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Figurative Prints For Sale
Period: 1920s
Period: 1910s
Ulysses and the Sorceres - Original Lithograph by Ferdinand Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Ulysses and the Sorceress is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922. Signed and dated on plate on the lower left corner: F. Bac 1922. Original Lithograph on ivory paper. Perfect conditions. Ulysses and the Sorceress is an excellent Liberty artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac in the second decade of the XX Century. The work is in full Liberty style and depicts a man, Ulysses surrounded by two figures. The famous sorceress Circe appears on the upper left corner and a second female figure is going to stop him. They are into a sea cave and, on the background, we can see the surface of the sea. Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952). Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach, known as Ferdinand Bac was a French cartoonist, artist and writer, son of an illegitimate nephew of the Emperor Napoleon. As a young man, he mixed in the fashionable world of Paris of the Belle Époque, and was known for his caricatures, which appeared in popular journals. He also traveled widely in Europe and the Mediterranean. In his fifties, he began a career as a landscape gardener. He attended Adolphe Thiers, Gambetta, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Taine, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Paul Verlaine, Maurice Barrès, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Verdi, Gounod, Pierre de Nolhac, and many more other famous people of the time. He established himself as one of the first cartoonists and caricaturists of his time, as famous as Albert Robida...
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1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Odalisque au Collier
Located in New York, NY
An excellent, richly-inked impression of this print with full margins. It is one of 10 numbered artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 50. Signed, inscribed "Epr. d'artiste" and ...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Illustration from the series "Les Fleurs du mal" - Etching After O. Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Monogram of the artist on plate. Edition of 150 copies. One of the 50 H.C.copies in Roman Numerals. This print is one of the illustrations realized by Odilon Redon for an important e...
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1920s Symbolist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Nude - Lithograph by Andrè Derain - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a modern artwork realized by Andrè Derain in Early 20th century. Lithograph on simili-Japan paper. Realized for "Les Travaux et les Jeux" by Vincent Muselli. Published by J...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

1920 German Expressionist Figurative Lithograph "The Forest" Paul Kleinschmidt
Located in Surfside, FL
Paul Kleinschmidt, (1883–1949) "The Forest" Lithograph on Cream Paper 1920 Frame: 21" X 17" Image: 10.75" X 8.5" An expressionist forest scene with pine trees Provenance: bears label...
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1920s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Mele - Original Advertising Lithograph by Marcello Dudovich - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Mele is a rare colored lithograph, printed by G. Ricordi and C. Milano, Milan, between 1895 and 1914. An advertising poster of the famous Napolitan tailoring society "Mele", in very...
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1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Drinkers - Etching By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - 1914
Located in Roma, IT
Drinkers is an Etching realized by Georges Jeanniot in 1914. Signed on the lower, titled. Good condition.
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1910s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Ballet und Pantomime "Scherzo II", plate #15.
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints

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Paper

Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
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1910s Modern Figurative Prints

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Engraving, Paper

Erotic Scene - Lithograph by Toyen - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an artwork realized by Toyen in 1923. Mixed colored watercolored lithograph. The artwork is an illustration from the book Pybrac written by Pierre Louÿs  (1870-1925...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Mein Weg mit dem Weib, plate 10
Located in Roma, IT
Drypoint and aquatint (brown ink) on cream paper. Signed "Rehn" in pencil on the lower right margin. Titled and numbered in pencil on the lower left margin. Edition of 25 prints. Fro...
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1910s Modern Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

Hand Signed Norman Rockwell "No Swimming" Print
Located in New York, NY
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978) No Swimming Original painting produced 1921, date of this print unknown Lithograph Sight: 21 x 18 in. Framed: 30 x 24 x 1 in. Signed in plate Ha...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Tea Time - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Tea Time is a lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1920. Good conditions. Edition of 110. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Norman Rockwell "Family Tree" Lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978) Family Tree Original painting produced 1959, this print published 1959 in Japan by The Curtis Publishing Company Lithograph Sight: 19 1/4 x 13 3...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso, "Sculpteur modelant from Le Chef-d'Euvre Inconnu", etching
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original etching from "Le Chef- d’Œuvre Inconnu" by Pablo Picasso, created in 1927 and published in 1931. It is hand signed and numbered 7/99 in red brush...
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1920s Other Art Style Figurative Prints

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Etching

L'arc-en-ciel - Pochoir by G. Barbier - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
This is one of the artworks in the portfolio 'Le Bonheur du Jour', by George Barbier. Passepartout included : 34 x 49 cm
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Stencil

Mein Weg mit dem Weib, plate 7
Located in Roma, IT
Drypoint and aquatint (brown ink) on cream paper. Signed in pencil on the lower right margin. Titled and numbered in pencil on the lower left margin. Edition of 25 prints. From the s...
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1910s Modern Figurative Prints

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Aquatint, Drypoint

"Woman Desired by Man" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Printed in 1920 for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition of 500. Catalogue refere...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Gustav Klimt "Study for Water Serpents" collotype from Funfundzwanzig folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Title page numbered: 263/450
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1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Military - Original Etching by Anselmo Bucci - 1917
Located in Roma, IT
"Military" 1917 is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 82/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner,...
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1910s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Kostume, Plakate, und Dekorationen, "Schnackenberg-Ausstellung 1914""
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
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1910s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Mein Weg mit dem Weib #13 - Original Etching by W.R. Rehn
Located in Roma, IT
Drypoint and aquatint (brown ink) on cream paper. Signed "Rehn" in pencil on the lower right margin. Titled and numbered in pencil on the lower left margin. Edition of 25 prints. Fr...
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1910s Symbolist Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint

Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
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1910s Modern Figurative Prints

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Engraving, Paper

Mein Weg mit dem Weib #11 - Original Etching by W.R. Rehn
Located in Roma, IT
Drypoint and aquatint (brown ink) on cream paper. Signed "Rehn" in pencil on the lower right margin. Titled and numbered in pencil on the lower left margin. Edition of 25 prints. Fr...
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1910s Symbolist Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint

Pierrot avec Parapluie, Surrealist Etching by Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) - Pierrot avec Parapluie, Year: 1927, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Richard de Bas, Image Size: 14.25 x 11.5 inches, Size: 22 x 16 in. (55.88 ...
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1920s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Torse, Fond à Losanges - Drypoint on China by H. Matisse, 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Image size: 8.6x13.9 cm. Original drypoint on Chine Appliqué realized by Matisse in 1929 in an edition of only 25 prints. Signed and numbered in pencil lower right. Excellent conditi...
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1920s Fauvist Figurative Prints

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Drypoint

Chez Le Patissier - Original Etching by J.E. Laboureur - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Signed and titled on plate. Very good conditions. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 50 years ago by an a...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Mele - Original Advertising Lithograph by Marcello Dudovich - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions. 26x18.2 cm. Mele is a precious color lithograph printed by G. Ricordi and C. Milano, Milan, between 1895 and 1914. An advertising poster of the famous Italian tai...
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1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
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1910s Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper, Engraving

Klimt, Wasserschlangen, Das Werk von Gustav Klimt (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.23 x 17.32 inches; image size: 6.46 x 11.73 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the fo...
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1910s Symbolist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Hunting - Lithograph after L.T. Foujita - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20 x 15.2 cm. After Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita Lithographic reproduction in colors, from the set of sixteen illustrations from Propos d’un intoxiqué, by Jules Boiss...
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1920s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Ex Libris Laszlo - Woodcut on Paper - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Laszlo is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the 1920s. Original B/W woodcut on ivory-colored paper. Signed and dated on plate on the lower margin: "Nemes Irm...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

Original 1920 "Cachou Lajaunie" vintage poster by Leonetto Cappiello
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Beautifully framed original 1920 "Cachou Lajaunie" vintage lithograph poster by Leonetto Cappiello. Printed by Devambez Imp. Paris.
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

I Buffoni - Vintage Adv Lithograph by L. Metlicovitz - 1914
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 26.2x9.1 cm. I Buffoni is a beautiful colored lithographed original manifesto on cardboard, realized by the Italian artist and one of the fathers of the modern Italian poster art, Leopoldo Metlicovitz (Trieste, 1868 - Ponte Lambro, 1944). Printed by Officine Ricordi, Milan in 1914, this advertising poster for "I Buffoni" is inspired by the Art Nouveau graphic style. Indeed Metlicovitz, through the Ricordi, realized much advertising posters and manifestoes for many emerging companies such as Pirelli, Ettore Moretti, Magazzini Mele in Naples, relied with his talented pencil. The Liberty atmosphere is palpable from the sensuality of the female body appearing flat and emptied and turning into a mere twisted black contouring graphic line. The colors are enameled, the languid glances, the fixed smiles, veined by an almost imperceptible underground decadence that is a prelude to the First World War. This is a wonderful vintage advertising poster, with the inscriptions printed on lower margin, under the image: "L. Metlicovitz / Off. G. Ricordi and C. Milano / 70 x 200. In excellent conditions, except for some minor stains along the margins. This modern artwork shows the vintage Art Nouveau taste and the Metlicovitz's draftsmanship and his full mastery of the artistic medium, has the dignity of an object of art to collect and could be a colorful and fashionable piece for your sophisticated home furniture. Leopoldo Metlicovitz (Trieste, 1868 - Ponte Lambro, 1944) The Italian painter, illustrator, theatrical and advertising scenographer is considered one of the precursors of Futurism and, together with Leonetto Cappiello, Adolf Hohenstein, Giovanni Maria Mataloni and Marcello Dudovich, one of the fathers of modern Italian poster art. He began his artistic career at the age of fourteen working as an apprentice in a typography in Udine, where he learned the technique of lithography. Here he is noticed by Giulio Ricordi, owner of the namesake Officine Grafiche, who invites him to Milan to work as a lithographer. In 1892, after collaborating with Tensi, a photographic product company, he returned to Ricordi as technical director. At the same time, he entered the theatrical environment and began his career as a set designer and costume designer at La Scala. The Mele di Napoli tailoring company entrusted him with the task of advertising his clothes and in 1906, on the occasion of the great Universal Exposition in Milan, he won the competition for the fair poster, establishing himself also as a poster artist and then collaborating with several magazines as an illustrator. For Ricordi he takes care of the illustrations of calendars, opera librettos, postcards. Other famous images created by him are those for the poster of the film Cabiria, a blockbuster of the silent film scripted by Gabriele D'Annunzio, and the trademark that is still used today by the Brothers Branca Distilleries, producers of Fernet Branca...
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1910s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Marina in Burrasca - Original Etching by Carlo Carrà - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Marina in Burrasca is a splendid etching realized by Carlo Carrà (1881- 1966) in 1924. Hand-signed, titled and qualified as an artist proof (Prova d'artista) on the lower margin by ...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Circling Doves - Lithograph by A. Bowen Davies
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 30 x 20 cm. Circling Doves is an original lithograph by Arthur Bowen Davies, one of the most important American artists, who lived from 1862 to 1928. The print was...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"Landschaft mit Frauen" original woodcut
By Aloys Wach
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. The title means "Landscape with Women". Printed in 1920 for the German Expressionist art revue Das Kunstblatt, published in Berlin by Verlag Gustav Kiepenhe...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Erotic Scene - Lithograph by Toyen - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an artwork realized by Toyen in 1927. Mixed colored watercolored lithograph. The artwork is an illustration from the book Pybrac written by Pierre Louÿs  (1870-1925...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Ballet und Pantomime "Walzer", plate #21.
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East. In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color. SCHNACKENBERG BALLET UND PANTOMIME...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints

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Paper

Kostume, Plakate, und Dekorationen, "Anne Lemans"
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East. In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color. SCHNACKENBERG: KOSTUME, PLAKATE UND DEKORATIONEN, a cardboard bound art book consisting of 43 prints of work by Walter Schnackenberg, 30 of which are color lithographs that are signed and some are titled and dated in the plate, as well as black and white prints and photographs with accompanying text by Oskar Bie; lithographs printed at Kunstanstalt Oskar Consee in Munich, other images printed by Gesellschaft Pick & Co. in Munich, the text and cover with color images by Schnackenberg front and verso printed by R. Oldenbourg in Munich; published by Musarion Verlag, Munich, 1920. The majority of Walter Schnackenberg’s artistic output was destroyed by bomb attacks in Munich in 1944. The highly publicized 2013 auction in New York of the recovered pre-war poster collection once belonging to German poster aficionado, Hans Sachs has reintroduced the world to Walter Schnackenberg’s graphic genius and priceless ephemeral art from a lost era. Besides the museum world, designer Karl Lagerfeld is one of the most prodigious collectors of Schnackenberg. Flipping through the pages of Kostume, Plakate und Dekorationen, it becomes quite clear that Schnackenberg’s collection is ground zero at the crossroads of early modern fashion where the cult of celebrity meets up with dance, music, theater and cabaret, film and the graphic medium. Berlin and Munich under Germany’s Weimar Republic in the first quarter of the 20th century produced just the atmosphere to feed this burgeoning industry. Rising inflation sparked a recklessness to live large for the moment and heightened a desire for escapism. An influx of Indian and East Asian dancers and musicians added to the artsy bohemian cultural mix. A new decadence and tolerance resulted. Film boldly featured provocative subject matter. Cabarets became popular venues giving rise to the demi-monde in which people from all social stations mixed more freely in a thriving underground economy and culture where there was a blurring of boundaries and of social codes. Noted art historian and cultural doyen, Oskar Bie astutely observes in his introduction to Schnackenberg’s publication that what unites the images is fantasy and advertisement. Schnackenberg uses the eye as an instrument to brilliantly construct and convey this double message. His personages never directly confront the viewer. Their eyes gaze off in the distance like those of the screenplayer and film star Hedamaria Scholz in Schnackenberg’s “Die Rodelhexe” movie poster. Their eyes follow the path of a dance composition or become a transfixed and ogling male gaze such as the iconic 1911 Odeon Casino...
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1910s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original vintage Cognac Pellisson poster by Leonetto Cappiello
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Original vintage Cognac Pellisson poster by Leonetto Cappiello of figure carrying Pellison Pere & Co. Cognac barrel printed by Vercasson. Raised Maxmi...
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1920s Other Art Style Figurative Prints

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Paper

Kostume, Plakate, und Dekorationen, "Odeon-Casino"
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East. In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color. SCHNACKENBERG: KOSTUME, PLAKATE UND DEKORATIONEN, a cardboard bound art book consisting of 43 prints of work by Walter Schnackenberg, 30 of which are color lithographs that are signed and some are titled and dated in the plate, as well as black and white prints and photographs with accompanying text by Oskar Bie; lithographs printed at Kunstanstalt Oskar Consee in Munich, other images printed by Gesellschaft Pick & Co. in Munich, the text and cover with color images by Schnackenberg front and verso printed by R. Oldenbourg in Munich; published by Musarion Verlag, Munich, 1920. The majority of Walter Schnackenberg’s artistic output was destroyed by bomb attacks in Munich in 1944. The highly publicized 2013 auction in New York of the recovered pre-war poster collection once belonging to German poster aficionado, Hans Sachs has reintroduced the world to Walter Schnackenberg’s graphic genius and priceless ephemeral art from a lost era. Besides the museum world, designer Karl Lagerfeld is one of the most prodigious collectors of Schnackenberg. Flipping through the pages of Kostume, Plakate und Dekorationen, it becomes quite clear that Schnackenberg’s collection is ground zero at the crossroads of early modern fashion where the cult of celebrity meets up with dance, music, theater and cabaret, film and the graphic medium. Berlin and Munich under Germany’s Weimar Republic in the first quarter of the 20th century produced just the atmosphere to feed this burgeoning industry. Rising inflation sparked a recklessness to live large for the moment and heightened a desire for escapism. An influx of Indian and East Asian dancers and musicians added to the artsy bohemian cultural mix. A new decadence and tolerance resulted. Film boldly featured provocative subject matter. Cabarets became popular venues giving rise to the demi-monde in which people from all social stations mixed more freely in a thriving underground economy and culture where there was a blurring of boundaries and of social codes. Noted art historian and cultural doyen, Oskar Bie astutely observes in his introduction to Schnackenberg’s publication that what unites the images is fantasy and advertisement. Schnackenberg uses the eye as an instrument to brilliantly construct and convey this double message. His personages never directly confront the viewer. Their eyes gaze off in the distance like those of the screenplayer and film star Hedamaria Scholz in Schnackenberg’s “Die Rodelhexe” movie poster. Their eyes follow the path of a dance composition or become a transfixed and ogling male gaze such as the iconic 1911 Odeon Casino...
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1910s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Rare 1923 Cubist Reuven Rubin Woodcut Woodblock Fisherman Print Israeli Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the original first edition 1923 printing. there was a much later edition done after these originals. These are individually hand signed in pencil by artist as issued. This listing is for the one print. the other documentation is included here for provenance and is not included in this listing. The various images inspired by the Jewish Mysticism and rabbis and mystics of jerusalem and Kabbalah is holy, dramatic and optimistic Rubin succeeded to evoke the spirit of life in Israel in those early days. They are done in a modern art style influenced by German Expressionism, particularly, Ernst Barlach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Franz Marc, as introduced to Israel by Jakob Steinhardt, Hermann Struck and Joseph Budko. Reuven Rubin 1893 -1974 was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania. Rubin Zelicovich (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galati 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. He was of the well known Jewish artists in Paris along with Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine, 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. 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 Judaea competition. He died in 1974. Part of the early generation of artists in Israel, Joseph Zaritsky, Arieh Lubin, Reuven Rubin, Sionah Tagger, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Mordecai Ardon, Yitzhak Katz, and Baruch Agadati; These painters depicted the country’s landscapes in the 1920s rebelled against the Bezalel school of Boris Schatz. They sought current styles in Europe that would help portray their own country’s landscape, in keeping with the spirit of the time. Rubin’s Cezannesque landscapes from the 1920s were defined by both a modern and a naive style, portraying the landscape and inhabitants of Israel in a sensitive fashion. His landscape paintings in particular paid special detail to a spiritual, translucent light. His early work bore the influences of Futurism, Vorticism, Cubism and Surrealism. In Palestine, he became one of the founders of the new Eretz-Yisrael style. Recurring themes in his work were the bible, the prophet, the biblical landscape, folklore and folk art, people, including Yemenite, Hasidic Jews and Arabs. Many of his paintings are sun-bathed depictions of Jerusalem and the Galilee. Rubin might have been influenced by the work of Henri Rousseau whose naice style combined with Eastern nuances, as well as with the neo-Byzantine art to which Rubin had been exposed in his native Romania. In accordance with his integrative style, he signed his works with his first name in Hebrew and his surname in Roman letters. In 1924, he was the first artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Tower of David, in Jerusalem (later exhibited in Tel Aviv at Gymnasia Herzliya). That year he was elected chairman of the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Palestine. From the 1930s onwards, Rubin designed backdrops for Habima Theater, the Ohel Theater and other theaters. His biography, published in 1969, is titled My Life - My Art. He died in Tel Aviv in October 1974, after having bequeathed his home on 14 Bialik Street and a core collection of his paintings to the city of Tel Aviv. The Rubin Museum opened in 1983. The director and curator of the museum is his daughter-in-law, Carmela Rubin. Rubin's paintings are now increasingly sought after. At a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2007, his work accounted for six of the ten top lots. Along with Yaacov Agam and Menashe Kadishman he is among Israel's best known artists internationally. Education 1912 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 1913-14 École des Beaux Arts, Paris and Académie Colarossi, Paris Select Group Exhibitions Eged - Palestine Painters Group Eged - Palestine Painters Group, Allenby Street, Tel Aviv 1929 Artists: Chana Orloff, Abraham Melnikoff, Rubin, Reuven Nahum Gutman, Sionah Tagger,Arieh Allweil, Jewish Artists Association, Levant Fair, Tel Aviv, 1929 Artists: Ludwig Blum,Eliyahu Sigad, Shmuel Ovadyahu, Itzhak Frenel Frenkel,Ozer Shabat, Menahem Shemi, First Exhibition of ''Hever Omanim'' First Exhibition of ''Hever Omanim'' Steimatzky Gallery, Jerusalem 1936 Artists: Gutman, Nachum Holzman, Shimshon Mokady, Moshe Sima, Miron Rubin, Reuven Steinhardt, Jakob Ben Zvi, Zeev Ziffer, Moshe Allweil, Arieh Group Exhibition Group Exhibition Katz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 1939 Artists: Avni, Aharon Holzman, Shimshon Gliksberg, Haim Gutman, Nachum Ovadyahu, Shmuel Shorr, Zvi Schwartz, Chaya Streichman, Yehezkel Tagger, Sionah Rubin, Reuven A Collection of Works by Artists of the Land of Israel A Collection of Works by Artists of the Land of Israel The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem 1940 Artists: Shemi, Menahem Rubin, Reuven Avni, Aharon Mokady, Moshe Jonas, Ludwig Steinhardt, Jakob Ticho, Anna Krakauer, Leopold Gutman, Nachum Budko, Joseph Ardon, Mordecai Sima, Miron Castel, Moshe Pann, Abel Struck, Hermann Gur Arie, Meir Ben Zvi, Zeev Litvinovsky, Pinchas Artists in Israel for the Defense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv 1967 Artists: Avraham Binder, Motke Blum, (Mordechai) Samuel Bak, Yosl Bergner, Nahum Gilboa, Jean David, Marcel Janco, Lea Nikel, Jacob Pins, Esther Peretz...
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1920s Abstract Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

COUPLE DE PAYSANS
Located in Portland, ME
Pissarro, Camille. COUPLE DE PAYSANS. D.125. Etching and aquatint on laid paper. Unsigned. From the posthumous edition of 10 printed in 1923. 4 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches, 118 x 78 mm. (plat...
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1920s Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Klimt, Weibliches Bildnis, Das Werk von Gustav Klimt (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.23 x 17.32 inches; image size: 14.69 x 12.8 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the fo...
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1910s Symbolist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Kneeling Female, Semi-Nude" Collotype plate
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Female Nude, Walking" Collotype plate
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Bayros-Mappe III - Héliogravure by Fraz von Bayros - 1913
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on japanese paper realized by Fraz von Bayros in 1913 for Ex Libris Verlag K. Th. Senger, Munich. Mounted on passepartout. Edition of 260, hand signed in pencil by the ...
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1910s Symbolist Figurative Prints

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Photogravure

Conte des 1001 Nuits
Located in Wilton, CT
The Tale of a Thousand and One Nights is interpreted by Dutch painter and illustrator Kees Van Dongen in over one hundred full-page original black and white line drawings and seven f...
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1910s Art Deco Figurative Prints

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Gouache

Pablo Picasso, "Les Trois Graces, II, " original etching, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso Les Trois Graces, II 1922/23 This is numbered 74/100 Published by Marcel Guiot, Paris. Original etching, hand signed in pencil by Pica...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Czech Park Scene, Swing Set Weimar Era 1923 Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Ladies chatting in park. man pushes girl on boat swing. Vojtěch Tittelbach ( 1900, Mutějovice - 1971, Prague) was a Czech painter and graphic artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Vierge aux sept glaives (The Virgin pierced by seven swords) (Sorrowful Mother)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Vierge aux sept glaives (The Virgin pierced by seven swords) (Sorrowful Mother) Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1926 Unsigned as issued From: Miserere ...
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1920s French School Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

Advice
Located in New York, NY
Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), Advice, etching and drypoint, 1915, signed in pencil lower right and titled lower left. In generally good condition but obviously a proof impression, with marg...
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1910s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Composition, Les Biches, Marie Laurencin
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier vélin des Manufactures d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Biches, 1924. Published by Édi...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Tempête à Nice - PhotoLithograph after Henri Matisse - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Tempête à Nice is a photolithograph realized in 1993 after Henri Matisse. Signed on the plate On Milano handmade paper. Very good conditions.
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Ballet und Pantomime "Spukgestalt" (Ghostly Figure), plate #12.
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints

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Paper

John Sloan Etching, 1916, "McSorley's Back Room"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
John Sloan (1871-1951) etching created 1916. Edition: 100 Titled: “McSorley’s Back Room” Plate size: 5 1/4" H x 7 " W Sheet size: 7 1/2" H x 10 3/8" W In excellent condition, unframe...
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1910s Figurative Prints

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Paper

Decorating with Figurative Art Prints and Works on Paper

Bring energy and an array of welcome colors and textures into your space by decorating with figurative fine-art prints and works on paper.

Figurative art stands in contrast to abstract art, which is more expressive than representational. The oldest-known work of figurative art is a figurative painting — specifically, a rock painting of an animal made over 40,000 years ago in Borneo. This remnant of a remote past has long faded, but its depiction of a cattle-like creature in elegant ocher markings endures.

Since then, figurative art has evolved significantly as it continues to represent the world, including a breadth of works on paper, including printmaking. This includes woodcuts, which are a type of relief print with perennial popularity among collectors. The artist carves into a block and applies ink to the raised surface, which is then pressed onto paper. There are also planographic prints, which use metal plates, stones or other flat surfaces as their base. The artist will often draw on the surface with grease crayon and then apply ink to those markings. Lithographs are a common version of planographic prints.

Figurative art printmaking was especially popular during the height of the Pop art movement, and this kind of work can be seen in artist Andy Warhol’s extensive use of photographic silkscreen printing. Everyday objects, logos and scenes were given a unique twist, whether in the style of a comic strip or in the use of neon colors.

Explore an impressive collection of figurative art prints for sale on 1stDibs and read about how to arrange your wall art.

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