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Venus de Milo
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: offset lithograph (after the Rodin watercolor). Printed in 1945 on Vélin de Lana paper and published in Paris by the Musée Rodin in an edition of 2500. Image size: 7 1/4 x 5 ...
Category
1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
1959 Israeli Yosl Bergner Modernist Color Woodcut Woodblock Print
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract Composition, 1959 Silkscreen Lithograph "Phoenix".
This was from a portfolio which included works by Yosl Bergner, Menashe Kadishman, Yosef Zaritsky, Aharon Kahana, Jacob Wexler...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Miró, Composition (Cramer 145; Mourlot, 738-740), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 193-194. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur,...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ni asi la Distingue - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1799
Located in Roma, IT
"Ni asi la Distingue" is an original aquatint realized by Francisco Goya in 1799, from Los Caprichos series, Plate 7, first edition.
Rare and in ...
Category
1790s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Dipsaceae - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Organ Grinder and Beggar – French School 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching and aquatint in sepia on cream wove paper, 10 x 8 inches (254 x 201 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower left. Minor toning with evidence of very minor moistur...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Nijinsky as 'the poet' in Les Sylphides.
Located in London, GB
BARBIER, George.
Nijinsky as 'the poet' in Les Sylphides.
London, C. W. Beaumont, 1913.
‘The designs, although somewhat fantastic in treatment, do convey the impression produced b...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Canadian Tire 2/4 - abstract, figurative, pop-art, limited giclee print
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This pop art acrylic painting of a ‘Canadian’ tire is by Charles Pachter.
Canada’s much-celebrated pop artist, Charles Pachter displays his signatory humour in this patriotic rendit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée
LA JOI
By Marc Chagall
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper hand signed and numbered by the artist. Mourlot 976. Sheet size 28.70 x 21.10 inches. Image size 37.25 x 24.25 inches. Frame size 53.25 x 39.25 ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Gossip, Itzchak Tarkay
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Itzchak Tarkay (1935-2012)
Title: Gossip
Year: Circa 2000
Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper
Size: 13.5 x 11.5 inches
Edition: 493/750, plus 100 Remarques
Condition: Excellent
...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Giulietta, Framed Art Deco Screenprint with Foil by Erte
By Erté
Located in Long Island City, NY
Giulietta is an Art Deco depiction of a woman posing in a long gown against a plain black background. Around her, ghostly hands rise up offering beautiful temptations for her to cons...
Category
1990s Figurative Prints
Materials
Foil
Le Purgatoire XXII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Bible : Daniel the Prophet - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
The Bible, Daniel the Prophet
Original lithography (Mourlot Workshop)
On paper 37 x 26.5 cm (c. 14.5 x 10.2 in)
Second illustration on back, see photo no...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
New Glory Banner (Americana, Iconic, Classic, Vintage, 28% OFF, FRAMED)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Robert Indiana
New Glory Banner
Silkscreen on heavy woven paper
Year: 1997
Unsigned as issued
Size: 10.4 × 16.8 on 16.6 × 21.7 inches
Framed: 29 x 21.25 inches
COA provided
*W...
Category
1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Andy Warhol, 'Mick Jagger FSII.139', Framed Announcement-card, 1975
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Andy Warhol.
Title: 'Mick Jagger' FS II.139 Framed Announcement card.
Medium: Lithograph
Size: Image size: 6" x 4"
Framed: 10" x 8"
Year: 1975
Description: Signed and numbere...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Early 20th Century Social Realism Etching by John Sloan -- Bandits Cave
Located in Soquel, CA
1920 Social Realism Etching by John French Sloan titled "Bandits Cave"
Compelling etching by John Sloan (American 1871 - 1951), 1920 during first year of prohibition showing a estab...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Judaica Jewish Shtetl Etching Hasidic Rabbi Meditation Vintage Chassidic Print
By Paul Jeffay
Located in Surfside, FL
"Meditation."
Chassidic boy, Yeshiva student with open book. Judaica, Jewish scenes from a ghetto.
Saul Yaffie, a.k.a. Paul Jeffay, (1898–1957) was a Scottish Jewish artist. Known ...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Sale and Marketing Kiosk for P Cigarettes (Bauhaus) (20% OFF + Free Shipping)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Herbert Bayer
Sale and Marketing Kiosk for P Cigarettes (Verkauf- und Werbekiosk, Zigarettenmarke P ), 1924
Offset Lithograph
Year: 1994
Size: 33.2 × 23.2 inches
Publisher: Bauhaus A...
Category
1920s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
L'Enfer XIV (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ancient Greek Sculptures - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Greek Sculptures is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the univers...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Rachel (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25), Dessins Pour La Bible (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Marc Chagall, Dessins Pour La Bible, Verv...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
My Mother Bridlington, Hand Signed Tate Gallery print, Ed. of 250 w/official COA
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney
My Mother (Bridlington), 1988
Four Color Lithograph on T.H. Saunders Waterford 250 gram paper. Hand signed. Also accompanied by a separate signed Certificate of Authent...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Presence - Vintage Offset Print After Franco Fontana - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Presence is a beautiful offset realized by Franco Fontana .
Limited edition of 1.000.
good conditions except for some foldimgs.
Colored poster from a photograph by Franco Fontana ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Morning Awakening
Located in PARIS, FR
"Morning Awakening"
from the series "The Times of the Day"
Original lithograph
Signed "Mucha" and dated "99" for 1899, at the lower part of the plate.
There is no hand-written signa...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Original "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" vintage 1949 movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Rare Authentic original "Take me out to the ball game' vintage movie poster. NSS: 49/119. Linen backed. Frank Sinatra, Ester Williams, Gene Kelly. M.G.M's Gay Technicolor Musical!
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME
Cast overview, first billed only:
Frank Sinatra .... Dennis Ryan
Esther Williams .... K.C. Higgins
Gene Kelly .... Eddie O'Brien
Betty Garrett .... Shirley Delwyn
Edward Arnold .... Joe Lorgan
Jules Munshin .... Nat Goldberg
Richard Lane...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
Liberty Head II, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Liberty Head II
Year: 2001
Edition: 458/500, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper
Size: 3.5 x 3 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscripti...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Tamariscinee - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paul Gauguin, "Untitled" Beach Scene, framed lithograph
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Paul Gauguin is a famous French Post-Impressionist most well known for his paintings created in Tahiti.
This is probably from the middle years of his painting career known as his syn...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Accidente" - 1943 Linocut on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Accidente" - 1943 Linocut on Paper
"Accidente" from the portfolio "25 Prints of Leopoldo Méndez", depicts a figure, upside down, appearing to fall downward from a ladder. Another f...
Category
1940s Post-Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Linocut
Lucien Guitry et Jeanne Granier
Located in New York, NY
Artist’s in-plate monogram lower left
Category
19th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Daybreak in Alabama, Sunrise Is Coming After While
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 14 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Bookmarks in the Pages of Life, 1998. Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York; printed by Drexel Press, Inc. Long Island City, 1998. Excerpted from the folio, CCC examples, designed, hand-set in Monotype Perpetua, printed, and hand-bound by Michael and Winifred Bixler, Skaneateles, New York. Paper made in France at Arches. Silkscreens printed by the Drexel Press, Inc. Long Island City, New York.
PHOEBE BEASLEY...
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Le Paradis XX (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Fleurs de Mousse - Vintage Adv Lithograph by L. Metlicovitz - 1898
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 26x18.8 cm.
Fleurs de Mousse is an amazing colored lithograph 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 1898, the advertising manifesto for the Fleurs de Mousse fragrance is inspired by the art nouveau graphics of the master Adolf Hohenstein.
This is a wonderful vintage advertising poster for the "Fleurs de Mousse, le grand parfum à la mode", monogrammed on lower right margin and with the inscriptions printed on lower margin, under the image: "L. Metlicovitz / Off. G. Ricordi and C. Milano / 90 x 125. In excellent conditions, except for some light abrasions of the paper on the right and lower margins.
This modern original poster shows the vintage Art Nouveau taste and the Metlicovitz's 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...
Category
1890s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Isaac Newton, physicist, scientist, 19th century portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Isaac Newton'
Steel-engraving. C1850. Facsimile signature below title.
80mm by 60mm (image) 260mm by 170mm (sheet)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726/27) was an English polymath acti...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Katabexine
Located in Hinsdale, IL
CAPPIELLO, LEONETTO
(1875 - 1942)
"Katabexine"
Lithograph in color, linen-backed c. 1903
Sheet size: 54.25” x 39”
Cap./GP, 252; Cap/StV, 4.22; DFP-II, 118; Schardt, pp. 174-5; PAI-V...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L'Andalouise au Temps des Maures
By Jules Chéret
Located in Spokane, WA
Original L'Andalouise au Temps des Maures vintage art nouveau poster.
L'Andalousie au Temps des Maures. Exposition de 1900.
Imprimerie C...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Woman Walks into Bar" 53/450
By Sue Coe
Located in Houston, TX
Known for addressing difficult issues, this lithograph by Sue Coe tackles the difficult subject of rape culture. It is numbered in the lower left corner and signed and dated in the l...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Social Realist Original Lithograph Advertisement Moses Soyer
By Moses Soyer
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer was born in Borisoglebsk, Russian Empire, in 1899. His father was a Hebrew scholar, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Oiseaux, Rose (Vallier 183), Paroles peintes I, Georges Braque
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin Johannot d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Paroles peintes I, 1962. Published by Éditions O. La...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
MICK JAGGER FS II.139
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by Andy Warhol & Mick Jagger, numbered in pencil. Number AP 19/50 (aside from the main edition of 250). Screenprint on Arches Aquarelle (Rough) Paper. Printed by Alex...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Metropolitan Opera Centennial 1883-1983 lithographic poster A Heart at the Opera
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine
Metropolitan Opera Centennial 1883-1983 poster, 1983
Offset lithograph poster; unsigned
46 × 29 inches
Unframed
This limited edition poster was pu...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 88), Dans l'Atelier de Picasso (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches à la forme savoir paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Dans l'Atelier de Picasso, 1957. Published by Fernan...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hebdomeros - Lithograph by Giorgio De Chirico - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
"Hebdomeros" is an hand-signed colored lithograph realized by Giorgio de Chirico in 1929.
This is an edition of 100 prints, and is part of the series "Metamorphosis: Suite de Six Lithographies", editions des Quatre-Chemins, 1929.
Very good condition.
Numbered. Edition, 88/100.
Bibliography: A. Ciranna, " G. De Chirico: Catalogo dell’Opera Grafica 1921-1969 ”, Roma, edizione " La Medusa ", 1969, p. 33, n. 13.
The widely renowned precursor of Surrealism was the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978). De Chirico’s definitely ambiguous artworks of cityscapes are the most celebrated examples of a movement called Pittura Metafisica , or Metaphysical Painting.
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (2021)
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Ewa Juszkiewicz
Title: Untitled (2021)
Year: 2023
Medium: Archival pigment print with screenprinted varnish on Canson Etching Rag Paper 310gsm
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Composition (Duthuit N° 17), Pierre à feu, Les Miroirs profonds, Henri Matisse
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin supérieur paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by Maeght, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, January 17, 1947. Note...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Man With Guitar By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Man With Guitar
By Billy Childish
Billy Childish is a British artist, musician, poet, and writer known for his raw, uncompromising creativity across various mediums, emerging from...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
$ (1) FS II.274-279
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
The portfolio consists of six screenprints. Each hand-signed and numbered. Each print is unique. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York. Published by Andy Warhol, New York. The artwork is in excellent condition.
The Dollar Sign series from 1982 was the ultimate manifestation of Andy Warhol’s love...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Board, Screen
Sylvie, fond rouge, 1995, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Sylvie, fond rouge, 1995
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche
64,5 x 50 cm / 76 x 56 cm
Bibliographie:
Impri...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Historic Sun and the Moon performance print (Hand signed by Marina Abramovic)
Located in New York, NY
Marina Abramović & Ulay
Sun and the Moon (Hand Signed print), 1987
Offset Lithograph Poster
Uniquely isgned in ink pen on the front) by Marina Abramovic
Historic collectors item
25....
Category
1980s Performance Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Le Beguin (Anaïs)
Located in Storrs, CT
Le Beguin (Anaïs). 1922. Etching. Fletcher catalog 33 state iii./iv (before cancellation). 5 1/2 x 4 5/16 (sheet 11 1/2 x 8 13/16). Edition 76. Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarter...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
DAMA NEGRA
Located in Santa Monica, CA
DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS (1896 – 1974)
DAMA NEGRA 1937-1945 (Williams 8)
Transfer lithograph, signed and no. 38-EE/50 and dated 1945. 13 5/8 x 19
3/16”. Very large full margins,, sheet 29 x 21 ½”. Stamped lower sheet
edge “Original Lithograph” It is difficult to determine the various editions
of Siqueiros’ prints. He would often reprint small editions of his early
prints over time. Some of these were transfer lithographs in reverse and
slightly smaller. These are sometimes numbered E/E “Edicion Especial”.
Reba Williams discusses the problems with identifying editions in her
catalog “Mexican Prints...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ottokar Mascha Folio, plate 18: "Shaw Oder Die Ironie Poster" by Egon Schiele
By Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after EGON SCHIELE (1890-1918) SHAW ODER DIE IRONIE POSTER, C. 1912, (In Mascha, no. 18) Schiele’s poster is an advertisement for a lecture to be given ...
Category
1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L'Enfer XII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
L'Enfer XVII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Knight
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Knight
Lithograph from 1959.
Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm.
Plate signed.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Inferno: Canto 20 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Inferno: Canto 20
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size: 1...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Marc Chagall - The Red Rider - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
The Red Rider
From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle
1957
See Mourlot 191
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985.
The Village
Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work.
At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well.
Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged.
The Beehive
Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period.
Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come.
War, Peace and Revolution
In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos.
To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia.
In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good.
Flight
After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research.
Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion.
With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way.
Haunted Harbors
Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Kabuki Actor - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1848/49
Located in Roma, IT
Kabuki Actor is a woodcut print realized by Utagawa Kunisada in 1848/49.
Lifetime impression in very good condition, except for some very minor sign of time.
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1840s Modern Figurative Prints
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Woodcut