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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Oyster Bay Sloops.
By Reynolds Beal
Located in New York, NY
This watercolor entitled “Oyster Bay Sloops“ is by Reynolds Beal (1867-1951). The watercolor paper size is 5 x 7 11/16" and the card size is 7 11/16 x 9 3/...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
'Foul Rope (Left)' — early American rodeo
By William Robinson Leigh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Robinson Leigh, 'Foul Rope (Left)', etching, c. 1920, edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove Umbria paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 14 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (378 x 303 mm); sheet size 20 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (518 x 391 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) became one of the foremost painters of the American West. His career spanning some seventy-five years, Leigh created some of the most iconic depictions of the western landscape, admirers referring to him as ‘The Sagebrush Rembrandt’.
The son of impoverished Southern aristocrats, Leigh took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as the best student in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama.
In 1896, Leigh began working as a magazine illustrator in New York City for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine, and he also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes.
Leigh's trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he made an agreement with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, to paint the Grand Canyon in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting, which led to more commissions and an extensive painting trip through Arizona and New Mexico. These travels inspired him to paint western subjects for the next 50 years, his primary interest being the Hopi and Navajo Indians.
In 1910, he traveled to Wyoming, where he painted in Yellowstone Park and created sketches, many of which he later converted into large canvases such as ‘Lower Falls of the Yellowstone’ (1915) and ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ (1911).
In 1926 he traveled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience wrote and illustrated 'Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa'. In 1933, he wrote and illustrated 'The Western Pony'. His adventures were chronicled in a number of popular magazines including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers.
For many years, his work was handled exclusively in New York by Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel. In 1953 Leigh was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, becoming a full Academician in 1955.
In March 1999, the Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, held an exhibition of his field sketches and finished works depicting his experiences near Cody in the early part of the century. These years, between 1910 and 1921, when he often painted in the Carter Mountain vicinity, were considered pivotal to his artistic development and his devotion to the western landscape.
Leigh's work is held in many museum collections of American western art...
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1920s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
View of Piazzo San Marco in Venice
By Pierre Van der Aa
Located in New York, NY
Engraving of Veduta della Piazza di S. Marco, verso L'Horologio by Pierre van der Aa. Printed in 1722. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size, 11 x 13 5/8 in. Has the original center crease.
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1720s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
N is for Nude, from Alphabet Series
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category
1990s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
El Vergponzoso (The Shamefaced One)
By Francisco Goya
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Vergponzoso (The Shamefaced One)
etching & aquatint, 1799
Unsigned (as are all Goya etchings)
From: Los Caprichos, Plate 54
From the First Edition, pri...
Category
1790s Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint
Underwater — Mid-century Modern
By Charles Quest
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Underwater', 1948, chiaroscuro wood engraving, edition 12. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '3/12' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, in dark brown and warm black, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/2 inch), in excellent condition. Scarce.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929 and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters.
After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter, to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium, which he learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’
In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later, Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’, were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’, and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’ was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’
At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951.
Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’.
An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
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1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
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
Handel Organ Concerto Opus No. 4 B Flat Major - III Allegro
By Hildegarde Haas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Handel Organ Concerto Opus 4 No.6 B Flat Major - III Allegro
Watercolor and mixed pigments on paper, c. 1960's
Signed and titled recto (see photos)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 19 3/4...
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1960s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Presence) — 1920s modernism
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Presence), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed in pencil. From a suite of 10 lithographs published by the artist and printed by Ad. Braun & Co., Paris...
Category
1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
QUEEN MARY, LONG BEACH, CA - ORIGINAL ARTIST DESIGN CONCEPT FOR PLACEMENT
Located in Santa Monica, CA
QUEEN MARY, LONG BEACH, CA - ORIGINAL ARTIST DESIGN FOR THE PLACEMENT OF THE SHIP
Watercolor and gouache on board, 20 x 36 inches. Signed and dated by the artist - Segroves, 1969. The original artist concept for the placement in Long Beach Harbor in 1969. Subsequently revised several times.
The Queen after extensive renovation has just reopened to the public on December 14, 2022
Much larger than the Titanic, At 1,019 feet long and 81,000 tons (310 meters and 73,500 metric tons), the Queen Mary was one of the largest and most elegant ships of the early 20th century.
From Wikipedia:
The RMS Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard-White Star Line and built by John...
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1960s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Tree at Night
By Werner Drewes
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WERNER DREWES (German-American 1899-1985)
TREE AT NIGHT, 1964 (Rose 241)
Color woodcut Signed titled, dated and numbered 40 /210 all in pencil below image. Image 11 1/8 x 15 7/8 inc...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
'The Deluge' from 'The Temple of the Muses' — 18th Century Engraving
By Bernard Picart
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Picart, 'The Deluge' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate and dated
'1730' lower left. Titled in French, English, German, and Dutch. A superb...
Category
1730s Baroque International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Plate V, Le Cocu Magnifique
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate V, Le Cocu Magnifique
Etching, 1968
Unsigned
From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions printed on Rives BFK paper
There is also a signed ed...
Category
1960s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Wild Garden
By Robert Kushner
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph/diptych, Edition 25.
The artist describes this project:
Two years ago, I had the very good fortune to be invited to paint in the South of France. My studio was an ...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Solitary One in Autumn—after Gustav Mahler's 'The Song of the Earth'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Paunzen, 'Der Einsame im Herbst' (The Solitary One in Autumn) from the suite 'Song of the Earth', etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1920. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 3/8 to 4 1/8 inches), in good condition. Image size 12 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches; sheet size 19 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Pauzen’s suite of six etchings 'Das Lied von der Erde' (The Song of the Earth), published in 1920, was inspired by Gustav Mahler...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
Moses Breaking the Tablet of the Law (after Parmigianino. 1503-1540)
By Daniel Ramée
Located in Storrs, CT
Moses Breaking the Tablet of the Law. (after Parmigianino. 1503-1540.) Pencil drawing mounted onto paper. 12 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Collector's seal verso: Gustav Grunwald, (Lugt 1155b)...
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19th Century Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Pencil
The Drunkard in Spring —after Gustav Mahler's 'The Song of the Earth'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Paunzen, 'Der Trunkene im Frühling' (The Drunkard in Spring) from the suite 'Song of the Earth', etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1920. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/4 to 4 1/4 inches), in good condition. Image size 12 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches; sheet size 19 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Pauzen’s suite of six etchings 'Das Lied von der Erde' (The Song of the Earth), published in 1920, was inspired by Gustav Mahler...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
St. Paul's Church (St. Paul's Chapel, New York City)
By Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
B.J.O. Nordfeldt, 'St. Paul's Church' (St. Pauls' Chapel), etching, edition not stated, c. 1915. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with skillfully controlled plate tone, printed on off-white, antique, laid paper; the full sheet with margins (5/8 to 2 1/4 inches), in very good condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
An impression of this work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
A solo exhibition of Nordfeldt’s etchings and woodcuts was presented by the Smithsonian Institution in 1926. In 1920, Nordfeldt had a one-man show at the Chicago Arts Club. In 1926, he won the bronze medal at the sesquicentennial exposition in Philadelphia and the Logan Medal at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1927, he won the first annual prize from the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, and the following year he won first prize from the Chicago Society of Etchers. In 1929, Nordfeldt had a one-man show at the Denver Art Museum. Nordfeldt's work is held in numerous museum collections including Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Ft. Worth; Anschutz Collection, Denver; Art Institute of Chicago; Biblioteque d’Art et d’Archeologie, Paris; British Museum, London; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; National Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
ABOUT ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL
St. Paul's Chapel, nicknamed "The Little Chapel That Stood", is an Episcopal chapel located at 209 Broadway, between Fulton Street and Vesey Street, in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1766, it is the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan, and one of the nation's finest examples of Late Georgian church architecture. It is a New York City Landmark and a National Historic Landmark.
The Hearts of Oak, a militia unit organized early in the American Revolutionary War, and composed in part of King's College (later, Columbia University) students, would drill in the Chapel's yard before classes nearby. Alexander Hamilton was an officer of this unit. The chapel survived the Great New York City Fire of 1776 when a quarter of New York City (then confined to the lower tip of Manhattan), including Trinity Church, burned following the British capture of the city after the Battle of Long Island during the American Revolutionary War. George Washington, along with members of the United States Congress, worshipped at St. Paul's Chapel on his Inauguration Day, April 30, 1789. Washington also attended services at St. Paul's during the two years New York City was the country's capital. Above Washington's pew is an 18th-century oil painting of the Great Seal of the United States, adopted in 1782.
The rear of St. Paul's Chapel faces Church Street, opposite the east side of the World Trade Center site. After the attacks on September 11, 2001, which led to the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, St. Paul's Chapel served as a place of rest and refuge for recovery workers at the WTC site. For eight months, hundreds of volunteers worked 12-hour shifts around the clock, serving meals, making beds, counseling and praying with firefighters, construction workers, police, and others. Massage therapists, chiropractors, podiatrists, and musicians also tended to their needs.
The church survived without even a broken window. Church history declares it was spared by a miracle sycamore on the northwest corner of the property that was hit by debris. The tree's root has been preserved in a bronze memorial...
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1910s American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
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
La Capeline de Paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat).
By Henri Matisse
Located in Storrs, CT
La Capeline de Paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat). 1923. Lithograph. Duthuit 430. 17 3/4 x 15 3/4 (sheet 23 1/8 x 17 7/8). Trial proof, apart fr...
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Early 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original Drawing for the NEW MASSES - 19.5" x 15"
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ADOLF DEHN (1895 – 1968)
ORIGINAL ART FOR THE COVER OF THE NEW MASSES, c.1930. Original ink drawing. Signed in ink lower right. Sheet and image 19 1/2 x 15...
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1930s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
India Ink
Arbre-Homme (Tree-Man) —Mid-Century Surrealism
By Ferdinand Springer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ferdinand Springer, 'Arbre-Homme', engraving, 1945, edition 23. Signed and numbered '23/20' in pencil.
A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, b...
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1940s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Xiao Lu
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph/triptych, Ed. 25.
Hung Liu’s Xiao Lu triptych was inspired by the artist’s encounters with two fallen deer. In November of 2008, Liu was taking a morning walk in the Oakland hills...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Cavalcade.
By Marius Bauer
Located in Storrs, CT
A Cavalcade. 1888. Etching. Wisselingh 107. 4 5/8 x 4 (sheet 11 5/8 x 8 3/4). Edition 100, #46. A richly inked impression printed on Strasbourg cream laid paper. Printed on the ful...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Earth Tie (Stoned Moon Series)
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Houston, TX
Robert Rauschenberg
Earth Tie (Stoned Moon Series), 1969
Color lithograph
48 x 34 inches
Edition of 48
Category
Mid-20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pair of Floral Still Life Paintings
Located in Storrs, CT
A pair of floral still life paintings. The first painting depicts 2 bouquets, one in a large white vase and the second in a small blue one,...
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20th Century Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
Mlle. Celine and Escort (Celine is a dancer former mistress of Mister Rochester)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Eichenberg did some original wood engravings for "Jane Eyre." Céline Varens was Adèle's mother and Mr. Rochester's former mistress. A French opera dancer, Céline pretended to ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Wood, Engraving
Pear Engraving
By Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Located in New York, NY
Redouté, Pierre Joseph.
Poire Tarquin. Le Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs.
Paris, 1827.
Original engraving hand colored at the time of publication.
Category
Early 1800s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
'Search' — Australian Romanticism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Balfour Garrett, 'Search', monotype in colors, c. 1910, a unique impression. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, painterly impression with fresh colors, on off-white, wove ...
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1910s Romantic International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Monotype
Terres de Grand Feu, (Land of Great Fire)
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derriere le miroir, no. 87-88-89. Pages 6-7
Terres de Grand Feu, (Land of Great Fire)
Color lithograph, 1956
From: Derriere le Miroir, Volume 87-8...
Category
1950s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Tropical Wash Day' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Tropical Wash Day', aquatint, edition 100, 1946. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy cream wove paper, with full...
Category
1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint
'Three Masted Ship, 2' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Three Masted Ship, 2 (Dreimastiges Schiff, 2)', woodcut, 1937, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W296. Feininger estate stamp and inventory no. 'W 865' in pencil, bottom left sheet corner. Annotated 'W 296' and 'on block : 3702a' in pencil, bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid, letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 1/4 x 2 11/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 6 3/4 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
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1930s Bauhaus International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Looking Away (a sensual young woman reflects on her future as she ponders past)
By Tom Leveritt
Located in New Orleans, LA
A pencil drawing
Tom Leveritt (1976) was raised in Texas, sent to boarding school in the UK, got a first at Cambridge, an Army Scholarship into the 5th Ro...
Category
2010s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Pencil
'Little Locomotive' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Little Locomotive (Kleine Lokomotive)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W158. Annotated 'W 158' (Feininger catalogue number) and '1936' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 1/4 x 3 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (East Berlin KK).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
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1930s Bauhaus International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
St. Astruell, England — 1910 watercolor
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever, 'St. Astruell, England', watercolor, 1910. Signed in pencil, lower right. Titled and dated on the original inside mat. A fine spontaneous work, with fresh colors, on cr...
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1930s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Mere
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mere
Etching and soft ground, 1970
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil
Printed in colors by Hector Saunier on BFK Rives paper
Published by Georgetown Graphics, Washington, D...
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1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Color is Life — Mid-Century Abstract Expressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ernest A. Dieringer, Untitled ('Color is Life'), watercolor, 1959. Initialed 'ED' and dated ' '59' in red pencil at the top and bottom sheet edges—the artist's indication that the work can be viewed from either side. Signed 'Dieringer' in pencil, in the bottom support board margin.
A fine abstract expressionist work; watercolor on white wove paper, with fresh, bright colors; the image extending to the sheet edges, spot glued to the original cream wove backing board, in very good condition. Image size 9 x 10 15/16 inches; backing board size 13 1/2 x 16 3/4 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Provenance: ex. Collection Alexander Raydon. The collector/dealer's well-known 'Raydon Gallery' was established in 1962 on 82nd Street and Madison Avenue, New York City.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ernest Dieringer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago on a National Scholastic Scholarship, beginning his career with the Chicago-based Wells Street Gallery in 1957. He showed his work with other abstract artists, including Robert Natkin and John Chamberlain. The gallery was considered a vanguard space in Chicago for exhibiting emerging abstract artists from the surrounding area. Artists associated with the gallery eventually became known as the Wells Street Group. Due to the success of the gallery, Dieringer and other group members were invited by the Manhattan-based contemporary art dealer...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
SELF-PORTRAIT.
By Jim Dine
Located in Portland, ME
Dine, Jim (Americn, born 1935). SELF-PORTRAIT. Etching, 1975. Edition of 25, signed, numbered 15/25, and dated, all in pencil. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (plate), 20 x 16 inches (sheet). P...
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1970s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Purple Tulips 1, from The Flowers Portfolio
By Alex Katz
Located in London, GB
Archival pigment print, 2021, on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 100, Lococo Publishing, Missouri, 80 x 119 cm. (31½ x 46¾ in.)
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Schutzt Das Kind! Automobil-Club der Schweiz
By Muller-Brockmann, Josef.
Located in New York, NY
Muller-Brockmann, Josef. Schutzt Das Kind! Automobil-Club der Schweiz 1953. On linen
Offset. Minor imperfection otherwise in good condition
50 x 35 7/8".
Pioneer of Swiss Graphic...
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1950s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Offset
Toilet
By Eric Gill
Located in Storrs, CT
Toilet. (After a drawing by Norval Gray.) 1923. Wood engraving on sycamore, end grain. Physick 256. 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 (sheet 5 5/8 x 4 1/8). Proof printed on sturdy Japanese mulberry lai...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut, Engraving
Ifafa I
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Lithograph with varnish, 1968, with LC Varnish on Lowell paper, signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 100, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles., sheet: 41.3 x 56.8 cm. (...
Category
1960s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Chair & rooftoop
By Robert Kipniss
Located in New York, NY
“Chair & rooftop” is a mezzotint engraving created by Robert Kipniss in 2015. Printed in an edition of 30 this impression is signed in pencil and inscribed "27/30." The paper size i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Standing Curve
By Herbert Bayer
Located in New York, NY
Herbert Bayer
Standing Curve, 1975
screenprint, edition of 50
32 x 32 in./81.3 x 81.3 cm
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
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
THE THREE GRACES
Located in Portland, ME
Barrer, Gertrude (American, 1921-19920. THE THREE GRACES. Oil on panel. Signed "Barrer," lower left. Not dated. 27 1/2 X 20 1/2 inches, framed to 29 x...
Category
Mid-20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
UNTITLED
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Portland, ME
Agam, Yaacov, (Jacob Gipstein) (Israeli, b. 1928). UNTITLED. Screenprint in colors, not dated. Edition of 180, signed in blue pencil, and numbered 80/180. 26 3/8 x 33 1/4 inches, 669...
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Mid-20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Hyde Park, England, 1904
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever 'Hyde Park, London, England, 1904', watercolor, 1904. Signed 'HL' in pencil, lower right. Titled and dated in pencil, in the bottom left margin....
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
AUS DEM TIERGARTEN
By Lovis Corinth
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LOVIS CORINTH (1858-1925)
AUS DEM TIERGARTEN 1920 (Schwartz 397)
Drypoint, signed and numbered 47/50. BEAUTIFUL IMPRESSION with RICH DRYPOINT. Plate 9 ½ x 12 ½ inches. Full margins...
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1920s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
'Commuters' — Early 20th-Century Modernism
By George Josimovich
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Josimovich, 'Commuters', linocut, 1922-23, edition 20. Signed, dated '22, titled, and annotated '9/20' in pencil. Initialed in the block 'G.J....
Category
1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Linocut
Actor Portrait
By Utagawa Kunisada III
Located in New York, NY
Kunisada, Utagawa.
[Actor portrait.]
Japan, ca. 1855.
Original woodblock print.
Category
Mid-19th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Wild Pilgrimage, No. 26
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Wild Pilgrimage', No. 26, wood engraving, 1932, edition not stated but very small. Signed in pencil. A fine, black impression, with full margins (1 1/16 to 3 3/16 inches), on tissue-thin cream Japan paper, in very good condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Created by Lynd Ward for his narrative book of illustrations without words, 'Wild Pilgrimage', published by Harrison Smith...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
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
'Feast of Passover' — American Expressionism
By Max Weber
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Max Weber, Untitled 'Feast of Passover', woodcut, 1920, edition proofs—this impression from the edition of 25 printed in 1956, Rubenstein 30. Signed in pencil...
Category
1920s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Kintai Bridge at Iwakuni in Suo Province (Suo iwakuni kintai-bashi), 1859
By Hiroshige II
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Utagawa Hiroshige II (1829-1869), 'Kintai Bridge at Iwakuni in Suo Province' (Suo iwakuni kintai-bashi), from the series 'One Hundred Views of Famous Pla...
Category
1850s Edo International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES
Located in Portland, ME
Michallet (attributed). ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES. Four Charcoal drawings, each on heavy wove paper, 19th Century. 24 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches (s...
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Mid-19th Century Academic International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Charcoal
Harlem Beauty (Negress, Negro Girl, Black Girl)
By Werner Drewes
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Harlem Beauty' ('Negress', 'Negro Girl', 'Black Girl'), woodcut, 1930, edition 30, Rose lll.42. Signed, dated, numbered '1 - XXX', and titled 'Negress' in ...
Category
1930s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Of Youth —after Gustav Mahler's 'The Song of the Earth'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Paunzen, 'Von der Jugend' (Of Youth) from the suite 'Song of the Earth', etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1920. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/4 to 4 1/4 inches), in good condition. Image size 12 1/4 x 9 1/16 inches; sheet size 19 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Pauzen’s suite of six etchings 'Das Lied von der Erde' (The Song of the Earth), published in 1920, was inspired by Gustav Mahler...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
