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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 Art Deco Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Aquatint
The Rat and the Elephant - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #179
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall
Fables : The Rat and the Elephant, 1952
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Montval vellum 39 x 30 cm (c. 15.5 x 12 in)
With COA of the gallery and photo...
Category
1950s Modern 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
The Wolf and The Lamb - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #98
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall
Fables : The Wolf and The Lamb, 1952
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
Numbered 61 / 85
On Montval vellum 39 x 28 c...
Category
1950s Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, 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
"Under the skin I" Original Large Mixed Media Woodcut Etching Serigraph Mexican
Located in Miami, FL
Amador Montes (Mexico, 1975)
'Debajo de la piel I', 2021
Mixed media, etching, aquatint woodcut on paper
49 x 118 in. (124 x 300 cm.)
Edition of 30
Ref:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Woodcut, Ink, 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
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 On Branch Print Edition 92/120
By Kaiko Moti
Located in Houston, TX
Aquatint print of an owl perched on a branch with bright yellow eyes. The work is signed by the artist. It is framed in a wooden frame with a burlap matte.
Artist Biography: Kaiko M...
Category
1970s Naturalistic Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
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
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
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...
Category
1830s Victorian Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Aquatint, Intaglio
Bucéphale
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Bucéphale
Lithograph from 1970.
Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm
On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the Field catalogue.
Reference: Field 72-6G
The work...
Category
1970s Surrealist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph
Island Light, by Stephen McMillan
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: etching and aquatint
Edition of 120
Year: 2023
Image Size: 4 x 5 inches
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist.
The view west from Cypress Island off the coast of Washin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"Under the skin III" Mexican artist large mixed media woodcut etching serigraph
Located in Miami, FL
Amador Montes (Mexico, 1975)
'Debajo de la piel III', 2021
Mixed media, etching, aquatint woodcut on paper
49 x 118 in. (124 x 300 cm.)
Edition of 30
Re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching, Aquatint, Screen, Woodcut
The Blue Robe
By Will Barnet
Located in New York, NY
Created by Will Barnet in 1971 as an etching and aquatint on wove paper, The Blue Robe measures 23 1/2 x 30 in. (60 x 76.2 cm), unframed. The artwork is hand-signed, titled, and anno...
Category
20th Century Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Stanley Boxer Aquatint Intaglio Etching Elephant Herd Abstract Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Elephants. 1979
edition 2/20
Hand signed and dated
Framed 24.5 X 28. Sheet 23 X 26
This is from a series of prints Boxer produced at Tyler Graphics between 1975 and 1979. Over thi...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
Trumpet Flowers and Playing Dogs, monochromatic black and white
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a one of a kind aquatint printed in rich blacks. The image is 12 x 12 and is printed on a 20 x 20 piece of paper. The image depicts large trumpet flowers in a garden with d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching, Aquatint
Samuel Howitt: 'Battle between Buffalo and Tiger' print after Thomas Williamson
By Thomas Williamson
Located in London, GB
Samuel Howitt (1765-1822) after Thomas Williamson (1758-1817)
Exhibition of a Battle between a Buffalo & a Tiger' from Oriental Field Sports (1819)
Hand-coloured aquatint
35 x 47 cm
Captain Thomas...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
"The Game of Transformation. Butterflies"
Located in Zofingen, AG
The etching "The Game of Transformation. Butterflies" is an artist's play with meanings and associations. In this work, modern girls are presented in the form of glamorous fluttering...
Category
2010s Aesthetic Movement Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Mulberry Paper, Mezzotint, Etching, Aquatint
Lions ( Turner 194), Etching and aquatint by top British artist Signed/N Framed
Located in New York, NY
Julian Trevelyan
Lions ( Turner 194), 1966-1967
Color etching and aquatint on T.H. Saunders paper
Pencil signed and numbered 28 from the limited edition of 125
Frame Included: held i...
Category
1960s Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Donald Baechler Two Fishes 1999 (Donald Baechler prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Donald Baechler, Two Fishes, 1999:
A fun, whimsical, and highly decorative signed limited edition Baechler piece that works well in any setting.
Medium: Soft-ground etching and aq...
Category
1990s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph, Screen
'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 of a swan, reclining and cradling Lida in his wings while King Tyndareus ponders the mutability of human circumstance.
Born in Utica, New York, Arthur Davies attended the Chicago Academy of Design from 1879 to 1882. He furthered his studies at the Chicago Art Institute, before moving to New York City in 1885 where he studied at the Art Students League and Gotham Art Students League. In 1893, he made the first of many trips to Europe, visiting Holland, Paris, and London. He became an arch-exponent of Modernism and the central organizing figure of 1913's watershed Armory Show. Davies developed a style that combined visionary Symbolism with elements of Tonalism and Cubism.
Who Was Who in American Art describes him as an “…important but enigmatic Modernist whose work was poetic, mysterious, and visionary”. Davies was the recipient of many gold medals and prizes and juried awards and his work is held in the permanent collections of museums nationwide, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.
Photo of Arthur B Davies circa 1907 in New York City by Gertrude Käsebier courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
Reference:
Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 1, p. 835; Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, p. 280; Thieme-Becker Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zu Gengenwart, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 7/8, p. 470; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 4, p. 293; Davenport’s Art Reference and Price Guide 2009/10 Edition, LTB Gordonsart, Inc. 2008, p. 672; et al.
Additional biographical information follows, written by Catherine Southwick and Robert Torchia from the National Gallery of Art Online Editions:
Arthur B. Davies’s mystical, mysterious paintings hearken back to 19th-century romanticism, even while Davies aligned himself with American artists advancing the most radical ideals of their day. Davies was born on September 26, 1862, in Utica, New York, the son of English and Welsh parents who had immigrated to the United States in 1856. He first took art lessons as a teenager from a local landscape painter, Dwight Williams...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Bird - Original Etching and Aquatint by Giselle Hallf - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bird is an original etching and aquatint by Giselle Hallf in the half of the 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Numbered, Edition 25/25.
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
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
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
Puerto Escondido
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Puerto Escondido" 1992 is an original color aquatint by noted California artist Arnold A. Grossman, 1923-2016. It is signed, dated, titled and numbered 1/20 in p...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Waterlily Pool, Elaine Marshall, Limited Edition Animal Print, Handmade Prints
Located in Deddington, GB
Waterlily pool by Elaine Marshall [2012]
Signed by the artist
Etching and aquatint
Edition of 5
Image size: H:17 cm x W:20 cm
Complete Size of Unframed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Shore Birds, by Stephen McMillan
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Shore birds foraging in the sea foam at the oceans edge is a perfect example of McMillan's work. He takes his inspiration from the natural world and spends a large part of each year ...
Category
2010s Contemporary 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
Lionne à l'affût - Etching and Aquatint by Evert van Muyden - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Lionne à l'affût is a wonderful etching on cream-colored laid paper, realized in 1900 by Evert Van Muyden (1853-1922).
Signed and dated on plate on the lower left margin, this beaut...
Category
Early 1900s Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Aggressive Muskox
By Pudlo Pudlat
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Aggressive Muskox" 1984 is an original color etching with aquatint on Wove paper by noted Canadian/Inuit artist Pudlo Pudlat, 1916-1992. It is hand signed, title...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Guy Allen, Equine Gold, Affordable Contemporary Art
By Guy Allen
Located in Deddington, GB
Guy Allen
Equine Gold
Etching, Aquatint and Hand Finished Gold Leaf
Edition Size: 75
Year Completed: 2019
Image Size: H 60cm x W 60cm
Approximate Size When Framed: H80cm xW 80cm
Sold...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
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
Minne Playing with a Cat (Minne Jouant avec un Chat)
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Villon (1875-1963) etching, aquatint, and drypoint, Minne Playing with a Cat (Minne Jouant avec un Chat),1907, signed in pencil and numbered (12/30)(Ginestet and Pouillon 192...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, 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
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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Jane Peart, Elephant Family, Limited Edition Etching Print, Elephant Art
By Jane Peart
Located in Deddington, GB
Jane Peart
Elephant Family
Limited Edition Etching Print
Edition of 100
Image Size: H 14cm x W 11cm
Signed
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Jane Peart, Forest Glen, Limited Edition Etching Print, Woodland Art
By Jane Peart
Located in Deddington, GB
Jane Peart
Forest Glen
Limited Edition Etching Print
Edition of 100
Image Size: H 24cm x W 34cm
Signed
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Bird On Flower, Aquatint Etching by Keiko Minami
By Keiko Minami
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Keiko Minami, Japanese (1911 - 2004)
Title: Bird On Flower
Year: circa 1985
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 12...
Category
1980s Folk Art Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Le Singe - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Etching, aquatint and drypoint. Not Signed and not Numbered as issued.
Edition of 226 pieces.
Belongs to the Suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon" (plate p. 86).
Printed by Lacourièr...
Category
1940s Cubist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Drypoint, 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
L'Aquarium
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color aquatint. Signed and numbered 2/100 in red crayon, lower margin. Published by Maeght, Paris.
Category
1950s Fauvist Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Color, Aquatint
The Ox, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.330)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Ox 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 10.7 x 8.2 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 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
Mamalukes Exercising the Spear, aquatint engraving hunting print, 1813
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Mamalukes Exercising the Spear'
Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after John Heavenside Clark (c1770-1863).
From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel Howitt ...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
"Under the skin IV" Mexican artist large mixed media woodcut etching serigraph
Located in Miami, FL
Amador Montes (Mexico, 1975)
'Debajo de la piel IV', 2021
Mixed media, etching, aquatint woodcut on paper
49 x 118 in. (124 x 300 cm.)
Edition of 30
Ref...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching, Aquatint, Screen, Woodcut
BLUE HERON
Located in Portland, ME
Zavorkas, Joyce (American, contemporary, Cape Cod MA). BLUE HERON. Etching and Aquatint, 1981. An artist's proof, outside of the edition of five. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed ...
Category
1980s Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, 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
Peccarys and Tiger Pranks by Orovida Pissarro - Animal etching
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Peccarys and Tiger Pranks by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Etching and aquatint
31.5 x 23 cm (12 ⅜ x 9 inches)
Sig...
Category
1920s Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Vulture. 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.341)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Vulture 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 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
African Rhinoceros Hunting, antique African hunting engraving print, 1813
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour aquatint after Samuel Howitt (1756/7-1822).
From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports' Samuel Howitt was an English painter, illustrator and etch...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic 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
Shooting an African Buffalo, aquatint engraving hunting print, 1813
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Shooting an African Buffalo'
Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after Samuel Howitt.
From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel Howitt was an English painter, ...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Contemporary Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Screen, Linocut
La Poursuite by Orovida Pissarro - Animal etching
Located in London, GB
La Poursuite by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Etching with aquatint
17.2 x 12.5 cm (6 ³/₄ x 4 ⁷/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1917
Inscribed lower left Final State Trial proof no. 1
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...
Category
1910s Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Finland Bear Hunting, aquatint engraving hunting snow print, 1813
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Finland Bear Hunting'
Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after Manschirch.
From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel Howitt was an English painter, illustrato...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Aquatint Animal Prints
Materials
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