20th Century Figurative Prints

Marc Chagall - Bath-Sheba at the Feet of David - Original Handsigned Etching 1958 Printed by Tériade Dimensions: 54 x 39 cm Handsigned and numbered handcolored Edition: 100 Reference: Cramer 30. Etching with hand-coloring, circa 1930, initialled in pencil, numbered 75/100 (there were also twenty hors-commerce copies) , published 1958 by Tériade, Paris, on Arches wove paper Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion. With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way. Haunted Harbors Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...

Woman with Shell is an oil painting on canvas realized by Sergio Vacchi in 1976. Hand-signed and dated on the bottom. Including a golden frame. Frame dimensions: 75x93 cm. Very goo...

Dog is an original oil painting on canvas realized by Sergio Vacchi in 1977. Hand-signed and dated on the top left. Including a golden frame. Frame dimensions: 76x97 cm. Very good ...

Letter Z - from the suite Letters of the Alphabet is a contemporary artwork realized by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff). Lithograph and Screen Print. The artwork i...

Hand signed. Edition of 121 copies printed by Igino Alessandrini. One of the only 15 prints in Roman Numerals on light blue Fabriano Paper. Image dimensions: 46 x 30 cm. Bibliograph...

They Thunder forth from Their Clouds is an original lithograph, realized by George Grosz in 1922, from Die Raüber, edition Malik Verlag in 100 prints, plate n°8 da Die Raüber, hand-signed in pencil. "They thunder forth from their clouds about gentleness and forbearance, while they sacrifice human victims to the God of love." (Da donnern sie Sanftmut und Duldung aus ihren Wolken und bringen dem Gott der Liebe Menschenopfer.)" Sheet dimension: 61,5 x 42 cm. In very good conditions. Here representing a man in front of cross miserably praying, below of his feet laid down many dead bodies and ruined part of the city. here is one of his artwork affected by consequences drama of war. George Grosz (1893 -1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic. He studied drawing at the Dresden Academy 1909-11 and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Berlin 1912-14, He was in the army 1914-15 and again for a short time in 1917, but spent the rest of the war in Berlin where he made violently anti-war drawings...

La Chèvre-Feuille is an original Modern Rare book illustrated by Pablo Picasso and written by Georges Hugnet (11 July 1906 – 26 June 1974) in 1943 . Origina...

Robert Riggs, 'Psychopathic Ward', 2-color lithograph, c. 1940, edition c. 50, Beall 60, Bassham 78. Signed, titled, and numbered '14' in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A ...

Original lithograph, hand signed by the artist Giorgio De Chirico on the lower right. This print is from the Suite "Apocalisse". Very good conditions. Includes Passepartout : 69 x 49...

Sybil As Juliet is an original lithograph artwork realized by Jim Dine. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right margin, edition of 1/100 prints, on the rear. Titled on the lower left. Belongs to the Suite "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; Published by Petersburg Press, London. Very good conditions. Jim Dine (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1935) is an American artist who rejected any formal association with Pop Art, but who is still commonly considered an important exponent of this art movement. He became famous for his "happenings", chaotic art performances originally invented together with other important artists, such as Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow...

Diecicomeleditadiduemani is a suite of screen prints acetates realized in 1973 by the artist Ennio Pouchard (1928). Signed on plate on the lower right. From the porfolio " Dieci...

Francisco Toledo (Mexico, 1940-2019) 'Cinderella', 1984 lithograph on paper 29.9 x 22.1 in. (75.9 x 55.9 cm.) Edition of 45 Unframed

Salvador Dali A Shattering Entrance upon the American Stage Original etching and stencil Handsigned in the right corner with the blind stamp of the editor in the left corner On B...

Medium: pochoir (after the painting). This exquisitely rich impression on black wove paper was published in 1941 by the Nierendorf Gallery, of New York, for the cover of a now quite ...

Richard Diebenkorn (American, April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This piece title...

The Jewish Holidays portfolio by Chaim Gross. This portfolio consists of 11 color lithographs plus 11 black and white lithographs of the same images depicting 11 of the Jewish Holid...

Untitled is a drypoint artist's proof realized by Ardengo Soffici (Rignano sull’Arno 1879 – Vittoria Apuana 1964). It is signed and dated on the lower right. This is one of the mos...

Bellows, George. THE LIFE CLASS - SECOND STONE (THE MODEL, LIFE CLASS). Mason 43, Bellows 193. Lithograph, 1917. Edition of 49, signed by Bellows. Inscribed "No.20," title...

Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 75 prints on Vélin d'Arches. Etching and aquatint. Original title: Giocolieri. This work is one of the 10 plates of the series: Tout près de Ma...

from the Padoli Monotypes III

Inge is an original etching realized by Giacomo Manzù in the 1970s. Hand-signed. Numbered on the lower left. Edition of 26/125. The state of preservat...

Surrounded by a charcoal background, the male figure at the center of this Pablo Picasso print appears illuminated by the light emanating from the upper right corner. Infused with a ...

L'Enfant Robot is an original color etching and aquatint on wove paper, realized in the half 1970s by the Belgian illustrator Jean Michel Folon (1934-2005). Hand-signed in capital ...

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Round Medusa is an original etching realized by Giacomo Manzù in 1970s. Hand-signed. Numbered on the lower left. Ed. 26/125. The state of preservation...

Image dimensions: 17.4 x 23.5 cm. Le marocchine (Maurina e sua sorella) is an original artwork realized by Luigi Bartolini in 1944. Original etching and China ink on paper. Titled, dated and signed on plate on the lower central: "Maurina 1944 14 giugno L. Bartolini". Titled, dated, numbered and hand-signed in pencil at the bottom: "Le marocchine 1944 Es. 9/30 Luigi Bartolini". Excellent conditions. Other titles of the work: Maurina; Maurina e sua sorella; Le marocchine (Ragazze da marocchini). The work is also present in the book Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer - De Luigi, Rome, 1943. Luigi Bartolini Cupramontana (Ancona), 1892 – Rome 1963 An accomplished Twentieth Century Italian engraver, painter, writer, art critic and engraver. He spent his early years living in Rome, Siena, and Florence and was professionally formed through university courses in art and medicine, museums, and the Academy Belle Arti. He begins to study art in 1912 with a special preference for Goya, Rembrandt, and Fattori. His success as an engraver arrives in 1924 with his exhibitions at Bragaglia’s House of Art and Casa Palazzi di Roma (70 etchings). In 1925 he participates in the II Roman Biennial and then in the Venice Biennial from 1928 to 1936. He is considered, along with Morandi, the greatest Italian engraver. His expositive work continues with intensity in the post-war period with one-man exhibitions in both Italy and abroad. His last one-man exhibition takes place at the XXXI Venice Biennial and at the National Chalcography in Rome in 1962. Bartolini lives through his era in complete liberty, dedicating himself to painting, to art criticism, to literature and teaching. This intellectual and artistic autonomy is well reflected in his engravings and it is exactly because of this characteristic of intellectual autonomy that he has never really belonged to the Scuola Romana although he was very attached to it because he frequented the Roman environment and it’s artists who he would often exhibit with. His literary production is gathered the volumes Polemiche (1940), Credo d’artista (1945), Il Fallimento della Pittura (1948) and Poesie 1911-1963(1964). As a critic, he collaborates with numerous magazines such as “Il Selvaggio”, “Quadrivio”, “La Tribuna”, “L’Ambrosiano” etc. After the war, “Bicycle Thieves...

Portrait is an original artwork realized by Michelangelo Pistoletto in 1995. Edition of 100 prints. Signed and dated on the lower right corner: Pistoletto 95. Numbered on the lower...

Artist: Sandro Chia Title: Lonely Dude from Ten Masterprints Medium: Carborundum Etching with handcoloring on handmade paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 38/50 Size: 40 in...

Original vintage travel poster Chamonix Mont-Blanc PLM French travel poster. Very good condition, archival linen backed. Ready to frame. ...

This fragmented portrait of a painter by Pablo Picasso features bright, bold colors and relies on visible brushstrokes to show the figure of the man instead of the geometric shapes and rigid angles commonly found in his Cubist work. A lithograph from the Marina Picasso...

Figures is an original lithography artwork in 1973 by the British artist Henry Moore (Castleford, 1898 - Much Hadham, 1986). Hand-signed, numbered and dated on the lower right. Limited edition of 65 prints. Good condition. Original print reproducing several sketches of sculptures with Moore's typical shapes. Standing out for the high definition of shapes, our contemporary artwork. Henry Moore (1898-1986) focused on the hole, or void, as an important element in sculptural design. His well-known reclining female nudes combine the organic jargon central to Moore’s philosophy: bone shapes, eroded rocks, and geologic formations to communicate the human form’s fluidity, dynamism, and evocative nature. The reclining figures were originally inspired by a photograph Moore acquired of a Chac Mool...

Signed on plate. Numbered. Edition of 60 prints in Roman Numerals. Very good conditions. Image Dimensions : 21 x 12.5 cm

Carrying baskets filled with vines, the figures in this Pablo Picasso print lean forward to balance the weight on their shoulders and in their hands. On the left, a nude woman walks ...

Original TAA Trans Australia Airlines vintage travel poster. Linen-backed and ready to frame. TAA Airlines was started in 1946 and was renamed Australian Airlines in 1986. In 1...

In the bottom right it is written: "G. de Chirico se ipsum delineavit et lidografavit". Printed by Giorgio Upiglio, Milan. Edition of 196 pieces and 4 proofs on the Imperial Japan...

Le Marriage de la Vierge by Salvador Dali and interpreted from the original Raphael painting is one of six graphics from the series Changes in Great Masterpieces...

Untitled (Gossip) 1976 Serigraph Ed. Edition of 175 25.75 x 20.5 inches

Salvador Dali’s Lys ( Anamorphoses ) is one of five lithographs from the suite “Anamorphoses ” published by Jean Schneider, Basil 1972. According to Albert Field when one of these prints is placed flat on a table with a cylindrical mirror...

Original title: Die Bruder Karamasov This original lithograph is hand signed and dated in pencil on the lower right. Edition of 125 prints. Representing a scene from Dostojewski's novel "The Brothers Karamazov...

Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 10 Artist's proof in Roman numerals. Image Dimensions : 30 x 45 cm

Wonderful original etching with aquatint realized by Georges Rouault between 1917 and 1923, published as a suite in 1948. Sheet in perfect conditions. The artwork is part of the important suite Miserere, considered as the most important religious graphic of XX century. Sunt lacrimae Rerum represents an episode of Christ's passion with a kneeling figure looking upwards. Miserere suite is divided in two themes: religious and profane; one is linked to Christ's passion and the other is dedicated to the human event, to the pilgrimage of pain on earth, made even more tragic by war. In the 58 original plates, Rouault lingers on the conditions of humanity. Like few other contemporaries, Rouault represents human figures placing him at the center of an absurd and squalid theater. Interesting the use of contrasts and the shapes of the figures with black outlines. Published in the Catalogue "Georges Rouault: Oeuvre Gravé", by Isabella Chapon. Georges Rouault (Paris, 1871) has been an interesting exponent of French...

Lying Naked is an original drawing realized by Antonio Scordia in 1955. Marker on paper Signed and dated lower right. Dedication lower right Good conditions except for slight yellowing of the paper Antonio Scordia (Santa Fè, Argentina, 1918 - Rome, 1988) was an Italian painter. In 1921, he moved to Rome with his family where he attended the School of the Academy of France...

Richard DAVIES (1945-1991) At the Railway Station Original etching and mezzotint Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 50 On vellum 56 x 44 cm (c. 22 x 18 inch) REFERENCES : Catalog Rai...

La Femme 100 Têtes is an original modern rare book illustrated by Max Ernst (1891 - 1976) in 1929, and extraordinary first example of conceptual art Original first edition. Publish...

Indéfrisable is the work of Domenico Gnoli (After), realized in 1963. Color lithograph on China paper applied on Carta Rosaspina Fabriano. Edition of 100 copies (80 in Arabic numer...

Maternité is an original Modern Rare book written by Marcel Arland (Varennes-sur-Amance, 1899 – Saint-Sauveur-sur-École, 1986) and illustrated by Marc Chagall (Lëzna, 1887 – Saint-Pa...

Original lithograph and Pochoir (stencil). One of the beautiful illustrations realized by Paul Iribe for "Les Robes de Paul Poiret" in 1908. Very good condition except for some minor...

Letter T - from the suite Letters of the Alphabet is a contemporary artwork realized by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff). Lithograph and Screen Print. The artwork is from the suite "Letters of the Alphabet", 1976. Hand signed on the lower margin. Artist Proof (PA). Provenance Personal Collection Serge Leeman. According to the fascinating story of the alfabeth.Letter T stands...

Three Reclining Figures ia a Lithograph realized by Henry Moore in 1976. Hand Signed. Edition of 50 prints. Printed at the Curwen Studio and...

Easter Sweets is an original Lithograph realized by Giuseppe Viviani. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right by Artist. Numbered in pencil on the lower-left. Edition 81/120 print...

The Departure of the Argonaut (1918) is the travelogue and wartime diary of Alberto Savinio, one of the seminal figures in twentieth-century Italian arts and letters. Clemente's acco...

Hand signed and numbered by artist with pencil. Edition of 75 prints. From the catalogue "Guastalla A27".

Les Fleurs du Mal is an original series of 12 etching, realized by Martin Van Maele in 1917, illustrations for Charles Baudelaire’s poems, printed by La Bibliothèque des Curieux, loose leaves each of them. The artworks are illustreting of Les Fleurs du mal "The Flowers of Evil" that is well-known poetry written by Charles Baudelaire, Which first published in 1857 that was important in the symbolist and has a great impact on modernist movement of the era. In very good conditions. Maurice François...

Hand-signed and numbered by artist in pencil. Editions of 90 copies (11/90). Includes some artist's proofs. Image dimensions: 50x35 cm. Very good conditions. Published in general cat...

Original lithograph, edited in 100+25 pieces numbered and hand signed. 3rd statem, the first with monogram printed on plate lower left. Very good conditions. Published in the Catalogue "Georges Rouault: Oeuvre Gravé", by Isabella Rouault and François Chapon n. 320, p. 278 Georges Rouault (Paris, 1871) has been an interesting exponent of French Expressionism...

Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 75 prints. Original title "Giocolieri". This work is one of the 10 plates of the series Tout près de Marino, published in 1971. Image dimensions:...

Gullivers Reise is an original modern rare book written by Jonathan Swift (Dublin, 1667 – Dublin, 1745) and illustrated by Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 –...

The Dog is an original lithograph realized by Giuseppe Viviani in 1961. Good conditions. Edition of 170. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. The artwork is depicted through strong ...