Abstract, Minimalist, Hard Edge and Op Art

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AffordableArt101 has a fine selection of Abstract Art of of several schools, including Abstract Expressionism (and its French equivalent Tachisme) Minimalism, Hard Edge and Op Art (Optical Art). Represented here are Sam Francis, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell, Ad Reinhardt, Kenneth Noland, Josef Albers, Alexander Liberman, Auguste Herbin, Nicholas Kruschenick, Robyn Denny, Olle Baertling, Richard Mortensen, Alexander Calder, Antoni Tapies, Jean Fautrier, Serge Poliakoff, Pierre Soulages, Karel Appel, Robert Motherwell, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Victor Vasarely, Yaacov Agam, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Paul Jenkins and many others.

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German Expressionism and Bauhaus

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We have a good selection of German Expressionist prints. This includes works by artists from Die Brücke (The Bridge) school such as Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein and Edvard Munch are offered here. We offer prints from the Berlin Secession group of artists, which included Käthe Kollwitz, Hermann Struck, Lyonel Feininger and Lovis Corinth. Many other printmakers associated with German Expressionism are also featured, such as Max Kaus, Andre Rouveyre, Ingaz Epper, Karl Hofer, Edwin Scharff, Georg Ehrlich, Conrad Felixmuller, Richard Seewald, Kurt Schwitters, Max Burchartz, Heinrich Nauen, Eberhard Viegener, Walter Ruttmann, Wilhelm Plunnecke, Karl Caspar, Otto Gleichman, Ernst Barlach, Max Unold and Richard Seewald. Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group centered around Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky, who is a favorite at AffordableArt101. Although German Expressionist printmakers employed various media, they excelled especially at the introduction of the woodcut into Modern Art. The Bauhaus School was an important offshoot of Expressionism, and we are pleased to include Bauhaus artists Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Lyonel Feininger and Paul Klee.

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Cubism, Futurism and De Stijl

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Cubism was one of the most revolutionary and creative movements of Modern Art. We feature Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, Jacques Villon, Robert Delaunay and his wife Sonia Delaunay, Auguste Herbin, Henri Laurens, Alexander Archipenko, Marie Laurencin, Louis Marcoussis, Andre Lhote, Georges Valmier, Albert Gleizes, Charles Lapicque and other printmakers associated with the Cubist School, including Italian Futurists Gino Severini and Giacomo Balla. Neoplasticism, also called De Stijl, was influenced by Cubism. We have prints by De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian and Max Bill, who were associated with De Stijl. Note: to view our complete inventory of Picasso prints, please click on the index at left.

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Chagall lithographs and etchings

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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was born in Russia near Vitebsk (in what is now Belarus). Emigration was a constant in his life, and he found his way to Paris as a young man to avoid Tsarist Antisemitism, returned briefly to Moscow after the Revolution but was disenchanted with the Soviet system, and re-settled in Paris. He fled to New York in 1941 to escape the Nazi Occupation, and later moved back to Europe. Chagall's art doesn't fit neatly into any one category; he developed his own Modern style and was closely associated with the School of Paris. Highly symbolic and immediately recognizable, his work celebrates village life and Jewish tradition, with scenes of lovers, the circus and Biblical themes frequently making their appearance. A gifted painter and etcher (and also known for his murals and stained glass), Chagall is perhaps most highly acclaimed for his color lithographs.

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Old Master, Barbizon and 19th Century European prints

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AffordableArt101 has a good selection of European etchings from the 19th Century and earlier. This includes Old Master etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacques Callot, Salvator Rosa, Anthonie Waterloo, Franz Edmund Weirotter, Karl Dujardin, Jan Both, Annibale Carracci and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Barbizon School art by Charles Daubigny and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot is featured here as well as other 19th Century etchers including Anders Zorn, Paul César Helleu, Felix Bracquemond, James Tissot, Eugene Delacroix, Charles Meryon, Theophile Chauvel, Francisco Goya, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Maxime Lalanne, Jean Leon Gerome, Alphonse Legros, Edgar Chahine, Jean-Louis Forain and Felix Buhot. Many of these printmakers are responsible for the French Etching Revival, and Paris printer Auguste Delâtre also deserves special mention for his role. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts featured prominently in the publication of original prints.

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Bonnard, Vallotton, Munch, Symbolism and Les Nabis

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Les Nabis were a group of Post-Impressionist artists who were influenced by the Symbolist school. We have some very nice prints by Nabis artists Pierre Bonnard, Felix Vallotton and Aristide Maillol. Symbolism is also represented with original prints by Edvard Munch and art works after Symbolists Edmond Aman-Jean and Eugene Carriere.

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School of Paris Art

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The School of Paris (École de Paris) was a rather broad category and included Modern Artists of various styles (many of whom were foreign-born) who lived and worked in Paris in the early and middle years of the 20th Century. Paris was long considered to be the world's great laboratory of Modern Art, even with the emergence of New York as a rival center. Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall were among the most illustrious of these, but on this website we have special sections for Chagall and Picasso prints. Other Modern Masters of the graphic arts are represented here, such as Jean Dubuffet, Nicholas de Stael, Serge Poliakoff, Bernard Buffet, Hans Hartung, Bram van Velde, Henri Michaux, Alfred Manessier, Marcel Vertes, Jean Cocteau, Louis Icart, Jean Fautrier, Pierre Soulages, Vieira da Silva, Charles Lapicque, Pierre Tal-Coat, Zao Wou-ki and many others. Note: to view the complete selection of works by Chagall and Picasso, please click on the index at left.

AffordableArt101 would like to pay homage to several of the leading publishers and printers who made it all possible: Christian Zervos founded the journal Cahiers d'Art in 1926, and in addition to being a treasury of information, is the source of several rare and beautiful pochoir prints. Gualtieri di San Lazzaro founded the journal XXe Siecle (Chroniques du Jour) in 1938, which served as a wealth of scholarship and a source of lithographs, pochoirs and linocuts and continued for decades. Tériade founded Verve in 1937, which published some of the most beautiful lithographs of the era. Aimé Maeght started Derrière le Miroir in 1946, and this publication continued until 1983, featuring original lithographs by many of the most important printmakers working in Paris during that time. Maeght died in 1981, and an era ended. Daniel Jacomet was master of the pochoir techinque. A pochoir (stencil print) is an old fashioned but beautiful medium producing rich, vibrant colors and bold geometric shapes, resembling a silkscreen. However, of all the Master Printers who worked with the artists and their publishers, none are so renown as Mourlot Frères (the Mourlot Brothers), and especially one brother in particular, Fernand Mourlot. Working with Tériade, Maeght, Sauret and others, he was the bridge between the concept of art and its realization on paper. It was especially through the labor and skill of the Mourlot atelier that the lithograph came back into fashion, and indeed has become the pre-eminent print medium of our era.

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British Etchings and Mezzotints

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The father of the British Etching Revival was Sir Francis Seymour Haden, and AffordableArt101 has a selection of magnificent Seymour Haden etchings. Also original prints by David Roberts, Mortimer Menpes, Thomas Gainsborough, J. M. W. Turner, Samuel Palmer, David Young Cameron, Sir Frank Short, Sir David Wilke, Andrew Geddes, Charles Shannon, Gerald Leslie Brockhurst and Edmond Blampied.  The British excelled at the mezzotint technique of printmaking, and we feature mezzotints by or after John Martin, George Morland, John Cother Webb, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir John Constable.

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American Realism and Ash Can School art

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We are pleased to offer some very nice signed etchings by Ash Can School artist John Sloan, as well as original prints by artists connected with Social Realism and the related genre of Magic Realism, including Jack Levine and William Gropper.  Russian-born American Social Realist Raphael Soyer is especially noted for his soulful portraits of women. Also included here are works by John Marin, Joseph Pennell and Adolf Dehn.

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Prints priced at $100 or less

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A great savings on some very nice prints!

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