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Medium: Woodcut
CAGED BIRD
By Walter Henry Williams
Located in Portland, ME
Williams, Walter Henry (American 1920-1998). CAGED BIRD. Color woodcut, 1966. Edition of 210, signed, dated, titled and numbered 43/210 in pencil. 18 x 24 i...
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1960s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
III by Kim Lim, 1991
By Kim Lim
Located in Kingsclere, GB
III by Kim Lim, 1991
Additional information:
Medium: woodcut on paper
36 x 32.5 cm
14 1/8 x 12 3/4 in
signed and dated in pencil verso
Kim Lim was born in Singapore and spent much of her early childhood in Penang and Malacca. After her schooling in Singapore, Lim knew that she wanted to become an artist, and at eighteen, she enrolled at St. Martin's in London, where she spent two years concentrating mainly on wood carving. She then transferred to the Slade, where taught by the etcher Anthony Gross and lithographer Stanley Jones, she developed a strong commitment to print making.
On journeys back to Singapore she stopped off in Europe and India, soaking up the art 'like a sponge'. These were the experiences that confirmed in her a lifelong predilection for things archaic, and for the flow and rhythm of Indian and South East Asian sculpture: " I found that I always responded to things that were done in earlier civilizations that seemed to have less elaboration and more strength." In Greece she was entranced by Cycladic sculpture. Of Chinese art she was moved most by early Shang bronzes, Han sculpture, Sung pottery...
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20th Century Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Motif (Purple), African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut or Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in lavender purple.
From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination.
Viola Burley Leak, American (1944 - )
Viola Leak was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she received a B.A. in Art from Fisk University, a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an M.A. from Hunter College, NY and an M.F.A. in Media from Howard University, Washington, DC. Leak was an art consultant for both the New York State Board of Education and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print Department, in addition to working for the Experimental Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute. Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage.
She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile designing, soft sculpture, appliqué tapestries, doll making, and multi-media.
Viola has studied with many renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, and Charles White. Her works can be found in the collections of World Federation of United Nations, New York State Office Building, Manufacturers of Hanover Trust Company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company and many more organizations.
Viola's exhibition experience is extensive - more than 100 showings over a decade, national and international. Her quilts exude a miraculous and magical presence. They have traveled in two international shows and three national quilt projects in the past three years.
A proud moment for her was being featured in the December 20, 2000 of the Smithsonian magazine; the article praised her mural "Afro Dance Scan" as one of the outstanding artworks in the "When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance in History and Art" exhibit.
This fine artist has taught art at several prestigious universities, conducted art workshops for the Smithsonian Institution, worked as an Art Specialist for the District of Columbia Public Schools, and toy designer for Ideal Toy Company.
She has been sold in Swann Auction Galleries African-American Fine Art sales. (alongside Henry Ossawa Tanner, Dox thrash, Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Kara Walker and Carrie Mae Weems amongst other greats)
Select Exhibitions:
Gallery Serengeti, Capitol Heights, MD – Saluting Women in the Fine Arts, featuring Gwen Aqui, Jenne Glover, Viola Leak, Tamara Little, Evelyn Holland-Walker
The Charles Sumner...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Screen, Woodcut
Gaspara Stampa, Woodcut Print by Italo Scango
By Italo Scanga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Italo Scanga, Italian (1932 - 2001)
Title: Gaspara Stampa
Year: 1982
Medium: Woodcut on Japon, Signed and numbered in Pencil
Edition: 20
Paper Size: 30.5 x 20.5 inches [77.47...
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1980s Surrealist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Eric Gill 1934 Woodblock Print 'From the Books of Philip Hofer' 'Ex Libris' Lion
By Eric Gill
Located in London, GB
From a series of wood engravings by Eric Gill. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - ...
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1930s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Shana Tova, New Year Woodcut Israeli Judaica Early Bezalel School Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed in Hebrew and English. Titled. Size matted 16 x 12, image is 3.5x5.5 inches.
Shulamit Wittenberg Miller
Born 1908 in Jerusalem, attended Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem, under P...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Mars driven away from Peace and Abundance by Minerva
By Agostino Carracci
Located in Middletown, NY
Agostino CARRACCI, after Jacopo TINTORETTO
Sapientia Martem depellente Pax et Abundantia cogaudent; Mars driven away from Peace and Abundance by Minerva
Engraving on handmade laid ...
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16th Century Old Masters Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut
Arashi Rikan II in an Osaka Kabuki Scene
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arashi Rikan II in an Osaka Kabuki Scene
Color woodcut, c. 1827
Signed middle left (see photo)
Titled upper left (see photo)
Format: oban
Publisher: Honsei
The actor, in character, d...
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1820s Other Art Style Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Jonah on the Way
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Jonah on the Way" 1975, is an original colors wood block print on thin paper by noted Austrian artist Bernd Kroeber, b.1942. It is hans signed, titled, dated and...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
original woodcut
By Joan Miró
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Reference: Dupin 1294. Published for the Jacques Dupin catalogue raisonne "Miro Graveur III" in 1992. Size: 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (320 x 247 mm). A rich imp...
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1990s Abstract Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Flute-Like Voices, Abstract Woodcut Print by Bruce Porter
By Bruce Porter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bruce Porter, American (1948 - )
Title: Flute-Like Voices
Year: 1993
Medium: Woodcut on Wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 11/20
Image Size: 33 x 23.5 inches
Category
1990s Abstract Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$920 Sale Price
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"Chinese Banner" Letterpress Print by Shepard Fairey Contemporary
Located in Draper, UT
A major figure of the contemporary street art movement, Shepard Fairey rose to prominence in the early 1990s with his “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” cam...
Category
2010s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Screen, Woodcut
Josef Albers -- Astatic
By Josef Albers
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Josef Albers
Astatic (Danilowitz 116), 1944
Woodcut on Japanese nacre kozo paper
Signed in pencil and dated 44 (lower right)
Titled Astatic and numbered 5/35 (lo...
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1940s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
FOREST IN THE SPRING
Located in Portland, ME
Hnizdovsky, Jacques. FOREST IN THE SPRING. T.31 Woodcut, 1960. Edition of 100. Signed, Titled, dated, numbered 10/100 and inscribed "Woodcut," all in pencil. 39 x 9 inches (sheet). I...
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1960s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
"Aus der Tierlegende" original woodcut
By Franz Marc
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Catalogue reference Lankheit 831-3. Published in 1919 for Genius. Image size: 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (198 x 240mm). This is a very richly inked impression pri...
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1910s Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
"Words on Blue #1" Traditional Wooden Typography on Reclaimed Poster Paper
By Ro Barragan
Located in New York, NY
In Ro Barragan's latest work we explore a production of typographic posters that seeks to highlight the multiplicity of meanings in everyday messages. Words meet, bifurcate, overlap, amalgamate and juxtapose in speeches and the context of communications. It is in this complex multiplicity, that manifests itself in a printed text, which also functions as an image. The material used is the same as the one historically used in urban advertising posters: the work is developed by using typographic printing methods, with mobile types of wood, in typographic families dating back to the last century. The works of art are printed on sulfite paper of various sizes. This piece comes displayed on a black contemporary frame under glass.
Art measures 19.75 x 14.75 in
Frame measures 26.75 x 21.5 in
The machines of the early 20th century and manual presses of various sizes are used for printing, which still works in historical workshops in Argentina – Pucará printing shop in La Tablada - and in the Ilusión Gráfica workshop, owned by Ro Barragán, where it is sought to continue the tradition and the typographic trade, linking its production with artistic practices.
Ro holds a Master in Aesthetics and Art Theory by the National University of La Plata, all while developing artistic activities since 1994. She has participated in collective and individual exhibitions in Painting, Engraving, Objects, Digital Art, Installations and Interactive Art, in Buenos Aires and other cities of Argentina, Bogotá, Rome, and Miami. She also has developed art activities in the context of the street, through stickers and posters. She is a Teacher of the Engraving and Complementary Printed Art Workshop at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the National University of La Plata and a teacher of the typography workshop at the Museo de Calcos y Escultura comparada Ernesto de la Cárcova, city of Buenos Aires. She is the creator of Ilusión Gráfica, a typographic printing company that seeks to preserve the tradition of printing with wooden mobile...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Raoul Ubac - Rythm - Original Woodcut
By Raoul Ubac
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Raoul Ubac - Rythm - Original Woodcut
Title: Rythm
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Revue Art de France
The painter-sculptor Raoul Ubac was born in 1910 in Malmédy (Ardennes, Belgium). He wen...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
MORTE D'ARTHUR
Located in Portland, ME
Malory, Thomas. MORTE D'ARTHUR. J. M. Dent, London, 1893. First Edition thus.
Edition of 300 printed on Dutch handmade paper, this copy Numbered "72." (There was a "regular" editi...
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1890s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
"Männlicher Kopf" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Printed in Germany in 1917 for Die Aktion; this impression is from the deluxe edition of 100 on Bütten laid paper. Catalogue reference: Schapire 202. Image ...
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1910s Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Kandinsky, Jüngster Tag, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle Paris, Hommage à Wassily Kandins...
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1970s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$716 Sale Price
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Return from the market, Woodcut on Paper, Figurative by Haren Das "In Stock"
By Haren Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Haren Das - Untitled (Return from the Market)
Woodcut on Paper
6.8 x 10 inches
( Unframed & Delivered )
Born in Dinajpur in present day Bangladesh on 1 February 1921, Das took a dip...
Category
1990s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Artist Mother 1967 Signed Limited Edition Woodblock
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Philip Sutton
Artist Mother - 1967
Print - Woodcut 29'' x 24.25''
Edition: signed and numbered in pencil 7/25
Image Size; 18"x 18"
Condition Note; Handling Creases.
Philip Sutton s...
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1960s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Linocut, Woodcut
$600 Sale Price
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'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, 1940s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 IV. Annotated 'PW 290 state IV / IV 3669', in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. With the artist's typed address and date adjacent to the letterhead image: 'Falls Village, Connecticut September 26th, 1940'.
A fine impression, on buff, wove letterhead stock; several small losses, and tears, in the sheet edges (not affecting the image area); a crease in the bottom right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Very scarce.
Image size: 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 11 x 8 5/8 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Feininger moved from Germany to New York City in 1938 and began spending his summers in Falls Village in 1940.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
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1930s Bauhaus Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Roller Coaster /// Contemporary Pop Art Relief Print Figurative Funny Colorful
By Dan May
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-)
Title: "Roller Coaster"
*Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left
Year: 1982
Medium: Original Relief Print on u...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Serie Oratorios
Located in Toronto, ON
44" x 30" Unframed
3 Ink Woodcut Print on Paper
Hand Signed by Iván Bautista
Category
2010s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Les Amateurs d'Estampes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Amateurs d'Estampes
Woodcut, 1892
Initialed in the plate lower left
Titled below image: "Gravure originale sur bois par F. Vallotton"
Reference: Valloton and Goerg 107c, with the...
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1890s Post-Impressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
'Interior of the Kannon Temple at Asakusa' — Tokyo Landmark, Early Edition
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
NARAZAKI EISHO (1864-1936), 'Asakusa Kannon-do no naido' (Interior of the Kannon Temple at Asakusa), color woodblock print, 1932. Signed Eisho lower right, with the artist’s red seal beneath. A fine impression with fresh colors; the full sheet with slight overall age toning, a drying tack...
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1930s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Frau H.M. Naila signed original woodcut
By Max Beckmann
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Signed in pencil. Catalogue reference: Hofmaier 282 IV BB. Printed in Germany in 1923 for the very rare Kunst der Gegenwart portfolio, published in Munich b...
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1920s Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Nir Hadar, The princess from Jaffa, Print on wood
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Hadar takes euphoric moments and try to generate a three dimensional feeling with every image inviting the viewer to jump into the game and to be part of it.
There's a hidden message...
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2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Composition, Così fan tutte, Balthus
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut in colors on vélin paper. Paper Size: 19 x 18 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Così fan tutte. Dramma giocoso in due atti. Musi...
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Early 2000s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$1,996 Sale Price
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Motif, Gold Abstract African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in orange, blue and gold abstract.
From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination.
Viola Burley Leak, American (1944 - )
Viola Leak was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she received a B.A. in Art from Fisk University, a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an M.A. from Hunter College, NY and an M.F.A. in Media from Howard University, Washington, DC. Leak was an art consultant for both the New York State Board of Education and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print Department, in addition to working for the Experimental Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute. Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage.
She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile designing, soft sculpture, appliqué tapestries, doll making, and multi-media.
Viola has studied with many renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, and Charles White. Her works can be found in the collections of World Federation of United Nations, New York State Office Building, Manufacturers of Hanover Trust Company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company and many more organizations.
Viola's exhibition experience is extensive - more than 100 showings over a decade, national and international. Her quilts exude a miraculous and magical presence. They have traveled in two international shows and three national quilt projects in the past three years.
A proud moment for her was being featured in the December 20, 2000 of the Smithsonian magazine; the article praised her mural "Afro Dance Scan" as one of the outstanding artworks in the "When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Screen, Woodcut
'OUI', 2023, Contemporary Abstract Print
Located in New York, NY
Harland Miller's 'OUI', 2023 is a contemporary woodcut print. A tribute to Harland Miller’s time spent in Paris as a young artist and writer during the 1990s, OUI is inspired by the ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$42,000 Sale Price
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Byzantine Court - Woodcut Print - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Byzantine Court is an artwork realized from 1856 to 1862 .
Black and white woodcut.
Published on the book "Usi e costumi di tutti i popoli dell'universo", Milano Borroni and Scotti...
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19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Motif, Orange Blue, African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in orange and blue abstract.
From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination.
Viola Burley Leak, American (1944 - )
Viola Leak was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she received a B.A. in Art from Fisk University, a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an M.A. from Hunter College, NY and an M.F.A. in Media from Howard University, Washington, DC. Leak was an art consultant for both the New York State Board of Education and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print Department, in addition to working for the Experimental Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute. Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage.
She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile designing, soft sculpture, appliqué tapestries, doll making, and multi-media.
Viola has studied with many renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, and Charles White. Her works can be found in the collections of World Federation of United Nations, New York State Office Building, Manufacturers of Hanover Trust Company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company and many more organizations.
Viola's exhibition experience is extensive - more than 100 showings over a decade, national and international. Her quilts exude a miraculous and magical presence. They have traveled in two international shows and three national quilt projects in the past three years.
A proud moment for her was being featured in the December 20, 2000 of the Smithsonian magazine; the article praised her mural "Afro Dance Scan" as one of the outstanding artworks in the "When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Screen, Woodcut
Orientalisches (Röthel 106), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Kandinsky, Wassily, and Hans Konrad Röthel. Ka...
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1930s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$5,596 Sale Price
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"Pura Vida" original color woodcut print signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Pura Vida" is an original color woodcut signed by Carol Summers. A multi-colored piece shows a waterfall with red flames behind it in the middle of the piece. On the left stands a tree with yellow leaves on a hill. To the right is a rainbow. This is an excellent example of Summer's printmaking, not just because of the technique and imagery, but because it numbered 1 of the edition of 125. In addition, it contains a personal inscription to the Milwaukee gallerist David Barnett, who has championed the work of Summers and produced catalogs of his work. Indeed, this print appears as no. 189 in the David Barnett Gallery's 1988 catalogue raisonné of Summer's woodcuts.
Feel free to inquire if you would like to purchase a copy of the catalogue raisonné along with your Carol Summers print.
Art: 24.25 x 24.75 in
Frame: 36 x 35 in
signed lower right
titled and inscribed to David [Barnett] lower right
edition (1/125) lower right
Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented.
In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother.
From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum.
In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade.
After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957.
Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape.
In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge.
Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal.
By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MOMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia.
Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape.
In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country.
In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image.
The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist.
At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Reiterweg (Röthel 111), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Kandinsky, Wassily, and Hans Konrad...
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1930s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
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Untitled (A rose by any other name...)
Located in San Francisco, CA
vitreograph on paper, hand-colored with unique text and drawing; created during an artist's residency at Pilchuck Glass School 22 x 30 inches/55.9 x 76.2 cm
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20th Century Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
“Gion Festival” 1961 woodcut RIKIO TAKAHASHI Japanese sōsaku hanga artist
By Rikio Takahashi
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Woodcut in colors
Image size: H 33 x W 22 in.
Sight size: H 33.5 x W 22 in.
Numbered, titled, signed, and dated lower edge
This work can be viewed at our New York City showroom by a...
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1960s Abstract Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut, Paper
Ex libris. Paper, woodcut, 11x7cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ex libris Olav Tähe
Paper, woodcut, 11x7cm
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1990s Jugendstil Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Paper, Woodcut
$170 Sale Price
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Four trees. Paper, wood carving , 29x29 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Four trees. Paper, wood carving, 29x29 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1...
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1970s Abstract Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Paper, Woodcut
Salvador Dalí -- Mais o belle Dionee from L'Art d'Aimer suite
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali
Mais o belle Dionee, from L'Art d'Aimer suite, 1979
Woodcut in colours on wove,
Hand signed lower right
Edition 230 /250
Sheet size 74 x 54 cm
Image size: 57 x 44 cm
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1970s Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
$2,944 Sale Price
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original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Executed for the second volume (1956-57) of the very rare Documenti d'Arte d'Oggi, published in Milan by Groupe Espace. Size: 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (318 x 2...
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1950s Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Untitled Abstract Woodcut by Charlie Hewitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charlie Hewitt, American (1946 - )
Title: Untitled - M
Year: circa 1995
Medium: Woodblock, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: 100
Image Size: 16 x 19.5 inches
Size: 20 x ...
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1990s Abstract Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Jojoba Bean Oil (Rare Framed Woodcut)
By Damien Hirst
Located in Aventura, FL
Color woodcut on 410 gsm somerset white paper. Hand signed lower right by Damien Hirst. Hand numbered 38/55 on verso. From the "40 Woodcut Spots" series published by Paragon Press...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
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WO RO SI IA ZIN Russian Soldier with His Family
Located in Fairlawn, OH
WO RO SI IA ZIN Russian Soldier with His Family
Color woodcut, 1861 2nd month
Signed upper left (see photo)
Titled upper right in black cartouche (see photo)
Format: oban
Style: Yokohama-e
Publisherr: Sagamiya Tokichi (Marks #435) active 1955-1866
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has an impression of this image
RARE
Condition: with usual aging
Image size: 13 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches
Rebecca Salter in her Japanese Popular Prints... on page 18 gives a different take on the situation that Yoshifuji found himself in.
"A giant of the period, however, was Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-861). Although best known for warrior prints which reflected the militaristic undercurrents of the time, he was also responsible for some of the most light-heartend and humorous works in this book. His followers in the Utagawa school, Utagawa Yoshitsuya...
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1860s Other Art Style Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
By Ilya Shenker
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a wedding scene in a style of German Expressionism. hand signed and hand painted in watercolor.
Ilya Shenker, Russian/American (1922 - )
As a soldier in World War II, he survived where millions perished. Upon returning to his home town of Odessa, felt abandoned and alone. He studied Art and Architecture in Odessa, but, one of a number of Russian Jewish artists allowed to emigrate, he left for America when the opportunity arose. He settled in New York City, a choice that has forever impacted his oeuvre. Many of his pictures depict New York cityscapes and lifestyle; however, they remain typically Russian. His subject matter often comes from memory and includes the life that he left behind, family, and friends. Drawing upon his Jewish heritage for inspiration, Shenker also paints historical events, such as "On the Eve of the Assault" in which he portrayed the last night before the destruction of Jerusalem. He has also illustrated a number of classics of Russian literature including Alexander Pushkin. His use of imagination also applies to the figures in his expressionist paintings—fictional characters such as the Spanish literary character Don Quixote make appearances in his work. He has also placed figures such as Rembrandt and Picasso in modern settings: in "Rembrandt Visiting our Family," Shenker sits his most favored artist at his family table, in a tribute to someone he describes as a "peoples artist." He is one in a long line of great Soviet Russian Judaica Jewish artists beginning with Yehuda Pen, who founded Russia's first art school for Jews in Vitebsk in 1897 continuing with his students, including Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky, Natan Altman, Leon Bakst and Robert Falk...
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1960s Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Watercolor, Woodcut
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) -- Last performance of the summer theater show
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Last performance of the summer theater show,
Natsu kyogen issei ichidai Diptych
Oban depicting two Kabuki actors Onoe Kikugorō III (尾上菊五郎) on the righ...
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1830s Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
"Red, Yellow, Blue & Green, " Color Woodcut & Monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Red, Yellow, Blue & Green" is an original color woodcut by Carol Summers. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. This woodcut depicts four color fields. The edition number i...
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2010s Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Monotype, Woodcut
Transformed Fantasy, Hand Printed Work on Paper, Woodcut
Located in Yardley, PA
Traditional French Tapestry wants to create an exotic paradise in an imaginary illusion of objects landscapes and animals in a home of eleg...
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2010s Surrealist Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Picasso, Sans titre (J/Vollard 193; Monod 10485), Hélène chez Archimède (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin de Montval-Maillol paper. Paper Size: 17.3 x 12.6 inches; image size: 11.4 x 8.7 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné referenc...
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1950s Cubist Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
$1,116 Sale Price
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Ex Libris - Angelo Balbi - Woodcut - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Angelo Balbi is an Artwork in Mid 20th Century.
Woodcut.
Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Ex Libris - Ada Balbi - Woodcut - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Ada Balbi is an Artwork in Mid 20th Century.
Woodcut.
Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
The Hunt - Original woodcut - Signed
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY
The Hunt, c. 1910
Original woodcut
Signed with the stamp of the artist's studio
Numbered on /220
Titled in the board
50.5 x 65.4 cm (c. 19.6 x 25.5 inch)
Excellent condi...
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1910s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Colorful Abstract Woodblock Print by Charlie Hewitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charlie Hewitt, American (1946 - )
Title: Untitled - L
Year: circa 1995
Medium: Woodblock, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: 100
Image Size: 16 x 20 inches
Size: 20 in. ...
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1990s Abstract Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
'Court' — WPA Social Conscience, Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Claire Mahl Moore, 'Court' also 'The Authorities', woodcut, 1936, edition 5. Signed 'Mahl' and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on ...
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1930s Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
'Tenant Farmers' — Depression Era, WPA
By Lou Barlow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lou Barlow (Louis Breslow), 'Tenant Farmers', color wood engraving, 1936, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '15/25' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh c...
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1930s American Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Sea and Cliffs in Guernsey - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
HERMANN-PAUL (1864-1940)
Sea and Cliffs in Guernsey, 1921
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /125
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of the e...
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1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Circle and Square
Located in Boston, MA
Werner Drewes. Circle and Square, 1980. Rose 386. Number 1 in an edition of 20. Signed and dated in pencil lower right margin: "Drewes -80-"; numbered in pencil lower left margin: "N...
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20th Century Bauhaus Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Kandinsky, Improvisation 7, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle Paris, Hommage à Wassily Kandins...
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1970s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$716 Sale Price
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