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Maternum
Located in New York City, NY
Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series. The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Paloma, Lithograph by Juan Garcia Ripolles
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Juan Garcia Ripolles, Spanish (1932 - ) Title: Paloma Year: 1969 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: PA XXVII/XXX Image Size: 17 x 22 inches Frame Size...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Equestrian Beauty #14
Located in New York City, NY
Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series. The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Two Satyrs Resting on a Fence, One with Pan Flute
Located in New York, NY
Louis Moe (20 April 1857 – 23 October 1945), Two Satyrs Resting on a Fence, One with Pan Flute, mezzotint on paper, signed, inscribed and dated. Inscribed, ...
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20th Century Other Art Style Animal Prints

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Paper, Mezzotint

Utilita I, Wellington, United States, Horse Portrait, Equine Beauty
Located in New York City, NY
Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series. The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Sitting Out There, Melanie Yazzie Navajo printmaker monotype yellow dragonfly
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Sitting Out There, Melanie Yazzie Navajo printmaker monotype yellow dragonfly bright yellow monotype, framed in light maple with a white mat. paper size 22" x 30" frame size 32" x 40...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Monotype

One Cat D
Located in Denver, CO
Born in 1937 in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder knew what he must do at an early age. As a high school student at Pierre, South Dakota, his teacher was Oscar Howe...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Animal Prints

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Monotype

Satyr Juggling Tamborine with Feet
Located in New York, NY
Louis Moe (1857 Arendal, Norway - Copenhagen, Denmark 1945), Satyr Juggling Tamborine with Feet, mezzotint on paper, signed, lower right, Louis Moe, origin: Denmark, circa 1939 Framed dimensions: 43 x 42 x 4.25 cm. Louis Moe was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and writer who settled in Denmark. He is known for his many book illustrations, illustrated classical works, fairytales, children's books and books on mythology, and contributed to children's magazines and weekly magazines. He is represented in the National Gallery in Oslo, and the Danish Museum of Art & Design in Copenhagen and in Rasmus Meyers Samlinger in Bergen, and a Louis Moe Gallery has been established in Vrådal. He was decorated Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1931. We have additional works, from this series, by Louis Moe available. All reframed and work beautifully together. Please inquire: Fighting Bear...
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20th Century Other Art Style Animal Prints

Materials

Paper, Mezzotint

Black, Red, and White Aquatic Print of a School of Clown Fish and a Lion Fish
By Patricia Hagstrom
Located in Houston, TX
Silk Screen print of fish, coral, and the sun. The artist uses black hues to create a stencil effect and to better showcase the red fish. Framed in a thin silver frame with a black m...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints

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Screen

Bee Shadows
Located in New York, NY
Edition 108/150, framed Sheet size: 25 x 20 inches Image size: 9 x 12 inches Frame size: 28 x 22.75 inches Signed lower left: 108/150 Signed lower right: Jamie Wyeth Jamie Wyeth (b....
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1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching

Three Fauns with Bear
Located in New York, NY
Louis Moe (20 April 1857 Arendal Norway, - Copenhagen, Denmark 23 October 1945), Three Fauns and a Bear, mezzotint on paper, Inscribed, lower left: OP. 67 Louis Moe was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and writer who settled in Denmark. He is known for his many book illustrations, illustrated classical works, fairytales, children's books and books on mythology, and contributed to children's magazines and weekly magazines. He is represented in the National Gallery in Oslo, and the Danish Museum of Art & Design in Copenhagen and in Rasmus Meyers Samlinger in Bergen, and a Louis Moe Gallery has been established in Vrådal. He was decorated Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1931. We have additional works, from this series, by Louis Moe available. All reframed and work beautifully together. Please inquire: One Bear Juggling Tamborine with Feet (DD1073) Two Satyrs Resting on a Fence, one with Pan Flute (DD1072) Fighting Bear...
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20th Century Other Art Style Animal Prints

Materials

Paper, Mezzotint

Minnie (Pink Glitter)
Located in Miami, FL
Screenprint in colors with glitter on heavy wove paper. Hand signed in pencil verso, numbered from the edition of 150 verso with artists copyright inkstamp. Published by Other Crite...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

'Autumn', Hand-colored Lithograph, listening to music under the tree
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An early twentieth-century, hand-colored lithograph showing an idyllic scene of two young lovers in medieval dress seated in a rural bower beneath fruit...
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1920s Romantic Animal Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Bluebird, Photorealist Lithograph by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Bluebird Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: AP 5/25 Image Size: 27.5 x 35.5 inches Fram...
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1980s Photorealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Animals All: WHO WERE THE FIRST TO CRY NOWELL ANIMALS ALL AS IT BEFELL.
Located in Storrs, CT
Animals All: WHO WERE THE FIRST TO CRY NOWELL ANIMALS ALL AS IT BEFELL. 1916. Woodcut. Physick 51. 14 7/8 x 16 3/8 (sheet 25 x 27 ). No published edition. Printed on simili-Japan pa...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Partibus, UAE, United Arab Emirates
Located in New York City, NY
Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series. The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Plexiglass

Paul Klee Etching "Tiere auf der Wanderung"
Located in Berlin, DE
Helio-etching on hand-made paper, 1928 by Paul Klee. Signatur is printed, lower center: Klee From portfolio Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen 1921-1930; Here no 48 Image: 4.13 x 7.56 in ( 1...
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Animal Prints

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Etching

Rein Og Pulk (Reindeer and Sleighs) - Laplander Sami in his Pulk
By Yuri Mot
Located in Soquel, CA
Joyful image of a woodcut print of a Reindeer pulling a Laplander Sami in his Pulk (small toboggan), a traditional scene in Lapland folklore and history by Yuri Mot. Signed indistinc...
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1970s Folk Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut, Laid Paper

Charles Pachter "Good Night to the Rooster"
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. His iconic, uplifting and patriotic images have independently earned their place in museums across the ...
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1960s Abstract Animal Prints

Materials

Giclée

“Galo de Escalada”
Located in Southampton, NY
Serigraph done in 1987 of the painting executed in 1947 Information verso
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Color

Fish & Chips
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fish & Chips is a lithograph on paper, 9.5 x 9" image size. From the edition of 395, numbered XXII/C (there were also 275 Arabic and 20 AP), framed in a contemporary, silver-tone fra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

A Los Toros Avec Picasso (Set of Four)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso Medium: Set of four original transfer lithographs Titles: La Pique (I), Le Picador (II), Jeu de la Cape (III), Les Banderilles (IV) Portfolio: A Los Toros Avec Picasso...
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1960s Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Cloud Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Cloud Bunny Series: Bunnies Date: 2017 Medium: Lithograph on Paper Unframed Dimensions: 24" x 16" Framed Dimensions: 29" x 22" Signature: Signed E...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Pluto Aged Twelve
Located in New York, NY
plate: 17 1/8 x 23 1/2 in. (43.5 x 59.7 cm) sheet: 22 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. (57.2 x 72.4 cm) framed: 27 3/4 x 33 3/8 in. (70.5 x 84.8 cm) etching on white Somerset textured paper edition ...
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Early 2000s Animal Prints

Materials

Etching

Magpie by Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro - Pochoir
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Magpie by Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Pochoir 26.4 x 43.5 cm (10 ³/₈ x 17 ¹/₈ inches) Signed Manza...
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20th Century Art Deco Animal Prints

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Stencil

Beau Simmons - The Saddle, Photography 2023, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: The Equestrian Collection Archival Pigment Print All available sizes without frame (with frame): 40" x 32" (47" x 39") 60" x 48" (67" x 55") 75" x 60" (84" x 69") Edition of ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Shore Birds" Minimalist Silkscreen Print in Ink on Paper (#4 of 50)
Located in Soquel, CA
"Shore Birds" Minimalist Silkscreen Print in Ink on Paper (#4 of 50) Charming silkscreen print by Frances W. Brown (American, 1915-2016). Four small birds stand in the water, shown as solid silhouettes. With just a few other lines, the artist has created a complete landscape, with waves, ripples, and clouds in the distance. Numbered, titled, and signed along the bottom edge: "4/50 Shore Birds Frances W Brown" Presented in a dark blue frame with a tan mat. Frame size: 11"H x 11"W Image size: 4.5"H x 6"W Frances Cecelia Brown...
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1990s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Ink, Paper, Screen

Beau Simmons - Di Lusso, Photography 2023, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: The Equestrian Collection Archival Pigment Print All available sizes without frame (with frame): 40" x 32" (47" x 39") 60" x 48" (67" x 55") 75" x 60" (84" x 69") Edition ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Beau Simmons - Royalty, Photography 2023, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: The Equestrian Collection Archival Pigment Print All available sizes without frame (with frame): 40" x 32" (47" x 39") 60" x 48" (67" x 55") 75" x 60" (84" x 69") Edition ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Beau Simmons - The English Way, Photography 2023, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: The Equestrian Collection Archival Pigment Print All available sizes without frame (with frame): 40" x 32" (47" x 39") 60" x 48" (67" x 55") 75" x 60" (84" x 69") Edition ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Beau Simmons - Together As One, Photography 2023, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: The Equestrian Collection Archival Pigment Print All available sizes without frame (with frame): 40" x 32" (47" x 39") 60" x 48" (67" x 55") 75" x 60" (84" x 69") Edition ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil (Giraffes)
Located in Greenwich, CT
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil (Giraffes) is a lithograph on paper, 6 x 9" image size. From the edition of 395, numbered LIII/C (there were also 275 arabic and 20 AP). Robe...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

A Los Toros Avec Picasso (Set of Four)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: La Pique (I), Le Picador (II), Jeu de la Cape (III), Les Banderilles (IV) Portfolio: A Los Toros Avec Picasso Medium: Set of f...
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1960s Abstract Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Coyote
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Edward Ruscha Coyote, 1986 is a color lithograph on Arches paper that is hand-signed by Edward Ruscha (1937, Nebraska - ) on verso and is numbered from the edition of 30 in pencil on...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

“A Texas Tango for T.A.L.A.” Colorful Abstract Nature Lithograph Ed. 22/125
Located in Houston, TX
Modern colorful nature lithograph by Texas-based artist Billy Hassell. The work features various examples native wildlife including a bird, fish, and grasshopper set against a bright...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

ELVIS COSTELLO
Located in Tokyo, 13
LOT:20220115M08 Atsushi Kaga [ELVIS COSTELLO] Lithograph on Somerset paper Signed by the artist Edition of 20 COA will accompany this work
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2010s Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Invictus Amboseli, Kenya
Located in New York City, NY
47 x 71 inches 120 x 180 cm Edition of 2 Archival Pigment Print Mounted and Framed Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has spent many...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment, Black and White, Inkjet

One of All, All for One Maasai Mara, Kenya
Located in New York City, NY
47 x 71 inches 120 x 180 cm Edition of 2 Archival Pigment Print Mounted and Framed Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has spent many...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Stripes Amboseli National Park, Kenya
Located in New York City, NY
47 x 71 inches 120 x 180 cm Edition of 2 Archival Pigment Print Mounted and Framed Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has spent many...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

The Last Ones Ol Peseta National Reserve, Kenya
Located in New York City, NY
47 x 71 inches 120 x 180 cm Edition of 2 Archival Pigment Print Mounted and Framed Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has spent many...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Brothers Masai Mara National Park, Kenya
Located in New York City, NY
47 x 71 inches 120 x 180 cm Edition of 2 Archival Pigment Print Mounted and Framed Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has spent many...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Queen of Africa Northern Conservancy, Kenya
Located in New York City, NY
47 x 71 inches 120 x 180 cm Edition of 2 Archival Pigment Print Mounted and Framed Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has spent many...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Father and Son Masai Mara National Park, Kenya
Located in New York City, NY
47 x 71 inches 120 x 180 cm Edition of 2 Archival Pigment Print Mounted and Framed Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has spent many...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Born Free Samburu National Park, Kenya
Located in New York City, NY
47 x 71 inches 120 x 180 cm Edition of 2 Archival Pigment Print Mounted and Framed Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has spent many...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

King of Kings, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 2020 by Björn Persson
Located in New York City, NY
Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has spent many years traveling around the world in search of adventure and spectacular images. His ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Heaven Etosha National Park, Namibia
Located in New York City, NY
47 x 71 inches 120 x 180 cm Edition of 2 Archival Pigment Print Mounted and Framed Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has spent many...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

King of Kings, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 2020 by Björn Persson
Located in New York City, NY
Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has spent many years traveling around the world in search of adventure and spectacular images. His ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Bareback Act, Old Hippodrome
Located in Missouri, MO
Bareback Act, Old Hippodrome By Gifford Beal (1879-1956) Signed Lower Right Unframed: 6.5" x 9.5" Framed: 17.5" x 20" Gifford Beal, painter, etcher, muralist, and teacher, was born in New York City in 1879. The son of landscape painter William Reynolds Beal, Gifford Beal began studying at William Merritt Chase's Shinnecock School of Art (the first established school of plein air painting in America) at the age of thirteen, when he accompanied his older brother, Reynolds, to summer classes. He remained a pupil of Chase's for ten years also studying with him in New York City at the artist's private studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building. Later at his father's behest, he attended Princeton University from 1896 to 1900 while still continuing his lessons with Chase. Upon graduation from Princeton he took classes at the Art Students' League, studying with impressionist landscape painter Henry Ward Ranger and Boston academic painter Frank Vincent DuMond. He ended up as President of the Art Students League for fourteen years, "a distinction unsurpassed by any other artist." His student days were spent entirely in this country. "Given the opportunity to visit Paris en route to England in 1908, he chose to avoid it" he stated, "I didn't trust myself with the delightful life in ParisIt all sounded so fascinating and easy and loose." His subjects were predominately American, and it has been said stylistically "his art is completely American." Gifford achieved early recognition in the New York Art World. He became an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1908 and was elected to full status of academician in 1914. He was known for garden parties, circuses, landscapes, streets, coasts, flowers and marines. This diversity in subject matter created "no typical or characteristic style to his work." Beal's style was highly influenced by Chase and Childe Hassam, a long time friend of the Beal family who used to travel "about the countryside with Beal in a car sketching...
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20th Century American Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

One of Their Pets (Two Farm Boys and Cow at the Watering Hole)
Located in Missouri, MO
One of Their Pets (Two Farm Boys and Cow at The Watering Hole) By Joseph Vorst (1897-1947) Signed Lower Right Edition 1/50 Lower Left Unframed: 8.5" x 11" Framed: 16" x 18.5" German-born Joseph Vorst came from Essen (born June 19, 1897). His teacher was the leading German impressionist Max Liebermann (1847-1935), who was the champion of French impressionism in Berlin. He had traveled to Barbizon and Paris to see paintings by Manet first hand, including In the Conservatory, which made its way to Berlin. Later Vorst's home town of Essen would acquire a collection of modern art in 1921, which became the Museum Folkwang, one of the earliest of its kind. Most likely to escape the Nazis, Vorst made his way to Missouri; we know that he was a member of the American Artists Congress and he signed the famous "Call" in 1936 at the group's first congress, the left-wing organization that stood up to combat fascism. Surely he would have known Joe Jones...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Feeding Chicken Lithograph
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Beautiful work by Koen Van Mechelen (Sint-Truiden, 1965). Made as a participation in the "museum to scale" exhibition At Ronny Van de Velde gallery from 2013 Signed on reverse Issued...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Animal Prints

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Paper

Fighter - lithograph
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Beautiful work by Koen Van Mechelen (Sint-Truiden, 1965). Made as a participation in the "museum to scale" exhibition At Ronny Van de Velde gallery from 2013 Signed on reverse Issued...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Animal Prints

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Paper

Le Christ a l'Horloge, Paris
Located in Missouri, MO
Marc Chagall "Le Christ a l'Horloge, Paris" (Christ in the Clock) 1957 (M. 196) Color Lithograph on Arches Wove Paper Signed in Pencil "Marc Chagall" Lower Right Initialed "H.C." (Hors Commerce) Lower Left, aside from numbered edition of 90 *Floated in Gold Frame with Linen Matting, UV Plexiglass Sheet Size: 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (47.5 cm x 38 cm) Image Size: 9 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches Framed Size: 28.5 x 24.25 inches Marc Chagall was a man of keen intelligence, a shrewd observer of the contemporary scene, with a great sympathy for human suffering. He was born on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia; his original name was Moishe Shagal (Segal), but when he became a foremost member of the Ecole de Paris, he adopted French citizenship and the French spelling of his name. Vitebsk was a good-sized Russian town of over 60,000, not a shtetl. His father supported a wife and eight children as a worker in a herring-pickling plant. Sheltered by the Jewish commandment against graven images, the young Chagall never saw so much as a drawing until, one day, he watched a schoolmate copying a magazine illustration. He was ridiculed for his astonishment, but he began copying and improvising from magazines. Both Chagall's parents reluctantly agreed to let him study with Yehuda Pen, a Jewish artist in Vitebsk. Later, in 1906, they allowed their son to study in St. Petersburg, where he was exposed to Russian Iconography and folk art. At that time, Jews could leave the Pale only for business and employment and were required to carry a permit. Chagall, who was in St. Petersburg without a permit, was imprisoned briefly. His first wife, Bella Rosenfeld, was a product of a rich cultivated and intellectual group of Jews in Vitebsk. Chagall was made commissar for the arts for the area, charged with directing its cultural life and establishing an art school. Russian folklore, peasant life and landscapes persisted in his work all his life. In 1910 a rich patron, a lawyer named Vinaver, staked him to a crucial trip to Paris, where young artists were revolutionizing art. He also sent him a handsome allowance of 125 francs (in those days about $24) each month. Chagall rejected cubism, fauvism and futurism, but remained in Paris. He found a studio near Montparnasse in a famous twelve-sided wooden structure divided into wedge-shaped rooms. Chaim Soutine, a fellow Russian Jew, and Modigliani lived on the same floor. To Chagall's astonishment, he found himself heralded as one of the fathers of surrealism. In 1923, a delegation of Max Ernst, Paul Eluard and Gala (later Salvador Dali's wife) actually knelt before Chagall, begging him to join their ranks. He refused. To understand Chagall's work, it is necessary to know that he was born a Hasidic Jew, heir to mysticism and a world of the spirit, steeped in Jewish lore and reared in the Yiddish language. The Hasidim had a special feeling for animals, which they tried not to overburden. In the mysterious world of Kabbala and fantastic ancient legends of Chagall's youth, the imaginary was as important as the real. His extraordinary use of color also grew out of his dream world; he did not use color realistically, but for emotional effect and to serve the needs of his design. Most of his favorite themes, though superficially light and trivial, mask dark and somber thoughts. The circus he views as a mirror of life; the crucifixion as a tragic theme, used as a parallel to the historic Jewish condition, but he is perhaps best known for the rapturous lovers he painted all his life. His love of music is a theme that runs through his paintings. After a brief period in Berlin, Chagall, Bella and their young daughter, Ida, moved to Paris and in 1937 they assumed French citizenship. When France fell, Chagall accepted an invitation from the Museum of Modern Art to immigrate to the United States. He was arrested and imprisoned in Marseilles for a short time, but was still able to immigrate with his family. The Nazi onslaught caught Chagall in Vichy, France, preoccupied with his work. He was loath to leave; his friend Varian Fry rescued him from a police roundup of Jews in Marseille, and packed him, his family and 3500 lbs. of his art works on board a transatlantic ship. The day before he arrived in New York City, June 23, 1941, the Nazis attacked Russia. The United States provided a wartime haven and a climate of liberty for Chagall. In America he spent the war years designing large backdrops for the Ballet. Bella died suddenly in the United States of a viral infection in September 1944 while summering in upstate New York. He rushed her to a hospital in the Adirondacks, where, hampered by his fragmentary English, they were turned away with the excuse that the hour was too late. The next day she died. He waited for three years after the war before returning to France. With him went a slender married English girl, Virginia Haggard MacNeil; Chagall fell in love with her and they had a son, David. After seven years she ran off with an indigent photographer. It was an immense blow to Chagall's ego, but soon after, he met Valentine Brodsky, a Russian divorcee designing millinery in London (he called her Fava). She cared for him during the days of his immense fame and glory. They returned to France, to a home and studio in rustic Vence. Chagall loved the country and every day walked through the orchards, terraces, etc. before he went to work. Chagall died on March 28, 1985 in the south of France. His heirs negotiated an arrangement with the French state allowing them to pay most of their inheritance taxes in works of art. The heirs owed about $30 million to the French government; roughly $23 million of that amount was deemed payable in artworks. Chagall's daughter, Ida and his widow approved the arrangement. Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California. Sources: Hannah Grad Goodman in Homage to Chagall in Hadassah Magazine, June 1985 Jack Kroll in Newsweek, April 8, 1985 Andrea Jolles in National Jewish Monthly Magazine, May 1985 Michael Gibson...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

My Snakebit Heart
Located in Saint Louis, MO
My Snakebit Heart, 1993 Etching 18 x 15 inches (45.7 x 38.1 cm) Edition 38/50
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1990s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Etching

Hurry Sundown
Located in Missouri, MO
Billy Schenck (American, b. 1947) Hurry Sundown, 1985 Edition 19/60 Serigraph 21 x 38 inches Signed, Titled, Dated, and Numbered Lower Margin Billy Schenck is a contemporary artist ...
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1980s Pop Art Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

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