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Period: Mid-20th Century
The Cat - Lithograph by Giselle Halff - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cat is a lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by Giselle Halff in 1950 ca.
Hand-signed by pencil on the lower right.
Numbered. Edition, 19/20.
Good conditions, slight fo...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pheasant, French antique natural history bird art illustration print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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)
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bassets Ardennais, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1930s
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chow and Dandie Dinmont Puppy, Cecil Aldin 1930s puppy dog lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'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...
Category
English School Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Radio Radiola vintage French poster with parrot
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Radio Radiola vintage French antique poster. Archival linen-backed and in very good condition. Bright and vibrant. Artist: Rene Ravo....
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Chicago Fly TWA vintage travel poster
By David Klein
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage travel poster: Chicago - Fly TWA. UP UP and Away Trans World Airline. Artist: David Klein. Size 25" x 40" Dated 1960's. ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
Pablo Picasso - Les Banderillas - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Picasso
Atelier Mourlot.
Paper: Vélin.
Dimensions : 9 5/8 x 12 7/16 inches
Bloch 1017; Cramer 113; Mourlot 350
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Watch Out .. Safe Direction NRS vintage gun safety poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Watch Out .. Point the Muzzle in a SAFE Direction” vintage National Rifle Association of America vintage poster. Printed in 1946 on a thick cardboard stock. Excellent ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harrier, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1931
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Andy Warhol Cow Skate Deck 2010
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Vintage Andy Warhol Cow Skateboard Deck:
This work originated circa 2010 as a result of the collaboration between Alien Workshop and the Andy Warhol Foundation. A brilliant piece of...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset, Wood
Resting The Horses
Located in New York, NY
Etching, 1937. Signed by the artist and dated in pencil lower right margin.
A scarce etching by this important American western artist.
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Hawaii, United Air Lines vintage travel poster Hawaiiana
Located in Spokane, WA
Original United Air Lines Hawaii vintage travel poster. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. The images shown are of the ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
Original "Queen of the Jungle" US 1-sheet vintage (1935) movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Queen of the Jungle vintage lithograph movie poster, archival linen backed. US 1-sheet.
"The Temple of Mu." Serial. Episode No 10. St...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
"Horses", 1960's Pop Art Etching A/P
Located in Soquel, CA
A late 1960's modern Pop Art etching of horses by Marc Foster Grant (American, b.1947). The galloping horse motif is repeated, in the style of Warhol...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Printer's Ink, Etching
$1,613 Sale Price
24% Off
Bassets D'Artois a Jambes Droites, French hound dog chromolithograph print 1930s
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Spaniel with Duck original signed etching by Leon Danchin
By Leon Danchin
Located in Paonia, CO
Spaniel With Duck is an original signed etching by Leon Danchin in very good condition.
paper size 22.25 x 30 image size 16.50 x 24
Leon Danchin, born in Lille, Fra...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Curly Coated Retriever, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1930s
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lion Défendant sa Proie (Lion Defending Its Prey) — Atelier 17
By Joseph Hecht
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Joseph Hecht, 'Lion Défendant sa Proie (Lion Defending Its Prey)', engraving, 1931, edition 50, Tonneau-Ryckelynck & Plumart 215. Signed and numbered '18/50' in pencil. A fine impres...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Horse - Lithograph by Jacques Van Melkebeke - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Horse is a lithograph realize by Jacques Van Melkebeke in 1961.
Good conditions.
Numbered.Edition 1/25
The artwork is represented through soft strokes.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Horses 2, Israel (1966) by Hans Erni - Lithograph 50x70 cm
By Hans Erni
Located in Geneva, CH
Lithograph numbered and signed by hand
19/60 edition
From Israel collection
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
The Challenge in the Aegean - Plate 3 - Lithograph by Giorgio De Chirico - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
The Challenge in the Aegean is a black and white artwork realized by Giorgio De Chirico in the half of 20th Century. Rare specimen on light blue paper.
Original title: "La sfida in ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Grey Heron, French antique natural history water bird art illustration print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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)
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cocker Spaniel, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1931
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Raoul Dufy (after) - Autoportrait - Lithograph
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Raoul Dufy
Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965.
Printed signature
Dimensions: ...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Black Spaniel , French hound, dog chromolithograph, 1930s
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Emilio Vedova - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Emilio Vedova - Original Lithograph
Abstraction
1961
From the art revue XXe Siecle
Dimensions: 32 x 24
Edition: G. di San Lazzaro.
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Three Birds Flying - Original Lithograph (Mourlot #82)
Located in Paris, IDF
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...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cat - Original Lithograph by Giselle Halff - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
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....
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
TAUREAU AILE CONTEMPLE PAR QUATRE ENFANTS (BLOCH 229)
Located in Aventura, FL
Plate 13 from La Suite Vollard. Bloch 229. Baer 444. Etching on Montval paper. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with larger margins). Printe...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
$31,600 Sale Price
29% Off
The Cat - Original Etching by Giselle Halff - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cat is an Original etching print on paper realized by Giselle Halff in 1950 ca.
Good conditions with some foxing.
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Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Brent (Brant) Goose, French antique natural history bird art illustration print
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Bernache Cravant'
(Brent Goose)
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of bi...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cat - Woodcut by Giselle Halff - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Black Cat is an Original Woodcut Print realized in the Mid-20th Century by Giselle Halff (1899-1971).
Good condition, monogrammed on the lower right corner.
Giselle Halff (1899-197...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$249 Sale Price
25% Off
Original "Less Dangerous than Careless Talk" vintage World War Two poster
Located in Spokane, WA
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...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)–Picador et Taureau–Linocut in colors on Arches paper
Located in Varese, IT
Linocut in colors on Arches paper, edited in 1959
Limited edition 21 of 50 copies
signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner and numbered 21/50 in lower left
image size: 64.5 x 53.5 cm
Paper size: 72,9 x 59,5 cm
Framed size: 98.5 x 85.5 cm
very good conditions
Publications / Catalogue Raisonnée :
This work is fully documented and referenced in the official Catalogue:
- Baer 1229, Bloch 907
Framed to museum standards in a handmade frame ,
the background is made ph neutral for proper preservation of the work over the years , to avoid oxidation.
We offer professional packaging and tracked shipping with DHL Express courier ,
( shipping time: 24 hours for European countries and 4 to 6 days for America and other non-eu countries ) Shipping costs are included
Notes:
Pablo Picasso Picador et Taureau...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Linocut
Irish Wolfhound, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1930s
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cat - Original Watercolor by Giselle Halff - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is an original watercolor realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971). Hand signed on the lower right margin.
Good conditions.
Giselle Halff (1899-1971) born in Hanoi, student of R.X...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor
Greyhound, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1930s
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Exodus, Modern Hand-Colored Lithograph by Savo Radulović
Located in Long Island City, NY
Savo Radulović, Serbian American (1911 - 1991) - Exodus, Medium: Hand colored Lithograph, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 20, Image Size: 9.5 x 14.25 inches, Size...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Robert Henry Lewis, Modernist etching of Sofie the sleeping cat
Located in Harkstead, GB
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....
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
$221 Sale Price
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The Quorn Hunt, Holy Vale hunting print by Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
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Lionel Edwards (1878 - 1966)
The Quorn Hu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Three Ducks Taking to Flight)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Three Ducks Taking to Flight)
Drypoint, c. 1940
Signed lower right
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Winchell Heirs by descent
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 10 5/16 inches
Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis, after his tenure of being an instructor at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the 1930's.
Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris Anisfeld...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
THOMSON Gyrathomic, Original horizontal French mid-century vintage poster
By Guy Georget
Located in Spokane, WA
Original THOMSON Gyrathomic. Horizontal format original French vintage lithograph poster. Artist: Guy Georget. C. 1955. Archival linen backed. Very good condition.
A fun...
Category
Bauhaus Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original 1944 "... because somebody talked!" vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: …BECAUSE SOMEBODY TALKED. Original World War II (2) linen-backed 1944 poster.
Artist: Wesley Heyman. Size 20" x 28" Linen backed. Excellent condition. Antique poster ready to frame. Original issued U. S. Government fold marks touched up during linen backing. This is not considered a defect on World War II posters.
Because Someone Talked portrays a cocker resting his head on his master's scarf. The gold star flag behind his head reveals that his master has been killed in action. The flag was awarded to mothers who lost sons.
Published by the United States Government Printing Office
Interpretation This poster, issued by the United States government during World War II, is a warning to citizens that discussing troop movements, or other military information that might be useful to the enemy, could have serious consequences. The Service Flag...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
Hounds Gentlemen Please by Tom Carr - Engraving 26x31 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Ed: 63/75
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
$360 Sale Price
28% Off
Plate 20 from "Formes et Couleurs"
Located in New York, NY
Plate 20 from "Formes et couleurs; vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs décoratifs" by Auguste H. Thomas. Paris: A. Levy, Librarie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, circa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper
Snipe, French antique natural history water bird art print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Becassine - Snipe
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illust...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Longhorns by Lon Megargee
Located in Phoenix, AZ
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...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Water Rail, French antique natural history water bird art print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Up with the Rooster, woodblock print by Penelope Ellis
Located in London, GB
Penelope Ellis (1935-2016)
Up with the Rooster
Woodblock print
15 x 11 cm
Provenance: From the artist's estate sale.
Penelope Mary Ellis (1935–2016) was a British artist celebrat...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Original Holy Land Fly TWA Jets vintage travel poster 1960s Noah' Ark
By David Klein
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Holy Land TWA vintage travel poster. Artist David Klein. Size 25" x 40.5". Archival linen-backed authentic vintage TWA travel poster...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
$958 Sale Price
20% Off
Ducks at Play, Signed Modern Etching Mounted to Board by Frank Weston Benson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ducks at Play
Frank Weston Benson, American (1862–1951)
Date: 1940
Etching mounted to board, signed and dated in pencil
Image Size: 10 x 8 inches
Size: 12 x 10 in. (30.48 x 25.4 cm)
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Horse Laugh
Located in New York, NY
Alfred Bendiner (1899-1964) was trained as an architect but worked as an artist throughout his career. He was a noted lithographer, as well an author, muralist, and caricaturist. The...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Crayon
Tulip Pochoir from Relais
Located in New York, NY
Benedictus, Edouard.
Relais.
Plate 1.
Paris, Éditions Vincent, Fréal et Cie, 1930.
Original pochoir, printed by J. Saudé.
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper
Barnacle Geese Affrighted
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, full margins. Signed and numbered 59/75 in pencil, lower margin. Notations in pencil along the lower sheet edge, recto, well outside of ima...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(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...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original "Scandinavia by SAS, Scandiavian Airlines System vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original first edition printing of Scandinavia by SAS, Scandinavian Airlines System. The first edition has a greyish panel along the bottom. The poster also features the SAS logo...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
English Setter, French hound dog chromolithograph print, 1931
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dog Circus Print
Located in New York, NY
Color stencil print titled "Dog Circus" by Andrée Ruellan (1905-2006). New York, American Artists Group, Inc., circa 1936. Unsigned. Presented in an arc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper
Bold Folk Art Lamb Woodcut
Located in Houston, TX
Blocky black and white depiction of a lamb, by German artist Leonhardt Wüllfarth, c.1950. Displayed in a white mat with a gold border and fits a standard-size frame. Archival plastic...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut