Art by Medium: Etching

Juggler 1963 is an original contemporary artwork realized by Marino Marini. Color etching and aquatint depicting a juggler. Edition of 100 copies. On the back oh the artwork there ...

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 and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso 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...

Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002) Title: La Dulce Aqua Vita Year: 2002 Medium: Carborundum Etching on Hand-Made Paper, signed and numbered in marker Edition: 125, XXXV Pap...

Maison de Guttemberg a Mayence is a black and White etching realized by Pierre Tetar van Elven in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 32x23. Very good impression with wid...

Ancient Roman Scene from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good condit...

Les Infortunes de la Vertu is a modern artwork realized by Hans Bellmer. Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968. Copy on Véli...

Wonderful mezzotint and etching on China paper applied. The inscription reads: "Le matin/ J. J. Tissot Sc. et ex. 1886". Titled, signed and dated on plate on the lower margin, below ...

Ancient Roman Fresco / Naval Battle from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th Century. Signed on the plat...

Medium: Etching Year: 2021 Image Size: 7.9 x 13 Edition Size: 50 Lawlor's early etchings were often landscapes combining elements from old Master paintings. Later he started to in...

Homage to Michelangelo is an original artwork realized in 1975 by Jorge Castillo. Black and white etching. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower right left....

The Physiognomy - The Insects is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the...

Signed, titled and numbered by the artist from an edition of 100. Male nude etching by Trevor Southey. Trevor Southey was born in Rhodesia, Africa (now Zimbabwe) in 1940. His Afri...

Image dimensions: 42.4x29.5 cm. Landslide from "Intermezzi" is an original print realized by Max Klinger in 1881. Signature and number of the print on plate. Black and white etchi...

Etching, Drypoint and Pochoir, 1977. Sheet 19 from the series Les Caprices de Goya de Dalì. Printed by J.J.J. Rigal after Goya with drypoint revisions by Dalí in his own hand between 1973 and 1977. Edition 85/200. Red. Michler-Löpsinger 866a (from b). Inscribed Dalì and Goya in pencil and with the artist's signature, title and number on the plate. On bold chamois-colored BFK Rives The Spanish master Francisco Goya created the work “Los Caprichos...

Henri Matisse Nadia au visage rond 1948 Aquatint on Marais wove paper, Edition of 25 Paper Size: 60.2 x 46.4 cms (23 3/4 x 18 1/4 ins) Image Size: 44.4 x 34.7 cms (17 1/2 x 13 5/8 in...

Edgar DEGAS (after) Client Arriving in a Whorehouse Original etching and aquatint On Rives vellum 25 x 32 cm (c. 10 x 13 inch) In the early 1920s, Ambroise Vollard (the great art se...

This artwork titled "Venice Sailboats" c. 1975 is an color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil by the artist. The plate mark (i...

Wavy Irregular Bands is an artwork realized by Sol Lewitt in 1996.  Etching and Aquatint on Arches 88 Paper. Edition of 35 + 8 AP + 8 T + 1 BAT + 1 NB. Edition 19/35. Signed and n...

“Sagrifizio Trionfale” is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Francesco Cecchini (1790-1820), after Agostino Tofanelli (Lucca 177...

Trying my best to decipher the name I get Leo Tanenbaum. Well, (Sergeant) Sgt. Leo Tanenbaum. Sorry that I haven't been able to find a mid-century artist with this name. It's such an...

Lebadang (aka Hoi), Vietnamese (1922 - 2015) - Group of Horses with Sun. Year: circa 1970, Medium: Etching with Relief, signed in pencil, Edition: EA, Size: 25.5 x 38.5 in. (64.77 ...

Le Leopard is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Ro...

This 11.5" X 10.75" unframed mixed media pastel drawing and ink etching on paper created in 2021 by Josette Simon Gestin is from the artist's series titl...

Hand signed.Artist's proof. Image Dimensions : 15.5 x 24 cm

Etching on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Dix filles dans un pré. Ballet imaginaire. Avec quatre gravures à l'eau-forte de Marie Laurencin, 1926. Published by Au Sans Pareil, Paris; printed by Lacourière, Paris, 1926. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), 20 copies on tank vellin, with a double sequence of engravings, including one in first condition. These copies, reserved for Friends of the Unparalleled and printed in their name, are numbered from 1 to 20; 35 examples; 60 copies on Holland Van...

Alexandre Calder (1898 - 1976) Santa Claus : Three Figures, 1974 Original Etching Handsigned in pencil On vellum Arches 50.5 cm x 66 cm (c. 19,7 x 25,9 inch) Excellent condition

- Plate 55 from the Suite 156 - with stamp signature - dated in the plate 2.3.70 - edition 26/50 - cat. raisonné Bloch 1910

A set of nine prints. The Moon has had an importance in human culture since the dawn of history and likely before. Often revered as a feminine deit...

Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985) Title: From the suite "Les Fables De La Fontaine" Year: 1927 Medium: Original etching Edition: fom...

Available individually ($2500), and also as a suite of five ($12,000). Born in Bronx, NY, Ida Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences (1949). She moved...

Bicephale is a modern artwork realized by  Salvador Dalì in 1968 Mixed colored etching. Signed and numbered lower recto. Edition of 29/50  Good conditions except some shadows on ...

The Boats is an artwork realized by Giovanni Omiccioli (February 25, 1901 – March 1, 1975) in the 1970s. Etching print. Good conditions. Giovanni Omiccioli (February 25, 1901 – Ma...

This is an etched rendition of a painting by Frank Dicksee. Harmony is one of the most well-known pictures by Dicksee, depicting a young man staring adoringly into the eyes of a girl...

Hans Bellmer, German (1902 - 1975) - Le Vermoulu et le Plisse, Year: 1940, Medium: Etching on Arches, signed in pencil, Image Size: 7 x 9 inches, Size: 11 x 15 in. (27.94 x 38.1 cm)...

Drypoint and aquatint (brown ink) on cream paper. Signed "Rehn" in pencil on the lower right margin. Titled and numbered in pencil on the lower left margin. Edition of 25 prints. Fr...

A young Moon occurs between a new Moon and waxing crescent, when the first slivers of illumination appear. The Moon has had an importance in human culture since the dawn of history ...

Etching realized by Camille Corot in 19th Century. Prov. Collection Pecci-Blunt. Very good condition.

Monotype, on a page from an 18th century Antiphonaire (The antiphonary is a Catholic liturgical book gathering the Gregorian scores of the hours canoniales). This unique piece on ant...

The first visible phase after the New Moon. The Moon has had an importance in human culture since the dawn of history and likely before. Often revered as a feminine deity and count...

Etching realized by Fritz Schwimbeck in 1918. Edition of 125 realized in Munich on mulberry paper. Hand signed in pencil.

Barbara Jackson. Alone- this is an etching / aquatint with a print run of 40 plus 10 artist proofs. Each print is individually inked and passed through the press by the artist, numb...

The Beach is a woodcut print realized by Colette Pettier in the 1970s. Hand-signed and numbered, artist's proof. Good conditions. The artwork is created through deft strokes by ma...

Herd of Horses is an original etching realized by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921) in the Late 19th century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with foxing. The artwork is realized t...

Le Lapin Domestique is an artwork realized  by Jacques de Seve in 1771.   Etching B./W. print  on ivory paper. Signed on  plate on the lower left margin. The work is glued on cardb...

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....

Color softground and flatbite etching, spitbite and soapground aquatints, and unique inking.

Mejor es Holgar is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886 . 6th Edition.V...

Printemps à mille cœurs is an artwork realized by the French artist Jean Messagier. Etching on paper, hand-signed on the lower right corner "Messagier", titled Printemps à mille coe...

Scots Pine drypoint etching printed onto Japanese gampi tissue and backed onto German Hahnemule printmaking paper. This print depicts a mature pine tree, standing proud from the rest...

Keith Haring One plate from "The Valley" 1989 Original etching on paper Signed, dated and numbered in pencil Edition of 80 Unframed, pristine condition We have a number of these avai...

Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - Death Appearing to a Married Couple from an open Grave, Year: Of Original 1639, Medium: Etching, Size: 10.5 in. x 8....

Artist: Robert Morris, American (1931 - ) Title: Separate Walkways: The Wardens Above, the Inmates Below from In the Realm of the Carceral Year: 1979 Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed...

"Nymphee" is a colorful Roberto Matta etching from his Requiem pour la Fin des Temps suite. The print is signed and numbered (44/100) in pencil w...

Salvador DALI Les chevaliers du roi Arthur ("The cavaliers of King Arthur") Original etching Handsigned in pencil Limited to 115 copies On vellum ...

"His Timmer Staff" is an image of herding pigs by William Strang. It is a fine impression in fine condition in an edition of 20 signed and inscribed by the artist. Binyon 119 One...

Artist: Salvador Dali Title: The pagoda Portfolio: The Hippies Medium: Color etching on Arches wove paper Date: 1969 Edition: 67/145 Frame Size: 31" x 26 1/2" Sheet Size: 26" x 20" I...

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Faust Vignettes Faust Lisant MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 24/100 MEASUREMENTS: 15" x 1...

"Oriental Flowers" - Figurative Etching and Watercolor Figurative etching and watercolor of four men sitting, wearing coats and berets by San Francisco artist Margaret (Maggi) McEll...