Printer's Ink Animal Prints

Mid-century modern abstract serigraph with three birds by Howard Bradford (Canadian, 1919-2008), 1955. This limited edition horizontal abstract print features three white birds in an...

Mid 20th Century colour offset lithograph, after Picasso, on watermarked Arches wove paper. Carrying the embossed stamp for 'Editions Combat Pour La Paix, Copyright S.P.A.D.E.M. Paris'. Produced, aside from the edition of 200 signed and numbered impressions, in an edition of unknown, but presumably very large size, and at an unknown date to raise funds for the Peace movement under the direction of Picasso who painted the original design and then, as in previous and subsequent years donated it to the Peace movement. The image includes his characteristic 'dove', an emblem of peace but also a memento of his childhood, his friendship with Matisse who gave him a dove as a present and his daughter Paloma...

Graceful mid-century Japanese wood-cut print of two horses by Sonan Noda (Japanese, 20th Century). Signed on upper right corner with artist's chop and previous owner's chop. Presented in a black painted wood frame under glass. Image: 16"L x 12"H. 1952 Mare and Colt...

After Pablo Picasso 'la Colombe Bleue', Dove of Peace lithograph' from his series 'combat pour la paix ' signed and dated in the plate 28/12/1961. The ra...

Andy Warhol limited edition hand-coloured offset lithograph of pink 'Sam Sam' mother and kitten, 1954, with in addition, rare signed frontispiece showing copy 69 of 190. (Feldman Schellmann iv. 55) Provenance: Milt Weiner, New York, from the artist. His sale Christies, New York, October 2013 part of lot 447. Sims Reed Gallery, London. Acquired from them, to present, Grosvenor Family Collection. In the 1950s, long before he had invented himself as pop art’s pioneer, Andy Warhol was making ends meet by working as a freelance children’s book illustrator for Doubleday. Still, he was unable to escape poverty. When his mother, Julia Warhola — an artist herself and one of history’s unsung champions behind creative icons — found out about her son’s destitute conditions in 1952, she boarded a bus from Pittsburgh to New York and moved into Andy’s tiny apartment on East 75th Street, intent on taking care of him and helping him get by. The two shared a love of cats so strong that their squalid home was populated by a multitude of felines, all but one named Sam; the sole outlier, Julia’s most beloved companion, was named Hester. But in addition to cat-rearing, the mother-son cohabitation inevitably led to a series of creative collaborations and an adventure of self-publishing. Warhol created colourful lithographs of the felines in his spare time and in 1954, Andy and Julia released a limited-edition artist’s book ungrammatically titled '25 Cats Name Sam...