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Period: Mid-20th Century
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
Lilypad Swans
Located in Houston, TX
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Griffon D' Arret A Poil Dur, 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
Bold Folk Art Goat Woodcut
Located in Houston, TX
Blocky black and white depiction of a goat, by artist Leonhardt Wüllfarth, c.1950. Displayed in a white mat with a gold border and fits a standard-size frame. Archival plastic sleeve...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
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
Western Swamphen, French antique natural history water bird art print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eurasian Wigeon, French antique bird duck art illustration print
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rolex Submariner – Swiss Original Vintage Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Poster promoting Rolex' Submariner, reference 1680, created by Celestino Piatti, a very productive Swiss Graphic Designer (1922-2007) known for his charm and subtle humor, p...
Category
Post-Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper
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
Untitled XII (Le Tricorne)
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Untitled XII (Le Tricorne)
Series: Le Tricorne (The Three-Pointed Hat)
Date: 1959
Medium: Wood engraving
Unframed Dimensions: 12.6" x 8.8"
Framed...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
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
One Must Know the Animals from the Rilke Portfolio, Ben Shahn
By Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969)
Title: One Must Know the Animals from the Rilke Portfolio
Year: 1968
Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate
Edition: 750
Size: 22.5 x 17.7...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Corn Crake, French antique natural history water bird art print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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. ...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Canadian Geese in Flight
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Canadian Geese in Flight
Drypoint printed with plate tone in the sky
c. 1940's
Signed in pencil lower right
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches
Provenanc...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Jean Cocteau - The Arena - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: The Arena
1961
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
printed signature
Lithograph made for the portfolio "Gitans et Corridas" published by Socié...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original "The Greatest Show on Earth" US 1 -sheet vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
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...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
$748 Sale Price
20% Off
Garganey, French antique bird duck art illustration print
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'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. ...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Washington Pennsylvania Railroad, Go By Train vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
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...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
The Dove - Original lithograph, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jules CAVAILLES
The Dove
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Justified EA (artist proof)
On Arches vellum 38 x 25 cm (c. 15 x 10 in)
Very good c...
Category
Post-Impressionist 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
Mid-Century Original Printed Menu, Transatlantic French Line, 'Ile de France'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century French transatlantic liner menu with printed illustration by French artist Jean Adrien Mercier. Signed in the print, top left and dated 1956 inside centre.
This highly c...
Category
Baroque Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Printer's Ink
The Tortious, Philippe Henri Noyer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Philippe Noyer (1917-1985)
Title: The Tortoise
Year: circa 1969
Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper
Edition: 60/220, plus proofs
Size: 29.75 x 22 inches
Condition: Good
Inscri...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,276 Sale Price
20% Off
PABLO PICASSO 'ARC EN CIEL (COLOMBE VOLANT) - 1952, SIGNED & NUMBERED LITHOGRAPH
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Le colombe volant (à l'Arc-en-ciel), 1952" (Bloch 712; Mourlot 214)
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper, with full margins
sheet 550 x 760mm (29 7/8 x 21 ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
How it all Began from the "After Noon" Portfolio, Lithograph by Richard Lindner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Lindner, German/American (1901 - 1978)
Title: How it all Began from the "After Noon" Portfolio
Year: 1969
Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil
...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Horsemen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Horsemen" 1935, is an original lithograph on paper by noted American artist William Gropper, 1897-1977. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 9.5 x 12.75 inches, framed size is 17.5 x 20.40 inches. Published by Associated American Artists, New York, printed by George Miller. Referenced and pictured in the artist catalogue raisonne by Steinberg, page 246 and Windisch and Cole, plate #602. Custom framed in a black metal frame, with off white matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame have very minor scratches.
An example of this particular artwork is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. and at the Portland Museum, Portland.
About the artist:
William Gropper was born in New York City's Lower East Side in 1897. He was the first of six children to parents who earned small wages working in sweatshops. At the age of fourteen, Gropper left school to help support his family. While carrying bolts of cloth for his deliveries, Gropper began to draw on scraps of paper, sidewalks, and walls. A passerby saw some of these drawings and invited Gropper to attend a life-drawing class at the Ferrer School. He studied there for three years from 1912 to 1915, attending classes taught by Robert Henri and George Bellows. From 1915 to 1918 Gropper attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art part-time on scholarship. Gropper also won a scholarship to the National Academy of Design, but remained as a student for only a short time; the rigid and systematic institution conflicted with Gropper's belief in the personal nature of art.
At the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, Gropper earned several prizes. One of these prizes was for his cartoons, which led him to be hired by the New York Tribune in 1917 to sketch for their features. A few years later through freelance work, his cartoons and drawings appeared in other newspapers and magazines, such as The Liberator, The New Masses, The New York Post, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.
By the late 1920s Gropper was an established cartoonist and draughtsman. He sympathized with the labor movement and was a champion of peace and personal liberty. Gropper began to paint seriously, but privately, on these themes in 1921. Gropper's first exhibition of monotypes was held in 1921 at the Washington Square Book Shop in New York. At this time, he also began to do illustrations for books. Gropper took his first sketching trip in 1924 to the West with Morris Pass.
By 1930 Gropper began to receive recognition as a fine artist. In 1934, he received two mural commissions from the Schenley Corporation in New York City. In 1935, he was commissioned to paint a mural for the Hotel Taft in New York City. In 1936, Gropper received several public mural commissions: one was for the Freeport, Long Island Post Office, which was completed in 1938 and followed by another mural for the Northwestern Postal Station, Detroit, Michigan.
In his first gallery exhibition in 1936 at ACA Galleries, Gropper's work was so well received by critics, collectors, and artists that the following year he had two one-man exhibitions at ACA Galleries. In 1937, Gropper traveled west on a Guggenheim Fellowship and visited the Dust Bowl and the Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams, sketching studies for a series of paintings and a mural he painted for the Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. That same year he had paintings purchased by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.
Gropper exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Whitney Museum of American Art (1924-55), Art Institute of Chicago (1935-49), Carnegie International (1937-50), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1939-48), and National Academy of Design (1945-48). He was a founder of the Artists Equity Association and member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
From 1940 to 1945 William Gropper was preoccupied with anti-Nazi cartoons...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Braque, Oiseaux, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
40% Off
A La Queue (Join the Queue) Naughty Dogs of Paris by O'Klein
Located in Paonia, CO
A La Queue (Join the Queue) original etching from the series Naughty Dogs of Paris showing a line of five dogs of various breeds trailing a small Chihuahua on a leash who is turning her head towards the queue. This original etching is in excellent condition, hand signed by the artist and published by Sidney Lucas.
paper size 13.75 x 29.25 image size 8.50 x 24
Boris O'Klein ( 1893-1985 ) immigrated to France from Russia with his family when he was a young boy. He settled in Paris after World War I and became a prolific artist well known for his watercolors and etchings of dogs getting into mischief. His images are often risque and are considered very humorous. They have been referred to as the Naughty or Dirty Dogs of Paris.
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
The Bird - Original Etching by Giselle Hallf - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Bird is an original artwork realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971) in the mid-20th Century.
Original black and white etching on cardboard.
Good conditions. Not signed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Air France Far-East vintage travel poster
By Guy Georget
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Air France "Far - East" original travel poster by artist Guy Georget; under the artistic direction of Jean Carlu. Conservation linen-backed and ready to frame. This difficult-to-find original Air France poster was printed in Frame by Bedos & Cie, Paris. Restored tear in bottom and touched up in outer white border. Presents very well.
The center focal point is a pagoda-shaped building with three tall bamboo spears growing up the left side. A windsock fish is flying in the air about the building. Bright and vibrant orange and greens with contrasting dark red, grey, and black bring this vintage original poster...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Miró, The Dog Barking at the Moon
By Joan Miró
Located in Torino, IT
JOAN MIRÓ, Montroig 1893- Palma de Mallorca 1983
Le chien aboyant à la lune, 1952
Original color lithograph, signed on plate. (mm.353x531)
Bibliography, catalog raisonné: Mourlot I....
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Oh to be in England' signed horse racing print by Snaffles
Located in London, GB
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Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne (1884 - 1967)
"Oh! To Be In England Now That April's There"
Lithograph
51 x 67 cm
Signed in pencil lower left.
Snaffles was one of the foremost sporting artists of his era, publishing many popular prints such as these: hunting pictures...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
untitled (Duck taking to flight, flushed by a dog)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Duck taking to flight, flushed by a dog)
Drypoint & Aquatint, c. 1940
signed lower right
Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis, after his ...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Original Week End Impermeabili vintage Italian poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Week End Impermeabili Italian vintage fashion poster. Archival linen backed in fine condition, ready to frame. Grade A condition. Printed by Ind. Graf. C. Re & C. Milano, Italy. 1952.
A small company produced vintage posters for their company in limited or small quantities. Only a few of these Italian vintage posters...
Category
Italian School Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$500 Sale Price
20% Off
"Please, Mister, Don't Be Careless" Vintage Poster featuring Disney Characters
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Printed in 1943, by the U.S. Government Printing Office for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The poster features the beloved Disney characters, Bambi (deer), Thumper (rabbit), and Flower (skunk) in wide-eyed shock leaning towards fear. With the slogan "Please, Mister, don't be careless" the poster is designed to tug at the heartstrings of the viewer and make them consider what actions they could take in their own lives to prevent forest fires.
Poster: 20" x 14 1/4"
Frame: 30" x 22 1/2"
Framed to conservation standards with a 100% cotton fiber matboard border and UV clear glass that filters 99% of UV Rays. UV Rays can be especially damaging and cause fading to the inks used in poster making. All of these features are housed in a contemporary natural wood frame.
Smokey Bear...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lions ( Turner 194), Etching and aquatint by top British artist Signed/N Framed
Located in New York, NY
Julian Trevelyan
Lions ( Turner 194), 1966-1967
Color etching and aquatint on T.H. Saunders paper
Pencil signed and numbered 28 from the limited edition of 125
Frame Included: held i...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Original "The Big Show" vintage US 1-sheet movie poster 1961
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "The Big Show", US 1-sheet linen-backed movie poster from 1961. Very fine condition. Professional restoration of original theater fold marks. A - A- condition, ready to frame.
Original "the Big Show" US 1-sheet, 1961, linen-backed vintage movie poster. Very fine condition with the restoration of original theater-issued fold marks. A - A- condition.
NSS 61/125. Ester Williams...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
$479 Sale Price
20% Off
L'Aquarium
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color aquatint. Signed and numbered 2/100 in red crayon, lower margin. Published by Maeght, Paris.
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Color, Aquatint
Red Landscape - Original Woodcut - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Red Landscape is an original xylograph realized during the half of the 20th Century by an anonymous artist.
Monogram of the artist on the left side of t...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$216 Sale Price
25% Off
Armadillo, Surrealist Lithograph by Aubrey Schwartz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Aubrey Schwartz, American (1928 - 2019) - Armadillo, Year: circa 1962, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 150, Image Size: 10 x 16 inches, Size: ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Robert Marx, Blind Hunter
Located in New York, NY
German-born Robert Ernst Marx was a painter, printmaker, and teacher. His main subject was the human condition. This intaglio is somewhat unusual in ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio
The Cat - Etching and Drypoint by Giselle Halff- 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cat is an Original etching and drypoint print on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in 1950 ca.
Good conditions with some foxing.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
$252 Sale Price
25% Off
Modern Israeli Lithograph Reuven Rubin Views Of Israel Judaica Crowing Rooster
By Reuven Rubin
Located in Surfside, FL
Lithograph printed by Chez Daniel Jacomet, Paris, France 1960 offset lithograph in colors on Arches, signed in crayon on the justification sheet (this auction is just for the one lithograph pictured as the 1st photo, the justification sheet with the original drawing is just included for provenance and is not part of this sale), on Arches deckle edged paper. limited edition of 250. plate signed and hand signed in pencil.
Israeli views Lithograph by Israeli Master.
Reuven Rubin 1893 -1974 was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania.
Rubin Zelicovici (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Gala?i to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Finding himself at odds with the artistic views of the Academy's teachers, he left for Paris, France, in 1913 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. At the outbreak of World War I, he was returned to Romania, where he spent the war years.
In 1921, he traveled to the United States with his friend and fellow artist, Arthur Kolnik, with whom he had shared a studio in Cernovitzu. In New York City, the two met artist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in organizing their first American show at the Anderson Gallery.Following the exhibition, in 1922, they both returned to Europe. In 1923, Rubin emigrated to Mandate Palestine.
Rubin met his wife, Esther, in 1928, aboard a passenger ship to Palestine on his return from a show in New York. She was a Bronx girl who had won a trip to Palestine in a Young Judea competition. He died in 1974
Artistic career
Joseph Zaritsky...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Irish Setters in the Field original etching by Leon Danchin
By Leon Danchin
Located in Paonia, CO
Irish Setters in the Field is an original etching by Leon Danchin showing two adult Irish Setters in a field pointing to the right.This etching is printed on Arches paper, pencil si...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
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
The Rat and the Elephant - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #179
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall
Fables : The Rat and the Elephant, 1952
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Montval vellum 39 x 30 cm (c. 15.5 x 12 in)
With COA of the gallery and photo...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph of a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(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...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Rabbit in Vase - Lithograph By Jean Lurçat - Mid-20th Century
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Roma, IT
The Rabbit in Vase is an original artwork realized by the french artist Jean Lurçat (1892 Bruyeres - 1966 St.-Paul-de-Vence)
Lithograph print, mid-20th century.
Very good condit...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cinq Boules et Deux Serpents, Alexander Calder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Title: Cinq Boules et Deux Serpents
Year: 1965
Medium: Lithograph in colors on wove paper
Edition: 90, plus proofs
Size: 20.5 x 28.75 inches
Cond...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$10,800 Sale Price
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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...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$270 Sale Price
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Mallard Drakes (Louisiana Honkers)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mallard Drakes (Louisiana Honkers)
Drypoint, c. 1940
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled in pencil lower left (see photo)
Note: A famous image by Kleiber. It is was made in a hand colored version which commands a large premium.
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 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...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
"Full Cry" - Mid Century Horse Hunt Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A dynamic mid 20th century copy of a lithograph that depicts Englishmen on horseback giving chase with a pack of beagle-type dogs running in the background. by John Frederick Herring...
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Romantic Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset, Paper
$396 Sale Price
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Cat - Original 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...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Bird - Original Etching and Aquatint by Giselle Hallf - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bird is an original etching and aquatint by Giselle Hallf in the half of the 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Numbered, Edition 25/25.
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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
Lithograph Lady Rider Woman on a Horse Marie Laurencin French Post Impressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Marie Laurencin (French, 1883-1956)
Lithograph of a colored pencil drawing depicting a woman wearing a hat and riding horseback side saddle,
Edition "37/115" to lower left and hand signed "Laurencin" in pencil to lower right, with a cloth mat and housed in a silvered wood frame.
Dimensions: Image, 12" H x 16" W; frame, 19.75" H x 23.5" W x 1.5" D.
Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or.
Laurencin was born in Paris, where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. At 18, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres. She then returned to Paris and continued her art education at the Académie Humbert, where she changed her focus to oil painting.
During the early years of the 20th century, Laurencin was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. A member of both the circle of Pablo Picasso, and Cubists associated with the Section d'Or, such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri le Fauconnier and Francis Picabia, exhibiting with them at the Salon des Indépendants (1910-1911) and the Salon d'Automne (1911-1912), and Galeries Dalmau (1912) at the first Cubist exhibition in Spain. She became romantically involved with the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and has often been identified as his muse. In addition, Laurencin had important connections to the salon of the American expatriate and lesbian writer Natalie Clifford Barney. She had relationships with men and women, and her art reflected her life, her "balletic wraiths" and "sidesaddle Amazons" providing the art world with her brand of "queer femme with a Gallic twist."
Laurencin's oeuvre include painting, watercolor paintings, drawing, and prints. She is known as one of the few female Cubist painters, with Sonia Delaunay, Marie Vorobieff, and Franciska Clausen...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eric Gill 1934 Woodblock Print 'From the Books of Philip Hofer' 'Ex Libris' Lion
By Eric Gill
Located in London, GB
From a series of wood engravings by Eric Gill. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Common and Surf Scoter, French antique bird duck art illustration print
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Macreuse Noire - Macreuse a Lunettes'
(Common Scoter and Surf Scoter)
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From ...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Owl - Etching on Paper by Mario Avati - 1960s
By Mario Avati
Located in Roma, IT
Owl is an etching on paper, realized by the French artist and print-maker master Mario Avati (1921-2009).
Hand-signed on the lower right and numbered on the lower left in pencil. Ed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Mezzotint
$270 Sale Price
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The Butterfly Flower - Lithograph By Jean Lurçat - Mid-20th Century
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Roma, IT
The Butterfly Flower is an original artwork realized by the french artist Jean Lurçat (1892 Bruyeres - 1966 St.-Paul-de-Vence)
Lithograph print, mid-20th century.
Good conditions...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Bird - Lithograph by Giselle Halff - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Bird is an Original lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by Giselle Halff in 1950 ca.
Hand-signed by pencil on the rear.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$180 Sale Price
25% Off