Expressionist Portrait Prints
EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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Style: Expressionist
The Hypochondriac - Original Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
The Hypochondriac is an original offset and lithograph print realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is the plate n.21 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, editio...
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1920s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Lithuanian French Artist Arbit Blatas Lithograph Pablo Picasso Ecole D
Paris
By Arbit Blatas
Located in Surfside, FL
Arbit Blatas (1908 – 1999)
Hand signed and numbered to lower edge
Ecole de Paris Portrait
Printed on Arches French deckle edged art paper
1962
Arbit Blatas (1908 – 1999), born Nicol...
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1960s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lithuanian French Artist Arbit Blatas Lithograph Albert Marquet Ecole D
Paris
By Arbit Blatas
Located in Surfside, FL
Arbit Blatas (1908 – 1999)
Hand signed and numbered to lower edge
Ecole de Paris Portrait
Printed on Arches French deckle edged art paper
1962
Arbit Blatas (1908 – 1999), born Nicol...
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1960s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lithuanian French Artist Arbit Blatas Lithograph Georges Braque School of Paris
By Arbit Blatas
Located in Surfside, FL
Arbit Blatas (1908 – 1999)
Hand signed and numbered to lower edge
Ecole de Paris Portrait
Printed on Arches French deckle edged art paper
1962
Arbit Blatas (1908 – 1999), born Nicol...
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1960s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lithuanian French Artist Arbit Blatas Lithograph Pierre Bonnard School of Paris
By Arbit Blatas
Located in Surfside, FL
Arbit Blatas (1908 – 1999)
Hand signed and numbered to lower edge
Ecole de Paris Portrait
Printed on Arches French deckle edged art paper
1962
Arbit Blatas (1908 – 1999), born Nicol...
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1960s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Zohar Kabbalah Portrait French Jewish Surrealist Aquatint Etching Hebrew Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Etching and Aquatint with embossing, Zwy Milshtein (Zvi Tzvi Milstein) BIOGRAPHY 1934 Born in Kishinev (Bessarabia) Russian, Romanian region.
1948 Arrived in Israel via Cyprus, wher...
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20th Century Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Man of Honor - Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Man of honor from Ecce Homo is a vintage offset and lithograph, realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is the plate n. 59 from the porfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923,edit...
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1920s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
LES DEUX AMIES Signed Lithograph, Two Friends Portrait, Dark Mauve, Periwinkle
By Corneille
Located in Union City, NJ
Les Deux Amies is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed in 13 colors on archival Somerset paper 100% acid, free, by the Dutch artist known as CORNEILLE(Guillaume van Beverloo) an abstract expressionist who co-founded the 20th Century experimental art movement CoBrA recognized for their spontaneous, rebellious style of painting that was heavily inspired by the art of children and the mentally ill. Corneille devises his colorful fantastic imagery with exotic plant forms, sensuous female bodies, animals and lively pattern design. Les Deux Amies is a fantastical red outlined portrait of two people; one a frontally posed female depicted with a bright blue, wavy wedge hairdo and dark mauve face. Her colorful mask...
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1980s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,925 Sale Price
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Portrait of Young Girl - Original Lithograph by Hervè Morvan - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Young Girl is an original litograph realized by Hervè Morvan in 1957.
Good condition except for some spoiled paper on the upper and lower margin.
Signature and dated wi...
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1950s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Portrait Study (Head of a Girl)" Collotype
Located in Palm Beach, FL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
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1920s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper
Men - Pair of Original Monotype Woodcuts - Mid 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Men is a pair of two original monotype woodcuts realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century, in 1950 ca, glued on paper.
In very good condition.
Image dimension : 26 x 19.5 c...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "The Artist
s Wife, Seated" Collotype plate VI
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterfu...
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1910s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper
Erotic Nude French Surrealist Aquatint Etching Photo Collage Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
This is numbered by hand in pencil and signed in pencil. An erotic nude etching.
Zwy Milshtein (Zvi Tzvi Milstein) BIOGRAPHY 1934 Born in Kishinev (Bessarabia) Russian, Romanian reg...
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20th Century Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Marc Chagall Gold Framed Lithograph
Le filigrane violet
Vibrant and Dreamy
By Marc Chagall
Located in Chesterfield, MI
This piece is very unique and bound to have attention drawn to it. This Chagall lithograph is straight out of a dream state, with vibrant colors and emotion seeping out from its seem...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$371 Sale Price
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Jewish Prophet Rabbi German Expressionist Color Woodcut Israeli Early Bezalel
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed in pencil, colored woodcut.
Jacob Steinhardt
1887-1968
Steinhardt, Jakob, Painter and Woodcut Artist. b. 1887, Yaacov Steinhardt was born in the then remote, largely Polish town of Zerkow in the Posen District of Germany. (poland/german) Immigrated 1933. Studies: 1906 School of Art, 1906 Studied in Berlin Arts and Crafts School. Berlin; 1907 painting...
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20th Century Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Judaica Jewish Etching Hasidic Rabbi, Gaon, Genius, Vintage Chassidic Art Print
By Paul Jeffay
Located in Surfside, FL
"Un savant."
Chassidic scholar, Rosh Yeshiva with open book. Judaica, Jewish scenes from a shtetl ghetto.
Saul Yaffie, a.k.a. Paul Jeffay, (1898–1957) was a Scottish Jewish artist. Known for his charming French street scenes as well as his judaica work. This is signed in the plate and dated 1931 in the print. This is done in a style similar to the works of the early Bezalel School artists Hermann Struck and Jakob Steinhardt.
This lithograph, by artist Paul Jeffay depicts a Judaic Shtetl interior scene with great charm and sensitivity.
Saul Yaffie was born in Blythswood, Glasgow on 29 April 1898. His mother was Kate Yaffie (née Karkonoski), and his father, Bernard Yaffie, was a master tailor. Like many Russian Jews...
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20th Century Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Männlicher Kopf von vorn (Male Head from the Front) /// German Expressionism
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976)
Title: "Männlicher Kopf von vorn (Male Head from the Front)"
Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman)
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1918
Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany
Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany
Reference: Schapire No. 226, page 46; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118
Overall size with attached page: 8.5" x 10.63"
Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38"
Image size: 6.38" x 3.5"
Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). In very good condition
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. Presently attached to its accompanying page. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Biography:
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died...
Category
1910s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Mother and Child, Impressionist Lithograph by Tsuguharu Foujita
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Tsuguharu Foujita, Japanese (1886 - 1968)
Title: Mother and Child
Year: 1965
Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 25.5 in. x 20 in. (64.77 cm x 50.8 cm
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1960s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Woman with Greyhound" Collotype plate III
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful...
Category
1910s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper
Pot of Joy
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Print
Offest Ink on Linen
Size: 36W x 42Hx 2 D In
Unmounted artwork
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authentic...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Linen, Ink
$1,440 Sale Price
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Orange Face, Expressionist Portrait
Located in Austin, TX
By Juan Carlos Breceda
21" x 15" Lithograph - 13/18
Framed Size: 35.5" x 30.5"
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Expressionist Portrait, Lithograph, German"Männerkopf, Mongolischer Kopf", 1918
By Max Kaus
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
Max Kaus
Berlin 1891 - 1977
Male Head (Mongolian Head), 1918
Lithograph
Signed in pencil and dated "1918" lower left
Dry stamp "DIE SCHAFFENDEN" on the lower left margin
From an ed...
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1910s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dutch Fantastic Modern Etching, Jan Mensinga Old Master Style Wine Maker, Grapes
Located in Surfside, FL
Jan Roelf Mensinga, Dutch artist, painter, graphic printmaker, watercolor artist.
(born Leeuwarden 1924 - 1998 Amsterdam)
Education: Mensinga attended an art studies from 1954 to 1...
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20th Century Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "One-Year-Volunteer Private" Collotype plate V
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful...
Category
1910s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper
Portrait of Woman on Typeface French Jewish Surrealist Aquatint Etching Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Etching and Aquatint with embossing, This is numbered by hand in pencil but does not appear to be signed.
Zwy Milshtein (Zvi Tzvi Milstein) BIOGRAPHY 1934 Born in Kishinev (Bessarab...
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20th Century Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
SCULPTURES DANS L
ATELIER
Located in Aventura, FL
Etching on wove paper. Hand signed lower right by Alberto Giacometti. Hand numbered 52/150 lower left. Lust 185. Published by Galerie Beyeler, Basel. Sheet size 11.25 x 9 inches...
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1960s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
$12,375 Sale Price
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Donegal Man
By Lucian Freud
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was a seminal figure in 20th-century British art, celebrated for his raw and psychologically charged exploration of the human form.
With his distinctive fi...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Lithograph Native American Female Figure Portrait Bold Stoic Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Helen Goes Ahead- Crow" is an original lithograph proof signed by the artist Leonard Baskin. It depicts a Crow woman named Helen Goes Ahead in front of a red background.
19" x 12 ...
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1990s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Ink
Litografia sobre papel - Dama con sombrero azul - Tiraje: 1/250
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmada a lápiz por el artista en la parte inferior y con tiraje 1/250
En buen estado de conservación
Sin enmarcar
Medidas: 49 cm x 58 cm.
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Prints
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Lithograph
Litografia sobre papel - Dama con sombrero azul - Tiraje: 8/250
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmada a lápiz por el artista en la parte inferior y con tiraje 8/250
En buen estado de conservación
Sin enmarcar
Medidas: 49 cm x 58 cm.
Category
1970s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Litografia sobre papel - Bodegón de sueños - Tiraje: 8/250
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmada a lápiz por el artista en la parte inferior y con tiraje 8/250
En buen estado de conservación
Sin enmarcar
Medidas: 49 cm x 58 cm.
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Homage a Leonard de Vinci-Front. Self-portrait of de Vinci
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This is an original color lithograph created by Claude Weisbuch. It was designed to promote his show at Vision Nouvelle, a gallery in France. This show in particular was about his Ho...
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
DIE SCHAUSPIELERIN HILDE KORBER
Located in Portland, ME
Ackermann, Max (German, 1887-1975). DIE SCHAUSPIELERIN HILDE KORBER. Etching, 1928. A proof before, or in addition to the edition of 200. Signed and dated "Max Ackermann 1928" in pen...
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1920s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Portrait of Baron Simolin II (large version)
By Max Beckmann
Located in Roma, RM
Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884 – New York 1950), Portrait of Baron Simolin II (large version)(1928)
Drypoint, 38 x 25 cm (plate), 48 x 40 cm (sheet), signed and dated lower right.
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1920s Expressionist Portrait Prints
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Drypoint
Richard Linder "Red Head" Lithograph Figurative Portrait
Located in Detroit, MI
“Red Head” is a portrait that puts dynamic and powerful to shame. This woman from the 1970s at the height of the Feminist movement is an Amazon. Though you cannot see her body her powerful and determined gaze is that of an individual who knows where she is going and what she wants. Best if you get out of her way. Nonetheless, the aura she creates is hypnotizing and the viewer must struggle to break the spell or be absorbed into her presence. This spell-binding piece of Linder’s is unique in its ability to exude a physical push and pull upon its audience.
Richard Linder...
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Frauenprofil (Profile of a Woman)
By Emil Nolde
Located in New York, NY
Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Frauenprofil (Profile of a Woman), woodcut, 1917, signed in pencil lower right (also titled, numbered 8, and annotated III.10 lower left). Reference: Schiefle...
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1910s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Painter
s Doctor
By Lucian Freud
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was a seminal figure in 20th-century British art, celebrated for his raw and psychologically charged exploration of the human form.
With his distinctive fi...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
"Under the Veil" Midcentury Portrait Lithograph by Robert
Located in Pasadena, CA
Robert constructs his portraits from an interlacing of short, tight, tangled strokes, drawn with meticulous regularity. The drawing does not follow a continuous line: it is composed ...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Prints
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Lithograph
NANETTE
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Artwork appears to be in excellent condition. Artwork has not been examined outside the matting. Image size: 27 x 39 in. M...
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Prints
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Paper, Screen
$840 Sale Price
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Kopf (Geneigter Kopf), 1923/2014, Expressionist Etching, Posthumous L. Edition
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
Alexej von Jawlensky
Torschok 1864 - 1941 Wiesbaden
Inclined Head, after 1923.
Etching in umber, hand-printed.
Catalogue raisonné Rosenbach 35.
Monogrammed in the plate.
With the e...
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1920s Expressionist Portrait Prints
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Etching
Kopf (Ergeben), 1923/2014, Expressionist Etching, Posthumous Limited Edition
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
Alexej von Jawlensky
Torschok 1864 - 1941 Wiesbaden
Head (devoted), circa 1923.
Etching in umber, hand-printed.
Catalogue raisonné Rosenbach 39.
Monogrammed in the plate.
With the ...
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1920s Expressionist Portrait Prints
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Etching
"Gypsy" Midcentury Portrait Lithograph by Robert
Located in Pasadena, CA
Robert constructs his portraits from an interlacing of short, tight, tangled strokes, drawn with meticulous regularity. The drawing does not follow a continuous line: it is composed ...
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Armand Nakache - Original Handsigned Lithograph - Ecole de Paris
By Armand Nakache
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Armand Nakache
Original Handsigned Lithograph
Dimensions: 76 x 54 cm
Edition: HC XXI/XXX
HandSigned and Numbered
Ecole de Paris au seuil de la mutation des Arts
Sentiers Editions
...
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1960s Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portraits Erotic Vignettes French Israeli Surrealist Aquatint Etching Le Colonel
Located in Surfside, FL
Etching and Aquatint with embossing featuring a clock, the colonel, a nude woman undressing and a figure. This is numbered by hand in pencil and signed in pencil.
Zwy Milshtein (Zvi ...
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20th Century Expressionist Portrait Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
VERA
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Artwork appears to be in excellent condition. Artwork has not been examined outside the matting. Matted size: approx. 37 x...
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Prints
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Paper, Screen
$840 Sale Price
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Portrait of a Young Lady, ca. 1938
By Bela Kadar
Located in London, GB
BELA KADAR 1877-1956
Budapest 1877-1956 (Hungarian)
Title: Portrait of a Young Lady, ca. 1938
Technique: Original Signed Double-Sided Waterc...
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1930s Expressionist Portrait Prints
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Watercolor
HEAD OF A MAN : etching
Located in New York, NY
Ronald Katz was born in South Africa in 1939 to parents who emigrated from Germany. His first ten years were spent there. Arriving in the United States of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Expressionist portrait prints for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Expressionist portrait prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add portrait prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, purple, blue, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Jean Jansem, Leonard Baskin, George Grosz, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Etching and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Expressionist portrait prints, so small editions measuring 5 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $100 and tops out at $975,000, while the average work sells for $933.