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English Victorian 19th Fisherman, seated by the riverside
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...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Exodus, Modern Hand-Colored Lithograph by Savo Radulović
Located in Long Island City, NY
Savo Radulović, Serbian American (1911 - 1991) - Exodus, Medium: Hand colored Lithograph, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 20, Image Size: 9.5 x 14.25 inches, Size...
Category
1960s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Waha Waharangin, Pop Art Indigenous Screenprint by Sergio Gonzales-Tornero
Located in Long Island City, NY
Waha Waharangin
Sergio Gonzales-Tornero, Chilean (1927–2020)
Date: 1983
Screenprint, signed, numbered, titled and dated in pencil
Edition of 250
Image Size: 24 x 30 inches
Size: 28 x...
Category
1980s Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Antoine Louis-Barye "Walking Tiger" Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot ca. 1870
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Walking Tiger"
Antoine Louis-Barye
Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot
Circa. 1870
11 1/3 x 7 3/4 (21 3/8 x 17 1/2 frame) inches
This is "Walking Tig...
Category
1870s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Black and White
Snowy Owl, American Realist Lithograph by Mel Hunter
By Mel Hunter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Snowy Owl, Year: 1975, Medium: Lithograph, signed and dedicated in pencil, Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
Category
1970s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
40x60 Photography of Wild Horses Mustangs Color Photograph 1STDIBS EXCLUSIVE
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary color photograph of Northern California Wild Mustangs.
THIS COLOR IMAGE IS A 1STDIBS EXCLUSIVE
"They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom"
40...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Horsemen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Horsemen" 1935, is an original lithograph on paper by noted American artist William Gropper, 1897-1977. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 9.5 x 12.75 inches, framed size is 17.5 x 20.40 inches. Published by Associated American Artists, New York, printed by George Miller. Referenced and pictured in the artist catalogue raisonne by Steinberg, page 246 and Windisch and Cole, plate #602. Custom framed in a black metal frame, with off white matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame have very minor scratches.
An example of this particular artwork is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. and at the Portland Museum, Portland.
About the artist:
William Gropper was born in New York City's Lower East Side in 1897. He was the first of six children to parents who earned small wages working in sweatshops. At the age of fourteen, Gropper left school to help support his family. While carrying bolts of cloth for his deliveries, Gropper began to draw on scraps of paper, sidewalks, and walls. A passerby saw some of these drawings and invited Gropper to attend a life-drawing class at the Ferrer School. He studied there for three years from 1912 to 1915, attending classes taught by Robert Henri and George Bellows. From 1915 to 1918 Gropper attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art part-time on scholarship. Gropper also won a scholarship to the National Academy of Design, but remained as a student for only a short time; the rigid and systematic institution conflicted with Gropper's belief in the personal nature of art.
At the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, Gropper earned several prizes. One of these prizes was for his cartoons, which led him to be hired by the New York Tribune in 1917 to sketch for their features. A few years later through freelance work, his cartoons and drawings appeared in other newspapers and magazines, such as The Liberator, The New Masses, The New York Post, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.
By the late 1920s Gropper was an established cartoonist and draughtsman. He sympathized with the labor movement and was a champion of peace and personal liberty. Gropper began to paint seriously, but privately, on these themes in 1921. Gropper's first exhibition of monotypes was held in 1921 at the Washington Square Book Shop in New York. At this time, he also began to do illustrations for books. Gropper took his first sketching trip in 1924 to the West with Morris Pass.
By 1930 Gropper began to receive recognition as a fine artist. In 1934, he received two mural commissions from the Schenley Corporation in New York City. In 1935, he was commissioned to paint a mural for the Hotel Taft in New York City. In 1936, Gropper received several public mural commissions: one was for the Freeport, Long Island Post Office, which was completed in 1938 and followed by another mural for the Northwestern Postal Station, Detroit, Michigan.
In his first gallery exhibition in 1936 at ACA Galleries, Gropper's work was so well received by critics, collectors, and artists that the following year he had two one-man exhibitions at ACA Galleries. In 1937, Gropper traveled west on a Guggenheim Fellowship and visited the Dust Bowl and the Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams, sketching studies for a series of paintings and a mural he painted for the Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. That same year he had paintings purchased by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.
Gropper exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Whitney Museum of American Art (1924-55), Art Institute of Chicago (1935-49), Carnegie International (1937-50), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1939-48), and National Academy of Design (1945-48). He was a founder of the Artists Equity Association and member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
From 1940 to 1945 William Gropper was preoccupied with anti-Nazi cartoons...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
GREEN HORSE, TWO GEISHAS Signed Lithograph, Asian Women, Fan, Parrots, Flowers
By Walasse Ting
Located in Union City, NJ
GREEN HORSE, TWO GEISHAS is an original lithograph printed using hand drawn lithography techniques on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free, by the renowned Chinese born artist Walasse Ting (DING XIONGQUAN, Chinese, 1929-2010). Ting's use of bold colors and expressive calligraphic brush drawn forms convey vivid life energy. He is well known for his colorful images of women, flowers, fish, parrots and horses and was associated with artists Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group called COBRA. Throughout his artistic life, Ting imbued his passion and spirit into his paintings, poetry and sculpture. GREEN HORSE, TWO GEISHAS is a freely expressed Chinese Ink Brush drawing depicting a colorful bright green horse with dark blue mane and tail standing with two lovely dark green haired Asian women...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Half-n-Half Red/Yellow - Signed Silkscreen Print Blue Dog
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of 2 frames of Blue Dogs. One side has a red background with a sitting blue dog. The dog has soulful yellow eyes. The other side has a yellow background...
Category
1990s Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Jane Peart, Elephant Family, Limited Edition Etching Print, Elephant Art
By Jane Peart
Located in Deddington, GB
Jane Peart
Elephant Family
Limited Edition Etching Print
Edition of 100
Image Size: H 14cm x W 11cm
Signed
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
The Bird, School Prints, Georges Braque
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on English cartridge paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Published by School Prints Ltd., London; Printe...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,556 Sale Price
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Trumpeter Swan: an Original 1st Edition Hand Colored Audubon Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
An original rare and extremely collectible first edition John James Audubon hand colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "Trumpeter Swan, Young", No. 7...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
American Bittern: An Original 1st Ed. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century 1st octavo edition John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "American Bittern, 1. Male 2. Female", No. 73, Plate 365 from Audubon's "Birds of America, lithographed, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen and published in Philadelphia between 1840-1844. It depicts male and female American Bittern birds standing on the ground, each looking in opposite directions. There is high grass in the background.
This original 1st octavo edition hand-colored Audubon American Bittern lithograph is in excellent condition, other than a few tiny spots, which appear most likely inclusions related to the paper manufacture. The sheet measures 6.5" high by 10.25" wide. The original text pages, 94-98, from Audubon's 19th century publication are included with the lithograph.
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was a naturalist and artist. He was initially unsuccessful financially prior to the publication of his famous work “The Birds of America”, spending time in debtor’s prison, once stabbing a disgruntled investor in self-defense. However, his obsession with birds and art motivated him to persist in his goal of documenting every bird in America via his watercolor paintings and publishing his works for all to enjoy. Audubon's first illustrations were published in a large elephant folio...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A meeting. Mezzotint print, Limited edition, Black & white, Polish artist
By Ewa Kutylak
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative black & white mezzotint and drypoint print by Polish artist Ewa Kutylak. Print depicts a man facing a horse. Above them there is a dog in a landscape and bene...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Paper, Mezzotint
Untitled “From Color to Form” Series
Located in New York, NY
This stunning lithograph, was realized by the celebrated Italian artist Marino Marini in 1969. Part of the series “From Color to Form” by Marino Marini (Italian, 1901-1980), the work...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original - Later Gator with Pink Tree - Unique - Signed Silkscreen - Blue Dog
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a brown, tan and black background. In the foreground are 3 blue dogs and an embellished mask of a red dog face along with an alligator. Behind the 3 dogs is a large pink tree with pink leaves. The dogs all have soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original mixed media silkscreen print on paper is unique, guaranteed authentic and is hand signed by the artist.
Artist: George Rodrigue
Title: Blue Dog “Later Gator...
Category
1990s Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
The Propositions - Original Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
The Propositions is an original lithographs by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harva...
Category
1850s Modern More Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Cats (Pink)
By Ai Weiwei
Located in London, GB
Screen print on Saunders Waterford 300gsm paper
Hand-signed, dated, and numbered by the artist
45 x 62 cm
Edition 78 of 300
The print was editioned by master printer, Kip Gresham at The Print Studio, Cambridge for Kettle's Yard. It was made using an original drawing ‘cut’ into an acrylic sheet. The image is then reversed when printed.
Description from the publisher:
"Drawing has been fundamental to Ai Weiwei’s artistic practice from an early age. He also has a longstanding love of cats, and they appear frequently in the artist’s social media posts. Many cats used to roam his studio in Beijing. As part of the Kettle’s Yard exhibition, Ai’s ‘Cats wallpaper...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
COOPER'S RAINBOW Signed Lithograph, Farm Landscape, Horses, Golden Field, Barn
By Wayne Cooper
Located in Union City, NJ
COOPER'S RAINBOW is an original, hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the American painter Wayne Cooper printed in NYC using traditional hand lithogr...
Category
1970s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Kissing Ass
Located in Greenwich, CT
Kissing Ass is a lithograph on paper, 6.75 x 9 inches image size. From the edition of 395, numbered 243/275 (there were also 100 Roman and 20 AP), framed in a contemporary, silver-to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Etudes de Mains et Colombe II, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Etudes de Mains et Colombe". The original drawing ...
Category
1980s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Dust and Horses" 45x60 Black and White Photography Wild Horses Mustangs Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of North American Wild Horses
Photography by Shane Russeck
Printed on archival photographic paper
Edition of 10
Signed and numbere...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Five images from the popular 1886 Spanish Bullfighting Journal La Lidia
Located in Paonia, CO
La Lidia, the oldest and most popular bullfighting magazine was founded by Julian Palacios the owner of a prestigious lithograph and engraving workshop in Madrid. These colorful...
Category
1880s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Lucky Bear (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Celebrating the wild life with this unique piece by Mauro Oliveira.
Limited edition of 30 museum quality Giclee prints on CANVAS, signed and numbered by the artist.
A "Certificate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Giclée
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
COUPS DE TÊTE Signed Lithograph, Surrealist Group, Panic Movement Arrabal, Topor
Located in Union City, NJ
COUPS DE TÊTE is a hand drawn, stone lithograph by the French artist Chrisitian Zeimert printed in Paris France c.1974 using hand lithography techniques on archival Rives BFK printmaking paper, 100% acid free. COUPS DE TÊTE presents a surreal, close-up portrait of a two male elk head-butting with a group of books between their opposing heads. Visible on the books spines are the names of members belonging to the 1960s Panic Movement group.
Print size - 13 x 15.25 in., unframed, very good condition, pencil signed printers proof, inscribed H.C. with personal dedication to the master printer "Joseph", edition size unknown
Image size - 8.25 x 10.5 in.
Year - c. 1974
Christian Zeimer (1934 - 2020) was a French painter, the son of an upholsterer and designer who also worked as a salesman and Le Bon Marché. After he left the École Boulle, he learned how to engrave on jewelry. He then studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, where he studied under the painter Marcel Gromaire.
A libertarian and anarchist, he worked alongside Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Olivier O. Olivier, and Roland Topor and participated in the Panic Movement in the 1960s. He contributed to the newspaper Le Fou Parle and the magazine Hara-Kiri. Alongside Henri Cueco, Jacques Jouet, Hervé Le...
Category
1970s Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Canada Grouse: An Original 19th C. Audubon 1st Ed. Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original rare first octavo edition John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Canada Grouse, 1. 2 Males, 3. Females, 4. Trillium pic...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alpine Bear - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
Alpine Bear is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature" and was published...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mr. Bunny Eating A Big Carrot - Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
Mr. Bunny Eating A Big Carrot is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by J.J. Grandville from Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Ma...
Category
1850s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Canadian Geese in Flight
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Canadian Geese in Flight
Drypoint printed with plate tone in the sky
c. 1940's
Signed in pencil lower right
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches
Provenanc...
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Common or Arctic Puffin
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "Birds of North America." First Octavo Edition, by John James Audubon. Plate 383. Philadelphia, J.T. Bowen, ca. 1839-44.
Category
1870s Animal Prints
Materials
Paper
Ann Brunskill - Framed Contemporary Etching, Rooster
Located in Corsham, GB
Ann Brunskill, limited edition etching with aquatint. Presented in a gilt-effect frame and orange mount. Signed, titled and edition (7/10) to the lower edge. On wove.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
$268 Sale Price
20% Off
Armadillo, Surrealist Lithograph by Aubrey Schwartz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Aubrey Schwartz, American (1928 - 2019) - Armadillo, Year: circa 1962, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 150, Image Size: 10 x 16 inches, Size: ...
Category
1950s Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rural Resistance Series - Freeze!, Animal print, Bunny, Abstract print
By Harry Bunce
Located in Deddington, GB
Rural Resistance series- Freeze! by Harry Bunce consists of blue red and brown tones that display a bunny holding a gun pointed at a red heart, wiht the gunshots in the sheet in the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Resting Cat
By Karel Appel
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Karel Appel
Title: Resting Cat
Portfolio: 1978 Cats
Medium: Lithograph in colors on Japon paper
Date: 1978
Edition: XV/LXV
Sheet Size: 24 3/4" x 32 1/4"
Signature: Hand signe...
Category
1970s Abstract Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tofcia II and Tofcia III. Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Animals, Dogs
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative etching print by Polish arist living in Canada, Pawel Zablocki. Print depicts dog Tofcia in dynamic poses viewed from the side. Artist's unique technique of p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
About A Cat, CoBrA Group Modern Lithograph by Karel Appel
By Karel Appel
Located in Long Island City, NY
This signed and numbered lithograph on Japon paper is from a portfolio of 17 prints by Modern artist Karel Appel. He admired the domestic house cat for its aloof, yet instinctive, de...
Category
1970s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,850 Sale Price
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Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph of a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder
"Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper a reproduction lithograph after the drawings by the artist
Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's)
these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph.
James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor”
Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro.
These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great.
Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War.
Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work.
In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending.
Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles.
Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968).
In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale.
One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas."
Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder
"Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist
Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's)
these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph.
James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor”
Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro.
These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great.
Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War.
Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work.
In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending.
Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles.
Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968).
In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale.
One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas."
Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
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The Lucky Bear (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
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Giclée
$556 Sale Price
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The Buck, Pop Art Screenprint by Burton Morris
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Burton Morris
Title: Dollar Sign from Heard on the Street
Year: 1997
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition Size: 375
Image Size: 11 x 14 inches
Paper Siz...
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1990s Pop Art Animal Prints
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Screen
Tim Southall, Ravens at the Tower, Etching, Affordable Art, Art Online
By Tim Southall
Located in Deddington, GB
Tim Southall
Ravens at the Tower
Limited Edition Etching and Aquatint
Edition of 75
Image Size: H 10cm x W 15cm
Sheet Size: H 20cm x W 24cm x D 0.1cm
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Please note that i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
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Paper, Etching, Aquatint
The Donkey in the Roman Countryside - Etching After Charles Coleman-1992
Located in Roma, IT
The donkey in the Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992.
Signed on the plate, the rare edition of on...
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1990s Modern Animal Prints
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Etching
The Cats and Kitty - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Cats and Kitty is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was ...
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1850s Modern Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Bears in the Woods, Art Print, Dogs, Animals, Folk, Blue Affordable art
By Tim Southall
Located in Deddington, GB
‘Bears in the Woods’ is a playful silkscreen print depicting a number bears going about their business in autumnal woods. This 6 colour silkscreen is printed on Somerset Velvet, a he...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
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Paper, Screen
The Mouse - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Mouse is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published...
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1850s Modern Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
David Brings the Gold Shield to Jerusalem, Renaissance Engraving by Raphael
Located in Long Island City, NY
Raphael Sanzio da Urbino, Italian (1483 - 1520) - David Brings the Gold Shield to Jerusalem, Year: 1649, Medium: Engraving on laid paper, plate signed, Size: 9.5 x 11 in. (24.13 x...
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1940s Old Masters Figurative Prints
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Cat - Original Lithograph by Giselle Halff - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is an Original Lithograph realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971).
Good conditions.
Numbered. Edition, 9/15.
Giselle Halff (1899-1971) born in Hanoi, student of R.X. Prinet, R. ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints
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Lithograph
Authentic Japanese Woodblock Print-Birds and Flowers-Edo-Fan Re-carved 1920s
By Utagawa Sadahide
Located in London, GB
This rare Original 1920s authentic print is a Taisho Period Woodblock print published from the Japan 1920's The Nippon Mokuhan Gasui, Masterpieces Series.;
it is authentically hand ...
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1920s Landscape Prints
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Ink, Handmade Paper
Hunt Slonem "White Bunnies II" Lithograph
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: White Bunnies II
Series: Bunnies
Date: 2017
Medium: Lithograph on Paper
Unframed Dimensions: 16" x 24"
Framed Dimensions: 22" x 29" x 1.25"
Signatu...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
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Lithograph
$2,320 Sale Price
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The Elephant and Jupiter's Monkey - Attr. to S.Dalì - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Elephant and Jupiter's Monkey.
Mixed colored etching on Japan paper.
Signed on the lower right margin.
Numbered on the lower left margin. Edition of 249/250.
The artwork is from...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints
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Etching
ASCOT FINISH
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. Edition of 300. All reasonable offers will be considered.
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1970s Impressionist Animal Prints
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Paper, Screen
$2,400 Sale Price
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Trouble in Paradise
By Wayne Perry
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist, from the serigraph edition of 40 prints completed at Self Help Graphics in Los Angele.
Trouble in Paradise is based on tourism postcards and California orange crate art...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
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Screen
Shattered Silence, American Western Art Etching by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Shattered Silence, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Etching with Chine Colle, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 8/40, Size: 22 x 29 in. (55...
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1980s American Realist Animal Prints
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Etching
Florida Cormorant /// John James Audubon Ornithology Bird Art Natural History
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851)
Title: "Florida Cormorant" (Plate 417, No. 84)
Portfolio: The Birds of America, First Royal Octavo Edition
Year: 1840-1844
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on wove paper
Limited edition: approx. 1,200
Printer: John T. Bowen, Philadelphia, PA
Publisher: John James Audubon and J.B. Chevalier, New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA
Sheet size: 6.5" x 10.44"
Image size: 3.75" x 6.25"
Condition: Some minor discoloration upper center in margin. In excellent condition with strong colors
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Cleveland, OH. Lithography and hand-coloring by American artist John T. Bowen (1801-c.1856). Comes from Audubon's famous seven volume portfolio "The Birds of America", First Royal Octavo Edition (1840-1844), which consists of 500 hand-colored lithographs.
Based on a composition painted in the Florida Keys on April 26, 1832, Audubon's forty-seventh birthday.
The double-crested cormorant (Nannopterum auritum) is a member of the cormorant family of water birds. It is found near rivers and lakes and in coastal areas and is widely distributed across North America, from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska down to Florida and Mexico. Measuring 70–90 cm (28–35 in) in length, it is entirely black except for a bare patch of orange-yellow facial skin and some extra plumage that it exhibits in the breeding season when it grows a double crest in which black feathers are mingled with white. Five subspecies are recognized. It mainly eats fish and hunts by swimming and diving. Its feathers, like all cormorants, are not waterproof, and it must dry them out after spending time in the water. Once threatened by the use of DDT, the numbers of this bird have increased markedly in recent years.
To make 'The Birds of America' more affordable and widely available, in 1839 John James Audubon began the first octavo edition, a smaller version of the folio which was printed and hand-colored by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhouse, and then drawn onto lithographic stones. These miniatures exhibit a remarkable amount of attention to quality and detail, as well as a meticulous fidelity to the larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format. Like the Havell edition, John James Audubon’s first...
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1840s Victorian Animal Prints
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Watercolor, Lithograph
The Quorn Hunt, Holy Vale hunting print by Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
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Lionel Edwards (1878 - 1966)
The Quorn Hu...
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1930s Landscape Prints
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Lithograph
Du, du liegst mir im Herzen. [Musicians of Bremen]
Located in New York, NY
Du, du liegst mir im Herzen. [Musicians of Bremen.]
This brightly colored large-scale color lithograph was published by C. Burckardt, Deponirt "Druck u.Verlag v. C. Burckardt's Na...
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1880s Other Art Style More Prints
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Lithograph
Soulmates 36x48 Black & White Photography of Wild Horses Mustang Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of Northern California Wild Mustangs.
"They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom"
36 x 48
Archival paper and inks
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21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Archival Pigment
Stalking Cat, Karel Appel
By Karel Appel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Karel Appel (1921-2006)
Title: Stalking Cat
Year: 1980
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper
Edition: 80/125, plus proofs
Size: 24.75 x 32.25 inches
Condition: Good
Inscription:...
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1980s Pop Art Abstract Prints
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Screen
$2,360 Sale Price
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36x48 Photography of Wild Horses Mustangs Color Photograph Unsigned
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary color photograph of Northern California Wild Mustangs.
THIS COLOR IMAGE IS A 1STDIBS EXCLUSIVE
"They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom"
F...
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21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Archival Pigment
$680 Sale Price
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"Sea Wolf" 20x40 Black and White Wolf, Wolves, Photography Photograph Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of a Costal Wolf.
Printed on archival paper using only archival ink.
Framing available. Inquire for rates.
Shane Russeck has bui...
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21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Archival Pigment
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