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Ross Bleckner’s “At Present,” 2007, color aquatint etching, edition of 50, will be on view at Paulson Press.

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Jim Kempner Fine Art will show Roy Lichtenstein’s “Before the Mirror,” 1975, lithograph and screenprint with embossing.

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IFPDA INK MIAMI TO SHOW WORKS ON PAPER DEC. 5–9 w/2 cuts

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NEW YORK CITY — The International Fine Print Dealers Association will present Ink Miami 2007, the only fair in Miami dedicated to works on paper during Art Basel Miami Beach.

Ink Miami returns to the Suites of Dorchester, 1850 Collins Avenue at 19th Street. The show will open a day earlier on Wednesday, December 5, with a breakfast preview at 10 am, and runs through Sunday, December 9.

Following its 2006 debut, this year’s fair features an expanded roster of 20 exhibitors with nearly all last year’s dealers returning and dealers Susan Sheehan Gallery, Mary Ryan Gallery, Dranoff Fine Art and Sims Reed of London joining the show, along with publishers Dolan/Maxwell and Riverhouse van Straaten.

All exhibitors are members of the International Fine Print Dealers Association and this show highlights the strengths of the organization’s dealers in modern and contemporary masters, as well as the vitality of printmaking among artists of international renown as evidenced by its many publishers.

Visitors will have first look not only at many new and unusual projects, but many rare-to-market masterworks of the genre as well. On view at Susan Sheehan Gallery, an array of late Twentieth Century gems including some rare Ellsworth Kelly prints from 1970s. Dranoff Fine Art will show the etching “Boogie Man” by former graffiti artist Barnaby Furnas. A product of Furnas’s first experiment with printmaking, each etching in this edition of 40 has been individually hand painted by the artist.

Mary Ryan Gallery will arrive with brand-new editions by Yvonne Jacquette and Donald Sultan. The Sultan project, “12 Colors,” is a set of 12 screen printed poppies in which the enamel-like surface of the flowers actually “pops” out from a textured tarlike black background, which was created using nine layers of colors. Art Basel veterans, Crown Point Press will introduce several new publications, including an aquatint and softground etching by Amy Sillman and four new soap ground and spitbite aquatints by Swiss artist Pia Fries.

Jim Kempner Fine Art will show an extensive catalog of Twentieth Century classics, including Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic “Before the Mirror.” William Shearburn Gallery returns to South Beach with works by Louise Bourgeois, an artist obsessively drawn to printmaking over her career. Marlborough Graphics will showcase Twentieth Century masterworks along with new editions by Paula Rego, Tomas Sanchez, Manolo Valdes and Richard Estes. For artist Sanchez and Estes, these projects are a return to printmaking after many years.

Works that exemplify the manner in which artists of the 1960s and 70s experimented with commercial printing techniques will be much in evidence. On offer at Charles M. Young Fine Prints and Drawings, LLC: Dieter Roth’s untitled color offset and silkscreen print from “Six Piccadillies” (1969–70), printed recto and verso from the suite of six inspired by tourist postcards of London’s Piccadilly Circus.

Richard Hamilton’s “Fashion Plate” (1969–70), a photo-offset lithograph and screenprint with collage elements printed by photography darling David Bailey and retouched with cosmetics by the artists, will be on view at Sims Reed, which completes the continuum with Russell Young’s screenprint “mug shot” of Sid Vicious published in 2006.

Cuban artists will debut new editions at this year’s fair. Along with its signature prints, Mixografia will premiere “El Nadador (The Swimmer)” by Kcho (Alexis Leyva Machado). Riverhouse van Straaten debuts four new etchings with chine colle by sculptor Maria Elena Gonzalez, each in an edition of 25. Esterio Segura and Cuban art collective Los Carpinteros will be on view at Florida’s Graphicstudio.

Show hours will be Wednesday, noon to 6 pm, Thursday to Saturday from 10 to 7, and Sunday, 10 to 3.

For information, 212-674-6095 or www.ifpda.org.