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Eagle /// Antique Ornithology Bird Saverio Manetti Italian Watercolor Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Saverio Manetti (Italian, 1723-1785)
Title: "Eagle" (Plate V - 5)
Portfolio: Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli (The Natural History of Birds)
Year: 1767-1776
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Engraving on watermarked laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: heirs of Francesco Mouck (Vols. I-III), Gaetano Cambiagi (Vol. IV), Giuseppe Vanni (Vol. V), Florence, Italy
Reference: Ayer/Zimmer page 241; Fine Bird Books page 120; McGill/Wood, page 450; Nissen IVB No. 588
Sheet size: 16.75" x 14.5"
Platemark size: 13.63" x 10.88"
Condition: Some minor surface marks mainly in margins. In excellent condition with strong colors
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Haarlem, Netherlands. Engraved and hand-colored by Italian artists Lorenzo Lorenzi (Active: 1750-1780) and Violante Vanni (1732-1776). Latin and Italian texts by Saverio Manetti. Comes from Manetti's monumental five volume "Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli (The Natural History of Birds)", (1767-1776), which consists of 600 hand-colored engravings. Unidentified watermark in very center of sheet. Comes with its accompanying information sheet.
Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of genera, some of which are closely related. Most of the 60 species of eagle are from Eurasia and Africa.
Manetti's extraordinary "Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli (The Natural History of Birds)", 1767-1776 was commissioned by Maria Luisa, the Grand Duchess of Tuscany. It is a massive 5 book volume set...
Category
1770s Old Masters Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Cat - Original woodcut, Handsigned and Numbered /160 - Buisson #27-03
Located in Paris, IDF
Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA
Cat, 1927
Original woodcut
Handsigned with ink
Numbered /160
Bears the blind stamp of the editor (Lugt 1140a)
On Vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 inch)
R...
Category
1920s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ducks at Play, Signed Modern Etching Mounted to Board by Frank Weston Benson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ducks at Play
Frank Weston Benson, American (1862–1951)
Date: 1940
Etching mounted to board, signed and dated in pencil
Image Size: 10 x 8 inches
Size: 12 x 10 in. (30.48 x 25.4 cm)
Category
1940s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Snipe, French antique natural history water bird art print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Becassine - Snipe
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illust...
Category
1930s Art Deco Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Chevre Du Thibet, Impressionist Woodblock by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) - La Chevre Du Thibet, Year: circa 1911, Medium: Woodblock, Image Size: 8 x 7.5 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Description: From the ...
Category
1910s Impressionist Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Old World" 60x40 Black & White Photography Bison Buffalo Unsigned Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of an American Bison.
Printed on archival paper and using archival inks
Framing available. Inquire for rates.
Shane Russeck has built a reputati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Up with the Rooster, woodblock print by Penelope Ellis
Located in London, GB
Penelope Ellis (1935-2016)
Up with the Rooster
Woodblock print
15 x 11 cm
Provenance: From the artist's estate sale.
Penelope Mary Ellis (1935–2016) was a British artist celebrat...
Category
1950s Folk Art Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Luna llena (Full Moon) (1/30)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rocca Luis César
Luna llena (Full Moon), 2023
Serigraph in five colors
21.70 x 21.70 in
Edition of 30
This serigraph (silkscreen or screen print) is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Leonor Fini, from La Grande Parade des Chats, hand signed color lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Leonor Fini
Untitled from La Grande Parade des Chats (The Great Parade of the Cats)
Color lithograph on Arches paper
Hand signed in pencil by the artist
numbered 204/230
Published b...
Category
1970s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Birds - XXI century, Figurative print, Black and white, Animals
By Anna Mikke
Located in Warsaw, PL
Limited edition, 6/10. ANNA MIKKE (born in 1950) She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź in 1975. After graduation, she was engaged in graphic design, including designing...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
Hummingbird Lithograph
By John Gould
Located in New York, NY
Gould, John and Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds.
London, 1849-61.
This plate: Orthorhynchus Ornatus.
Original lithographs hand-co...
Category
Mid-19th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper
Water Rail, French antique natural history water bird art print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Rale D'Eau - Water Rail
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds.
195...
Category
1930s Art Deco 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...
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Caribou or American Reindeer: Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century John James Audubon hand-colored quadruped lithograph entitled "Caribou or American Rein Deer", No. 26, Plate CXXVI, from Audubon's "Quadrupeds of Nor...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Golden-winged Woodpecker: First Octavo Edition Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored royal first octavo edition lithograph entitled "Golden-winged Woodpecker, 1. Male, 2. Female2", No. 55...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Deer Horns - Etching by Buvée l'Américain - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Deer horns is an artwork realized by Buvée l'Américain in 1771.
Etching B./W. print on ivory paper. Signed on plate on the lower left margin.
The work is glued on cardboard. ...
Category
1770s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Holy Land Fly TWA Jets vintage travel poster 1960s Noah' Ark
By David Klein
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Holy Land TWA vintage travel poster. Artist David Klein. Size 25" x 40.5". Archival linen-backed authentic vintage TWA travel poster...
Category
1960s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
$958 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract French lithograph, circa 1980. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame. Archival plasti...
Category
1980s Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$340
YES! pencil signed and numbered homemade print by world renowned British artist
By Tracey Emin
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin
YES!, 2012
Home made color inkjet print
11 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches
Edition 111/150
Pencil signed, numbered 111 and dated 2012 recto; bears Emin International stamp on the ver...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Inkjet
Original "Are You 100% American, Prove It! Third Liberty Loan vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original " Are You 100% American? Prove it! Buy US government bonds. Third Liberty Loan" vintage poster.
This poster from World War I questions whether the viewer is genuinely A...
Category
1910s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Torch Light Fishing in N America, aquatint engraving hunting print, 1813
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Torch Light Fishing in N America'
Colour aquatint by Merke after John Heavenside Clark (c1770-1863).
From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Mike Mitchell - Western Scrub-Jay - Artist Edition - Contemporary Artist
Located in Asheville, NC
Mike Mitchell - Western Scrub-Jay - Artist Edition - Contemporary Artist
Edition Details
Year: 2016
Class: Art Print
Status: Official
Technique: Giclee
Paper: Cotton rag
Size: 8 X 10
Markings: Signed
Manufacturer: Static Medium
About Artist:
Mike Mitchell is an American artist known for his pop surrealism and for leading the online grassroots movement in supporting Conan O'Brien during the 2010 Tonight Show conflict. He designed the "I'm with Coco" poster, which was based on a photo, that went viral on the internet in January 2010. The poster has been widely circulated and displayed on the web and at various rallies during the 2010 Tonight Show conflict, and afterwards for O'Brien's The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour. He also designed a poster in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Giclée
36x48 Tiger Photography Wildlife Art Photograph "Tiger Portrait" Unsigned Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of a Tiger by Shane Russeck.
Printed on archival paper using archival inks
Shane Russeck is a modern day photographer, adventurer, and explorer. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Listen # 6, Conservation Art, Animal Art, Street Art Banksy Style Art
By Harry Bunce
Located in Deddington, GB
Listen # 6 by Harry Bunce [2021]
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Listen # 6 by Harry Bunce is a mixed media work of Bunce’s rabbit ch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
I Love You By Damien Hirst
By Damien Hirst
Located in London, GB
I Love You
By Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst is a British contemporary artist known for his provocative works exploring life, death, and consumerism, often using preserved animals and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Barnacle Geese Affrighted
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, full margins. Signed and numbered 59/75 in pencil, lower margin. Notations in pencil along the lower sheet edge, recto, well outside of ima...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Original "Scandinavia by SAS, Scandiavian Airlines System vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original first edition printing of Scandinavia by SAS, Scandinavian Airlines System. The first edition has a greyish panel along the bottom. The poster also features the SAS logo...
Category
1960s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
Salvador Dali - Cherries - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Cherries - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
Dimensions: P. 57 x 37 cm
Sheet: 75 x 56 cm
Handsigned
Edition: EC.d (collaborator edition "d")
Excellent Condition
Refer...
Category
1960s Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Blue Dog "Tee George's Cabin"
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a Blue Dog sitting to the right of an old wood cabin with a porch. Two black trees and a pathway lead away from the house. The dog has soulful yellow e...
Category
1990s Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
English Setter, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1931
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...
Category
1930s Art Deco Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Spotted Leopard and Iris, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Photorealist flower screenprint by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt, signed and numbered in pencil.
Title: Spotted Leopard and Iris
Year: 1981
Medium: Serigraph, signed and num...
Category
1980s American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Bold Folk Art Lamb Woodcut
Located in Houston, TX
Blocky black and white depiction of a lamb, by German artist Leonhardt Wüllfarth, c.1950. Displayed in a white mat with a gold border and fits a standard-size frame. Archival plastic...
Category
1950s Folk Art Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Owl Haven, American Realist Lithograph by Chris Forrest
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Owl Haven, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 18 x 22 inches, Size: 23 in....
Category
1970s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bassets Griffons, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1930s
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Bassets Griffons de Bretagne et de Vendee'.
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. F...
Category
1930s Art Deco Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PERCY AT THE FRIDGE Signed Lithograph, Black Cat, Champagne, British Humor
By Beryl Cook
Located in Union City, NJ
PERCY AT THE FRIDGE is a hand drawn, pencil signed limited edition lithograph by the well known and loved British artist and humorist, Beryl Cook. Printed on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free, print size 28" x 21", image size 21 3/8" x 17". In this amusing depiction, "Percy" refers to the aristocratic black cat who sits patiently waiting in front of the open refrigerator stocked with fine champagne, canned salmon, milk, cream, roast turkey, and other gourmet delicacies all tempting items from his genteel mistress's offerings. She stands holding her spectacles, dressed in a jeweled tiara, long white evening gloves and light blue evening gown...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,600 Sale Price
31% Off
Original Lowenbrau Munchen vintage beer poster with lion . (Löwenbräu München)
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Lowenbrau Munchen Vintage Poster with Iconic Lion - Conservation Linen Backed, Ready to Frame, Excellent Condition. (Löwenbräu München)
The Original Lowenbrau Munchen Vintage Poster with Iconic Lion is a true collector's item. This poster features the company's iconic Gothic lion design, which has become synonymous with the brand. Conservation linen backed and in excellent condition, this poster is ready to be framed and displayed in any space. The gold and blue colors of the lion add a royal touch to the poster, making it a stunning piece of art. Perfect for beer enthusiasts and collectors, this vintage poster is a timeless treasure that celebrates the heritage of Lowenbrau Munchen.
Its name is German for "lion's brew". Most Löwenbräu beers are marketed as being brewed according to the Reinheitsgebot, the Bavarian beer...
Category
1960s Gothic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Corn Crake, French antique natural history water bird art print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Rale des Genets - Corn Crake
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Returning to the Stable.
Located in Storrs, CT
Returning to the Stable. 1920. Drypoint. Appleby 64. 8 3/4 x 12 1/4 (sheet 11 7/16 x 16 1/8). Edition 100. A rich impression printed on cream laid paper wi...
Category
1920s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$800 Sale Price
36% Off
Kenny Scharf, silkscreen on Fabriano paper Rare signed Printers Proof Rainforest
By Kenny Scharf
Located in New York, NY
Kenny Scharf
Untitled from the environmental portfolio "Columbus: In Search of a New Tomorrow", 1992
Color silkscreen on Fabriano paper with blind stamp, held in the original portfol...
Category
1990s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Reginald Wilson, Horses
Located in New York, NY
Although this work is titled Horses. It nice to think it could be (Horses in a Field in Woodstock, NY), but it was printed by Will Barnet at the Art Students League, about 1938, and Wilson, who visited Woodstock with Arnold Blanche...
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cat 03
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: The cat is a photographic series shot in Milan for Vogue Bambini in January 2016.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carolina Mizrahi creates fantasy ...
Category
2010s Animal Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ince's Paradise Flycatcher Birds: 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled "Muscipeta Incei" ( (Ince's Paradise Flycatcher)) by John Gould, which is plate 19 from his monograph "The Birds of Great Brita...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic 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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1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER Signed Serigraph, Peace Dove, Hands, Fruit
By Chaim Gross
Located in Union City, NJ
"NEW INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMIC ORDER" is a brightly colored serigraph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross printed in 16 colors including shades of yellow, blue, purple, salmon p...
Category
1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hoopoe and Lyre Bird, bird engraving with original hand-colouring, 1849
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Passereaux. Dentirostres. 1. Le Roi des Gobe -Mouches ou Moucherolle a huppe transverse, Buff. (Muscicapa regia) 2. Menure lyre (Macnura lyra. Vieill) '
Steel-engraving with origin...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Doe Bow (Christmas Bow Features Santa's Reindeer, Word Play)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
A series of prints was commissioned by the Met Museum in NY in a regular edition of 40 This impression is from an edition of 5 artist proofs. This impression is #4/5
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting.
In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
Category
2010s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Lily Scent
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg
Lily Scent, 1981
Lithograph
32 x 24 inches
SPIII
Signed
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mike Mitchell - Desert Cardinal - Artist Edition. - Contemporary Artist
Located in Asheville, NC
Mike Mitchell - Desert Cardinal - Artist Edition - Contemporary Artist
Edition Details
Year: 2015
Class: Art Print
Status: Official
Run: 95
Techn...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Giclée
Moths in Their Natural Landscape: Antique Hand-colored Engraving by Moses Harris
By Moses Harris
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving depicting the natural history of Pinkunderwing Moths, Cream Spotted Tyger Moths in their natural botanical environment, which is plate 4 from Moses H...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
White Eye-browed Partridges: Hand-colored Folio-sized Bird Lithograph by Gould
By John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled "Dendrortyx Leucophrys" (White Eye-browed Partridges) by John Gould, published in his monograph 'A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America' in London between 1844-1850. Reportedly only 250 copies were printed. The print depicts two partridges, one standing and the other lying apparently on sand, surrounded by high grass. A landscape of plants and possibly water is seen in the background.
This beautiful hand-colored lithograph is presented in a double cream-colored mat. There is one tiny spot in the left lower corner, faint spots in the right upper print and mild toning about the periphery which is covered by the mat. It is otherwise in excellent condition. It is accompanied by the original text page.
John Gould (1841-1881) was an English contemporary of the American John James Audubon. Gould published his first illustrated book on birds in 1831 entitled "A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains", followed by "Ramphastidae" and "Birds of Europe". He then extended the scope of his travels and research to include Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea, drawing birds in their natural habitat. Artists, such as his wife Elizabeth Gould, Henry Richter and Edward Lear, transferred his drawings to hand printed and hand colored stone lithographs, which are known for their beauty, detail and accuracy.
As well as an exceptional and prolific artist, Gould was an outstanding scientific naturalist. In approximately 50 years he created approximately 3,000 lithographs of birds...
Category
1840s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Screech Owl, American Realist Lithograph by Chris Forrest
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Screech Owl, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: ...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Chittering and Chattering III "Folk inspired Linoleum Blue/White Print of Birds
By Lisa Houck
Located in Wellesley, MA
'Chittering and Chattering III' Linoleum Block Print, Edition 10, 11 5/8 x 11 5/8 Inches, is one of a series of 6 related prints in this size in varying shades of blue. Sold ind...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Linocut
Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,436 Sale Price
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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
Large Classical Bird Color Print after John James Audubon - American Magpie
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Bird print,
after John James Audubon,
printed by Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York
unframed, 17 x 14 inches color print on paper
condition: very good
provenance: from...
Category
20th Century Victorian Animal Prints
Materials
Color
"Final Spring" lithograph bright abstract vibrant fish signed by Michael Knigin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Final Spring" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. The artist signed and titled in the lower center of image. This piece is an artist's proof and features a brightly c...
Category
1980s Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Ink
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Buff-breasted Merganser: Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Buff-breasted Merganser Goosander, 1. Male 2. Female", No. 83, Plate 411 from Audubon's "Birds of America, li...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, L'Abeille, Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
40% Off
A horse! A horse! A kingdom for a horse!
Located in Deddington, GB
A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! by Mychael Barratt [2021]
limited_edition
Silkscreen print on paper
Edition number 100
Image size: H:70 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
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