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Conceptual Prints and Multiples

CONCEPTUAL STYLE

In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.

LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.

Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.

Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.

The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.

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Style: Conceptual
Artist: Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Chinatown Portfolio #9, 97/250
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933) Chinatown Portfolio #9 Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint on wove paper Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250 Edition: 250 Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4i...
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1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Chinatown Portfolio #1, 97/250
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933) Chinatown Portfolio #1 Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint on wove paper Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250 Edition: 250 Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4i...
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Chinatown Portfolio #6, 97/250
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933) Chinatown Portfolio #6 Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint on wove paper Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250 Edition: 250 Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4i...
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 11
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 11 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. ...
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 5
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 5 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 12
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 12 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 7
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 7 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (1...
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 2
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 2 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 3
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 3 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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New York Times, Silkscreen by Chryssa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: New York Times (CE) Year: Circa 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300; AP 35 Paper Size: 38 x 25 inches
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Classified Ad, Monoprint by Chryssa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Classified Ad Year: 1977 Medium: Silkscreen and Acrylic Monoprint on Paper, signed, dated and titled in pencil Image Size: 14.5 x 22 inche...
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Monoprint

Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 1, Silkscreen by Chryssa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 1 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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Chinese Characters, Silkscreen by Chryssa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinese Characters (Tan on Silver) Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 125 Paper Si...
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 8, Silkscreen by Chryssa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 8 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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American Newsprint, Monoprint by Chryssa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: American Newsprint Year: 1977 Medium: Silkscreen and Acrylic Monoprint on Paper, signed, dated and titled in pencil Image Size: 13 x 21.5 ...
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Monoprint

Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 4
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 4 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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Jobs and Employment Classifieds, Monoprint by Chryssa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Jobs and Employment Classifieds Year: 1982 Medium: Monoprint Silkscreen, signed l.r. Image Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Size: 39 in. x 29.5 in. ...
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1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples

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Monotype

Chinatown Portfolio, 12 Silkscreens by Chryssa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio Year: circa 1978 Medium: 12 Screenprints, each signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (10...
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Chinatown Portfolio #4, 97/250
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933) Chinatown Portfolio #4 Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint on wove paper Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250 Edition: 250 Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4i...
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Chinatown Portfolio #7, 97/250
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933) Chinatown Portfolio #7 Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprints on wove paper Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250 Edition: 250 Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4...
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Chinatown Portfolio #5, 97/250
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933) Chinatown Portfolio #5 Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprints on wove paper Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250 Edition: 250 Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4...
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Gates to Times Square #2
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Gates to Times Square #2 Year: 1978-1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 40 x 30 inches
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Gates to Times Square #1
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Gates to Times Square #1 Year: 1978-1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 40 x 30 inches
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 5
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 12
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 11
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 10
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Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 10 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 9, Silkscreen by Chryssa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 9 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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Chinatown Portfolio #3, 97/250
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Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933) Chinatown Portfolio #3 Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint on wove paper Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250 Edition: 250 Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4i...
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Chinatown Portfolio #8, 97/250
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933) Chinatown Portfolio #8 Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprints on wove paper Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250 Edition: 250 Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4...
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Conceptual prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual prints and multiples available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add prints and multiples created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Risaburo Kimura, Dennis A. Oppenheim, Heidler & Heeps, and Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali. Frequently made by artists working with Screen Print, and Lithograph and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 2.56 inches across are also available. Prices for prints and multiples made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $128 and tops out at $97,750, while the average work sells for $985.

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