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"Taco" Acrylic and Collage on Korean newsprint
By Gary John
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Gary John has been a street artist since 1985, originally from Seattle Washington, then moving to Venice Beach selling his art on the boardwalk for 10 years before exploding onto the...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Acrylic, Newsprint
French Contemporary Art by Jean Duquoc - La Couleur Pourpre
By Jean Duquoc
Located in Paris, IDF
Lithography on paper, e.d 1/10
Jean Duquoc is a French artist born in 1937 who lives & works in Belz, Brittany in France. In his work, we can see the skill with which he uses color,...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
The Suffering Folk - Original Etching by Louis Jou - Early 20th Century
By Louis Jou
Located in Roma, IT
The Suffering Folk is an original etching realized by Louis Jou in the Early 20th Century.
Applied on a Passpartout by gluing: 47 x 63 cm.
Hand-Signed, Numbered. Edition, 14/40.
Good conditions.
Louis Jou (Gracia, 1882 - Baux, 1968), the twentieth-century etcher and wood engraver, was a prolific illustrator of a large number of books in France, authored by big names like Andre Gide...
Category
1920s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Aquarium and Up II Diptych
By Anne Storno
Located in Deddington, GB
Aquarium and Up II Diptych
Overall sheet size cm : H102 x W90
Anne Storno – Aquarium
– A limited edition, hand printed screen print, made in England.
– This work is inspired by collage and surrealist artworks. I like combining images removed from their original narrative context and reconfigured into a new scenario. Aquarium is mixing an old image of Joan Collins, the actress, with a view of the earth from space...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen, Paper
Lithograph Lady Rider Woman on a Horse Marie Laurencin French Post Impressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Marie Laurencin (French, 1883-1956)
Lithograph of a colored pencil drawing depicting a woman wearing a hat and riding horseback side saddle,
Edition "37/115" to lower left and hand signed "Laurencin" in pencil to lower right, with a cloth mat and housed in a silvered wood frame.
Dimensions: Image, 12" H x 16" W; frame, 19.75" H x 23.5" W x 1.5" D.
Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or.
Laurencin was born in Paris, where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. At 18, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres. She then returned to Paris and continued her art education at the Académie Humbert, where she changed her focus to oil painting.
During the early years of the 20th century, Laurencin was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. A member of both the circle of Pablo Picasso, and Cubists associated with the Section d'Or, such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri le Fauconnier and Francis Picabia, exhibiting with them at the Salon des Indépendants (1910-1911) and the Salon d'Automne (1911-1912), and Galeries Dalmau (1912) at the first Cubist exhibition in Spain. She became romantically involved with the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and has often been identified as his muse. In addition, Laurencin had important connections to the salon of the American expatriate and lesbian writer Natalie Clifford Barney. She had relationships with men and women, and her art reflected her life, her "balletic wraiths" and "sidesaddle Amazons" providing the art world with her brand of "queer femme with a Gallic twist."
Laurencin's oeuvre include painting, watercolor paintings, drawing, and prints. She is known as one of the few female Cubist painters, with Sonia Delaunay, Marie Vorobieff, and Franciska Clausen...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paris Review Poster
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this early color offset lithograph on white wove paper. Signed, dated and numbered 8/150 in felt-tip pen and black ink by Rauschenberg...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph, Offset
Country Town - Screen Print by Ivan Rabuzin - 1990s
By Ivan Rabuzin
Located in Roma, IT
Country Town is an original colored screen print realized by Ivan Rabuzin in the 1990s.
Hand-signed on the lower margin. Numbered on the lower left.143/150.
This very fine print re...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Young Agrippina - Original Etching by Agostino Tofanelli - 1821
Located in Roma, IT
“Agrippina Giovane” (The young Agrippina) is an original etching realized by A. Tofanelli and A. Mochetti.
Image Dim: cm 48x33, Dim: cm 59x44; Passepartout Dim: cm 69 x 49.
Precious Etching on copper: Hand-colored subject on black ink bottom. Designed by Agostino Tofanelli and engraved by Alessandro...
Category
1820s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
TAKASHI MURAKAMI: And Then x 727 (Vermillion SHU) Hand signed Superflat, Pop Art
Located in Madrid, Madrid
And Then x 727 (Vermillion SHU)
Date of creation: 2013
Medium: Offset lithograph with silver
Media: Paper
Edition: 300
Size: 50 x 50 cm
Observations: And Then x 727 (Vermillion SHU) ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Varnish, Lithograph, Offset
The Village - Offset Print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Village is an original vintage offset print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini ( Italian Painter, 1909-1981), in 1970s.
The state of preservation of the artwo...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
Hunting - Lithograph by Gilson Reeve - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Hunting is a lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by Richard Gilson Reeve in the Late 19th Century.
Signed on the plate on the lower.
Good conditions with diffused foxing.
I...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
RED HORSE ON ORANGE, THREE GEISHAS Signed Lithograph, Asian Women, Parrots, Fan
By Walasse Ting
Located in Union City, NJ
Red Horse on Orange, Three Geishas is an original hand drawn lithograph on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free, by the renowned Chinese born artist Walasse Ting (DING...
Category
1980s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
1970s Alexander Calder lithograph (Calder prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1970s Alexander Calder Lithograph from Derriere le Miroir:
Medium: Lithograph in colors. 1975.
Dimensions: 15 x 22 inches.
Center fold-line as issued; v...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Moon by Day - Lithograph by Filippo De Pisis - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Moon by day is a modern artwork realized by Filippo De Pisis.
Black and white lithograph and a text by the same Filippo De Pisis.
Good conditions except for some folds, foxings and...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Zodiac Signs On Lamps - Etching by Nicola Fiorillo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Zodiac Signs On Lamps from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Fiorillo in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some cutti...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Street - Original Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Street is an original Hand-colored lithograph on brownish paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the 19th Century.
Titled and the description on the lower.
Plate-signed on t...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paradise: Canto 24 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Paradise: Canto 24
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Paradise
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size:...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Circe 2
By Will Barnet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Circe" 1979 is an original colors serigraph on Wove paper by noted American artist Will Barnet, 1911-2012. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 43/100 in pencil by the artist. The image size (circle) is 18 x 18 inches, sheet size is 23.25 x 24 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the artist:
Born in 1911 in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet knew by the age of ten that he wanted to be an artist. As a student, he studied with Philip Leslie Hale at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and viewed first-hand John Singer Sargent at work on the murals of the Boston Public Library. In 1930, Barnet studied at the Art Students League of New York, with Stuart Davis and Charles Locke, beginning his long association with the school. Here he concentrated on painting as well as printmaking, and, in 1936, he became the official printer for the Art Students League. There, he later instructed students in the graphic arts at the school and taught alongside the likes of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Beverly Hale and Richard Pousette-Dart. Barnet influenced a generation of artists, including James Rosenquist, Knox Martin, Emil Milan, Paul Jenkins, Ethel Fisher...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching V. Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statues from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions ex...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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.
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
Color aquatint and etching, c. 1906
Signed in pencil in the image (see photo)
Edition: c. 100
Reference: Merrill Chase, Volume 1, No. 85
Condition: F...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
The Big Church -Offset Print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Big Church is an original vintage offset print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini ( Italian Painter, 1909-1981), in 1970s.
The state of preservation of the ar...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
Bird in the Branches - Original Woodcut Print by G. Halff - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bird in the Branches is an original artwork realized by Giselle Halff in the mid-20th Century.
Original woodcut print.
Good condition.
Artist’s proof.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Composition - Vintage Offset Print after Giorgio Morandi - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20.6 x 31 cm.
Composition is a superb original offset print, reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi.
Signature by the artist is perfectly reproduc...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
The Horse - Etching by Antonio Tempesta - 1610s
Located in Roma, IT
The Horse is a wonderful black and white etching on thick laid paper, realized by the Italian master Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630).
Image Dimensions: 5 x 7 / 8 x 10 cm.
Not signed....
Category
Early 17th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Verona - Black and White Etching - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Verona is an original artwork realized by Remo Marcorelli in the second half of XX century.
Black and white etching.
Hand signed on the right. Titled on the lower center: Verona, c...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Cityscape
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: cityscape
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 11.25 x 8.2...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Lion and the Church - Vintage Offset Print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Lion and the Church is an original vintage offset print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini ( Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in 1970s.
The state of preservation o...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
Vienna, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - Etching - Old Master
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., "Vienna", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image Dim: cm 15 x 47, Dim: cm 20 x 53.
Wonderful B/W Aquatint r...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Biblia Sacra Man and Woman in the Garden of Pleasure original lithograph Salvado
Located in Paonia, CO
Man and Woman in the Garden of Pleasure is an original lithograph from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite published in Rome by Riz...
Category
1660s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fun Loving Criminals III - Signed Limited Edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Fun Loving Criminals III
by BATIK
Archival pigment pop art print of infamous criminal arrest mugshots of Tupac, Eminem, Vanilla Ice, Michael J...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Exotic Fishes - Etching by Kaiko Moti - 1960
By Kaiko Moti
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 95/200.
Image Dimensions : 24 x 34 cm
Very good condition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Nakamura Utaemon - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Nakamura Utaemon is an artwork realized in 1840 by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865).
Nakamura Utaemon in the role of the fox spirit Ukiyo Matagoro frightens the court lady Benno Naishi...
Category
1840s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Italian State Railways - Lithograph by A. Terzi - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Italian State Railways is an original artwork realized in the early century by Aleardo Terzi.
Mixed colored lithograph.
A vintage affiche depicting Ita...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hummingbird - Etching and Aquatint by Marino Marini - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Hummingbird 1963 is an original contemporary artwork realized by Marino Marini.
Color etching and aquatint
Edition of 100 copies. On the back oh the artwork there is an inscription...
Category
1960s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Crouching Female Nude" Collotype plate V
Located in Chicago, IL
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 masterful...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Silbury Hill - Etching by Joe Tilson - 1976
By Joe Tilson
Located in Roma, IT
Silbury Hill is a colored etching on paper, realized in 1976 by the English Pop artist Joe Tilson, and published by La Nuova Foglio, a publishing house of Macerata, as the dry-stamp ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La Danzante
By Juan Fuentes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Screenprint
Year: 2019
Image Size: 24 x 24 inches
Edition Size: 10
Image of a native American woman in traditional garb and ceremonial dance.
As a cultural activist/artist/printmaker, Juan Fuentes has dedicated his career to being part of a global movement for social change. His works address issues relating to local communities of color, social justice, and international struggles for liberation.
The turbulent times of the 70’s set the tone for Fuentes' approach to creating social art. The Chicano, African American, Middle Eastern, Asian and Native American struggles for equality, peace and justice helped shape the themes that recur in his art.
His development and introduction to silkscreen printing by mentors such as Rupert Garcia and Malaquias Montoya guided his subsequent community and political poster involvement.
Fuentes' relief printing process follows closely the social realist tradition of Latin American artists such as Jose Guadalupe Posada...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Ebrea Maritata (Married Jewish) - Lithograph - 1849
Located in Roma, IT
Ebrea maritata (Married Jewish) is an original artwork realized by an Unknown artist in 1849s.
Beautiful lithograph hand-watercolored on paper.
Good conditions. Titled on the botto...
Category
1840s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Palazzo Barberini - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo Barberini is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome.
Signed and titled o...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Beyond Reproach - Lithograph by Hermann Paul -1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Beyond Reproach is a Lithograph realized by Hermann Paul.
Good condition except for some ripples along the edges.
René Georges Hermann-Paul (27 December...
Category
1890s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Nude Woman - Mixed Media on Cardboard by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is an original mixed media on cardboard artwork by Leo Guida in the XX century.
The state of preservation is good except for some foxings.
Sheet dimension: 35 x 50
ONn...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Winter - ChromoLithograph - 1885
Located in Roma, IT
Winter is an original Chromolithography realized by an anonymous artist in 1885.
Good condition except for a repaired folding line at the middle.
The art is depicted through soft s...
Category
1880s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
JACQUELINE KENNEDY I FS II.13
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Jacqueline Kennedy I, from 11 Pop Artists I. Screenprint in silver, on wove paper. Artist's stamped signature on the reverse and numbered. From the edition of 200. Published by O...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Sumida Haru - Kakutai - Woodcut by Utagawa Yoshitaki - 1860
Located in Roma, IT
Sumida haru - kakutai is an original artwork realized in 1860 by Utagawa Yoshitaki (April 13, 1841 – June 28, 1899) also known as Ichiyosai Yoshitaki.
Two Chuban from a Triptych.
M...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Bridge - Etching by Bruno Croatto - 1897
Located in Roma, IT
The Bridge is an original etching realized by the Italian master Bruno Croatto.
Hand-signed on the lower right. '97
Good conditions except for some sma...
Category
1890s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
In The Flow - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
In The Flow - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Limited Edition 01/04
This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA.
Immerse yourself i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso, L'Atelier du vieux peintre
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original lithograph in five colors by Pablo Picasso, created in 1954. Each of the 5 colors of this lithograph was executed with litho crayon on transparent transfer...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Plates from Les Diaboliques - Original Woodcut by G. Pastre - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Plates from Les Diaboliques is an original modern artwork realized in the 1930s by Gaston Pastre.
A black and white couple of woodcut prints from the ...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Homo Ludens - Original Etching on Paper by Sergio Barletta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Homo Ludens is an original hand-colored etching realized by the Italian artist Sergio Barletta (Bologna, 1934).
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right margin, titled "homo ludens"...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
View of Lyon - by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg - Late 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This View of Lyon is an original etching realized by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg as part of the Series "Civitates Orbis Terrarum".
The “Civitates...
Category
16th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Wall with a Building - Vintage Offset Print after Giorgio Morandi - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Wall with Buildings a superb original offset print, reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi.
Also the signature in pencil by the artist is perfectly reproduced.
From...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Arabian Man - Original Etching on Paper by Giacomo Porzano - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Arabian Face is an authentic original colored etching artwork, realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006).
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil and dated, number...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Goat - Etching by Antonio Tempesta - 1610s
Located in Roma, IT
Goat is a wonderful black and white etching on thick laid paper, realized by the Italian master Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630).
Not signed.
In excellent conditions.
Including a cream-colored cardboard passepartout, 34 x 50 cm.
An exciting original print, with all the dignity of a mythological or epic story, represented with an incredible balance of black and white, light and shadow, and a typical Baroque dynamism.
Antonio Tempesta, also known as Il Tempestino (Florence, 1555 - Rome, 1630), was an Italian painter and engraver of the early Baroque period. Antonio Tempesta trained in the culture of late Mannerism, with a naturalistic but also calligraphic taste, acquired from the frequentation of Giovanni Stradano, with whom he collaborated in the decoration of Palazzo Vecchio.
Moving to Rome in 1573, he worked for Pope Gregory XIII, frescoing some maps of Rome in the Vatican, including the famous Map of Rome (1593). In the pontifical capital, he worked for many noble families and for important cardinals, such as Alessandro Farnese and Scipione Borghese. His works are in San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, at the villa in Caprarola, in Tivoli.
He returned to Florence for a brief stay, where he collaborated with Alessandro Allori...
Category
Early 17th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Young Girl by the Window, Mid-century Portrait
By Ben Messick
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century portrait of a young girl by a window by acclaimed California artist Ben Messick (American, 1891-1981). Signed "Ben Messick" in plate, and in pencil in the lower right corner, by the estate. Presented in an off-white mat. Unframed. Paper size: 12"H x 12"W
The following is submitted by Jim Lafferty whose sources include the autobiography of the artist:
William Washington Messick married Sarah A. Bristow January 2,1889 and from this marriage a son, Benjamin Newton Messick was born on January 9, 1891 on a farm near Strafford, Missouri. His art talent was apparent from the time he was a child and later recognized by his commanding officer in World War I. He completed his training in Los Angeles at Chouinard in the late-1920s and is well-known for his Regionalist scenes and Modernist paintings. He was an instructor at Chouinard through the 1950s & influenced a generation of LA Modernists.
Little is recorded in his autobiography about Messick's life from his teen years and service during the War. He enrolled at Chouinard Institute in the Fall of 1925, and was given a three-year scholarship by Mrs. Chouinard. In 1925 he won a cash award at the Los Angeles County Fair for a group of pen and charcoal drawings done in the parks and streets of Los Angeles. These works give the appearance of being spontaneous and fluid.
In 1930 Messick left Chouinard as a full-time student and rented an apartment on West Eighth Street to use as a studio and living quarters. He had his own ideas on what he was trying to accomplish in art. "If you should ask what is the message of my drawings, I should say that they may explain themselves or may be just a technical exercise."
By the mid 1940s, Messick's position in the art world had been well established as a teacher, painter, printmaker, writer and critic. Over his life time he had over 400 shows and exhibitions. Starting in 1939 he produced a number of stone lithographs that appear to the untrained eye as original drawings. To Messick the image was the most important aspect of his lithographs, and his signature in the plate was sufficient. Hand signing each lithograph did not seem necessary to him. He exhibited prints widely including the Albany Print Club and the Metropolitian Museum.
To further substantiate the authenticity of Messick's prints the Eclectic Gallery under the authority of the Messick family posthumously pencil signed each estate-acquired stone lithograph.
Messick had a childhood fascination with the circus and started drawing and painting the circus in 1935. His circus work, especially his clown studies, and his lithographs became his trademark work for in the 1940s and 1950s. A critic for ART REVIEW described his Big Top work this way: "His circus canvases...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink
Jean Cocteau - Angel - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Angel - Original Handcolored Lithograph
Signed in the plate
Stampsigned
Handcolored in pencil.
Edition : /XXV
Dimensions: 47.5 x...
Category
1950s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Winter - Vintage Chromolithograph - 1885
Located in Roma, IT
Winter is an original Chromolithograph realized by an anonymous artist in 1885.
Good condition except for a repaired folding line at the middle.
The art is depicted through soft st...
Category
1880s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph