Pablo Picasso

Femme nue devant une Statue

1931

A very good impression of this color etching with aquatint. Signed and numbered 29/75 in pencil. Printed by Jacques David, Paris. Co-published by Leon Am...

A very good, richly-inked impression of this Drypoint and aquatint printed in gray and black on cream wove paper. Signed, dated and numbered 20/150 by Dali. Printed by Robbe, Paris. ...

A very good impression of this Iris print. Signed and numbered 23/50 on verso by Ruff.

A superb, richly-inked impression of this very scarce, important German Expressionist lithograph on smooth, cream wove paper. Edition of approximately only 20. Signed in pencil. Publ...

A very good impression of this color lithograph. Signed and numbered 51/180 in pencil. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Published by Leon Amiel, New York, and XXe Siècle, Paris. From the s...

A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this etching and drypoint printed in dark brownish black on antique cream laid paper with very strong contrasts....

Pablo Picasso's print features a painter in his studio capturing the likeness of a nude woman posing on a setee or chaise lounge. Sitting at his easel, the painter uses blue paint on...

In this bustling print, Pablo Picasso creates an energetic and complex scene featuring a female nude in the background with a small white-painted face beside it on the right, while a...

Reclining on a sofa, the nude female model looks backward toward her raised feet as the painter renders her portrait. Comprised of short, wavy lines, this scene by Pablo Picasso focu...

Seated beside her likeness, the nude model in this Pablo Picasso print stares at the painter while he contemplates the portrait he has rendered on the canvas. Both nude, the figures ...

Shaded in soft hues of grey and yellow, the woman represented in Pablo Picasso's print is rendered in a Cubist style with flowing lines and forms. With her arms stretched over her head as she rests, the woman's top has fallen and her chest is exposed. A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso drawing "Femme Couchee...

Reclining Cubist Nude Woman Max Weber (April 18, 1881 – October 4, 1961) was a Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in later life, turned to more figurative Jewish themes in his art. He is best known today for Chinese Restaurant (1915), in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, "the finest canvas of his Cubist phase," in the words of art historian Avis Berman. Born in the Polish city of Białystok, then part of the Russian Empire, Weber emigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn with his Orthodox Jewish parents at the age of ten. He studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn under Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow was a fortunate early influence on Weber as he was an "enlightened and vital teacher" in a time of conservative art instruction, a man who was interested in new approaches to creating art. Dow had met Paul Gauguin in Pont-Aven, was a devoted student of Japanese art, and defended the advanced modernist painting and sculpture he saw at the Armory Show in New York in 1913. In 1905, after teaching in Virginia and Minnesota, Weber had saved enough money to travel to Europe, where he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and acquainted himself with the work of such modernists as Henri Rousseau (who became a good friend), Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other members of the School of Paris. His friends among fellow Americans included some equally adventurous young painters, such as Abraham Walkowitz, H. Lyman Sayen, and Patrick Henry Bruce. Avant-garde France in the years immediately before World War I was fertile and welcoming territory for Weber, then in his early twenties. He arrived in Paris in time to see a major Cézanne exhibition, meet the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, frequent Gertrude Stein's salon, and enroll in classes in Matisse's private "Academie." Rousseau gave him some of his works; others, Weber purchased. He was responsible for Rousseau's first exhibition in the United States. In 1909 he returned to New York and helped to introduce Cubism to America. He is now considered one of the most significant early American Cubists, but the reception his work received in New York at the time was profoundly discouraging. Critical response to his paintings in a 1911 show at the 291 gallery, run by Alfred Stieglitz, was an occasion for "one of the most merciless critical whippings that any artist has received in America." The reviews were "of an almost hysterical violence." He was attacked for his "brutal, vulgar, and unnecessary art license." Even a critic who usually tried to be sympathetic to new art, James Gibbons Huneker, protested that the artist's clever technique had left viewers with no real picture and made use of the adage, "The operation was successful, but the patient died."[8] As art historian Sam Hunter wrote, "Weber's wistful, tentative Cubism provided the philistine press with their first solid target prior to the Armory Show." The Cellist...