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The Puppet Man, 1960. E. A
By Alexander Calder
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"The Puppet Man, 1960. By Alexander Calder. Handwriting by artist "EA" down left.
Image size
Category
1660s Abstract Geometric Portrait Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Paul V. Beaulieu-Man with Puppet-
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paul V. Beaulieu-Man with Puppet-16.75" x 11"-Poster-1950-Modernism-Brown, White, Neutral
Category
20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
STRIDENT MAN Carved Wood Sculpture Hollywood WPA Modernist Puppet Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
under Diego Rivera in Mexico City in 1926, Bunin created political puppet shows using marionettes
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
JUNYA WATANABE MAN EYE 2015 grey cotton red plaid puppet patchwork polo shirt M
By Junya Watanabe
Located in Hong Kong, NT
JUNYA WATANABE MAN EYE 2015 grey cotton red plaid puppet patchwork polo shirt M
Reference: JSLE
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Collars
Jan Saudek, Czech Photographer, "Puppet''
By Jan Saudek
Located in Delft, NL
Jan Saudek, Czech Photographer, "Puppet''
Title: "Puppet''
# The Puppet
Model print
Finished
Category
20th Century Czech Photography
Materials
Paper
Handmade Rajasthani Kathputli Dancing Puppet Couple Jaipur India 1950s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large pair of vintage 1950s string marionettes, these magnificent Rajasthani Kathputli puppets came
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Folk Art Toys and Dolls
Materials
Textile, Silk, Wood
Japanese Asian Oshie Pressed Textile Old Monk Framed Shadow Puppet Doll
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, handcrafted work of a Japanese monk/ old man doll shadow puppet who appears to be
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Textile, Linen, Acrylic, Wood
'Young Court Jester Holding a Puppet', Commedia dellArte, Post Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
, character-driven portrait of the young man, shown gazing directly towards the viewer. wearing white-face
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
H 30 in W 23.75 in D 0.13 in
African zoomorphic puppet head sculpture from the Bozo Tribe in Mali.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century zoomorphic African puppet head sculpture from the Bozo tribe in Mali.
This
Category
Mid-20th Century Tribal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
H 24.81 in W 7.09 in D 17.33 in
The Dead Man - Vintage Offset by Various Artists - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Bread and Puppet is a vintage offset poster realized by Various Artists in 1970s.
Good condition
Category
1970s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Junya Watanabe MAN Pear Print Shirt, Spring Summer 2019
By Junya Watanabe, Junya Watanabe Comme des Garçons
Located in Seattle, WA
puppet show Thunderbirds made everyone sit up and smile as Junya Watanabe’s models emerged onto the
Category
2010s Japanese Collars
Blind Man - Original Etching by A. Ruellan - Mid 20th Century
By Andrée Ruellan
Located in Roma, IT
the hands and a figure of a skinny puppet that is going to go out of it. The figure of the blind man
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
H 12.8 in W 9.97 in D 0.08 in
Young Man Sidelined (Rush Week Sisyphus I) - Contemporary Painting (Pink+Blue)
By Vivian Liddell
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Young Man Sidelined (Rush Week Sisyphus I)" is an original contemporary painting by Georgia-based
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Myth of Sisyphus X (A Man Defines Himself by his make-believe)
By Vivian Liddell
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Myth of Sisyphus X (A Man Defines Himself by his make-believe)" is an original contemporary
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Man with the Dragon - Woodblock Print by Utagawa Toyokuni I - 1800 ca
By Utagawa Toyokuni I
Located in Roma, IT
Man with the Dragon is a superb color woodbloock print on rice-paper, realized by the great master
Category
Early 1800s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
H 13.19 in W 8.86 in D 0.04 in
Pinocchio
Located in Miami, FL
, Gepetto embodies the alchemist.
Pinocchio the puppet had the gift of life, but he was not a real man
Category
2010s Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Signed Wayang Kulit Painting from Indonesia on Rich Palette
Located in Lomita, CA
pair of shadow puppets include a man standing and a woman in a seated position.
The subject is a
Category
Mid-20th Century Indonesian Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Silk, Bamboo
Old Castelet Or Guignol Theater, Period: Early 20th Century
Located in CRÉTEIL, FR
linked to that of Lyon and one man, Laurent Mourguet. The first trace of the puppet goes back to around
Category
20th Century European Other Carnival Art
Materials
Wood
Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Washington Square Park Architecture Photo NYC
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
, and some of his travel experiences are recounted in his first book of poems, Slow Newsreel of Man
Category
1950s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Key to the Virgin Mary
Located in San Francisco, CA
college and university theatre where he wrote scripts for puppet plays, and created stage decorations
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Jonah on the Way
Located in San Francisco, CA
theatre where he wrote scripts for puppet plays, and created stage decorations. ??In 1966, as a networker
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Many Medals, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist CommentsArtist Johansen Newman paints a military man displaying the symbols of his
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Return from the Hunt, Pen and Ink 17th Century Artwork, Handmade Gilt Frame
Located in London, GB
and we can see that a group of dogs have already returned and surround their keepers. One man holds a
Category
17th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Warrior - Woodcut by Utagawa Toyokuni II - Late 19th Century
By Utagawa Toyokuni II
Located in Roma, IT
Man with the Dragon is a hand-colored Woodcut, realized by the great master of ukiyo-e print
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
No Reserve
H 9.06 in W 7.09 in D 0.04 in
Surrealist Watercolour and Mixed Media, "Ne Nastupit bui!" (Wouldn't Come!).
Located in Cotignac, FR
worked as an engineer in technical aesthetics, as a puppet theater artist, headed the art studio of a
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
H 33.08 in W 24.61 in D 0.79 in
William Anthony Caricature Drawing Woman with Lollipop
By William Anthony
Located in Surfside, FL
figures that look like sock puppets with oversize heads and sausage-shaped limbs. And if you look closely
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Soleil Couchant
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Palm Desert, CA
deigns, puppets for puppet shows, painted screens, stage sets, and illustrated books. After 1900, he
Category
1920s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Original Vintage Soviet Poster Religion Is The Enemy Of Industrialisation Y Ganf
Located in London, GB
controlling people as saints like puppets on a string from a cloud with a person climbing up a chimney to a
Category
Vintage 1930s Russian Posters
Materials
Paper
H 40.16 in W 27.17 in D 0.04 in
Prom Queen
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
survive, and the legacy left behind.
I’m I a puppet?
a marionette on strings,
dancing to the whims of my
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Inari Kozo Tasaburo- Kabuki
By Utagawa Toyokuni
Located in Fairlawn, OH
head of the Utagawa school he was also the most influential man on the next generation of ukiyo-e
Category
1820s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Beauty Otami - Kabuki
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
also the most influential man on the next generation of ukiyo-e designers.
Toyokuni was born the son
Category
Early 1800s Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
French Surrealism Oil Painting Pierre Henry Surrealist Color Flowers in Vase
Located in Surfside, FL
Woman with the Suns, The Lovers (1963), Death (1963), The Sleeping Beauty (1965), The man prisoner of
Category
1960s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Surrealism Oil Painting Pierre Henry Surrealist Color Flowers in Vase
Located in Surfside, FL
(1963), Death (1963), The Sleeping Beauty (1965), The man prisoner of war (tribute to Félicien Challaye
Category
1960s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tina Turner
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
A colorized version of this image was featured on The Last Shadow Puppets' album "Everything You've
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Monumental French Color Print by Henri Riviere Late 19th or Early 20th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
- 1951). The print shows a man and his horse in the French countryside, haystacks visible. The style is
Category
Early 20th Century French Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Paper
H 29.75 in W 41 in D 0.75 in
Set of Two 18th Century Engravings from William Hogarth's "Analysis of Beauty"
By William Hogarth
Located in Alamo, CA
the hint for the fat man's sprawling posture. I next resolved to keep a figure within the bounds of a
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
William HogarthSet of Two 18th Century Engravings from William Hogarth's "Analysis of Beauty" , 1753
H 27.38 in W 31.25 in D 1.13 in
The Sommeliers
Located in Loveland, CO
exploration of the blending of man into various parts of the environment. With attention to anatomic detail
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Wood, Acrylic
WELCOME TO BUGATANGA, Drawing
By Gary Panter
Located in Surfside, FL
very prolific 1980s, during which he also designed the sets and puppets for Pee-wee's Playhouse
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Japanese Art Nouveau, Awaji Ware Art Studio Pottery Flower Vase, Ca. 1900
By Awaji Pottery
Located in New York, NY
artists seeking retreat and inspiration for centuries. There is a renowned puppet theatre, ningyo joruri
Category
Antique Early 1900s Japanese Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Ceramic
H 12.5 in W 6.75 in D 6.75 in
Alexander Grant, Dans Mam'zelle Angot
Located in San Francisco, CA
performing arts. In the 30s and 40s, as a young man, Jean Target frequented the Parisian theaters and
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Original Vintage Soviet Poster Religion Is The Enemy Of Industrialisation USSR
Located in London, GB
controlling people as saints like puppets on a string from a cloud with a person climbing up a chimney to a
Category
1930s More Prints
Materials
Paper
Hand Puppets
By Charles Dwyer
Located in Boston, MA
Charles Dwyer is a Renaissance man. Working in pastel, oil, gouache, watercolor, ink , photography
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Watercolor
Balancing Act # 6
By Mary Manning
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
Monotype
Mary Manning’s paintings and monotypes are recognised for their exuberant colour and
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints
It's Only Love and That is All
By Mary Manning
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
Monotype
Mary Manning’s paintings and monotypes are recognised for their exuberant colour and
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Cosmic Line # 6
By Mary Manning
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
Monotype
Image size 10 x 10
Paper size 22 x 15
Mary Manning’s paintings and monotypes are
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Glass Onion
By Mary Manning
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
Monotype
Mary Manning’s paintings and monotypes are recognised for their exuberant colour and
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Cry for a Shadow
By Mary Manning
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
Monotype
Bio
Mary Manning’s paintings and monotypes are recognized for their exuberant color
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Cry Baby Cry
By Mary Manning
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
Monotype
Bio
Mary Manning’s paintings and monotypes are recognized for their exuberant color
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Beautiful Torso of a Man, India, Orissa, 18th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful torso of a man, carved in scooped out palm tree - once used like puppet for theater
Category
Antique 18th Century Indian Colonial Revival Busts
Materials
Wood
Fuck Reality Light Box
By Louise McNaught
Located in Notting Hill, London
relationship between nature and ourselves, making a clear point about man's destruction of nature.
By
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Great Britain (UK) Night Stands
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