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Salvador Dali : The Blue Horsemen, Original signed print, Field #73-1 J
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI (1904–1989)
The Blue Horsemen
Original print (etching)
Signed on the plate
On Japanese paper, 28 x 38 cm (11 x 14.9 in)
REFERENCES:
- Field Catalogue Raisonné #73-1 J...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Lluvia de Toros - Etching by Francisco Goya, Modern Style, 1877
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and aquatint on laid paper.
Additional plate from the Series "Los Proverbios", realized in 1815 and printed by François Liénard in the posthumous paris Edition of 1877.
Pub...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
YOSEMITE - Stunning California Landscape By a Master of the Aquatint
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD L. DOOLITTLE (1883 - 1974)
YOSEMITE 1924
Aquatint signed and titled in pencil and dated in the plate lower left 1924. Image 9 ¾ x 13 ¾, sheet 12 x 16 ¾. Doolittle excelled i...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
The Kiss - Etching, (Ed. Goupil, 1897)
Located in Paris, IDF
Auguste RODIN (1840–1917) (after)
The Kiss, 1897
Heliogravure retouched with drypoint (Goupil Studio)
Unsigned
Limited edition of 125 unnumbered copies
On vellum, 42.5 x 31 cm (16.7...
Category
1890s Academic Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Blustery Clouds, Stormy Sky Landscape, Blue Tones, Extra Large Cyanotype, Paper
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Blustery Clouds" is an cyanotype of the semi-abstract patterns of clouds in the sky after a storm.
Details:
+ Title: Blu...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Emulsion, Watercolor, Etching, Lithograph
Detail of the Entrance Vault (bronze green), Engraving
Located in Paris, IDF
Henry CLEWS (1876–1937)
Detail of the Entrance Vault, 1959
Engraving (transferred to copper by Bacons-Duplessis and André Collot)
Unsigned
Authenticated by Henry Clews’s studio stam...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching


