architecture. This work is however not romantic nor nostalgic but shows a deeper rooted need to offer a visual heritage of place, of where the artist is from and the journey that he is taking. The results are both compelling and honest. Mukesh Sharma, Voted Dyas II, Lino-cut/ chine colle, on German Ivory paper Edition: 5 of 8, 1999 Image size: 47 x 39 cm / Sheet size: 79 x 55 cm Unframed 'We belong where love finds us' Mukesh Sharma's work: It is often in childhood that paths are set for what we will become. Mukesh Sharma hails from a rural, agricultural village in Rajasthan, India. His Father is a craftsman who fixed and mended farm machinery and understood the working parts in the processes. Sharma followed in his Father’s footsteps, as is often the case in Indian families, but his was not the machines of the fields but the presses of the printing studio. Like his Father, Mukesh Sharma is fascinated with understanding how things work and how he can manipulate the metal in his hands. It is not surprising then that his medium of choice is printing. One of the most physically challenging of all the practices, it can often be physically challenging as well as technical and detailed. In his youth, Sharma would draw with stones on walls and floors. He was lucky his family encouraged this and he is grateful for his early art-training at the Jaipur School of Art but it was at the Baroda Art Department that he was introduced to the great printing traditions of Jyoti Bhatt...
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Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut, Archival Pigment

Rare 1923 Cubist Reuven Rubin Woodcut Woodblock Kabbalah Print Israeli Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the original first edition 1923 printing. there was a much later edition done after these originals. These are individually hand signed in pencil by artist as issued. This listing is for the one print. the other documentation is included here for provenance and is not included in this listing. The various images inspired by the Jewish Mysticism and rabbis and mystics of jerusalem and Kabbalah is holy, dramatic and optimistic Rubin succeeded to evoke the spirit of life in Israel in those early days. They are done in a modern art style influenced by German Expressionism, particularly, Ernst Barlach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Franz Marc, as introduced to Israel by Jakob Steinhardt, Hermann Struck and Joseph Budko. Reuven Rubin 1893 -1974 was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania. Rubin Zelicovich (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galati to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Finding himself at odds with the artistic views of the Academy's teachers, he left for Paris, France, in 1913 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He was of the well known Jewish artists in Paris along with Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine, At the outbreak of World War I, he was returned to Romania, where he spent the war years. In 1921, he traveled to the United States with his friend and fellow artist, Arthur Kolnik. In New York City, the two met artist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in organizing their first American show at the Anderson Gallery. Following the exhibition, in 1922, they both returned to Europe. In 1923, Rubin emigrated to Mandate Palestine. Rubin met his wife, Esther, in 1928, aboard a passenger ship to Palestine on his return from a show in New York. She was a Bronx girl who had won a trip to Palestine in a Young Judaea competition. He died in 1974. Part of the early generation of artists in Israel, Joseph Zaritsky, Arieh Lubin, Reuven Rubin, Sionah Tagger, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Mordecai Ardon, Yitzhak Katz, and Baruch Agadati; These painters depicted the country’s landscapes in the 1920s rebelled against the Bezalel school of Boris Schatz. They sought current styles in Europe that would help portray their own country’s landscape, in keeping with the spirit of the time. Rubin’s Cezannesque landscapes from the 1920s were defined by both a modern and a naive style, portraying the landscape and inhabitants of Israel in a sensitive fashion. His landscape paintings in particular paid special detail to a spiritual, translucent light. His early work bore the influences of Futurism, Vorticism, Cubism and Surrealism. In Palestine, he became one of the founders of the new Eretz-Yisrael style. Recurring themes in his work were the bible, the prophet, the biblical landscape, folklore and folk art, people, including Yemenite, Hasidic Jews and Arabs. Many of his paintings are sun-bathed depictions of Jerusalem and the Galilee. Rubin might have been influenced by the work of Henri Rousseau whose naice style combined with Eastern nuances, as well as with the neo-Byzantine art to which Rubin had been exposed in his native Romania. In accordance with his integrative style, he signed his works with his first name in Hebrew and his surname in Roman letters. In 1924, he was the first artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Tower of David, in Jerusalem (later exhibited in Tel Aviv at Gymnasia Herzliya). That year he was elected chairman of the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Palestine. From the 1930s onwards, Rubin designed backdrops for Habima Theater, the Ohel Theater and other theaters. His biography, published in 1969, is titled My Life - My Art. He died in Tel Aviv in October 1974, after having bequeathed his home on 14 Bialik Street and a core collection of his paintings to the city of Tel Aviv. The Rubin Museum opened in 1983. The director and curator of the museum is his daughter-in-law, Carmela Rubin. Rubin's paintings are now increasingly sought after. At a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2007, his work accounted for six of the ten top lots. Along with Yaacov Agam and Menashe Kadishman he is among Israel's best known artists internationally. Education 1912 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 1913-14 École des Beaux Arts, Paris and Académie Colarossi, Paris Select Group Exhibitions Eged - Palestine Painters Group Eged - Palestine Painters Group, Allenby Street, Tel Aviv 1929 Artists: Chana Orloff, Abraham Melnikoff, Rubin, Reuven Nahum Gutman, Sionah Tagger,Arieh Allweil, Jewish Artists Association, Levant Fair, Tel Aviv, 1929 Artists: Ludwig Blum,Eliyahu Sigad, Shmuel Ovadyahu, Itzhak Frenel Frenkel,Ozer Shabat, Menahem Shemi...
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1920s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Untitled (signed multidimensional silkscreen print on plexiglass and mirror)
Located in Aventura, FL
Interspaceograph - multidimensional silkscreen print on plexiglass pane and mirror. There is space between the silkscreen printed plexiglass pane and silkscreen printed mirror in th...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Mirror, Screen, Plexiglass

"Untitled" (one plate from "Maitres-Graveurs Contemporains" - Berggruen Cie)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró "Untitled" (one plate from "Maitres-Graveurs Contemporains" - Berggruen & Cie, 1970) Color lithograph Year: 1970 Size: 9.0 × 9.8 on 9.4 × 11.1 inches Catalogue raisonné: C...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Lithograph with Animals and Figures
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract figurative lithograph with a lively jumble of abstracted animal and figurative forms by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). Titled (illegible), numbered ("5/...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph

de Kooning, Sans titre, In Memory of My Feelings (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper. Paper Size: 11.937 x 8.96 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, In Memory of My Feelings,...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Torero (de-accessioned from the Denver Art Museum) Engraving Signed 17/30 Framed
Located in New York, NY
Stanley William Hayter Torero (de-accessioned from the Denver Art Museum), 1929-1933 Engraving on laid paper, third (final) state, on heavy BFK Rives...
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1930s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Engraving, Etching

Zulma
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after) Title: Zulma Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse Medium: Lithograph Date: 1958 Edition: 2000 Frame Size: 21" x 15" Sheet Size: 14" x 10 1/2" Sign...
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1950s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Landscape India Edition 3/5 Linocut Print Nature Ecco of Passion Blue
Located in Norfolk, GB
There is a natural and raw understanding in Mukesh Sharma’s prints that both depict, and are influenced by, the Rajastani communities of his home town in rural India. In these Limited Edition fine-art prints, made over a period of twenty years, we are offered the colours of India’s ancient land, the textures, light and the patterns that are everywhere. In the patterns of the arable fields to the jali's (carved screens) in the architecture. This work is however not romantic nor nostalgic but shows a deeper rooted need to offer a visual heritage of place, of where the artist is from and the journey that he is taking. The results are both compelling and honest. Mukesh Sharma, Eco of Passion X, Lino-cut chin-coll’e on German Ivory paper Edition: 3 of 5, 2005 Image size: 47 x 39 cm / Sheet size: 79 x 55 cm Unframed 'This is life liberated, sometimes ordinary, with small gestures and everyday objects transformed by colour, context and composition and sometimes adorned, wreathed in pomp, pageantry, and glory' Mukesh Sharma's work: It is often in childhood that paths are set for what we will become. Mukesh Sharma hails from a rural, agricultural village in Rajasthan, India. His Father is a craftsman who fixed and mended farm machinery and understood the working parts in the processes. Sharma followed in his Father’s footsteps, as is often the case in Indian families, but his was not the machines of the fields but the presses of the printing studio. Like his Father, Mukesh Sharma is fascinated with understanding how things work and how he can manipulate the metal in his hands. It is not surprising then that his medium of choice is printing. One of the most physically challenging of all the practices, it can often be physically challenging as well as technical and detailed. In his youth, Sharma would draw with stones on walls and floors. He was lucky his family encouraged this and he is grateful for his early art-training at the Jaipur School of Art but it was at the Baroda Art Department that he was introduced to the great printing traditions of Jyoti Bhatt...
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Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut, Archival Pigment

International Very Special Arts signed, inscribed Abstract Expressionist poster
Located in New York, NY
Paul Jenkins International Very Special Arts Festival poster, 1994 hand signed and dated by Paul Jenkins Measures: 37 inches (vertical) x 25 inches (horizontal) Ships rolled in a tub...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Offset, Ballpoint Pen, Lithograph

Composition - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original etching realized by Leo Guida in 1970s. Good condition. Mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (50x35). Not signed and not dated. Leo Guida (1992 -...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Etching

Rare 1923 Cubist Reuven Rubin Woodcut Woodblock Fisherman Print Israeli Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the original first edition 1923 printing. there was a much later edition done after these originals. These are individually hand signed in pencil by artist as issued. This listing is for the one print. the other documentation is included here for provenance and is not included in this listing. The various images inspired by the Jewish Mysticism and rabbis and mystics of jerusalem and Kabbalah is holy, dramatic and optimistic Rubin succeeded to evoke the spirit of life in Israel in those early days. They are done in a modern art style influenced by German Expressionism, particularly, Ernst Barlach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Franz Marc, as introduced to Israel by Jakob Steinhardt, Hermann Struck and Joseph Budko. Reuven Rubin 1893 -1974 was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania. Rubin Zelicovich (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galati to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Finding himself at odds with the artistic views of the Academy's teachers, he left for Paris, France, in 1913 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He was of the well known Jewish artists in Paris along with Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine, At the outbreak of World War I, he was returned to Romania, where he spent the war years. In 1921, he traveled to the United States with his friend and fellow artist, Arthur Kolnik. In New York City, the two met artist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in organizing their first American show at the Anderson Gallery. Following the exhibition, in 1922, they both returned to Europe. In 1923, Rubin emigrated to Mandate Palestine. Rubin met his wife, Esther, in 1928, aboard a passenger ship to Palestine on his return from a show in New York. She was a Bronx girl who had won a trip to Palestine in a Young Judaea competition. He died in 1974. Part of the early generation of artists in Israel, Joseph Zaritsky, Arieh Lubin, Reuven Rubin, Sionah Tagger, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Mordecai Ardon, Yitzhak Katz, and Baruch Agadati; These painters depicted the country’s landscapes in the 1920s rebelled against the Bezalel school of Boris Schatz. They sought current styles in Europe that would help portray their own country’s landscape, in keeping with the spirit of the time. Rubin’s Cezannesque landscapes from the 1920s were defined by both a modern and a naive style, portraying the landscape and inhabitants of Israel in a sensitive fashion. His landscape paintings in particular paid special detail to a spiritual, translucent light. His early work bore the influences of Futurism, Vorticism, Cubism and Surrealism. In Palestine, he became one of the founders of the new Eretz-Yisrael style. Recurring themes in his work were the bible, the prophet, the biblical landscape, folklore and folk art, people, including Yemenite, Hasidic Jews and Arabs. Many of his paintings are sun-bathed depictions of Jerusalem and the Galilee. Rubin might have been influenced by the work of Henri Rousseau whose naice style combined with Eastern nuances, as well as with the neo-Byzantine art to which Rubin had been exposed in his native Romania. In accordance with his integrative style, he signed his works with his first name in Hebrew and his surname in Roman letters. In 1924, he was the first artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Tower of David, in Jerusalem (later exhibited in Tel Aviv at Gymnasia Herzliya). That year he was elected chairman of the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Palestine. From the 1930s onwards, Rubin designed backdrops for Habima Theater, the Ohel Theater and other theaters. His biography, published in 1969, is titled My Life - My Art. He died in Tel Aviv in October 1974, after having bequeathed his home on 14 Bialik Street and a core collection of his paintings to the city of Tel Aviv. The Rubin Museum opened in 1983. The director and curator of the museum is his daughter-in-law, Carmela Rubin. Rubin's paintings are now increasingly sought after. At a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2007, his work accounted for six of the ten top lots. Along with Yaacov Agam and Menashe Kadishman he is among Israel's best known artists internationally. Education 1912 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 1913-14 École des Beaux Arts, Paris and Académie Colarossi, Paris Select Group Exhibitions Eged - Palestine Painters Group Eged - Palestine Painters Group, Allenby Street, Tel Aviv 1929 Artists: Chana Orloff, Abraham Melnikoff, Rubin, Reuven Nahum Gutman, Sionah Tagger,Arieh Allweil, Jewish Artists Association, Levant Fair, Tel Aviv, 1929 Artists: Ludwig Blum,Eliyahu Sigad, Shmuel Ovadyahu, Itzhak Frenel Frenkel,Ozer Shabat, Menahem Shemi, First Exhibition of ''Hever Omanim'' First Exhibition of ''Hever Omanim'' Steimatzky Gallery, Jerusalem 1936 Artists: Gutman, Nachum Holzman, Shimshon Mokady, Moshe Sima, Miron Rubin, Reuven Steinhardt, Jakob Ben Zvi, Zeev Ziffer, Moshe Allweil, Arieh Group Exhibition Group Exhibition Katz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 1939 Artists: Avni, Aharon Holzman, Shimshon Gliksberg, Haim Gutman, Nachum Ovadyahu, Shmuel Shorr, Zvi Schwartz, Chaya Streichman, Yehezkel Tagger, Sionah Rubin, Reuven A Collection of Works by Artists of the Land of Israel A Collection of Works by Artists of the Land of Israel The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem 1940 Artists: Shemi, Menahem Rubin, Reuven Avni, Aharon Mokady, Moshe Jonas, Ludwig Steinhardt, Jakob Ticho, Anna Krakauer, Leopold Gutman, Nachum Budko, Joseph Ardon, Mordecai Sima, Miron Castel, Moshe Pann, Abel Struck, Hermann Gur Arie, Meir Ben Zvi, Zeev Litvinovsky, Pinchas Artists in Israel for the Defense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv 1967 Artists: Avraham Binder, Motke Blum, (Mordechai) Samuel Bak, Yosl Bergner, Nahum Gilboa, Jean David, Marcel Janco, Lea Nikel, Jacob Pins, Esther Peretz...
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1920s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

"Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor", Signed/N Lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Judy Rifka "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor" (The Ninth Commandment), 1987 6 Color Lithograph on Dieu Donne Handmade Paper 24 × 18 inches Edition Artist's Proof 2/15, aside from the regular edition of 84 Signed and numbered in graphite on the front Unframed This work was created as part of the 1987 portfolio "The Ten Commandments", in which ten top Jewish American artists were each invited to choose an Old Testament commandment to interpret in contemporary lithographic form. The "Chosen" artists were, in order of Commandment: Kenny Scharf, Joseph Nechvatal, Gretchen Bender...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)- Peintre au travail - Etching on BFK Rives paper- 1967
Located in Varese, IT
Etching on BFK Rives paper, edited in 1963, published in 1967 by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. 3 Limited edition of 50, numbered 5/50
 Signed in pencil by artist in lower right corne...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Etching

Chinese Israeli Modernist Still Life Lithograph Abstract Flowers in Vase
Located in Surfside, FL
Fima (born Efraim Roeytenberg) (1914 – 2005) was an Israeli artist born in China. He spent most of his career in France. Ephraim (Yafim) Roeytenberg, known as "Fima" or "Pima", was b...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

1960s "Antique" Woodcut Portrait NY Artist Myril Adler
Located in Arp, TX
Myril Adler "Antique" portrait c.1960s Woodcut on tissue affixed to orange paper 3.5"x5.5" site unframed Signed and titled in ink Myril Adler, was born on...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Woodcut

Two Columns by Michael Hurson framed abstract with greco roman pillars on stage
Located in New York, NY
In this unique Michael Hurson monotype, stylized Greco-Roman pillars flank a plane of crosshatched and dotted texture in black, brown, and purple ink. The...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Monoprint, Monotype

Otono Floral (Sexual Spring-like Winter)
Located in New York, NY
Otono Floral, 1995 Hand-painted, 15-color screenprint with poured resin 40 x 30 inches (102 x 76 cm) Edition of 80 signed in pencil and stamped on verso "Sexual Spring-like Win...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Screen

Seated Woman in a Striped Dress
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this early lithograph on Arches. Initialed, dated and numbered 5/100 in pen and black ink. Printed and published by Original Press, San Francisco, with the ...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Modern Black and White Abstract Tropical Village Landscape Woodcut Print
Located in Houston, TX
Modern black and white abstract woodcut print. The piece features lush trees and foliage growing in a yard behind a house. There are three central figures standing next to a pole and...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Sun Flower
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Sun Flower" c.1990, is an original colors woodcut on Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 9/20 in...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Vintage Large Scale Picasso "National Galerie, Berlin" Exhibition Poster C.1989
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Large Scale Picasso "National Galerie, Berlin" Exhibition Poster c.1989 Fantastic vintage exhibition poster for works by Pablo Picasso at the National Gallery in Berlin. Th...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Ink

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