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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'Heart of San Francisco' — Vintage 1920s Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Heart of San Francisco', etching, c. 1927, edition not stated. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2...
Category
1920s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Neapolitan Vesuvius Gouache
Located in New York, NY
Original hand-painted Neapolitan gouache entitled "Eruz de Gennajo 1839." An excellent example of the classic Neapolitan School view. Unsigned. Displayed in an archival mat with an o...
Category
1830s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Honey Yellow Lily
By Ed Baynard
Located in New York, NY
In many of his prints, Ed Baynard presents familiar still-life scenes, such as flowers in vases. He reduces the compositions, divorcing the forms from a context, thus accentuating th...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
'Cleveland Public Square' — 1920s Urban Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Cleveland Public Square', etching, edition not stated, 1927. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. Annotated 'Cleveland Public Square S489', in another hand, in the bottom right margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, in brown/black ink, with skillfully-controlled plate tone, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 3 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches; sheet size 17 1/4 x 12 1/8 inches.
ABOUT THIS IMAGE
'Public Square' is the two-block (formerly four-block) central plaza of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Based on an 18th-century New England model, it was part of the original 1796 town plan overseen by Moses Cleveland and remains today as an integral part of the city's center. The 10-acre (4.0 ha) square is centered on the former intersection of Superior Avenue and Ontario Street.[2] Cleveland's three tallest buildings, Key Tower, 200 Public Square, and the Terminal Tower, face the square.
Public Square was part of the Connecticut Land Company's original plan for the city, overseen by Moses Cleveland in the 1790s. The square is signature of the layout for early New England towns, which Cleveland was modeled after. While it initially served as a common pasture for settlers' animals, less than a century later in 1879 Public Square became the first street in the world to be lit with electric street lights—arc lamps designed by Cleveland native Charles F. Brush. The square was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1975.
Public Square is often the site of political rallies and civic functions, including a free annual Independence Day concert by the Cleveland Orchestra...
Category
1920s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Dormir, Dormir, dans les Pierres.
By Yves Tanguy
Located in New York, NY
TANGUY, Yves. Dormir, Dormir, dans les Pierres. By Benjamin Peret. Illustrated with three full-page plates printed recto only, and 10 vignette head- and tail-pieces after drawings ...
Category
1920s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Flores para la Ñusta II
By Ana Maria Hernando
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with cut outs, Edition 30.
Flores para la Ñusta translates as "Flowers for the Ñusta". The artist states:
"In the Andean cosmology, the Ñust...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Der Gartner' (The Gardener) — 1920s German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Der Gartner' (The Gardener), woodcut, c. 1925. Signed, titled, and numbered '15/50' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left and right. A fine, richly-inked impression on buff wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Image size 5 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches (133 x 98 mm); sheet size 10 x 7 3/4 inches (254 x 198 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919 - 1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine 'Das Plakat...
Category
1920s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Leucippus Fallax (Buffy Hummingbird) — Original 1849 Hand-colored Lithograph
By John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Gould, 'Leucippus Fallax' (Buffy Hummingbird), original lithograph with hand-coloring (not a reproduction), c. 1850. Signed in typeset 'J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del et lith.'...
Category
1850s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Chen Quian. Advertisement for B.S Insurance Co
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Chen Quian.
[Advertisement for B.S Insurance Co.] 1912
Color lithograph, Rare. Very early Chinese advertising poster at the end of the
Qu...
Category
1910s Qing International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
HEART
Located in Portland, ME
Wang Ming (Chinese-American, 1921-2016). HEART.Acrylic on paper, 1969. Signed, titled and dated, verso. 21 x 15 5/8, framed to 28 7/8 x 23 1/2. In excellent condition.
Category
1960s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Acrylic
Auction
By Bernhard Kretzschmar
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Kretzschmar (1889-1972), Auction, etching, drypoint, and burnished aquatint, 1921, signed and dated (’20) in pencil lower right [also initialed in the plate lower left] Refe...
Category
1920s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Dusk
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Yal...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant' Angelo
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in New York, NY
Castello Sant Angelo from "Vedute di Roma" by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
2nd Roman state, 1754. Etching on laid paper with a watermark of a Fleur-de-Lys in a double circle with CB a...
Category
1750s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Laid Paper
“Valparaiso”, Approach of evening."
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
After
WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeil. Photogravure
10x12 2/4" paper size, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2" image size
Signed in pencil with artist’s butterfly monogram.
This photogravure is from the...
Category
1890s Photorealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
ABS, Photogravure
The Thingly Thingness of Things
By Enrique Chagoya
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30. (Irregular shape)
The artist states:
“2013 is the year of the snake and I am celebrating it in this print to honor the Chinese calendar but with a pre-Columbian twist. In the Chinese horoscope...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Theater Design For Mistinguette
By Charles Gesmar
Located in New York, NY
Charles Gesmar
French Poster Artist and Costume Designer
Costume design in the form of a Rose for the entertainer Mistinguette. Perhaps for her production at the in Moulin Rouge i...
Category
1920s Art Deco International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Lotus
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Screenprint from 20 screens with embossing. On Velin Arches mould-made paper
Based on 'Lotus', textile dyes on hand-made Indian paper, 1978
Signed and dated in pencil, lower centre. ...
Category
1980s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color, Screen
Wagon Crossing a Bridge (Wagen auf einer Brucke)
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in New York, NY
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), Wagon Crossing a Bridge (Wagen auf einer Brucke), woodcut, c. 1941, signed in pencil lower left, with the artist’s work number lower center (1867). Reference: Prasser W 82, only state. In very good condition, with margins, 3 1/2 x 4 3/4, the sheet 4 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches.
A fine fresh proof impression of this intricate cubist composition, printed in black ink on a thin Japan wove paper.
Prasser notes a few proofs, on various papers, some unsigned. This print was included as No. 5 of the portfolio Ten Woodcuts by Lyonel Feininger, 1941, edition of 30; as with many of his small woodcuts...
Category
1940s Cubist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Baigneuse Debout, à Mi-Jambes — French Impressionism
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Pierre Auguste Renoir, 'Baigneuse Debout, à Mi-Jambes (Woman Bathing, Standing Up to Her Knees in Water)', 1910, etching, edition not stated, Delteil 23. Unsigned as published. A fin...
Category
1910s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Coisa Linda.
By Beatriz Milhazes
Located in New York, NY
MILHAZES, Beatriz. Coisa Linda. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 34 hand-printed screen prints and a unique collage. 4to., bound in original decorated blue and gold cloth, yellow paper spine in a yellow cloth slipcase. New York: Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.
The first book published in "Contemporary Editions" by the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art. This exquisite book was created by contemporary Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes. Each copy contains thirty-four hand-printed screenprints by Milhazes, and a unique collage. The screenprints are printed in forty colors and are bound in a hand-printed cover, all created by Milhazes in collaboration with the printmaker Jean-Paul Russell...
Category
Early 2000s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Willow Border
By William Seltzer Rice
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM SELTZER RICE (1873 – 1963)
WILLOW BORDER, ca 1915-20 Color woodcut. Signed Wm. S. Rice and titled in pencil, both very lightly. Image 10 x 9 inches. On fibrous paper. Sheet...
Category
1910s Other Art Style International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Maggie
By Marcus Harvey
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen, 2016, on Somerset wove, signed and numbered from the edition of 25, published by Shapero Modern, London, printed by K2 Screens, London, imag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Young British Artists (YBA) International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
THE NEW YORK SCHOOL: THE POEMS - SALUTE - ODES - PERMANENTLY
By Joan Mitchell
Located in Portland, ME
Tiber Press. THE NEW YORK SCHOOL. New York, 1960. Editions of 200. Four volumes, folios (17 1/2 x 14 inches), housed in a green linen slipcase, com...
Category
Mid-20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Python Sebae (African Rock Python Skull)
By Jacob Crook
Located in New Orleans, LA
Python is a hand-pulled mezzotint in an edition of 25. This is #7/25.
Jacob Crook was born in St. Louis, MO in 1985. Crook works primarily in the intagli...
Category
2010s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
WORLD MAP - Planisphaerium Terrestre Sive Terrarum Orbis... 1696
By Carel Allard
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAREL ALLARD (1648 – 1709)
PLANISPHAERIUM TERRESTRE SIVE TERRARUM ORBIS… 1696 (Shirley 578)
Engraving, 20 ½ x 23 ½”, sheet 21 x 24 1/8". A stunning double hemisphere World Map...
Category
17th Century Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Le Couple
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Le Couple, 1951, drypoint on chine volant, signed lower right margin and numbered (5/XI) lower left margin. References: Bloch 690,...
Category
1950s Cubist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
Desert Icon II
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Desert Icon II
Screen print, c. 1968
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition 100 (17/100)
Printed by the artist
This image is the most elaborate of three color var...
Category
1960s Op Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
UNICEF Bouquet - Tom Wesselmann, Pop Art, Still-life, Print, Screenprint
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1998.
From 'Meine Kindheit - Schmerz und Heilung, UNICEF'.
Signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 100.
Image: 63.5 x 54.5 cm Sheet: 78.8 x 70 cm
Category
1990s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
'Soaring New York' — 1930s American Modernism, New York City
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Soaring New York', aquatint, soft-ground etching, roulette, 1931-32, edition 25, Duffy 165. Signed, dated, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmosp...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Renaissance Man
By Hernan Bas
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching, drypoint and spitbite aquatint.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
NIGHT NUDE
By Milton Avery
Located in Portland, ME
Avery, Milton. NIGHT NUDE. Woodcut, 1953. Edition of 25 in black and white (there were a further 25 printed in black and blue). Signed, dated and numbered "6/25" in pencil, and also ...
Category
1950s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Edge of the Woods.
By William Harry Warren Bicknell
Located in Storrs, CT
Edge of the Woods. 1916. Drypoint. 7 7/8 x 9 3/4 (sheet 10 7/16 x 13 1/8). A rich impression in printed on Japanese paper with an oak leaf watermark. Signed and annotated '3rd state'...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife 1
By Lovis Corinth
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LOVIS CORNTH (German 1858 - 1925)
JOSEPH und POTIPHARS WEIB 1, 1914 (S. 168)
Drypoint, Unsigned, platemark 7 3//8" X 9 5/8 " on good watermarked laid paper. Full margins, deckl...
Category
1910s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
'Fantasia Americana - 1880' — Mid-Century American Surrealism
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
Category
1940s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Deluge - JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (1775 - 1851)
By Joseph Mallord William Turner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
(after) JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (1775 - 1851)
THE DELUGE, 1828. Mezzotint, Engraved by I. P. Quilly after a painting by J. M.W. Turner R.A.. Image ...
Category
1820s Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
'La Pêche' (Fishing) — French Cubist Woodcut
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Raoul Dufy, 'La Pêche' (Fishing), woodcut, 1910, from the second edition of 220 printed in 1953. With the estate stamp 'ATELIER RAOUL DUFY' in the lower left margin. Numbered '106/220' in pencil, lower right. Titled in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (3 to 5 inches), slight toning at the sheet edges, well away from the image; otherwise in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 12 1/2 x 15 13/16 inches (318 x 402 mm); sheet size 19 9/16 x 25 3/4 inches (497 x 654 mm).
From the suite of four woodcuts entitled 'Les Plaisirs de la Paix' (The Pleasures of Peace), originally published by Éditions de La Sirène, Paris in 1926. The other three works in the series are 'La Danse' (The Dance), 'La Chase' (The Hunt), and 'L'amore' (Love). See our other listings for 'La Danse' and 'L'amore'.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Minneapolis Art...
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1910s Cubist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Bon Fire Night Circle (13 totally nude men arrayed in a circle in the desert)
Located in New Orleans, LA
13 nude guys form a circle in the desert. This is number 1 from a limited edition of 12. The work is signed on the back. A book of the artists work will be published in early Spring
London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga...
Category
2010s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
C Print
OBSEQUIO á el MAESTRO (‘A gift for the master’)
By Francisco Goya
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCISCO de GOYA y LUCIENTES (1746 -1828)
OBSEQUIO á el MAESTRO (‘A gift for the master’) Plate 47 from the 1st edition of Los Caprichos (Blas, ...
Category
1790s Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
PERSONNAGE VIRTUEL
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Portland, ME
Hayter, Stanley William. PERSONNAGE VIRTUEL. BM182. Engraving,
soft-ground etching and scorper, 1947. Edition of 70, signed, dated,
and numbered 42/70, all in pencil. 11 3/4 x 8 7/8...
Category
1940s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
'Surveillance Is Your Busywork'
By Barbara Kruger
Located in London, GB
Original subway poster, c. 1980, on wove paper, unsigned as issued, 28 x 71.3 cm.
'Surveillance Is Your Busywork' is an unused subway lithograph placard, produced in the early 80s b...
Category
1980s Conceptual International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
New England Winter: The Old Homestead.
By Gustave Adolph Hoffman
Located in Storrs, CT
New England Winter: The Old Homestead. 1896. Etching and aquatint printed in grey-green. 7 3/4 x 11 3/4 (sheet 10 x 13 1/16). A rich impression in p...
Category
Late 19th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Generations 10
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper
53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins)
Edition of 35, Set of 24
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
Prin...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway
By Jared French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway
Graphite on cream wove paper, c. 1960
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
A master of ...
Category
1960s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Graphite
'Havoc in Heaven' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Havoc in Heaven', lithograph, 1948, edition 30-35, Fine and Looney 270. Signed, titled, and numbered 'Ed 35' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. Printed...
Category
1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
#90 Strange Creature
By Norbert Lenz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
#90 Strange Creature
Oil and pencil on board, 1932
Signed and dated in the image lower right (see photo)
Provenance:
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, OH
Condition: excellent
Archival framing
Image size: 10 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches
Frame size: 25 x 24 inches
Painter, illustrator and commercial artist Norbert Lenz was born in Norwalk, Ohio and received his artistic training at both the Huntington Polytechnic Institute and the Cleveland School of Art. During his career Lenz exhibited his paintings and drawings at such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art. Today the art of Norbert Lenz is held by the Columbus Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art.
Lenz was also a very highly regarded commercial designer of stamps. He worked for a number
of years at the House of Farman, a leading vendor of first day covers...
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1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
Bleeding
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from three aluminium plates using tusche washes, printed in transparent dark green, light green, and fire red, with hand colouring in gouache (an orange to red blend, pink, green, and deep red). On buff Velin Arches mould-made paper (300 gsm)
Signed with initials, numbered and dated 82 in pencil, lower centre
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd.
Exhibition History: 'Howard Hodgkin: Views. An Exhibition of Early Prints', Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 02 March - 02 April 2013 'London, Henri Matisse: The Goldfish Bowls and Other Prints (LOPF)', Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 1 - 28 May 2021 'Howard Hodgkin Recollections’, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 21 April - 14 May 2022
Literature: Frances Spalding, 'Howard Hodgkin: Tate Gallery and Bernard Jacobson', Arts Review, vol. 34, no. 20, 24 September 1982, p. 484; Elizabeth...
Category
1980s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Gouache, Lithograph
Untitled III (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled V (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Galerie Maeght Murales et Peintures
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Galerie Maeght Murales et Peintures
Color lithograph poster, 1961
Unsigned as issued
Large edition
Published by Maeght Editeur Imprimeur
Reference #13 from J. Corredor-Matheos, "Miro's Posters', 1980
Condition: Framed
Colors fresh
Image/sheet size: 25 x 19 inches
Frame size: 34 x 27...
Category
1960s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
'European Landscape' —Mid-century American Surrealism
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'European Landscape', drypoint, edition 50, 1942. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '7/50' in pencil. A superb, finely nuanced impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/4 inches); in excellent condition.
Image size 10 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
An impression of this work is included in the permanent collection of the Syracuse University Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
Category
1940s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
Man in the Waves
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Man in the Waves
Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled IV (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled VI (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
'The Bather' — 1930s American Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'The Bather', wood engraving, 1931, edition 120, Burne Jones 63. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Image size 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches (137 x 200 mm); sheet size 11 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (283 x 368 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Impressions of this work are held in the following public collections: Burne Jones Collection, IL; Chegodaev Collection, Moscow; Kent Collection, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library, NJ; Pushkin Museum, Moscow; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection, NY.
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled I (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled II (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled
1989
Aquatint, Edition of 20
44.5 x 32.4 cms (17 1/2 x 12 3/4 ins)
22.9 x 15.2 cms (9 x 6 ins)
SF15235
Category
1980s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint
Root
By Rodney Carswell
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Ed. 25
The artist describes his work:
My work has often been described as belonging to a category of ‘reductive, geometric abstraction’. In the last decade ho...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
