Marc Chagall

La Tombe du Père - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1923

1923

Etching, Drypoint and Pochoir, 1977. Sheet 19 from the series Les Caprices de Goya de Dalì. Printed by J.J.J. Rigal after Goya with drypoint revisions by Dalí in his own hand between 1973 and 1977. Edition 85/200. Red. Michler-Löpsinger 866a (from b). Inscribed Dalì and Goya in pencil and with the artist's signature, title and number on the plate. On bold chamois-colored BFK Rives The Spanish master Francisco Goya created the work “Los Caprichos...

Pirueta de Plátano is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1977. Dry point and collotype, Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin. Numbered on the lower left margin....

Femmes Poules (Hen Woman) is an artwork realized in 1968/69, from the Series "Faust" (La Nuit de Walpurgis). Etching, Drypoint, Watercolor and Roulette on Japon Paper. Hand signed ...

Chevalier et la Mort (Knight and Death) is an artwork realized in 1968/69, from the Series "Faust" (La Nuit de Walpurgis). Etching, Drypoint, Watercolor and Roulette on Japon Paper...

Le Buste, from the Series "Faust" (La Nuit de Walpurgis), is an artwork realized in 1968/69. Etching, Drypoint, Watercolor and Roulette on Japon Paper. Hand signed and numbered. Ed...

Femme au Clown (Woman with Clown) is an artwork belonging to the Series "Faust" (La Nuit de Walpurgis), and realized in 1968/69. Etching, Drypoint, Watercolor and Roulette on Japon ...

SALVADOR DALI Le Cerf se voyant dans l'eau from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine 1974 Hand signed by Dali Edition: /250 The dimensions of the image are 22.8 x 15.7 inches on 31 x 23.2 in...

This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 110, at t...

Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University). ABOUT THE ARTIST Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe. Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston. In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press: “The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.” The other speakers were Karl Knaths...

Blanchefleur from Dalí's Le Décameron portfolio is a drypoint etching with color on paper, signed Dalí lower right and numbered 17/150 lower left. From the Swedish edition of 150 Ara...

Le Diable en Enfer from Dalí's Le Décameron portfolio is a drypoint etching with color on paper, signed Dalí lower right and numbered 17/150 lower left. From the Swedish edition of 1...

La Ressuscitée from Dalí's Le Décameron portfolio is a drypoint etching with color on paper, signed Dalí lower right and numbered 17/150 lower left. From the Swedish edition of 150 A...