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
Leafs
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Leafs" c.1980, is an original etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Charles Eckart, b.1935. It is hand signed and inscribed T/P in pencil by the artist. The pl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Children II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Kiyoshi Saito (Japanese, 1907-1997)
Title: Children II
Year: Circa 1960
Medium: Color woodcut
Edition: Unknown
Paper: Japan
Image (block mark) size: 9.85 x 5.35 inc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Cup 2 Picasso (Sparks 113; Field 168; ULAE 123), Jasper Johns
By 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...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$556 Sale Price
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Japanese woman artist, one-of-a-kind framed original abstract monoprint in blue
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a one-of-a-kind original monoprint, made on a press by contemporary Japanese woman artist Kyoko Takagaki. Takagaki studied art at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, USA. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Monoprint
Iranian Israeli Large Aquatint Etching Figurative Abstract Circus Monde Balloons
Located in Surfside, FL
Bright colorful abstract circus scene with balloons.
Born in 1941 in Sanandaj, Iran and immigrated to Israel at the age of 17. Elie Abrahami began his study of art at the Avni School...
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Union
By Tony Bass
Located in Paonia, CO
Union IV is one of a series of original etching by American artist Tony Bass. Two abstract figures seem to be reaching for each other one on the left being pulled back but tryin...
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,200
"My Bedroom Windows in the Middle of the Night" Etching in Ink on Paper, #13/25
Located in Soquel, CA
"My Bedroom Windows in the Middle of the Night" Etching in Ink on Paper, #13/25
Bold surrealist etching by Ernesto Lombardi (Puerto Rican, 1929-2016). Several figures are floating i...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Etching
Abstract Landscape India Edition 3/5 Linocut Print Nature Green Yellow Leaves
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, Untitled, Lino-cut chin- coll’e on German Ivory paper
Edition: 3 of 5, 1999
Image size: 50 x 33 cm / Sheet size: 79 x 55 cm
Unframed
'This work reminds me of my childhood and early youth, growing up in a village that was full of nature, surrounded by lush green. The towering Aravalli hills left a strong impression on me.'
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...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut, Archival Pigment
Untitled Figure signed numbered mixed media print from scarce European portfolio
Located in New York, NY
George McNeil
Untitled Figure, 1986
Lithograph on paper. Publisher's and Printer's Blind
Stamps
Hand-signed, numbered 78/84 and dated by the artist on the front with publisher's and...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen, Pencil
WALKING WITH MY BIRD Signed Lithograph, Figurative Abstract, CoBrA Artist
By Karel Appel
Located in Union City, NJ
WALKING WITH MY BIRD is an original limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel printed using hand lithography techniques on Arches paper, 100% acid free. WALKING WITH...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
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Arcadia
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Arcadia" c.1990, is an original colors etching with aquatint on Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, titled and numbered ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"Kimono 4" (Tan Kimono with Red Paper Strips)
Located in Soquel, CA
Paper applique kimono with red paper strips by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Numbered, titled, and signed along the bottom edge ("AP Kimono 4 Patricia A. Pearce"). No fra...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph, Tissue Paper
Pleasant Scandinavia SAS original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage travel poster, Pleasant Scandinavia, inen backed travel to Scandinavia on SAS Airlines. Excellent condition antique poster ready to fra...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$636 Sale Price
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Abstract minimalist lithograph by African-American artist: music, dance inspired
By John Dowell
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an abstract, minimalist composition with minute, highly detailed colorful markings inspired by music, dance, and space. It is a limited edition lithograph, signed, dated, titled "Les Termes," and numbered #53/150, lower margin. Pristine condition.
John Dowell...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marcel Pouget original signed limited ed. Expressionist lithograph
Located in Paonia, CO
Marcel Pouget (1923 -1985 ) painter, poet, choreographer and film maker was a member of the avant -garde group COBRA. This was a reactionary movement in search of free expre...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L
Estampe et le Suréalisme du Xv au Xx Siècle Andre Masson
By (After) Andre Masson
Located in Paonia, CO
Lithograph poster on paper issued in 1972 for the exhibition, L'Estampe et le Suréalisme du XV au XX siècle, at Vision Nouvelle. The image on the poster was created by French artist...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
View from below - Contemporary Gouache Painting, Abstraction
Located in Warsaw, PL
JACEK SOWICKI (born in 1948)
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and graduated from the Academy Of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1973. In 1984-89 he run the graphics atelier at...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
$475 Sale Price
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Circus Series C
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Circus Series C" c.1990, is an original woodcut monoprint on Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 1/1...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Monoprint
The Dance II (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée
$716 Sale Price
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The Dance III (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
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Celebrating Spain in this original unique series by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée
$600 Sale Price
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Portrait of a Lady - Etching by Thomas Cheesman - Early-19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Lady is a beautiful etching on paper, realized by the English artist Thomas Cheesman (1760 - 1834).
Signed on plate on the right corner, the watercolor etching is d'...
Category
Early 19th Century Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Joe Goode, Floating Cards - Part IV, Lithograph on Arches paper, Hand signed AP
By Joe Goode
Located in New York, NY
Joe Goode
Floating Cards - Part IV, 1969
Lithograph on Arches paper with two deckled edges.
Hand signed, dated and annotated Artists Proof on the lower front
22 1/4 × 29 4/5 inches
Unframed
Part of Joe Goode's five part 1960s series "Floating Cards". Rarely to market. The provenance of this print is from the Reese-Palley Gallery. The famous dealer and adventurer Reese Palley of Atlantic City New Jersey - was the second gallerist in the 1960s - after Paula Cooper - to set up shop in SOHO. Hand signed, dated, and annotated Artist's Proof aside from the regular edition.
Pop art pioneer Joe Goode (born 1937) was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1937. In 1959 he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he attended the Chouinard Art Institute until 1961. First recognized for his Pop Art milk bottle paintings and cloud imagery, Goode's work was included along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Phillip Hefferton, Robert Dowd, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the 1962 ground-breaking exhibit New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps...
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
No title
Located in Paris, FR
Stencil
The work signed in the plate
24.00 cm. x 35.00 cm. 9.45 in. x 13.78 in. (image)
42.50 cm. x 53.00 cm. 16.73 in. x 20.87 in. (frame)
LCD5581
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Untitled (Mangold 1977.02; Parasol RM12), Robert Mangold
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Robert Mangold (1937)
Title: Untitled (Mangold 1977.02; Parasol RM12), from Multiple Panel Paintings suite
Year: 1992
Edition: 300, plus proofs
...
Category
1990s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$3,676 Sale Price
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Dutch Masters, Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Larry Rivers (1923-2002)
Title: Dutch Masters
Year: 1991
Medium: Lithograph and silkscreen on wove paper
Edition: 23/500, plus proofs
Size: 25 x 3...
Category
1990s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
$2,200 Sale Price
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Untitled “From Color to Form” Series
Located in New York, NY
This stunning lithograph, was realized by the celebrated Italian artist Marino Marini in 1969. Part of the series “From Color to Form” by Marino Marini (Italian, 1901-1980), this wor...
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sprong in de Lente (Deux Personnages)
By Karel Appel
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sprong in de Lente (Deux Personnages)
Color lithograph, 1963
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 25
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Printed on Arches pape...
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Noir #11", Contemporary Miniature Figurative Abstract Lithograph in Black
Located in Soquel, CA
Miniature contemporary black and white abstract expressionist lithograph of a highly abstracted face in white by Bay Area artist Peter Foley (American, 20th/21stCentury). Signed "P.F...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Parchment Paper, Lithograph
"Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor", Signed/N Lithograph
By Judy Rifka
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...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
“Three Friends with Birds, Blue” Edition 2/10
Located in Houston, TX
Blue toned abstract figurative enhanced giclée depicting three men wearing funky hats and red striped vests. Signed by artist at the bottom right. Framed in a black and gold thick fr...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Acrylic, Giclée
Clarté I Mark Tobey abstract green turquoise and black lithograph
By Mark Tobey
Located in New York, NY
Clarté by Mark Tobey is a characteristically delicate, abstract composition of swirling green and black curls. The gentle movement of his mark-making suggests a natural form such as ...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Brooklyn Bridge, Pop Art Screenprint by Robert Indiana
Located in Long Island City, NY
This print by Robert Indiana is part of an 8-piece portfolio published by The New York Graphic Society in 1983 and includes works from Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, R.B. Kit...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Me Too / Time
s Up Movements Oscar (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Celebrating the Academy in this original and limited Oscar art series by Mauro Oliveira.
Limited edition of 30 museum quality Giclee prints on CANVAS, signed and numbered by the ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée
$796 Sale Price
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The Bloody Oscar I (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL FEB 29tH ONLY**
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Celebrating the Academy with this Limited Oscar Art Series by Mauro O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée
$796 Sale Price
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The Dance I (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL JUNE 15TH ONLY**
*This Price Won't Be Repeated Again This Year-Take Advantage Of It*
Celebrating Spain in this original unique series. The co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée
$716 Sale Price
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Clock - Print by Vagaram Choudhary - 2024
Located in Roma, IT
"Clock" is a painting realized by Indian Artist Vagaram Choudhary in 2024.
Painting Medium : Natural pigment on wasli paper
Painting backside Hand sign with years
Painting style ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Washi Paper, Pigment
Agnese Taurina, The Dream, Figurative Artwork, Floral Artwork, Statement prints
Located in Deddington, GB
The Dream [2022]
original
Acrylic, natural pigments on paper
Image size: H:70 cm x W:100 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:70 cm x W:100 cm x D:0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note th...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pigment
Plate 13, Compression IV
By George Condo
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Released as part of a portfolio in a limited edition of 400 on the occasion of George Condo's exhibition "Drawing Paintings" at Skarsketdt Gallery in 2011. Unsigned and unnumbered
S...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$2,280 Sale Price
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Aubervilliers (France)
Located in New York, NY
Trying my best to decipher the name I get Leo Tanenbaum. Well, (Sergeant) Sgt. Leo Tanenbaum. Sorry that I haven't been able to find a mid-century artist with this name. It's such an...
Category
1940s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Figurative Couple India Ltd Ed A/P Linocut Print Tender Days II Turquoise Brown
Located in Norfolk, GB
There is a natural and raw understanding in Mukesh Sharma’s prints that depict, and are influenced by, the Rajastani communities of his home town in rura...
Category
1990s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Printer s Ink, Woodcut, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Shooting into the Corner Poster (hand signed and dated by Anish Kapoor)
By Anish Kapoor
Located in New York, NY
Anish Kapoor
Shooting into the Corner (hand signed and dated by Anish Kapoor), 2009
Offset lithograph poster (hand signed and dated 2016)
Boldly signed and dated by Anish Kapoor on t...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Robert Gordy (New Orleans) "Folly, " Signed and Numbered Framed Abstract Print
By Robert Gordy
Located in New Orleans, LA
Number 84 in an edition of 100 prints. Signed.
Robert Gordy was an iconic New Orleans painter. He was part of the "Art and Decoration" movement that also ...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Rueckenakt
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title: Rueckenakt
Medium: Etching
Edition: 50
Signed and numbered by hand
Size: 21.5 × 17.6 on 25.0 × 19.9 inches
COA provided
Claude Garache is a French artist. He has worked in pa...
Category
1990s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Sport Party - Lithograph (Olympic Games Munich 1972)
By Alan Davie
Located in Paris, IDF
Alan DAVIE
Sport Party
Lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On edition paper 101 x 64 cm (c. 40 x 26 inch)
Made for the Olympic Games in Munich, 1972
Excellent condition
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rainbow People, Abstract Lithograph by Marisol Escobar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marisol Escobar, French/Venezuelan (1930 - 2016)
Title: Rainbow People
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120
Size: 42 x 29.5 in. (106.68 x...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
American Flag III (Geometric Abstraction Hard Edge Minimalist Abstraction) S/N
Located in New York, NY
PAUL VON RINGELHEIM
American Flag III, 1979
Silkscreen in Colors on wove paper
Signed and numbered in graphite pencil on the lower margin front
31 × 23 inches
Unframed
Hand signed and numbered from the limited edition of 300.
Born in Vienna Austria, but working in the US for many decades, Von Ringelheim, also known as a sculptor, brought his unique hard-edge minimalistic geometric abstraction outsider's take on the American Flag to this vintage 1970s limited edition, signed silkscreen. Unframed and in fine condition. Ringelheim was represented in the 1960s by the legendary Rose Fried Gallery...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Abstract Landscape Rajasthan Print Nature Multicultural Faces Earth Orange Brown
Located in Norfolk, GB
There is a natural and raw understanding in Mukesh Sharma’s prints that depict, and are influenced by, the Rajastani communities of his home town in rura...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut, Archival Pigment
Flétissure Allègre, From Territoires - Original Print after Jean Dubuffet - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Flétissure Allègre, From Territoires is an original black and white lithograph realized by Jean Dubuffet (1901 Le Havre - Paris 1985).
The artwork is the plate n. 8 from the portf...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$707 Sale Price
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Rainbow Signed/N 1970s silkscreen
lithograph, pioneering female Fluxus artist
Located in New York, NY
Mary Bauermeister
Rainbow, 1973
Lithograph and silkscreen on creamy white paper
Hand signed, dated and numbered 56/250 by the artist on the front
19 x 25.5 inches
Unframed
This work is on the permanent collection of various institutions like: Rice University, Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, Rutgers Zimmerli Museum and Wheaton College Massachusetts.
While studying the fringe sciences the 1970s, Bauermeister created Rainbow (1973), a lithograph and silkscreen. She uses a creamy white background as the base. Two intersecting diagonal bands of color transcend across the page, and black cursive lettering dances over the surface serving as a mind map of interweaving ideas. Through the central band, Bauermeister shifts through the color spectrum; she begins with red and finishes with violet. Inspired by music, she uses strokes of color that are rhythmically smeared across the lithograph.
The surface lettering, a kind of visual poetry, explores her interest in human emotion and science. The viewer can see Bauermeister’s thoughts as they flow into one another through the use of words such as bliss, love, and healing. Bauermeister also includes a repetition of words such as cancer, sickness, and cure. The word cancer emerges from a cell-like shape. A careful study of the words shows that they may seem dark in nature; however, she juxtaposes these words against the cheerful title and colors. Perhaps the rainbow symbolizes a new hope, an inspiration for an optimistic future.
-Courtesy to the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
About Mary Bauermeister:
A multidisciplinary artist known for her intricate and enigmatic assemblages, Mary Bauermeister (1934-2023) continues to defy categorization with layered works in a range of media. A precursory figure of the Fluxus movement—her studio was the meeting point for a number of defining artists of the avant-garde—her work plays an integral role in the discussion of art, both European and American, that emerged from the 1960s. Her reliefs and sculptures, which have incorporated drawing, text, found objects, natural materials and fabric, reference a plethora of concepts: from natural phenomena and astronomy to mathematics and language, as well as her own “spiritual-metaphysical experiences.” Maturing amidst the currents of Minimalism and Pop Art, Bauermeister’s art has resisted labels due to the singular expression of her interests and concerns, among them the simultaneous transience and permanence of the natural world with experimentations in transparency and magnification, multiplication and variation, structure and order, chance and ephemerality, introversion and extroversion. Her three-dimensional receptacles of thoughts, ideas, and notes contain visual, conceptual, and philosophical paradoxes that challenge perceptions and that offer literal and metaphorical windows into which one can glimpse the inner workings of the artist’s mind.
- Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen, Mixed Media
Abstract India Edition 3/5 Linocut Print Nature Australia Aborigine Purple Lilac
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 Limite...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut, Archival Pigment
It
s Only Rock 2
Located in Brecon, Powys
Mono prints with litho on Fabriano paper. Edition of 1
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Monoprint
Untitled nude (signed, dedicated
inscribed to Clement Greenberg)
By Anthony Caro
Located in New York, NY
Anthony Caro
Nude (signed, dedicated & inscribed to Clement Greenberg), 1986
Charcoal on Paper
Hand-signed by artist, The drawing is inscribed, "To Clem, much love, from Tony" and signed "A. Caro 1986 July."
38 × 24 inches
Unframed
This original drawing was acquired from the collection of the influential critic Clement Greenberg - one of the greatest supporters of British artist Anthony Caro, whose students and colleagues at St. Martin School of Art included the distinguished sculptors William Tucker and Isaac Witkin...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Charcoal
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
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut, Archival Pigment
Large 1960
s California Pop Art Abstract Expressionist LA Lithograph John Altoon
Located in Surfside, FL
John Altoon (1925-1969)
UNTITLED, 1966, color lithograph, hand signed in pencil and inscribed trail proof II, sheet 29 ¾ x 41 ¼, printed by Gemini G.E.L., with their blind stamp low...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flowers
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled, Flower, 1990 is a color silkscreen and lithograph on Arches 88 paper, by artist Donald Sultan (American, b. 1951) It is hand signed and numbered 31/125 in pencil by the artist. It was published by Parasol Editions Press L.T.D. Portland, Oregon. From the suite,Fruits. It is beautifully framed in a wood maple custom frame, with bevel and fabric matting.
Donald Sultan is an American painter, sculptor, and print maker, well-known for large-scale still life paintings and the use of industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tiles. He has been exhibiting internationally in prominent museums and galleries, and his works are included in important museum collections all over the globe. Donald Sultan rose...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
1960
s California Pop Art Abstract Expressionist LA Lithograph "About Women"
Located in Surfside, FL
John Altoon (American, 1925-1969)
From the 'About Women' Series.
Color lithograph
1965/66,
Hand signed and editioned in pencil with the chop mark of Gemini G.E.L. publishers
John Altoon (1925 - 1969), an American artist, was born in Los Angeles to immigrant Armenian parents. From 1947–1949 he attended the Otis Art Institute, from 1947 to 1950 he also attended the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, and in 1950 the Chouinard Art Institute. Altoon was a prominent figure in the LA art scene in the 1950s and 1960s. Exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Baxter Museum, Pasadena, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Altoon's work was influenced by the Abstract Expressionism Movement although he is best known for his figurative drawings of the 1960s, with as Leah Ollman describes "a vocabulary of vaguely figurative, botanical and biological forms that he pursued until his death." He was part of the "Ferus group" of artists so called for their association to the Ferus Gallery that operated in Los Angeles in 1957–1966. Some of the other artists included in this group are Edward Kienholz, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Billy Al Bengston. He was featured in the Cool School documentary, a film about Altoon and other Ferus Gallery artists such as Walter Hopps and Ed Kienholz...
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Fish Dish"- Figurative Abstract Still-Life
By Morag Muir
Located in Soquel, CA
"Fish Dish" by Morag Muir (Scottish, b. 1960). Screen print on paper Signed "Morag Muir" and dated "87" lower right. Titled "Fish Dish" center and numbered "...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Printer s Ink, Laid Paper, Screen
$1,996 Sale Price
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1960s "After Brueghel" Intaglio Etching NY Artist Myril Adler
Located in Arp, TX
Myril Adler
"After Brueghel"
c.1960s
Intaglio etching, ink on paper
6"x4" site unframed
Titled in pencil, estate stamp
Myril Adler, was born on September ...
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink
This is Only a Reality of Special Consensus, Silkscreen on Arches paper SIGNED/N
Located in New York, NY
Wayne E. Campbell
This is Only a Reality of Special Consensus, ca. 1969
Silkscreen on Arches paper with One Deckled Edge
Pencil signed and numbered 86 from the limited edition of 98 ...
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Figure - Lithograph by Ernesto Treccani - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
"Figure" is an original Lithograph artwork realized by Ernesto Treccani.
Hand-signed at the bottom.
Numbered, edition XLII/L
In excellent conditions.
This is an original Artwork r...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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