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Period: Early 1900s
Circa 1900, The Departure Of The Hot Air Balloons
Located in PARIS, FR
Let's gain a higher perspective!
Circa 1900
Oil on canvas
82 x 59 cm
No signed
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Changing Leaves
By Joseph Varga
Located in Buffalo, NY
A beautiful antique impressionist painting by American artist Joseph Varga
Category
American Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,800 Sale Price
25% Off
Bust of a young woman / - Beauty of youth -
Located in Berlin, DE
Anonymous, Bust of a young woman, c. 1900, artificial marble and gray onyx marble. 37 cm (height) x 37 cm (width) x 22 cm (depth), weight 17.2 kg. Signed “GURRINI” on the reverse.
-...
Category
Realist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Marble
$899 Sale Price
20% Off
Oil Painting by Maurice Levis "Le Moulin de Jarcy"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by Maurice Levis "Le Moulin de Jarcy" S.F.A 1860 - 1940 French painter of landscapes and town views, pupil of Harpignies and member of the French Artists where he was a...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil
$3,688 Sale Price
28% Off
La Colline Saint Catherine - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Robert Pinchon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist oil on canvas riverscape c.1908 by French post impressionist painter Robert Antoine Pinchon. The work depicts a view of the River Seine in Rouen, with Saint Catherine'...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mädchen am Fenster. 1906-08.
Located in New York, NY
Mädchen am Fenster. 1906-08. Color lithograph printed on smooth card stock. Full margins. , signed by the artist in pencil, on the recto. Published by the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, with the printed postcard text on verso. Among Kokoschka's earliest prints were a series of 14 postcards, the current work and the following lot that he produced for the Wiener Werkstätte. Wingler/Welz 4.
Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Lithograph
LES PETITS HALEURS
Located in Portland, ME
Villon, Jacques. LES PETITS HALEURS. GP 176. Etching and Aquatint, 1907. Edition of 50 on Arches laid paper, signed and numbered in pencil, 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 inch...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Farm Garden With Sunflowers" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
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
Mother & Children - Impressionist Figurative Oil by Jean-Francois Raffaelli
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas figures in landscape by French impressionist painter Jean-Francois Raffaelli. The work depicts two young girls with their mother in a landscape overlooking boats...
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Water Snakes I" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Water Snakes I, no. 9 from the first installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts
Known by various names, Women Friends, Girlfriends, Water Snakes I and what Kli...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
By the Fire
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Antique Late 19th Century English Oil on Canvas Painting Female Portrait 1900
Located in Portland, OR
Antique English oil on canvas portrait painting, circa 1900. A very handsome Impressionist portrait of a youthful lady in Edwardian dress. Oil on canvas, signed to the upper left "F ...
Category
English School Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait de femme en buste, de profil a gauche, un tres large ruban noir du cou
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait de femme en buste, de profil a gauche, un tres large ruban noir du cou, Mme Marthe Letellier
Drypoint, 1900-1901
Signed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Titled in pencil low...
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Drypoint
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
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
Color aquatint and etching, c. 1906
Signed in pencil in the image (see photo)
Edition: c. 100
Reference: Merrill Chase, Volume 1, No. 85
Condition: F...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Aquatint
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Fruit Trees" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
St John's College, Oxford watercolour by T B Miller
Located in London, GB
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Category
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
Henri-Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819) L’Ete Dans La Saint Martin
Located in Dallas, TX
Henri-Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819)
Paysage D' Ete de la Saint-Martin
Oil on canvas
Portraying a landscape scene in summer outside of Paris on a subsidiary of the Seine River o...
Category
Barbizon School Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paint
Ladies Dress Shoes. Plate IX.
Located in New York, NY
LADIES DRESS SHOES. Plate IX.
The charming color lithograph from “Ladies’ Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century” was assembled by the antiquarian/shoe...
Category
Naturalistic Early 1900s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Two Women at Tea
Located in Fort Washington, PA
“Now as Julia sat there drinking tea from the quaintest of old-fashioned china cups, and eating slices of thin bread and butter, and cakes that almost melted in her mouth, she could ...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Charcoal
Temple of Isis, View of Philae (verso)
By Henry Bacon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Temple of Isis
Philae (verso)
Dpouoble sided watercolor, 1902
Signed on front lower left: "Henry Bacon" and dated 1902
Note:
The Temple of Isis is located on the Island of Philae at ...
Category
American Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Watercolor
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Golden Apple Tree" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
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
Early 20th-Century English School, John Lovibond & Sons, Cannon Brewery, Fulham
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming early 20th-century English School oil painting depicts the Cannon Brewery at North End, Fulham, owned by John Lovibond & Sons Ltd.
Founded in 1867, the brewery was bui...
Category
Folk Art Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Demonstrators - Impressionist Oil, Figures in City Landscape by Andre Devambez
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Wonderful figures in night landscape oil on canvas circa 1904 by French impressionist painter and illustrator Andre Devambez. The piece depicts demonstr...
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coin de Rue Dans Soho
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1947), Coin de Rue Dans Soho, woodcut, 1909, signed in pencil lower left and numbered (15/15) [also initials in the plate]. Reference: Sylvain Laboureur 64...
Category
Modern Early 1900s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Un nu feminin - Fauvist Nude Figurative Watercolour by Kees Van Dongen
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed nude watercolour on paper circa 1900 by Kees van Dongen. The piece depicts a standing nude woman with her hair tied up facing away from the artist. This superb work can be dir...
Category
Fauvist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Original Italian Travel Poster circa 1900 - Grande Albergo Ardesio
Located in Boca Raton, FL
The "Grande Albergo Ardesio" opened its doors in the early twentieth century. Originally owned by the Maninetti Family it quickly became a holiday destination for the prestigious Lom...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Lithograph
“Tonalist Landscape”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful tonalist landscape at sunset with a figure near a stream by the well known American artist, Charles P. Appel. Signed by the artist lower left. Circa 1905. Condition is ver...
Category
Tonalist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Train of the Dead" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
Raoul Fançois Larche Patinated bronze figure of a woman
Located in Berlin, DE
FRANCOIS-RAOUL LARCHE 1860 SAINT-ANDRÉ-DE-CUBZAC - 1912 PARIS
Signed on the base with "RAOUL LARCHE," foundry mark "SIOT DECAUVILLE PARIS FONDEUR," and number "R 276."
Total height...
Category
Jugendstil Early 1900s Art
Materials
Bronze
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Farmhouse With Birch Trees" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
Illustration for Hésperus by Carlos Schwabe, Symbolist fantasy aquarelle, 1904
Located in Chicago, IL
Lithograph from Carlos Schwabe’s series of hand-colored Symbolist fantasy illustrations for Catulle Mendès’ Hésperus, published in 1904 by Société de pr...
Category
Symbolist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
"Woman Resting Beneath a Tree" Henry Mosler, American Portrait in Landscape
By Henry Mosler
Located in New York, NY
Henry Mosler
Woman Resting Beneath a Tree, circa 1900
Signed upper right: Henry Mosler
Oil on canvas
12 1/2 x 10 inches
Mosler was born in Tropplowitz, Silesia, Prussia (present-da...
Category
Realist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Beech Forest II" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
Souper a New York
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-, Souper a New York, etching on zinc, 1907, signed in pencil bottom left margin; also annotated “No 11/20 imp” bottom margin. Reference: Sylvain Laboureur ...
Category
French School Early 1900s Art
Materials
Etching
Alphonse Mucha Figures Decoratives Plate 30
Located in Dallas, TX
A framed Art Nouveau lithograph collotype poster by Alphone Mucha from 1905 representing the artist’s sketches of nudes, women and beautiful ladies in blues and white pigments on vel...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
Le Déshabille, Impressionist Etching with Aquatint by Manuel Robbe, circa 1907
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Long Island City, NY
This etching with aquatint was created by French printmaker Manuel Robbe. Robbe’s innovative techniques, along with his sense of color harmony and his choice of subjects: stylish wom...
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
RAINY SUNDAY AT SAN MARCO
Located in Portland, ME
Hornby, Lester. RAINY SUNDAY AT SAN MARCO. Falk, 308, Kennedy 32. Etching, 1908. Edition of 60. Titled and signed in the plate and signed in pencil in the margin, lower right. 5 7/8 ...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Etching
Tonalist Landscape
Located in Milford, NH
A fine tonalist landscape by American artist J. Francis Murphy (1853-1921). Murphy was born in Oswego, New York, he moved to Chicago in 1868, where his father was employed in the shipping industry. In Chicago, Murphy began working as a scene painter in a local theatre and was quickly promoted to lead his co-workers. Largely self-taught, his only training consisted of a few classes at the Chicago Academy of Design. There he became friends with Emil Carlsen and Theodore Robinson, and in 1873, Academy members elected him an Associate; a few weeks later, he became an Academician. His work was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1876, where he was inducted eleven years later.He won numerous prizes, medals and honors for his landscape paintings, which are said to rank with those of George Inness, Alexander Wyant, and Homer Martin. Although his world was a limited one, his landscapes captured the forms of nature and the subtle nuances of the scene. Murphy was referred to as the "American Corot" because of his similarity to the painting style of Camille Corot (1796-1875), one of the original Barbizon...
Category
Tonalist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dancer with the scarf" lamp
Located in PARIS, FR
Agathon LÉONARD (1841–1923)
Lamp "Danseuse à L'Écharpe"
"Dancer with the scarf" lamp
A very rare sculpture forming a table lamp, made in gilded bronze
The scarf hides the light bulb
Signed on the side of the dress "A. Léonard Sclp"
Cast by Susse Frères (with founder stamp)
France
circa 1905
height 60 cm
A similar model is reproduced in "Les bronzes du XIXe siècle", P. Kjellberg, Les éditions de l'amateur, 2005, page 460.
Biography:
Léonard Agathon Van Weydeveldt, said Agathon Léonard (1841-1923) was a sculptor of Belgian origin naturalized French. After studying art at the Lille Academy of Fine Arts and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Agathon Léonard settled in Paris for a long time, where after having exhibited at the Salon of 1868, he joined the Society of French artists in 1887, then to the National Society of Fine Arts in 1897. Very involved in the artistic movement of the Art Nouveau style, he exhibited many pieces (medallions, bronze statuettes and ceramics) finely worked.
Following an order from the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, dating from 1898, Agathon Léonard exhibited at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris his famous table centerpiece "Game of the scarf" in porcelain biscuit, composed of fifteen statuettes representing dancers with pleated dresses reminiscent of Loïe Fuller's choreographies or Neo-Greek dancers...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Bronze
Les Danseuses by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Les Danseuses by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour ink on paper
18 x 25 c...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Malcesine on Lake Garda" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
Along The Seine
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist landscape along the Seine River in France by American artist Chauncey Foster Ryder (1868-1949). Ryder grew up in New Haven, Connec...
Category
American Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study St. Malo
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
The Artist;
Charles Prendergast (acquired from the above in 1924);
Mrs. Charles Prendergast (thence by descent from theabove in 1948);
Kraushaar Galleries, New York;
Mr...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Die Trinkende
By Victor Heinrich Seifert
Located in New York, NY
Victor Heinrich Seifert (1870 – 1953)
Die Trinkende, c. 1900
H 26.25 in. x W 8 in. x D 11.38 inch
Bronze with brown patina
Austrian artist Victor Heinrich Seifert is known for his ...
Category
Realist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Bronze
"La Promanade" Black and White Print of a Women in a Carriage Edition
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white print of an upper class women in a carriage. There are other figures in the back riding in a carriage as well. Edition 17 of 58. Painting is signed by the artist and ...
Category
Expressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Engraving
Church wall painting design by Reginald Hallward
Located in London, GB
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Reginald Hallward (1858 - 1948)
Design for a church wall painting (1904)
Penci...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Aquatint
Antique American Sunrise TONALIST Southern GULF IN TEXAS oil painting
Located in New York, NY
Lily Ayres (died 1936)
Circa 1910
“Sunrise Gulf in Texas”
Monogrammed
Oil on Board
8x10 inches unframed
12x14 inches with frame
Original frame with Labels verso
Lily Ayres is an ex...
Category
Barbizon School Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil
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Located in Miami, FL
ALFRED JANSSON (1863-1931) – FOREST LANDSCAPE
Oil on Canvas ⚜ Signed ⚜ Dated ⚜ Framed
A STUNNING IMPRESSIONIST WOODLAND SCENE FROM 1909
This original oil painting by Alfred Jansson,...
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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Located in London, GB
ROBERT WALKER MACBETH
(British 1848-1910)
After GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS
(British 1817-1904)
A Greek Idyll
Proof etching
Signed in pencil by both the artist l.l. and engraver l.r.
Framed
Plate size 42 by 54 cm., 16 ½ by 21 ¼ in.
(frame size 72.5 by 85 cm., 28 ½ by 33 ½ in.)
After Watt’s 1894 painting...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite Early 1900s Art
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Etching
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Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful watercolor depicting a plant/flower. These were used at a Belgium University to teach the students about botany. Dating from the early 20th century. They are watercolor on ...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Early 20th C French Watercolor, botanical flowers from an University collection
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful watercolor depicting a plant/flower. These were used at a Belgium University to teach the students about botany. Dating from the early 20th century...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Circa 1900 theatre poster for Monte Carlo Jemima
Located in PARIS, FR
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Early 1900s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper, Linen
Oil Painting by J Laslelles "A Scene in Epping Forest"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by J Laslelles "A Scene in Epping Forest" flourished 1895 -1920 London painter of atmospheric landscapes in his soft impressionistic style. Oil on canvas. Signed title o...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Oil
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Church in Cassone" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paper
André Eugène Costilhes (1865-1940) A young woman sewing, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
André Eugène Costilhes (1865-1940)
A young woman sewing
bears the stamp of the studio of André Eugène Costilhes in the lower right-hand corner
pencil on paper
30.5 x 20 cm
In quit...
Category
Symbolist Early 1900s Art
Materials
Pencil



