Art by Medium: Etching

A magnificent print by Robert John Thornton; aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora...

Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet...

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Monogram "J" with Design (Plate VII) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper Date: 1949 Edition: 289 Sheet Size: 13" x 10 3/16" Signed: N...

RENOIR, PIERRE AUGUSTE (1841 -1919) "La Danse à la Campagne", 2nd plate (The Country Dance (second plate)) Delteil 2, Stella 2 Soft-ground Etching in black ink, c. 1890 Only State on smooth wove paper With the stamped signature, as issued Image Size: 8 5/8” x 5 1/3” Fine strong and tonal impression with full margins The most famous etching...

Karl Ludwig Mordstein (1937 Füssen - 2006 Wilszhofen), Undeutlicher deutlich, 1982. Color etching, e.a. (Epreuve d'artiste) 4/9, 22.5 x 28 cm (image), 40 x 45 cm (sheet), 43 x 48 cm ...

This is one of the most important motifs in the graphic oeuvre of Chillida. The Spanish artist is very well known for his large-scale sculptures which can be found in public as well ...

This etching with aquatint was created by French printmaker Manuel Robbe. Robbe’s innovative techniques, along with his sense of color harmony and his choice of subjects: stylish wom...

Anton Ignaz Melling 1763-1831 Constantinople Etching, hand coloured Image size: 26 x13 inches (66 x 33cm) Acid free mount This etching of Constantinople offers a captivating panoram...

This artwork titled "Schallaburg" 1970, is an original colors etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The plate mark...

Johnston, Ynez. UNTITLED. Etching, not dated (but likely 1950s). Edition of 20, signed in pencil and numbered 4/20. 6 7/8 x 9 inches (plate), 8 x 10 5/8 inches (sheet). In excellent ...

A superb impression of this color engraving, soft-ground etching, scorper and screenprint on Japan paper. Fifth state (of 5). Signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/50 in pencil, lower...

This artwork "Rouen, France, Old Town Street" c.1960, is an original colors etching on paper by noted Austrian/German artist Franz Xaver Wolf, 1896-1990. It is hand signed in pencil ...

Loin du sourire de Reims (Far from the Smile of Rheims) Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922 Signed with the initials in the plate and dated (see photo...

The marvellous bumblebee… The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. St. John Chrysostom Guy Allen’s etchings inspired by...

Henri Matisse, French (1869 - 1954) - Portrait of Baudelaire, Year: 1932, Medium: Etching on Japon Paper, Edition: 125, Size: 12.75 x 9.75 in. (32.39 x 24.77 cm), Printer: Lacourier...

The Winds - il sirocco Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: circa 1979 Etching with Aquatint, signed in pencil Edition of I/XV Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

"Road Landscape" is an original etching and aquatint by Felix Bracquemond. This piece depicts a shadowy path through the foliage. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and i...

Initialled and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (there were also 25 artist's proofs). Printed by Jack Shirreff at the 107 Workshop, Wiltshire. Commissioned and publi...

Artist: Salvador Dali Title: The sun Portfolio: The Hippies Medium: Color etching on Arches Date: 1969 Edition: 102/145 Frame Size: 31" x 26 1/2" Sheet Size: 26" x 20" Image Size: 15...

Max Clarenbach (1880 Neuss - Cologne 1952), Evening. Etching, 18 x 41 cm (platemark), 33.5 x 57 cm (frame), inscribed "Abend" in pencil at lower left, signed and dated "M. Clarenbach. 28.III.[19]09". Framed and mounted under glass. - Somewhat browned and slightly foxed. About the artwork The horizontally elongated etching depicts the panoramic view of a small town as seen from the other side of the river. There are gabled houses on the left and a mighty church spire on the right. The bourgeois houses and the large religious building indicate the urban character. These buildings are rendered in dark tones to emphasise the lighter row of houses in the centre of the picture, closer to the water. The chiaroscuro contrast creates two parallel planes that open up a space for the imagination of what the city could be. The imagination is stimulated by the almost entirely dark, barely recognisable buildings, while the arm of the river leading into the city further stimulates the imagination. However, as the silhouette of the city as a whole is reflected in the water, the parallel planes are perceived as a band of houses that stretches across the entire horizontality of the etching and seems to continue beyond the borders of the picture. The reflection has almost the same intensity as the houses themselves, so that the band of buildings merges with their reflection to form the dominant formal unit of the picture. Only the parallel horizontal hatching creates the convincing impression of seeing water, demonstrating Max Clarenbach's mastery of the etching needle. The water is completely motionless, the reflection unclouded by the slightest movement of the waves, creating a symmetry within the formal unity of the cityscape and its reflection that goes beyond the motif of a mere cityscape. A pictorial order is established that integrates everything in the picture and has a metaphysical character as a structure of order that transcends the individual things. This pictorial order is not only relevant in the pictorial world, but the picture itself reveals the order of the reality it depicts. Revealing the metaphysical order of reality in the structures of its visibility is what drives Clarenbach as an artist and motivates him to return to the same circle of motifs. The symmetry described is at the same time inherent an asymmetry that is a reflection on art: While the real cityscape is cut off at the top of the picture, two chimneys and above all the church tower are not visible, the reflection illustrates reality in its entirety. The reflection occupies a much larger space in the picture than reality itself. Since antiquity, art has been understood primarily as a reflection of reality, but here Clarenbach makes it clear that art is not a mere appearance, which can at best be a reflection of reality, but that art has the potential to reveal reality itself. The revealed structure of order is by no means purely formalistic; it appears at the same time as the mood of the landscape. The picture is filled with an almost sacred silence. Nothing in the picture evokes a sound, and there is complete stillness. There are no people in Clarenbach's landscape paintings to bring action into the picture. Not even we ourselves are assigned a viewing position in the picture, so that we do not become thematic subjects of action. Clarenbach also refrains from depicting technical achievements. The absence of man and technology creates an atmosphere of timelessness. Even if the specific date proves that Clarenbach is depicting something that happened before his eyes, without the date we would not be able to say which decade, or even which century, we are in. The motionless stillness, then, does not result in time being frozen in the picture, but rather in a timeless eternity that is nevertheless, as the title "Abend" (evening), added by Clarenbach himself, makes clear, a phenomenon of transition. The landscape of the stalls is about to be completely plunged into darkness, the buildings behind it only faintly discernible. The slightly darkened state of the sheet is in keeping with this transitional quality, which also lends the scene a sepia quality that underlines its timelessness. And yet the depiction is tied to a very specific time. Clarenbach dates the picture to the evening of 28 March 1909, which does not refer to the making of the etching, but to the capture of the landscape's essence in the landscape itself. If the real landscape is thus in a state of transition, and therefore something ephemeral, art reveals its true nature in that reality, subject to the flow of phenomena, is transferred to an eternal moment, subject to a supra-temporal structure of order - revealed by art. Despite this supratemporality, the picture also shows the harbingers of night as the coming darkening of the world, which gives the picture a deeply melancholy quality, enhanced by the browning of the leaf. It is the philosophical content and the lyrical-melancholic effect of the graphic that give it its enchanting power. Once we are immersed in the image, it literally takes a jerk to disengage from it. This etching, so characteristic of Max Clarenbach's art, is - not least because of its dimensions - a major work in his graphic oeuvre. About the artist Born into poverty and orphaned at an early age, the artistically gifted young Max Clarenbach was discovered by Andreas Achenbach and admitted to the Düsseldorf Art Academy at the age of 13. "Completely penniless, I worked for an uncle in a cardboard factory in the evenings to pay for my studies.” - Max Clarenbach At the academy he studied under Arthur Kampf, among others, and in 1897 was accepted into Eugen Dücker...

Magnificent print by Robert John Thornton; aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora. [London 1799] First state. Thornton was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. However, he is best remembered for this great botanical publication The Temple of Flora, which formed a part of the larger work - New Illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus. In 1797, he also began advertising for subscribers to his planned natural history publishing venture, which eventually comprised of 30 folio botanical plates. For these remarkable illustrations, he engaged the services of the leading artists and engravers of his day: Sir William Beechey, James Opie, Henry Raeburn, John Russell, Philip Reinagle...

"Matiére et Graffiti" is an original etching with aquatintin black adn whtie from 1969 by renowned Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies. It is an edition of 75 (67/75) on Guarro handmade pa...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Isaiah's vision (Vision d'Esaïe), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13.1 inch) INFORM...

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Bright Beach Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint. Edition of 50

Eduardo Chillida (Spain, 1924-2002) 'Estampa VI', 1998 It belongs to the folder "La indetenible quietud" that includes 6 etchings by Eduardo Chillida and 32 poems by Clara Janés. aqu...

Bacchanal Etching, 1649 Inscribed in the square left: "Magnificentis/simo Principi/Paolo lorda/no. II Bracci/ani Duci/Aud. P.DDD/1640; Inscribed on right: Rome apud Franciscsum Saluucium Condition: Usual centerfolds from paper manufacture Plate: 10 3/8 x 15 1/2" Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/2"; References: Bartsch XX.4 Sopher Plate 145 An impression of this image is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art, Washington An exceptionally rich impression in excellent condition. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Putti as Allegory of Music Giovanni Andrea Podestà or Giovanni Andrea Podesta (1608 - c. 1674) was an Italian painter and engraver who was principally active in Rome. His principal subject matter is children playing in landscapes with classical objects. His works show the influence of Poussin's Arcadian landscapes and bacchanals, which were ultimately derived from Titian's bacchanals. Life Giovanni Andrea Podestà was born in Genoa. He was formed in Genoa with Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari and Domenico Fiasella according to the information provided by the contemporary Genoese biographer Raffaele Soprani. He is also recorded as an apprentice of Giovanni Battista Paggi in 1627. His presence is documented from in 1634 in Rome where he made drawings after the statues and ancient reliefs at the famous Giustiniani collection. These were subsequently engraved for publication in the 'Galleria Giustiniani'. The artist's career ran a course similar to that of the young Domenico Fiasella. In Rome his art evolved in contact with the works of Poussin, Andrea di Leone, Pietro Testa...

A beautiful image of fellowship and esprit de corp with bright handcoloring in watercolor. London: Thomas Mclean, August 1st, 1835. Second Edition. Etching with handcoloring in water...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for Philip Gilbert Hamerton's very scarce "Etching and Etchers". Plate size: 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (157 x 1...

Michelle Stuart is an American artist whose work references a range of influences, from history to astronomy and botany, as well as her extensive travels to ancient archaeological sites. Stuart studied in Mexico, France, and at The New School for Social Research in New York. Since the 1960s, Stuart has created a multifaceted body of work including large-scale earth works...

Antoni Tàpies is considered one of the most significant Spanish artists of the 20th century and a leading exponent of European informal art. His work combines matter, signs and symbo...

Print Sz: 11"H x 7 1/2"W Frame Sz: 13"H x 9 3/8"W Robert Dighton (1752-1814) “A HERO of the TURF & his AGENT" 1806 (being portraits of the jockey Frank Buckle and the racehorse ow...

Ossip Zadkine, Russian/French (1890 - 1967) - from 23 Gravures, Year: 1935, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 42/50, Image Size: 9.75 x 6.75 inches, Size: 13 ...

This artwork titled "Karlskinche, Vienna" 1925, is a colors etching on Wove paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed by the artist's estate in pencil at ...

Aquatint in colours with sugar lift "Serpentine" (green) by Georg Baselitz from 2022/23. The edition on Somerset White Satin comprises 50 copies in blue / 50 copies in green. The...

This artwork titled "Marienplatz, Munich" 1925 is an original etching by noted Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (im...

This artwork titled "Basel Cathedral, Switzerland" c.1930 is an original colors etching and aquatint on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed...

William Lee Hankey (1869-1952) Drypoint etching on paper. Mother and Child. Monogrammed in plate. Pencil signed and blind stamped to the lower margin. Most likely a later restrike pr...

Joe Durante - Lunar. Year: 1982, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 11.25 x 17.75 inche...

This artwork titled "Koln Rathaus (Cologne City Hall)" c.1920 is an original colors etching and aquatint by noted Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed, titled ...

A print from John Chamberlain's Suite "Ten Coconuts". Although known widely for his sculptural work, John Chamberlain was a prolific printmaker. The etching is hand-signed and numbe...

Akio Wakasa Miyakawa - Primitive Image (13), Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 3/10, Image Size: 11.5 x 19.5 inches, Size: 15 ...

This artwork titled "Saint Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna" 1952, is an original color etching and aquatint by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pe...

Joe Durante - City Lights. Year: 1983, Medium: Etching with Aquatint on Arches, signed, dated, numbered and titled in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 15....

Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: UP The Souls on Jacob’s Ladder Take Their Flight Date: 2007 Medium: Unique Etching on Hahnemühle paper Unframed Dimens...

Gruppo di quattordici acqueforti. In basso i nomi dell' incisore e del pittore. La serie, derivata da disegni di Giovanni Battista Piazzetta , comprendeva quindici stampe, ed era tit...

Rufino Tamayo, Mexican (1899 - 1991) - Mascara, Year: 1984, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 60/99, Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm), Publisher: Edici...

Henri Matisse, French (1869 - 1954) - Portrait Studies, Medium: Etching on BFK Rives, Image Size: 13.5 x 8.75 inches, Size: 19.75 x 12.75 in. (50.17 x 32.39 cm), Provenance: From th...

Lucien Coutaud, French (1904 - 1977) - Visage Nocturne, Year: 1951, Medium: Etching on Arches, signed and dated in pencil, Image Size: 13 x 9.75 inches, Size: 22.25 x 15 in. (56.52...

Artist: Robert Huish (English, 1777-1850) Title: "The Alligator (In the Gardens of the Zoological Society)" (Plate 26) Portfolio: The Wonders of the Animal Kingdom; Exhibiting Deline...

L'Auberge is a fine black and white etching and aquatint realized by Henri-Charles Toussaint (Paris,1849-1911), after an original painting made in 1875 by Eugène Isabey (Paris, 1803-...

Artist: Jacqueline Debutler, French (1928 - ) Title: untitled Year: circa 1965 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition...

Artist: Karl Fred Dahmen Title: Semiotische Komposition Year: 1977 Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil Edition: 49/75 Image Size: 27.5 x 21.5 inc...

Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: Liberty Series: In a Spin Volume 1 Date: 2002 Medium: Etching on 350gsm Hahnmuhle paper Unframed Dimensions: 35.875" x 28" Framed Dimensions: 43....

Artist: Gabor Peterdi, Hungarian (1915 - 2001) Title: The Reef Year: 1969 Medium: Color Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: HC 10 Image Size: 17.5 x 24 inches Size: 23.5 ...

Artist: Pierre Augustin Massé (French, 1880-?) Title: "Portrait de Femme (Portrait of a Woman)" Portfolio: Gazette des Beaux-Arts Year: 1898 Medium: Or...

Adored by collectors and art lovers around the globe, Alex Katz (b. 1927) is renowned for his elegant and distinctive version of figuration. Katz has been dedicated to art-making si...

Original etching, aquaforte, aquatint engraving. poetry text by Robert Pinget on facing fold of sheet. The individual sheet is unsigned. The justification page is hand signed by th...

A superb impression of this scarce color aquatint and lift-ground etching on German Etching paper. Signed and numbered 27/36 in pencil, lower right. Printed by Catherine Mousley in t...

Etching with engraving on thin laid paper with an unidentified ovoid purple ink stamp (not in Lugt), 9 3/4 x 12 7/8 inches (247 x 326 mm), thread margins. Uniform age tone with scatt...

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...