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Ancient Roman Statues - Original Etching by Nicola Billy - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statues from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Nicola Billy in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditi...
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18th Century Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Statues - Original Etching by Nicola Billy - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statues from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Nicola Billy in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditio...
Category
18th Century Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman painting - Original Etching by Pietro Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman painting - The offering and reverence scene from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Pietro Campana...
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18th Century Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by VV. AA. - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman painting - The offering scene with the angel from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Nic Billy and Nic. Vanni in the 1...
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18th Century Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
La Douleur d'Orphée (The Pain of Orpheus) /// French Landscape Deer Woman Lady
By Cornelius Ary Renan
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Cornelius Ary Renan (French, 1857-1900)
Title: "La Douleur d'Orphée (The Pain of Orpheus)"
Portfolio: Gazette des Beaux-Arts
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1903
Medium: Original Etc...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio, Laid Paper, Etching
Max Ernst - Birds - Original Lithograph
By Max Ernst
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Max Ernst - Birds - Original Lithograph
Birds, 1964
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1960s Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cougar by Audubon
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "The Quadrupeds of North America. Octavo Edition" by John James Audubon. Plate XCVII. Ph...
Category
1850s Animal Prints
Materials
Paper
Missing Peace (Homage to 911)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Artist's Christmas homage to the attack on the twin towers with reindeer atop the buildings.
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Mu...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Intaglio
The girl, cat and cow. 1975, paper, etching, 8, 5x10, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Epr. d'Art. The girl, cat and cow. 1975, paper, etching, 8,5x10,5 cm
Lev Kropivnitsky / Лев Евгеньевич Кропивницкий (1922-1994)
Russian nonconformist artists, poet, art critic. S...
Category
1970s Conceptual Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
The Squirrel - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Squirrel 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 publis...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Scoter Duck, Pl. 250
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
From publication The Birds of Great Britain, Systematically Arranged, Accurately Engraved, and Painted from Nature. Published 1793-1801 in London.
Markings Watermark: 1794 J.Whatma...
Category
Late 18th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Les Canards - Woodcut Print by G. Halff
Located in Roma, IT
Les Canards is a beautiful original xylograph on wove paper, realized by the French artist Giselle Halff in the mid 20th Century.
Monogrammed "G.H" on lowe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Nude - Original Etching by Gian Paolo Berto - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original etching on paper realized by Gian Paolo Berto, in 1974.
Good conditions except for small cyaways on the top and bottom margins.
...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Mike Mitchell - Rufous-Backed Dwarf Kingfisher - Contemporary Artist
Located in Asheville, NC
Mike Mitchell - Rufous-Backed Dwarf Kingfisher - Contemporary Artist
Edition Details
Year: 2020
Class: Art Print
Status: Official
Released: 11/14/20
Run: 680
Technique: Giclee
Pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Giclée
Horseman - Original Etching - 1875
Located in Roma, IT
Horseman is an original etching artwork on paper realized in 1875 by Alphonse Edouard Enguérand Aufray de Roc'Bhian (French, Paris 1833– 1887).
Signed on the plate on the lower of t...
Category
1870s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Alice In Wonderland: Hookah Smoking Caterpillar, Hand signed Etching, Erotica
By Knox Martin
Located in Union City, NJ
Alice In Wonderland:Hookah Smoking Caterpillar is an original hand made etching by the American abstract painter Knox Martin. Printed in black ink on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free. Erotic fantastical interpretation of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, where Alice first meets the Catepillar while he is sitting on a mushroom smoking a hookah. He helps her by advising her to eat from the mushroom if she wants to change her size. Print size- 18" x 15", Image size - 8.25" x 6.75" Edition size - 50
About the artist-
Knox Martin (1923-2022) was an esteemed New York School painter.
Knox Martin was born in 1923 in Barranquilla, Colombia. He was the son of the aviator, painter, and poet William Knox Martin, the first man to fly over the Andes mountains.
After serving in World War II, Knox Martin attended the Art Students League of New York on the G.I. Bill from 1946-1950, where he studied with Harry Sternberg, Vaclav Vytlacil, Will Barnet, and Morris Kantor.
In 1954, Knox Martin's friend Franz Kline placed a painting of his in the Stable Gallery Annual.
Charles Egan of the renowned Charles Egan Gallery saw Knox Martin's painting at the Stable Gallery and asked Martin to show his work in a one-man show for the tenth anniversary of the Egan Gallery.
Since then, Knox Martin was a celebrated painter, sculptor and muralist. Knox Martin had an extensive exhibition record and his work is in museum, corporate and private collections worldwide. His two best-known murals in NYC are Venus and Woman with Bicycle...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Silverado - Signed Silkscreen Blue Dog Print
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a 2-tone silver background with a blue dog centered between 2 black tree branches. The dog has soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original silk...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Brents and Lapwings, Four Avocets and Arctic Terns Triptych
Located in Deddington, GB
Arctic Terns by Robert Greenhalf [2020]
limited_edition
Woodcut Print on Paper
Edition number 100
Image size: H:28 cm x W:28 cm
Complete Size of Unfr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Northern Shrike / Yellow-breasted Chat / Loggerhead Shrike / Gray-cheeked Thrush
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
Chromolithographs from “Birds of Pennsylvania. With Special Reference to the Food-Habits, based on over Four Thousand Stomach Examinations”. By B.H. Warren, M.D., Ornithologist, Penn...
Category
1990s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Key West Bound 66
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
The Key West Bound Series is about the insistent nature of Key West’s ability to adapt and thrive despite the continual barrage of hurricanes, weather patterns, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Animal Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monoprint
"Worm-Wood Hare, " Original Color Lithograph by John James Audubon
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Worm-Wood Hare" is an original color lithograph by John James Audubon. It depicts three brown rabbits in a landscape. No. 18, Plate LXXXVIII, On Stone by W.E. Hitchcock.
6" x 8" ar...
Category
1840s Other Art Style Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Georges Braque - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Georges Braque - Original Lithograph
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Andre Sauret, Monte Carlo
The father of Cubism
Three Cubist that distinguishes art historian periods were initiated and developed by Georges Braque: The Cubist Cézanne (1907-1909), Executive (1909-1912) and synthetic (1912-1922).
Post-Impressionist and fawn, Braque no longer adheres to the contingency of a decorative way or the other. Cézanne’s paintings exhibited at the Grand Palais during the retrospective of 1907 are a revelation: Cézanne sought and invented a pictorial language. In his footsteps, Braque went to the South with the reasons of the Master. He returned with Estaque landscapes and surprising Ciotat it keeps Cezanne geometric model and retains the “passages” continuity from one surface to another to create the sensation of “turning around” of the object represented. But he wants to go after the consequences of the vision of Cezanne. In his paintings Houses in L’Estaque (1908) it simplifies the volumes of houses, neglects detail by removing doors and windows: the plastic rhythm that builds the table. Large Nude , a masterpiece of the period, can be considered the first work of Cézanne cubism .
Systematizing and deepening Braque discoveries open the door analytical cubism. In 1909, his painting became more cerebral than sensual. The pattern is recreated in the two-dimensionality of the canvas, leaving aside any illusionistic perspective. In Still Life with Violin, objects are analyzed facets according to their characteristic elements, each facet referring to a particular view of the object. There are so many facets of points selected view: Table reflects the knowledge of the object and the ubiquity of the eye. Moreover, Braque is looking for the essence of the objects in the world rather than their contingency, which explains the absence of light source and use of muted colors (gray, ocher), contingent aspects of the object . But formal logic has stepped facets, erased any anecdote to the object and ultimately led to his painting a hermetic more marked on the edge of abstraction (see the series of Castle Roche-Guyon ).
Braque, anxious to keep the concrete and refusing at all costs that the logic of Cubism takes the paintings to abstract, reintroduced signs of reality in his paintings in 1912 marks the beginning of Synthetic Cubism. Historians speak of “signs of real” rather than reality because what interests Braque, this is not to put reality into a table, but to create a painting which, by its language, refers to the real. To do this, he invented two major techniques XX th century inclusions and contributions. The inclusions consist of painting objects that have no real depth, materials (wallpaper in Nature morte aux playing cards faux wood is a pictorial inclusion) or letters (calligraphic inclusion in Portuguese ), made first brush and a few months later stencil. Contributions are defined in contrast with the collage on canvas of foreign materials: glued or sand paper, sawdust, etc.. Regarding the collages, Braque used for the first time in September 1912 a piece of adhesive paper imitating faux wood Compote and Glass , then the packet envelope of tobacco Bock in 1912-1913, or an advertisement in Damier , 1913). Inputs and inclusions refer to an external object in the table, without “emulate” this object. Away from their appearances, objects are represented in closest essence of the objects in the real world sense.
This is also the time of Synthetic Cubism that Braque invented paper sculpture. There are, unfortunately, and no one is living proof of a photograph makes it possible to realize: Paper and paperboard.
Métamorphoses period(1961-1963).
In 1961, Georges Braque worked on a Greek head for the Louvre, which obsesses him, and he wishes to free his mind. He tried several times to bring out the paint and the result was unsatisfactory. He thinks the ultimate metamorphosis its Greek head projected in three dimensions. He calls in his studio of Baron Heger Loewenfeld, master lapidary, and he communicates his enthusiasm during the “fateful encounter.” Nine months later, in honor of the eighty years of Georges Braque, Heger Loewenfeld offers the Master of the ring Circe: the famous Greek head finally exorcised, carved in an onyx. Braque Loewenfeld then asked to identify other issues that haunt him.
From dated and signed by Georges Braque, Heger gouaches Loewenfeld shapes works in the fields of jewelery, lapidary art...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso's Cat
Located in Deddington, GB
Picasso’s Cat [2021]
limited_edition
Silkscreen print on canvas
Edition number 100
Image size: H:21.5 cm x W:21.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
American Redstart; Plate 43
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
Chromolithographs from “Birds of Pennsylvania. With Special Reference to the Food-Habits, based on over Four Thousand Stomach Examinations”. By B.H. Warren, M.D., Ornithologist, Penn...
Category
1990s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Phalanger - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
Phalanger 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
'Edward', Woman Artist, PAFA, Art Students League, Smithsonian, Art Deco Figural
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A color, stone lithograph titled 'Edward' by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950) with certification of authenticity stamped verso. A fresh ...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Mike Mitchell - Tyrion - Artist Edition - Contemporary Artist
Located in Asheville, NC
Mike Mitchell - Tyrion - Artist Edition - Contemporary Artist
Edition Details
Year: 2013
Class: Art Print
Status: Official
Run: 1
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Giclée
The Gorilla - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Gorilla 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 publish...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pin Tail Duck, Pl. 263
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
From publication The Birds of Great Britain, Systematically Arranged, Accurately Engraved, and Painted from Nature. Published 1793-1801 in London.
Markings Watermark: 1794 J.Whatma...
Category
Late 18th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Rooster - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
"Rooster" is an original woodcut realized by Mino Maccari (1898-1989).
In good conditions.
This artwork represents a rooster while singing with the village's house in its backgroun...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Equus Montanus - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
Equus Montanus 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 publ...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
19th Century "Ground Squirrel" Hand Colored Lithograph by T. Doughty C.1830s
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century "Ground Squirrel" Hand Colored Lithograph by T. Doughty C.1830s
From "Nature and on Stone" by T. Doughty
The print measures 8.5" wide x ...
Category
Early 19th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
MOBY DICK
Located in Portland, ME
Kent, Rockwell, illustrator. MOBY DICK by Herman Melville. .Lakeside Press, 1930. The Artist and the Book, 140. Edition of 1000 copies. First edition thus. Three volumes, quarto, 279, 284, and 282pp. 280 illustrations by Kent after his ink and wash drawings, except that the title pages of each volume are prints made from copper-plate engravings by Kent. In the original aluminum slipcase. In excellent condition.
Jo Mielziner...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Black and White
Cuckoo Clock - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1971
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Cuckoo Clock is an original colored etching realized by Leo Guida in 1971
Hand-signed and dated on the lower Title on the bottom center in Italian.
Artist's proof "p.a" in pencil ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Doctor Bird Ready For Injection - Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
Located in Roma, IT
The Doctor Bird Ready For Injection 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...
Category
1850s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
The Monkeys - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Monkeys 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 publish...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Goût de Bonheur: one plate
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Artist: Pablo Picasso (after)
Medium: lithograph, Arches paper
It was produced under the direct supervision of Pablo Picasso
Portfolio: Le Goût de Bonheur...
Category
1970s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Antiquities of Herculaneum- Original Etching By C. Oratij- 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
Signed on the lower left on the plate Carlo Oratij.
Good condi...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Swallowtail Butterfly, Guy Allen, Limited Edition Print, Affordable Animal Art
By Guy Allen
Located in Deddington, GB
Please note the price is for the unframed original etching .
Swallowtail Butterfly is an original etching, engraved onto a copper plate, from which Guy Allen creates an impression o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Still-life Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
“Truth is Stranger than Fiction” Black and White Abstract Etching Edition 4/15
By Margaret Smithers Crump
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white abstract etching by Houston artist Margaret Smithers-Crump. The work features a collection of abstracted sea creatures such as a crab, eel, and puffer fish. Signed, t...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Long Tail Duck, Pl. 264
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
From publication The Birds of Great Britain, Systematically Arranged, Accurately Engraved, and Painted from Nature. Published 1793-1801 in London.
Markings Watermark: 1794 J.Whatma...
Category
Late 18th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Armadillo - Original Etching - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Armadillo is an original lithograph realized by an anonymous artist in the late 19th century.
Original Title: Autre Kabassou. On the top of the print: Tom. III, Pl. 54 pag. 343.
Im...
Category
19th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Through Wind and Water (Notre Dame Gargoyle)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil
Edition: 75
Gargoyle Series No. 7
This impression probably printed by David Strang, 1937-38
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 11 1/4"
Reference:
William Dolan Fletcher, John Tay...
Category
1920s American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Owl - Etching on Paper by Mario Avati - 1960s
By Mario Avati
Located in Roma, IT
Owl is an etching on paper, realized by the French artist and print-maker master Mario Avati (1921-2009).
Hand-signed on the lower right and numbered on the lower left in pencil. Ed...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
Pink Moss - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
Pink Moss is an original lithograph with stencil on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and ...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gianpaolo Berto's Vintage Exhibition Poster - Offset Print - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Manifesto Gianpaolo Berto is an original poster print.
Beautiful offset in good conditions.
The artwork is a vintage poster of Gianpaolo Berto's exhibition at Galleria Marino, Rome...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset, Paper
Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony How Many Eggs? After Winslow Homer wood engraving
Located in Paonia, CO
Raid On A Sand-Swallow Colony " How Many Eggs?" is an original wood engraving from Harper’s Weekly June 13, 1874 in very good condition.
One of Am...
Category
1870s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Kerry Breed, Irish sheep lithograph with original hand-colouring, circa 1845
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Race de Kerry' (The Kerry Breed)
Lithograph with original hand-colouring by Hermann Eichens (1813-1886) from a drawing by W. Nicholson after a painting by William Shiels.
From the...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rockwell Kent, Four Bookplates (on one sheet)
Located in New York, NY
Proof sheet with four wood engraved book plates by Rockwell Kent. Possibly for a book on this subject published in 1937. There are pencil numbers under each image that probably indic...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Jane Peart, Forest Glen, Limited Edition Etching Print, Woodland Art
By Jane Peart
Located in Deddington, GB
Jane Peart
Forest Glen
Limited Edition Etching Print
Edition of 100
Image Size: H 24cm x W 34cm
Signed
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
The Bird - Etching on Paper by Miguel Angel Ibartz - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Bird is an original contemporary artwork realized by Miguel Angel Ibarz (Barcelona, 1958).
Original etching on paper.
Hand-signed and numbered, edition 13/75.
Good condition...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Two Oxen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Two Oxen" c.1960 is an original linocut on thin fiber paper by noted Turkish artist Nevzat Akoral, 1926-2016 It is signed in the plate as issue. The image is 11.15 x 9....
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Linocut
Kaka Parrots, Antique New Zealand Bird Parrot Chromolithograph, circa 1895
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Kaka Parrots - chromolithograph from an English natural history series.
200mm by 135mm (image)
255mm by 165mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cheetah - From Chats et Autres Bêtes - Lithograph 1933
Located in Roma, IT
Cheetah - From Chats et Autres Bêtes is an original black and white lithograph realized in 1933 by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen.
Signed on plate.
The lithograph, on Arches vellum,...
Category
1930s Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Pair of Flamingos, A Pair of Giraffes and A Pair of Elephants Triptych
Located in Deddington, GB
A Pair of Flamingos, A Pair of Giraffes and A Pair of Elephants Triptych by Katie Edwards [2021]
original
Silkscreen Print
Image size: H:20 cm x W:20 cm
Com...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Ancient Roman Relief - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 18th century.
...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Hooked Salmon, angling fish etching by George Marples, circa 1920
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Marples was a painter, etcher, writer on ornithology, and principal of Huddersfield, Hull and Liverpool School of Art. He specialized in etchings of fish...
Category
1920s Other Art Style Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Max Ernst - Birds - Original Lithograph
By Max Ernst
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Max Ernst - Birds - Original Lithograph
Birds, 1964 (BNF, 63)
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Revue Art de France
ax Ernst was born in Bruhl, a place near Cologne, in Germany. He was raised in a strict Catholic family, and both of his parents were disciplinarians who were dedicated to training their children into God-fearing and talented individuals. Although his father was deaf, Ernst learned so much from him, particularly when it comes to painting. In fact, much of his early years were lived under the inspiration of his father who was also a teacher. He was the one who introduced painting to Ernst at an early age.
In 1914, Ernst attended the University of Bonn where he studied philosophy. However, he eventually dropped out of school because he was more interested in the arts. He claimed that his primary sources of interest included anything that had something to do with painting. Moreover, he became fascinated with psychology, among other subjects in school.
Primarily, Ernst's love for painting was the main reason why he became deeply interested with this craft and decided to pursue it later on in his life. During his early years, he became familiar with the works of some of the greatest artists of all time including Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He was also drawn to themes such as fantasy and dream imagery, which were among the common subjects of the works of Giorgio de Chirico.
During World War I, Ernst was forced to join the German Army, and he became a part of the artillery division that exposed him greatly to the drama of warfare. A soldier in the War, Ernst emerged deeply traumatized and highly critical of western culture. These charged sentiments directly fed into his vision of the modern world as irrational, an idea that became the basis of his artwork. Ernst's artistic vision, along with his humor and verve come through strongly in his Dada and Surrealists works; Ernst was a pioneer of both movements.
It was Ernst's memories of the war and his childhood that helps him create absurd, yet interesting scenes in his artworks. Soon, he took his passion for the arts seriously when he returned to Germany after the war. With Jean Arp, a poet and artist, Ernst formed a group for artists in Cologne. He also developed a close relationship with fellow artists in Paris who propagated Avant-Garde artworks.
In 1919, Ernst started creating some of his first collages, where he made use of various materials including illustrated catalogs and some manuals that produced a somewhat futuristic image. His unique masterpieces allowed Ernst to create his very own world of dreams and fantasy, which eventually helped heal his personal issues and trauma. In addition to painting and creating collages, Ernst also edited some journals. He also made a few sculptures that were rather queer in appearance.
In 1920s, influenced by the writings of psychologist Sigmund Freud, the literary, intellectual, and artistic movement called Surrealism sought a revolution against the constraints of the rational mind; and by extension, they saw the rules of a society as oppressive. Surrealism also embraces a Marxist ideology that demands an orthodox approach to history as a product of the material interaction of collective interests, and many renown Surrealism artists later on became 20th century Counterculture symbols such as Marxist Che Guevara. In 1922 Ernst moved to Paris, where the surrealists were gathering around Andre Breton. In 1923 Ernst finished Men Shall Know Nothing of This, known as the first Surrealist painting. Ernst was one of the first artists who apply The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud to investigate his deep psyche in order to explore the source of his own creativity. While turning inwards unto himself, Ernst was also tapping into the universal unconscious with its common dream imagery.
Despite his strange styles, Ernst gained quite a reputation that earned him some followers throughout his life. He even helped shape the trend of American art during the mid-century, thanks to his brilliant and extraordinary ideas that were unlike those of other artists during his time. Ernst also became friends with Peggy Guggenheim, which inspired him to develop close ties with the abstract expressionists.
When Ernst lived in Sedona, he became deeply fascinated with the Southwest Native American navajo art. In fact, the technique used in this artwork inspired him and paved the way for him to create paintings that depicted this style. Thus, Ernst became a main figure of this art technique, including the rituals and spiritual traditions included in this form of art. Pollock, aside from the other younger generations of abstract expressionists, was also inspired by sand painting of the Southwest...
Category
1960s Surrealist Animal Prints
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Lithograph