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Art For Sale
Period: Early 1900s
Color:  Beige
Lioness i- Etching by Evert Louis van Muyden - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Lioness is a modern artwork realized by Evert Louis van Muyden (Albano, Lazio 1853 - 1922 Orsay) in 1900 . Black and white etching. Signature and date on plate. Includes passe-pa...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Eagle on Snow Covered Pine — Showa Woodblock Print
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ohara Koson (1877-1945), 'Eagle on Snow Covered Pine', color woodblock print, c. 1905. Signed 'Koson' with the artist’s red seal 'Koson'. A very fine impression, with fresh colors on cream Japan paper; embossing in the snow-laden branches and the falling snow rendered with hand-splashed ‘gofun.' The full sheet in excellent condition; stamped 'MADE IN JAPAN' lower left, verso. Published by Nishinomiya Yosaku; a pre-WWII impression. Image size 13 11/16 x 7 7/16 inches (348 x 189 mm); sheet size 14 1/2 x 8 1/8 inches (368 x 206 mm). Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Literature: 'Crows, Cranes, and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson', Newland, Amy R.: Jan Perree & Robert Schaap, Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2001. pg. 86, pl. 67. ABOUT THE ARTIST Koson Ohara...
Category

Early 1900s Showa Art

Materials

Woodcut

A piggybank, circa 1960s, cold-painted iron, with a coin-slot
Located in London, GB
A piggybank, 19th/early 20th Century, cold-painted iron, with a coin-slot in his back 9 x 17 x 7 in. (22.8 x 43.2 x 17.8 cm.)
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Landscapes with Characters in Pair
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
RIVES Antony (19th Century) Landscapes with characters in pair Two Oils on wood panels signed lowright and left Annotation on the back : " Banks of the Aude River near Carcassonne in August 1904" Stamp from Senelier, famous hardware dealer settled in Paris Framed by Gault (Paris) DIm wood panel (each) : 24 X 33 cm Dim frame : 38 X 47 cm RIVES Antony (19th Century) French 19th Century born in Carcassonne Painter of Landscape Antony Rives was a pupil of Jean Jalabert and Adolphe Yvon...
Category

Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Kees Van Dongen Circus Performers 1900s Vintage Vibrant Figure Fauvist Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Les Artistes du Cirque" is an original painting in ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper by leading Fauvist artist Kees Van Dongen, signed in the lower right. In the piece, two circus performers stand against against a wall. On the left, a pale woman in a blue leotard with red flowers on the shoulder stands with her arms crossed, looking out at the viewer. The painter fills in her tights with delicate white brushstrokes, lending them an almost iridescent appearance. Her strawberry blond hair is piled on top of her hair according to the fashion of the period. On the right, an African man stands in a vivid orange toga, looking somewhere off to the left. His feet are clad in bright white shoes...
Category

Early 1900s Fauvist Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Danaë" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Danaë, no. 2 from the fourth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Danae originates from Greek mythology. She is the daughter of the King of Argos. Because a...
Category

Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage Motorsport Poster Circuit Des Ardennes Belge 1906 Arthur Duray
Located in London, GB
Original antique motorsport poster promoting Circuit Des Ardennes Belge 1906 race winner Arthur Duray - Design features red and green cars racing on ...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper

Original poster for the Chemins de fer d'Orléans et du Midi Grotte de Lacave
Located in PARIS, FR
G. Mantelet's Circa 1900 poster for the Chemins de fer d'Orléans et du Midi, titled "Les Grottes de Lacave - Gares de Souillac et de Rocamadour (Lot)," invites viewers on a subterran...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Original Antique Train Travel Poster Scottish National Exhibition Edinburgh
Located in London, GB
Original antique train travel advertising poster for Scotland - Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest & de Brighton / Western and Brighton Railways Scottish National Exhibition Edinburgh May to ...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper

Almanacco dell'Asino 1902 - Rare Book - 1902
Located in Roma, IT
Almanac of the popular magazine " L'Asino ", founded in 1892 by Guido Podrecca (Goliardo) and Gabriele Galantara (Ratalanga), considered as one of the most important twentieth-centur...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Original Antique Educational Poster Cultivated Plant Friends And Enemies Birds
Located in London, GB
Original antique educational poster - Our cultivated plants, their friends and enemies - featuring numbered illustrations of an apple tree ...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper

Fyvie (Lord Leith of Fyvie.) by Sir Leslie Ward
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic Vanity Fair Supplement by Spy aka Sir Leslie Ward colour print of the yachtsman, "Fyvie" aka Lord Leith of Fyvie Alexander John Forbes-Leith, 1...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper

Temple of Isis, View of Philae (verso)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Temple of Isis Philae (verso) Dpouoble sided watercolor, 1902 Signed on front lower left: "Henry Bacon" and dated 1902 Note: The Temple of Isis is located on the Island of Philae at ...
Category

Early 1900s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

The Odes and Epodes of Horace
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Title-page illustration published in The Odes and Epodes of Horace, (Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1901). A beautiful and detailed image that displays Pyle's exquisite brush work.
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Ink, Pen

Original "Saxoleine Petrole Surete" vintage stone lithograph 1900
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Saxoleine Petrole de Surete, artist Jules Cheret. Linen-backed turn-of-the-century original stone lithograph poster advertising Saxoleine, a lamp oil. The glow from this l...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Lithograph

German late 19th century children flying in a plane in an early plane
Located in Woodbury, CT
Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and Josef Mathias Trenkwald. He wo...
Category

Early 1900s Victorian Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Early 20th century Austrian/German kids playing together in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and J...
Category

Early 1900s Victorian Art

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Young boy giving flowers to his girlfriend, German early 20th century
Located in Woodbury, CT
Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and J...
Category

Early 1900s Victorian Art

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper

'London to Brighton Coach', Massachusetts, National Academy of Design, Horses
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'George H Harrington' (American, 1833-1911) and painted circa 1900. A substantial and animated coaching scene enlivened by the artist's acute and humorous observation of character and fine equestrian painting. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, George Harrington is known for his, often humorous, anecdotes of American life in the pre-industrial age. His subjects included polo matches, carriage rides and coaching scenes, and pastoral landscapes. After a professional career in business, Harrington studied art and subsequently became a successful landscape and equestrian painter. He exhibited widely and with success including at the National Academy of Design (1888), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Boston Athenaeum and at the Boston Art Club of which he was a member. Reference: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, page 1465; A Biographical Index of American Artists, Ralph Clifton Smith...
Category

Early 1900s Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Paper, Gouache

Steamships
Located in Lawrence, NY
We fell in love with this highly atmospheric, nearly abstract image of steamships, c. 1900, by American impressionist painter Frederic Usher Devoll. You c...
Category

Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil Pastel

German 19th century watercolor of children flying in a plane over a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and Josef Mathias Trenkwald. He wo...
Category

Early 1900s Victorian Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Early 20th century Dutch looking children having fun by Austrian painter
Located in Woodbury, CT
Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and J...
Category

Early 1900s Victorian Art

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Thistles
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Crayon, Watercolor

Antique, Pencil Portrait of a Woman
Located in Newport Beach, CA
An initialed, Turn-of-the-century pencil drawing of a seated woman by listed, multi talented French artist, Louis Valtat (1869-1952). Titled on the reverse Élégante Assise (Seated El...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Graceful, Alabaster, Architecture Model
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Beautifully carved, Grand Tour period architectural model featuring fluted columns surmounted by Corinthian capitals and a relief carved pediment above a raised base inset with a fl...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Alabaster, Marble

Original Antique Travel Poster Great Northern Railway Ireland Hotels Bundoran
Located in London, GB
Original antique northern Ireland travel poster - Hotels Bundoran Rostrevor County Donegal & County Down Ireland - features two picturesque views depicting holiday makers enjoying the sandy beach at the seaside with beach huts and walks along the cliffs in front the grand hotels and hills in the background, the title with the Great Northern Railway Ireland...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper

Antique Tropical 19th Century Landscape Original Oil Painting Flower Path
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 17.5L x 13.75H. Signed.
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Antique Newspaper Advertising Poster The Weekly Telegraph On The Road
Located in London, GB
Original antique newspaper advertising poster - The Weekly Telegraph On The Road - featuring an illustration of a smiling man in a long white coat, ...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper

The Jester
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist Collier's Illustrated Weekly Cover, October 25, 1902
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Oil

1900s Marble Relief Rondelle
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Hand-carved, white marble, relief medallion of famous Danish sculptor, Betel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) who has an entire museum dedicated to his work in Copenhagen.
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Marble, Iron

Ex Libris - Woodcut by Joseph Plana Dorca - 1904
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Joseph Plana Dorca is a Modern Artwork realized in 1904, by the Spanish Author Joseph Plana Dorca. Ex Libris. B/W woodcut on ivory paper. The work is glued on card...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Beautiful L.A.F. by Pietro Mascagni- 1909
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful L.A.F. (signed autograph letter) of two handwritten pages, made by Pietro Mascagni on 18-8-1909 on the headed paper of the Teatro Costanzi in Rome and addressed to Prof. U...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Kiss" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
The Kiss, no. 1 from the fifth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Undoubtedly Klimt’s best known and most reproduced images, this printed version of The Kiss is the only one with which Klimt was directly involved. Unveiled at Vienna’s Kunstschau 1908, and saved for the fifth and final delivery of Das Werk, The Kiss marks a triumph in Klimt’s career and represents a culmination of many themes in his oeuvre up to that point. After all of the controversy surrounding the State’s prior rejection of the University murals commissioned from Klimt, the Ministry of Education reversed their policy toward the artist with a show of wholehearted support by purchasing for the Osterreichische Galerie BelvedereThe Kiss while it still hung in the Kunstschau exhibit. Considered in relation to the eight multicolored collotypes which preceded its print debut in the Das Werk portfolio, The Kiss literally embraces all which came before it. The golden seaweed dangling in tresses from the lovers’ feet harkens back to Water Snakes I and II. The bed of flowers evokes the settings Klimt created in both The Golden Knight and The Sunflower. In fact, this image sprung out of a particularly happy summer spent in the company of Klimt’s lover, Emilie Floge...
Category

Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art

Materials

Handmade Paper

Resting Lady, Roma /// Antique Rome Italian Watercolor Figurative Landscape Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Filippo Bartolini (Italian, 1861-1908) Title: "Resting Lady, Roma" *Signed by Bartolini lower right Circa: 1900 Medium: Original Watercolor on heavy wove paper Framing: Rece...
Category

Early 1900s Victorian Art

Materials

Watercolor

Circa 1900 rare original Poster for the brand Automoto Motorcycles and bicycles
Located in PARIS, FR
A superb poster, very old, realized around the years 1900 for the brand Automoto. Automoto is a brand of motorcycles and bicycles 🚲 originating in Saint-Etienne. It was launched in 1899 by developing a copy of the De Dion...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Calèche à Falaise
Located in Basel, CH
RAOUL DUFY (LE HAVRE, 1877 – FORCALQUIER, 1953) Calèche à Falaise 1905 Huile sur toile 78 x 64 cm. Signée en bas à gauche Certificat Fanny Guillon-Lagaille
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Oil

Old Man - Drawing By Ricardo Florés - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Old Man is a pencil and charcoal Drawing realized by Ricardo Flores in 1900. Good condition on a cream colored cardboard. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner. Rica...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Charcoal, Pencil

Overview of Commugny, Switzerland
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Plexiglass front and back of the work 48 x 41 x 6 cm Recipe on the back of the work written by the artist's hand
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Original 'Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame" vintage 1904 opera poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Le Jongleur de Notre Dame” vintage opera poster. The music was by Jules Massenet. Artist: Georges Rochengrosse. Archival linen b...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Lithograph

Circa 1900 Original vintage poster to promote Veuve Amiot champagne in Shanghai
Located in PARIS, FR
Original vintage poster made around 1900 to promote Veuve Amiot champagne on the Chinese market. It was Elisa Amiot who founded the Veuve Amiot house in 1...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Mythological Composition - Original Etching by Fernand Cormon - 1902
Located in Roma, IT
Mythological Composition is an Original Etching realized by Fernand Cormon (1854-1924) in 1902. Good condition, included a cardboard passpartout (45x63 cm). Hand signed by the artist on the lower right corner. Printed by M. Albert Hornung. Fernand Cormon (24 December 1845 – 20 March 1924) was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Etching

French in Africa - Woodcut - 1903
Located in Roma, IT
French in Africa is a woodcut on ivory-colored paper realized by an anonymous French artist in 1903. Signed on the plate on the lower right, illegible. Good Conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is created in a realistic style...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

One Thousand and One Night - the Harem - 1906
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 17.7 x 13.5 cm. One Thousand and One Night - the Harem is an amazing black and white héliogravure on paper, realized in 1906 by the Aus...
Category

Early 1900s Symbolist Art

Materials

Engraving

Original 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' vintage theater poster art nouveau
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Uncle Tom's Cabin. Original lithograph. Museum Linen Backed. Date: c. 1900 Printer: Ackermann-Quigley, Kansas City. This Uncle Tom's Cabin is an Original Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction. This poster is conservation-mounted, linen-backed, and in good condition. A Certificate of Authenticity comes with all of our posters. Ready to frame This poster is for the stage performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The man depicted in the image is 'Marks' who was one of the slave clatters in this novel. Harriet Beecher Stowe...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Art nouveau style poster presenting Le Bruyant Alexandre - Cabaret - Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Art nouveau style poster from the beginning of the 20th century presenting Le Bruyant Alexandre in his realistic cabaret printed by the Thill printing ho...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Original advertising poster of the beginning of the XXth century Tunmer & Co
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful advertising poster of the beginning of the XXth century and of Art Nouveau style, signed P. F. Grignon. It is an advertisement for the brand A. A. Tunmer & Co and its vario...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

A L'Ombre (In Shadow)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A L'Ombre (In Shadow) Etching & drypoint, 1905 Signed with the red stamp of the publisher Pellet (see photo) Edition: 50 on velin paper, signed and numbered Publisher: Gustav Pellet, Paris (his red stamp lower right, recto; Lugt 1193) Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 5-7/8 x 8-5/8" (14.8 x 21.8 cm.) Sheet size: 11 5/8 x 17 1/8" Reference: IFF 119 Exteens 229 Arwas 256 v/V Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906. Life Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops. Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all." Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine. Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891. In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes). Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others. He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion. Books illustrated de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905. Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Etching

Circa 1900 Original poster by Dudley Hardy : An Artist's Model
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful poster of the beginning of the XIXth century by Dudley Hardy : An Artist's Model - George Edwardes company Dudley Hardy (1867 - 1922) was an English painter and illustrator. His interest in illustration led him to produce posters of French graphic influence, including the Yellow Girl...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Art nouveau style poster by Lewis Baumer
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful art nouveau style poster by Lewis Baumer illustrating the seasons of fall and winter. Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer is best known as an Engli...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Whalers Shack on the Northern California Coast - Watercolor Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene depiction of a Whaling shack circa 1900 near Davenport, California attributed to Lillian Josephine (Dake) Heath (19th century). Monogram on Verso "J. H. 1900". Dated and initialed on verso "J. H. Feb. 1900" Presented in a new white mat with foam core backing. Mat size: 14"H x 18"W Paper size: 9.25"H x 13.25"W Lillian Heath was one of the Jolly Daubers at the turn of the 19th-century and as a young student, married the senior artist and instructor, Frank Heath...
Category

Early 1900s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Art nouveau style poster by Lewis Baumer
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful art nouveau style poster by Lewis Baumer illustrating the seasons of Spring and Summer Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer is best known as an Engl...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

En passant (Passing by)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En passant (Passing by) Drypoint, 1909 Unsigned (as issued in the deluxe portfolio) From the album "Les Bars" (8 plates plus cover illustration) Edition: 30, this state with remarque Published by Gustav Pellet, Paris A very rich impression wwith burr Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 9 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches Reference: Arwas 391a (remarque) Exteens 277 i/II IFF 148 (portfolio) Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906. Life Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops. Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all." Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine. Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891. In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes). Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others. He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion. Books illustrated de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905. Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Drypoint

Woman in an Interior - Drawing by Claudin Felix - 1890
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in an Interior is a pencil drawing realized by Claudin Felix in 1890. Good condition on a brown paper included a white cardboard passpartout (25x16 cm). No signature.
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Fruit Trees by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime landscape collotype, 1908-1912
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Impressionist Fruit Trees landscape, painted in 1901. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300. Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published Das Werk Gustav Klimts...
Category

Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art

Materials

Paper

"Karibo Vincitore Del (Italiano) Derby Real" 1901
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 22"H x 15 3/4"W Frame Sz: 30"H x 24"W Classic sporting colour plate by G. De Blaas featuring 'Karibo Vincitore Del (Italiano) Derby Real 1901 publis...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Farmhouse in Buchberg by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Farmhouse in Buchberg (Upper Austrian Farmhouse), painted in 1911. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300. Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published Das Werk Gustav Klimts...
Category

Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art

Materials

Paper

La Toilette
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Toilette Drypoint, 1908 Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos) Edition: 65 this state (35/65) Published by Gustave Pellet (1859-1919),...
Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Drypoint

The Couple - Original Etching After F. Goya - 1900 ca
Located in Roma, IT
The Couple is an original lithograph realized after Francisco Goya in 1900 ca. Good conditions except for foxings. Passepartout included: 48.5 x 40 cm. The artwork represents an e...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Lithograph

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