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International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair unveiled the highlights for its 2024 edition, which marks the fairs return to its historic home at the Park Avenue Armory, from February 1518, 2024. Leading international print galleries, publishers, workshops and dealers present fine art prints across techniques and periods, from Old Masters and 20th-century icons to established contemporary artists and todays most exciting emerging voices.
Returning for a third year, David Zwirner highlights important prints and works on paper by Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Toba Khedoori, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha. Additionally, Zwirner features a focused selection of editions by Vija Celmins which showcases the artists meticulous serial explorations of natural phenomena, including the ocean, desert, and night sky.
Hauser & Wirth offers newly editioned prints by Rita Ackermann, George Condo, and Amy Sherald, and earlier works by Ida Applebroog, Louise Bourgeois, and David Smith.
David Tunick, Inc. exhibits a range of highly sought-after printsincluding Titians monumental woodcut, The Submersion of the Pharaohs Army in the Red Sea (4 ft. x 8 ft.), one of the largest and rarest Old Master prints ever made. Tunick is also presenting two art historical icons, Edvard Munchs Madonna and Albrecht Dürers Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, each in starkly different versions, providing an exceptional experience in connoisseurship at the topmost level through side-by-side comparisons.
Worthington Gallery presents a range of works by Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz (the latter artist will soon be celebrated with a solo exhibition at the MoMA, opening March 31). The gallery also offers works by Wassily Kandinsky, Erich Heckel, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Lange, Gabrielle Münter, and Paul Klee.
Susan Teller Gallery features several works by celebrated African-American artists like Lawrence Jones, Vernon Poindexter, William E. Smith, and Dox Thrash, alongside American Modernists Thomas Hart Benton and Ben Shahn.
Childs Gallery presents prints by Paul Cadmus, Francisco Goya, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Rembrandt, and Whistler.
Galerie Lelong presents modern and contemporary prints by Etel Adnan, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Jean Debuffet, and Donald Judd.
Krakow Witkin Gallery presents a group booth featuring recent multi-media creations by Sarah Sze and Kay Rosen, a 1944 woodcut made by Josef Albers while teaching at Black Mountain College; and Mel Bochners rare Rules of Inference (1974), one of the first large-scale monochromatic aquatint etchings ever made. It took much experimentation on the artists part and then proceeded to pave the way for many other artists use of the technique.
German gallerist Mike Karstens offers works by Shilpa Gupta, William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Yoko Ono, Gerhard Richter, Kiki Smith, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, and Rosemarie Trockel in a limited edition portfolio published by Art-19 to benefit Amnesty International. The name Art 19 comes from an abbreviation of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which provides: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. The artists are contributing 100% of their fees to the cause and Kiki Smith and Emilia Kabakov are presenting a public program at the fair on Sunday, February 17 at noon.s
This year the fair counts several solo presentations unveiling how artists have experimented with printmaking over decades, including F.L. Braswell Fine Art presenting a solo booth of works by Joan Mitchell spanning her entire career from 1959 to 1992; Fredric Snitzer Gallery showcasing a solo presentation of works by Hernan Bas featuring never-before-seen pieces from the artist's personal archive, John Szoke Gallery, exhibiting a focused presentation of work by Pablo Picasso, Tandem Press with new large scale editions from Judy Pfaff, and invitational exhibitor Maya Froedman Gallery with a new body of work, Everything is Liquid, from twins, Mike and Doug Starn.