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Art Subject: Bird
Untitled (2021)
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Ewa Juszkiewicz Title: Untitled (2021) Year: 2023 Medium: Archival pigment print with screenprinted varnish on Canson Etching Rag Paper 310gsm ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Archival Pigment

Untitled (2021)
$5,250 Sale Price
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Springtime, Pop Art Silkscreen by Jack Brusca
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Brusca, American (1939 - 1993) Title: Springtime Year: 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Image Size: 24 x 24 inches Size: 27 in. ...
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1970s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Screen

Flight at Dawn by Cristina Mittermeier
Located in Chicago, IL
"Flight at Dawn" Adams River, British Columbia, Canada - 2018 Archival pigment print Available sizes: Edition of 6: 20in x 30in (50.8 x 76.2cm) - $4,500 Edition of 6: 32in x 48in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

White Swan, Psychedelic Screenprint by Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
White Swan Max Epstein, Canadian (1932–2002) Date: 1980 Screenprint, signed in pencil Edition of 99, AP Image Size: 19 x 28 inches Size: 23 in. x 35 in. (58...
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1980s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Screen

April The Happy World BY HARRY BUNCE, Contemporary Art, Animal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Harry Bunce April, The Happy Year Limited Edition Print Edition of 365 (one for each day of the year) Size: H 31.5cm x W 28cm Artist signed/titled and numbered archival print on 300g...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Animal Prints

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Jellyfish Eyes - Black 5. Limited Edition (print) by Takashi Murakami signed
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Jellyfish Eyes - Black 5 by Takashi Murakami Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist 19 ¹¹/₁₆ × 19 ¹¹/₁₆ in 50 × 50 cm Edition 33/300 Takashi Murakami is best known for his...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Offset

Bananas, Jonas Wood, 2021
Located in Draper, UT
The vividly graphic print, Bananas, is the second installment in a series of plant identification prints by the artist. The prints are formatted to the proportions of a classic Polaroid picture, with each featuring a different plant removed from a distinct background and context, like a scientific extraction. Plants have long been a source of fascination for Wood and often appear in his work. This is the artist’s first print depicting the banana tree, which Wood has spent almost a decade exploring through drawings and paintings based on his personal archive of images. A visit to Hawaii further sparked his curiosity into the many different varieties. Jonas Wood (b. 1977, Boston) makes paintings, drawings, and prints in the genres of portraiture, still life, and landscape. His work reflects a personal approach to subject matter defined by his affinities and experiences. Conjuring depth using flat forms––his process involves collage-based studies in which he sometimes works with photographs to deconstruct and reassemble the images––Wood probes the boundaries between the new and the familiar, integrating emotionally resonant material from everyday life. Jonas Wood has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art (2019); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands (with Shio Kusaka...
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2010s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Ossip Zadkine - Ultimate Step - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Etching monogrammed in the plate. Illustration for a Robert Ganzo's poem "Lespugue" Editions Marcel Sautier, Paris, 1966. Conditions: Good Conditions Dimensions: 25,5 x 16,5 cm. Vellum paper Référence Czwiklitzer n°55. 1890 Zadkine was born on the 14th of July in Vitebsk, a city in Belarussia, on the Dvina. His father Ephime teaches classical languages at the local seminar. His mother Sophie Lester descended from Scots, who emigrated at the time of Peter the Great. 1905 His parents send him to Sunderland, in the North of England, where his mother’s family lives. He studies English and attends modelling courses at the local Art School. 1905-1909 He travels to London without his parents permission where he attends courses at the Regent Street Polytechnicum. In order to earn his living, he plans to work with a stonecutter. He visits the British Museum and studies classical sculpture there. Returns to Smolensk where he produces his first sculpture. Goes back to London. 1909-1910 Zadkine settles in Paris and studies in the ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Finds a workshop in a building called La Ruche, in the XVe arrondissement. 1911 Zadkine presents statues and drawings at the annual Salon d’Automne and at the Salon des Indépendants. It is the ‘cubists’ who draw his attention in Paris. Is essentially close to Russian students who get together in a cafe of the ‘Quartier Latin’. Has himself called Joe Zadkine until 1914. 1912-1913 Finds a room in the neighbourhood of Montparnasse, in the rue de Vaugirard. Studies Roman sculpture. Zadkine is immortalized by his neighbour, photographer Marc Vaux, in his new workshop. Meets Brancusi, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jacques Lipchitz, Pablo Picasso, Antoine Bourdelle, Leopold Survage and Robert Delaunay. Henri Matisse visits Zadkine’s workshop. 1914-1915 Exhibition at the Freie Sezession in Berlin, at De Onafhankelijken in Amsterdam (Holland) and at the Allied Artists Association in London. Thanks to collector Paul Rodocanachi, he can settle in a workshop in the rue Rousselet. Becomes friends with Modigliani. 1916-1917 Works as a stretcher-bearer on the front. Produces drawings and watercolours dealing with war. Zadkine is discharged in 1917. He says he is ‘bodily and spiritually’ ruined by the war. After his stay in the Epernay hospital he recovers in Bruniquel, in the southwest of France. 1918-1919 Makes a series of 20 war etchings...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Flamenco Flamingo, Jane Peart, Limited edition print, Animals and wildlife art
Located in Deddington, GB
Flamenco Flamingo [2014] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Etching/aquatint Edition number 100 Image size: H:46cm cm x W:31cm cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:56cm c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Superb Craspedophora Alberti Bird lithographed by the ornithologists Gould
Located in Milan, IT
This plate is unique because of the bird species' unmistakable beauty and the great scientific and artistic skill with which Elisabeth and Jhon Gould rendered it. The price quoted h...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Composition - Lithograph by Athos Sanchini - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 1975. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Edition of 50. Very good condition.
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Avocets, Bird Art, UK Art, Landscape Print, Animal Artwork, Coastal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
I saw these Acocets on the North Norfolk coast in a wetlands just below the dunes. They are inspiring birds with a delicate beak and sophisticated wading behaviour. Rob Barnes, artist, is available for sale online and in our art gallery at Wychwood Art. Rob Barnes studied painting and printmaking at Hull College of Art and London University in the early 1960s. He taught etching, screen-printing, lino and related surface printmaking at Keswick Hall College in Norfolk. He later moved to the University of East Anglia, Norwich where he continued teaching in the School of Education until 2006. Presently he divides his time between printmaking and his other passion, playing the violin in local orchestras and for choral performances. In 2017 he began making a small number of sterling silver jewellery pieces following a course at West Dean, Sussex. His artwork follows themes, such as light on water, or shadows in the landscape. Linocuts are hand-printed on an Albion press...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Paper, Linocut

"Winter in Flanders" by Pieter Brueghel, Limited Edition Litho, Printed in USA.
By Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Located in Chesterfield, MI
"Winter in Flanders" by Pieter Brueghel, Limited Edition Litho, 4751 Published by New York Graphic Society, 1950 Printed in USA. Measures 16 in x 18 in Print is in good/fair condition
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20th Century Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

The Church of Purification
Located in London, GB
First Edition lithograph Full plate: 16 Presented in a acid free mount Modern hand-coloured lithograph for the first edition of David Roberts' The Holy Land. Published by F.G. Moon...
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1840s Realist Landscape Prints

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Laid Paper, Lithograph

EVENING FLIGHT
Located in Portland, ME
Clark, Roland. EVENING FLIGHT. Derrydale 11. Etching and drypoint, 1929. Edition of 75. Signed in pencil. 12 x 15 inches. In excellent condition.
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1920s Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Pierrot, limited edition, Surreal, Established Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Size of sheet is ca. 29.5 x 21 cm (A4) Contemporary figurative giclee print by Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. Print is signed, numbered and has a stamp of an artist's atelier. It com...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Color

THE KING
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on wove paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by Keith Haring. Published by Nicole Fauché, Paris. Littmann 115. Edition 4/50. Artwork is in excellent conditio...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Paper, Screen

(7302) Ils tendent leurs muscles greles jetes veroles 1973
Located in Miami, FL
Wifredo Lam (7301) Aizan ils ont les jambes de secretaires, 1973 Lithograph EC 25 x 19 in
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Eagle and Horse - Etching by Benito Trolese - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Etching hand watercolored realized by the italian Artist Benito Trolese. Hand signed. Not numbered. Excellent condition.
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Banners of Battle - Etching - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 1990s. Hand signed in pencil. Artist Proof. Very good condition.
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

Days Like These II, Emma Reynolds, Seascape Print, Beach Art, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Days Like These ii [2021] limited_edition Screenprint Edition number 15 Image size: H:60cm cm x W:60cm cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:65cm cm x W:65cm cm x D:400gsmcm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Days Like these ii is the second in a series of coastal print...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Sailing at Sunset By Kate Heiss
Located in Deddington, GB
limited_edition Oil based inks on 300gsm Somerset Velvet Paper Edition number 50 Image size: H:30 cm x W:30 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:40 cm x D:1cm Sold Unf...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Bromoil

Tico Bird
Located in New York, NY
Edition 6/50 Linocut, 2007
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Early 2000s Animal Prints

Materials

Linocut

Large Classical Bird Color Print after John James Audubon - Wild Turkey
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Bird print, after John James Audubon, printed by Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York unframed, 17 x 14 inches color print on pap...
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20th Century Victorian Animal Prints

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Color

Trumpeter Swan: An Original 1st Edition Hand Colored Audubon Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original rare and extremely collectible first edition John James Audubon hand-colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "Trumpeter Swan, Young", No. 77, Plate 383, from Aud...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Days Like These II
Located in Deddington, GB
Days Like These ii [2021] limited_edition Screenprint Edition number 15 Image size: H:60cm cm x W:60cm cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:65cm cm x W:65cm cm x D:400gsmcm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Days Like these ii is the second in a series of coastal print...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Clare Halifax, London!, Affordable Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax London! Limited Edition Print Image Size:H50cm x W49cm Sheet Size: H64cm x W56cm (Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look). Lo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Gulls at Sunset, Ann Burnham, Limited edition print, Seascape and coastal 2022
Located in Deddington, GB
Gulls at Sunset [2022] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Linocut on paper Edition number 1-10 Image size: H:19 cm x W:31 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:80 cm x D:0.5cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Reduction linocut This print was based on some pictures I took back in the hot summer at sunset overlooking the calm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Brigade Chicken Farm, 1973.
Located in New York, NY
Anonymous Artist Unknown. Brigade Chicken Farm, 1973.53 x 77 cm. Aprox. 21 x 30.25 inches .Unlined Ref: Chinese Propaganda Posters, Stefan Landsberger, ...
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1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Offset

Snowy Egret
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by the artist Dedicated: "To Jon From Ray" Edition: 100 in two printings A studio proof from the second printing by Jon Clemens, master printe...
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1950s Abstract Geometric Animal Prints

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Engraving

Set of Four Hand-Colored Ornithological Engravings by John Latham /// Bird UK
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John Latham (English, 1740-1837) Title: "New-Zealand Plover", "Nilid Grosbeak", "Black-throated Bunting", and "Variegated Chatterer" Portfolio: A General History of Birds Year: 1821-1828 (second edition) Medium: Set of Four Original Hand-Colored Engravings on wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Jacob & Johnson, Winchester, UK Publisher: John Latham, Winchester, UK Reference: Brunet III, 872; Lowndes II, page 1314; Fine Bird Books page 87; Nissen IVB 532; Zimmer page 376 Sheet size (each): approx. 11.13" x 8.75" Image size (each): approx. 4.75" x 4.5" Condition: "New-Zealand Plover" has some light offsetting and a few faint areas of discoloration at top in margin. "Nilid Grosbeak" has some faint areas of discoloration. They are all otherwise in excellent condition with strong colors Rare Notes: Provenance: acquired from Christie's, New York, NY, December 19, 1990. Comes from Latham's famous eleven volume portfolio "A General History of Birds" (1821-1828) (second edition), which consists of 193 hand-colored prints, made from engraved plates. "New-Zealand Plover" has an unidentified "1823" watermark lower right. Biography: John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author. His main works were A General Synopsis of Birds (1781–1801) and General History of Birds (1821–1828). He was able to examine specimens of Australian birds...
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1820s Victorian Animal Prints

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Watercolor, Engraving, Intaglio

Great White Heron - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Hawk Owl is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Nam...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

"Sierra Madre, " Original Color Woodblock Nude signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sierra Madre" is a color woodblock signed by Carol Summers. As suggested by the title, the print teeters the line between Summers' fanciful landscapes an...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Physiognomy - The Owl and the Peacock - Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
The Physiognomy - The owl and peacock is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge...
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1810s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Rye spring. 1980, Paper, linocut, print size 50x65 cm; total 70x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rye spring. 1980, Paper, linocut, print size 50x65 cm; total 70x80 cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fiction publications. The ma...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Still-life Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Manet, Composition, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Foreign Affairs paper mounted on Foreign Affairs museum board, as issued . Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, ...
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1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Mechanical Parrots - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1997
Located in Roma, IT
Mechanical Parrots is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1997. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower rig...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engraving of Fruit in a Decalcomania Frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
Price is for one framed print. Prints sold individually. Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised ...
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18th Century Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Mezzotint

Lemur - Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an artwork realized in 1976 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original etching on cardboard. Hand Signed and dated on the lower right mar...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

Cloud, Modern Lithograph by Linda Plotkin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Linda Plotkin, American (1938 - ) - Cloud, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Lithograph, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 6/50, Image Size: 6.75 x 8.75 inches, Size: 9.5 ...
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1960s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

serigraph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: serigraph. Printed in 1963 for the art revue Derrière le Miroir (issue number 137) and published in Paris by Maeght. Sheet size: 15 x 11 inches (378 x 277 mm). There is print...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Nutcracker - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Nutcracker is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by London, ...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Andalusian Quail - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Andalusian Quail is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by Lo...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

George Edwards: c18th Engravings of Birds in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: "A History of Uncommon Birds", 1749-1761. A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural Histo...
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18th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Etching

Lesser Black-Backed Gull - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Lesser Black-Backed Gull is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & S...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

George Edwards: c18th Engravings of Birds in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: "A History of Uncommon Birds", 1749-1761. A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural Histo...
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18th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Etching

NIGHT FLIGHT
Located in Portland, ME
Frasconi, Antonio. NIGHT FLIGHT. Color Woodcut, 1958. Edition of 20. Signed and dated, numbered 10/20, and inscribed "imp," all in pencil. 19 x 34 inches,...
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1950s Landscape Prints

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Alkyd, Woodcut

"Revolutions I" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed by Mourlot on quality Arches wove paper and published in 1975. Sheet size: 13 1/2 x 10 inches (340 x 250 mm). Not signed.
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

"Le Jardin des Tuileries" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original Edouard Vuillard lithograph). Printed on Renage wove paper in 1948 by the atelier Mourlot and published in an edition of 2500. Image size: 11 1...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) - A ram and a bird -2005
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) A ram and a bird, 2005 Techniques : watercolored aquatint and soft varnish on paper, hand signed in pencil by François Xavier Lalanne, in perfect...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper

The Bat - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Bat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
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1850s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Bat - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Bat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

The Bat - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Bat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

The Bat - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Bat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

The Bat - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Bat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

The Bat -Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Bat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
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1850s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

"Winter Wildfowling" Frank Weston Benson, Hunting Scene, Outdoors, Marshes
Located in New York, NY
Frank Weston Benson Winter Wildfowling, 1927 Signed lower left Etching on paper Image 8 1/2 x 7 inches Born in Salem, Massachusetts, a descendant of a long line of sea captains, Benson first studied art at Boston’s Museum School where he became editor of the student magazine. In 1883, Benson enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris where artists such as Bouguereau, Lefebvre, Constant, Doucet and Boulanger taught students from all over Europe and America. It was Boulanger who gave Benson his highest commendation. “Young man,” he said, “Your career is in your hands . . . you will do very well.” Benson’s parents gave him a present of one thousand dollars a twenty-first birthday and told him to return home when it ran out. The money lasted long enough to provide Benson with two years of schooling in Paris, a summer at the seaside village of Concarneau in Brittany and travel in England. Upon returning to America, Benson opened a studio on Salem’s Chestnut Street and began painting portraits of family and friends. An oil of his wife, Ellen Perry Peirson, dressed in her wedding gown is representative of this period. It demonstrates not only the academic techniques he learned at the Academie Julian but also his own growing emphasis on the effects of light. And yet, despite all the technical mastery displayed in the work, the painting exudes the warmth that existed between model and artist. More than a likeness, it is a study in serenity. Perhaps it was of a work such as this that Benson was thinking when he said, “The more a painter knows about his subject, the more he studies and understands it, the more the true nature of it is perceived by whoever looks at it, even though it is extremely subtle and not easy to see or understand. A painter must search deeply into the aspects of a subject, must know and understand it thoroughly before he can represent it well.” Following a brief stint as an instructor at the Portland, Maine, Society of Art, Benson was appointed as instructor of antique drawing at the Museum School in Boston in the spring of l889. Benson’s long association with the school was particularly fruitful. Under the leadership of Edmund Tarbell and Benson the Museum School became a national and internationally recognized institution. The students won numerous prizes, enrollment tripled, a new school building was erected and visiting delegations from other schools sought the secret of their success. Benson cherished his role as teacher and was held in high esteem by his students, many of whom called him “Cher Maitre.” Reminiscing about his long career with the school Benson once said, “I may have taught many students, but it was I who learned the most.” In 1890, Benson won the Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy in New York. It was the first of a long series of awards, that earning for him the sobriquet “America’s Most Medalled Painter.” In the early years of his career, Benson’s studio works were mostly portraits or paintings of figures set in richly appointed interiors. Young women in white stretch their hands out towards the glow of an unseen fire; girls converse on an antique settee in a room full of objets d’arts; his first daughter, Eleanor, poses with her cat. Works of this sort, together with a steady influx of portrait commissions, earned Benson both renown and financial rewards, yet it was in his outdoor works that gave Benson his greatest pleasure. In the latter half of the 1890s, Benson summered in Newcastle, on New Hampshire’s short stretch of seacoast. It was here, in 1899, that Benson made his first foray into impressionism with Children in the Woods and The Sisters, the latter a sun-dappled study of his two youngest daughters, Sylvia and Elisabeth. This painting was one of the first works that Benson hung at an exhibition with nine friends. The resignation of these ten illustrious artists rocked the American art establishment but, the catalogue for their first exhibition was titled, simply, “Ten American Painters.” When, in 1898, the three Bostonians and seven New Yorkers began to exhibit their best work in exquisitely arranged small shows, the group (dubbed by newspapers, “The Ten” ) quickly became known as the American Impressionists, a bow to the style of their French predecessors. The Ten’s annual shows soon became an eagerly awaited part of the annual exhibition calendar and were always well reviewed. Held annually in New York City, the group’s yearly exhibitions usually traveled to Boston and were occasionally seen in other cities. Benson’s association with other members of the group such as Childe Hassam, Thomas Dewing, William Merrit Chase and J. Alden Weir, only reinforced his growing emphasis on the tenets of Impressionism. As he later said to his daughter Eleanor, “I follow the light, where it comes from, where it goes.” The principles of Impressionism began to dominate Benson’s work by 1901, the year that the Bensons first summered on the island of North Haven in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. His summer home “Wooster Farm,” which they rented and finally bought in 1906, became the setting for some of Benson’s best known work and there, it seemed, he found endless inspiration. Benson’s sparkling plein-air paintings of his children–Eleanor, George, Elisabeth and Sylvia–capture the very essence of summer and have been widely reproduced: In The Hilltop, George and Eleanor watch the sailboat races from the headland near their house. As a boy, Benson dreamed of being an ornithological illustrator. In mid-life, he returned to the wildfowl and sporting subjects that had remained his lifelong passion. Using etching and lithography, watercolor, oil and wash, Benson portrayed the birds observed since childhood and captured scenes of his hunting and fishing expeditions. Together with his two brothers-in-law, Benson bought a small hunting retreat on a hill overlooking Cape Cod’s Nauset Marsh. Here, in the late 1890s, he began experimenting with black and white wash drawings. These paintings became so popular that Benson was not able to keep up with the demand. He turned to an art publishing company to have several made into it intaglio prints; twelve wash drawings are known to have been reproduced in this manner. At least two of them were given as gifts to associate members of the Boston Guild of artists, of which Benson was a founding member. Benson was also an avid fisherman and his salmon fishing expeditions to Canada’s Gaspé Peninsula where one of the high points of his summer. There, in 1921, he began the first in a series of watercolors that would eventually over 500 works. Benson’s watercolors conveyed the joy and beauty of a sportsman’s life whether in a painting of a hunter setting out decoys, a flock of ducks coming in for a landing or a grouse flushed from cover. The critics favorably compared Benson’s watercolors to those of Homer. “The love of the almost primitive wilderness which appears in many of Homer’s landscapes and the swift, sure touch with which he suggests rather than describes–these also characterize Benson’s work,” one critic wrote. “The solitude of the northern woods is very much like Homer’s.” Like the wash drawings before them, Benson’s watercolors proved...
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1920s Academic Animal Prints

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Paper, Etching

JACK SNIPE
Located in Portland, ME
Clark, Roland (American 1874-1957). JACK SNIPE. Etching, 1928. Edition of 70. Signed in pencil. 8 1/2 x 12 inches. In excellent condition.
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1920s American Realist Animal Prints

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Etching

JACK SNIPE
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Der Büsser - Original Woodcut by J.J. Weber - 1898
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 34 x 19 cm. Der Büsser is an original print, realized in 1898. Black and white xylograph on applied Japon paper. Good conditions except for yellowing of paper (especially along the margins), and little stains on lower margin. The print was realized by Johann Jacob Weber and it's part of the series Meisterwerke der Holzschneidekunst (original title: SECHZEHN HOLZSCHNITTE NACH GEMÄLDEN ARNOLD BÖCKLIN...
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1890s Symbolist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Follow your heart
Located in New York City, NY
Eduardo Recife Follow your heart, 2018 Archival Pigment Print Unframed 56 x 40 inches Edition of 5
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints

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Archival Pigment