Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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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Birthday Party
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from a stone printed in sepia and green, with hand colouring in two shades of blue gouache. On Velin Arches mould-made paper (300 gsm)
Signed and dated 77 in pencil, lower...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph, Color
Mourning
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
111.8 x 140.3 cms (44 x 55.25 ins)
Edition of 50
Impressed with Solo Press stamp and the printer’s stamp. Lithograph (from three plates) with hand colouring in gouache (two greys...
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Untitled
By Thomas Nozkowski
Located in New York, NY
Solidly grounded in Abstract Expressionist tradition, process-oriented painter Thomas Nozkowski’s method is predicated on relinquishing the idea of an end result. To highlight this, ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Bedroom
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from five zinc plates, using tusche and crayon with splatter, printed in red, orange, green, black, and pink. On J Green paper (250 gsm)
Signed, numbered and dated '68 in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Tropic Fruit
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
80 x 94 cms (31.5 x 37 ins)
Edition of 100
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color, Screen
Bellhop
By Roberto Juarez
Located in New York, NY
Many places, many times intermingle in the work of Roberto Juarez. His life is so much a part of his work, that each new body of work introduces subjects, styles and motifs that seem...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Stencil
Untitled (Hands)
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 Ya...
Category
1980s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
FRUIT FOR SALE
By Frances H. Gearhart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART and Sisters (THE GEARHARTS)
FRUIT FOR SALE c.1928
Color block print. Unsigned. This is an original block print from “Let’s Play”, an intended but unpublished children’s book done in collaboration with her sisters Edna and May in 1928. Image 8 x 7 inches. On a tissue thin laid paper. Irregular sheet 9 3/8 x 8 1/2. The entire series consisted of over 20 children's images.
There were very few printed. The editions of the various children varied but likely no more than 50. This impression very well printed with good colors, Very good condition. The margins are likely as issued with the irregular edges. The margins and paper used for this series varies from one print to the next. A bit of tape remnants at top center sheet edge. A very nice example of this print.
It is not unusual for impressions of this series to be unsigned, although many are signed "The Gearharts"
The Provenance of this example is fascinating. It was acquired from a gentleman who knew the Gearharts as a child in the early 50's in Pasadena. It was part of a collection given to him by Frances. In his adult years he was in the military and took the collection with him as he traveled around Europe,
After 81 years, based on the original prints, this book was published by
the “California Book...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut, Linocut
Monster
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on speckled gray HMP handmade paper
104.1 x 78.7 cms (41 x 31 ins)
Edition of 26
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Strange Animals
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Strange Animals
Engraving, 1949
Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by the artist
The composition was created at the Univerisity of Iowa while the artist was enrolled in the famous M...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving
Climber
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30
Don Ed Hardy is a painter, printmaker and tattoo artist. Fascinated by tattoos since childhood, Hardy has become a master...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Last Rays
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30
Last Rays is an intensely colorful image that evokes the play of light and reflections caused by the late rays of the evening sun as they rake low acr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Free Range & Howboy
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with gold leaf, Edition 30
Don Ed Hardy is a painter, printmaker and tattoo artist. Fascinated by tattoos since childhood, Hardy has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
I'll Be Dining Alone Tonight
By Matthew Brannon
Located in New York, NY
Matthew Brannon is best known for his letterpress and screen prints of incongruous combinations of images and text. These prints are rendered in a subtle, stripped-down aesthetic, ev...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Man's Ruin
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25.
In Man’s Ruin, a wolf is portrayed as a nurse, two iconic images often seen in tattoo flash. Below the wolf are two brigh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Storm Dragon
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 20.
Don Ed Hardy’s lithographs “Storm Dragon” and “Sea Dragon” continue his lifelong exploration of dragon mythology and imagery. For 2000, the Year of the...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Sweet Pea II
By Robert Kushner
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with metallic leaf, Edition 30
Kushner's use of rich color harmonies and bold, fluid drawing, mark his belief in the importance of beauty in our lives. Kushner ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Adam Elsheimer, etching after a painting of Elsheimer by Jan Meyssens
By Wenceslaus Hollar
Located in New York, NY
Wenzel Hollar (1607-1677), Adam Elsheimer, etching after a painting of Elsheimer by Jan Meyssens, 1649, with text and signatures as described below. Ref...
Category
1640s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Split Ring Image C
By Robert Mangold
Located in New York, NY
Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, Mangold developed a reductive vocabulary based on geometric forms, monochromatic color, and an emphasis on the flatness of t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Dock Workers under the Brooklyn Bridge
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
Martin Lewis, N.A. (Dock Workers under the Brooklyn Bridge). c. 1916-18. Aquatint and etching. McCarron 15. 17 3/4 x 23 3/4 (sheet 26 x 31). 5 recorde...
Category
1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Une Escale au Brasil (A Stopover in Brazil)
By Charles Dufresne
Located in New York, NY
Charles Dufresne (1876-1938), Une Escale au Brasil (A Stopover in Brazil), etching and drypoint, c. 1920, signed in pencil lower right margin and inscribed “epreuve de artist” lower ...
Category
1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Lantern & Cardinal in Snow Holiday Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Gouache painted on cardstock, intended for a greeting card design, painted circa 1970. Unsigned. Displayed in a red archival mat. Cellophane tape on board.
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Cardboard, Gouache
untitled (Woman and Cat)
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned
Graphite on paper
Category
20th Century Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Graphite
New Viaduct
By Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From: The Cleveland Set (23 plates), No. 1
Edition: Small
Signed in pencil
Image: 7 3/4 x 11 1/2"
Category
1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
Three Sisters
By Will Mentor
Located in New York, NY
Will Mentor received his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and arrived on the New York art scene in the early 1980’s, gaining instant success for what critics referred to as h...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Morning on the East Side
By Jerome Myers
Located in New York, NY
Jerome Myers (1867-1940), Morning on the East Side, c. 1910, colored etching, signed in pencil lower right and annotated “imp.”; numbered and titled (twice) lower left. In very good ...
Category
1910s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color, Etching
'The White House' — 1920s Realism, Washington D.C.
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'White House', etching, edition not stated, c. 1928. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with skillfully-controlled plate tone, on cream wove Japan paper...
Category
1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
'Philadelphia, Broad Street' — 1920s Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Philadelphia – Broad Street', etching, edition not stated, circa 1927. Signed in pencil. Annotated 'Philadelphia Broad St. Showing City Hall', in another hand, in the ...
Category
1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
'Spirit of Buffalo' — 1920s Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Spirit of Buffalo', etching, edition not stated, c. 1927. Signed in pencil. Annotated 'Spirit of Buffalo 522', in another hand, in the bottom right margin. A fine, ric...
Category
1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
'Chicago Harbor' — 1920s Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Chicago Harbor', etching, edition 100, c. 1927. Signed and numbered '87/100' in pencil. Annotated '580 Chicago Harbor', in another hand, in the bottom left margin. A f...
Category
1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
'U.S. Chamber of Commerce' — 1920s Realism, Washington D.C.
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'U.S. Chamber of Commerce', etching, edition not stated, 1928. Signed in pencil. Annotated 'U.S. Chamber of Commerce S/516', in another hand, in the bottom right margin...
Category
1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Spanish Woman with Guitar
By Jan Matulka
Located in New York, NY
Jan Matulka (1890-1972), Spanish Woman with Guitar, lithograph, 1925, an unsigned proof impression. Reference: Flint 13, only a few impressions known...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
CENTER HARBOR, NH
By Ralph L. Boyer
Located in Portland, ME
Boyer, Ralph L. (American, 1879-1952).
CENTRE HARBOR, N.H. Etching, not dated.
Number 12 of the edition of 60. Signed in pencil and inscribed "imp rlb" just below the image.
Further inscribed in the lower margin with the Title, the edition size and number, and the artist's name and "Westport, Conn." where he lived and worked.
9 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches (plate), 13 x 10 1/2 inches (sheet).
Tape residue at the upper corners, else in very good condition.
Boyer was well known as a sporting artist. Derrydale...
Category
Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
The Bubble Blower
By McDermott & McGough
Located in New York, NY
Known for their work in painting, photography, sculpture, and film, McDermott & McGough comprises visual artists David McDermott and Peter McGough, who formed their partnership on th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photogravure
The White & Black Set
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut/lithograph with chine collé and collage
Woodman returned to Shark's in 2015 to make her most recent print "The White & Black Set". The artist poses a set of white a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph, Woodcut
Silky Terrier Painting
Located in New York, NY
Original gouache, probably Belgian for matchbox covers. Mid-20th Century.
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Board, Gouache
Still Life
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Still life woodcut and lithograph on Rives Creme paper.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut, Lithograph
The Anchor
By Arthur John Trevor Briscoe
Located in Storrs, CT
The Anchor. 1930. Etching. Hurst catalog 268 state ii. 7 x 6 3/4 (sheet 10 3/4 x 7 5/8). Edition 275. A rich impression with plate tone printed on antique 'GR' laid paper with a hunting horn countermark. As published in J. Lauer's volume, A complete catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of Arthur Briscoe. One spot in the right-hand sheet; otherwise in excellent condition. Signed in ink Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
The Roaring Forties is the name given to strong westerly winds found in the Southern Hemisphere, generally in the areas between the latitudes of 40 and 50 degrees south in the Southern Hemisphere, where the prevailing winds blow persistently from the west. The roaring forties have strong, often gale-force, winds throughout the year. They were named by the sailors who first entered these latitudes. Norman Wilkinson also etched the subject.
In 1899 he acquired a studio in Malden, Essex, and bought a 3 ton cutter which, with his young family, he would spend eight or nine months a year, sailing to Calais, along the Belgian coast and through the Dutch waterways, constantly sketching and painting in both oil and watercolor.
In 1922, after a meeting with the etcher James McBey, Briscoe returned to etching once more producing plates of some of his sea sketches. The two artists sailed together in Briscoe's, forty-ton yacht, the "Golden Vanity...
Category
1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Entanglement
By Clark Richert
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30
Richert, who was intuitively observing shadows cast by three-dimensional forms, found that one such structure – the rhombic tricontahedron – placed un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'Descente de Croix' (Descent from the Cross) — 1920s French Cubism
By Albert Gleizes
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Albert Gleizes, 'Descente de Croix', color pochoir, 1928, edition c. 50. Signed and dated in pencil. A fine, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (3 to 4 inches), in very good condition. The publisher's ink stamp 'EDITIONS MOLY-SABATA' beneath the image, lower left. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 12 x 14 inches (305 x 356 mm); sheet size 18 x 22 inches (457 x 559 mm).
ABOUT THE IMAGE
After the 1927 painting 'Descente de Croix', one of three religious-themed works that Gleizes developed as preliminaries for murals at the church at Serrières, France, the project was terminated at its final phase, and Gleizes commissioned master printer Robert Pouyaud to create prints of the paintings, closely overseeing the production.
ABOUT THE MEDIUM
Pochoir is a refined stencil-based technique employed to create multiples or to add color to prints produced in other mediums. Characterized by its crisp lines and rich color, the print-making process was most popular from the late 19th century through the 1930s, with its center of activity in Paris. The pochoir process began with the analysis of an image’s composition, including color tones and densities. The numerous stencils (made of aluminum, copper, or zinc) necessary to create a complete image were then designed and hand-cut by the 'découpeur.' The 'coloristes' applied watercolor or gouache pigments through the stencils, skillfully employing a variety of different brushes and methods of paint application to achieve the desired depth of color and textural and tonal nuance. The pochoir process, by its handcrafted methodology, resulted in the finished work producing the effect of an original painting, and in fact, each print was unique.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Albert Gleizes (1881-1953), born in Paris, France, was a pioneering figure in the development of abstract art and one of the leading proponents of Cubism. His contributions to the art world extended beyond his paintings; he was also a prolific writer and theoretician, advocating for a new approach to art that emphasized the geometric abstraction of form and a departure from representational traditions.
Gleizes initially studied painting at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was exposed to the academic conventions of the time. However, his artistic vision was profoundly influenced by encounters with avant-garde movements, including Fauvism and the work of Paul Cézanne. These influences led Gleizes to experiment with form and color, gradually moving away from traditional representation toward a more abstract and geometric style.
After completing his secondary schooling, Gleizes spent four years in the French army and then began pursuing a career as a painter, primarily doing landscapes. Initially influenced by the Impressionists, he was only twenty-one years of age when his work titled ‘La Seine à Asnières’ was exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1902. The following year, he was part of the first Salon d'Automne and soon came under the influence of Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, Jean Metzinger, and Henri Le Fauconnier. In 1907, Gleizes and some of his friends pursued the idea of creating a self-supporting community of artists that would allow them to develop their art free of any commercial concerns. For nearly a year, Gleizes , with other painters, poets, musicians, and writers, lived at a large house in Créteil, but a lack of funds forced them to give up their facility in early 1908, and Gleizes moved temporarily into La Ruche, the artist commune in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris.
In the early 1910s, Gleizes became associated with the Cubist movement, which was spearheaded by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque...
Category
1920s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Stencil
Old Hoadley House
By John Taylor Arms
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image was in the personal collection of the artist. The Wheeler-Beecher House, sometimes referred to as the Hoadley House, is located on Amity Road in Bethany, CT. Built at the ...
Category
1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
UNTITLED COMPOSITION
By De Hirsch Margules
Located in Portland, ME
Margules, De Hirsh. UNTITLED COMPOSITION, Ink on paper, 1962. Inscribed and signed in pencil within the image. 28 x 37 inches, 711 x 940 mm. In very good condition.
Margules (1899-1...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
Man, Dog (Blue), Canoe/Shark Fins (One Yellow), Capsized Boat
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
It is hard to characterize John Baldessari’s varied practice—which includes photomontage, artist’s books, prints, paintings, film, performance, and installation—except through his ap...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
The Gate, Chelsea
By Theodore Casimir Roussel
Located in New York, NY
Theodore Roussel (1847-1926), The Gate, Chelsea; etching and drypoint, 1889-1890, signed on the tab and inscribed imp [also signed in the plate lowere right]. Reference: Hausberg 33, fourth state (of 4), from the total printing of about 43 impressions. In excellent condition, trimmed by the artist all around on the plate mark except for the tab, 8 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches.
A fine impression, printed on a light cream wove paper with plate tone (wiped to brighten the gate and doorway area) and substantial burr in the drypoint work.
According to Hausberg, “The gate and house behind it still stand today at No. 4 Cheyne Walk...
Category
1880s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Untitled (Diptych)
By Fred Sandback
Located in New York, NY
Fred Sandback was a minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints. He majored in philosophy at Yale Universit...
Category
1990s Minimalist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Leaf
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #17 of an edition of 35
Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more . . .
th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
The Bean Eater
By Italo Scanga
Located in New York, NY
Italo Scanga was born in the Calabria region of Italy, and at 14 immigrated to the United States with his family after World War II. Living in Detroit, he worked on the General Motor...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
NUDE IN ARMCHAIR
By Philip Evergood
Located in Portland, ME
Evergood, Philip (American 1901-1973). NUDE IN ARMCHAIR. Pencil on paper, 1950. Signed and dated, lower right, and inscribed, lower left "For David Rust July '52 P.E." 22 1/2 x 18 5...
Category
Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pencil
Aloe Plant Engraving
By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann from "Phytanthosa Iconographia." Ratisbon, 1737-1745.
This plate: N. 304 Caranna.[Palm Tree].
Mezzotint engraving printed in color and f...
Category
Early 18th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Laid Paper
untitled (Reclining Female Nude)
By Charles Harris ( Beni Kosh )
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Aka Beni Kosh
Still Life with Flowers
Colored pencil on paper
Unsigned
Signed with the estate stamp on reverse (see photo)
Estate No. 716
Condition: Soft fold through image, wri...
Category
1960s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Gouache
Snail in a Bowl (Artist Proof inscribed to Fritz Eichenberg)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg.
While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting.
Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked.
Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium.
Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print.
There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...
Category
1980s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
PHOEBE PASSES MY GATE
Located in Portland, ME
Hutty, Alfred. PHOEBE PASSES MY GATE.
Drypoint, c. 1931. Edition size c.75.
8 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (plate), 10 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches (sheet).
Printed on laid paper. In excellent condit...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Gouache, Paper
STELLA PEREGRINA
By Franz Marc
Located in Portland, ME
Marc, Franz (German, 1880-1916).
STELLA PEREGRINA.
FranzHanffstaengl, Munich, 1917. Only edition.
Number 25 of the limited edition of 110.
Folio (18 x 13 inches), parchment-bac...
Category
1910s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color
Sommeil (a sensuous nude woman sleeps on her side)
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
In this mezzotint, the sensual profile of a young nude woman is seen sleeping with her torso stretched out. The mezzotint is signed, titled and dated by the artist in pencil, from a...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
BOUQUET
By Jacques Hnizdovsky
Located in Portland, ME
Hnizdovsky, Jacques. BOUQUET. Tahir 41. Woodcut, 1964. Edition of 150. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 92/150 in pencil. 15 x 18 inches on a sheet 20 x 23 1/2 inches (matted to c....
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
WASHINGTON SQUARE LOOKING NORTH
By Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Located in Portland, ME
Abbott, Berenice. WASHINGTON SQUARE LOOKING NORTH.
Vintage Gelatin Silver print, 1936.
Stamped verso "Federal Art Project/"Changing New York"/Photograp...
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Silver Gelatin
TWO GIRLS
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Portland, ME
Soyer, Raphael. TWO GIRLS. Cole 33.
Lithograph, 1934. A proof aside from the edition of 25,
A trial, or working proof before the edition, inscribed in penc...
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Art Forms in Nature (Plate 49 - Heliactis) — 1988 Celebration of Natural Forms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ernst Haeckel, 'Art Forms in Nature' (Plate 49 - Heliactis), offset lithograph, 1899. Signed and titled in typeset, upper left. Titled 'Tafel 49 — Helia...
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1890s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Pineapple Engraving
By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann from "Phytanthosa Iconographia." Ratisbon, 1737-1745.
This plate: No. 113 Ananas Folio Latiore.
Mezzotint engraving printed in color and...
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Early 18th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Laid Paper
