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Medium: Etching
Abstract Etching - La Dernière Porte (The Last Door)
Located in Houston, TX
Color etching entitled "La Dernière Porte or the Last Door." Signed "MC Havel" in pencil lower right. Numbered 11/12 lower left. Displayed on a white mat with a golden border and fit...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Etching
The Magicians L'Illusioniste
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: The Magicians L'Illusioniste
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris
EDITION NUMBER: 68/100
MEASUREMENTS: Paper: 1...
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1960s Surrealist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
The Old Horse - Etching by Giovanni Fattori - 1900-1908 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20.2 x 15.3 cm.
The Old Horse is a superb original etching (on copper matrix) on paper, signed on plate by the Italian Macchiaioli master...
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Cascades No. 1
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil, 28/30. Imaginary landscape with waterfalls, incredibly fine line work in this small etching.
François Houtin was...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
$100 Sale Price
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Views of London: A Pair of Framed 19th Century Engravings by Havell and Allom
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a pair of framed hand-colored prints, both utilizing engraving and etching techniques, depicting two London architectural landmarks: "The National Gallery, Charing Cross" and "Covent Garden Market" from the Stationers' Almanac, published in London by J. Robins & Sons in the early 19th century. Both of these prints show vibrant London street scenes with markets, carriages, common people as well as the wealthy in the foreground of "Covent Garden Market" and wealthy well dressed people, carriages, a begger, street merchants, as well as uniformed military on horseback in the foreground of "The National Gallery". "The National Gallery, Charing Cross" was created by James Sands from a painting by Thomas Allom (1804-1872), published in 1836. "Covent Garden Market" was created by Frederick James Havell (1801–1840/41) after a painting by William Havell...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Untitled from BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC 1986-87
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Rising to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s, American artist Julian Schnabel is known for a multidisciplinary practice that spans painting, sculpture and film. During his ...
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1980s Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Archival Paper, Aquatint
Vieillard au Bonnet Fendu (B265), Heliogravure by Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - Vieillard au Bonnet Fendu (B265). Year: 1878 (of original 1640), Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 6 x 5.5 in. (15.24 x ...
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Late 19th Century Baroque Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Berthe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Berthe
Etching with drypoint, 1883
Signed in the plate (see photo)
This etching was inspired by an 1882/3 pastel which the artist included in his ambitious "Femme a Paris" exhibition at Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, in 1885.
Reference: Beraldi 65
Wentworth 74, published state
Tissot 76
Condition: Excellent
Plate/Image size: 14 1/4 x 11 inches
Sheet size: 19 1/2 x 15 inches
Frame size: 23-1/2 x 20-1/4 inches
Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan (Morris had a distinguished collection of Tissot prints...
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1880s Impressionist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Knight and Horse - Original Etching by Marino Marini - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Knight and Horse is an original etching realized by Marino Marini in 1963.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1960s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Calvaire de Pierre, Modern Etching and Aquatint by Linda Plotkin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Linda Plotkin, American (1938 - ) - Calvaire de Pierre, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 64/75, Image Size...
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1960s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Rain On Ferns, by Rosalyn Richards
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil, edition of 15. Abstracted image of rain ferns featuring shaades of green and blue.
Rosalyn Richards has been a member of the Bucknell Universi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
La Sirene, Japanese Surrealist Nude Etching and Aquatint by Masuo Ikeda
Located in Long Island City, NY
La Sirene
Masuo Ikeda, Japanese (1934–1997)
Date: 1969
Etching and Aquatint on BFK Rives, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 38/45
Image Size: 23.5 x 19.5 inches
Size: 28 x 21....
Category
1960s Surrealist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
George Edwards: c18th Engravings of Birds in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: "A History of Uncommon Birds", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural Histo...
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18th Century Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Composition (Reinz 208-222), Voyages Fantastiques, Bernard Buffet
Located in Southampton, NY
Drypoint etching on papier de Rives B.F.K. pur fil paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Voyages fantastiques aux États et empires de la l...
Category
1950s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$3,036 Sale Price
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West View of St Nicholas Chapel, Westminster Abbey, architecture aquatint
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour aquatint by John Bluck (active 1791-1819) after Auguste Pugin (1762-1832).
Architectural interior with superb original colour. From 'Westminster Abbey', published by Rudolf A...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
The Structure of the paw bones of animals - Etching by Buvée l'Américain - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
The Structure of the paw bones of animals is an artwork realized by Buvée l'Américain in 1771.
Etching B./W. print on ivory paper. Signed on plate on the lower left margin.
The...
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1770s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
For Alberti, For Spain - Etching by Joan Mirò - 1975
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
For Alberti, For Spain! it's an artwork realized by Joan Mirò in 1975.
Etching, 90 x 66 cm.
Hand signed. Edition 62/90.
Reference: Dupin 926
Printed on Fabriano paper, Printed ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Noémie (Marguérite).
Located in Storrs, CT
Noémie (Marguérite). 1926. Etching. Fletcher catalog 57 state vi 7 1/8 x 4 3/16 (sheet 10 15/16 x 8 7/16). Edition 111 in this state (total 132 impressions). A fine impression print...
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Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Letter B - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter B is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli.
The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte”)...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Don Quixote Galloping - Etching by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Don Quixote Galloping is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored China paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951.
It belongs to a limited edition of 125 specimens.
Good cond...
Category
1950s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
The Mill, Amsterdam, 1889
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Mill, 1889, etching and drypoint, signed in pencil with the butterfly on the tab and inscribed “imp”, and inscribed “first state” (twice) and annotated “Wunderlich” and signed again with the butterfly verso. Reference: Kennedy 413, first state (of 5). Glasgow 457, second state (of 6; see discussion below) (cf. Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2011)
On laid paper, in very good condition, trimmed just outside of the platemark all around except for the tab by the artist, 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches.
A very fine impression of this great rarity, printed in black/brown ink with a slight veil of plate tone.
provenance:
H. Wunderlich & Co., New York
Louis B. Dailey, New York (Lugt 4500)
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, October 31, 2003, lot 69
literature;
Neue Lagerliste 122: James McNeill Whistler – Etchings...
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1880s Impressionist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Androgyne, Hésperus by Carlos Schwabe, Mystical Symbolist illustration, 1904
Located in Chicago, IL
Lithograph from Carlos Schwabe’s series of hand-colored Symbolist fantasy illustrations for Catulle Mendès’ Hésperus, published in 1904 by Société de pr...
Category
Early 1900s Symbolist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Playing Cards (9 of Clubs)
Located in Vancouver, CA
Donald Sultan Playing Card Prints - Artist Proofs (APs)
We are excited to offer a rare collection of Artist Proof (AP) prints from Donald Sultan's acclaimed playing card series. Lim...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Aquatint, Handmade Paper
Abandoned Ulive wood, 1983, rif. 489, Etching Print by Federica Galli
Located in Milan, IT
Abandoned Ulive wood, 1983, rif. 489
Etching inches 19.2 x 11.6 ( mm 490 x 297). Contemporary Art
Etcher. A prominent figure of the art of engraving in Italy, Federica Galli was bo...
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20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Moon Stag by Guy Allen. Print from copper plate etching. Framed
By Guy Allen
Located in Coltishall, GB
Deep in the forest, amidst the mists of dawn, a red deer stag appears…
Guy Allen’s etchings inspired by the fauna of Norfolk have a remarkable level of detail. His etchings captur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Etching
The Dancer (Anaïs).
Located in Storrs, CT
The Dancer (Anaïs). 1925. Etching. Fletcher catalog 52 state viii. 9 3/4 x 6 1/16 (Sheet 14 1/4 x 10 1/2). Edition 107. An extremely rich proof printed on cream 'MADE IN ENGLAND' ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Italianate Landscape, mezzotint by Richard Earlom after Claude le Lorrain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Sepia mezzotint by Richard Earlom (1743-1822) After Claude Gellee ('Claude Lorrain') (1600-82).
From 'Liber Veritatis; or A Collection of Prints after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint, Etching
Orbis Terrarum - Etching by Johannes Janssonius - 1650s
Located in Roma, IT
Antique Map - Orbis Terrarum is an antique map realized in 1650 by Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664).
The Map is Hand-colored etching, with coeval watercoloring.
Good conditions with...
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1650s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
18th Century Native Floridians Etching
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 18th century etching of native Floridians probably used for a book. Very good condition for its age. Etching measures 7 1/2 inches high by 5 3/4 inches wide. The beautiful custom...
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1750s Realist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Ancient Map - Zeilan - Etching by Johannes Janssonius - 1650s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Map - Zeilan is an ancient map realized in 1650 by Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664).
The Map is Hand-colored etching, with coeval watercoloring.
...
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1650s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Goddess of Love - Original Etching by Martino Rota - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Goddess of Love is an original hand-colored etching on creamy-colored paper realized in the 17 century by Martino Rota.
Signed on the plate on the low...
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17th Century Old Masters Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Verlassene Muhle - Etching by Fritz Schwimbeck - 1918
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Fritz Schwimbeck in 1918.
Edition of 125 realized in Munich on mulberry paper.
Hand signed in pencil.
Category
1910s Symbolist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Figure assise, le bras droit appuye sur une table - Etching by H. Matisse - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Seated figure is an original modern artwork realized by Henri Matisse in 1929.
Etching on Chine appliquè on Arches Velin paper.
Original title: Figure assise, le bras droit appuye ...
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1920s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Dead Nudes - Original Etching by Raphael Drouart - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Nudes is an Original Etching realized in Early 20th Century by Raphael Drouart (1884-1972).
The artwork is in good condition.
Hand-signed.
Numbered. Edition,18/25.
Maurice Raphaë...
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Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Le Bal - Etching by Marie Laurencin - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Third state. Published in general catalogue "Marie Laurencin" by Daniel Marchesseau, Kyuryudo,Tokyo, 1981, Number.127, pp.141.
Rare etching in near perfect conditions.
This artwork ...
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1920s Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Horse Swan, Hésperus by Carlos Schwabe, Symbolist fantasy lithograph, 1904
Located in Chicago, IL
Lithograph from Carlos Schwabe’s series of hand-colored Symbolist fantasy illustrations for Catulle Mendès’ Hésperus, published in 1904 by Société de pr...
Category
Early 1900s Symbolist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Damon - Etching by Fritz Schwimbeck - 1918
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Fritz Schwimbeck in 1918.
Edition of 125 realized in Munich on mulberry paper.
Hand signed in pencil.
Category
1910s Symbolist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Overture 2 BY CLARE GROSSMAN, Limited Edition Figurative Nude Print, Affordable
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Grossman
Overture 2
Limited edition of 70.
A solar plate etching on Somerset 300gsm paper.
Image Size: H 12.5 x W 17.5cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely...
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21st Century and Contemporary Feminist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Etching
Schatzgraber - Etching by Fritz Schwimbeck - 1918
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Fritz Schwimbeck in 1918.
Edition of 125 realized in Munich on mulberry paper.
Hand signed in pencil.
Category
1910s Symbolist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Rhythmic breath of a coniferous forest - XXI century, Black and white etching
Located in Warsaw, PL
One of 100 copies. JERZY DMITRUK (born in 1960) He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Paintings and Graphics. Dmitruk graduated in 1986 from the atelier of profess...
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2010s Other Art Style Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Paper
Le Miracle - Original Etching by Marino Marini - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and Numbered. Edition of 6 pieces (H.C.)
Ref. Guastalla n. A59; G. Di S.Lazzaro n. 50J; L. Toninelli n. 56.
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1960s Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Gentleman of the Cardinal - Etching by Giuseppe Capparoni - 1827
Located in Roma, IT
Gentleman of the Cardinal is an Artwork realized in 1827 by the Engraver, Giuseppe Capparoni (Rome 1800- 1879).
Etching hand colored on ivory paper. Signed on plate and dated on the...
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1820s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Meridies; Der Mittag (Noon; The Midday) /// Johann Daniel Preissler Old Master
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Johann Daniel Preissler (German, 1666-1737)
Title: "Meridies; Der Mittag (Noon; The Midday)"
Portfolio: Die Vier Tageszeiten (The Four Times of Day)
Year: 1723
Medium: Original Etching and Engraving on laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: likely Johann Balthasar Probst, Augsburg, Germany
Publisher: Jeremias Wolff (Erben), Augsburg, Germany
Reference: Le Blanc No. 255, 38; Nagler No. 23
Sheet size: 22.5" x 16.32"
Image size: 18.13" x 14.32"
Condition: Soft handling creases and folds to sheet. A few light areas of staining and scattered small areas of discoloration in margins. Two small tears skillfully repaired from verso in margins. Has been professionally stored away for decades. It is otherwise a strong impression in good condition with full margins
Extremely rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Aspen, CO. Engraved by German artist Johann Balthasar Probst (1673-1750) after a drawing by German artist Johann Daniel Preissler (1666-1737). Comes from Preissler's 1723 "Die Vier Tageszeiten (The Four Times of Day)" portfolio of four etchings and engravings. Printed from one copper plate in one color: black. Descriptions of the portrayed image are printed in Latin and German.
Biography:
Johann Daniel Preissler, or Preisler (1666–1737) was a German painter and director of Nuremberg's Academy of Fine Arts. He was a notable member of a German artistic family, originating in Bohemia. His children included Johann Justin Preissler (1698–1771), Georg Martin Preisler (1700–1754), Barbara Helena Preisler (1707–1758; married to Oeding), Johan Martin Preisler (1715–1794), and Valentin Daniel Preisler (1717–1765), all in their time renowned artists. Most notable for his portraits, nudes and history paintings, Johann Daniel Preissler also produced drawings and frescoes. He was particularly known beyond his native Nuremberg for his "Die durch Theorie erfundene Practic", a sequence of works on art theory – the individual works were translated into several other languages and served as textbooks for students such as the Swiss Salomon Gessner...
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1720s Old Masters Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Etching
Le Beguin (Anaïs)
Located in Storrs, CT
Le Beguin (Anaïs). 1922. Etching. Fletcher catalog 33 state iii./iv (before cancellation). 5 1/2 x 4 5/16 (sheet 11 1/2 x 8 13/16). Edition 76. Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarter...
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Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Owl - Etching by Enotrio Pugliese - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Owl is an Etching realized by Enotrio Pugliese in 1963.
Limited edition of 14 copies numbered and signed by the artist.
Good condition on a white cardboard.
Enotrio Pugliese (May ...
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1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
original etching
By John Sloan
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Executed by John Sloan to illustrate the Somerset Maugham classic "Of Human Bondage" and published in 1938 in a limited edition of 1500 by the Yale Universi...
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1930s Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Night Fishing> .Contemporary Limited Edition Etching
By Ian Laurie
Located in Brecon, Powys
Signed and numbered (17 of 25) etching from this much collected Scottish Artist.
Image 6.75 x 7.75 Excellent condition. Matted
Ian Laurie was born in 1933 and is a self taught ...
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2010s Impressionist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
$200 Sale Price
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SLM II
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Male nude etching, from a series of 6 male and 6 female images.
Signed, titled and numbered , by the artist. Edition of 50.
In January 2018, the Mexican Museum in San Francisco mounted an exhibition An Artist’s Evolution, a retrospective which has elevated Fernando’s exposure in the SF Bay Area...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Femme vue de Dos, Cubist Etching after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso, After, Spanish (1881 - 1973) - Femme vue de Dos. Year: 1956, Medium: Etching, signed in the plate, Image Size: 15 x 11 inches, Frame Size: 23 x 18.5 inches, Descriptio...
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1950s Cubist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
"Discovering your landscapes" 2007 Original Engraving Signed Figurative 12x10in
Located in Miami, FL
Alberto"El Cuervo" Bustillos (Mexico, 1950)
'Descubrir tus paisajes', 2007
etching, aquatint on paper Deponte 300 g.
12.3 x 10.3 in. (31 x 26 cm.)
ID: CUR-108
Unframed
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Engraving
Chauvesouris - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Chauve- souris is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807).
Titled and Signed on the plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et partic...
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1770s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Transfiguration /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Landscape Etching Face Lips Surreal
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Title: "Transfiguration"
*Signed by Dali in pencil lower right
Year: 1973
Medium: Original Etching on Auvergne paper
Limited edition: 90/10...
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1970s Surrealist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Letter of the Alphabet L - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet L from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate.
Good condition...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Creatures of Land, Sea and Sky, by Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Intaglio and Chine Colle
Year: 2023
Image Size: 10.5 x 7 inches
Edition of 15
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. A young woman contemplating small plants and animals...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975)
Surrealist engraving, etching
after drawings from a 1942 notebook,
engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims
Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris,
Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations verso Editioned from a very small edition of #7/10
'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp.
Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4
Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company.
Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life.
Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany.
He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington.
Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work.
Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton.
He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940.
After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
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20th Century Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Mythological Scene - Etching by Domenico Klemi Bonatti - 1850
Located in Roma, IT
Mythological Scene is an etching realized by Domenico Klemi Bonatti in 1850.
Good condition.
Stamp signed on plate.
Domenico Klemi Bonatti (Venice 1794 ) he worked in Milan betwee...
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1850s Modern Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Kawako, by Stephen Lawlor
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Aquatint, Drypoint, Etching
Year: 2016
Image Size: 7.9 x 7.9 inches
Edition Size: 65
Beautiful impressionist image a japanese woman in traditional Kimono.
Lawlor's early et...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
$340 Sale Price
20% Off
Phrases - Passage - Etching by Achille Perilli - 1999
Located in Roma, IT
Phrases - Passage is a Contemporary artwork realized by the Italian Contemporary artist Achille Perilli (1927 -2021) and by the French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-20...
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1990s Abstract Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching
Secret Writing / Poe, Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Tighe O'Donoghue
Located in Long Island City, NY
Secret Writing / Poe
Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023)
Date: Circa 1985
Aquatint Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 99
Image Size: 1...
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1980s Surrealist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Pkropopoï (Hand-colored)
By Leonor Fini
Located in Columbia, MO
Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, in the full swing of the Surrealist movement....
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20th Century Surrealist Art by Medium: Etching
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
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