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Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

Dutch, 1922-2010
Corneille, also known as Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, was a painter and graphic artist who radicalized the conservative Dutch art world in the early 1950s. He founded CoBrA in 1949, a post-war Expressionist European movement, along with five other influential artists that included Karel Appel and Constant. Born to Dutch parents in Liege, Belgium on July 3, 1922, Corneille went on to study art at the Academy of Art in Amsterdam in 1940, but is generally considered a self-trained painter. His approach is often described as imaginative and poetic, and is characterized by an eccentric use of color and his placing of familiar subjects, such as cats, birds, and women, in mythological or juvenile settings. “I am a painter of joy,” the artist declared at his 2007 exhibit at the Cobra Museum. He was notably influenced by African art, which he collected during his time traveling throughout the continent during the 1950s. His work was also affected by Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee, and, most notably, Vincent van Gogh’s use of color and form. His works are featured in collections at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in the Netherlands, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He died on September 5, 2010 in Paris, France.
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Artist: Guillaume Corneille
Portrait 1982 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Portrait 1982 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph

Portrait 1982 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Rochester Hills, MI

Guillaume Corneille Portrait - 1982 Print - Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper 30'' x 22'' Edition: signed in pencil and marked 25/300 As a co-founder of the famed experimental art...

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1980s Abstract Expressionist Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Un été Souverain 1970 Framed Limited Edition Signed Lithograph
Un été Souverain 1970 Framed Limited Edition Signed Lithograph

Un été Souverain 1970 Framed Limited Edition Signed Lithograph

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Rochester Hills, MI

Guillaume Corneille 1970 Un Été Souverain Print, Lithograph on wove paper Image size 24 x 19 inches Framed Size 37.5″ x 32.5″ As a co-founder of the famed experimental artist group...

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1970s Abstract Expressionist Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Piège Original Lithograph, Contemporary, Signed, Edition 108/200, 1975

Piège Original Lithograph, Contemporary, Signed, Edition 108/200, 1975

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Roma, IT

Piège is an original contemporary artwork realized by Guillaume Corneille in 1975. Original Lithograph on vélin paper Hand signed and dated in pencil on the lower margin. Numbere...

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1970s Contemporary Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Tribu

Tribu

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Paris, FR

Lithograph, 1992 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered XXXVIII/L 75.50 cm. x 86.50 cm. 29.72 in. x 34.06 in. (paper) 50.00 cm. x 61.00 cm. 19.69 in. x 24.02 in. (image) ...

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1990s Abstract Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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Les Deux Amies, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille
Les Deux Amies, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

Les Deux Amies, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille (1922-2010) Title: Les Deux Amies Year: 1979 Edition: 34/250, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches...

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1970s Pop Art Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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Iveresse, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille
Iveresse, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

Iveresse, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille (1922-2010) Title: Iveresse Year: 1981 Edition: 176/200, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Size: 25.5 x 19.5 inches Insc...

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1980s Pop Art Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

La Chambre En Luminance, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille
La Chambre En Luminance, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

La Chambre En Luminance, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille (1922-2010) Title: La Chambre En Luminance Year: 1979 Edition: 33/250, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Size: 19.5 x 25...

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1970s Pop Art Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Piège Original Lithograph by Corneille, Contemporary, Signed, 1956

Piège Original Lithograph by Corneille, Contemporary, Signed, 1956

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Roma, IT

Piège is an original contemporary artwork realized by Guillaume Corneille in 1956. Original Lithograph on vélin paper Hand signed and dated in pencil on the lower margin. Guillau...

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1950s Contemporary Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Complicite with Pussycat, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille
Complicite with Pussycat, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

Complicite with Pussycat, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille (1922-2010) Title: Complicite with Pussycat Year: 1979 Edition: P.P.;250, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Size: 19.5 x...

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1970s Pop Art Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

A Languies, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille
A Languies, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

A Languies, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille (1922-2010) Title: A Languies Year: 1979 Edition: A.P.;250, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches I...

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1970s Pop Art Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le Divan Bleu, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille
Le Divan Bleu, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

Le Divan Bleu, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille (1922-2010) Title: Le Divan Bleu Year: 1979 Edition: P.P.;250, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Size: 19.5 x 22.5 inche...

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1970s Pop Art Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le Conversation, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille
Le Conversation, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

Le Conversation, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille (1922-2010) Title: Le Conversation Year: 1979 Edition: 229/250, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Size: 19.5 x 25.5 inch...

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1970s Pop Art Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Paris, FR

Engraving, 1997 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 6/60 LCD5427

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1990s Abstract Guillaume Corneille Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

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This exquisite lithograph by Keith Haring (1958–1990), titled Untitled, from the album Against All Odds, 20 drawings - Oct. 3, 1989 (Against All Odds, 20 drawings - Oct. 3, 1989), originates from the 1990 edition published by Publishing House Bebert, Rotterdam, in collaboration with Mera Rubell, New York, and Donald Rubell, New York, and printed by Nieuwe Grafische, Rotterdam, Spring, 1990. Untitled embodies Haring’s signature visual vocabulary—dynamic lines, rhythmic energy, and universal symbolism—infused with the social urgency and optimism that defined his generation. Executed as a lithograph on velin acid-free Rivoli paper, this work measures 8.5 x 10.3 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. The edition exemplifies the refined craftsmanship of Nieuwe Grafische, Rotterdam, and the bold spirit of Bebert’s late twentieth-century artist collaborations. 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Located in Aventura, FL

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Located in New York, NY

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Located in Santa Fe, NM

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Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...

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Sunset Profile Lithograph, Pop Art, Hand Signed Artist Proof, 1980, Framed
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By Peter Max

Located in Aventura, FL

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Untitled (SF-351), Abstract Expressionist Lithograph by Sam Francis

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Located in Long Island City, NY

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Located in Paris, FR

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Located in Paris, FR

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Located in Paris, FR

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The Green Lady

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Located in Paris, FR

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Blue cat

By Guillaume Corneille

Located in Paris, FR

Lithograph, 1996 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 137/200 42.00 cm. x 60.00 cm. 16.54 in. x 23.62 in. (paper) 32.00 cm. x 40.00 cm. 12.6 in. x 15.75 in. (image) LCD4872

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