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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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 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
The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 150
104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
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
Leaving the Mosque
By Marius Bauer
Located in Storrs, CT
Leaving the Mosque. 1892. Etching. 4 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 8 3/4 x10 5/16). Number 78. A rich, tonal impression printed on cream laid paper. Signed and numbered in pencil.l. Housed in a...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Oil Study of Two Horses
By Frederic A. Bridgeman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Oil Study of Two Horses
Oil on canvas, c. 1880
Unsigned
Estate stamp verso of canvas and on stretcher (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
New gilt frame aptterned after the period frame
Painting size: 4 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches
Frame size: 6 3/4 x 11 inches
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York
Eric G. Carlson Fine Prints, New York
"Frederick (sic) Arthur Bridgman relocated from Alabama to New York with his family while still a youth. He was eventually employed as an engraver with the American Bank Note Company. He began studying art in his spare time inthe Art Schools of Brooklyn and the National Academy of Design in New York. He traveled to Paris in 1866 and became a favorite student of Gérôme which lead to Bridgman's exhibition in the Paris Salon in 1868. He made France his permanent home in 1870, and spent his summers on sketching tours of Brittany. He exhibited with the National Academy of Design in 1871. He lived in Egypt in 1873; scenes from Egyptian antiquity were prominent in his work. Bridgman's talents extended to writing and music; he was a noted composer and musician. The artist died in Rouen, France, in 1928." Courtesy SAAM (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
"Frederick Arthur Bridgman was a well-known landscape and historical painter. He is most admired for his Orientalist subjects, including views of North Africa, in particular Egypt and Algeria, and his scenes from Ancient Egyptian history.
Although born in Alabama, Bridgman came from a Yankee family. After the death of his doctor father and amid the mounting tension before the Civil War, the Bridgmans returned to their native New England, settling in New York. Young Frederick showed artistic gifts and was apprenticed as an engraver to the American Banknote Company. He attended evening classes at the Brooklyn Art Association at the same time. He also studied at the National Academy of Design, where he met Harry Humphrey Moore and Thomas Hovendon. In these early years, Bridgman exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association.
Bridgman travelled to France, where he visited Pont Aven, the artists’ colony in Brittany frequented by Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard as well as a circle of American painters around the Philadelphian Robert Wylie (1839-1877). Bridgman also studied in Paris with Jean Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Bridgman made an important reputation for himself in France at the annual Paris Salons; in Britain, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1871 and 1904, and in Germany, where he showed at the Grosse Berliner Kunst Ausstellung. His work was included in the American displays at the 1889 Universal Exposition held in Paris.
In 1872 Bridgman travelled to Spain and North Africa in the company of a British artist known only as ‘S’. In the winter of 1873-4 he made a second trip, visiting Egypt in the company of fellow American artist Charles Sprague Pearce. Bridgman married a young Bostonian, Florence Mott Baker; the deterioration of his wife’s health from the terrible inherited neurological disorder Huntington’s Chorea led him to return to Algiers in 1885 for a respite for them both in a warm climate. He wrote a fascinating travel narrative describing his journeys in North Africa, Winters in Algiers, published in 1888 and illustrated with woodcuts from his works.
Bridgman’s great success culminated at the Paris Salons of 1877, 1878 and 1879 with a trio of paintings portraying life in the ancient Near East...
Category
1880s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
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
'Garyu no sakura' (The Lying Dragon Cherry Tree, Gifu) — Contemporary Japanese
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hajime Namiki, 'Garyu no sakura (The Lying Dragon Cherry Tree, Gifu)', color woodcut, 2003, edition 200. Signed in pencil and with the artist’s red seal....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
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 Scalby Suite - Towards 2023
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
Etching, aquatint and embossing with hand colouring in watercolour on paper
Plate size: 39.5 x 39.5 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins)
Paper size: 58 x 58 cms (22 3/4 x 22 3/4 ins)
Category
2010s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Five Greek Poets and a Philosopher
By Cy Twombly
Located in London, GB
Complete set of seven lithographs with embossment, 1978, on Richard de Bas mould-made paper, initialed and numbered in pencil from the edition of 40 verso, printed by Matthieu Studio...
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
The River at Belfast, Maine
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
Jacquette creates compelling images of the landscape and the sea from the air or atop hills or mountains.
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Silver Beach
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Silver Beach
Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Woman in a Fur Wrap
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman in a Fur Wrap
Pen and ink heightened with white, c. 1920
Signed in ink lower right (see photo)
Estate stamp verso (see photo)
Provenance: estate of the artist
Borghi & Company, New York
Condition: excellent
Sheet/Image size: 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Rudolph Bauer
1889-1953
"Rudolf Bauer was born in Lindenwald near Bromberg, Silesia, in 1889 but his family moved only a few years later to Berlin. In 1905 Bauer began his studies at the Berlin Academy of Art but left the Academy only a few months later to educate himself. The upshot was paintings, caricatures and comical drawings which were published in 'Berliner Tageblatt', 'Ulk' and 'Le Figaro'.
From 1912 Bauer contributed to the magazine and Gallery 'Der Sturm' founded by Herwarth Walden and pivotal to German Expressionism and the international avant-garde. In 1915 Rudolf Bauer participated for the first time in a group show at Walden's gallery. There he met Hilla von Rebay...
Category
1920s Art Deco International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Ink
Sheffield Island Light off Norwalk, Conn.
By Reynolds Beal
Located in New York, NY
“Sheffield Island Light off Norwalk, Conn.“ This pencil drawing is on a 5.50 x 9 inch sheet of laid paper. It is initialed and dated (June 30, 1887) in ...
Category
1880s Naturalistic International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Graphite
Bright Beach
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Bright Beach
Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
The Heavenly Suite (purple)
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Screenprint
Category
1970s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Parachute Class
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Parachute Class
Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Golden Parachute
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Golden Parachute
Color aquatint and gold leaf.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
The Plumed Hat.
By Arthur Paine Garratt
Located in Storrs, CT
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...
Category
1910s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'Sculpturegraph' — Modernist Abstraction, Contemporary African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Rogers, 'Sculpturegraph' (Black, Gray, and Silver), color sculpturegraph, edition 40, 1984. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '25/40' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, pain...
Category
1980s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Monoprint
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
67.3 x 88.9 cms (26.5 x 35 ins)
Edition of 50
Signed lower right, numbered lower left.
Published by Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo.
Printed by Harumi Sonoyama at Gendai hanga Kobo Co...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
114.3 x 70.5 cms (45 x 27.76 ins)
Edition of 50
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color, 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
The Great Pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt
By Francis Frith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Great Pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt
Original gold toned albumin photograph, c. 1862
Unsigned as is usual
From: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, c. 1862, Vol 1, ...
Category
1860s Romantic International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
CENTERPORT SERIES #23
By Arthur Dove
Located in Portland, ME
Dove, Arthur (American, 1880-1946).
CENTERPORT SERIES #23.
Watercolor on paper, 1940.
Signed "Dove," at the lower center.
Labels identifying the work on the backing paper of the ...
Category
1940s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Codex YTREBIL
By Enrique Chagoya
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25.
The artist describes this project:
Codex YTREBIL, (liberty backwards), is based on a series of small books by anonymous Ind...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life with Flowers and Pears.
By André Gisson
Located in Storrs, CT
Still Life with Flowers and Pears. c. 1960. Oil on canvas. 20 x 16. Signed, upper right. Housed in a 25 1/4 x 21 1/2-inch Hassam-style gilt frame
André Gisson was born in 1921 in Br...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
Barges, Dordrecht
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Barges, Dordrecht
Etching, c. 1886
Signed in the plate with the butterfly
Edition: One of 10 known impressions of this image. VERY RARE
Provenance:
Frederick Keppel & Co. with their ...
Category
19th Century Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Nude with Zinc Vessel (The back view of a nude woman holding a zinc object)
By Eric Kellerman (b. 1944)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Eric Kellerman created this sensual nude photograph of a young nude woman with a large zinc vessel under her arm. It is pencil signed, titled and numbered 1 from an edition of 20. The photographer has stamped a red monogram next to his signature.
Eric Kellerman is a Briton who has lived near Nijmegen in the Netherlands for just over half his life. In 2008, he retired from academic life to spend more time on photography.
Kellerman works almost entirely in the studio and uses digital equipment from camera to print, although image manipulation is limited to darkroom-like processes. Specializing in the nude, he has a regular team of female collaborators, most of whom have a serious interest in movement (dance, drama therapy, athletics, martial arts).
Kellerman used to consider his work to be distant, abstract, melancholic, ‘unerotic’, despite its subject matter. Now he's not so sure. He emphasizes line, geometrical form, texture, implicit movement, and above all, chiaroscuro. He likes to create ambiguity in his photos, so that the viewer is sometimes unsure what part of the body is being looked at. In this way, he attempts to free the female body of its conventional associations.
He has been influenced by surrealism...
Category
Early 2000s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Digital
Paperclip Suite I (brown)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
44.5 x 44.5 cms (17 1/2 x 17 1/2 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Proscenium IV (grid with lines and white patches)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 40
77.5 x 58.5 cms (30.5 x 23 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
New Orleans Sportin House
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
New Orleans Sportin House
Pen and ink on paper, 1951
Signed in ink, titled and dated in pencil (see photos)
Condition: Corners are pasted to support sheet, some staining in image.
Image/sheet size: 15 5/8 x 18 inches
Provenance: Acquired from the artist
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, patron and friend of the artist
Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002)
The artist’s own grandchildren attempt to fathom the real life and nature of Stephen Longstreet, prolific author, artist, screenplay writer, and jazz aficionado.
Born Chauncy Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener) in New York City in 1907, Longstreet reinvented himself on a regular basis. Changing his name first to “Henry,” then “Henri,” he started his career as a commercial artist for a department store. In various public biographies he claimed to have studied in New York, London, and Paris, and said he was a student of cartoonist Ralph Barton...
Category
1950s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Ink
Elegy Fragment II
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on Georges Duchene Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper
87.6 x 61 cm (34 1/2 x 24 inches)
Edition of 52
Category
1980s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province — Lifetime Impression, 1934
By Kawase Hasui
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series Collected Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fûkei shû II Kansai hen), woodblock print, 1934. A very fine, atmospheric impression, with fresh colors; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Signed 'Hasui' with the artist’s seal 'Kawase', lower left. Published by Watanabe Shozaburo with the Watanabe ‘D’ seal indicating an early impression printed between 1931 - 1941. Stamped faintly 'Made in Japan' in the bottom center margin, verso.
Horizontal ôban; image size 9 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (238 x 362 mm); sheet size approximately 10 5/16 x 15 1/2 inches ( 262 x 394 mm).
Collections: Art Institute of Chicago; Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna); Honolulu Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum in Warsaw; University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“I do not paint subjective impressions. My work is based on reality...I can not falsify...(but) I can simplify…I make mental impressions of the light and color at the time of sketching. While coloring the sketch, I am already imagining the effects in a woodblock print.” — Kawase Hasui
Hasui Kawase...
Category
1930s Showa International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Proscenium II (loose lines around square centre)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 40
77.5 x 58.5 cms (30.5 x 23 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Ludgate Hill
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in Storrs, CT
Ludgate Hill. 1921. Etching, aquatint, and drypoint. Dickins 69. 5 5/8 x 5 1/8 (sheet 13 5/8 x 9 3/4). A fine proof with plate tone, printed on 'J Wha[tman] cream wove paper. Edition of 275 for the UK and 125 for the US. Signed in pencil.
Ludgate Hill is a street that runs west from St. Paul's Churchyard to Ludgate Circus (built in 1864), and from there becomes Fleet Street. The Ludgate Hill railway station, between Water Lane and New Bridge Street, is a station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. It was closed before World War II and the railway bridge and viaduct between Holborn Viaduct and Blackfriars stations was demolished in 1990 to enable the construction of the City Thameslink railway station in a tunnel. This also involved the regrading of the slope of Ludgate Hill at the junction. About halfway up Ludgate Hill is St Martin, Ludgate church. This was physically joined to the Ludgate.
When he was seventeen, William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Proscenium I (square border around loose lines)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 40
77.5 x 58.5 cms (30 1/2 x 23 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Proscenium III (hard line grid with border)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 40
77.5 x 58.5 cms (30 1/2x 23 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Paperclip Suite IIc (yellow/blue)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Etching, Edition of 25
45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Paperclip Suite I (brown)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
44.5 x 44.5 cms (17 1/2 x 17 1/2 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Paperclip suite IIe
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Paperclip Suite IId (yellow/blue)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Paperclip Suite IIb (yellow / blue)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Paperclip Suite II (yellow / blue)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Etching, Edition of 25
45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Paperclip Suite I (brown)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
44.5 x 44.5 cms (17 1/2 x 17 1/2 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Chelsea Old Church, London
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in Storrs, CT
Chelsea Old Church. 1924. Etching, drypoint, and aquatint. Dickins 94. 5 3/8 x 8 (sheet 8 1/2 x 9 3/4). Edition 100 for The Print Collector's Club. A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream wove paper. Signed and dedicated "W.R. Button from W. Walcot London 1930" in pencil.
Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England. Inside the Grade I listed building, there is seating for 400 people. There is a memorial plaque to the author Henry James (1843–1916) who lived nearby on Cheyne Walk. To the west of the church is a small public garden containing a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein.
When he was seventeen,William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel Metropole...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Night Life at the Moulin Rouge
By Henry Somm
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Night Life at the Moulin Rouge
Pen and ink drawing, c. 1890
Signed lower left (see photo)
A scene of the night life near the Moulin Rouge, Paris. The Moulin Rouge is the famous cabaret located in the old wind mill building in the right distance of this image. It was the center of fin de siecle culture in Paris.
Condition: Slight yellowing to the sheet from age.
Sight size: 9 x 5 3/4 inches
Frame size: 14-1/8 x 10-3/4 x 1/2"
Provenance: Eric G. Carlson (1940-2016), art historian and noted art dealer
François Clément Sommier, best known under the pseudonym “Henry Somm,” was born in Rouen in 1844. He attended the local École municipale des beaux-arts and went on in 1867 to Paris, where he studied under Isidore Pils (1813-1875).
“Somm is above all a painter and his watercolors are much sought after; he has the painter’s eye to the highest degree imaginable.” Louis Morin, Somm’s fellow artist revealed in 1893 that while his training as an academic painter forged his draughsmanship and an acute eye for colors, Somm preferred and excelled in the graphic realm. Particularly prolific, he produced a very extensive corpus of 7,500 drawings and prints, many of which were widely reproduced in journals and magazines.
In 1867, Somm’s career reached a turning point with the discovery of Japanese culture through his friendship with French collector and critic Philippe Burty and a visit to the Paris International Exhibition. More generally, Japanese art and especially Japanese woodblock prints exerted a heavy influence on French artists at the time, and especially on the Impressionists, who were particularly inspired by the subject matter, as well as the innovative use of perspective, composition and color. Although technically not an Impressionist by pure definition, Somm’s interest in the effect of atmospheric light on shadow and color prompted Edgar Degas to invite him to participate in their 4th exhibition in 1879. However, Somm did not exhibit again with the Impressionists, and was never considered a member of the group. Rather, his work intersects between Impressionism, Symbolism and Japonism. In fact, while his drypoints and etchings reflect a more literal borrowing of Japanese elements than the work of Whistler or Monet, they also clearly anticipate the future work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Although Somm was 20 years older than Toulouse-Lautrec, both artists developed a friendship, as habitués of the Chat noir, a cabaret founded by Rodolphe Salis and located 84 boulevard de Rochechouart in Montmartre. More than a cabaret, the Chat noir also became an important gathering place for writers, poets, composers, musicians, and artists living in Montmartre. For Somm, a founding member of this artistic circle, it also served as a unique environment, where he could express his limitless imagination as active participant to the events – notably the literary soirées organized by the hydropathic group – and illustrator of the Chat noir journal.
In 1886, Somm, in collaboration with Georges Auriol, initiated the Chat noir’s first puppet show, which subsequently evolved into shadow theater. Somm’s Japonism and sense of humor appealed to Toulouse-Lautrec, and this influence is echoed in Lautrec posters advertising two other Montmartre nightspots, namely Le Mirliton and Le Divan Japonais...
Category
Late 19th Century French School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Ink
From: You Are The Weather
By Roni Horn
Located in New York, NY
Two-color silkscreen on Arches,
20 x 24” (50,7 x 60,4 cm),
in wooden frame, 20 3/4 x 24 3/4” (54,4 x 64,5 cm),
printed by Atelier für Siebdruck, Lorenz Boegli, Zurich,
Ed. 60/XX, sig...
Category
1990s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Alessandro's Room
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut/lithograph triptych with chine collé and collage, Edition 30
Since 1985, Woodman has collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark to produce monotypes, woodcuts and l...
Category
20th Century Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Wendingen, Issue 8/9, Cover by R.N. Roland Holst, 1923.
Located in New York, NY
WENDINGEN- 5-8/9 1923
R. N. ROLAND HOLST. Shells, the Wonder Forms of the Sea. Published November 1923.
Strange resemblance’s by R. N. Roland Holst; Na...
Category
1920s Symbolist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Gargoyle and His Quarry
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gargoyle and His Quarry, Notre Dame. 1920. Etching.Fletcher 90. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 (sheet 10 1/2 x 9 1/16). Gargoyle series #1. Edition 75. A rich impression printed on 'FJHead&Co' c...
Category
1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Lafitte's Blacksmith House (a bar named for a pirate on Bourbon St, New Orleans)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a New Orleans landmark at 941 Bourbon St. Like most New Orleans legends, history of Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a gumbo of tru...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
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
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
The Infant Christ and St. John Playing with the Lamb, after Peter Paul Rubens
By Christoffel Jegher
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Infant Christ and St. John Playing with the Lamb,
after Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Woodcut, trimmed and tipped to support
Initialed in the block bottom ...
Category
1630s Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
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