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Kaija Aarikk
Timo Sarpaneva pair of brass chandeliers
By Kaija Aarikka, Timo Sarpaneva
Located in Valby, 84
began to teach at his alma mater, including a course in linoleum block printing for students of textile
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1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Brass
1943 Israeli German Expressionist Woodcut Print Vintage Woodblock Bezalel School
By Jacob Pins
Located in Surfside, FL
expressionism and traditional Japanese wood block printing. From 1956 to 1977, he taught at Israel's leading art
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1940s Expressionist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Woodcut
German Israeli Expressionist "Rooster" Batik Style Painting Print on Silk Fabric
By Jacob Pins
Located in Surfside, FL
expressionism and traditional Japanese wood block printing. From 1956 to 1977, he taught at Israel's leading art
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20th Century Expressionist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Silk, Ink
Irving Amen,
Nocturne
26/75
Located in Pasadena, CA
San Marco #4” and its four woodblocks constitute a permanent exhibit of block printing in color at the
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Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Wood, Paper
Rare Oversized Printing Block
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rare Oversized Printing Block. The number 9 in reverse. Used by a printing shop to print huge
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20th Century American Industrial Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Wood
Vintage Wooden Printing Block from India
By Rajhastani
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage Indian wooden printing block mounted as art decorative sculpture.
Wood block print used to
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Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo Raj Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Wood
Vintage Printing Block Collage Wall Hanging
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
A captivating collaged wall hanging composed of vintage printing blocks artfully assembled onto an
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Wood
Indonesian Vintage Copper Batik Textile Printing Block Mounted in Shadow Box
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage Indonesian copper Batik textile printing block from the mid 20th century, mounted in a
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Mid-20th Century Indonesian Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Metal
Vintage Indonesian Copper Batik Textile Printing Block Mounted in Shadow Box
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage Indonesian copper Batik textile printing block from the mid 20th century, mounted in a
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Mid-20th Century Indonesian Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Copper
Indonesian Vintage Copper Batik Textile Printing Block Mounted in Shadow Box
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage Indonesian copper Batik textile printing block from the mid 20th century, mounted in a
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Mid-20th Century Indonesian Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Copper
Set of Five Vintage Indonesian Copper Batik Textile Floral Printing Blocks
Located in Yonkers, NY
A set of five vintage Indonesian copper Batik textile printing blocks from the mid 20th century
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Mid-20th Century Indonesian Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Copper
Five Vintage Indonesian Copper Batik Textile Floral Printing Blocks with Handles
Located in Yonkers, NY
A set of five vintage Indonesian copper Batik textile printing blocks from the mid 20th century
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Mid-20th Century Indonesian Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Copper
Vintage Wooden Printing Block from India, Late 20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage wooden printing block from india, late 20th century. 9 by 7-3/4 inches.
Wooden blocks like
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Late 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Hardwood
A Vintage Letterpress Printing Block Wall Sculpture
Located in Astoria, NY
A vintage letterpress printers blocks wall sculpture with a variety of letters and numbers in a
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Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Wood
John Myracle Wood Printing Block Assemblage Sculpture
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
A clever assemblage sculpture, playing with color, texture, and proportion.
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Mid-20th Century Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Wood
Wall Mounted Janus Cabinet by Edward Wormley
By Edward Wormley, Dunbar Furniture
Located in Sagaponack, NY
Japanese cherry printing blocks.
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Cherry, Rosewood
Two Seated Figures. Mid 20th Century Woodcut Print
By Gerald Anthony Coles
Located in Brecon, Powys
/acrylics and monotype (whereby the image is painted onto the printing block creating a unique impression
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1950s Modern Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Woodcut
DUOMO
By John T. Ross
Located in Portland, ME
, this print was produced by a very unique process. The printing block was made in Italy where supplies
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1950s American Modern Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Color
Mary Jane Sarvis One of a Kind Hand-Printed Couture Silk Caftan Dress
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Dating back hundreds of years, block printing is one of the earliest technologies for creating
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20th Century American Vintage Printing Blocks
Homme à la Fraise - Original Lithograph After Pablo Picasso - 1973
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
linoleum block printing with a circulation of 50 prints. In the same year, Picasso created 10 more linocuts
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1970s Cubist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Lithograph
Lily
Located in San Francisco, CA
, dated, and signed by the artist. After printing, the blocks were destroyed. Botanical Prints presents a
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Late 20th Century American Realist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Linocut
Antique Japanese Print "Monkey Reaching for the Moon" by Koson, Chop Mark Signed
Located in Big Flats, NY
Japanese art and culture. Around 1905, Koson started to practice Japanese block printing. Fenollosa, the
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20th Century Japanese Vintage Printing Blocks
Worm Wood
Located in San Francisco, CA
printing, the blocks were destroyed. Botanical Prints presents a vast array of Evans's work and goes one
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Late 20th Century American Realist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Linocut
Peaches
Located in San Francisco, CA
artist. After printing, the blocks were destroyed. Botanical Prints presents a vast array of Evans's work
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Late 20th Century American Realist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Linocut
Sage
Located in San Francisco, CA
printing, the blocks were destroyed. Botanical Prints presents a vast array of Evans's work and goes one
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Late 20th Century American Realist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Linocut
Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
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Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks
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Cotton
Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russi
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
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Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Cotton
Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
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Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Cotton
The Tea House
By Ralph Edward Joosten
Located in Soquel, CA
John Weston and learning wood block printing and Japanese brush painting in the Kyoto Gardens in Japan
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Oil, Linen
Portrait of a Man with Blue Eyes
By Ralph Edward Joosten
Located in Soquel, CA
John Weston and learning wood block printing and Japanese brush painting in the Kyoto Gardens in Japan
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Late 20th Century American Realist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Linen, Oil
Japanese Eight Old Woodblock Flower Prints, Superb Colors, Immed Frameable #2
Located in South Burlington, VT
interesting time in Japanese print making, when the old traditional ways of wood block printing were giving
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20th Century Japanese Showa Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Paper
Japanese Old Woodblock Flower Prints Tanigami Konan Immediately Frameable, #1
Located in South Burlington, VT
print making, when the old traditional ways of wood block printing were giving way to new western print
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20th Century Japanese Showa Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Paper
Japanese Old Woodblock Flower Prints Tanigami Konan Immediately Frameable
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japanese print making, when the old traditional ways of wood block printing were giving way to new western
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20th Century Japanese Showa Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Paper
Japanese Old Woodblock Flower Prints Tanigami Konan Immediately Frameable #6
Located in South Burlington, VT
print making, when the old traditional ways of wood block printing were giving way to new western print
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20th Century Japanese Showa Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Paper
Japanese Four Old Woodblock Flower Prints, Konan, Immediately Frameable #5
Located in South Burlington, VT
, when the old traditional ways of wood block printing were giving way to new western print making
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20th Century Japanese Showa Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Paper
Japanese Old Woodblock Flower Prints Tanigami Konan Immediately Frameable #3
Located in South Burlington, VT
wood block printing were giving way to new western print making technologies such as lithography
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20th Century Japanese Showa Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Paper
The Nativity- "Housed in a 28 x 32-inch brown wood and gold metal frame."
By Sadao Watanabe
Located in Plano, TX
medium called kappazuri ("stencil printing"), a technique related to 'katazome' ("stencil dyeing
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1960s Showa Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Handmade Paper, Stencil
Divine Comedy
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
applied separately using its own carved block, making the printing process exceptionally detailed and
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1970s Surrealist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Woodcut
Japanese Eight Old Woodblock Flower Prints, Full Colors, Immediately Frameable#1
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japanese print making, when the old traditional ways of wood block printing were giving way to new western
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20th Century Japanese Showa Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Paper
Japanese Four Fine Woodblock Flower Prints, Vibrant Colors, Frameable #1
Located in South Burlington, VT
traditional ways of wood block printing were giving way to new western print making technologies such as
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20th Century Japanese Showa Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Paper
Japanese Flower Prints Collection 18 Old Woodblock Vibrant Colors, Frameable
Located in South Burlington, VT
heavily influenced by France's impressionist school. Konan's wood block prints reflect the abundance and
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20th Century Japanese Showa Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Paper
Clay Banks
By Albert Heckman
Located in Plano, TX
Administration Federal Arts Program in New York City, doing etching and block printing. He was influenced by
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Kiyoshi Saito Japanese Color Woodblock, 1966, Nude
By Kiyoshi Saitō
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and taught himself the techniques of wood block printing. His acquaintance with mentor Koshiro
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Vintage Printing Blocks
Siblings (Sleeping Sister) Mexico Figurative
By Ralph Edward Joosten
Located in Soquel, CA
and Carmel with Ansel Adams and John Weston and learning wood block printing and Japanese brush
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1980s American Impressionist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Oil, Linen
“Two Sisters”
Located in Southampton, NY
” in Kasterlee, Belgium. During 1983 and 1985 he studied wood-block printing in Japan.
His work
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1980s Post-Modern Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Archival Paper
American Modernist Colorado Mountain Landscape Oil Painting, Fall Autumn Scene
By Mildred Pneuman
Located in Denver, CO
wood block printing, lithographs, etchings and serigraphs. She began focusing on western themes in the
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20th Century American Impressionist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Irving Amen Girls Bicycle Parade Original Oil Painting c.1960s
By Irving Amen
Located in San Francisco, CA
these woodcuts, Piazza San Marco #4 and its four woodblocks constitute a permanent exhibit of block
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Mid-20th Century Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Kyoto Enchanted Garden
By Ralph Edward Joosten
Located in Soquel, CA
Carmel with Ansel Adams and John Weston and learning wood
block printing and Japanese brush painting in
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1960s American Modern Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Woodcut
"Moments of Splendor" - Fauvist Fish Watercolor
By Ralph Edward Joosten
Located in Soquel, CA
Weston and learning wood block printing and Japanese brush painting in the Kyoto Gardens in Japan. His
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1980s Expressionist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Don Quixote Signed Lithograph in the manner of Pablo Picasso by Irving Amen
By Irving Amen
Located in Miami, FL
these woodcuts, Piazza San Marco #4 and its four woodblocks constitute a permanent exhibit of block
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20th Century Modern Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Paper
Haniwa (1) Woodblock
By Kiyoshi Saitō
Located in Soquel, CA
-1955).
Saito continued to paint with oil and taught himself the techniques of wood block printing. In
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1950s Cubist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
"Black Beauty"
By Irving Amen
Located in Southampton, NY
San Marco #4” and its four woodblocks constitute a permanent exhibit of block printing in color at the
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1970s Cubist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pembrokeshire Coast, Wales.Large Original Modern British Landscape Oil Painting.
By Norman Clifford Jaques
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Scholarship to Italy and France in 1948 and the Giles bequest award in Block printing, Victoria and Albert
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Mid-20th Century Modern Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
German Israeli Expressionist Woodcut Print Pencil Signed Jerusalem
By Jacob Pins
Located in Surfside, FL
expressionism and traditional Japanese wood block printing. From 1956 to 1977, he taught at Israel's leading art
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20th Century Expressionist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Woodcut
Scarlatti Sonata in B Minor
By Hildegarde Haas
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
reviewing these shows. The physical demands of carving her own blocks and hand printing each impression
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Gouache
1944 Israeli German Expressionist Woodcut Print Vintage Woodblock Bezalel School
By Jacob Pins
Located in Surfside, FL
expressionism and traditional Japanese wood block printing. From 1956 to 1977, he taught at Israel's leading art
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1940s Expressionist Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Woodcut
Large Vintage Liberty of London Silk Scarf Cushion Pillow with Irish Linen Pink
Located in Belfast, Northern Ireland
the hand printing method. Liberty’s block printed scarves on silk were produced in relatively small
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20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Printing Blocks
Materials
Linen, Silk
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Vintage Printing Blocks For Sale on 1stDibs
There is a range of vintage printing blocks for sale on 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, metal and iron, all vintage printing blocks available were constructed with great care. Vintage printing blocks have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Mid-Century Modern vintage printing blocks are consistently popular styles. Many vintage printing blocks are appealing in their simplicity, but Rajhastani produced popular vintage printing blocks that are worth a look.
How Much are Vintage Printing Blocks?
Vintage printing blocks can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $228, while the lowest priced sells for $25 and the highest can go for as much as $1,600.
Questions About Vintage Printing Blocks
- 1stDibs ExpertMay 5, 2023The oldest known example of block printing is the Diamond Sutra. Produced around 886 CE, the scroll is a Buddhist religious text and was discovered in Dunhuang, China. Anthropologists believe that the Chinese developed the art of block printing 4,000 years ago, but so far, none of the earlier works have been discovered. On 1stDibs, find a variety of block prints from some of the world's top galleries.
- What is a printing block called?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMay 5, 2023A printing block is sometimes called a printmaking block, a wood block or a block. You can also refer to one simply as a printing block. Artists carve printmaking blocks with designs, apply ink and then press them against a surface to produce artwork. On 1stDibs, shop a variety of block prints from some of the world's top galleries.
- What is Indian block printing?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Indian block printing is an art form that originated in India during ancient times. It involves carving a block of teak wood with an intricate pattern and then using it to press ink onto fabric like silk or cotton. On 1stDibs, find a variety of Indian block printed apparel and art.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Rajasthan is the Indian state that is most famous for block printing, though it is also a popular dyeing method in a variety of other states. Rajasthan features various cities known for different techniques of this textile printing method. On 1stDibs, find a range of authentic Indian block printed textiles.
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