Anna Mikke Art

Etching on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the 347 series. Bloch 1502. Edition of 50. Sheet size: 18 x 22 inches. Image size 12.375 ...

Mid-Century original lithograph entitled " Chamonix " hand signed by Joan Gardy Artigas and numbered 12/75 on arches vellum rag paper from the 1966-70 edition. Presented in period 19...

Color lithograph after the work by Henri Matisse, plate-signed by Matisse from the edition of 200. This lithograph was printed and published in 2007 in Paris using 100% cotton 300 g...

Two fabulous quality aquatint etchings Shahid Kabir, (Bangladesh, 1949- ) Untitled (Circus), c1980’s 2 x aquatint etchings, each sheet size, 53cm x 5...

Beautiful nude figurative lithograph by Jim Smyth (American, b. 1938). Numbered, titled, signed and dated "8/12", "Study 2", "Smyth 75” along the bottom edge. Unframed. Jim Smyth has studied at the Academia de Belle Arti in Fiorenza, Italy, Ecole des BeauxArts in Geneva, New York Academy, and the Art Students League. He is also a graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in Fine Art. Although academically trained, Smyth practices and teaches a more impressionistic style of painting, focusing on the Alla Prima technique. He is particularly knowledgeable about drawing, perspective, color theory and the human figure, his passion. Smyth, with extensive academic knowledge, has a profound love of all human representations as illustrated by his humorous quick sketches from life. He also practices and teaches oil painting and pastels. When not in Provence, or Southeastern France, Smyth teaches intensely in art schools, art centers and several colleges in the Bay Area. He is a beloved instructor and his classes fill in quickly as he is very knowledgeable. On his return to the United States, he began studying with Mr. Alanson Appleton at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. Smyth was a founding member of the Appletree Etchers, Inc., an etching print shop organized by Mr. Appleton and his students to develop and promote color intaglio. Smyth served as Master Printer at the studio for many years perfecting the techniques of intaglio and developing the color theories of Mr. Appleton as applied to the deeply etched plate. Smyth received his degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972 and holds the California Community College Certificate and an Adult Education Certificate. Smyth was invited to teach "Anatomy for Artists" at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, as a result of his many years of dissection of the cadaver and developed the course of study of Perspective for the college. During this period, he began teaching Life Drawing at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California. During the following thirty years Smyth has taught an average of twelve classes per week at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, the Palo Alto Art Center and the Burlingame Recreation Department among others in all phases of drawing and painting. He has conducted many workshops for the California Academy of Painters in many aspects of drawing and painting. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of Drawing at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. He is an authority on the materials of painting and drawing, techniques of traditional drawing and painting, color theory, perspective and anatomy for artists. In his career in Life Drawing, Smyth has made over two hundred thousand drawings from the model. In addition to studies at Berkeley, Smyth has studied at the College of San Mateo, Foothill College, De Anza College, Mission College, and West Valley College, all in California. One of the pivotal points in his career was studying with Mr. Maynard Dixon Stewart at the University of San Jose, California. He spent a year at the New York Academy of Art where he was offered a full scholarship and at the Art Students League of New York. He concurrently attended classes at the National Academy of Design in New York. Among others, Smyth studied with M. Andrejivec, Ted Schmidt, Elliot Goldfinger, Gary Fagin, Ted Jacobs, Leo Neufeld, David Leffel, Jack Ferragasso, Jim Childs and Everett Raymond Kinstler and Kim English. Smyth has also studied with the noted painter and colorist, Ovanes Berberian. In 2002 Jim was invited to study at the Academy of Art in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he worked in Life Drawing and Life Painting. Smyth is a popular lecturer, a sought after demonstrator and juror. He is the recipient of many awards for both his painting and his teaching. In 1988 and again in 2003, he received the Kenneth Washburn...

Nele Zirnite (1959) 2003 Associate Professor, Art Department, the Latvian Christian Academy 2000 M.F.A., the Latvian Art Academy 1995 – 2003 Lecturer, Graphic Arts Department, the Latvian Art Academy 1988 – present Member, the Latvian Artists' Union 1984 B.F.A., the Latvian Art Academy 1959 Born in Lithuania Selected Awards 2005 – Grand Prix Biennial of small graphics, GRAFIX, Breclav, Czech Republic 2003 – Award and Prize - Professional performing in 6.th exhibition of Small forms of Art, Gallery Riga, Latvia 1998 – Prize, Riga in Contemporary Art, Bastejs Gallery, Riga, Latvia 1998 – Grand prix award, Miniature Art, R. Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA, USA 1992 – Prize and Diploma, 9th Graphic Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia 1987 – Second Prize, Roads and People, Smiltene, Latvia 1987 – Diploma, 13th Graphic Art Exhibition, Riga, Latvia 1987 – Special Prize, Miniature Graphic Triennial, Riga, Latvia 1984 – Award, Best Drawing Artist of the Year, Vilnius Art Institute, Lithuania Selected Solo Exhibitions 2015 – Army of Beauty, Conversations in Culture, European House, USA 2015 – ORIGIN, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia 2014 – Behind Rain, Gallery "Art Bank", Riga, Latvia 2014 – BALZEKAS Museum, Chicago, USA 2014 – Latvian House, Washington, USA 2014 – Lithuanian Consulate in USA, New York, USA 2013 – Transfusion, Oslo 12, Raum D, Basel, Switzerland 2010 – Rezerved, Gallery Antonija, Riga, Latvia 2009 – Reservoir of Time, Solo Exhibition, National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia 2008 – Nele Zirnite Solo Exhibition, Xativa, Spain 2008 – Meiles slenis, Galerija "Dalia", Vilnius, Lithuania 2007 – NEXUS, Riga’s Gallery, Riga, Latvia 2007 – Art Gallery of Mary Olla Miller, Panama City, FL, USA 2006 – NEXUS, Gallery ARTima, Vilnius, Lithuania 2005 – NEXUS, Ciurlionis Art Gallery, Chikago, ASV 2004 – Graphic, Gallery BAS, Naperville, ASV 2003 – Nele Zirnite: Gravure a l’eau forte, Paloma Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 2003 – Etchings by Nele Zirnite, Monroe County Community College Library, Monroe, MI, USA 2001 – Traces of the Wings, Ivonna Veiherte Gallery, Riga, Latvia 2000 – Art Gallery of Mary Olla Miller, Panama City, FL, USA 1999 – Flowers, Bastejs Gallery, Riga, Latvia 1999 – Carriers, Rigas Gallery, Riga Latvia 1999 – Dragons Gallery...

Amsterdam V is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both a...

Nude figurative lithograph by Jim Smyth (American, b. 1938). Numbered, titled, signed and dated "5/12", "Study 2", "Smyth 74” along the bottom edge. Unframed. Jim Smyth has studied at the Academia de Belle Arti in Fiorenza, Italy, Ecole des BeauxArts in Geneva, New York Academy, and the Art Students League. He is also a graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in Fine Art. Although academically trained, Smyth practices and teaches a more impressionistic style of painting, focusing on the Alla Prima technique. He is particularly knowledgeable about drawing, perspective, color theory and the human figure, his passion. Smyth, with extensive academic knowledge, has a profound love of all human representations as illustrated by his humorous quick sketches from life. He also practices and teaches oil painting and pastels. When not in Provence, or Southeastern France, Smyth teaches intensely in art schools, art centers and several colleges in the Bay Area. He is a beloved instructor and his classes fill in quickly as he is very knowledgeable. On his return to the United States, he began studying with Mr. Alanson Appleton at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. Smyth was a founding member of the Appletree Etchers, Inc., an etching print shop organized by Mr. Appleton and his students to develop and promote color intaglio. Smyth served as Master Printer at the studio for many years perfecting the techniques of intaglio and developing the color theories of Mr. Appleton as applied to the deeply etched plate. Smyth received his degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972 and holds the California Community College Certificate and an Adult Education Certificate. Smyth was invited to teach "Anatomy for Artists" at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, as a result of his many years of dissection of the cadaver and developed the course of study of Perspective for the college. During this period, he began teaching Life Drawing at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California. During the following thirty years Smyth has taught an average of twelve classes per week at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, the Palo Alto Art Center and the Burlingame Recreation Department among others in all phases of drawing and painting. He has conducted many workshops for the California Academy of Painters in many aspects of drawing and painting. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of Drawing at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. He is an authority on the materials of painting and drawing, techniques of traditional drawing and painting, color theory, perspective and anatomy for artists. In his career in Life Drawing, Smyth has made over two hundred thousand drawings from the model. In addition to studies at Berkeley, Smyth has studied at the College of San Mateo, Foothill College, De Anza College, Mission College, and West Valley College, all in California. One of the pivotal points in his career was studying with Mr. Maynard Dixon Stewart at the University of San Jose, California. He spent a year at the New York Academy of Art where he was offered a full scholarship and at the Art Students League of New York. He concurrently attended classes at the National Academy of Design in New York. Among others, Smyth studied with M. Andrejivec, Ted Schmidt, Elliot Goldfinger, Gary Fagin, Ted Jacobs, Leo Neufeld, David Leffel, Jack Ferragasso, Jim Childs and Everett Raymond Kinstler and Kim English. Smyth has also studied with the noted painter and colorist, Ovanes Berberian...

Set of 12 woodblock prints in colors on handmade, laid mulberry paper, 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches (170 x 258 mm), printed in Ka-ei 4 (1851). Each print with minor handling wear, otherwise in excellent condition with bright and fresh color, and with details printed in silver ink. The images themselves contain several illusive characters indicating the publisher which are obfuscated by figures, as intended. Presented loose, as issued. A fine set. The astrological commentary print has a large and meandering blind stamp with a bird and palm frond motif. This print lists various phrases concerning the Twelve Zodiac Animals as historically counted in Japan, and appears to include erotic commentary on the traits of people born under each of the twelve signs. These Shunga images were issued in books that paralleled (in an erotic fashion...

This dramatic lithograph in limited edition of 16/24 portrays an erotic image of man with testicles and no penis. It is in white and verdi gris and printed on heavy paper: C.M.Fabria...

Polychrome etching and sugar-lift aquatint. Signed lower right, 'Ruth Weisberg' (American, born 1942) and dated 1967; additionally titled, lower center, 'Joseph Dreamed a Dream' and...

Wonderful figurative lithograph of a group of four nude figures in sable brown and gray palette by Hans Erni (Swiss, 1909-2015) circa 1970s. Signed in pencil by artist lower right corner. #22/150 on lower left. Presented in platinum toned wood frame under glass. Image size: 31"H x 22.25"W. Framed size: 32"H x 23W x 1"D Hans Erni was born in 1909. Erni attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Lucerne in 1927-28, which was followed by further stays in Paris and Berlin. In 1933-34 he joined the artist's group Abstraction-Création in Paris, where he also met artists like Hans Arp, Alexander Calder and Wassily Kandinsky. In the 1930-40s, he was very successful with fresco painting, a medium the artist deeply preferred because of its impact on society. In 1950 Erni created his first ceramic works and discovered lithography as another central technique of his future artistic output. In 1972 he set up his studio in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, but he continued to be active in Lucerne, where he was born and obtained personal museum spaces. Erni was awarded with numerous prizes, including the UN Peace Medal...