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Medium: Aquatint
Art Deco Etching and Aquatint "Jeunesse" Original Signed by Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Soquel, CA
Art Deco Etching and Aquatint "Jeunesse" (Youth) Signed by Louis Icart
Iconic figurative of woman and horse titled "Jeunesse" (Youth) by famous Art Deco artist Louis Icart (French, ...
Category
1930s Other Art Style Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Aquatint
Owlphabet, etching by Kelvin Mann
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
This print relates to a complete series of 26 letters done for his Alphabet portfolio. A close look at the feathers shows letters, spelling Owlphabet. The owl and other animals form ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
La Corrida (The Bullfight)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso (after)
Title: La Corrida (The Bullfight)
Medium: Aquatint in colors on Arches wove paper
Date: 1956
Edition: 104/200
Printer by Atelier Crommelynck Paris
Publi...
Category
1950s Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
"Que pico de Oro" (What a Golden Beak) - Etching and Aquatint on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Que pico de Oro" (What a Golden Beak) - Etching and Aquatint on Paper
5th or 8th edition print of "Que pico de Oro" from the Los Caprichos with burnished aquatints, drypoints etchi...
Category
1790s Northern Renaissance Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Laid Paper
The Boy Hidden in a Fish, 1969 - David Hockney Print, Edition of 400
Located in Kingsclere, GB
David Hockney is an English painter, printmaker, photographer, designer and dog-lover.
Perhaps the most popular and versatile British artist of the 20th century, Hockney made appa...
Category
1960s Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Owl - Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Owl is an original black and white etching realized in 1972 by Leo Guida.
Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower margin.
Edition of 11/30.
Includes frame: 80 x 2.5 x 59 ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled (Horses)
By Laura Owens
Located in New York, NY
Los Angeles-based artist, Laura Owens' horse prints often incorporate her characteristic style, which challenges traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction . Her work f...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Green Cat, etching and aquatint, pencil signed & numbered, rarely seen in market
By Walasse Ting
Located in New York, NY
Walasse Ting 丁雄泉
Green Cat, 1984
Color etching and aquatint on copper plate, printed on Fabriano Rosaspina paper
Pencil signed, numbered 178/230, dated 1984 along with artist's perso...
Category
1980s Pop Art Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Ink, Pencil, Graphite, Etching, Aquatint, Mixed Media
To the Sea
Located in New Orleans, LA
Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, Jack Coughlin studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and the Art Students League of New York. He is b...
Category
1960s American Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
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"Q", for Quail, from Kelvin Mann's animal Alphabet
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The single letter "Q", from the alphabet, illustrated by a quail. All letters are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in folio box is available for $3200. Animals, real and im...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Chemin de Halage
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Chemin de Halage" c.1930 is a color etching with aquatint on Wove paper by French artist Ferdinand Jean Luigini, 1870-1943. It is hand signed and titled in penci...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"S"
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The single letter "S", from the alphabet, illustrated by a seahorses. All letters from the Kelvin Mann's bestiary alphabet are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in folio box...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
BROWN TROUT
Located in Portland, ME
Welliver, Neil. BROWN TROUT. Etching and aquatint, 1978. Edition of 50. Signed and numbered 16/50, and signed in pencil. 26 1/2 x 36 13/16 inches (sheet). ...
Category
1970s Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"K", for Kiwi from Kelvin Mann's animal alphabet
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The single letter "U", from the alphabet, depends on phonics for the "ewe" to qualify for "U". All letters are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in folio box is available fo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"E", is for elephant in this animal alphabet series
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The single letter "E", from the alphabet, illustrated by elephants. All letters are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in folio box is available for $3200. Animals, real and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Skull
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Skull" c.1990 is an original color etching and aquatint by noted California artist Arnold A. Grossman, 1923-2016. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
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 Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Bird Catching from Below, Scotland, aquatint engraving field sport print, 1813
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Bird Catching from Below'
Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after John Heavenside Clark (c1770-1863).
From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
German Manner of Netting Partridges, aquatint engraving hunting print, 1813
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'German Manner of Netting Partridges'
Colour aquatint by Merke after Franz Joseph Manskirch (1768-1830).
From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel Howitt was an English p...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Tropic Bird /// Ornithology John James Audubon Shorebird Ocean Beach Seascape
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851)
Title: "Tropic Bird" (Plate CCLXII - 262; part No. 53)
Portfolio: The Birds of America, Havell Edition
Year: 1835
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Engraving with Aquatint on double-elephant folio, J. Whatman paper
Limited edition: approx. 180
Printer: Robert Havell Jr., London, England
Publisher: John James Audubon, London, England
Framing: Not framed, but matted in a handmade custom French matting
Matted size: 30" x 38.75"
Sheet size: 25.5" x 36"
Platemark size: 20.75" x 30.25"
Image size: 18.5" x 27.75"
Condition: A few tiny foxmarks. In excellent condition with clean paper and strong colors
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - New York, NY. Engraved, printed, and hand-colored by English artist Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878). Comes from Audubon's monumental book volume "The Birds of America", (Havell Edition, 1827-1838), which consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints, made from engraved plates, with each sheet originally measuring around 39" x 26". "J. Whatman 1835" watermark upper right.
Based on a composition painted between 1832 and 1835. Audubon sailed the entire length of Florida, around the Keys and as far as the Dry Tortugas, from which, on another occasion, "The specimens - in the plate were taken - by my kind friend Robert Day, Esq. of the United States Revenue Cutter...
Category
Early 1800s Victorian Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Aquatint, Intaglio
Salvador Dali - The Oak and the Reed - Signed Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
SALVADOR DALI
The Oak and the Reed (La chêne et le roseau) from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine
1974
Hand signed by Dali
Edition: /250
Conditions: A small tear defect has been restaured...
Category
1970s Surrealist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
"A", from bestiary alphabet by Kelvin Mann
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The single letter "A", from the alphabet, illustrated by an alligator. All letters are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in folio box is available for $3200. Animals, real a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Flamenco Flamingo, Jane Peart, Limited edition print, Animals and wildlife art
Located in Deddington, GB
Flamenco Flamingo [2014]
limited_edition and hand signed by the artist
Etching/aquatint
Edition number 100
Image size: H:46cm cm x W:31cm cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:56cm c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
The Vegetal Cow - Etching, Ltd 75 copies
Located in Paris, IDF
Mordecaï Moreh (1937-)
The Vegetal Cow
Original etching and aquatint
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 75 copies
On vellum BFK Rives 45 x 56 cm (c. 17.7...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"X", for Xingu River Ray, from Kelvin Mann's animal alphabet
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Searching for a "PG rated" image - Xingu River ray, illustrates the letter "X", from Kelvin Mann's alphabet. All letters are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in folio box...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"Z", for Zoo from Kelvin Mann's animal alphabet
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
"Z is for zoo, with a lion, monkey, rhinoceros and giraffe illustrating the letter "Z", from Kelvin Mann's alphabet. All letters are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in fol...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"W", for whale in this animal alphabet series
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The single letter "W", from the alphabet, illustrated by a whale. All letters are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in folio box is available for $3200. Animals, real and im...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"Y", is for Yak in this animal alphabet
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The letter "Y", from the alphabet, illustrated by a Yak. All letters are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in folio box is available for $3200. Animals, real and imagined, p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Large Donald Saff Surrealist Pop Art Aquatint Etching African Elephant
By Donald Saff
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Donald Saff
Medium: Etching with Aquatint, Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Donald Jay Saff (born 12 December 1937) is an artist, art historian, educator, and lecturer, ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Deer, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.336)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Deer is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8.15 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Guy Allen, Horse Study Fuschia, Horse Art Prints, Limited Edition Print
By Guy Allen
Located in Deddington, GB
Horse Study Fuchsia [2020]
Limited Edition
Figurative
Etching, Aquatint, and Screen Print on Paper
Edition of 45
Image size: H:53.5 cm x W:56 cm
Work: H:76...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Screen
Tim Southall, Ravens at the Tower, Etching, Affordable Art, Art Online
By Tim Southall
Located in Deddington, GB
Tim Southall
Ravens at the Tower
Limited Edition Etching and Aquatint
Edition of 75
Image Size: H 10cm x W 15cm
Sheet Size: H 20cm x W 24cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
The Monkey, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.339)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Monkey is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 7.9 inche...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Floating, Limited edition animal print, affordable art
Located in Deddington, GB
limited_edition
etching and aquatint
Edition number 28
Image size: H:21 cm x W:20 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:43 cm x W:37 cm x D:1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Max Ernst etching 'L’Oiseau Mere', numbered and signed, German
By Max Ernst
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Max Ernst (German, 1891 – 1976)
L’Oiseau Mere (The Mother Bird)
An etching and aquatint on Japan paper
Numbered and signed ‘4/60 Max Ernst’ (under the plate)
The plate measurements: ...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Sparrow Hawk, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.342)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Sparrow Hawk is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Unité, Planche 3 (Set of 2) /// Surrealism Le Corbusier Etching Modern Aquatint
By Le Corbusier
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) (Swiss-French, 1887-1965)
Title: "Unité, Planche 3" (Set of 2)
Portfolio: Unité
*Signed by Le Corbusier in pencil lower right. It is ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
The Mother Hen, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.345)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Mother Hen is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.6 x 8 inc...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
"U", from Kelvin Mann's animal alphabet
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The single letter "U", from the alphabet, depends on phonics for the "ewe" to qualify for "U". All letters are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in folio box is available fo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"M"
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The single letter "M", from the alphabet, illustrated by mischievous monkeys . All letters from Kelvin Mann's bestiary alphabet are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in foli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Pigeon, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.347)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Pigeon is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.75x 8 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Wolfman
By Donald Saff
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on white wove paper with a deckle edge, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (598 x 317 mm); sheet 30 x 22 1/2 inches (762 x 571 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/10 i...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Monkey - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1973
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 19 x 15.5 cm.
Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist with pencil. Artist's proof. Etching, aquatint, black ink. Edition of III prints in Roman Numerals. Go...
Category
1970s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Goldfinch, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.348 )
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Goldfinch is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 11.2 x 8.25 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Lobster, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.352)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Lobster is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.6 x 7.9 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The White Eagle, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.340)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The White Eagle is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8.15 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
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20th Century Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Scribble Cat
Located in Toronto, Ontario
William Kentridge (b. 1955) is an internationally acclaimed South African artist renowned for his dynamic prints, drawings, large-scale installations, and animated films. Kentridge balances universal experiences with the complexity of South African political history and society.
Born in Johannesburg to two prominent lawyers active in anti-apartheid efforts, Kentridge’s proximity to the dissolution of apartheid gave him a unique social sensitivity. His upbringing would shape the socio-political lens that informed his work as an artist.
Kentridge is somewhat of a polymath. Having pursued formal education across politics, fine art, miming, and theater, it comes as no surprise that his work cannot be contained to the bounds of a single medium. Charcoal and ink are often his first tools for creation. The density, darkness and texture of the medium is instantly recognizable throughout his oeuvre..
Click here to learn more about Kentridge’s artist process from inside his Johannesburg studio.
"Scribble Cat" is a paradigm of Kentridge's work and is instantly recognizable for its strong aesthetic and composition of layered pages.
Kentridge's interest in cats stems back to his childhood when the prominent South African artist Cecil Skotnes...
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2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Sandwich Tern (with Florida Cray Fish) (Florida Keys) /// Ornithology Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851)
Title: "Sandwich Tern (with Florida Cray Fish) (Florida Keys)" (Plate CCLXXIX - 279; part No. 56)
Portfolio: The Birds of America, Ha...
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1830s Victorian Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
Chaplin and Red Tailed Hawk
By Donald Saff
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on white wove paper with a deckle edge, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (598 x 317 mm); sheet 30 x 22 1/2 inches (762 x 571 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 23/50 ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Head of a Man, Fish and Morning Glory
By Donald Saff
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint in colors on white wove paper with a deckle edge, 18 x 15 inches (457 x 381 mm); sheet 30 x 22 1/2 inches (762 x 571 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 123/...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Flora
By Donald Saff
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on white wove paper with a deckle edge, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (598 x 317 mm); sheet 30 x 22 1/2 inches (762 x 571 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 38/50 ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Salvador Dali - Le Cerf from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine - Signed Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
SALVADOR DALI
Le Cerf se voyant dans l'eau from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine
1974
Hand signed by Dali
Edition: /250
The dimensions of the image are 22.8 x 15.7 inches on 31 x 23.2 in...
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1970s Surrealist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
"Bees" Original Bay Area Environmental Aquatint
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Bees are Dying" Original Bay Area Environmental Aquatint with Drypoint
Etching with environmentalist commentary by Maria Bennett (American, 20th century.) This piece features a...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint, Aquatint
Unité, Planche 19 (Set of 2) /// Surrealism Modern Art Le Corbusier Bull Cow
By Le Corbusier
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) (Swiss-French, 1887-1965)
Title: "Unité, Planche 19" (Set of 2)
Portfolio: Unité
*Signed in pencil lower right. It is also monogram s...
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1960s Surrealist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
'Lida & the Swan', New York Armory Show, Ashcan School, ASL, NYMOMA, AIC, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Arthur B. Davies' for Arthur Bowen Davies (American, 1862-1928) and created circa 1915.
An early twentieth-century sugar-lift aquatint showing Zeus in the guise...
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Early 1900s Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Eared Grebe /// John James Audubon Ornithology Havell Edition Bird Animal Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851)
Title: "Eared Grebe" (Plate CCCCIV - 404; part No. 81)
Portfolio: The Birds of America, Havell Edition
Year: 1838
Medium: Original Ha...
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1830s Victorian Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Aquatint, Intaglio
Black Panther - Etching and Aquatint by Evert van Muyden - 1901
Located in Roma, IT
Panthère noire is a wonderful etching and aquatint on cream-colored laid paper, realized in 1901 by Evert Van Muyden (1853-1922).
Signed and dated on plate, this beautiful plate was...
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Early 1900s Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"Our time", 1977 original linocut signed limited edition 24x18in Cuban Latin art
Located in Miami, FL
Ernesto Garcia Peña (Cuba, 1949)
'Our time" (from Porfolio Grabados Cubanos)', 1977
linocut print on paper Canson 320 g.
23.6 x 17.6 in. (59.8 x 44.6 cm.)
Edition of 200
Ref: GAE-309...
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1970s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Screen, Linocut
Cheval Bleu, Modern Etching and Aquatint by Andre Francois
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Francois, Hungarian (1915 - 2005) - Cheval Bleu, Year: circa 1960, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 7/50, Image Size: 15.5 x ...
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1960s Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Moon Cycle, Psychedelic Aquatint Etching by Jean Richardson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Moon Cycle - State V by Jean Richardson, American (1940)
Date: 1990
Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 1/50
Size: 47.5 in. x 31.5 in...
Category
1990s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Aquatint animal prints for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Aquatint animal prints available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add animal prints created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Samuel Howitt, Pablo Picasso, Kelvin Mann, and Salvador Dalí. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Modern, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Aquatint animal prints, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available
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