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Period: Mid-20th Century
Original Austria Photographic Travel Poster Vienna Musee des Beaux Arts
By Albert Herndl
Located in London, GB
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Photorealist Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

Bones For Fertilisers - Original WW2 Poster: Waste not want not
Located in London, GB
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World War II Football poster Quicker Turnaround to Victory Ministry of Transport
Located in London, GB
Ministry of War Transport Quicker Turnaround Helps to Quicker Victory - Football Original vintage poster c. 1940 30x20" Printed by H M Stationery Office by J Weiner Ltd London WC1 P...
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Realist Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

1943 Royal Air Force Airspeed Horsa Glider aeroplane recognition poster US Navy
Located in London, GB
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Jean Cocteau - Europe and the World - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Europe and the World Signed in the plate Dimensions: 33 x 46 cm Edition: 200 Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Sciaky 1961
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Black and White Etching Travel 1930 s Realism Water Industrial Outdoors Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fishing Boats Gloucester" is a soft ground etching created by Joseph Margulies. The artist signed this piece in the lower right margin with graphite. This piece depicts several fish...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Ink, Etching, Aquatint

1943 Royal Air Force Bristol Blenheim poster US Naval Aviation Training Division
Located in London, GB
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Lithograph

1944 UK poster: Great Britain s War Effort (Taxation) - World War II propaganda
Located in London, GB
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Lithograph

1959 UK Army Recruitment poster, Join the New Regular Army Wireless Operator
Located in London, GB
John Godfrey Bernard Worsley (1919-2000) - attributed A Soldier of the Queen - Join the New Regular Army Original UK Army recruitment poster c. 1960 75x501cm Printed for H.M. Station...
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Lithograph

Jean Fautrier - Naked Annabelle - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Fautrier - Naked Annabelle - Original Lithograph 1957 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Signed in the plate From the art review XXe siecle Unumbered as issued
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Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

La Venus aux Fourrures Woman With Crutch
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: La Venus Aux Fourrures Woman with Crutch MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 25/145 MEASUREMENTS: 11" x 15" YEAR: 1968 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Excellent AUTHENTICITY: This piece has been certified by The Salvador Dali Archives. The Salvador Dali Archives, located in New York, is a private repository of information about Salvador Dali, established with the approval of the artist by Albert Field over 50 years ago. The Archives, under the direction of Albert Field's successor, Frank Hunter, is able to provide an Authentication Service to owners of Dali prints and other Dali works. The Salvador Dali Archives is used by major Auction Houses, Art Dealers and Collectors to Authenticate works by Salvador Dali. REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 40...
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Etching

Jean Cocteau - Christ - Original Handsigned and Handcolored Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Christ - Original Handsigned and Handcolored Lithograph Signed in the plate Handsigned and dated in color pencil. Handcolored in pencil. Dimensions: 50.5 x 33 cm 1957 ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

Henri Michaux - Beach - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Henri Michaux - Beach - Original Lithograph 1956 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Edition: G. di San Lazzaro. From the art review XXème siècle Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

Okiie Hashimoto Color woodblock, 1952. "Girl with Irises"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Okiie Hashimoto Color woodblock, 1952. "Girl with Irises" A beautiful composition by Japanese print artist Okiie Hashimoto (1899-1993). This original color woodblock is in excellent condition and measures 15"h x 21 1/4"w. The work is framed nicely and measures 25 3/4"h x 30 3/4"w framed. Pencil signed and dated ‘52 lower right. Titled “Girl with Irises” (Awame To Shojo). Okiie Hashimoto (1899–1993) was a Japanese artist and educator. Best known as part of the postwar revival of the sosaku-hanga (Creative Prints) movement. In 1936, he began creating woodblock prints after he attended a workshop organized by prominent sosaku-hanga artist Un’ichi Hiratsuka and began creating woodblock prints. In his prolific career in printmaking, he was known for an innovative use of simplified and decorative forms that exude a modern feel. In his lifetime, his achievements were rewarded with his appointment to the president of the Japan Print Association (1974–79) and his invitations to the prestigious international prints biennales in Tokyo (1957, 1970, 1972) and Lugano (1972). In 1921, he began a three-year teacher's training course at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (the present Tokyo University of the Arts), graduating in 1924. In Tokyo, aside from the art teacher education courses, he received training in a wide variety of practices, including yoga (Western-style painting), nihonga (Japanese-style painting), sculpture, design, etching and lithography, crafts, and calligraphy. In 1955, he began to pursue a career as an artist full-time. As for influences, Hashimoto cited Hiratsuka, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Kanji Maeda, and Masao Maeda...
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Paper

Job in Despair
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Job in Despair Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible Medium: Lithograph Date: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/4" Image Size: 14 3/8" x 10 ...
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Lithograph

Original Lithograph Baby Life Moments Family Female Figure Mother Black Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"First Steps" is an original lithograph created by Jean Charlot. This is a wonderful piece with hispanic styling, showing a mother teaching her child how to walk. The mother is shown standing behind the child holding it in a fabric sling. The child is shown in the foreground leaning into the fabric sling as it starts to take its first steps. The artist signed this work in the lower right. Image Size: 13 7/8" x 9 3/4" Paper Size: 17 1/2" x 12 5/8" Frame Size: 23" x 19" Artist Bio: Louis Henri Jean Charlot was a French-born American painter and illustrator, active mainly in Mexico and the United States. Charlot’s mother’s family originated from Mexico City, and the artist was fascinated with Mexican manuscripts and pre-Columbian artifacts...
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Other Art Style Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph

An 8 Set - 7 - From the Pasadena Box
Located in London, GB
Lithograph 38.4 x 56.5 cms (15 1/8 x 22 1/4 ins) Edition of 100
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Abstract Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

Antoni Clavé - Original Lithograph - For Pushkin s Queen of Spades
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Antoni Clavé - Original Lithograph - For Alexander Pushkin's Queen of Spades Dimensions: 325 x 247 mm. 1946 Original lithograph of Antoni Clavé Edit...
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

"Aquella tarde al verse en el espejo" by Antonio Saura, Black and Grey Abstract
Located in Köln, DE
Screenprint by Antonio Saura "Aquella tarde al verse en el espejo.." from "Diversaurio", 1962 77,5 x 55,2 cm Copy 52 Edition of 85 Antonio Saura (Hue...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Screen

John Winkler (California, 1890-1979) "Night in Chinatown" Original Etching
Located in San Francisco, CA
John Winkler (California, 1890-1979) "Night in Chinatown" Original Etching c.1936 Also known as "Figures by a Street Lamp." Winkler worked as a gas lamp lighter early in his student...
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Etching

Sheet Corner
Located in London, GB
GERHARD RICHTER b. 1932 Born in Dresden 1932 (German) Title: Sheet Corner Blattecke. 1967 Technique: Original Hand Signed, Dated and Numbered Offset Lithograph in Colour on Thin C...
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Realist Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

Coasts Of Illusion - Moonstrips Empire News By Eduardo Paolozzi
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Untitled from Moonstrips Empire News By Eduardo Paolozzi Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was a pioneering Scottish artist and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. Renowned f...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Screen, Paper

Passion - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Passion is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. Signed and dated...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

Then stood up Elias the prophet as fire, and his word burnt - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Then stood up Elias the prophet as fire, and his word burnt like a torch is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is publ...
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Lithograph

Et dixit Philistaeus ad David - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Et dixit Philistaeus ad David is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1...
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Lithograph

Joie Innocente
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this scarce lithograph on Arches. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 14/20 in pencil. Printed and published by the artist, Paris. From "Théâtre du Sol."
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Abstract Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

Jean Cocteau - Three Persons or One - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Three Persons or One Signed in the plate Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm Edition: 200 1959 Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais Unnumbered as issued
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

Alfred Manessier - Maze - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Alfred Manessier - Maze - Lithograph Colorful Abstraction 1954 XXe Siecle (No. 4) Published in Paris by San Lazzaro Dimensions: 32 x 24 Edition: G. di San Lazzaro. Signed in the plat...
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Leviathan - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Leviathan is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964 by Salvador Dalì, It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 19...
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Lithograph

Judith Beheads Holfernes - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible - Judith Beheads Holfernes is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published...
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Dixit Raphael ad Tobiam - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible - is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. Signed and ...
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Lithograph

Tobias Listens to Raphael - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible - Tobias Listens to Raphael is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1...
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Lithograph

The Transfiguration - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible -  The Transfiguration is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 a...
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Lithograph

Lot s Wide Turned into a Statue of Salt - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible -  Lot's Wide turned into a Statue of Salt is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Medi...
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Lithograph

Exhibition Poster Galerie Gerald Cramer - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition Poster Galerie Gerald Cramer is a contemporary artwork realized by Joan Mirò. Mixed colored lithograph. The poster was realized in occasion of the exhibition of the arti...
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Lithograph

Zao Wou-ki - Original Lithograph - Abstract Composition
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Zao Wou-ki - Original Lithograph 1962 From La tentation de l’Occident Dimensions: 39 x 28.5 cm Publisher: Les Bibliophiles Comtois Edition of 170 Reference: Jørgen Ågerup 137 - 146...
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Lithograph

Le Corbusier: "Le Poème de L Angle Droit". Original lithograph.
Located in Richmond, GB
Charles-Éduard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss architect and designer who is generally regarded as a key figure in the development of modern architecture, his work bein...
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

The Human Comedy - Lithograph from "Verve"
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso - The Human Comedy - Lithograph from the journal "Verve" Signed and dated in the plate Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Pablo Picasso Picasso i...
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Exhibition Poster Galerie Gerald Cramer - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition Poster Galerie Gerald Cramer is a contemporary artwork realized by Joan Mirò. Mixed colored lithograph. The poster was realized in occasion of the exhibition of the arti...
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Lithograph

Jean Cocteau - Young Girl - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Young Girl - Original Lithograph Signed and dated in the plate Stampsigned Dimensions: 53 x 42 cm 1956 Provenance : Succession Dermit, Cocteau's heir
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Lithograph

Charles Keller Original Stone Lithograph - "6th Avenue Subway”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Original lithograph by Charles Keller depicting the subway being built in New York on 6th Avenue in 1937. This print is inscribed lower left: “To W.B.” The print is in excellent con...
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Permeation I - XX Century, Figurative etching print, Surrealism
Located in Warsaw, PL
LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015) He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (later: Academy of Fine Arts)...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Paper, Etching

Bruce Nauman: Holograms, Videotapes, and Other Works"), Leo Castelli
Located in New York, NY
Bruce Nauman Untitled (2-color lithograph, published in conjunction with the exhibition "Bruce Nauman: Holograms, Videotapes, and Other Works"), Leo Castelli, 1969 Lithograph 24 x 20...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

Ex Libris Antonin Dolezal - Woodcut Print - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Antonin Dolezal  is a Contemporary Artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.  B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lower ri...
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Woodcut

Ex Libris Victor Vernik - Woodcut Print - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Victor Vernik is a Contemporary Artwork realized in the mid.20th Century. B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensions:...
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"Paris, " Original Lithograph Poster with Paris Landmarks signed by Paul Colin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Paris" is an original lithograph poster by Paul Colin. This was the first official poster from Paris after World War II and depicts three doves flying above the Arc de Triomphe, Not...
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Abstract - Lithograph by Ossip Zadkine - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Edition of 150 (140/150). Very good condition.
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Cubist Mid-20th Century More Prints

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The Shine of Bodies - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Shine of Bodies - Paradise is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Good conditions. Limited ...
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Minos - Woodcut print - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Minos - Hell  plate 5 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Good conditions. Limited edition o...
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Ornaments
Located in Missouri, MO
Ornaments, 1953 Ferol K. Sibley Warthen (American, 1890-1986) Color Woodblock Print 7 x 4.75 inches 16 x 13.75 inches with frame Signed and Dated Lower Right Titled Lower Left Born 1890, Died 1986...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Color

Oblatio Munda - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Oblatio Munda is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. Signed a...
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Lithograph

Ex Aegypto Vocavi Filium Meum - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Aegypto Vocavi Filium Meum is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and...
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The Great Day of the Lord - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
The Great Day of the Lord is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 196...
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Susannae Pulchritudo - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Susannae Pulchritudo  is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. ...
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Angelus Excussit Flammag Ignis - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Angelus Excussit Flammag Ignis is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 an...
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Aquae Diluvii Super Terram - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Aquae Diluvii Super Terram is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 19...
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Jean Cocteau - King Oedipus - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - King Oedipus - Original Lithograph 1956 Signed in the plate Dimensions: 66 x 50 cm Provenance : Succession Dermit, Cocteau's heir
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints

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Lithograph

Zao Wou-ki - Original Lithograph - Abstract Composition
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Zao Wou-ki - Original Lithograph 1962 From La tentation de l’Occident Dimensions: 39 x 28.5 cm Publisher: Les Bibliophiles Comtois Edition of 170 Reference: Jørgen Ågerup 137 - 146...
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Edgar Dorsey Taylor Original Woodcut Baja - "Ocean Waves. Bahia de Rosaldita"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Original Woodcut print from the Baja California Series by the artist Edgar Dorsey Taylor. Title is seen at lower center: “Ocean Waves. Bahia de Rosaldita.” Pencil signed lower right....
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Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Reference: Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II. Unsigned edition of over 5,000 Condition : Excellent Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish...
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