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Medium: Engraving
Capital Tanager, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its Supplements. Plate number top left. Laid paper.
John Latham was the leading English or...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
After John Frederick Herring Sr. (1795-1865) - 1859 Mezzotint, A Moment Of Rest
Located in Corsham, GB
Acrylic paint is used on top of a scrim laid to paper laid to canvas to create an abstract composition in the style of Joan Miró. Well presented in a modern gilt-effect molded frame....
Category
19th Century Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
"Birth" - Intaglio Print by Tomoya Uchida
Located in Soquel, CA
"Birth" by Tomoya Uchida (American, 20th Century). This piece is mostly abstract, high-contrast organic shapes, with the exception of one straight line that sits above the organic shapes. In the lower left corner of the piece, there is a wasp.
Titled "Birth" along the bottom edge.
Signed "T. Uchida" in the lower right corner.
Presented in a new white and black double mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 14"H x 10"W
Paper size: 12"H x 8.5"W
Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947) was born in Tsuyama City in the Okayama prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, in 1970, and went on to become the artist-in-residence at the KALA Institute of Prints in Berkeley, CA, in 1989. He then moved to Australia, where he studied under Prof. Jorg Schmeisser...
Category
1980s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
The Donkey, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.329)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Donkey 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,...
Category
20th Century Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Salvador Dalí, "Le Cerf Malade" from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine, engraving
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original engraving with color added by pochoir by Salvador Dali. It is from Dali's suite of 12 original engravings entitled "Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine", which he c...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
La Perruche Javane, Pl. 69
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Jacques Barraband
Title: La Perruche Javane Pt 69
Year: 1801 - 1805
Medium: Engravings with Original Hand-Coloring
Sheet Size: 20" x 13.38"
About the Artist:
Jacques Barraba...
Category
Early 1800s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Engraving
Chicken With Garlic and Basil
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The lush colors and rich textures of mezzotint are often combined with some sly wit in Mitchell's prints. This proud portrait of a chicken is combined with the ingredients for a reci...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Le Dragon
Located in Paris, FR
Engraving
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 12/100
LCD3997
Category
1970s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Vienna Lipizzaner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Vienna Lipizzaner
Engraving, 1962
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled and numbered lower left (see photo)
This impression is from the second edtition printed c. 1992
1st ...
Category
1960s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Turtledove: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of a turtledove entitled "Tourterelle du Senegal (Turtledove of Senegal)" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 160 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseau...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Leonard Foujita - Woman with Felines - Original Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Artist : Léonard Foujita (Tsuguharu)
Title: Woman with Felines
Engraving
Edition of 315
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
From La Rivière enchantée
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1930s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Francois Nicolas Martinet (1731-1804) - Engraving, Petite Outarde ou Canepetiere
Located in Corsham, GB
This hand-colored engraving comes from "Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux," a famous set of volumes edited by Georges Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon (1707-1788). The book was publish...
Category
Early 18th Century Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Strange Animals
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Strange Animals
Engraving, 1949
Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by the artist
The composition was created at the Univerisity of Iowa while the artist was enrolled in the famous M...
Category
1940s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Impressionist Etching, "Mystical Horse"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an impressionist etching/engraving by San Diego artist, Lenore Simon. Its dimensions are 17x12. A certificate of authenticity will follow...
Category
2010s Impressionist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
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)
Portfo...
Category
1830s Victorian Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
'The Rabbit' original woodcut engraving by Clarice George Logan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In 'The Rabbit,' Wisconsin artist Clarice George Logan presents the viewer with a multi-figural scene: under a wood-frame structure, four children crouch on the ground, gathered around a young woman who presents a rabbit. Under normal circumstances, such an image of children with a bunny would recall childhood storybooks. In this case, however, the image is more ambiguous and suggests the unfortunate economic circumstances many children suffered during the interwar years. Nonetheless, the group could also be interpreted as a nativity play, with the rabbit taking the place of the Christ child, shining light on the children like in a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Correggio. The careful line-work of the woodblock engraving adds a sense of expressionism to the scene, leaving the figures looking distraught and dirty, though the image nonetheless falls into the Social Realist category that dominated American artists during the Great Depression.
This print was published in 1936 as part of the Wisconsin Artists' Calendar for the year 1937, which included 52 original, hand-made prints - one for each week of the year.
Clarice George Logan was born in Mayville, New York in 1909 but moved to Wisconsin in 1921. She attended the Milwaukee State Teachers College from 1927 to 1931 where she studied with Robert von...
Category
1930s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Lice
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lice (Mallards grooming themselves)
Drypoint, 1927
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left corner
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 6 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches
Shee...
Category
1920s American Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Ca. 1578 Old Master Engraving "Siculus" After Jan vander Straet (Strandanus)
By Jan Van der Straet
Located in Chicago, IL
Ca. 1578, Engraving "Siculus" - from the portfolio “The Stables of Don John of Austria” (Equile Austriaci Caroli V)" After Jan van der Straet (Stradanus).
An Old Master print from the series of 43 engravings depicting horses of different breeds from the stables of John of Austria (1547-1578), son of Emperor Charles V. Each print shows a horse in the foreground on a hilltop overlooking a distant landscape. Each bears it's title breed, centered upper edge, with two columns of brief explanatory Latin texts in the lower margins. Published by Philips Galle...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Paper
A Group of Four engraved and hand-coloured Birds Nests.
Located in London, GB
NOZEMAN, Cornelius and Jan Christian SEPP.
A Group of Four Birds Nests: NIDUS ARDEAE, Nycticoracis; NIDUS PLATALEA, Leucorodia; NIDUS ARDEAE STELLARIS and NIDUS PELECANI, Carbonis f...
Category
1770s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Crustaceans, antique English natural history engraving print, 1837
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Crustacea'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
210mm by 130mm (sheet)
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Crustaceans, antique English natural history engraving print, 1837
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Crustacea'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
210mm by 130mm (sheet)
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Crustaceans, antique English natural history engraving print, 1837
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Crustacea'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
210mm by 130mm (sheet)
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Crustaceans, antique English natural history engraving print, 1837
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Crustacea'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
210mm by 130mm (sheet)
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Crustaceans, antique English natural history engraving print, 1837
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Crustacea'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
210mm by 130mm (sheet)
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Crustaceans - Coconut and hermit crabs, natural history engraving print, 1837
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Crustacea'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
210mm by 130mm (sheet)
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Crustaceans - crabs, antique English natural history engraving print, 1837
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Crustacea'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
210mm by 130mm (sheet)
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Crustaceans - crabs, antique English natural history engraving print, 1837
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Crustacea'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
210mm by 130mm (sheet)
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Crustaceans - shrimps, antique English natural history engraving print, 1837
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Crustacea'
Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring. From Baron Georges Cuvier's (1769-1832) 'Animal Kingdom', published in London in 1837.
210mm by 130mm (sheet)
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
HERBST. A Group of Four Crustaceans
By Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst
Located in London, GB
A Group of four hand-coloured engraved plates of Crabs by Schellenburg, P. Haas, Heidenreich and Ludwig Schmidt.
Framed and glazed, overall size: 36.4 x 53.8 cm.
Johann Friedric...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Handmade Paper
Walruses
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Walruses
Engraving, 1952
Signed, dated, titled and numbered (see photos)
Edition: 100, this from the second printing with the artist's initials in an edition of 25 (16/25)
Condition:...
Category
1950s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Set of Two Hand-Colored Ornithological Engravings by George Edwards /// Bird Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: George Edwards (English, 1694-1773)
Title: "Set of Two Hand-Colored Ornithological Engravings by George Edwards"
Portfolio: A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some O...
Category
1740s Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Orpheus. Drypoint print, Black & white, Blue, Polish artist
By Ewa Kutylak
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative monochromatic mezzotint print by Polish artist Ewa Kutylak. Print depicts a wanderer with a lantern going down the road. On the left there is a mysthical crea...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint
Aardvark
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Aardvark
Engraving, 1951
Signed, dated, titled in pencil by the artist (see photo)
Annotated "To Jon from Ray" (see photo)
Printed by Jon Clemens, Master Printer, c. 1990
Condition: ...
Category
1950s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
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 Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Le Canard a Longue Queue (The Long Tailed Duck) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Le Canard a Longue Queue (The Long Tailed Duck)" (Plate 954)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des...
Category
1770s Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
EVENING FLIGHT
By Roland Clark
Located in Portland, ME
Clark, Roland. EVENING FLIGHT. Derrydale 11. Etching and drypoint, 1929. Edition of 75. Signed in pencil. 12 x 15 inches. In excellent condition.
Category
1920s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Le Harle Femell (The Female Merganser) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Le Harle Femell (The Female Merganser)" (Plate 953)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux
*Signed by Martinet in the...
Category
1770s Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Strange Animals
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Strange Animals
Engraving, 1949
Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by the artist
The composition was created at the Univerisity of Iowa while the artist was enrolled in the famous M...
Category
1940s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Snow Does (Doe, a deer - a female deer)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exclusive publication for Stone and Press Gallery, "Snow Does" was created in an edition of 100. It is FIROS #66 in the catalogue raisonne.
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
1990s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Trunk Lines (Interweaved faces, ears and the trunks of elephants form design)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the elephan...
Category
1980s American Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Le Millouinan /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art Duck Natural History
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Le Millouinan" (Plate 1002)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux
*Signed by Martinet in the plate (printed signatur...
Category
1770s Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
The Rooster, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.344)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Rooster 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 8.15 inc...
Category
20th Century Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Adresse Sagot - Two States, Before and After Lettering
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Villon (1875-1963), two drypoints, 1905, (Ginestet and Pouillion E156) each signed in pencil: an impression of the final state (third state of three) printed in bistre, with ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Welbeck Park Belongs to the Marquis of Newcastle /// Equestrian Horse Old Master
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Cavendish (English, 1593-1676)
Title: "Welbeck Park Belongs to the Marquis of Newcastle" (Plate 38, Page 263)
Portfolio: Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser Les Chevaux (New Method and Invention of Dressing Horses)
Year: 1737 (Second edition)
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Engraving and Etching on watermarked laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Jean Brindley, London, UK
Publisher: Jean Brindley, London, UK
Reference: Brunet I, 1699; Graesse II:93; Lowndes VI:1663; Mellon/Podeschi 26, page 34-35; Mennessier de la Lance II, page 246-247; Nissen ZBI 848; Huth page 21
Sheet size: 17" x 21.25"
Image size: 15" x 20"
Condition: Toning to sheet and some edgewear in right margins. Centerfold is separated at very top and bottom in margins. It is otherwise a strong impression in good condition with strong colors
Notes:
With overlapping centerfold as issued. Engraved by Dutch artist Theodor van Kessel (1620-1696) after a drawing by Dutch artist Abraham van Diepenbeeck...
Category
1730s Old Masters Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio, Etching
THE PORTRAITURE OF LAMPREY
By Richard Houston
Located in Portland, ME
Houston, Richard. THE PORTRAITURE OF LAMPREY. Engraving with hand-coloring, 1755, by Houston after the painting by James Seymour. 11 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches, plus full margins. In excell...
Category
Mid-18th Century Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Gull
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, titled in pencil by the artist; Annotated "To Jon from Ray"
Reproduced in the artists Retrospective Exhibition catalogue.
In the collection of the Wichita Art...
Category
1950s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le Poissons magique
By Mario Avati
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: Epreuve d'Artiste viii/X
Reference: Passeron 359
"Mario Avati was both an etcher and a painter born in Monaco in 1921. In 1947, afte...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Canard de Miclon (Old Squaw) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art Duck
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Canard de Miclon (Old Squaw)" (1008)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux
*Signed by Martinet in the plate (printed...
Category
1770s Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Paul Jouve (after) - Antelope - Engraving
By Paul Jouve
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve (after) - Antelope - Engraving
19 x 14 cm
Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950.
Copy on velin creme de Rives
Copper engraving heightened with pochoir.
Category
1950s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
"Le Bouclier, " Original Drypoint Etching signed by Claude Weisbuch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Bouclier" is an original drypoint etching by Claude Weisbuch. The artist signed the piece lower right and wrote the edition number (25/100) in the lower left. This piece depicts ...
Category
1970s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
La Fille aux Oies
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), La Fille aux Oies, engraving, 1916, signed in pencil lower left, numbered (4/40) lower right and inscribed “imp,” also titled lower left margin edge...
Category
1910s Cubist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ostend Horse
Located in New York, NY
Edmund Blampied (1886-1966), Ostend Horse, drypoint, 1926, signed in pencil lower margin [also signed and dated in the plate lower left], from the edition of 100, printed on ivory laid paper with full margins with deckle edges, 7 x 9, the sheet 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches, still in the original SFA Museum mat with extensive annotations.
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries (with their stock number A49359)
Ex Collection: Albert M...
Category
1920s Realist Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
"Peter and the Wolf" - Wolf series with human figure
Located in Miami, FL
Mexican Artists of russian origin, was married to Diego Rivera from 1911 to 1921, the series for sale are illustrations for book, “Peter and the Wolf...
Category
20th Century Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
The Wasp, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.351)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Wasp 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, u...
Category
20th Century Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving
By Paul Jouve
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving
Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950.
Copy on velin creme de Rives
Artwork by Paul Jouve.
Original copper engraving heightened with pochoir.
Paul...
Category
1950s Modern Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Homesick 4
By Hector Ruiz
Located in Phoenix, AZ
monoprint with drypoint and chine colle; unframed
image size: 10 x 7 inches
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Monoprint
The Spider, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.353)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Spider 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 Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
"Yo animal" contemporary lithography, animal gathering, colors
By Yanieb Fabre
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
A gathering of prehistoric plants, fantastic animals, and people along with elements that represent fertility, seem to be craved as ancient drawings in stone. These lithographs, orig...
Category
2010s Engraving Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Lithograph
Engraving animal prints for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Engraving 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 18th 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 green 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 Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Edmund Blampied, and Francois Nicolas Martinet. Not every interior allows for large Engraving animal prints, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are also available Prices for animal prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $350 and tops out at $460, while the average work can sell for $380.