Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita

Self Portrait With a Cat - Original etching

Pablo PICASSO and Paul LEMAGNY Portrait of Picasso with Woman Head and Faun, 1956 The upper part (portrait of Picasso) is an original etching by Paul Lemagny The lower part (woman head and faun) is an original etching by Pablo Picasso Printed signature in the plate Annotated 9th state and 'Bon à tirer...

Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA The Fortune Teller, 1960 Original woodcut Signature printed in the plate On vellum 37 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) REFERENCES : Catalogue Raisonne Sylvie Buiss...

Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA Self Portrait With Children, 1960 Original woodcut On vellum 37 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) REFERENCES : Catalogue Raisonne Sylvie Buisson #60.109 Excellent ...

Aman Jean Sous les fleurs Original litograph Printed signature in the plate 1897/98 Printed on paper Vélin Size 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12") INFORMATION : Pu...

Bernard BUFFET Selfportrait , 1982 Original lithograph in colors (Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On paper 66 x 52 cm (c. 26 x 21 inch) REFRENCES : Catalogue raiso...

Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA Isabey : Woman with Perfume Bottle Original etching Printed signature in the plate On vellum 52.5 x 38 cm (c. 21 x 15 inch) REFERENCE : Catalog raisonne B...

Artist Unknown Grandma c. 1930 Etching 8 x 5.5 inches, 15.5 x 13 (framed) Hand-signed in pencil lower right (artist name undiscernable)

Emil Orlik (1870-1932), Portrait of Slevogt, etching, 1921, signed in pencil and numbered (27/100) [also signed and dated in the plate], from the presumed edition of 100. In very goo...

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1891-1978), Una (Portrait of a Creole Lady), etching, 1929, signed in pencil lower right, and also inscribed by the artist: “2nd State, GB”. Reference: Flet...

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978), James McBey, etching, 1931, signed in pencil lower right [also signed in the plate, in reverse, lower right just under the borderline, and title...

Three Cocker Spaniels is an original color etching by well known French sports artist Leon Danchin. The three Spaniels are in waiting mode with two lying down and one sitting ...

Bernhard Pankok (1872 Münster - 1943 Baierbrunn), General Wilhelm von Blume, 1915, aquatint etching, 34 x 29.5 cm (sheet size), 26 x 22 cm (plate size), signed in the plate at upper left, in pencil at lower right and dated in pencil at lower left. - At lower left old collection stamp, at the right broad margin with a small spot, otherwise very good condition. About the artwork The 1915 aquatint etching of General Wilhelm von Blume is based on a 1912 oil painting in the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster. A second oil portrait of the general by Pankok is in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. When Pankok painted the first oil portrait in 1912, the general had already been retired for 16 years. It is therefore a retrospective portrait. Accordingly, the orientation of his head is such that he is looking back in both the oil painting and the etching. Without fixing on anything in particular, he looks thoughtfully inwards and reflects on his life. Uniformed and highly endowed, it is his military activities in particular that he is reviewing attentively and, as his gaze reveals, quite critically. Pankok has literally written the sum of his experiences on Wilhelm von Blume's face: The physiognomy is a veritable landscape of folds, furrows, ridges and gullies, all the more striking against the flat background. It is clear that each of the medals was also won through suffering. However, by breaking the boundaries of the picture, his bust appears as an unshakable massif, which gives the general a stoic quality. The fact that the design of the portrait was important to Pankok can be seen from the different versions, the present sheet being the third and probably final revision, which Pankok dates precisely to 18 February 1915. Compared with the previous state, the light background now has a dark area against which the sitter's face stands out, the dark background in turn combining with the uniform to create a new tension in the picture. Pankok's taking up of the portrait of the high-ranking military veteran and its graphic reproduction can also be seen in relation to the First World War, which had broken out in the meantime. In the face of modern weapons of mass destruction, Wilhelm von Blume's warfare and military writings were relics of a bygone, more value-oriented era. About the artist After studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1889 to 1891 under Heinrich Lauenstein, Adolf Schill, Hugo Crola, and Peter Janssen the Elder, Bernhard Pankok went to Munich in 1892, where he worked primarily as a graphic artist for the two major Jugendstil magazines "Pan" and "Jugend," which established his artistic success. Through this work he met Emil Orlik, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. In 1897, he exhibited his first furniture, and in 1898, together with Richard Riemerschmid, Bruno Paul and Hermann Obrist...