Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

Joseph Fleischmann, 'Whaling' (Hartingers Wandtafeln: Zoologie T. XXXII), monumental vintage color lithograph, 1900. Signed in the matrix, lower right. A superb, beautifully nuanced ...

Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA Cat, 1927 Original woodcut Handsigned with ink Numbered /160 Bears the blind stamp of the editor (Lugt 1140a) On Vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 inch) R...

Medium: original woodcut. Signed in pencil. Catalogue reference: Hofmaier 282 IV BB. Printed in Germany in 1923 for the very rare Kunst der Gegenwart portfolio, published in Munich by Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., with the Marées-Gesellschaft blindstamp in the margin. The printer was Fritz Voigt, of Berlin. This impression is one of 220 printed on cream wove paper from a total edition of 300 (consisting of 220 on wove and 80 on japon paper). The image measures 13 3/4 x 13 inches (350 x 331 mm); the total sheet measures 20 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (520 x 472 mm) with full original margins and deckle edges. In very good condition; with minor creasing near the edges of the sheet and a tiny pinhole in the space above the figure's right eye (hardly visible). This is one of several portraits of a mysterious woman called "Naila" that were done by Max Beckmann. It is now known that Naila was Dr. Hildegard Melms, and that Beckmann had an affair with her in 1923, the same year he executed this print. This important German Expressionist woodcut...

Brooklyn Waterfront Lithograph, 1931 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist Edition: Undetermined (very small), plus artist's proofs Printed by Meister Schulz, Berlin Provenance: Estate of the artist Virginia Dehn, the artist's widow Dehn Quests Bibliography: Lumsdaine and O'Sullivan 152 Illustrated: Adams, The Sensuous Life of Adolf Dehn, Fig. 9.14, page 213 (This impression) Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968 Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art. In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art. If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques. Early Years, 1895-1922 For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs. In many ways Dehn’s later artistic achievement was clearly a reaction against the grinding rural poverty of his childhood. After graduating from high school in 1914 at the age of 19—an age not unusual in farming communities at the time, where school attendance was often irregular—Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art from 1914 to 1917, whose character followed strongly reflected that of its director, Munich-trained Robert Kohler, an artistic conservative but a social radical. There Dehn joined a group of students who went on to nationally significant careers, including Wanda Gag (later author of best-selling children’s books); John Flanagan (a sculptor notable for his use of direct carving) Harry Gottlieb (a notable social realist and member of the Woodstock Art Colony), Elizabeth Olds (a printmaker and administrator for the WPA), Arnold Blanch (landscape, still-life and figure painter, and member of the Woodstock group), Lucille Lunquist, later Lucille Blanch (also a gifted painter and founder of the Woodstock art colony), and Johan Egilrud (who stayed in Minneapolis and became a journalist and poet). Adolf became particularly close to Wanda Gag (1893-1946), with whom he established an intense but platonic relationship. Two years older than he, Gag was the daughter of a Bohemian artist and decorator, Anton Gag, who had died in 1908. After her husband died, Wanda’s mother, Lizzi Gag, became a helpless invalid, so Wanda was entrusted with the task of raising and financially supporting her six younger siblings. This endowed her with toughness and an independent streak, but nonetheless, when she met Dehn, Wanda was Victorian and conventional in her artistic taste and social values. Dehn was more socially radical, and introduced her to radical ideas about politics and free love, as well as to socialist publications such as The Masses and The Appeal to Reason. Never very interested in oil painting, in Minneapolis Dehn focused on caricature and illustration--often of a humorous or politically radical character. In 1917 both Dehn and Wanda won scholarships to attend the Art Students League, and consequently, in the fall of that year both moved to New York. Dehn’s art education, however, ended in the summer of 1918, shortly after the United States entered World War I, when he was drafted to serve in the U. S. Army. Unwilling to fight, he applied for status as a conscientious objector, but was first imprisoned, then segregated in semi-imprisonment with other Pacifists, until the war ended. The abuse he suffered at this time may well explain his later withdrawal from taking political stands or making art of an overtly political nature. After his release from the army, Dehn returned to New York where he fell under the spell of the radical cartoonist Boardman Robinson and produced his first lithographs. He also finally consummated his sexual relationship with Wanda Gag. The Years in Europe: 1922-1929 In September of 1921, however, he abruptly departed for Europe, arriving in Paris and then moving on to Vienna. There in the winter of 1922 he fell in love with a Russian dancer, Mura Zipperovitch, ending his seven-year relationship with Wanda Gag. He and Mura were married in 1926. It was also in Vienna that he produced his first notable artistic work. Influenced by European artists such as Jules Pascin and Georg Grosz, Dehn began producing drawings of people in cafes, streets, and parks, which while mostly executed in his studio, were based on spontaneous life studies and have an expressive, sometimes almost childishly wandering quality of line. The mixture of sophistication and naiveté in these drawings was new to American audiences, as was the raciness of their subject matter, which often featured pleasure-seekers, prostitutes or scenes of sexual dalliance, presented with a strong element of caricature. Some of these drawings contain an element of social criticism, reminiscent of that found in the work of George Grosz, although Dehn’s work tended to focus on humorous commentary rather than savagely attacking his subjects or making a partisan political statement. Many Americans, including some who had originally been supporters of Dehn such as Boardman Robinson, were shocked by these European drawings, although George Grocz (who became a friend of the artist in this period) admired them, and recognized that Dehn could also bring a new vision to America subject matter. As he told Dehn: “You will do things in America which haven’t been done, which need to be done, which only you can do—as far at least as I know America.” A key factor in Dehn’s artistic evolution at this time was his association with Scofield Thayer, the publisher of the most notable modernist art and poetry magazine...

A lookout starkly rendered in the art deco style straddles the mast of a ship as he surveys the landscape. Rockwell Kent's wood engraving issued in 1930 in an edition of 120. it is ...

The Black Silk Dress. 1927. Etching. Fletcher catalog 58 state .ix (published state). 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 (sheet 14 1/2 x 9 1/8). Edition 76 in this state; total 111 proofs). Exhibited at...

Medium: etching (etched by William Bicknell after Winslow Homer's 1896 painting). Although there is no inscription, it is presumed to have been published in 1906 by the John A. Lowel...

Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Death and Life, painted in 1908. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und St...

Medium: original woodcut. Printed in 1920 for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition of 500. Catalogue refere...

Self Portrait. 1920. Etching and drypoint. Dodgson 138. 6 1/8 x 5 (sheet 13 1/4 x 11). Edition 105. A rich impression with plate tone, printed on cream wove paper. Slight toning in ...

Medium: original woodcut. Printed in Germany in 1917 for Die Aktion; this impression is from the deluxe edition of 100 on Bütten laid paper. Catalogue reference: Schapire 202. Image ...

Boris Lovet-Lorski, 'Untitled (Profile of a Black Woman)', lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 14 in pencil. Number 14 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publishe...

Boris Lovet-Lorski, 'Untitled (Black Woman Crouching)', lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 16 in pencil. Number 16 of Volume 2, a series of...

Signed in pencil below the image by the artist. Blind stamps of etching societies lower left just under the image. Frederick Farrell was a Scottish etcher specializing in architectu...

Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Profile of an African Woman), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 15 in pencil. Number 15 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publish...

Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Portrait of an African Woman), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 13 in pencil. Number 13 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publis...

The original Jungfrau Railway poster, created by Swiss artist Émile Cardinaux in 1928, is a masterpiece of Swiss design. Cardinaux, who was born in Swi...

Artist's proof, hand signed by the Artist. Excellent conditions.

Color lithograph after the watercolor illustrations by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from his beloved masterpiece "The Little Prince". This lithograph was printed and published in 2009 ...

Color lithograph after the watercolor illustrations by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from his beloved masterpiece "The Little Prince". This lithograph was printed and published in 2009 ...

Color lithograph after the watercolor illustrations by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from his beloved masterpiece "The Little Prince". This lithograph was printed and published in 2009 ...

Color lithograph after the watercolor illustrations by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from his beloved masterpiece "The Little Prince". This lithograph was printed and published in 2009 ...

Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Nude Dancer in Modernist Stage-setting), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 20 in pencil. Number 20 of Volume ...

Louis Lozowick, 'Backyards of Broadway ( Waterfront I )', lithograph, 1926, edition 10, Flint 7. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on BFK Rives off-white, wove paper...

Original vintage drink advertising poster by the renowned poster artist Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942) for the Italian alcoholic aperitif drink "Campari" Davide Campari & Co. Milano....

A Spanish Good Friday (Ronda). 1925. Drypoint. Dodgson catalog 412 state xxix. Image: 12 1/2 x 8 1/8 (sheet 16 3/4 x 12). Edition 160 in 29 states. Illustrated: Zigrosser: Six Centuries of Fine Prints. A rich impression with velvety drypoint burr. Printed on smooth simili-Japan paper with full margins. Signed in pencil by Bone. Housed in a 22 1/4 x 15 1/2-inch period gold leaf frame. This is one of Bone's most dramatic images. The night shadows...

Medium: original etching and drypoint. Catalogue reference: Seeber 194. This impression on japon paper is annotated "trial proof" and pencil-signed and titled in the margin, with George Burr's monogram signature. The published edition consisted of 40 numbered impressions. Plate size: 6 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (175 x 250 mm). American Impressionist George Elbert Burr is best known for Southwestern Art...

Schwabe 72. 14 x 10 5/8 (sheet 20 1/2 x 14 5/8). Edition 67,#31. A rich impression printed on the full sheet of Japanese mulberry paper. Signed and numbered in pencil.

Kaus, Max. BADENDE MANNER: (THREE MALE BATHERS AT THE SHORE). Lithograph, c. 1924. Signed, lower left, in pencil, and numbered 6-10, further inscribed, lo...

Dufresne, Charles. LE MARIN. Etching, colored with pochoir, 1923. 12 15/16 x 15 5/8 inches (315 x 400 mm.). Edition of 40. Signed, titled and numbered in pe...

The Plumed Hat. c.1912. Drypoint. 10 7/8 x 7 7/8 . A rich impression printed with drypoint burr on cream paper with full margins. Extensive pencil additions. Unsigned. The brimmed ha...

The Trawler. 1926. Etching. Hurst 176. 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 (sheet 11 3/8 x 15 3/4). Edition 75, #71. Mat line outside the image; otherwise excellent condition.A fine impression with plate tone, printed on antique cream laid paper. Signed and numbered in ink. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing. In 1899 Briscoe acquired a studio in Malden, Essex, and bought a 3 ton cutter which, with his young family, he would spend eight or nine months a year, sailing to Calais, along the Belgian coast and through the Dutch waterways, constantly sketching and painting in both oil and watercolor. In 1922, after a meeting with the etcher James McBey, Briscoe returned to etching once more producing plates of some of his sea sketches. The two artists sailed together in Briscoe's, forty-ton yacht, the "Golden Vanity...

Original Saxoleine Petrole de Surete, artist Jules Cheret. Linen-backed turn-of-the-century original stone lithograph poster advertising Saxoleine, a lamp oil. The glow from this l...

Interior with a red shawl conveys a quite different mood and feeling: one of calm, and suspension of time. Here the suggestion is that the woman is waiting ...

FRANCES H. GEARHART and Sisters (THE GEARHARTS) FRUIT FOR SALE c.1928 Color block print. Unsigned. This is an original block print from “Let’s Play”, an intended but unpublished children’s book done in collaboration with her sisters Edna and May in 1928. Image 8 x 7 inches. On a tissue thin laid paper. Irregular sheet 9 3/8 x 8 1/2. The entire series consisted of over 20 children's images. There were very few printed. The editions of the various children varied but likely no more than 50. This impression very well printed with good colors, Very good condition. The margins are likely as issued with the irregular edges. The margins and paper used for this series varies from one print to the next. A bit of tape remnants at top center sheet edge. A very nice example of this print. It is not unusual for impressions of this series to be unsigned, although many are signed "The Gearharts" The Provenance of this example is fascinating. It was acquired from a gentleman who knew the Gearharts as a child in the early 50's in Pasadena. It was part of a collection given to him by Frances. In his adult years he was in the military and took the collection with him as he traveled around Europe, After 81 years, based on the original prints, this book was published by the “California Book...

Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, 1899-1991) 'Perro Prehispánico', 1990 lithograph on paper 34.5 x 26.8 in. (87.6 x 67.9 cm.) Edition of 45 Unframed

Original vintage travel advertising poster for Cunard Line Europe-America featuring a stunning illustration by Samuel John Milton Brown (1873-1965) of a four funnel Cunard Line cruis...

Original Alphonse Mucha decorative panel. Linen backed in very good condition A-/B+ condition. This lovely poster looks just like an oil painting. It is a rare design by Alphonse ...

John Sloan (1871-1954), Barbershop, 1915, etching and aquatint, signed in pencil lower right, inscribed in pencil “For John Quinn, Esq. – John Sloan” lower left margin, (also signed ...

Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) (1892-1990) 'Manhattan Mary IV' Serigraph (Silk screen print) (Artist's Proof IL/L) Signed in pencil 70 x 56cm (sheet) 41.5 x 3...

Artist: Jacques Villon (after Amadeo Modigliani) Title: L'Italienne Year: 1926 - 1927 Medium: Color aquatint etching, signed Modigliani in the plate; signed in pencil by Villon uppe...

Original antique men's fashion advertising poster for Marke PKZ Burger Kehl & Co features a great design by Stephan Krotowski (1881-1948) depicting a well dressed man wearing a long ...

Sybil Andrews, 'Hostellerie des Chiens du Guet', color monotype, c. 1925; edition 2, proof 1. Signed 'Sybil Andrews pinx et imp' and titled in pencil. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on heavy cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (5/8 to 1 3/4 inches). Printed by the artist. The artist’s original archival mounting tape remains in the four sheet corners, recto (well away from the image), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. A unique impression. Image size 8 15/16 x 11 15/16 inches (227 x 303 mm); sheet size 12 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (311 x 394 mm). ABOUT THIS WORK In addition to her almost 80 celebrated modernist color linocuts, Sybil Andrews also worked in the monotype technique. She typically produced two or three impressions (or pulls) from each hand-painted plate, each proof unique in its qualities of color values and vibrancy. In 1933, Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power had an exhibition of their color monotypes and linocuts at the Redfern Gallery. Most of Andrews' monotypes were destroyed by a fire in an Ottawa gallery in 1959, and they now rarely come to the market. ABOUT THE IMAGE The Hostellerie des Chiens du Guet is a small hotel at the edge of...

A very fine copy of "Les Bars," an album of ten original etchings by the master Lobel-Riche, representing fashionable women in various Parisian social settings. This album, part of a...

Kornfeld 56. 50 published with the book Expressionismus Die Kunstwende, 1918, in addition to 54 earlier impressions. Signed and titled in pencil in bottom margin under image.

La Tombe du Pére or The Father's Grave is a wonderful and rare dry-point, hand-signed in pencil on the lower right margin and hand-numbered on the lower left margin by Marc Chagall. ...

FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869 – 1958) RED ROCK CANYON ca 1936 Color block print. Signed and titled in pencil. 10 x 11” on fibrous paper, sheet 13 3/8 x 15...

Not numbered. Note in pencil lower left with the Artist's name (not his signature). 3rd and finale State: Following Strölin's cancellation, with a small hole at top and bottom. Pr...

"Le Retour du Fils Prodigue I" is an original hand-signed and numbered lithograph realized by Giorgio de Chirico in 1929 on vélin filigrané Arches. The artwork is an edition of 100 ...

Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: Salomon 27. This lithograph was executed by K X Roussel in homage to Paul Cezanne, printed in 1914 and published in Paris by Bernhei...

Signed in pencil below the image by the artist. Blind stamps of etching societies lower left just under the image. Frederick Farrell was a Scottish etcher specializing in architectu...

A modernist lithograph by American artist Stuart Davis. In this cityscape of Paris he begins to show his inclinations towards Cubism, with the slightly skewed perspective and the fla...

Pochoir. This is one of the artworks in the portfolio 'Le Bonheur du Jour', by George Barbier. Passepartout included : 49 x 34 cm Image Dimensions : 31.5 x 20.5 cm This artwork is s...

Moody, mysterious, majestic – these are some of the ways to describe the mezzotints of Frederick Mershimer. His images travel through the serenity of a Brooklyn neighborhood on a sti...

Hand Signed. Edition of 100 prints (plus 100 not signed). From the series “Les Fables de La Fontaine”, realized by Chagall between 1952 Image Dimensions : 30 x 24 cm Ref. Cramer 2...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for Red Star Line featuring stunning artwork by Charles Edward Dixon (1872-1934) of the SS Pennland cruise shi...

From the Series “Métamorphoses”, one of the most important graphic works of the founder of the “Metafisica” Movement. Original colour etching numbered and signed by the artist, reali...

Image dimensions: 16.5x10 cm Signed on plate by the artist. Bibliography: A.Baboni, L’Ottocento: le incisioni di Giovanni Fattori, Museo Civico “Giovanni Fattori”, Livorno 2001, p. 7...