20th Century Animal Prints

Elegant etching of pair of swans by French artist Francois Soulas, 1969. Signed in pencil lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat f...

American Trotting Horses No. 2 by Salvador Dali has dynamic movement in the two trotting horses with an added giant Dalian insect head in coll...

Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, The Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque, Verve: Revue Arti...

Original "The Greatest Shown on Earth" US 1-sheet vintage movie poster, linen backed. 1952. Now over 70 years old! Restored original theater fold marks. A- condition. Bright and vibrant colors. Linen backed original 1952 one sheet U.S. Movie poster by Cecil B. DeMille: The Greatest Show on Earth. Starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, James Stewart, Gloria Grahame, Henry Wilcoxon, Lyle Bettger, Lawrence Tierney, and Emmett Kelly...

LEONOR FINI Cat on a Rug 1973 Color lithograph Ed. 157/230 12.5 x 9 inches

(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper a reproduction lithograph after the drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...

Joan Miro Lithographier Originale (Les Peintures Sur Carton De Miro) Original Color Lithograph Year: 1965 Size: 14.5x10.5in Edition: 150 Portfolio: DLM 151-152 Publisher: Maeght Ed...

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...

Oiseau Bleu is a beautiful original colored xylograph on wove paper, realized by the French artist Giselle Halff between the half and the end of XX century...

'Canard Siffleur' (Eurasian Wigeon) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of...

Original World War 1 vintage poster: U. S. MARINES TEUFEL HUNDEN, a unique piece of history and artistry. Archival linen backed in A- condition, ready to frame. No paper loss. ...

Dan Burne Jones is widely know as the author of the Rockwell Kent print catalogue raisonne. It's so interesting to see that he is a gifted wood engraver as well. Jones's own prints a...

Markus Lüpertz’s “Monkey” (1988) is a bold and expressive etching that exemplifies the artist’s signature approach to abstraction and figuration. This work, part of a limited edition...

Classical Bird print, after John James Audubon, printed by Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York unframed, 17 x 14 inches color print on pap...

Night Time, Dieppe. 1926-27. Drypoint. Appleby 123. 7 7/8 x 11/ Edition 100. A fine impression printed on cream laid paper with full margins. Signed in penc...

This is from a limited edition portfolio of original lithographs print Fernand Mourlot in Paris in 1958 from work done in collaboration with Bonnard which began in 1928. A mosque ...

Alice In Wonderland: CHESHIRE CAT is an original hand made etching by the American abstract painter Knox Martin. Printed in black ink on archival printmak...

Artist: William Wegman (American, b. 1943) Title: Bird Dog Suite, 1990 The Complete Set of 4 Photolithographs Medium: 4 photolithographs Dimensions: 19.5 x 19.5 inches (each image), ...

Porphyrion ou Poule Sultane - Western Swamphen French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illust...

Robert Rauschenberg Lily Scent, 1981 Lithograph 32 x 24 inches SPIII Signed

English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

English moth chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there is an ...

Rale D'Eau - Water Rail French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. 195...

This is for the set of both (2) original Boris O'Klein prints, part of his series of the 'dirty dogs of Paris." Both are in very good condition,...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Cats, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph and Blind Embossing, signed and dedicated in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 9.5 x 15 inche...

Paul JOUVE Elephant of Siva Temple Original etching Printed signature in the plate On vellum 103 x 75 cm (c. 41 x 30in) Posthumous edition by Chalcographie du Louvre, authenticated ...

Becassine - Snipe French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illust...

Dalí's Ouroboros is more naturalistic than his other prints in Alchimie des Philosophes, and its features are similar to an eel or sea serpent. It is cut into many pieces, though the...

This Blue Dog work consists of 3 dogs crowded together: one blue, one red and one black & white on a black and gray background with a black & gray moon behind them in the right corner. All 3 dogs have soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original silkscreen print on paper is guaranteed authentic and is hand signed by the artist. Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Three’s a Crowd...

Roosters Amos Yaskil Israeli (1935) Date: circa 1970 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 375 Image Size: 18.5 x 14 inches Size: 26.5 x 20 in. (67.31 x 50.8 cm)

Ara Waya Nac Sergio Gonzales-Tornero, Chilean (1927–2020) Date: 1983 Screenprint, signed, numbered, titled and dated in pencil Edition of 250 Image Size: 24 x 30 inches Size: 28 x 34...

Black Cat by the Window is a woodcut print on paper realized by Giselle Halff in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The delicate and beautiful fine strokes of the artwork sho...

This Blue Dog work consists of a blue dog on a background of mountains, trees, and a red and yellow sky. There is an alligator at the feet of the dog. There is also an Absolut Vodk...

The Stag Reflected in the Water is an artwork realized in 1974. Etching and drypoint with stencil. Printed by Atelier Rigal. Edition XIV/CXX on Auvergne paper. It belongs to the...

This Blue Dog work consists of a Blue Dog sitting full center on a white background. To the right of the dog is the name “Rodrigue” in red paint vertically printed. The dog has so...

COOPER'S RAINBOW is an original, hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the American painter Wayne Cooper printed in NYC using traditional hand lithogr...

Original Washington, Go By Train, Pennsylvania Railroad vintage poster. Linen backed in fine condition. B+, A- condition. A tear in the poster was restored during linen backing. Minor scuff marks near the left edge and on the red lettering of on the bottom. The image of a bald Eagle as the blue sky is behind the enlarged image of the Capitol dome. The lower portion of the building is resting in the shadows. The poster captures the majestic beauty of the United States Capitol dome in Washington, D.C., symbolizing American democracy and government. Including the eagle soaring in the sky behind the Capitol Dome reinforces patriotic themes and evokes a sense of national pride. Overall, this poster exemplifies the Pennsylvania Railroad's marketing efforts to entice travelers to choose rail travel for their journeys. It promises them not only efficient transportation but also a sense of national pride and connection to iconic American landmarks. The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) was one of the largest and most influential railroad companies in the United States, operating from 1846 until 1968. It played a pivotal role in developing the American railroad industry and expanding transportation networks across the country. Today, vintage Pennsylvania Railroad posters...

Bright orange leaps up like flames, or swaying grass, over which hovers a large-eyed bee sketched in black and orange. Over the fire-red in neat handwriting Ron Padgett...

Rale des Genets - Corn Crake French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. ...

Artist: Leonor Fini Title: La Grande Parade des Chats (The Great Parade of the Cats) Year: 1973 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Numbered 1...

Leonor Fini Untitled from La Grande Parade des Chats (The Great Parade of the Cats) Color lithograph on Arches paper Hand signed in pencil by the artist numbered 204/230 Published b...

'Sarcelle D'Ete' (Garganey) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. ...

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Tauramachie Surrealiste The Giraffe on Fire MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: LXIV/C MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 26" YEAR: 1970 FRAMED...

Original linen backed vintage travel poster on United Air Lines to Washington D. C. Artist: Jebary. Linen backed vintage poster. Ve...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. 195mm by 265mm (sheet)

LEONOR FINI Cats Dot and Swirl 1973 Color lithograph Ed. 157/230 12.5 x 9 inches

To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Edward Bawden (1903 - 1989) Aesop's Fables: Peacock and Magpie (1970) Linocut ...

Georges BRAQUE Leda and the Swann Stone lithograph (Art-Litho workshop, Paris) Printed signature in the pate Limited to 399 copies unumbered On Arches vellum 18 x 23" (45 x 58 cm) E...

LEONOR FINI Cat Friends 1973 Color lithograph Ed. 157/230 12.5 x 9 inches

Raymond PEYNET Astrology - Zodiac : Leo (Lion), 1979 Original etching Handsigned in pencil Numbered /22 On Arches vellum 76 x 56 cm (c. 30 x 22 inches) This etching is authentified ...

Appleby 97. 4 x 6 15/16 (sheet 8 1/8 x 10 3/8). Edition 100. A rich impression with drypoint burr and carefully wiped plate tone, printed on 'FJ Head' paper, on the full sheet with ...

Lovely etching of cattle and ranchers on mountain pass trail, 1991. Signed lower left. 20/50 Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plasti...

Night Time in a Stable. 1927-28. Drypoint. Appleby 131. 10 1/8 x 12 1/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 16 1/2). Edition 100. Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarterly 25 (1...

This artwork titled "Elephant Family" 1983 is an original large color serigraph on paper by noted American artist Leroy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 63/300 in pe...

David Gilhooly (1943-2013) Jonathan Frisbee Woodstock, 1988 Monotype print with canine shaped lino plate on BFK Rives Paper Signed and dated in pencil, lower right Hand titled in pen...

"Unicorn Moebius II" - Trial Proof Lithograph in Ink on Laid Paper High contrast, multi-layer etching by Bruce Weinberg (American, 1942-1994). A moebius strip is shown against a dar...

HOMAGE TO SIGMUND FREUD, is an original hand drawn, stone lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross. HOMAGE TO SIGMUND FREUD was hand proofed and printed from hand drawn lithographic stones on archival Arches paper in shades of warm yellow for the background texture and red brown for the master drawing. HOMAGE TO SIGMUND FREUD is a surrealistic portrait composition depicting Sigmund Freud's face(one portraying him with spectacles) surrounded by symbolic imagery including swirling birds, a child opening a heart-shaped lock, an embracing couple, fingers and bare leg. HOMAGE TO SIGMUND FREUD expresses an intriguing variety of visualized psychological references. This original, hand printed lithograph measures 18.5" x 22", registration marks are visible in print margins as evidence of the master printer's use of age-old printing methods first utilized in fine art lithography printmaking. HOMAGE TO SIGMUND FREUD is unframed, in excellent condition, pencil signed, dated and inscribed B.A.T., Trial Proof aside from the edition by Chaim Gross. Edition was published in 1976 as a fundraiser for the Hebrew University in Israel. Print size - 18.5 x 22 in., unframed, very fine condition, from the master printer's private collection Printer - Joseph Kleineman, J K Fine Art Editions Co. NYC Chaim Gross,(1904 - 1991) was a sculptor, artist, and teacher, known for his wood carvings, sculptures of moving human figures, religious imagery, acrobats, mothers and children. Chaim was born on March 17, 1904 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia. During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art academy and studied with painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before emigrating to New York City in 1921. In the U.S., Gross's studies continued at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied sculpture with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League, with sculptor Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Gross exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club (the precursor to the Whitney Museum of American Art). In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005), and they had two children, Yehuda and Mimi (Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist, and was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976). In 1933, Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures for schools and public colleges, and created works for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the 1937 Exposition universelle in Paris. Chaim Gross, Sculptor by Josef Vincent Lombardo, the first major book on Gross, came out in 1949 and included a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze...

This Blue Dog work consists of a brown, tan and black background. In the foreground are 3 blue dogs and an embellished mask of a red dog face along with an alligator. Behind the 3 dogs is a large pink tree with pink leaves. The dogs all have soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original mixed media silkscreen print on paper is unique, guaranteed authentic and is hand signed by the artist. Artist: George Rodrigue Title: Blue Dog “Later Gator...

This tenderly illustrated print depicts a black dog sitting comfortably on the lawn. A low fence and a bench can be seen in the background. Plants grow along the sides of the lawn, b...

Lithograph on Auvergne du Moulin Richard de Bas filigrané paper. Inscription: Watermarked with the artist's signature and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio...