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Item Ships From: USA
Period: Early 1900s
Antique American Impressionist Nautical Seascape Sailboat Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape painting by Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph (1868 - 1924). Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed....
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Metz vintage lithographic vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage travel poster: METZ (France), artist: Alfred Pellon, signed A. Pellon. Size 34.75" x 36". Year: c 1906. Stone lithograph. ...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Lithograph
"2 Portrait of Boys"
Located in Warren, NJ
2 oil on canvas paintings. in good condition, frames not guaranteed for condition but one with separation between gilded inset and black frame
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas
Antique Autumnal Still Life -- Persimmons & Jug
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous early 20th Century still life with classic autumnal fruit persimmons and a brown jug by A. Thompson (American 19th/20th Century), circa 1900. Signe...
Category
American Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Pair of Portraits, Captain and Mrs. Evelyn R. Le Marchant
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This charming and distinguished looking couple still survive in the radiance of their youth captured for all time by the Plymouth portraitist W. Andresen. Although we know little about the artist, his skill is evident in the fine quality of these images.
Captain Evelyn R. le Marchant, commander of his Britannic majesty's battleship `Nile', posed for this portrait in Plymouth, England in January 1906. His vessel, one of the earliest battleships to operate without sails, is shown anchored in the background. The following month his lovely wife Edith posed for her portrait. These two fine images show an interesting balance with the man of the sea in his element and his shoreside wife surrounded by her garden.
Both paintings are very well done in watercolor with added body color, pencil, and charcoal. Their condition is outstanding and both are mounted in their original period frames with antique glass.
Sight Size: 41 Inches x 29¾ Inches each.
Each painting signed LR: W. Andresen, Plymouth
Vallejo Gallery features the finest in marine and maritime antiques...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"Au restaurant" original etching
By Tony Minartz
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1904 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Image size: 8 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches (220 x 1...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Etching
"L’Avant-foyer de l’Opera" original etching
By Tony Minartz
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1903 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate size: 9 x 7 inches (228 x 178 mm). ...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Etching
Early 20th Century Winter Snowy Cabin Oil Painting Signed Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful snowy landscape with footprints leading to cabin in valley circa 1940. Signed lower left "Gruber." Image has painted "mat" effect. Inside image is 12.50"H x 18.38"W. Unfram...
Category
Realist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
The Bride's Maid
By Anders Zorn
Located in New York, NY
A very good, dark impression of this etching. Signed in pencil, lower right.
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Etching
Miss Taylor
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Miss Taylor
Drypoint, c. 1900
Signed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Small edition, about 10
Very rich impression, full of burr
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 21-1/4 x 13-1/4"
Sheet size: 25 3/8 x 18 5/8"
Reference: Montesquiou XII
Paul César Helleu was born in Vannes, Brittany, France. His father, who was a customs inspector, died when Helleu was in his teens. Despite opposition from his mother, he then went to Paris and studied at Lycée Chaptal. In 1876, at age 16, he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts, beginning academic training in art with Jean-Léon Gérôme. Helleu attended the Second Impressionist Exhibition in the same year, and made his first acquaintances with John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Claude Monet. He was struck by their modern, bold alla prima technique and outdoor scenes, so far removed from the studio. Following graduation, Helleu took a job with the firm Théodore Deck Ceramique Française hand-painting fine decorative plates. At this same time, he met Giovanni Boldini, a portrait painter with a facile, bravura style, who became a mentor and comrade, and strongly influenced his future artistic style.
When he was 18 years old, Helleu established a close friendship with John Singer Sargent, four years his senior, that was to last his lifetime. Already becoming established, Sargent was receiving commissions for his work. Helleu had not sold anything, and was deeply discouraged almost to the point of abandoning his studies. When Sargent heard this, he went to Helleu and picked one of his paintings, praising his technique. Flattered that Sargent would praise his work, he offered to give it to him. Sargent replied, "I shall gladly accept this, Helleu, but not as a gift. I sell my own pictures, and I know what they cost me by the time they are out of my hand. I should never enjoy this pastel if I hadn't paid you a fair and honest price for it." With this he paid him a thousand-franc note.
Helleu was commissioned in 1884 to paint a portrait of a young woman named Alice Guérin (1870–1933). They fell in love, and married on 28 July 1886. Throughout their lives together, she was his favourite model. Charming, refined and graceful, she helped introduce them to the aristocratic circles of Paris, where they became popular fixtures.
On a trip to London with Jacques-Émile Blanche in 1885, Helleu met Whistler again and visited other prominent artists. His introduction to James Jacques Tissot, an accomplished society painter from France who made his career in England, proved a revelation. In Tissot, Helleu saw, for the first time, the possibilities of drypoint etching with a diamond point stylus directly on a copper plate. Helleu quickly became a virtuoso of the technique, drawing with the same dynamic and sophisticated freedom with his stylus as with his pastels. His prints were very well received, and they had the added advantage that a sitter could have several proofs printed to give to relations or friends. Over the course of his career, Helleu produced more than 2,000 drypoint prints.
Soon, Helleu was displaying works to much acclaim at several galleries. Degas encouraged him to submit paintings to the Eighth Impressionist Exhibition in May and June 1886. The show was installed in a Paris apartment at 1 rue Laffitte, which ran concurrently with the official Salon that year to make a statement. Although 17 artists joined the famous exhibit that included the first Neo-Impressionistic works, Helleu, like Monet, refused to participate.
Paul Helleu Sketching with His Wife (1889), by John Singer Sargent, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
In 1886, Helleu befriended Robert de Montesquiou, the poet and aesthete, who bought six of his drypoints to add to his large print collection. Montesquiou later wrote a book about Helleu that was published in 1913 with reproductions of 100 of his prints and drawings. This volume remains the definitive biography of Helleu. Montesquiou introduced Helleu to Parisian literary salons, where he met Marcel Proust, who also became a friend. Proust created a literary picture of Helleu in his novel Remembrance of Things Past as the painter Elstir. (Later, Helleu engraved a well-known portrait of Proust on his deathbed.) Montesquiou's cousin, the Countess Greffulhe, enabled Helleu to expand his career as a portrait artist to elegant women in the highest ranks of Paris society, portraits that provide the basis for his modern reputation. His subjects included the Duchess of Marlborough, the Marchesa Casati...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Drypoint
Cobb's Creek (Large Signed Original Watercolor, c. 1905, Penns. Academy)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sorry for the reflections on the glass - I did not want to disassemble the ornate antique gold frame in order to photograph the art. At any rate - this is a beautifully accomplished turn-of-the-century watercolor by the American painter Frank English...
Category
Romantic Early 1900s Art
Materials
Watercolor
A L'Ombre (In Shadow)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A L'Ombre (In Shadow)
Etching & drypoint, 1905
Signed with the red stamp of the publisher Pellet (see photo)
Edition: 50 on velin paper, signed and numbered
Publisher: Gustav Pellet, Paris (his red stamp lower right, recto; Lugt 1193)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 5-7/8 x 8-5/8" (14.8 x 21.8 cm.)
Sheet size: 11 5/8 x 17 1/8"
Reference: IFF 119
Exteens 229
Arwas 256 v/V
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906.
Life
Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops.
Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all."
Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine.
Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891.
In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes).
Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others.
He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion.
Books illustrated
de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905.
Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Etching
Turn of Century American Figurative Maine Lobster Fisherman - Grandfather's Joy
Located in Soquel, CA
Turn of Century American Figurative Maine Lobster Fisherman - Grandfather's Joy
A Old Lobster Fisherman ponders the future and the joy of grandchildren. Wonderful turn of century Ame...
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Ferry of the Loaf
Located in Hillsborough, NC
'Ferry of the Loaf' comes from the legendary tale of Thane of Fife, MacDuff, escaping the fury of MacBeth crossing the River Tay in the 11th century. The painting comes with a handw...
Category
Naturalistic Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"1905 Cornwall England"
Located in Warren, NJ
This is an Richard Hayley Lever (American, 1876-1958), Oil
on Canvas, Cornwall, England, 1905. The painting has been relined. Doesn’t effect the value measures 18x15. In good condition
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas
Oil Portrait of a Yeshiva Student, Dated 1903 by Saul Bernstein American
By Saul Bernstein
Located in Hallowell, ME
In the frame: approx 17" x 12: inscribed and dated 1903. Oil on paper.
Category
Abstract Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil
Antique Painting of a Dog: "Red Terrier" circa 1910, European School
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique painting a of a dog
"Red Terrier"
Possibly Dutch School
Oil on wood panel, circa 1910
Initialed lower left
7 1/2 x 7 (12 x 11 1/2 frame) inches
A charming and thoughtfully...
Category
Realist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Hungarian Rabbi Akiba Eger 19thC Judaica Folk Art Tapestry Needlepoint Sampler
Located in Surfside, FL
Dimensions board backing is 2 X 18.5 board opening is 16.5 X 13 inches
19th Century framed tapestry of a Rabbi, embroidered sampler, with beaded script below. (it reads J. Eger Oberlandes Rabbiner or Oberlander Rabbiner) There is some sort of texture and dimension to his fur hat (Shtreimel) and coat collar. This is being sold without the frame..
Rabbi Akiba Eger (5521-5598; 1761-1838)
Rabbi Akiba Eger was one of the greatest scholars of his time, who had a great influence on Jewish life. He was born in Eisenstadt, Hungary, in the year 5521 (1761), nearly two hundred years ago. The city of his birth was a seat of learning for centuries, and his family was a family of scholars and Rabbis.Rabbi Akiba Eger, who was Rabbi in the famous community of Pressburg (also Hungary, but since 1913 it belonged to Czechoslovakia and was called Bratislava). He was invited to become Rabbi of the famous city of Posen, and in fact became the chief rabbi of the entire Posen province, though he did not carry that title. His famous son-in-law, Rabbi Moshe Sofer (known as the 'Chasam Sofer'), Rabbi of Pressburg, who had married Rabbi Akiba Eger's daughter. King Frederick III of Prussia honored him with a special medal. Rabbi Akiba Eger was recognized as a great authority on Jewish law, and many well known rabbis and Jewish leaders turned to him for advice and decisions on points of law.
"This sort of art, craft work, emerges from a long tradition of Jewish folk art...
Category
Folk Art Early 1900s Art
Materials
Wool, Mixed Media, Thread
William Glackens Drawing Titled "M. Durand... Arrived on the Scene", Dated 1903
Located in New York, NY
William Glackens, 1870-1938
M. Durand... Arrived on the Scene, 1903
Ink, wash, charcoal and Chinese white on paper
Signed (at lower left): W. Glackens...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Charcoal
Fore
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ARTHUR BURDETT FROST
Harper’s Weekly
Harper & Brothers
New York, 1904
Hand-colored Halftone
A.B. Frost, as he was to become known professionally, was born in Philadelphia in 1851. His early years were spent as a student with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He was to go on as the primary illustrator of more than one hundred published books. Among the notable authors whose works he illustrated were Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Joel Chandler Harris, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, William Thackeray and others. For nearly fifty continuous years his illustrations appeared in the leading magazines, including Harper's, Scribner's, Collier's, Century, Puck and Life. His own books--Stuff & Nonsense, The Bull Calf and Other Tales, and Carlo--were recognized as masterpieces of comedy. As a painter in oil, Frost exhibited in both the United States and abroad. The unforgettable Brer Rabbit...
Category
Academic Early 1900s Art
Materials
Lithograph
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Danaë" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Danaë, no. 2 from the fourth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts
Danae originates from Greek mythology. She is the daughter of the King of Argos. Because a...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
Whaling – 1900 Monumental Zoology Vintage Lithograph
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Joseph Fleischmann, 'Whaling' (Hartingers Wandtafeln: Zoologie T. XXXII), monumental vintage color lithograph, 1900. Signed in the matrix, lower right. A superb, beautifully nuanced ...
Category
Naturalistic Early 1900s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Light of Love
Located in Washington, DC
Exhibited:
National Academy of Design, New York, 1906 (as no. 101)
Art Institute of Chicago, 1908 (as no. 74)
Category
American Realist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
L'Aieule (The Grandmother)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'Aieule (The Grandmother)
Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1904
Signed with the red stamp of the publisher, Gustave Pellet, Lugt 1193 and numbered (see photo)
Edition: 100 (81/100)
Reference: Arwas 202 iv/IV
IFF 98
Condition: Excellent, the sheet aged as usual
Image size: 14 1/4 x 18 5/8"
Sheet size: 16 15/16 x 24 1/4"
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906.
Life
Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops.
Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all."
Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine.
Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891.
In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes).
Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others.
He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion.
Books illustrated
de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905.
Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Aquatint
“Waves along the Rocky Coast”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful watercolor and gouache painting of waves crashing on the rocks along the shore by the renowned American artist, Edmund Darch Lewis. Signed lower left and dated 1908. Condition is excellent. The painting is housed in its original art nouveau frame recently restored. Under UV glass. Overall framed measurements are 21.75 by 33.75 inches.
Edmund Darch Lewis (1835-1910)
Edmund Darch Lewis was born in Philadelphia on October 17, 1835 to a successful, wealthy, well-connected family. He studied with Paul Weber...
Category
Academic Early 1900s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Sitting Pretty (Pomeranian Pups)
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1901' lower left
Category
Academic Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Cottage Garden, Oil on Canvas Painting by Henry Stannard
Located in Long Island City, NY
A neoclassical oil painting on canvas by British artist Henry John Sylvester Stannard. The scene depicts a woman cleaning a bucket outside her house while a dog nestled in a dog house watches on. The painting is signed by the artist as “Sylvester Stannard”.
The Cottage Garden...
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
William Glackens Charcoal on Paper Drawing, Dated 1902
Located in New York, NY
William Glackens, 1870-1938
Dubourg Drew from his Basket his Mechanical Syringe, 1902
Charcoal, gouache and white chalk on paper
Signed (at bottom cen...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Charcoal
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1902 for the special Felix Vallotton issue of L'Assiette au Beurre on the theme of Crimes et Chatiments (Crime and Punnishment). Size...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Lithograph
L'Angellus (The Angel)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'Angellus (The Angel)
Etching, engraving and acquatint on Arches paper, 1908
Signed lower right by the artist (see photo)
This is a first state impression printed in a brown/black ink
There was also a color edition of 50 impressions published by Sagot
Reference: Wurzer 27
Provenance: Edmund Sagot, the publisher
Sagot Heirs
Condition: Rich impression. Verso: print has staining. Printer's crease visibile from verso only.
Image/Plate size: 19 1/4 x 15 1/2" (48.9 x 39.37 cm)
Sheet size: 24 x 17 3/8 inches
From the British Museum:
"Colour etcher. Born in Livorno from a family of wealthy Swiss cotton merchants, studied with Giuseppe Ciaranfi and Michele Gordigiani in Florence. In 1886 exhibited with Fattori, Achille Lega and Tommasi in the Prima Esposizione delle Belle Arti in Livorno. In 1888 he and his family moved to Paris, where he studied first with François Flameng until 1892 and later with Carolus-Duran. Müller remained in the French capital until the outbreak of the First World War, taking French citizenship in 1913. He worked in the countryside at Barbizon, Suresnes and elsewhere, but also made frequent visits to his native country, where he exhibited regularly in Florence with the Promotrice Fiorentine. His early work was indebted to Fattori and Plinio Nomellini, but he soon became interested in the Impressionists and was credited by the critic Mario Tinti with introducing the luminism of Monet into Italian art.
Müller was a member of the Société des Artistes Indépendents and exhibited regularly in the Paris dealer...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Etching
Early 20th Century Likeness of Jack London
By Robert Alexander Graham
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Likeness of Jack London
Wonderful portrait of a gentleman with a striking likeness to Jack London by Robert Alexander Graham (American, ...
Category
Realist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Whalers Shack on the Northern California Coast - Watercolor Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene depiction of a Whaling shack circa 1900 near Davenport, California attributed to Lillian Josephine (Dake) Heath (19th century). Monogram on Verso "J. H. 1900".
Dated and initialed on verso "J. H. Feb. 1900"
Presented in a new white mat with foam core backing.
Mat size: 14"H x 18"W
Paper size: 9.25"H x 13.25"W
Lillian Heath was one of the Jolly Daubers at the turn of the 19th-century and as a young student, married the senior artist and instructor, Frank Heath...
Category
American Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Allegory of Summer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a monumental Art Nouveau painting, one of a series he did on commission.
Valère-Bernard,
François Marius Valère-Bernard French ,
He was born on 1 August 1860, in Marseilles, France.
He died 8...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Alabaster Cleopatra Sculpture, Unsigned, Attributed to Battiglia circa 1900
Located in San Antonio, TX
White Alabaster Sculpture of Cleopatra, semi-nude in repose. Great detail in clothing and headdress. Face is sharply carved. Sculpture is strongly attributed to Eugenio Battiglia based on the style and theme. Battiglia recreated this particular Cleopatra sculpture...
Category
Other Art Style Early 1900s Art
Materials
Alabaster
William Glackens Watercolor on Paper, "Criticizing Ernest Lawson’s Art Class"
Located in New York, NY
William Glackens, 1870-1938
Criticizing Ernest Lawson’s Art Class, ca. 1907
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Signed (at lower left): Glackens
Inscribed ...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Alphonse Mucha's "Figures Decoratives" 1905 Art Nouveau Lithograph, Plate 30
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate 30 from Alphonse Mucha's Figures Decoratives, a folio of forty color lithographic plates published by Librairie centrale des beaux-arts in 1905.
Issued during a period of incr...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Lithograph
On The Fence
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist oil painting of a woman sitting near a fence by American artist John Rutherford Boyd (1884-1951). Boyd was born in Philadelphia, PA, and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under American painter Thomas Anshutz...
Category
American Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Art Nouveau Bronze Female Bust "Phryne" Emanuel Villanis 1900
Located in Portland, OR
Antique, Art Nouveau bronze of a beautiful maiden in the Neo-Classical manner by Emmanuel Villanis, Circa 1900.
The bronze, titled "Phryne" depicts a beautiful Neo-Classical maiden, ...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Bronze
Portrait de petite fille, en buste, cheveux sur les epaules (Ellen 14 ans)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait de petite fille, en buste, cheveux sur les epaules (Ellen 14 ans) Portrait of a little girl, bust, hair on shoulders)
Drypoint, 1902
Signed lower right corner
Very small edition
Portrait of the artist's daughter Ellen, at age 14.
Title inscribed into the plate upper left
Brilliant impression full of burr
No stated edition, proofs only, less than 10 imps
Unidnetified collector's mark verso: Initials "PH", not in Lugt
Reference: Laran, IFF No. 390
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate eize: 14 3/4 x 12 5/8 inches
Sheet size: 25 x 16 inches
"Paul César Helleu was born in Vannes, Brittany, France. His father, who was a customs inspector, died when Helleu was in his teens. Despite opposition from his mother, he then went to Paris and studied at Lycée Chaptal. In 1876, at age 16, he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts, beginning academic training in art with Jean-Léon Gérôme. Helleu attended the Second Impressionist Exhibition in the same year, and made his first acquaintances with John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Claude Monet. He was struck by their modern, bold alla prima technique and outdoor scenes, so far removed from the studio. Following graduation, Helleu took a job with the firm Théodore Deck Ceramique Française hand-painting fine decorative plates. At this same time, he met Giovanni Boldini, a portrait painter with a facile, bravura style, who became a mentor and comrade, and strongly influenced his future artistic style.
When he was 18 years old, Helleu established a close friendship with John Singer Sargent, four years his senior, that was to last his lifetime. Already becoming established, Sargent was receiving commissions for his work. Helleu had not sold anything, and was deeply discouraged almost to the point of abandoning his studies. When Sargent heard this, he went to Helleu and picked one of his paintings, praising his technique. Flattered that Sargent would praise his work, he offered to give it to him. Sargent replied, "I shall gladly accept this, Helleu, but not as a gift. I sell my own pictures, and I know what they cost me by the time they are out of my hand. I should never enjoy this pastel if I hadn't paid you a fair and honest price for it." With this he paid him a thousand-franc note.
Helleu was commissioned in 1884 to paint a portrait of a young woman named Alice Guérin (1870–1933). They fell in love, and married on 28 July 1886. Throughout their lives together, she was his favourite model. Charming, refined and graceful, she helped introduce them to the aristocratic circles of Paris, where they became popular fixtures.
On a trip to London with Jacques-Émile Blanche in 1885, Helleu met Whistler again and visited other prominent artists. His introduction to James Jacques Tissot, an accomplished society painter from France who made his career in England, proved a revelation. In Tissot, Helleu saw, for the first time, the possibilities of drypoint etching with a diamond point stylus directly on a copper plate. Helleu quickly became a virtuoso of the technique, drawing with the same dynamic and sophisticated freedom with his stylus as with his pastels. His prints were very well received, and they had the added advantage that a sitter could have several proofs printed to give to relations or friends. Over the course of his career, Helleu produced more than 2,000 drypoint prints.
Soon, Helleu was displaying works to much acclaim at several galleries. Degas encouraged him to submit paintings to the Eighth Impressionist Exhibition in May and June 1886. The show was installed in a Paris apartment at 1 rue Laffitte, which ran concurrently with the official Salon that year to make a statement. Although 17 artists joined the famous exhibit that included the first Neo-Impressionistic works, Helleu, like Monet, refused to participate.
Paul Helleu Sketching with His Wife (1889), by John Singer Sargent, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
In 1886, Helleu befriended Robert de Montesquiou, the poet and aesthete, who bought six of his drypoints to add to his large print collection. Montesquiou later wrote a book about Helleu that was published in 1913 with reproductions of 100 of his prints and drawings. This volume remains the definitive biography of Helleu. Montesquiou introduced Helleu to Parisian literary salons, where he met Marcel Proust, who also became a friend. Proust created a literary picture of Helleu in his novel Remembrance of Things Past as the painter Elstir. (Later, Helleu engraved a well-known portrait of Proust on his deathbed.) Montesquiou's cousin, the Countess Greffulhe, enabled Helleu to expand his career as a portrait artist to elegant women in the highest ranks of Paris society, portraits that provide the basis for his modern reputation. His subjects included the Duchess of Marlborough, the Marchesa Casati, Belle da Costa Greene, Louise Chéruit, and Helena Rubinstein.
Looking for new inspiration, Helleu began a series of paintings and color prints of cathedrals and stained glass windows in 1893, followed by flower studies and landscapes of parks in Versailles. Helleu took up sailing, owning four yachts over his life. Ships, harbor views, life at port in Deauville, and women in their fashionable seaside attire became subjects for many vivid and spirited works.
In 1904, Helleu was awarded the Légion d'honneur and became one of the most celebrated artists of the Edwardian era in both Paris and London. He was an honorary member in important beaux-arts societies, including the International Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, headed by Auguste Rodin, and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
On his second trip to the United States in 1912, Helleu was awarded the commission to design was the ceiling decoration in New York City's Grand Central Terminal. He decided on a mural of a blue-green night...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Drypoint
A Summer Afternoon Rest
Located in Washington, DC
19th Century Swedish, Oil on canvas
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Fondeur Paris [Steel Worker]
Located in New York, NY
Carriere, Eugene. Le Fondeur, Paris 1900 [Steel Worker], Color lithograph.
Ref: Das Fruhe Plakat 134. 51 x 34 3/4 inches.
Eugène Anatole Ca...
Category
Symbolist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Toilette
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Toilette
Drypoint, 1908
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Edition: 65 this state (35/65)
Published by Gustave Pellet (1859-1919),...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Drypoint
Vielle Femme en Petite Cape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Signed with stamp, J.V.
7-5/8" x 4-3/4" art
19" x 15-1/4" frame
Jacques Villon (French, 1875 - 1963) French painter, printmaker and illustrator. The oldest of three brothers who became major 20th-century artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, he learnt engraving at the age of 16 from his maternal grandfather, Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-94), a ship-broker who was also a much appreciated amateur artist. In January 1894, having completed his studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, he was sent to study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, but within a year he was devoting most of his time to art, already contributing lithographs to Parisian illustrated newspapers such as Assiette au beurre. At this time he chose his pseudonym: Jack (subsequently Jacques) in homage to Alphonse Daudet’s novel Jack (1876) and Villon in appreciation of the 15th-century French poet François Villon...
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
India Ink, Gouache
Schooners on the Coast with Rocks Tide Pools and bird by Howard Garfield Gray
Located in Soquel, CA
Schooners on the Coast with Rocks Tide Pools and bird by Howard Garfield Gray
Schooners in the mist by artist and illustrator Howard Garfield Gray (American, 19th-20th C). Watercolor...
Category
American Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Watercolor
Farmhouse in Buchberg by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Farmhouse in Buchberg (Upper Austrian Farmhouse), painted in 1911. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300.
Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published Das Werk Gustav Klimts...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
La Seine, Denys Puech, dated 1901
By Denys Puech
Located in San Antonio, TX
Marble Sculpture titled “La Seine” in reference to the main Parisian River. Sculpture is signed "Denys Puech, OLRY-ROEDERER" and dated 1901. Presumably m...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Marble
En passant (Passing by)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En passant (Passing by)
Drypoint, 1909
Unsigned (as issued in the deluxe portfolio)
From the album "Les Bars" (8 plates plus cover illustration)
Edition: 30, this state with remarque
Published by Gustav Pellet, Paris
A very rich impression wwith burr
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 9 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches
Reference: Arwas 391a (remarque)
Exteens 277 i/II
IFF 148 (portfolio)
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906.
Life
Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops.
Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all."
Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine.
Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891.
In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes).
Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others.
He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion.
Books illustrated
de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905.
Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Drypoint
Sundown at the Village
By James Whitelaw Hamilton
Located in Washington, DC
Exhibited:
Venice, Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Citta di Venezia, 1905, (no. 40, Tramonto sul villaggio)
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“On the Seine, Paris”
By Hans Figura
Located in Southampton, NY
Original aquatint etching of working river barges on the Seine in Paris, France. A horse drawn cart is seen loading or unloading product. Circa 1900. Si...
Category
Academic Early 1900s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Aquatint
Maple Leaves Watercolor Painting 19th C. American Artist Charles DeWolf Brownell
Located in Surfside, FL
Charles De Wolf Brownell (American, 1822 - 1909)
Watercolor on paper of maple leaves against the sky,
Hand dated and inscribed "Papaw - E.H....
Category
Naturalistic Early 1900s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Fruit Trees by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime landscape collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Impressionist Fruit Trees landscape, painted in 1901. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300.
Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published Das Werk Gustav Klimts...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
Antique American Impressionist Nautical Seascape Sailboat Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape painting by Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph (1868 - 1924). Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed....
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mexican Artist ¨Perro Prehispánico¨ signed limited edition art print lithograph
Located in Miami, FL
Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, 1899-1991)
'Perro Prehispánico', 1990
lithograph on paper
34.5 x 26.8 in. (87.6 x 67.9 cm.)
Edition of 45
Unframed
Category
Contemporary Early 1900s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Norwegian Coast and Village circa 1900
Located in Soquel, CA
Norwegian Coast and Village circa 1900
Cliff village overlooks the Norwegian coastline, signed but illegible; with an auction sticker and label which is signed.
Image 12.5"H x 17"W
...
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
Schloss Kammer Lake Attersee II by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Schloss Kammer on Lake Attersee II (Das Werk Gustav Klimts), originally painted in 1909. Publishe...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
Sweet Peas, 1907
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexiglas, free shipping and a 14 day return policy.
Lora Webb Nichols
Sweet Peas, 1907
15 x 12 inch gelatin silver print
Image Size: 14 x 8.5 inches
Frame size: 22.5 x 17.5 x 2
Edition of 15
Lora Webb Nichols was born in 1883 and grew up in the small mining town of Encampment, Wyoming. At the age of 16 Lora received her first camera and from that moment and for the next few decades she produced work that is both stunning in its singular voice and revealing in the world it opens up for us.
At first Nichols photographed her family, friends, and the landscape around Encampment, but when the town experienced a copper mining boom Nichols expanded her scope to become a photographer for hire shooting portraits and industrial photographs. When the boom collapsed, Nichols took the risk of opening her own business in Encampment - The Rocky Mountain Studio - which opened in 1925. The studio ran for ten years, accumulating 24,000 negatives that illustrate the lives and environment of the people living in and around the town while creating a distinctive and surprising body of work. If one was to attempt an analogy – Nichols’ pictures fit somewhere between Lartigue and Lange - joyful and generous while objectively intimate. In particular what seems to distinguish Nichols’ work is the way she sees the world from a female perspective. As Vince Aletti...
Category
Other Art Style Early 1900s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
La Negresse (The Negress)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Negresse (The Negress)
Etching & drypoint, 1909
Unsigned (as issued in the portfolio)
From the album "Les Bars" (8 plates plus cover illustration)
Editi...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Etching
Farm Garden Sunflowers by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Farm Garden With Sunflowers, painted in 1913. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300.
Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published Das Werk Gustav Klimts...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper