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Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
PLEXI PRINT Blue artwork, Blue abstract Earth s Edge contemporary artwork
Located in Delaware , OH
Addisonjones artwork, Earth's Edge contemporary artwork A R T I S T S T O R Y: “As I walked back through the fields of my grandparents' farm before we sold it, a sense of nostalgia ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Rag Paper, Color

Addisonjones artwork, Midnight Emotions contemporary artwork
Located in Delaware , OH
Addisonjones artwork, Midnight Emotions contemporary artwork A R T I S T S T O R Y: “As I walked back through the fields of my grandparents' farm before we sold it, a sense of nosta...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Rag Paper, Color

PLEXI PRINT Addisonjones artwork, Obsidian Drizzle contemporary artwork
Located in Delaware , OH
PLEXI PRINT Addisonjones artwork, Obsidian Drizzle contemporary artwork A R T I S T S T O R Y: “As I walked back through the fields of my grandparents' farm before we sold it, a sen...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Rag Paper, Color

PLEXI PRINT Addisonjones artwork, Riveting Rorschach contemporary artwork
Located in Delaware , OH
Addisonjones artwork, Etched Ash contemporary artwork A R T I S T S T O R Y: “As I walked back through the fields of my grandparents' farm before we sold it, a sense of nostalgia wa...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Rag Paper, Color

Addisonjones artwork, Etched Ash contemporary artwork
Located in Delaware , OH
Addisonjones artwork, Etched Ash contemporary artwork A R T I S T S T O R Y: “As I walked back through the fields of my grandparents' farm before we sold it, a sense of nostalgia wa...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Rag Paper, Color

PLEXI PRINT Mystic Motley contemporary artwork
Located in Delaware , OH
Addisonjones artwork, Mystic Motley contemporary artwork customs available A R T I S T S T O R Y: “As I walked back through the fields of my grandparents' farm before we sold it, a ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Rag Paper, Color

Addisonjones artwork, Smelting Serif contemporary artwork
Located in Delaware , OH
Addisonjones artwork, Smelting Serif contemporary artwork A R T I S T S T O R Y: “As I walked back through the fields of my grandparents' farm before we sold it, a sense of nostalg...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Rag Paper, Color

Wall Art Photography, Butterfly Photos, Black and White Prints-Intimate Exposure
Located in Delaware , OH
Wall Art Photography, Butterfly Photos, Black and White Prints-Intimate Exposure ABOUT THIS PIECE: This piece of wall art photography titled "Intimate Exposure" features butterflied shot in Delaware, Ohio. This is a limited edition, hand-signed piece with a certificate of authenticity. ADDISON'S FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY: Addison’s earliest expedition into fine art photography was through her inspiration of adding prints to create depth and drama in showroom booth designs. These images were captured during her deeply personal journeys of exploration and were never meant to become a collection, but as interior designers expressed...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Rag Paper, Black and White

Butterfly Photography, Black and White Prints, Wall Art Prints-Winged Glory
Located in Delaware , OH
Butterfly Photography, Black and White Prints, Wall Art Prints-Winged Glory ABOUT THIS PIECE: This wall art print titled "Winged Glory" features butte...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Rag Paper, Black and White

Black White Photograph, Butterfly Prints, Butterfly Photos-Shadowy Procession
Located in Delaware , OH
Black White Photograph, Butterfly Prints, Butterfly Photos-Shadowy Procession ABOUT THIS PIECE: This black white photograph titled "Shadowy Procession" features butterflies shot in Delaware, Ohio. This is a limited edition, hand-signed piece with a certificate of authenticity. ADDISON'S FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY: Addison’s earliest expedition into fine art photography was through her inspiration of adding prints to create depth and drama in showroom booth designs. These images were captured during her deeply personal journeys of exploration and were never meant to become a collection, but as interior designers expressed...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Rag Paper, Black and White

Large Wall Art, Black and White Prints, Butterfly Prints-Into the Abyss
Located in Delaware , OH
Large Wall Art, Black and White Prints, Butterfly Prints-Into the Abyss ABOUT THIS PIECE: This piece of large wall art titled "Into the Abyss" features butterflies shot in Delaware...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Rag Paper, Black and White

Obama
Located in New York, NY
2012 Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, recto 5 color screenprint (Edition of 150) 14 x 12 inches, sheet Contact gallery for price. This work is offered by CLAMP in New York...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

Obama
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Hero
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: John Baldessari Hero 2017 Screenprint in colors on archival pigment print 30 x 22 in. Edition of 56/65 Pencil signed and numbered Condition: This work is in ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Archival Pigment, Screen

Hero
Hero
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Night Opening
Located in New York, NY
Night Opening 2022 Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, recto Drypoint etching on BFK Rives paper (Edition of 100) 11.811 x 9.45 inches, sheet 5.71 x 4.92 inches, image Contact...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Ionnazol mRNA (black) (Pop Art, Street Art, Urban Art)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X Ionnazol mRNA (black) (Pop Art, Street Art, Urban Art) Digital Print on Archival Paper Year: 2021 Edition: 70 Size: 38 x 31 inch - 96 x 78 CM Signed COA provided Ref.: 924802...
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Abstract 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

Surf / Beach / Ocean Light Box BookScape Colorful Photograph Max Steven Grossman
Located in Greenwich, CT
Surf Lightbox BookScape by Max Steven Grossman Individually photographed books and bookshelves. LED lights and standard plug in; no hardware needed. Illuminated bookshelves featuri...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Photographic Paper

Sports Hockey BookScape Horizontal Colorful Photograph / Max Steven Grossman
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sports / Hockey BookScape by Max Steven Grossman Individually photographed books and bookshelves. Hockey and Sports themed, including NHL, Canada, Hockey's Greatest Stars, Hockey B...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Photographic Paper, Digital Pigment

Nantucket Island BookScape Horizontal Colorful Photograph / Max Steven Grossman
Located in Greenwich, CT
Nantucket BookScape Edition 1/5 by Max Steven Grossman Individually photographed books and bookshelves. Books on Nantucket gardens, houses, light houses, sharks, and beaches. Incl...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Photographic Paper, Digital Pigment

Nantucket Island BookScape Square Colorful Photograph / Max Steven Grossman
Located in Greenwich, CT
Nantucket SQ 2/5 BookScape by Max Steven Grossman Individually photographed books and bookshelves. Books on Nantucket gardens, houses, and light houses. Featuring "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville, "Nantucket Wedding" by Nancy Thayer...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Photographic Paper, Digital Pigment

Hip Hop Music BookScape Colorful Photograph / Max Steven Grossman
Located in Greenwich, CT
Hip Hop Music BookScape by Max Steven Grossman Individually photographed books and bookshelves. Featuring Kanye West, Gambino, Drake, Rihanna, 2Pac vs. Biggie, Gucci Mane...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Photographic Paper, Digital Pigment

Sexy Erotica Bookscape Colorful Photograph / Max Steven Grossman
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erotica BookScape by Max Steven Grossman Individually photographed books and bookshelves. In his photographic series of "Bookscapes" the assembled libraries only exist in his pho...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Photographic Paper, Digital Pigment

Six Yellows
Located in New York, NY
Created by the artist in 2002, Six Yellows is a screenprint in colors with flocking on wove paper. Hand-signed, titled, dated, and designated as "BAT 1/2" from the edition of 60 + 2 ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

White Mimosa
Located in New York, NY
A study in delicate beauty created as a textured, color screenprint by Donald Sultan in 2021, White Mimosa is hand-signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, the artwork measurin...
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21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

Yellow Lanterns
Located in New York, NY
Created as a textured color screenprint, Yellow Lanterns is hand-signed, titled, dated and numbered, the artwork measuring 32 x 32 in. (81 x 81 cm.), un...
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21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

Red Lanterns
Located in New York, NY
Created as a textured color screenprint, Red Lanterns is hand-signed, titled, dated and numbered, the artwork measuring 32 x 32 in. (81 x 81 cm.), unframed...
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21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

Blue Lanterns
Located in New York, NY
Created as a textured color screenprint by Donald Sultan in 2017, Blue Lanterns is hand-signed, titled, dated and numbered, the artwork measuring 32 x 32 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

Red Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Created as a textured color screenprint by Donald Sultan in 2012, Red Flowers is hand-signed, titled, dated and numbered, the artwork measuring 41 x 77 in. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

Mickey (Blue Glitter) Minnie (Pink Glitter), Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
Created as a matching pair of images by Damien Hirst in 2016, Mickey and Minnie are two very fun and highly collectible screenprints, each measuring 34 ½ x 27 ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Glitter, Screen

DOB in Pure White Robe (Navy and Vermilion)
Located in New York, NY
Created as a color lithograph by Takashi Murakami in 2013, DOB in Pure White Robe (Navy and Vermilion) is hand-signed by the artist in marker, and numbered, measuring 19 ¾ x 19 ¾ inc...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Lithograph

OY
Located in New York, NY
OY Year: 2020 Medium: Color silkscreen and flocking on Rising 2-ply Museum Board Size: 32 x 30 inches (81 x 76 cm) Edition: 40 Deborah Kass employs the visual motifs of post-war pai...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

OY
OY
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Steel Pier, Moonrise
Located in New York, NY
Split toned and hand-tinted gelatin silver print, printed by artist, with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 8-ply museum board Signed and numbered, recto 26 x 32 inches, overall mat size 22 x 28 inches, paper size (Edition of 20) This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Please note that prices increase as editions sell. In 2008, Michael Massaia started to document the amusement piers that skirt the New Jersey coastline during their most vacant moments (usually between the hours of 4:00 and 6:00 a.m.). These images were predominantly shot on the Funtown and Casino Piers in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Silver Gelatin

Primetime Arcade
Located in New York, NY
Split toned and hand-tinted gelatin silver print, printed by artist, with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 8-ply museum board Signed and numbered, recto 32 x 26 inches, over...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Silver Gelatin

Stardust, Dawn - Wildwood
Located in New York, NY
Split toned and hand-tinted gelatin silver print, printed by artist, with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 8-ply museum board Signed and numbered, recto 26 x 32 inches, over...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Silver Gelatin

Panoramic, Dawn
Located in New York, NY
Split toned and hand-tinted gelatin silver print, printed by artist, with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 8-ply museum board Signed and numbered, recto 26 x 32 inches, over...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Silver Gelatin

Crystal Sands, Dawn - Wildwood
Located in New York, NY
Split toned and hand-tinted gelatin silver print, printed by artist, with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 8-ply museum board Signed and numbered, recto 26 x 32 inches, over...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Silver Gelatin

Broken Pier Sunset
Located in New York, NY
Split toned and hand-tinted gelatin silver print, printed by artist, with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 8-ply museum board Signed and numbered, recto 26 x 32 inches, overall mat size 22 x 28 inches, paper size (Edition of 20) This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Please note that prices increase as editions sell. In 2008, Michael Massaia started to document the amusement piers that skirt the New Jersey coastline during their most vacant moments (usually between the hours of 4:00 and 6:00 a.m.). These images were predominantly shot on the Funtown and Casino Piers in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Silver Gelatin

Flatiron in June
By Bruno Bertrand-Frezoul
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print Signed and inscribed in pencil, verso 22.5 x 18.5 inches, sheet size 14.25 x 14.25 inches, image size This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York ...
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Other Art Style 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Silver Gelatin

Endings
Located in New York, NY
Split toned and hand-tinted gelatin silver print, printed by artist, with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 8-ply museum board Signed and numbered, recto 26 x 32 inches, over...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Silver Gelatin

Coat Room Elevator
Located in New York, NY
Split toned and hand-tinted gelatin silver print, printed by artist, with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 8-ply museum board Signed and numbered, recto 26 x 32 inches, over...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Silver Gelatin

First Light
Located in New York, NY
Split toned and hand-tinted gelatin silver print, printed by artist, with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 8-ply museum board Signed and numbered, recto 26 x 32 inches, over...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Silver Gelatin

Silver Corridor
Located in New York, NY
Split toned and hand-tinted gelatin silver print, printed by artist, with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 8-ply museum board Signed and numbered, recto 26 x 32 inches, over...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Silver Gelatin

Stairway
Located in New York, NY
Split toned and hand-tinted gelatin silver print, printed by artist, with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 8-ply museum board Signed and numbered, recto 26 x 32 inches, over...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Silver Gelatin

Highgrove - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Royal Homes, Highgrove House, British
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Highgrove by His Majesty King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph. Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be associate...
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Academic 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Lithograph

Overlooking Wadi, Saudi Arabia - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Mountains, Asir
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Overlooking Wadi, Asir Province, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia by His Majesty King Charles III, (created when he was HRH The Prince of Wales) - ...
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Academic 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Lithograph

Hong Kong from HMY Britannia - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Union Jack,
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Hong Kong From HMY Britannia by HM King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph. Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be associated ...
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Academic 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Lithograph

Frieze #11
Located in New York, NY
Ink and 24-karat gold leaf on Hahnemühle paper (Unique) Signed, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Anthony Aziz (b. 1961, Massachusetts) and Sammy...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Gold Leaf

The Kiss
Located in New York, NY
40-color silkscreen on Zerkall Litho paper (Edition of 10) Signed and numbered, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Anthony Aziz (b. 1961, Massachu...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

The Kiss
Price Upon Request
Shadow Play #1
Located in New York, NY
Silkscreen on Zerkall Litho paper (Edition of 15 variations) Signed and numbered, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Anthony Aziz (b. 1961, Massac...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Woodblock print Signed in pencil, recto 12 x 9 inches This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
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Abstract 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Color

Untitled
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Untitled II
Located in New York, NY
Monotype Signed, dated, and inscribed "II" in pencil, recto This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Born in Okinawa, Japan, and raised in Knoxville, Tennesse...
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Abstract 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Monotype

Untitled II
Untitled II
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Untitled (Head of Timothy Leary)
Located in New York, NY
Color woodblock print Signed and numbered in pencil, recto 28.5 x 26.5 inches, sheet 23.75 x 22.5 inches, image This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Color

The City
Located in New York, NY
C-print collage Signed on label, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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C Print

The City
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Relic
Located in New York, NY
Dana Schutz is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for her humorous, gestural paintings that take on specific subjects or narrative situat...
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American Modern 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Lithograph

Relic
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Hi Fi, from American Signs portfolio
Located in New York, NY
ROBERT COTTINGHAM HI FI, from American Signs portfolio, 2009 screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, 40 1/8 x 39 1/8 in (101.9 x 99.4 cm) signed, dated `2009' a...
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Photorealist 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

Drinks, from American Signs portfolio
Located in New York, NY
ROBERT COTTINGHAM Drinks, from American Signs portfolio, 2009 screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins 40 1/8 x 39 1/8 in (101.9 x 99.4 cm) signed, dated `2009...
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Photorealist 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

Fox, from American Signs portfolio
Located in New York, NY
ROBERT COTTINGHAM Fox, from American Signs portfolio, 2009 screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins 40 1/8 x 39 1/8 in (101.9 x 99.4 cm) signed, dated `2009' a...
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American Modern 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

Hi, from American Signs Portfolio
Located in New York, NY
ROBERT COTTINGHAM Hi, from American Signs portfolio, 2009 screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins 40 1/8 x 39 1/8 in (101.9 x 99.4 cm) signed, dated `2009' an...
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Pop Art 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

Star, from American Signs Portfolio
Located in New York, NY
ROBERT COTTINGHAM Star, from American Signs portfolio, 2009 screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, 40 1/8 x 39 1/8 in (101.9 x 99.4 cm) signed, dated `2009' and numbered edition of 100 in pencil -- Robert Cottingham B. 1935, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Born in 1935 in Brooklyn, Robert Cottingham is known for his paintings and prints of urban American landscapes, particularly building facades, neon signs, movie marquees, and shop fronts. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1955 through 1958, he earned a BFA at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, in 1963. Cottingham began his professional artistic career as an art director for the advertising firm Young and Rubicam in the early 1960s. Although he is typically associated with Photorealism, Cottingham never considered himself a Photorealist, but rather a realist painter working in a long tradition of American vernacular scenes. In this respect, his work often draws parallels to a number of American painters such as Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Edward Hopper, and Charles Sheeler. Cottingham’s interest in the intersections of art and commerce derive from his career as an adman and the influence of Pop art. Many of his paintings convey an interest in typography and lettering, as well as an awareness of the psychological impact of certain isolated words and letters. In his facades, techniques from advertising, namely cropping and enlarging, often produce words of enigmatic or comical resonance such as “Art,” “Ha,” or “Oh.” Cottingham’s enlarged sense of scale is reminiscent of James Rosenquist’s work, while his interest in text suggests the influence of Robert Indiana and Jasper Johns. In general, Cottingham viewed his work as continuing the legacy of Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, who also had a background in advertising. In 1964, Cottingham relocated to Los Angeles for work. There, inspired by the drastically different environment of the West Coast metropolis, he began to commit seriously to painting. Fascinated by Hollywood’s exaggerated glitz and the downtrodden atmosphere of the downtown, Cottingham saw in Los Angeles the relics of a bygone commercial heyday and desired to capture its kitschy and uncanny atmosphere, bathed in the near perpetual sunlight of Southern California. In 1968, Cottingham ended his advertising career in order to devote all his time to painting. In the late 1960s, he started using photography in his practice, first as an initial reference point for his process. After selecting a photograph, he translates it into black-and-white drawings by projecting the image onto gridded paper...
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Photorealist 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Screen

Mo jam
By Farah Khelil
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Farah Khelil, Mo’jam, Fine Art Print, 99.7 x 150 cm, 2015 antoine lefebvre editions bookworm, curated by Antoine Lefebvre The boundaries between passion and destruction fade away. bookworms is an transnational transmedia artists’ project about book-loving and book-eating, conservation and conservatism, passion and destruction. From the encounter with a destroyed book stems a reflection between two artists who are both passionate about books. It is important for us to present this project in different countries because the issues of transmission of knowledge are everywhere the same. This project is about the ignorants for whom knowledge, intelligence and education has become a threat and who seek to drag others with them into darkness. For Khelil, the book eaters are thinkers and intellectuals against conservatism and dogmatism. *** bookworms is an artists’ project about book-loving and book-eating, conservation and conservatism, passion and destruction This project is the fruit of a very special encounter with an object… After the death of her grandfather in 2012, Tunisian artist Farah Khelil (b. 1980) explored his library and found an old family dictionary in Arabic (Mo'jam Arabia), at least what was left of it, for it had been devoured by book eaters. She decided to collect some fragments without knowing what she would do with them. Impressed by how carefully cut the pieces were, she wanted to transform them into artworks that would honor the memory of her grandfather. Because she knew how important the book object is in my artistic practice, she showed me the fragments and invited me to participate in an exhibition at the Tunisian gallery A.GORGI in her hometown Sidi Bou Said. I then thought about introducing her to Barbara Denis-Morel, the curator of the Avranches Library. This library conserves, among other treasures, more than 200 medieval manuscripts from the abbey of the Mont Saint-Michel, but it also holds a few books that were entirely devoured. Thanks to the curator, we could consult old books that were infected, quarantined, pierced by galleries and routes that revealed the passage of book-eating insects. We filmed these pages to create a video that we entitled ALL THE MEMORY IN THE WORLD, Toute la mémoire du monde, which is an appropriation of the eponymous film by Alain Resnais. Farah had also kept some intact pages of the devoured dictionary. Then we used this sequence of 120 pages to build the lay-out structure of an artist’s book. The idea was to empty all the textual content —captions and definitions— to keep only the figures, the dropped initials, and the page numbers. The emptied columns of the dictionary were then filled with artistic contributions and texts that we commissioned to invited authors. Printed in an edition of 500 copies, this artist book was made by Farah Khelil and antoine lefebvre editions from the remains of a devoured book. It will be a key element, of this second presentation of the project, and a special edition with a bookstand will produced especially for the fair. Behind the idea of book-eating insects, there is the issue of conservation but also of conservatism, as in Solitaire, an installation Khelil made with a peg solitaire game and mothballs. This work is a “portrait” of her grandfather, Abdelaziz Majdoub, who taught Arabic at the Sadiki High School for a long time where he specialized in “ilm al-kalam,” the science of language. This project is imbued with nostalgia, it is reminder for the artist of the time she spent as a child with this thinker always with his head in books. These encyclopedic pieces transformed into artworks draw the territories and communal places of knowledge. They are extensions of a family memory and reflect a culture going back and forth between book-loving and book-eating, conservation and conservatism. This idea of book destruction is one of the main dangers threatening the library and the books that compose it: fire, water and confinement. But there is also this minor or mediocre scourge that intend to harm the books: the book eaters. This exhibition is a metaphor, a reflection on ignorance, not as opposed to knowledge but as an enemy of knowledge. Ignorance is what attempts to undermine the intelligence, kill or reduce it. Just like the bookworms...
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Conceptual 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Mixed Media

Mo
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Mo
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Untitled
Located in New York, NY
A color intaglio created by the artist in 2012, this original etching is hand-signed, dated and numbered in pencil, measures 21 x 16 in. (53.3 x 40.6 cm), unframed and is from the ed...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

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Aquatint

Untitled
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