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Size: Miniature
Untitled (Profile of an African Woman)
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, 'Untitled (Profile of a Black Woman)', lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 14 in pencil. Number 14 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publishe...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Matisse, Série C, var. 5 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'Malibrand' Italian 1960s Women's Fashion Design Illustration
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original 1960s fashion design from a Northern Italian fashion house. Sketched and coloured by hand with a pencil sketch of the reverse. The name and description of the outfit is type...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil

Kabuki Actor - Woodblock Print attr. to Utagawa Kunisada - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Kabuki Actor is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19 century and attributed to Utagawa Kunisada. Beautiful colored woodblock print, included a cardboard passpartout. Includ...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

“5 O’Clock”
Located in Southampton, NY
. Here for your consideration is an original signed lithograph by Adolf Arthur Dehn done in 1922 titled 5 O’Clock. The condition of the lithograph is excellent. Signed in the p...
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1920s Post-War Figurative Prints

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

The Thames from Waterloo.
Located in Storrs, CT
The Thames from Waterloo Bridge. 1913. Etching. Dickins 12. 3 3/4 x 7 1/16 (sheet 7 x 10 15/16). Edition 100. A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream-wove paper. Signed in pencil. Architectural draughtsman, etcher. Born in Lustdorf, near Odessa, Russia, to a British father and Russian mother. Traveled extensively with his family before studying architecture in St Petersburg, with further studies at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Atelier Redan, Paris. Practiced architecture in Moscow and was co-designer of the Metropole Hotel, in 1898. Moved to London in 1907 and was employed as an architectural perspectivist. After a sponsored visit to Rome and Venice he had a solo exhibit at the Fine Art Society, 1912, 'Watercolours of London and Venice'; followed by a further four shows. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers..., and Connell & Sons. His etchings were published in London by H C Dickens,1913-24, and a folio of his work 'Architectural watercolors and etchings of William Walcot' was published, in 1919. Elected RE, 1920; FRIBA, 1922; Associate British School at Rome. A foremost architectural draughtsman, he worked from studios in London, Oxford and Rome. The complete set of The Arteries of Great Britain includes: The Thames, The Tyne, The Forth, The Clyde, The Mersey. Signed in pencil .Housed in a 16 x 20 inch mat suitable for framing. Opened in 1890, the Forth Bridge...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

Study for Floating Figure- Lithograph by Herbert James Draper-Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Study for  Floating Figure is a lithograph realized by Herbert James Draper in the early 20th Century. Stamped and titled on the lower. Good condition with slight foxing.
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Femmes De Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper Year: 1954 Paper Size: 13.5 x 9.5 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Femmes de Lautrec, 21 Pl...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled - Engraving by Ossi Czinner - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Burin engraving on Magnani-Pescia paper. Paper size 39cmx29,5cm, work size 22cmx17,5cm. Excellent condition, no defects. OSSI CZINNER - Central European artist, graphic designer and...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving

Matisse, Série I, var. 4 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Composition (Mourlot 668-677), La Féerie et Le Royaume, Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Féerie et Le Royaume, Lithographies Originales de Marc Chagall, 1972...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Matisse, Série K, var. 3 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Chez Madame Dupont
Located in Storrs, CT
Chez Madame Dupont. 1931-32. Drypoint. Appleby 158. 8 3/16 x 11 3/4 ( 11 1/8 x 18 1/3). Edition 100, #75. A fine impression on pale cream-colored laid paper, printed on the full shee...
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1930s Modern Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Matisse, Série L, var. 8 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Composition, Histoire d'O, Léonor Fini
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches pur chiffon paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, L'Histoire d'O, 1962. Published and...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Matisse, Série I, var. 3 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Le Débardeur - Original Etching by Laszlo Barta -
By Ladislas Laszlo Barta
Located in Roma, IT
Le Débardeur is an original artwork realized by Laszlo Barta. Black and white lithograph on paper. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right, titled on lower center and numbered on lower left. Edition of 75. Very good conditions except for some little stains on the margins. Include passepartout (34.6 x 50 cm) The artwork represents men working in an harbor. Laszlo Barta (1902-1961). Hungarian-Jewish artist who studied at the Academy of fine arts in Budapest while at the same time undertaking study trips to Rome and France. In his childhood in Hungary, he painted still-lifes, views of Lake Balaton...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Matisse, Série D, var. 7 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Winnie the Pooh And Tiger Too - Original 1974 Lobby Card
Located in London, GB
Winnie the Pooh And Tiger Too - Original 1974 Lobby Card Vintage 1974 Lobby Card: Rabbit is tired of Tigger always bouncing him, so he gets Pooh and Piglet together to come up wit...
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1970s Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Cardboard

Plate 12
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate 12 From: 10 Origi, 1942 Signed in the block with the artist's initials lower left (printed) From: 10 Origin Not from the First edition 100, published by Allianz-Verlag, Zurich,...
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1970s Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Uses and Customs - Royal Palace of Caserta - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Royal Palace of Caserta is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History...
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1860s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"First Horse Day, 1896" - Chiyoda Palace - Japanese Woodblock by Chikanobu Yoshu
Located in Soquel, CA
"First Horse Day, 1896" - Chiyoda Palace - Japanese Woodblock by Chikanobu Yoshu Colorful and expressive court scne by Toyohara Chikanobu,"Yoshu" (Japanese, 1838-1912). This is the r...
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1890s French School Figurative Prints

Materials

Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut

Miró, Composition (Cramer 89), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 148, 1964. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Cat - Original Etching by Giselle Halff - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cat is an Original etching print on paper realized by Giselle Halff in 1950 ca. Good conditions with some foxing. .
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Etching

Gagosian Exhibition Catalogue: Jonas Wood Paintings, Signed & Inscribed to Jane
Located in New York, NY
Jonas Wood Paintings (Hand Signed & Inscribed), 2019 Gagosian catalogue monograph, hand signed, dated and inscribed to Jane Hand signed, dated and inscribed by Jonas Wood to Jane, wi...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset

The Sailboat - Original woodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Edward PELLENS The Sailboat, 1922 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /154 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of t...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Portrait - Lithograph by Auguste Raffet - 1843
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet (1804-1860). Good condition on a yellowed paper. Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right corner. Denis Auguste M...
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1840s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Fight - Original Etching by Gérard Cochet - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Fight is an original etching realized by Gérard Cochet in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions. Hand-signed. Numbered. Edition,35/50. The artwork is depicted through soft stro...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

The Bird - Woodcut print - early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The bird is a woodcut print realized by an unknown artist in the early 20th Century. Very Good conditions. the artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Images de Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper Year: 1947 Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.24 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, I...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Miro, Composition (Mourlot 230; Cramer 39) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacques Prévert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, 1956. Pu...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Prophet - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature. Héliogravure  on bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris. ...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Photogravure

Jacqueline
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Jacqueline Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961. Dimensions of work: 37.9 x 27 cm Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris. The work is in Excellent ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Diurnes : The Satyr with Plants - Original Collotype and Stencil (Jacomet)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Diurnes, The Satyr with Plants, 1962 Original collotype and stencil (Jacomet workshop) Unsigned Limited to 1000 copy On paper 40 x 30 cm (c. 15.7 11.2 in)...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Stencil

Quiet Afternoon, Itzchak Tarkay
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Itzchak Tarkay (1935-2012) Title: Quiet Afternoon Year: Circa 2000 Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper Size: 13.5 x 10.75 inches Edition: 123/750, plus 100 Remarques Condition: ...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Ann Tanksley "Images of Zora" Monotype
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ann Tanksley is an African American artist who was born in 1934. She studied at Carnegie Mellon as well as the Arts Students League and New School for Soc...
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1980s Figurative Prints

Materials

Monotype

Egypt - Chromolithograph after Karl Werner - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Egypt is a modern artwork realized d'apres Karl Werner  Mixed colored cromolithograph.  The artwork is  after the watercolor realized by the artist during a trip to Egypt between 1...
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1880s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Vallier 153), Le Tir à l'arc mis en lumière par Georges Braque
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur Chiffon Moulin à papier Richard de Bas paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Le Tir à l'arc mis en lu...
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1960s Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Protect our Home, Version I, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Protect our Home, Version I Year: 2002 Edition: 451/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper Size: 5 x 6.25 inches Condition: Excell...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Miró, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 125-126, 1961. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeu...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Woman with Three Goats
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Woman with Three Goats" c.1960 is an original linocut on thin fiber paper by noted Turkish artist Nevzat Akoral, 1926-2016 It is signed in the plate as issue. The image...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Animal Prints

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Linocut

Wyeth, Quaker Ladies, The Four Seasons (after)
By Andrew Wyeth
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Art in America, New York in an edition of CDVII/D. From the folio, The Four Se...
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1960s American Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Reading Man - Original lithograph (Mourlot)
Located in Paris, IDF
Jacques VILLON Reading Man, 1962 Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On tinted vellum 32 x 24 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Excellent condition
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Der Philosoph - Etching by Max Klinger - 1885
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimension cm 29.7x19.9. Printed in the lower margin, center: «Max Klinger / Der Philisoph / (Aus «Vom Tode, II») / Pan I 2». Engraving from the art periodical Pan, vol. I, no...
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1880s Symbolist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Matisse, Série B, var. 3 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Study 8" Figurative Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Lithograph of a figure of a woman by Jim Smyth (American, b. 1938). Numbered, titled, signed and dated "3/12", "Study 8", "Smyth 74” along the bottom edge. Unframed. Jim Smyth has studied at the Academia de Belle Arti in Fiorenza, Italy, Ecole des BeauxArts in Geneva, New York Academy, and the Art Students League. He is also a graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in Fine Art. Although academically trained, Smyth practices and teaches a more impressionistic style of painting, focusing on the Alla Prima technique. He is particularly knowledgeable about drawing, perspective, color theory and the human figure, his passion. Smyth, with extensive academic knowledge, has a profound love of all human representations as illustrated by his humorous quick sketches from life. He also practices and teaches oil painting and pastels. When not in Provence, or Southeastern France, Smyth teaches intensely in art schools, art centers and several colleges in the Bay Area. He is a beloved instructor and his classes fill in quickly as he is very knowledgeable. On his return to the United States, he began studying with Mr. Alanson Appleton at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. Smyth was a founding member of the Appletree Etchers, Inc., an etching print shop organized by Mr. Appleton and his students to develop and promote color intaglio. Smyth served as Master Printer at the studio for many years perfecting the techniques of intaglio and developing the color theories of Mr. Appleton as applied to the deeply etched plate. Smyth received his degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972 and holds the California Community College Certificate and an Adult Education Certificate. Smyth was invited to teach "Anatomy for Artists" at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, as a result of his many years of dissection of the cadaver and developed the course of study of Perspective for the college. During this period, he began teaching Life Drawing at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California. During the following thirty years Smyth has taught an average of twelve classes per week at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, the Palo Alto Art Center and the Burlingame Recreation Department among others in all phases of drawing and painting. He has conducted many workshops for the California Academy of Painters in many aspects of drawing and painting. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of Drawing at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. He is an authority on the materials of painting and drawing, techniques of traditional drawing and painting, color theory, perspective and anatomy for artists. In his career in Life Drawing, Smyth has made over two hundred thousand drawings from the model. In addition to studies at Berkeley, Smyth has studied at the College of San Mateo, Foothill College, De Anza College, Mission College, and West Valley College, all in California. One of the pivotal points in his career was studying with Mr. Maynard Dixon Stewart at the University of San Jose, California. He spent a year at the New York Academy of Art where he was offered a full scholarship and at the Art Students League of New York. He concurrently attended classes at the National Academy of Design in New York. Among others, Smyth studied with M. Andrejivec, Ted Schmidt, Elliot Goldfinger, Gary Fagin, Ted Jacobs, Leo Neufeld, David Leffel, Jack Ferragasso, Jim Childs and Everett Raymond Kinstler and Kim English. Smyth has also studied with the noted painter and colorist, Ovanes Berberian...
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1970s American Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Etching

Genjie - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1850
Located in Roma, IT
Genjie is an original artwork realized in 1850 by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). Oban yokoe. From the series "Sono Sugata yukari no utsushi-e", 39th chapter. Genji and his son Yug...
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1850s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Picasso, Composition (Cramer 88), Dans l'Atelier de Picasso (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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...
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1950s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Pascin, Deux nus, Pascin (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper Year: 1954 Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.5 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the album, Pascin, 1954. Publishe...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Femmes De Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper Year: 1954 Paper Size: 13.5 x 9.5 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Femmes de Lau...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Lovers at the Beach - Original handsigned lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Marcel MOULY Lovers at the beach, 1966 Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil On Rives vellum 37 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 inch) Excellent condition
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Cabaret of Paris : Cancan Dancer - Original Etching on parchment, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Alméry Lobel-Riche Cancan Dancer Handsigned original engraving Signature printed in the plate Numbered /12 On parchment 31 x 22.5 cm (c. 12.2 x 8.9 inche...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Renewal - Original lithograph - 1897
Located in Paris, IDF
Emile BERCHMANS Renewal Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate 1897/98 Printed on paper Vélin Size 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12") INFORMATION : Published by 'Estampe Modern...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

Cosmic Jumper, Detail I, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Cosmic Jumper, Detail I Year: 2003 Edition: 495/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper Size: 3.5 x 3 inches Condition: Excellent I...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Conversation - Original Lithograph by Paul Gavarni - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
The Conversation is an original lithograph artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (after) (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier Gavarni, 1804-1866...
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1880s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Dufy, Coteaux en Septembre, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
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1950s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
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1950s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Raimundo Orozco Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed engraving 2000
Located in Miami, FL
Raimundo Orozco (Cuba, 1949) 'Untitled', 2000 engraving on paper Guarro Biblos 250g. 10.1 x 6.6 in. (25.6 x 16.6 cm.) Edition of 60 ID: ORO-312-054 Hand-signed by author
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Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Aquatint, Screen, Engraving

Terence, Ancient Roman, C18th Grand Tour Classical antique engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Terenzio' (Terence) Copper-line engraving by Silvestro Pomared after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. Plate number top right corner of image. Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) w...
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Mid-18th Century Renaissance Portrait Prints

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Engraving

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