Mid-20th Century Animal Prints

Artist: Georges Braque Title: Le Coq Portfolio: Verve Vol VII No. 27-28 Medium: Lithograph Date: 1952 Edition: 6000 Frame Size: 22" x 18 1/4" Sheet Size: 14" x 10" Signature: Unsigned

Artist: Marc Chagall Title: The Accordionist (Derriere le Miroir 99-100) Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir Medium: Original Lithograph Date: 1957 Edition: 2500...

Original stone lithograph created 1944 by well-known Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton. The print is in excellent condition with full margins and pencil signed lower right. Also signed in the stone. It is matted in a 4-ply archival mat and rests in a simple black frame. Image size: 10 ½ x 15. Frame size: 18 x 23. Published by AAA. Ed: 250. Thomas Hart Benton found inspiration for his art in the ebb and flow of daily life in rural and small-town America. Wreck of the Ol’ 97, one of his best-known prints, is based on a ballad of the same title that tells the story of a rail disaster. A speeding locomotive attempting to make up lost time jumped the tracks as it descended a Virginia mountain...

Lithograph by Picasso Atelier Mourlot. Paper: Vélin. Dimensions : 9 5/8 x 12 7/16 inches Reference: Bloch 1015 Picasso is not just a man and his work. Picasso is always a legend, ...

'Bassets D'Artois a Jambes Torses'. French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a Fre...

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'Bassets D'Artois a Jambes Droites'. French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a Fr...

Mid-Century coloured woodblock print of 'ploughing the fields' by 20th century Japanese artist Ini Kumo. The print is hand-signed in pencil, dated 1966 and numbered 130/700 to the bottom right and presented under glass in a black wooden frame. A beautiful woodblock printed image of a Japanese farmer in traditional attire ploughing the land with his ox. It is early evening and as the sun goes down it casts long shadows in front of the two figures. Perhaps the farmer is on his way back to the houses grouped in the distance already in shadow. The artist has carefully picked out areas of vibrant green and blue to give energy and colour to the image which contrast against the black of the ox. A thoroughly enchanting image. Ini Kumo is a recognised Sõsaku-hanga artist. His work is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Sōsaku-hanga (創作版画, "creative prints") was an art movement of woodblock printing which was conceived in early 20th-century Japan. It stressed the artist as the sole creator motivated by a desire for self-expression, and advocated principles of art that is "self-drawn" (自画 jiga), "self-carved" (自刻 jikoku) and "self-printed" (自摺 jizuri). As opposed to the parallel shin-hanga ("new prints") movement that maintained the traditional ukiyo-e collaborative system where the artist, carver, printer, and publisher engaged in division of labor. The birth of the sōsaku-hanga movement was signaled by Kanae Yamamoto...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

Marc CHAGALL The Blue Cow, 1967 Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Not signed On paper 31 x 24 cm (c. 12 x 10 in) REFERENCE : Catalog raisonne Mourlot #488 Edited by XX Siecle ...

Hnizdovsky, Jacques. RAM. Tahir 86. Woodcut., 1969. Trial Proof aside from the Edition of 100. Signed, Titled, dated and inscrbed :Trial Proof, all in pencil. 21 x 4 3/4 (image),24 ...

MILLARD SHEETS (1987 – 1989) HORSE FRIGHTENED BY LIGHTNING, 1939 Lithograph signed in pencil, annotated “TRIAL PROOF”. The published edition is 75. Image, 17 x 22”. Sheet 19 ½” x 2...

"White Calf" is an original lithograph print by Thomas Hart benton. It features the image of a man milking a cow while her calf lays down in front. Benton's breathtaking way of rende...

This contemporary colorful print of a bird is by Charles Pachter. Beloved for his playful pop art imagery, the Canadian artist produced a number of giclee prints in the 1960’s like ...

19 x 15.5 with backing 12 x 12 image Ushio Shinohara (born 1932, Tokyo), nicknamed “Gyu-chan”, is a Japanese Neo-Dadaist artist. His bright, large work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul and others. Shinohara and his wife, Noriko, are the subjects of a documentary film by Zachary Heinzerling called Cutie and the Boxer (2013). Shinohara's parents instilled in him a love for painters such as Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. His father was a tanka poet who was taught by Wakayama Bokusui. Shinohara’s mother was a painter who went to the Woman’s Art University (Joshibijutsu Daigaku) in Tokyo. In 1952 Shinohara entered the Tokyo Art University (later renamed to Tokyo University of the Arts), majoring in oil painting, however he left before graduation in 1957. In 1960 Shinohara participated in a group called "Neo-Dada Organizers". (Masunobu Yoshimura, Genpei Akasegawa, Shusaku Arakawa, Ushio Shinohara, Sho Kazakura, Tomio Miki, Tetsumi Kudo...

Original antique French lithograph travel poster: Metropole Messageries Maritimes Union Francaise. Artist: Poulain. This unicorn-s...

Marc CHAGALL (1887-1985) Bible : Ruben, Ocean, Sky and Sun, 1962 Lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Unsigned On Vellum 32.5 x 24 cm INFORMATION: Lithograph produced by Chagall in 1962 f...

Pablo Picasso - Original Lithograph La Petite Corrida (The Small Bullfight) 1958 Edition of 2000, unsigned Published in the journal XXe Siecle Dimens...

Ushio Shinohara (born 1932, Tokyo), nicknamed “Gyu-chan”, is a Japanese Neo-Dadaist artist. His bright, large work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul and others. Shinohara and his wife, Noriko, are the subjects of a documentary film by Zachary Heinzerling called Cutie and the Boxer (2013). Shinohara's parents instilled in him a love for painters such as Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. His father was a tanka poet who was taught by Wakayama Bokusui. Shinohara’s mother was a painter who went to the Woman’s Art University (Joshibijutsu Daigaku) in Tokyo. In 1952 Shinohara entered the Tokyo Art University (later renamed to Tokyo University of the Arts), majoring in oil painting, however he left before graduation in 1957. In 1960 Shinohara participated in a group called "Neo-Dada Organizers". (Masunobu Yoshimura, Genpei Akasegawa, Shusaku Arakawa, Ushio Shinohara, Sho Kazakura, Tomio Miki, Tetsumi Kudo...

This subject, Heifer, relates to Citron's mural project focusing on the Tennessee Valley Authority. It is signed, dated, and annotated 'Et...

Ecurueil (Squirrel) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illu...

Penelope Ellis (1935-2016) Heading out to Pasture Woodblock print 11 x 16 cm Provenance: From the artist's estate sale. ​Penelope Mary Ellis (1935–2016) was a British artist celeb...

Owl is a screen print artwork realized in the 1960s by Roberto Crippa. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Artist's proof. Good conditions. Gaetano Crippa known as Roberto Crippa (Monza, 1921 - Bresso, 1972) was an Italian painter, sculptor and aviator. He started painting in 1945, with a figurative style and cubist influence close to Picasso's style. He joined the spatial movement with Lucio Fontana, Gian Carozzi...

'Bassets Ardennais'. French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of i...

Three Cocker Spaniels is an original color etching by well known French sports artist Leon Danchin. The three Spaniels are in waiting mode with two lying down and one sitting ...

'Spaniel and Chow' Cecil Aldin dog lithograph, 1935. Cecil Aldin was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of an...

Shoko Uemura, 'Inside the Flowers (Java Sparrow and Peach Blossoms)', color woodcut, c. 1950s, edition 300. Signed in ink with the artist’s red seal beneath. A superb impression, with fresh, delicate colors, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (9/16 to 1 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 12 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches (324 x 470 mm); sheet size 14 3/4 x 20 3/16 inches (375 x 513 mm). Published by The Momose Print Company of Tokyo. ABOUT THE ARTIST Uemura Shoko (1902-2001) was the son of the famous shin-hanga artist Uemura Shoen...

Artist: Mario Avati, French (1921 - 2009) Title: Elephant Equilibriste Year: 1969 Medium: Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 35/50 Image Size: 17.5 x 24 inches Size: 2...

PARR (1893-1969) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET) HUNTER HAULING A SEAL, 1966 #2, Stonecut, signed, titled numbered 28/50 Dorset 1966. Image 14 x 22 ¼. Full sheet ...

In th Bighorns (Wyoming) Drypoint, c. 1930's Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Titled in the plate lower left Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 6 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches Hans Kleiber (1887-1967) Hans Norbert Kleiber, painter, etcher, illustrator, and naturalist, was born in Cologne, Germany on August 24, 1887. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1900, settling in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming. Kleiber first worked in lumber camps before working for the United States Forest Service from 1906 until 1924. One of his duties as a ranger was to monitor the logging camps in the Bighorn Mountains. Kleiber was primarily self-taught as an artist and it was in the 1920s that he began devoting himself to art. It appears that he first began to work in watercolor and oil but was producing etchings and drypoints as early as 1924. He traversed the mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and his subjects are drawn from the pristine landscapes and wildlife. Kleiber's first exhibition of his etchings was mounted in 1928 at Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. His etching, Crossing the Platte, was included in the 1939 New York World's Fair exhibition, American Art Today. There was an exhibition of fifty of his etchings at the National Museum in 1944, and an exhibition of his watercolors was mounted at the Grand Central Galleries in New York in 1950. Kleiber was a member of the Society of American Etchers and the California Society of Printmakers. He received a silver medal in 1931 from the Printmakers Society of California for his print, Leaving the High Country...

Marc CHAGALL (1887-1985) Bible : The Lion of Judah and the Tablets of the Law, 1962 Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Unsigned On Vellum 32.5 x 24 cm REFERENCE: Mourlot catalo...

Georges BRAQUE (1882-1963) Composition with Birds, 1965 Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Signed in the plate On vellum 30 x 24 cm (c. 11.8 x 9.4 in) REFERENCES : - Catalog r...

Lucien Coutaud, French (1904 - 1977) - Le Cheval de Briques, Medium: Etching on BFK Rives, signed and dedicated in pencil, Image Size: 5.5 x 8.75 inches, Size: 9.75 x 13 in. (24.77...

circa 1950. Woodblock print in black and gray ink on Japon laid paper, 10 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches (260 x 398 mm), full margins. With the artist's embossed chop mark in red ink in the l...

Cat is an Original Lithograph realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971). Good conditions. Hand-Signed. Numbered. Edition, 2/15. Giselle Halff (1899-1971) born in Hanoi, student of R....

The Mock Turtle's Story is from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as interpreted by Salvador Dali and published by Maecenas ( a Random...

Original United Air Lines Hawaii vintage travel poster. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. The images shown are of the ...

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

Professionally archival linen-backed vintage French poster: pour L'An II COMPAGONS Tous Unis Celebrons, Notre Pain, Notre Sang, Notre Terre. This full lithograph antique poster fe...

Alexander CALDER Elephant and Rhinoceros, 1966 Lithograph Handsigned in pencil On Arches Vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) Excellent condition, light text report on the lithograph ...

This is an original hand signed (I believe it is also hand colored but i am not positive) Artists Proof Lithograph of a Circus scene. This depicts a trapeze artist an acrobat on the high wire. This came from a portfolio inscribed by Vertes and also signed by the Surrealist Jean Cocteau. MARCEL VERTES FRENCH HUNGARIAN 1895(Ujpest, Hungary)-1961(Paris, France) art deco artist.Vertes was born in Hungary and died in Paris, but spent a lot of time in New York as well. He was noted as a painter, illustrator, designer and scenic mural painter. His whimsical images graced the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Continuing in the footsteps of Boutet, Forain, Erte, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Concentrating upon scenes of Paris street life...

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

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...

"L'oiseau de sables" ("Bird of the Sands") is an original signed lithograph by Georges Braque executed in 1962. It is 37 of an edition of 125. The work is one of five lithographs cre...

Salvador Dali - Cherries - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph Dimensions: P. 57 x 37 cm Sheet: 75 x 56 cm Handsigned Edition: EC.d (collaborator edition "d") Excellent Condition Refer...

'Chow and Dandie (Dinmont) Puppy' Cecil Aldin dog lithograph, 1935. Cecil Aldin was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, a...

Joseph Hecht, 'Asie (Asia) from the series Atlas', engraving, 1928, edition c. 50, Tonneau-Ryckelynck & Plumart 162. Signed and annotated 'epreuve definitive' (final proof) in pencil...

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...

Wifredo Lam Bird and Spirit Figure, 1967 Original lithograph Hand signed in pencil Numbered / 300 On Arches vellum 50 x 65 cm (c. 20 x 26 in) REFERENCE : Catalog raisonne Tonneau...

Signed lower right, 'Lebadang' and with number and limitation, 163/215, lower left. Also known as Dang Lebadang (Vietnamese-French, 1922-2015) this not...

Linocut on Arches wove paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist in pencil. Image size 25 x 20.75 inches. Sheet size 29.6 x 24.5 inches. Frame size approx 34.5 x 29.5 inches. Pri...

Lon Megargee 1883-1960 "Self Portrait" Wood block print Signed in plate, lower right Image size: 15.63 x 12 inches Frame size xx x xx inches Creator of S...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

Original “Less Dangerous than Careless Talk” vintage World War Two poster. Archivally linen=backed in fine condition A-, ready to frame. Bright colors and excellent detail. Very clean. The images shown are the exact poster you will receive. A- "Less Dangerous than Careless Talk" is a World War II propaganda poster designed to caution against the dangers of loose lips...

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Picador (A. R. 160) Terre de faïence plate, 1952, from the edition of 500, incised 'Edition Picasso', partially glazed and painted, with the Edition Pica...

Original vintage poster: WONDERFUL COPENHAGEN created by the artist Viggo Vagnby. This antique poster is archival linen-backed, in excellent condition, and ready to frame. No da...

Penelope Ellis (1935-2016) Wallowing in the Mud Woodblock print 15 x 11 cm Provenance: From the artist's estate sale. ​Penelope Mary Ellis (1935–2016) was a British artist celebra...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

Paul KLEE (after) Blue, Bird, Squash Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet process) Signed in the board On vellum 50 x 38.2 cm (19.6 x 14.9 in) INFORMATION : This lithograph was edited i...

Robert Henry Lewis (mid 20th Century) "Sofie: : A sleeping cat Signed, numbered 4/5 and dated "(19)64" beneath in image in pencil Titled, "Sofie" Etching 5.5 x 6.5 inches (image) 14....