International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
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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UNTITLED
By Ynez Johnston
Located in Portland, ME
Johnston, Ynez (American, 1920-2019). UNTITLED. Color woodcut, not dated. Edition size, if any, not known. Inscriibed "Trial Proof" in the left margin, and signed in pencil in the lo...
Category
Mid-20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
THE NEW FRENCH TOOLS 5 - BOULEVARD VICTOR DOUBLE SKY.
By Jim Dine
Located in Portland, ME
Dine, Jim. THE NEW FRENCH TOOLS 5 - BOULEVARD VICTOR DOUBLE SKY. D;Oench and Feinberg 175. Etching and aquatint and electric tools on two plates, with hand ...
Category
1980s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, ...
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, the taste of bitterness)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922
Unsigned as issued
From: Miserere (Have Mercy), 58 plates
Plate 15
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure
1922-1927
Edition: 425 on Arches vellum with the Ambrose Vollard watermark
25 Hors commerce portfolios
All published impression are unsigned, as issued
Signed and numbered only on the colophon
Published by Societe d’Editions l’Etoile Filante, Paris, 1948
Printer: Jacquemin, Paris, 1922-1927
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 19 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches
Reference: Chapon & Rouault 68 d/d
Flora and Kang cite Lamentations 3:18-23 as a possible verbal equivalent: "my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; so I say, ‘Gone is my glory, and all that I had hoped for from the Lord.’ The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall! My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me."
Rouault’s Miserere...
Category
1920s French School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint
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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
TOD UND FRAU (DEATH AND WOMAN)
By Käthe Kollwitz
Located in Portland, ME
Kollwitz, Kathe. TOD UND FRAU (DEATH AND WOMAN). Knesebeck 107, State VII; Klipstein 103. Line etching, drypoint, sandpaper, soft ground with imprint of granulated tone paper and Zie...
Category
1910s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
U is for Unusual People, from Alphabet Series
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category
1990s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
MOBY DICK
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Portland, ME
Kent, Rockwell, illustrator. MOBY DICK by Herman Melville. .Lakeside Press, 1930. The Artist and the Book, 140. Edition of 1000 copies. First edition thus. Three volumes, quarto, 279, 284, and 282pp. 280 illustrations by Kent after his ink and wash drawings, except that the title pages of each volume are prints made from copper-plate engravings by Kent. In the original aluminum slipcase. In excellent condition.
Jo Mielziner...
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1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Black and White
W is for Wrestler, from Alphabet Series
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category
1990s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Cucumber Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Original watercolor by Nan Dedrick. Signed in pencil along the lower right edge of the main cucumber. Dedrick is a botanical artist who was a founding member of Art Botanica. This g...
Category
Early 2000s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
White Fronted Geese Flying above Reeds and Water.
By Ohara Koson
Located in Storrs, CT
White-Fronted Geese Flying above Reeds and Water. c. 1933. Shikishiban: 10 10/16 x 9 1/16 (sheet 10 14/16 x 9 12/16). Signed and sealed Shoson. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Illustrated: Crows, Cranes & Camellias, S11.6, p. 197. Stamped "made in Japan" verso, indicating that it was printed for the United States after 1921. A fine impression with subtle shading and gauffrauge in the 2 large birds' feathers. Based on the body markings, these actually appear to be mallard ducks, not geese. Good olor and condition Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat.
Koson Ohara...
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Early 20th Century Showa International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color, Woodcut
Victorian Butterfly Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Original watercolor from a Victorian album by an unknown artist. English, circa 1860.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
LAST MOMENTS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
Located in Santa Monica, CA
J. F. BUFFORD PUBLISHER and PRINTER
LAST MOMENTS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, April 15, 1865
Lithograph, very good impression. The 2 lower publishing lines ...
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1860s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
DUELO (Duel)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCISCO MORA (1922 - 2002)
DUELO (Duel) c. 1945
Lithograph signed in pencil. Published by the TGP Taller de Grafica Popular. Label on verso. 9 5/8 x...
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1940s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Silhouette of Rembrandt
Located in New York, NY
Silhouette lithograph by an unknown artist, circa 1910. Presented in a cream archival mat with an opening of 4.5"L x 3.25"W.
Category
Early 20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Beetle Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Seba, Albertus.
Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historiam.
Amsterdam, Wetsten, Smith, Jans...
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Mid-18th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Laid Paper
PERU
By Johannes Jansson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOHANNES JANSSON (1588 - 1664)
PERU, engraving with early coloring. Platemark 15 1/8 x 19 3/8 inches, sheet 17 x 20 1/2
A nice example of one of the earliest maps of Peru. From the ...
Category
1630s Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
FARMHOUSE WITH YELLOW FIELDS
By Junichiro Sekino
Located in Portland, ME
Sekino, Junchiro (Jaoanese, 1914-1988), FARMHOUSE WITH YELLOW FIELDS. Color Woodblock, not dated. Signed, Lower right. 13 3/8 x 19 inches, framed to 20 x 25 inches. In excellent cond...
Category
Mid-20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
STREET ACAPULCO
By Joseph Pennell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSEPH PENNELL (1857 - 1926)
STREET ACAPULCO 1901-08. Color pastel and gouache drawing on blue paper. Signed and titled in pencil in his early signature. Image, 10 x 14 inches to j...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Gouache
Central Park Night
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Central Park Night
Lithograph, 1946
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled, lower center
Number lower left (see photo)
Edition: 40, plus trial proofs (23/40)
This image depi...
Category
1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bengal Monitor and Iguana Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Seba, Albertus.
Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historiam.
Amsterdam, Wetsten, Smith, Jans...
Category
Mid-18th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Laid Paper
Hagoromo - Noh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Matsuno Sofu (1899-1963), 'Hagoromo - Noh', woodblock print, 1937. Signed 'Sofu' with the artist's seal, lower right. A fine impression, with fresh color...
Category
1930s Showa International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
'Peking - Paifang Gate' — Mid-Century Watanabe Color Woodcut
By Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge, 'Peking '25', woodblock print, published 1926. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'No 124' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh, undiminished colors; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Watanabe 6 mm seal, lower right, indicating an impression printed between 1945 and 1957. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 9 5/8 x 14 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 7/16 x 15 3/8 inches.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
A 'paifang', also known as a 'pailou', is a traditional style of Chinese architectural arch or gateway structure. It has been theorized that the paifang gate architecture was influenced by Buddhist torana temple gates. Paifang are designed with traditional Chinese architectural motifs including multi-tiered roofs, prominent supporting posts, and gracefully arched openings.
This is an unusual ukiyo-e or 'floating world' woodcut published by Watanabe Shozaburo, Tokyo, in that the subject is of an early 20th-century scene in Peking, China.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cyrus Leroy Baldridge...
Category
1920s Showa International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Le Fondeur Paris [Steel Worker]
By Eugène Carrière
Located in New York, NY
Carriere, Eugene. Le Fondeur, Paris 1900 [Steel Worker], Color lithograph.
Ref: Das Fruhe Plakat 134. 51 x 34 3/4 inches.
Eugène Anatole Ca...
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Early 1900s Symbolist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
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Y is for Yacht, from Alphabet Series
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category
1990s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 V. Inscribed 'J. F. note paper', in pencil, in the artist’s hand; with the Feininger estate stamp and catalog no. 'W 859' in pencil. Annotated 'W.290 V state 3609' 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 3/4 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 5/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; NY, NY.
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. Still, 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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
AMERICAE - Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
By Abraham Ortelius
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ABRAHAM ORTELIUS (1527 - 1598)
AMERICAE SIVE NOVI ORBIS, NOVA DESCRIPTIO, 1587 (1603) (Van Den Broecke 11, Burden 64; Schwartz & Ehrenberg 69)
Engraving. A very good, well printed...
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16th Century Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Moon ( from the artist's Lunar Series)
By Ted Kincaid
Located in New Orleans, LA
An image from Kincaid lunar series. An edition of 10
Over the course of three decades, Ted Kincaid has systematically subverted the notion of an objective photographic record and examined the play between painting and photography. Kincaid has created multiple series...
Category
2010s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Film, Digital
UNTITLED
By George Hoehn
Located in Portland, ME
Hoehn, George (American, 1935 - ?) UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Gouache on heavy wove paper, 1967. Signed and dated, lower right. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (image), 15 x 11 inches (sheet). In ex...
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1960s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Gouache
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches
Regarding the Maine subject matter of her watercolors, we know that Allen taught art in West Gouldsboro, ME, located near Arcadia National Forest. This watercolor was most probably done in that vicinity.
A local Maine newsletter mentions “the artist Greta Allen’s house...
Category
1940s American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
'Pulitzer Fountain, Evening" — 1940s American Modernism, New York City
By Ellison Hoover
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ellison Hoover, 'Pulitzer Fountain, Evening', lithograph, circa 1940, edition c. 40. Signed in pencil. A fine, atmospheric impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 4 5/16 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (318 x 244 mm); sheet size 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (413 x 311 mm).
ABOUT THE SUBJECT
The Pulitzer fountain was commissioned as a bequest by Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and founder of the Columbia School of Journalism. Designed by Austrian sculptor Karl Bitter...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
S is for Sumo, from Alphabet Series
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category
1990s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled (Reclining nude, face down)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Reclining nude, face down)
Lithograph, 1944
Signed and dated lower right in pencil
Image size: 8 13/16 x 11 7/8 inches
Sheet Size: 11 1/8 x 18 3/4 inches
Condition: Aging ...
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1940s Art Deco International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Rio Osmarin (boats on the canal Rio de S. Provolo o de l'Osmarin, Venice)
By Judith Rothchild
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rio Osmarin shows boats on the canal Rio de S. Provolo o de l'Osmarin in Venice) It was created in 2006 and this impression is #31 of 75 It is signed, titled, numbered and dated by...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
The Get Up (Plate 1 of 4)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Get Up (Plate 1 of 4)
Watercolor on Yupo mounted to board, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Series: The Get Up (4 plates)
Exhibited: Occup...
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2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Symbiosis
By Paolo Ciampini
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is signed and numbered in an edition of 50
Paolo Ciampini was born in Montopoli in Val d'Arno in 1941. After graduating from the Art Institute of Cascina (Pisa) in ...
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1990s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Holiday Pine Cones
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Holiday wreath adorns the door of a Brooklyn Mansion
Frederick Mershimer (American, b. 1958)
Moody, mysterious, majestic – these are some of the ways to describe the mezzotint...
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1990s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Night and Branches
By Claire Sherman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
The dense, tangled, and undulating forms of spaces and plants in Claire Sherman’s recent bodies of work address some of the complicated new environment...
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2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Squid Print
By Mathurin Meheut
Located in New York, NY
Plate number 11,Calmar (Loligo vulgaris) from "Étude de la Mer" by Mathurin Meheut. Heliochrome print. Paris, Éditions Albert Levy, 1924.
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1920s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
PENNY ARCADE - MISERIA
Located in Portland, ME
Penny Arcade (American, born 1950).
LA MISERIA POSTER.
Photo offset poster, circa 1991.
22 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches, mounted to paper and backed with cloth ...
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1990s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Offset
Statue-Fisherboy
By Jane Martin VonBosse
Located in Storrs, CT
Statue-Fisherboy 1967. Linoleum cut. 9 1/2 x 7 5/8 (sheet 13 x 10 5/8). Edition 16, #16. A fine impression printed on Japanese mulberry paper. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. ...
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1960s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Linocut
G is for Girl, from Alphabet Series
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category
1990s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Do It Yourself
By Gunter Uecker
Located in London, GB
Hammer and two nails on wood board, 1930, signed in pencil, from an unknown edition size, published by Edition VICE-Versand, Remscheid, Germany, overall sizes: 34 x 16.5 x 7.8 cm. (1...
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1930s Op Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Wood
'Flyable Objects Identified' —Mid-Century Modern
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Flyable Objects Identified', color serigraph, 1969, edition 30, Ryan 83. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 30' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, o...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
BROWN TROUT
By Neil Welliver
Located in Portland, ME
Welliver, Neil. BROWN TROUT. Etching and aquatint, 1978. Edition of 50. Signed and numbered 16/50, and signed in pencil. 26 1/2 x 36 13/16 inches (sheet). ...
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1970s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Shipping
By Kerr Eby
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Kerr Eby 'Shipping' also 'Shipping, Connecticut', etching and sandpaper ground, 1932, edition 100, Giardina 171. Signed in pencil and titled 'Shipping' in the bottom left sheet edge. A superb, atmospheric impression, with skillfully controlled plate tone, on heavy, cream wove paper; the full sheet with wide margins (2 to 2 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 8 3/8 x 17 1/4 inches (316 x 176 mm); sheet size 13 7/16 x 8 3/8 inches (341 x 213 mm).
The scene depicted was on the Connecticut coast...
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1940s American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
29.88 x 22.36 ins (75.9 x 56.8 cms)
Edition of 96
Signature:Signed "R. Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's chop mark lower right
...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Pair of Horse Lithographs
By David Low
Located in New York, NY
"The Old-Irish Hunter." and "The Cleveland Bay." from "The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands." by David Low. London, Fairland, 1842.
Original lithograph hand-col...
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1840s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
'Feu sous L'eau' (Fire Under Water) —Mid-century Modernism, Atelier 17
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stanley William Hayter, 'Feu sous L'eau (Fire Under Water)', color engraving, soft-ground etching and scorper with yellow silkscreen, 1955, edition 50 plus 10 artist proofs, Black & Moorhead 221. Signed, titled 'Fire Under Water', dated and annotated 'Essai' in pencil. Dedicated in the artist’s hand 'for Adja & Dove WH Bill 17–5–55' in the top margin. A superb, richly inked impression with fresh colors, on heavy, cream wove paper; wide margins (2 1/2 to 3 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. One of 10 artist’s proofs. Image size 10 3/16 x 7 inches; sheet size 18 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
In 1950 Hayter returned to Paris and reopened Atelier 17. Works such as 'Fire Under Water' reveal newfound influences, such as that of the Ardèche area of southern France, where he acquired a house in 1951 and frequently visited. Hayter took great interest in the flowing Escoutay River, an experience that parallels the artist and co-director of Atelier 17 Krishna Reddy’s interest in depicting water. While some forms in this print evoke the natural world, the palette of contrasting tones of purple, yellow, black, and white reflects Hayter’s belief in using color intuitively to express emotions and evoke feelings. The sharp white relief lines from the paper and the textural effects realized through soft-ground etching operate in tandem with the sweeping curves and bold colors to give the composition a sense of vitality and dynamism.
—edited from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published by 'La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine', Paris.
Impressions of this work are in the following collections: British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris, now known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists he is credited with influencing are Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall.
The hallmark of the workshop was its egalitarian structure, breaking sharply with the traditional French engraving studios by insisting on a cooperative approach to labor and technical discoveries. In 1929 Hayter was introduced to Surrealism by Yves Tanguy and André Masson, who, with other Surrealists, worked with Hayter at Atelier 17. The often violent imagery of Hayter’s Surrealist period was stimulated in part by his passionate response to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism. He organized portfolios of graphic works to raise funds for the Spanish cause, including Solidarité (Paris, 1938), a portfolio of seven prints, one of them by Picasso. Hayter frequently exhibited with the Surrealists during the 1930s but left the movement when Paul Eluard was expelled. Eluard’s poem Facile Proie (1939) was written in response to a set of Hayter’s engravings. Other writers with whom Hayter collaborated included Samuel Beckett and Georges Hugnet.
Hayter joined the exile of the Parisian avant-garde in 1939, moving with his second wife, the American sculptor Helen Phillips...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Landscape with buildings and trees
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with buildings and trees
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930's
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9 3/8 x 1...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Pair of Shell Watercolors
Located in New York, NY
Pair of original 19th Century watercolors displayed in custom w=k black stained frames.
Category
19th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
Watercolor, 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left in pencil (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 14 1/4 x 19 5/8 inches
Regarding the Maine subject matter of her watercolors, we know that Allen...
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1940s American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Water Polo Print
By Milivoy Uzelac
Located in New York, NY
Water Polo from "Joies du Sport." Original pochoir print from a limited edition of 750 copies. Paris, 1932. Sheet size: 16 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.
Category
1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Doe Bow (Christmas Bow Features Santa's Reindeer, Word Play)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
A series of prints was commissioned by the Met Museum in NY in a regular edition of 40 This impression is from an edition of 5 artist proofs. This impression is #4/5
Carol Wax origi...
Category
2010s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Intaglio
Cranes and Concrete (in the 80s, a boom saw buildings racing into the sky?
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Cranes and Concrete" is Frederick Mershimer's mezzotint of the construction scene on Broadway between 13th and 14th streets. Mershimer is no strang...
Category
1980s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Canada Lynx by Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "The Quadrupeds of North America. Octavo Edition" by John James Audubon. Plate XVI. Phila...
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1850s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Man with Outstretched Arms
By Maurice Pasternak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maurice Pasternak has created a portrait of his signature figure with outstretched arms. He moves images around on the paper to create a sense of mystery and drama. This impression ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Erinnerung (Remembrance) — Turn-of-the Century Romantic Etching
By Max Klinger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Max Klinger, 'Erinnerung (Remembrance)', etching and aquatint, 1896. A fine, richly inked impression, on off white, wove paper, with full margins (1 3/4 to 3 1/8 inches), in excellen...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Floater
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 20.
Don Ed Hardy’s lithographs, created in the spring of 2007, continue the “look” of his Ghost Writer painting series which has been developed over the past five years. They are evocative of ancient Chinese stone rubbings, or x-rays. Both prints refer to earlier images from Japanese art history.
Floater, a meditating skeleton poised above surging waves, was done from memory after a 19th century Japanese painting...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
