Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Launched in 1987, the International Fine Print Dealers Association has continually set the bar for quality and ethics while promoting prints as original works of art to generations of collectors, curators and art lovers. With over 160 members in 13 countries, the IFPDA is a worldwide community of leading dealers and editions publishers who represent the full spectrum of printmaking. Each year, the IFPDA hosts the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, the only major fair dedicated to fine-art prints.
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Sunlight Through Storm Clouds.
Located in Storrs, CT
American School. The Pond: Sunlight and Clearing Clouds. Late nineteenth century. 13 7/8 x 11 1/8 x 1 1/4.
Unsigned. Frost & Adams stamp to the verso. The painting has been cleaned and relined; minor discolorations; craquelure. Housed in a linen liner with a gold lip and an elegant period-style 17 1/8 x 14 ½ x 2 1/8-inches.
Frost & Adams (est.1869) was an artists' supply firm in Boston, Massachusetts, located in Cornhill, on the current site of Boston City...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
The River at Belfast, Maine
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
Jacquette creates compelling images of the landscape and the sea from the air or atop hills or mountains.
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Plate 20 from "Formes et Couleurs"
Located in New York, NY
Plate 20 from "Formes et couleurs; vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs décoratifs" by Auguste H. Thomas. Paris: A. Levy, Librarie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, circa...
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
William Penn Silhouette
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph displayed in a giltwood frame with red accent. Unsigned. Light wear to frame.
Category
20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Untitled (Poison)
By Richard Bosman
Located in New York, NY
Richard Bosman (b. 1944) is a painter and printmaker known for his woodcuts depicting turbulent seascapes. He studied at Bryam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing in London, The New ...
Category
Late 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Linocut
Narcissus
By Claudio Bravo
Located in New York, NY
Claudio Bravo, Narcissus, 1995
Edition of 76
Born in Chile in 1936, Claudio Bravo lived and worked in Tangier, Morocco from 1972 onward. The artist first established himself as a so...
Category
1990s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Alpaca, Lithograph
Slope w.five trees
By Robert Kipniss
Located in New York, NY
“Slope w/five trees” is a drypoint engraving created by Robert Kipniss in 2020. The paper size is 12.50 x 10.50 inches and the printed image size is 6.75 x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
GIRLS WITH LOTS OF QUAILS
By Sadao Watanabe
Located in Santa Monica, CA
SADAO WATANABE (Japanese 1913-1996)
GIRLS WITH LOTS OF QUAILS, 1965
鶉と少女
Hand colored stencil print on momigami textured paper. Signed and numbered in white. Edition 50, Image 17 x 2...
Category
1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Stencil
Untitled (Woman Removing Her Stockings)
By Everett Shinn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Woman Removing Her Stockings)
Conte crayon on paper. c. 1905
Signed lower right: E Shinn
Provenance:
James Graham & Sons, New York (labels)
Ronald C....
Category
Early 1900s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Conté
STEHENDE KNABE UND ZWEI MADCHEN
By Otto Mueller
Located in Portland, ME
Mueller, Otto. STEHENDE KNABE UND ZWEI MADCHEN. Karsch 67. Lithograph, 1917. 12 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 323 x 250 mm. Monogrammed in the stone. Edition of about 300. In excellent conditi...
Category
1910s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Earth Tie (Stoned Moon Series)
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Houston, TX
Robert Rauschenberg
Earth Tie (Stoned Moon Series), 1969
Color lithograph
48 x 34 inches
Edition of 48
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Angel and Skeleton (the rescuing Angel appears to be female)
By Donna Evans
Located in New Orleans, LA
Donna Evans' "Angel and Skeleton" shows an angel reaching out to a skeleton as if to rescue it from a wooded landscape.
Donna Evans is one of a group of N...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Viewing snow at Mount Matchi. (Matsuchiyama no yukimi.)
By Torii Kiyonaga
Located in Storrs, CT
Torii Kiyonaga. (after). Twentieth-century woodcut printed on silk, based on the original Kiyonaga 1784 woodblock. 13 1/2 x 6 1/2 (image and sheet). Scattered foxing. Signed "Torii K...
Category
Early 19th Century Edo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color, Woodcut
Visionaire: The Set. Numbers 1 - 64.
Located in New York, NY
GAN, STEPHEN et al. Visionaire: The Set. Numbers 1 - 64. Various bindings. New York, Visionaire Publishing. 1991-2014. (#163792)
ALL VOLUMES ARE IN IMMACULATE AS NEW CONDITION.
The set contains:
Visionaire #1 (1991)
Visionaire #2: The Travel Issue (1991)
Visionaire #3: Erotica (1991)
Visionaire #4: Heaven (1991)
Visionaire #5: The Future (1992)
Visionaire #6: The Sea (1992)
Visionaire #7: Black (1992)
Visionaire #8: The Orient (1993)
Visionaire #9: Faces (1993)
Visionaire #10: The Alphabet (1993-1994)
Visionaire:#11: White (1994)
Visionaire #12: Desire (1994)
Visionaire #13: Seven Deadly Sins (1994)
Visionaire #14: Hype! (1995)
Visioniare #15: Cinderella (1995)
Visionaire #16: The Calendar Issue (1996)
Visionaire #17: Gold (1996)
Visionaire #18: Louis Vuitton Fashion Special (Double Issue 1996)
Visionaire #19: Beauty (1996)
Visionaire #20: Comme des Garçons (1997)
Visionaire #21: Deck of Cards (1997)
Visionaire #22: Chic. Mario Testino (1997)
Visionaire #23: The Emperor's New Clothes by Karl Lagerfeld (1997)
Visionaire #24: Light - Tom Ford for Gucci (1998)
Visionaire #25: Visionary (1998)
Visionaire #26: Fantasy (1998)
Visionaire #27: Movement (1999)
Visionaire #28: The Bible (1999)
Visionaire #29: Woman (1999)
Visionaire #30: The Game: USA (2000)
Visionaire #31: The Blue Issue (2000)
Visionaire #32: Where? (2000)
Visionaire #33: Touch (2000)
Visionaire #34: Paris, Dior Homme, Solitaire (2000)
Visionaire #35: Man. Mario Testino (2001)
Visionaire #36: Power (2001)
Visionaire #37: Vreeland Memos (2001)
Visionaire #38: Love (2002)
Visionaire #39: Play (2002)
Visionaire #40: Roses (2003)
Visionaire #41: World (2003)
Visionaire #42: Scent (2003)
Visionaire #43: Dreams (2004)
Visionaire #44: Toys...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Sud (South)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is #5 out of 40
Anne Dykmans was born in Verviers, Belgium, in 1952. She is a graduate of l’École Nationale d’Architecture et des Arts Visuels de La Cambre in Brussels, where she studied printmaking. Specialist of the Mezzotint (mezzotinto) technique, she is especially known for her prints of interior scenes, where light and dark come together in amazing chiaroscuro effects. She has presented her work in solo and group shows in Belgium and in many countries including; among others: France, Germany, Spain, Canada, Japan, China, and the USA. She was awarded in 1983 the Prix de la Jeune Gravure Belge in Antwerp. In 1986 she received the Prize of the 8th Biennale of Engraving of Fredrikstad, Norway. She won in 1988 the Gold Medal at the 2nd Triennial of Mezzotint Engraving of Sopot, Poland. Her prints are included in many private and public collections around the world.
Anne Dykmans taught engraving from 1984 to 2017 at the Constantin Meunier...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
SMS, New York: William Copley. The Letter Edged in Black Press, 1968.
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in New York, NY
SMS, New York: William Copley. The Letter Edged in Black Press, 1968.
Original Cardboard boxes.
A complete set of SMS portfolios volumes 1-6.
Collecti...
Category
1960s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Fountain of Sea Horses, Rome — Early 20th Century
By Rudolph Ruzicka
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rudolph Ruzicka, 'Fountain of Sea Horses, Rome', wood engraving, c. 1915. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Initialed in the block, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on...
Category
1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
The World and Its Surroundings, from the Global Editions Series
By Ed Ruscha
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, torn and deckle edges
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Looking Up Broadway, Again
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph in 6 colors on Rives BFK paper
edition of 75
Category
1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
ANGEL MORE
By Robert Indiana
Located in Portland, ME
Indiana, Robert (American, 1928-2018). ANGEL MORE. Color screenprint, 1977. Edition of 150, signed, dated and numbered 93/100 in pencil. 18 x 14 inches (image), 23 1/2 x 19 1/4 inche...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
The Golden Calf - Nuremberg Chronicle, (528 Years Old)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, 1493
THE GOLDEN CALF (THE CALF OF GOD) 1493
Woodcut. from "Liber Chronicarum." Printed by Anton Koberger text by Hartmann Sc...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
River of Ponds I
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1971, on special Arjomari paper, signed, dated and numbered an AP aside from the edition of 78, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, sheet: 96.5 x 96.5 cm....
Category
1970s Minimalist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Ship Rock
By Norma Bassett Hall
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NORMA BASSETT HALL (1889 - 1957)
SHIP ROCK, c. 1940
Color woodcut signed and numbered in pencil, edition 40 on stiff fibrous paper.
10 x 14 inches, Sheet size 11 1/8 x 15 inches...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Exits II
By Lynn Shaler
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a rare example of Shaler's early work. This piece was exhibited in Associated American Artists' exhibition on the Prints of New York City...
Category
1980s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, (Colors, new tales follow...
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, published in Le Mercure de France
(Colors, new tales follow old things), 1908
Graphite and colored...
Category
1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color Pencil
Hummingbird Lithograph
By John Gould
Located in New York, NY
Gould, John and Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds.
London, 1849-61.
This plate: Orthorhynchus Ornatus.
Original lithographs hand-co...
Category
Mid-19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
The Last Dynasty: Empress
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
Known for paintings based on historical Chinese photographs, Hung Liu's subjects over the years have been prostitutes, refugees, street performers, s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Poppy Pochoir from Relais
By Edouard Benedictus
Located in New York, NY
Benedictus, Edouard.
"Relais."
Plate 14.
Paris, Éditions Vincent, Fréal et Cie, 1930.
Original pochoir, printed by J. Saudé.
Unsigned and unnumbered from an edition of presumabl...
Category
1930s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
FLOWERS - Monotype from 1997 Smithsonian Exhibition
By Karl Yens
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KARL YENS (1868 – 1945)
(FLOWERS) 1919
Color monotype signed, dated and annotated: “monotype 1919.” 17 ½” x 11 ½”
Monotypes are unique works of art that fall between printmaking a...
Category
1810s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Monotype
Soleil Recerclé
By Hans Arp
Located in New York, NY
ARP, Jean. Soleil Recerclé 61 pp. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts plus a signed colour woodcut frontispiece on Rives. 1966. Large folio, 18 1/2 x 14 3/8"( 475 x 380 mm,) loose as iss...
Category
1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
SCHOOLGIRLS
By F. Luis Mora
Located in Portland, ME
Mora, F. Luis (Amwericn, born Uruguay, 1874-1940). UNTITLED (SCHOOLGIRLS). Drawing, pencil on paper. Not dated, but circa 1890-1910. Signed in pencil. 5 x 4 7/8 inches. Framed to 10 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pencil
Brandenburg 2013
By Daniel Kane
Located in New Orleans, LA
In the famous story of the great 19th century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, it is said she was given her first camera by her daughter as a way to occupy her time while her husband was away. In my case, as with so many others, the beginning of the story was equally fortuitous: Knowing I was about to spend a year abroad as an exchange student, my mother gave me my first camera, saying I would probably want to take pictures while I was away. Neither of us realized how important that little Instamatic camera would turn out to be, and now, 47 years and over a hundred thousand images later, I present the different portfolios shown here as a reflection of the work I have made since back then in 1970.
One by one, my favorite films and papers have been driven from the market by digital media, but I remain loyal to this day to analog photography, and the originals of all of these images were made with real film, either color slides...
Category
2010s Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled
By Charles William Smith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Color woodcut, 1939
Unsigned as issued
Signed and dedicated by the artist on the justification page (see photo)
From:
Abstractions By Charles Smith
Forward by Carl O. Schnie...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
'Black Hawk Country' — Early 20th-Century American Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ralph M. Pearson, 'Black Hawk Country', etching, second state, edition not stated, 1912. Signed, and titled in pencil. Inscribed 'Rock River Series Second...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Red Eye
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from a stone using red cosmetic lipstick, printed in black, with hand colouring in raw Sienna and carthame red gouache. On buff Velin Arches mould-made paper (250 gsm)
Han...
Category
Late 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Everybody Pt. 1
By Amy Sillman
Located in New York, NY
Amy Sillman is an influential contemporary American painter and printmaker whose practice conflates the abstract and the figurative. Born in 1955 in Detro...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Arbre-Homme (Tree-Man) —Mid-Century Surrealism
By Ferdinand Springer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ferdinand Springer, 'Arbre-Homme', engraving, 1945, edition 23. Signed and numbered '23/20' in pencil.
A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, b...
Category
1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving
Fat Stock Market
By Clare Leighton
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Clare Leighton, 'Fat Stock Market', 1933, wood engraving, edition 100, Boston Public Library 217. Signed, titled, and numbered '11/100' in pencil. A super...
Category
1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Blue and White Embroidery Design
By Felix Fuzier
Located in New York, NY
Original color Jugendstil design lithograph from "Dessins et Broderies Pour Costum et Ameublement." Paris, 1900.
Category
Early 1900s Jugendstil Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Plate 7 from "Formes et Couleurs"
Located in New York, NY
Plate 7 from "Formes et couleurs; vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs décoratifs" by Auguste H. Thomas. Paris: A. Levy, Librarie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, circa ...
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
HEART
Located in Portland, ME
Wang Ming (Chinese-American, 1921-2016). HEART.Acrylic on paper, 1969. Signed, titled and dated, verso. 21 x 15 5/8, framed to 28 7/8 x 23 1/2. In excellent condition.
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Acrylic
THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN
By Ynez Johnston
Located in Portland, ME
Johnston, Ynez. THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN. Etching in colors printed from two plates, 1981. Edition of 100, numbered 64/100, titled, signed, and dated, all in pencil. 18 x 11 3/4 inches (o...
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
'Search' — Australian Romanticism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Balfour Garrett, 'Search', monotype in colors, c. 1910, a unique impression. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, painterly impression with fresh colors, on off-white, wove ...
Category
1910s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Monotype
'Foul Rope (Left)' — early American rodeo
By William Robinson Leigh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Robinson Leigh, 'Foul Rope (Left)', etching, c. 1920, edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove Umbria paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 14 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (378 x 303 mm); sheet size 20 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (518 x 391 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) became one of the foremost painters of the American West. His career spanning some seventy-five years, Leigh created some of the most iconic depictions of the western landscape, admirers referring to him as ‘The Sagebrush Rembrandt’.
The son of impoverished Southern aristocrats, Leigh took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as the best student in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama.
In 1896, Leigh began working as a magazine illustrator in New York City for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine, and he also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes.
Leigh's trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he made an agreement with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, to paint the Grand Canyon in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting, which led to more commissions and an extensive painting trip through Arizona and New Mexico. These travels inspired him to paint western subjects for the next 50 years, his primary interest being the Hopi and Navajo Indians.
In 1910, he traveled to Wyoming, where he painted in Yellowstone Park and created sketches, many of which he later converted into large canvases such as ‘Lower Falls of the Yellowstone’ (1915) and ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ (1911).
In 1926 he traveled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience wrote and illustrated 'Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa'. In 1933, he wrote and illustrated 'The Western Pony'. His adventures were chronicled in a number of popular magazines including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers.
For many years, his work was handled exclusively in New York by Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel. In 1953 Leigh was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, becoming a full Academician in 1955.
In March 1999, the Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, held an exhibition of his field sketches and finished works depicting his experiences near Cody in the early part of the century. These years, between 1910 and 1921, when he often painted in the Carter Mountain vicinity, were considered pivotal to his artistic development and his devotion to the western landscape.
Leigh's work is held in many museum collections of American western art...
Category
1920s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Lillies and Bowls (still life of flowers and colorful bowls)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The moon, bowls, lillies and birds are featured in this 2002 mezzotint. It is #17 from an edition of 75 and is signed, titled, dated and edition by hand by this Korean artist born i...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Design 102 Fabric Sample Colorways
By Frank Lloyd Wright
Located in New York, NY
Original page from the folio sized salesman samplebook, "Schumacher's Taliesin Line of Decorative Fabrics and Wallpapers Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright." New York, F. Schumacher & Co...
Category
1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Linen, Paper
The Drunkard in Spring —after Gustav Mahler's 'The Song of the Earth'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Paunzen, 'Der Trunkene im Frühling' (The Drunkard in Spring) from the suite 'Song of the Earth', etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1920. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/4 to 4 1/4 inches), in good condition. Image size 12 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches; sheet size 19 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Pauzen’s suite of six etchings 'Das Lied von der Erde' (The Song of the Earth), published in 1920, was inspired by Gustav Mahler...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
114.3 x 70.5 cms (45 x 27.76 ins)
Edition of 50
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Underwater — Mid-century Modern
By Charles Quest
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Underwater', 1948, chiaroscuro wood engraving, edition 12. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '3/12' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, in dark brown and warm black, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/2 inch), in excellent condition. Scarce.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929 and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters.
After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter, to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium, which he learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’
In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later, Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’, were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’, and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’ was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’
At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951.
Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’.
An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Plate V, Le Cocu Magnifique
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate V, Le Cocu Magnifique
Etching, 1968
Unsigned
From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions printed on Rives BFK paper
There is also a signed ed...
Category
1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Fire Island Behavior-Will It Spread to the Mainland?
By Jack Roth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Fire Island Behavior-Will It Spread to the Mainland?
Collage and oil paint on luan board, n.d., c. 1970's
Signed in ink lower center edge (see photo)
Signed with the estate stamp ver...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mixed Media
Wild Garden
By Robert Kushner
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph/diptych, Edition 25.
The artist describes this project:
Two years ago, I had the very good fortune to be invited to paint in the South of France. My studio was an ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Tree at Night
By Werner Drewes
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WERNER DREWES (German-American 1899-1985)
TREE AT NIGHT, 1964 (Rose 241)
Color woodcut Signed titled, dated and numbered 40 /210 all in pencil below image. Image 11 1/8 x 15 7/8 inc...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
'Church with Star' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with Star (Kirche mit Stern)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W265. Annotated 'W 265' (Feininger catalogue number) and inventory no. '2808' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 inches; sheet size 10 1/16 x 7 1/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
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1930s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
The Chrysler Building
By Laurence Winram
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is # 1 of an edition of 30
Laurence Winram is a Scottish photographer based in Edinburgh. His projects are diverse but the work most personally re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photographic Paper
'The Death of Hercules' from 'The Temple of the Muses' — 18th Century Engraving
By Bernard Picart
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Picart, 'The Death of Hercules' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate, lower left. Titled in French, English, German, and Dutch. A superb, rich...
Category
1730s Baroque Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving
Fire Dance (Flambeaux carriers light the path of Endymion parade in New Orleans)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is #109
Mershimer created a color mezzotint of the Mardi Gras scene in mid-city New Orleans. The parade was the Endymion crew marching on Canal Street near Jefferson ...
Category
1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Handel Organ Concerto Opus No. 4 B Flat Major - III Allegro
By Hildegarde Haas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Handel Organ Concerto Opus 4 No.6 B Flat Major - III Allegro
Watercolor and mixed pigments on paper, c. 1960's
Signed and titled recto (see photos)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 19 3/4...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
'The Deluge' from 'The Temple of the Muses' — 18th Century Engraving
By Bernard Picart
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Picart, 'The Deluge' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate and dated
'1730' lower left. Titled in French, English, German, and Dutch. A superb...
Category
1730s Baroque Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving
View of Piazzo San Marco in Venice
By Pierre Van der Aa
Located in New York, NY
Engraving of Veduta della Piazza di S. Marco, verso L'Horologio by Pierre van der Aa. Printed in 1722. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size, 11 x 13 5/8 in. Has the original center crease.
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1720s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
