1890s Art

ALFRED DRURY, RA (1856-1944) The Age of Innocence Signed: A DRURY Bronze on green marble base Height including base 45.5 cm., 18 in. Born in Islington...

Business cards like this fall into the category of what art historians today generally refer to as "ephemera." Ones like this were produced for companies in the late 19th century, pr...

SPANISH SCHOOL, 19th CENTURY ARTIST UNKNOWN oil on canvas 10-1/2 x 7-5/8 inches (26.5 x 19.3 cm.) framed: 15-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches (39 x 31.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Spanish Collector, Madrid...

Koloman Moser (1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art work) by designing architecture, furniture, jewelry, graphics, and tapestries meant to coordinate every detail of an environment. His work transcended the imitative decorative arts of earlier eras and helped to define Modernism for generations to come. Moser achieved a remarkable balance between intellectual structure (often geometric) and hedonistic luxury. Collaborating with Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann, the artist was an editor and active contributor to Ver Sacrum, (Sacred Spring), the journal of the Viennese Secession that was so prized for its aesthetics and high quality production that it was considered a work of art. The magazine featured drawings and designs in the Jugendstil style (Youth) along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. It quickly disseminated both the spirit and the style of the Secession. In 1903 Moser and Hoffmann founded and led the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) a collective of artisans that produced elegant decorative arts items, not as industrial prototypes but for the purpose of sale to the public. The plan, as idealistic then as now, was to elevate the lives of consumers by means of beautiful and useful interior surroundings. Moser’s influence has endured throughout the century. His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters...

Original antique advertising poster for the Parisian department store A La Place Clichy promoting its special fashion summer sale in April / A La Pla...

SERGE FERAT 1881-1958 (Le Comte Sergueï Yastrebzov) Moscow 1881-1958 Paris (Russian/French) Title: Theater Interior Design Technique: Original Signed Gouache Painting on paper siz...

Klimt’s association with Martin Gerlach dates back to the early 1880s when Gerlach and Schenk published their first edition of Allegorien und Embleme. By the mid-1890s, they were pla...

Auguste RODIN (after) Dance, 1897 Etching enhanced with watercolor On vellum 31 x 42.5 cm (c. 12.2 x 16.7 inches) Edition limited to 125 copies, send with the certificate of authent...

Gorgeous late 19th century Tonalist landscape painting of foothills and oak trees in the style of Willard Leroy Metcalf circa 1900. Inscribed "M" in circle monogram lower left corner and on frame verso. Presented in original rustic giltwood frame. Image size: 6"H x 8"W. Framed size: 8.5"H x 10.5"W. Tonalist are usually intimate works, painted with a limited palette. Tonalist paintings are softly expressive, suggestive rather than detailed, often depicting the landscape at twilight or evening, when there is an absence of contrast. Tonalist paintings could also be figurative, but in them, the figure was usually out of doors or in an interior in a low-key setting with little detail. Tonalism had its origins in the works of the French Barbizon school and in the works of American painters who were influenced by them. California Tonalism was born when the emphasis in California landscape painting passed from the grand landscapes of works like those of Thomas Hill and William Keith's early career, to more intimate views of a domesticated landscape. At the same time, the parallel Pictorialist Photography...

Medium: Oil on Panel Signature: Signed "H. Pyle" Lower Right and Inscribed Indistinctly On the Reverse "At the same time he extended toward King Louis the ...

John Sloan's Westminster Abbey portfolio is among the most rare of his printmaking output, and a complete set like this is even more unusual. Printed in dark brown ink in on a sturdy...

Auguste RODIN (after) Lovers, 1897 Etching enhanced with watercolor On vellum 42.5 x 31 cm (c. 16.7 x 12.2 inches) Edition limited to 125 copies, send with the certificate of authen...

"Incantation - L'Estampe Moderne" is a giclee print on watercolor paper after the original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. L'Estampe Moderne was a French publication aimed at promoting...

La Tentation de Saint-Antoine is a complete set of 24 original lithographs realized by Odilon Redon and published by Ambrose Vollard in 1896, This is the...

"Woman with Cello" is a wood engraving by Gillot after Eugene Grasset. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. It depicts a woman with long fl...

Image dimensions: 26x18.8 cm. Fleurs de Mousse is an amazing colored lithograph on cardboard, realized by the Italian artist and one of the fathers of the modern Italian poster art, Leopoldo Metlicovitz (Trieste, 1868 - Ponte Lambro, 1944). Printed by Officine Ricordi, Milan in 1898, the advertising manifesto for the Fleurs de Mousse fragrance is inspired by the art nouveau graphics of the master Adolf Hohenstein. This is a wonderful vintage advertising poster for the "Fleurs de Mousse, le grand parfum à la mode", monogrammed on lower right margin and with the inscriptions printed on lower margin, under the image: "L. Metlicovitz / Off. G. Ricordi and C. Milano / 90 x 125. In excellent conditions, except for some light abrasions of the paper on the right and lower margins. This modern original poster shows the vintage Art Nouveau taste and the Metlicovitz's full mastery of the artistic medium, has the dignity of an object of art to collect and could be a colorful and fashionable piece for your sophisticated home furniture. Leopoldo Metlicovitz (Trieste, 1868 - Ponte Lambro, 1944) The Italian painter, illustrator, theatrical and advertising scenographer is considered one of the precursors of Futurism and, together with Leonetto Cappiello, Adolf Hohenstein, Giovanni Maria Mataloni and Marcello Dudovich, one of the fathers of modern Italian poster art. He began his artistic career at the age of fourteen working as an apprentice in a typography in Udine, where he learned the technique of lithography. Here he is noticed by Giulio Ricordi, owner of the namesake Officine Grafiche, who invites him to Milan to work as a lithographer. In 1892, after collaborating with Tensi, a photographic product company, he returned to Ricordi as technical director. At the same time, he entered the theatrical environment and began his career as a set designer and costume designer at La Scala. The Mele di Napoli tailoring company entrusted him with the task of advertising his clothes and in 1906, on the occasion of the great Universal Exposition in Milan, he won the competition for the fair poster, establishing himself also as a poster artist and then collaborating with several magazines as an illustrator. For Ricordi he takes care of the illustrations of calendars, opera librettos, postcards. Other famous images created by him are those for the poster of the film Cabiria, a blockbuster of the silent film scripted by Gabriele D'Annunzio, and the trademark that is still used today by the Brothers Branca Distilleries, producers of Fernet Branca...

Image dimensions: 24 x 27.8 cm Original title: Die Najaden The Neiads is a black and white xylograph on Japon applied on ivory-colored paper, after Arnold Böcklin, realized by the German artist Johann Jacob Weber (Basel 1803, Leipzig 1880). A really superb plate with lifetime impression, from the collection "Sechzehn Holzscnitte nach Gemälden Arnold Böcklin (Meisterwerke der Holzschneidekunst, Neue Folge Heft V), leipzig, verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber", printed in 1898 by J.J. Weber. All the plates of this print suite are woodcuts on the head wood and taken from Böcklin's most famous paintings. Johann Jacob Weber was the talented executor and creator of the Meisterwerke der Holzschneidekunst series which also includes a famous folder of his woodcuts taken from the artworks by Sascha Schneider...

Vier Schmetterlinge is an original etching, realized by Richard Müller in 1899, hand-signed in pencil, monogram on the plate, limited edition of 12 prin...

The Plague Kings is an original etching on the Japanese paper, realized by James Ensor in 1895, signed on the plate and dated, unique state, with the second signature on the reverse ...

Medium: Gouache and Ink on Paper Signature: Signed, Dated and Inscriber Lower Right

Image dimensions: 14x22 cm. Horse with Herds is a really beautiful china ink original drawing on paper, signed and dated in black ink on lower margin by the Italian artist, Filippo Palizzi...

ROBERT TRAILL ROSE (1863-1942) Primordium Vitae Signed with monogram; signed, inscribed with title and the artist’s address and dated 1899 on a labe...

Louis John RHEAD (1857-1926) The Sun Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate On vellum Size 39 x 29 cm (c. 15.3 x 11.4") INFORMATION : Plate 8 of "Les Maîtres de l'Affi...

Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) The Old Pine, 1891 Original charcoals and pencil drawing Signed on the back Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back on cream vellum 27.5 x 25 cm (...

Théophile Alexandre STEINLEN Impressionist Scenes (Mothu et Doria), 1895 Stone lithograph Printed signature in the plate On vellum Size 39 x 29 cm (c. 15.3 x 11.4") INFORMATION : Plate 46 of "Les Maîtres...

Art Sz: 9 1/4"H x 6"W Frame Sz: 14"H x 10 1/2"W

Idylle is an original artwork realized by Frédérique Jacque in 1892. Original Lithograph on Japan paper. Passepartout is included (50 x 64 cm). Proof N°9 on Japan paper. Signed on...

Hand Signed in pencil lower right, titled lower left, inscribed “N°2”. On Chine Appliqué paper, one of only 10 known impressions Catalogue Prouté 1973 n.179. Prov. Paul Prouté, Paris...

Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: Watercolor on Paper Original illustration for 'A Treasury of Stories, Jingles and Rhymes' published by Frederick A. Stokes Company in 1894, app...

"From: Ilsée, Princess of Tripoli Ilsee's Vision" is an original color lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. Exquisite double-sided color lithographs from "Ilsee, Princesse de Tripoli," a ra...

Kam-Hill - From Le Café Concert is an original print, realized in 1893 by Henri-Gabriel Ibels. Black and white lithograph on paper. Good conditions except for some ripple along ...

"From: Ilsée, Princess of Tripoli Recto: "Watching the Horizon" Verso: "Jaufre's Illness" is an original color lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. Exquisite double-sided color lithographs...

"From: Ilsée, Princess of Tripoli Recto: "Princess and Djeldah" Verso: "Fruit" is an original color lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. Exquisite double-sided color lithographs from "Ilse...

ULPIANO CHECA Spanish, 1860 - 1916 VENICE CANAL signed & located "U. Checa" Venezia (lower left) Also dedicated: "A Marguerite Pinédo affectueusement" ...

Image dimensions: 34.2 x 45.5 cm. Sleeping Diana is an original print, realized in 1898. Black and white woodcut print on applied Japon paper. Good conditions except for yellowing of paper (especially along the margins), and very light folds on lower left side. The print was realized by Johann Jacob Weber and it's part of the series Meisterwerke der Holzschneidekunst (original title: SECHZEHN HOLZSCHNITTE NACH GEMÄLDEN ARNOLD BÖCKLIN...

Binyon 232 - A fine impression in fine condition in an edition of 55 signed and inscribed by the artist. Strang was a prolific printmaker and across his lifetime produced over 750 o...

Mévisto - From Le Café Concert is an original print, realized in 1893 by Henri-Gabriel Ibels. Black and white lithograph on paper. Good conditions except for some ripple along th...

"From: Ilsee, Princess of Tripoli Recto: "Title Page" Verso: "Art Nouveau Motif" is an original by Alphonse Mucha. Exquisite double-sided lithographs from "Ilsee, Princesse de Tripo...

Original woodcut after Paul Gauguin. Second edition of 100 prints signed by the Artist's son Pola Gauguin: lower left "Paul Gauguin fait", lower left "Pola Gauguin imp.". Inscribed ...

Binyon 396 - A fine impression in fine condition in an edition of 20 signed and inscribed by the artist. Strang was a prolific printmaker and across his lifetime produced over 750 o...

This is an original color lithograph map of the City of Milwaukee, published in 1895 by the Chicago mapmaker George Franklin Cram. It provides an excellent historic view of the city during the late nineteenth century, highlighting major neighborhoods, parks, companies and other historic landmarks. 20 x 13.5 inches, map 30.63 x 24.13 inches, frame Inscribed lower left "Map of Milwaukee; Published by George F. Cram; 61-63 Plymouth Place, Chicago" Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag silk-lined matting with a 1/4 inch bevel and museum glass, housed in a gold and bol metal gilded moulding. The George F. Cram Company traces its ancestry back to 1867, when a merchant named Rufus Blanchard, originally from Massachusetts, took his nephew George F. Cram into business with him in Evanston, Illinois, near Chicago. Prior to that, back East, Blanchard had prospered through the sale of globes, maps, and books, but after the Civil War had moved to the Midwest. He brought Cram into the trade as a partner. Cram, who was born on May 20, 1842, was fairly young at the time. He had served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and, reportedly, had a role as a cartographer for General Ulysses S. Grant. He also wrote several letters while serving under General William T. Sherman and participating in that military commander's celebrated "march to the sea." Years later, Cram's biography and letters would command enough historical interest to find their way into print. The company of the uncle and nephew, which sold maps and atlases...

Image dimensions: 7.2 x 12.7 cm. New Orleans is a black and white xylograph on paper, realized in 1890 by anonymous artist, of incredible fineness. Of little dimensions but high meticulousness of sign, this original print presents us a lost and historical view on the New Orleans port...

Original antique magazine advertising poster for the American periodical Scribner's (1887-1939) featuring a black and white image depicting a family heading out for a fun time at the popular Coney Island seaside amusement park in Brooklyn New York in the late 1800s with the man wearing a black hat and holding a young girl with a ribbon on her hat and the lady carrying a baby set inside a white background with the stylised text above and below: Coney-Island by Julian Ralph and Henry McCarter...

Gustave Fraipont (1849-1923) A Peasant girl with her flock of Turkeys, Ink and heightenings of blue watercolor on paper 23 x 15 cm Signed on the lower left and titled on lower righ...

"From: Ilsée, Princess of Tripoli "Princess Ilsee's Oasis Throne" is an original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. From "Ilsee, Princesse de Tripoli," a rare illustrated book. Image: ...

Medium: Gouache on Several Pieces of Collaged Watercolor P Signature: Signed Center Right Original art for the Art Supplement to The Philadelphia Inquirer's July 25, 1897 issue Acc...

Medium: India Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed "Crichton" Lower Left Sight Size 20.00" x 15.00," Framed 16.50" x 13.50" A critique of Michael Henry de Young...

MARTIN Jacques (1844-1919) Lady With Bunch of Flowers Oil on canvas signed up right Framed by Gault (Paris) Dim canvas : 74 X 59 cm Dim frame : 97 X 82 cm MARTIN Jacques (1844-1919) French painter 19th-20th century Born in 1844 in Villeurbanne. Dead the 13th of November 1919 in Lyon Postimpressionist Painter of genre, still-lives, flowers. Exhibitions : Lyon Salon from 1881 and Paris Indépendants Salon. Enviable standing in the Lyon's school. Museums : Paris Luxembourg...

From: Ilsée, Princesse de Tripoli "Ilsee and Jaufre" is an original color lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. Exquisite double-sided color lithographs from "Ilsee, Princesse de Tripoli," ...

Jules Chéret Folies-Bergère (L'Arc-en-Ciel), 1895 Stone ithograph Printed signature in the plate On vellum Size 39 x 29 cm (c. 15.3 x 11.4") INFORMATION : Plate 21 of "Les Maîtres...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right

Farmers with Bundle of Spikes is an original pair of modern artworks realized in 1892 by an Italian artist. Original watercolors on paper. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right

"From: Ilsée, Princess of Tripoli Recto: "Oasis Beetles" Verso: "Visiting Ilsee's Palace" is an original color lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. Exquisite double-sided color lithographs ...

Etching on a zinc plate. Very Good conditions. Ref. - A. Baboni, L'Ottocento: le incisioni di Giovanni Fattori, Pacini Editore, 2001. p. 128, n.106 Giovanni Fattori was an Italian ...

Auguste RODIN (after) Naked man, 1897 Etching enhanced with watercolor On vellum 42.5 x 31 cm (c. 16.7 x 12.2 inches) Edition limited to 125 copies, send wi...

Marcel Legay - From Le Café Concert is an original print, realized in 1893 by Henri-Gabriel Ibels. Black and white lithograph on paper. Good conditions except for some ripple alo...

Naturalistic European harbor scene with boats and figures preparing the boats of sailing. The work is signed and dated by the artist in the bottom corner. The paper comes with a blac...