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Femme-fleurs au piano (Flower-women at the Piano)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Femme-fleurs au piano (Flower-women at the Piano)
Drypoint etching from 1969.
The edition 25/145 on Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 66 x 51 cm.
Hand...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
THOMSON Gyrathomic, Original horizontal French mid-century vintage poster
By Guy Georget
Located in Spokane, WA
Original THOMSON Gyrathomic. Horizontal format original French vintage lithograph poster. Artist: Guy Georget. C. 1955. Archival linen backed. Very good condition.
A fun...
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Bauhaus Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Original "BEWARE Spreading Vital Informaton .. SILENCE" vintage WWII poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "Beware Spreading Vital Information Will Undermine Our War Effort. Do your Part In Silence" vintage World War 2 poster.
Ori...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
$600 Sale Price
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Original Buy Bonds Every Payday vintage World War 2 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War 2 vintage poster: YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS EITHER! BUY BONDS EVERY PAYDAY. Linen-backed, fine condition, ready to frame. Great ...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Offset
$2,280 Sale Price
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Inter Filios Dei Affuit Etiam Satan - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible - Inter Filios Dei Affuit Etiam Satan is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolan...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Peintre et sa toile avec modèle assis
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Peintre et modèle, avec une sculpture I
Etching and aquatint from 1964.
The edition of 4/50.
Dimensions of work: 33 x 45 cm.
Hand signed.
Reference: ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
The Mock Turtle
s Story Alice in Wonderland Salvador Dali 1969 original woodcut
Located in Paonia, CO
The Mock Turtle's Story is from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as interpreted by Salvador Dali and published by Maecenas ( a Random...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Photogravure
Dance
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Dance
Lithograph from 1939.
Dimensions of work: 52 x 35 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
On the back there are two lithographs signed in plate.
The prin...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
$1,586 Sale Price
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Original Suddenly Last Summer vintage movie poster, Elizabeth Taylor, US 1-sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Linen-backed original “ Suddenly Last Summer “ vintage movie poster. Excellent condition with restored original fold marks as issued during conservation linen-backing. NSS 60/4. ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Offset
Acrobats - Etching boy Marino Marini - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 50 prints.
From the book "Idea e Spazio" including 12 etchings by Marino Marini and poems by Egle Marini.
Ref.: Toninelli n. 80.
Image dimensio...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Etching
$1,830 Sale Price
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Bartender and Consumer
s Guide to creating mixed drinks / cocktails
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Bartender’s Consumer Guide vintage poster. This guide was designed for mature adults. Don’t Drink and Drive! Printed on a very nice heavier stock poster, this poster i...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Les Amoureux- From the Album "Jean Cocteau Lithographies" by Jean Cocteau
By Jean Cocteau
Located in New York, NY
The modern lithograph "Les Amoureux" by Jean Cocteau was printed at the Atelier Mourlot in 1957. Cocteau was a master at representing the languid forms of his subjects in sketches. H...
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Constellations from XXe Siecle No. 4
By Jean Arp
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Jean Arp
Title: Constellations
Portfolio: XXe Siecle No. 4
Medium: Linocut
Date: 1938
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 19 3/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size: 12 5/8" x 9 5/8"
Signature...
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Linocut
La Colegiata Toro (Romanesque Santa Maria la Mayor/Zamora province Spain)
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Taylor Arms created this superb architectural image of La Colegiata in 1935 in an edition of 153. It is #12 in his Spanish Churches series and is referenced as Fletcher #284.
One of the most characteristic examples of transitional Romanesque architecture in Spain, the church of Santa María la Mayor is inspired by the Cathedral of Zamora, in turn inspired by the Old Cathedral of Salamanca. The tower-dome is usually listed as one of the four most typical in León together with those in the cathedrals of Salamanca, Plasencia and Zamora.
The church was begun around 1170, and was finished in the mid-13th century. Two different directors of the work have been identified, according to the different types of stone used (limestone in the old sections, sandstone in the most recent ones), and by the barrel vaults...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Etching
Le cirque
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Le cirque
Original Lithograph from 1960.
Dimensions of work: 32 x 24 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
$675 Sale Price
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Square Head of a Woman with Full Lips, from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Square Head of a Woman with Full Lips
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition Size: 289
Framed Size: 18 3/4" x 16 3/4"...
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Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Etching
Badajoz Fiestas de SAn Juan 1954 original vintage Spanish travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage Badajoz Fiesta de San Juan linen backed poster. Very good condition, ready to frame.
Printed: Lit. Ortega, Valencia. Archival linen backed. No tears, no stain...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
$900 Sale Price
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Sybil in her Dressing Room Jim Dine The Picture of Dorian Gray Hollywood starlet
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Pictured in this Jim Dine lithograph is Sybil Vane, the innocent yet glamorous actress and object of Dorian Gray's affection and obsession in Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Doria...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
The Anointing of Saul
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - The Anointing of Saul
Etching from 1958.
Edition of 100
Enhanced with watercolour by the artist.
Dimensions of work: 52 x 37 cm.
Hand signed.
Publish...
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Etching
$5,226 Sale Price
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Untitled - Etching by H. Bellmer - Mid-20th Century
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a contemporary artwork realized by Hans Bellmer in the mid-20th Century.
Colored etching
Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin.
Edition of 54/150
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Etching
Visit Belgium original travel poster.
Located in Spokane, WA
Visit Belgium original travel poster. Linen backed. Grade A condition. Ready to frame. Very good condition. Excellent.
Printed in Belg...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
$500 Sale Price
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La Danse, frontispiece from Picasso Lithographe III
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: La Danse (frontispiece)
Portfolio: Picasso Lithographe III
Medium: Transfer lithograph printed in colors
Date: 1956
Edition: 3000
Frame Size: 19 1/2" x 1...
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Original "Television Grammont" art deco original vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original TELEVISION GRAMMONT vintage poster. Printer: Draeger. Size 23.75" x 32". Original lithograph. Archival linen backed in very good condition; ready to frame.
This poster is a French advertisement for a company that made both television sets...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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He Repeated the Letters of the Alphabet
By Corita Kent
Located in Missouri, MO
Sister Mary Corita Kent (American, 1918-1986)
He Repeated the Letters of the Alphabet...
Color Screenprint
22.5 x 38.75 inches
Signed Lower Right
Sister Mary Corita Kent, once the n...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Color, Screen
Original Let
s Make Love US movie poster Marilyn Monroe half sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original first edition vintage U. S. movie poster: Let's Make Love, (20th Century Fox, 1960). Half Sheet (22" X 28"). Comedy. Japan acid-free backed. A very attractive price for a fine condition original compared to others. We work hard to find and present high-quality original vintage posters for your personal selections at reasonable prices.
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughn, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Burns, Joe Besser, Mara Lynn, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, and Milton Berle...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Offset
$680 Sale Price
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Le Corbusier: "Le Poème de L
Angle Droit". Original lithograph.
By Le Corbusier
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
Flowers by Andy Warhol (1964) Art Print – Iconic Pop Art Design
Located in Winterswijk, NL
A bold and vibrant reproduction of Andy Warhol’s iconic 1964 Flowers series, this striking artwork is printed on heavy art paper, showcasing the enduring brilliance of Pop Art. The c...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Paper
Coquelicots
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Coquelicots
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 52.5 x 35.5 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Each copy of this Lithograph was originally published...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
$950 Sale Price
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Modern Art at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven – Original Vintage Dutch Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Poster in bright and crisp colors by the Dutch graphic design legend Wim Crouwel, advertising rather the museum's collection of works by...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Paper
Original Pan American World Airways by Clipper to Portugal and Spain poster
By Jean Carlu
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Portugal and Spain by Pan American World Airways Clipper, Artist: Jean Carlu. Pan American original vintage poster large travel size format 27.5" x 41.1" Earliest version (the 1950s) of the poster for travel by Constellation aircraft.
Original linen-backed, Pan American World Airways by Clipper vintage poster for travel to Portugal and Spain. Wear and stress marks in the top and bottom dark area but are not tears.. Small touch-up on the left white border.
In the middle of this image, it features a matador with a cape hanging off his shoulder. Surrounding the image in vignettes of cut-out windows showing typical landscape scenes and castles. A great smaller format original for "The World's Most Experienced Airline". One of the windmills shown in this image has cloth sails. Trimming the sails allowed the windmill to turn at near the optimal speed in a large range of wind velocities. Pan American World Airways by Clipper.
Pan American a.k.a. Pan Am Airlines posters are very collectible and rare year to year. This a great design opportunity for a home with a European flair. The Pan Am Clipper...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Daphnes and Chloé, Planche XLI
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Daphnes and Chloé, Planche XLI
Lithograph from 1961.
Dimensions of work: 43 x 66 cm.
Enhanced with gouache. Examined and identified by a French gallery ...
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Symbolist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
$11,878 Sale Price
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Original Washington D.C. American Airlines vintage travel poster Midcentury
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Washington (D.C.) American Airlines mid-century vintage travel poster. Professional archival linen backed in very fine condition, ready to frame.
Featuring one of the ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Monmousseau Votre Vin original sparkling Champagne vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Vintage Montmousseau Methode Champenoise original poster — Linen-backed and ready to frame. Condition B+, but presents extremely well. No paper loss.
Why did I give the poster a B+...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Original Batam Hats Cervo Italia vintage men
s fashion poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original small-format Bantam Pocket Hat. Artist: Gino Boccasile. Italian
Size: 9" x 13".
Behind the silhouette of the man wearing his Bantam hat is another stick figures foldi...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Offset
Aline et Valcour - Etching by H. Bellmer - 1968
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 38.2 x 28.4 cm.
Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968.
Copy on Japon Nacré from the additional suite. Incl...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Etching
Original Fairey "Albacore" U. S. Naval vintage training poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original linen-backed U.S. Naval Aviation Training Division, Dec., 1942 poster for the Fairey "Albacore" aircraft. Linen-backed and in very good condi...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Offset
$580 Sale Price
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De Petra Exivit Aqua - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
De Petra Exivit Aqua is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani b...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
$308 Sale Price
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Zao Wou-ki - Original Lithograph - Abstract Composition
By Zao Wou-Ki
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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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Original "Maurice Chevalier, Alhambra Theatre" vintage poster medium size
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier vintage lithographic poster. Artist: Charles Kiffer (1902 - 1992). Size: 19.25" x 27.25". Archival linen-backed antique vintage poster; ready to frame. An original lithograph was done for the inauguration of the new Alhambra Theater, featuring Maurice Chevalier.
Over the years; Kiffer designed 13 for Chavalier from 1927 - 1963. (Kiffer also designed for Josephine Baker, Edith Piaf, and many other performers.) Today this version with the text of the Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier is a rare poster. Mid-century-modern.
The Alhambra was a music hall located at 50, rue de Malte in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. It opened on August 11, 1866.
This image with the familiar tilted hat is a recognized image associated with several different poster designs created for the actor Maurice Chevalier. In addition to the images created for the French cabaret; a similar image is also associated with the liquor poster...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
H C Beck September 1933 London Underground Pocket Map (First Year of Issue)
By Harry Beck
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage travel posters including more London Transport posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or...
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Femmes dans les vagues (Women in the Waves)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Femmes dans les vagues (Women in the Waves)
Drypoint etching from 1969.
The edition 25/145 on Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 66 x 51 cm.
Hand signe...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Etching, Drypoint
Air France Europe original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original AIR FRANCE EUROPE, Editions Perceval, artist: Jacques Nathan Garamond. Professional acid-free archival linen backed vintage travel post...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Horst Janssen Hand-Signed Poster
München
Original Zinc Etching, 1967 — Framed
By Horst Janssen
Located in Barcelona, ES
Horst Janssen — Hand-Signed Poster “München (Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Villa Stuck)”, Original Zinc Etching, 1966–67 — Framed
Powerful hand-signed exhibition poster by Horst Jansse...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Paper
Pablo Picasso (after) Helene Chez Archimede - Wood Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after)
Helene Chez Archimede
Medium: engraved on wood by Georges Aubert
Dimensions: 44 x 33 cm
Portfolio: Helen Chez Archimede
Year: 1955
Edition: 240 (Here it is on...
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Modern Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Wood, Archival Paper, Engraving
Vultee "Vengeance" original World War 2 original vintage spotter plane poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Vultee "Vengeance" World War II, 1942, vintage spotter airplane poster.
Original linen-backed U. S. Naval Aviation Training Division, Nov.,...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Offset
Original Nice-Themal spa Berthemont - Les -Bains antique French vintage poster
By Emmanuel Bellini
Located in Spokane, WA
Original French travel poster: Nice - Thermal health spa original vintage poster created by artist Emmanuel Bellini.
Original linen backed, large French travel size: Nice - Therm...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Halo Freedom - Grateful Dead
more. original concert poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Halo Freedom - Rick Griffin original 1966 poster.
Benefit for Haight Ashbury Legal Organization, an On-scene summer long guarantee of your Freedom. Indian Agent Excellent / mint condition. The image is to resemble a distressed old photograph, but this poster is meint as stated. No damage, no pinholes, no bent corners… just very fine indeed!
PERFORMERS: Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Charlatans
Haight Ashbury Legal Organization. Winterland Concert HALO (Haight Ashbury Legal Organization)
Original First Printing, not a reproduction. Concert featuring: The Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Charlatans...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Offset
$238 Sale Price
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Eight Mortal Sins Complete Suite
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: 8 Mortal Sins Suite
Anger
Avarice
Dalinean
Envy
Gluttony
Lust
Pride
Sloth
MEDIUM: 8 Etchings
SIGNED: Each piece is Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Jean Schne...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Etching
Oval Head of a Woman with Piercing Eyes (Plate XXI), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Oval Head of a Woman with Piercing Eyes (Plate XXI)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Frame Size: 21" x 18"...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Etching
The Heretics - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Heretics - Hell plate 10 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited e...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Woodcut
$231 Sale Price
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Bullfighting Poster - Granada, 9 June 1947
Located in London, GB
Carlos Ruano Llopis (1878-1950)
Original Vintage Bullfighting Poster
June 1947
107cm x 53cm
Carlos Ruano Llopis was born in 1878 in Orba, Spain w...
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Other Art Style Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
Original Salamanca Ferias y Fiestas vintage Spanish festival poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Salamanca Ferias y Fiestas vintage Spanish poster. Lithograph archival linen backed and ready to frame. Artist: Ramon Melero. Very good condition. No tears, no stains, no damage. Fine condition
This image has two piñata style faces. The woman has a flower in her hair and a veil and the man is just wearing a small Swiss hat. On the left side, there is a cow handing off a string that also has flowers. A city seal is in the upper left corner.
The festival is in honor of la Virgen de la Vega...
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Color-Field Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
$719 Sale Price
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Appolon
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Appolon
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 52.5 x 35.5 cm.
Plate signed.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Each copy of this Lithograph was originall...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century More Prints
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Lithograph
$950 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall - The Red Rider - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
The Red Rider
From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle
1957
See Mourlot 191
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985.
The Village
Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work.
At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well.
Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged.
The Beehive
Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period.
Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come.
War, Peace and Revolution
In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos.
To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia.
In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good.
Flight
After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research.
Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion.
With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way.
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Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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