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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Period: Early 1900s
Period: 1870s
The Gate of Hundred Sorrows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Gate of Hundred Sorrows Etching, 1900 Signed in the plate lower right (see photo) From: A Series of Thirty Etchings by William Strang, Illustrating Subjects from the Writings of...
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Early 1900s English School Prints and Multiples

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Etching

English Victorian 19th Horse Racing scene with Jockeys
Located in Woodbury, CT
Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life. Aldin executed village scenes and rura...
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Early 1900s Victorian Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Moto-Flirt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Moto-Flirt Color lithograph, c. 1902 Signed in the stone lower right (see photo) Published by Edmund Sagot (1857-1917), Paris Printed by Atelier Chaix, Paris Large edition with title...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

La Sera - Original Vintage Advertising Lithographby L. Metlicovitz - 1900 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 15.3x26.5 cm. La Sera 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) and printed around 1900 by G. Ricordi and C. Milano, Milan. Monogrammed on plate on the right margin at the center. A fashionable vintage Art Nouveau advertising poster of the Italian magazine "La Sera" in excellent condition except for two abrasions of the paper on the lower corners of the sheet and a minor rip on the higher left margin. These defetcs do not affect the image. This Modern original poster shows the Metlicovitz's full mastery of the artistic medium, has the dignity of an object of art to collect and could be a colorful 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...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

C. 1900 Original Poster The Minster biggest magazine in the world by Max Cowper
By Max Cowper
Located in PARIS, FR
Max Cowper 🏮󠁧󠁱󠁳󠁣󠁮󠁿(1860-1911) was a Dundee born painter. He was employed as an illustrator for the Dundee Courier before moving to London around 1901 to join the staff of the ...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Monte Carlo - Tir aux Pigeons - 1900s - Adolfo Hohenstein - Print - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
Monte Carlo is a precious colored lithograph, printed by G. Ricordi and C. Milano, Milan, between 1895 and 1914, in occasion of "Tir aux pigeons Concours". A very beautiful vintage a...
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Early 1900s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera /// French Impressionist Etching Figurative Lady Man
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Tony Minartz (French, 1873-1944) Title: "L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera" Portfolio: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne *Issued unsigned Year: 1903 Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Unknown Publisher: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne, Paris, France Framing: Not framed, but matted with 100% cotton rag matting from Holland, gold filet from Italy, and foam board backing. All archival Matted size: 17" x 14.5" Sheet size: 12" x 9" Image size: 9" x 7.25" Condition: In excellent condition Notes: Printed in one color: bistre. This review was founded in 1897 in the continuity of the review Les Beaux-Arts published between 1861 and 1865; Jules Comte, the founder, entitled his first issue Les Beaux-Arts - Revue nouvelle then changed the title to La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Jules Comte directed the review until his death in 1912. Raymond Woog took over , who was provisional director until the start of the war in July 1914. In 1919, André Dezarrois took over this review and was its director until December 1937, date of last issue (published in January 1938). In the meantime, it publishes the Bulletin of ancient and modern art, which has gained a certain notoriety in the community. Biography: Tony Minartz, pseudonym of Antoine Guillaume, born 8 April 1873 to Cannes and died in that city on 13 December 1944 Is a painter, draftsman , illustrator and engraver French. Painter autodidact , Tony Minartz starts to become known in 1896 by exhibiting paintings at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts , and then decorates the Pompadour theater of painted panels for fashion shows " Grand Guignol ", directed by L. Darthenay. In 1903, Henri Béraldi , with whom he worked, praised him in The Journal of ancient and modern art, writing that "it was thirty years ago," and he has received advice from Paul Renouard to be formed the technique of etching ; Béraldi adds that his favorite subjects are "Paris at night Paris at night, always." Minartz also gives them some high-remarkable in The Journal of ancient and modern art until 1910: balls, cafe concerts, Parisian in their most beautiful dresses, but also music-halls, music halls, restaurants, large and small theaters, are the preferred settings of his compositions. Its fertile period seems to end in 1914. In addition to the National Salon, Minartz exhibited in Paris at the gallery Bartholomew (1903), the Independent Living (1905, 1906) and the gallery Devambez (1909) and received the Academic Palms . He occasionally collaborates with periodic illustrated as The Almanac Sports (Ollendorff, 1899), or satirical as Gil Blas...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Laid Paper, Intaglio

Schloss Kammer Lake Attersee II by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk collotype, 1908-1912
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...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

The Ford - Etching by Adolfo Bignami - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Signed in plate lower left. Stamped title. Published by Lovera. Good condition.
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "University of Vienna Murals" 3 collotype prints
Located in Chicago, IL
This listing is for 3 collotypes: "Medicine", "Jurisprudence", and "Philosophy", pictured, from the Das Werk portfolio by Gustav Klimt and k.k. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, published by H.O. Miethke. Gustav Klimt created glyphs, unique to each of these pieces, specifically for this portfolio. Further information below: About the portfolio: 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 each of the 50 prints is a gold signet intaglio printed on the cream paper each of which Klimt designed for the publication as unique and relating to its corresponding image; H.O. Miethke, Editor-Publisher; k.k. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, Printer; printed in a limited edition of 300 numbered plus several presentation copies; Vienna, 1908-1914. The idea of collaboration in the arts is anything but new; however it has so often been viewed and assessed as somehow devaluing the intrinsic worth of art. It’s as if it was a dirty secret to be hidden away. More so even than the eroticism explored by Klimt, which divided public opinion, the artistic avant-garde began to boldly flaunt artistic collaboration beginning in the 19th century- which gained steam in the first part of the 20th century- to become a driving vehicle of contemporary artistic creation. Viewed in this context, the folios of collotype prints published by H.O. Miethke in Vienna between 1908-1914 known as Das Werk Gustav Klimts, are important art documents worthy of as much consideration for their bold stand they take on established ways of thinking about artistic collaboration as they are for their breathtakingly striking images. 1908 is indeed a watershed moment in the history of art. To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I, Kunstschau opened in Vienna in May of that year. It was there that Klimt delivered the inaugural speech. Speaking about the avant-garde group’s unifying philosophy of Gesamtkunstwerk, or the synthesis of the arts, Klimt shared his belief that the ideal means to bring artists and an audience together was via “work on major art projects.” It was at Kunstschau 1908 that Klimt first exhibited his most iconic painting, The Kiss, as well as The Sunflower, Water Snakes I and II and Danae. It was at Kunstschau 1908 that Das Werk Gustav Klimts was first available for purchase. Thanks to Galerie Miethke’s organization, Kunstschau 1908 was possible. Miethke’s pioneering art...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Le Quadrille au Moulin Rouge Circa 1900 Original Poster - Paris Cabaret Dance
Located in PARIS, FR
Painter, draughtsman and poster artist, Louis Abel-Truchet (1857-1918) is, along with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, one of the most famous representatives of Parisian life at the end of...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph, Linen

Original advertising poster of the beginning of the XXth century Tunmer & Co
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful advertising poster of the beginning of the XXth century and of Art Nouveau style, signed P. F. Grignon. It is an advertisement for the brand A. A. Tunmer & Co and its vario...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Umewaka Shrine in the Rain
By Kobayashi Kiyochika
Located in Burbank, CA
Umewaka Shrine, from an untitled series of prints depicting Tokyo. A woman braces her umbrella against the rain and a man waits out the storm next to his jinriksha in this view of th...
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1870s Edo Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Mulberry Paper, Woodcut

19th century color lithograph seascape boat ship waves maritime landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Celebrated Clipper Ship Dreadnought" is an original hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives. It depicts a sailing ship. 13 1/4" x 17 1/2" art 19" x 23 1/2" frame Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
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1870s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Brasserie Schneider by Quendray - Original Vintage Beverage Poster c1900
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Brasserie Schneider was a company based in Brive, France that specialized in sodas and beer. Albert Quendray created this image of a well-to-do group of companions enjoying afternoon...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Alphonse Mucha's "Figures Decoratives" 1905 Art Nouveau Lithograph, Plate 37
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate 37 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...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

19th century color lithograph horses figures dynamic landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Race for the American Derby (Belmont Stakes)" is an original hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives. It depicts three racehorses and their jockeys running in the Belmont Stakes. The caption for this lithograph says, "Spartan. Bramble. Duke of Magenta. Jerome Park, June 8th 1878. Mr. Geo. Lorillard's Duke of Magenta.....Hughes, 1....Messrs.Dwyer Bro's Bramble......Fisher, 2....Mr. P. Lorillard's Spartan.....Barrett, 3..... TIME 2:43 1/2." 12 7/8" x 16 7/8" art 21 7/8" x 25 7/8" frame Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders...
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1870s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Cachou Lajaunie Vintage Art Nouveau Poster 1905 by Francisco Tamagno
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Cachou Lajaunie is French advertisement from 1905 by the artist, Francisco Tamangno. Cachou Lajaunie is a licorice candy whose strong flavor was designed to disguise the smoker's breath. Tamangno's composition places the Victorian woman in the center. She holds the small tin...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Vintage Leonetto Cappiello Le Nil Poster c1915
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This bright and cheerful poster was created by famous poster artist, Leonetto Cappiello in 1903 for a fundraiser being held in Paris' Bois de Boulogne. One of his signature smiling l...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Verite" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This impression on chine-colle paper was printed in 1900 and published in Paris by the Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne. Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Early 20th century aquatint landscape figure boat water trees lake print signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Le Pecheur' is an excelletn example of the aquatints of Manuel Robbe, a French artists working during the turn of the 20th century. The image draws upon th...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Secession
By Rudolf Jettmar
Located in New York, NY
Jettmar was a painter and founder member of the Vienna Secession, a group of artists founded in 1897, who rejected the more traditional and conservative styles of their predecessors ...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

CAKE WALK DES PETITES FILLES
Located in Portland, ME
Villon, Jacques. CAKE WALK DES PETITES FILLES. GP.102, second state of four. Drypoint and aquatint in colors, 1904. Edition of only 10 (there was an edition of 30 in state 4, with th...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Aquatint

Engraving of a British Fox Hunting Scene "The Pink Of Condition"
Located in Alamo, CA
The engraving "The Pink Of Condition" by George Wright was published in London in 1909. It depicts the beginning of a British fox hunting scene. The ...
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

The Entree - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le Clocher de St. Nicolas
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this scarce lithograph on wove paper. , Printed by Lemercier & Cie, Paris and published by Alfred Robaud. From "Douze Croquis et Dessins Originaux." Catalo...
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1870s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Farmhouse in Buchberg by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912
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...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

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 LĂ©gion 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 FĂ©licien 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 EugĂšne 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 FĂ©licien Rops among others. He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the SociĂ©tĂ© Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the LĂ©gion d'honneur. Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the FĂ©licien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonnĂ© for the occasion. Books illustrated de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905. Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Malcesine on Lake Garda by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk landscape collotype, 1908-1912
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Malcesine on Lake Garda, 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...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Portrait of William I King of Prussia and Emperor of ... by William Holl - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of William I King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany is an artwork realized by William Holl (1807-1871). Lithograph, printed in 1872 by Milliam Mackenzie, London. Good cond...
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Sevillanas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sevillanas Etching and color aquatint on laid watermarked paper, c. 1900 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo) Editioned in pencil lower left corner of sheet Publish...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Original Vintage Grande Kermesse de Charite Poster by Leonetto Cappiello 1903
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This bright and cheerful poster was created by famous poster artist, Leonetto Cappiello in 1903 for a fundraiser being held in Paris' Bois de Boulogne. One of his signature smiling l...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Krupp's 1000-Pounder Gun - Lithograph - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Krupp's 1000-Pounder Gun is an artwork realized by an artist during the 19th century. Lithograph, printed in 1872 by Milliam Mackenzie, London. Good condition.
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Old Houses in Amsterdam
By T.F. Simon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Old Houses in Amsterdam Drypoint, 1909 Signed and dedicated in pencil lower right. "A Mr. H. A. Webster, bien sympathiquement, T.F. Simon, Paris 26/10" Simon...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Great Poplar II (Thunderstorm)" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
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 ...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

La FĂȘte Nationale du Boulevard Clichy
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La FĂȘte Nationale du Boulevard Clichy Etching, drypoint, and aquatint, 1878 Signed lower left in the plate (see photo) Printed chine collee, mounted on white wove paper Upper plate m...
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1870s French School Prints and Multiples

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Etching

'Coupe Gordon Bennett 1909' original lithograph by Marguerite "Gamy" Montaut
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Coupe Gordon Bennett 1909 — Curtiss le Gagnant" is an original Lithograph with Pochoir created by Marguerite Montaut (GAMY). Gamy presents the viewer w...
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Early 1900s American Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Ink

Pierre-Auguste Renoir -- Femme nue couchée (tournée à droite)
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Femme nue couchée (tournée à droite) (Reclining Female Nude, Turned to the Right) (Delteil/Stella 15), c. 1906 Etching on vellum, second (final) state Signed in...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This impression on thin wove paper was printed in 1903 for Gustave Geffroy's "La Vie Artistique". Sheet size: 6 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches (165 x 112 mm). Signed...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Palais de la Femme, Art Nouveau Lithograph by Georges Henri Privat-Livemont
Located in Long Island City, NY
Vintage poster by Henri Privat-Livemont created for the Exposition Universelle (the 1900 Paris Exposition) before the lettering was added on the upper portion of the image. Palais d...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"The Blue Girl" lithograph 1905
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the pastel). The lithography was executed by Whistler's friend and fellow artist Thomas Way, and published in London by The Studio in 1905 for a rare deluxe...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Der Polster
Located in New York, NY
Kurzweil, Maximilian. Der Polster, 1903. Color woodcut on japon. Included as an insert in Pan. Unsigned. Framed.11 1/4 x 10 1/4. 1 Ref: Hofstatter, p. 241; Pabst, p. 154. Maximillian Kurzweil was the co-founder of the Vienna Secession in 1897 and editor and illustrator of the influential Secessionist magazine Ver Sacrum...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Almshouses, St. Cross
Located in Middletown, NY
Glasgow: Walton's Compleat Angler, 1902. Etching on heavy Japan paper, 3 7/16 x 5 15/16 inches (80 x 149 mm), full margins. Initialed in pencil, lower ...
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Early 1900s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

'The Bath' — Meji Era Cross-Cultural Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Helen Hyde, 'The Bath', color woodblock print, edition not stated, 1905, Mason & Mason 59. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Numbered '96' in pencil in the image, lower left. The artist's monogram in the block, lower left, and 'Copyright, 1905, by Helen Hyde.' upper right. A superb impression with fresh colors on tissue-thin cream Japanese paper; the full sheet with margins (7/16 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 16 1⁄4 x 10 1⁄8 in. (413 x 260 mm); sheet size: 19 1⁄4 x 11 1⁄8 in. (489 x 283 mm). Impressions of this work are held in the following collections: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (De Young), Harvard Art Museums, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Terra Foundation for American Art, University of Oregon Museum of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Helen Hyde (1868-1919) was a pioneer American artist best known for advancing Japanese woodblock printmaking in the United States and for bridging Western and Japanese artistic traditions. Hyde was born in Lima, New York, but after her father died in 1872, her family relocated to Oakland, California, where she spent much of her youth. Hyde pursued formal art education in the United States and Europe. She enrolled in the San Francisco School of Design, where she took classes from the Impressionist painter Emil Carlsen; two years later, she transferred to the Art Students League in New York, studying there with Kenyon Cox. Eager to expand her artistic repertoire, Hyde traveled to Europe, studying under Franz Skarbina in Berlin and Raphael Collin in Paris. While in Paris, she first encountered Japanese ukiyo-e prints, sparking a lifelong fascination with Japanese aesthetics. After ten years of study, Hyde returned to San Francisco, where she continued to paint and began to exhibit her work. Hyde learned to etch from her friend Josephine Hyde in about 1885. Her first plates, which she etched herself but had professionally printed, represented children. On sketching expeditions, she sought out quaint subjects for her etchings and watercolors. In 1897, Hyde made her first color etchings—inked ĂĄ la poupĂ©e (applying different ink colors to a single printing plate)—which became the basis for her early reputation. She also enjoyed success as a book illustrator, and her images sometimes depicted the children of Chinatown. After her mother died in 1899, Hyde sailed to Japan, accompanied by her friend Josephine, where she would reside, with only brief interruptions, until 1914. For over three years, she studied classical Japanese ink painting with the ninth and last master of the great Kano school of painters, Kano Tomonobu. She also studied with Emil Orlik, an Austrian artist working in Tokyo. Orlik sought to renew the old ukiyo-e tradition in what became the shin hanga “new woodcut prints” art movement. She immersed herself in the study of traditional Japanese printmaking techniques, apprenticing with master printer Kanƍ Tomonobu. Hyde adopted Japanese tools, materials, and techniques, choosing to employ the traditional Japanese system of using craftsmen to cut the multiple blocks and execute the exacting color printing of the images she created. Her lyrical works often depicted scenes of family domesticity, particularly focusing on women and children, rendered in delicate lines and muted colors. Through her distinctive fusion of East and West, Hyde’s contributions to Western printmaking were groundbreaking. At a time when few Western women ventured to Japan, she mastered its artistic traditions and emerged as a significant figure in the international art scene. Suffering from poor health, she returned to the United States in 1914, moving to Chicago. Having found restored health and new inspiration during an extended trip to Mexico in 1911, Hyde continued to seek out warmer climates and new subject matter. During the winter of 1916, Hyde was a houseguest at Chicora Wood, the Georgetown, South Carolina, plantation illustrated by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith in Elizabeth Allston Pringle’s 1914 book A Woman Rice Planter. The Lowcountry was a revelation for Hyde. She temporarily put aside her woodcuts and began creating sketches and intaglio etchings of Southern genre scenes and African Americans at work. During her stay, Hyde encouraged Smith’s burgeoning interest in Japanese printmaking and later helped facilitate an exhibition of Smith’s prints at the Art Institute of Chicago. During World War I, Hyde designed posters for the Red Cross and produced color prints extolling the virtues of home-front diligence. In ill health, Hyde traveled to be near her sister in Pasadena a few weeks before her death on May 13, 1919. She was buried in the family plot near Oakland, California. Throughout her career, Hyde enjoyed substantial support from galleries and collectors in the States and in London. She exhibited works at the St. Louis Exposition in 1897, the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo in 1901, the Tokyo Exhibition for Native Art (where she won first prize for an ink drawing) in 1901, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition in Seattle in 1909 (received a gold medal for a print), the Newark Museum in 1913, a solo show at the Chicago Art Institute in 1916, and a memorial exhibition in 1920, Detroit Institute of Arts, Color Woodcut Exhibition in 1919, New York Public Library, American Woodblock Prints...
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Early 1900s Showa Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Original Vintage Yale University Poster by Abigail Kellogg Hazard 1909
By Abigail Kellogg Hazard
Located in Boca Raton, FL
The bulldog, known as Handsome Dan, is the mascot of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. This poster was created in 1909 by Abigail Kellogg Hazard. The poster complim...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"San Gimignano Colline Poggio" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. This impression in sepia on watermarked laid paper was printed in 1907 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate s...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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"Portrait de femme" etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: etching (etched by Felix Bracquemond after Ingres). This impression on chine-colle paper was printed in 1903 and published in Paris by the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The image m...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

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...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Etching

MinistĂšre de la Marine - Etching by Charles Meryon - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Ministere de la Marine is an artwork realized by Charles Meryon in the 1870s. Etching. Image size: 17x14 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on th...
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Portrait de Paul Gauguin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait de Paul Gauguin Woodcut, c. 1900 Initialed in pencil lower right Numbered in pencil lower left Edition: 100 (34/100) Annotated verso: “epreuve sur japon” Condition: Excellent Image size: 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches Sheet size: 11 x 8 5/8 inches Note: Born in New York, Monfreid studied in France at the Academy Julian. He was a friend of Gauiguin, Verlaine and Maillol. He formed a noted collection of works by Gauguin. In 1924, Monfreid published the manuscript for Paul Gauguin’s Noa Noa with 24 woodcuts inspired by Gauguin...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Parisienne /// Art Nouveau French Lithograph Impressionist Figurative Lady Woman
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Maurice Eliot (French, 1862-1945) Title: "Parisienne" Portfolio: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne *Issued unsigned, though signed by Eliot in the plate (printed signature) low...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Bignoniaceae - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"La Plage de la Panne, " Seascape Etching signed by James Ensor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Plage de la Panne" is an original etching by James Ensor. The artist signed the piece in plate in the lower right and signed, titled, and dated it below t...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Lesser Black-Backed Gull - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Lesser Black-Backed Gull is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & S...
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"Paysans portant du foin" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Catalogue reference Delteil 126. Printed on laid paper in 1900 and published in Paris by Henri Floury as the frontispiece for Gustave Geffroy's...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Night Heron - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Night Heron is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by London,...
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1870s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Set of Six Hand-Colored Lithograph Ornithological Prints from "The Ibis"
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Philip Lutley Sclater (English, 1829-1913) Titles: "Loria Mariae (MacGregor's Bowerbird)", "Cnemophilus Macgregorii (Crested Satinbird)", "Aegotheles Savesi (New Caledonian O...
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1870s Victorian Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Lithograph

Minne Playing with a Cat (Minne Jouant avec un Chat)
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Villon (1875-1963) etching, aquatint, and drypoint, Minne Playing with a Cat (Minne Jouant avec un Chat),1907, signed in pencil and numbered (12/30)(Ginestet and Pouillon 192...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

Fine Art Prints for Sale — Animal Prints, Abstract Prints, Nude Prints and Other Prints

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador DalĂ­ and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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