Mary Cassatt

Quietude

1891

Original etching printed in black ink on laid paper bearing a “Foolscap with Five-Pointed Collar” watermark (Ash/Fletcher 19.I.b; Hinterding 2006 I.a.a). Signed in the plate with ...

A fine 17th century/lifetime impression of Bartsch’s second state of three, Usticke's third state of four, New Hollstein’s fourth state of six, of this scarce etching. printed after ...

Original lithograph printed in olive-green ink on wove paper. Signed on the stone with the artists monogram device lower right. A fine, impression of Wittrock and Adriani’s on...

Original etching printed in black ink on wove paper bearing the Arches script watermark. Signed and dated in the plate lower left Matisse / 45 A fine impression of the definitive state, from the edition of 25 stamp numbered in the margin lower right, (there was one trial proof and six artist’s proofs printed at the same time in 1966), also bearing the artist’s monogram stamp in the margin lower right. Catalog: Duthuit-Matisse 268; Fribourg 344; Duthuit Illustrated Books 12. 13 15/16 x 10 15/16 inches Sheet Size: 20 7/8 x 15 3/4 inches In excellent condition, printed on a sheet with full margins. This etching was commissioned by Marguerite and Jacques Maret, founders of the bibliographic society Le Gerbier, Paris, in 1945 to be part of an album titled Alternance which was comprised of sixteen etchings by Jean-Emilé Laboureur, Edouard Goerg, Jean Cocteau, Marie Laurencin, André Lhote, Hermine David, H. de Waroquier, Jacques Villon, Valentine Hugo...

Original lithograph printed in black ink on China paper. Signed on the stone with the artist’s butterfly monogram upper center. A superb, richly printed impression of Spink’s only state From the edition of unknown size printed by Lemercier, Paris (apart from the posthumous edition of 58 printed by Goulding in 1904). Catalog: Spink 169; Levy 129; Way 151 Collections in which impressions from this edition can be found: Art Institute of Chicago (4 impressions); Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow (1 impression); British Museum, London (1 impression); Freer Art Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1 impression); National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1 impression); University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (1 impression); Boston Public Library (1 impression); Museum of Fine Art, Boston (1 impression); Cleveland Museum of Art (1 impression); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2 impressions); Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco (1 impression) . “The Shoemaker” was one of the first lithographs that Whistler made after his acrimonious break with his London printers, the Ways. It was entitled “The Shoemaker, Dieppe” by Rosalind Birnie Philip in her 1903 inventory of the artist’s estate, and indeed it does seem to have been drawn during a period when Whistler was making frequent Channel crossings...

Signed on the stone lower right Steinlen, also bearing the artist’s printed monogram in the same area. A superb impression of Bargiel & Zagrodzki’s first version of this rare poster...

Elegant pair of etchings by Marie Laurencin (French 1883-1956) from the "Poemes de Sapho" published in 1950 ref. 273. Each beautifully mounted in fram...

Original Vintage Poster, issued 1987 by the ETH in Zurich on the occasion of its exhibition on Le Corbusier's difficult relation with his native country, using a photograph taken 193...

A poster by Erik Nitsche advertising General Dynamics' exhibition "Dynamic America" held 1961 at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York where the company promoted its achievements. Pictured is William Woodnut Griscom, an American inventor who founded the Electro Dynamic Company in 1880, based in Philadelphia. Griscom patented the world's first double induction motor, and his electric drive powered the the first trolley system in Washington D. C. In 1899 Electro Dynamic became Electric Boat...

Original Swiss Vintage Exhibition Poster (screenprint by Albin Uldry, Bern) on the occasion of Lichtenstein's show 1968 at the Kunsthalle Bern, curated...

The Don: One of the most recognizable figures in poster history ever, quietly reveling in the simple delights of a glass of ruby port – typically thought of as a horseman, clad in a ...

Original Vintage Poster by the Austrian artist Ferdinand Ludwig Graf, a member of the Hagenbund. This Viennese artist association moved as soon a...