Ben Shahn

For the Sake of a Single Verse, from the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

1968

The Smoker is a Lithograph realized by Gérarde Cochet (1888-1969). Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner, numbered on the left. Good conditi...

Annabella is a Lithograph realized by Henry Bataille (1872-1922). Good condition on a yellowed paper included a white cardboard passpartout (32.5x50 cm). Monogrammed on the lower left corner, on the right side the list of the protagonists of the opera Annabella. Félix-Henri "Henry" Bataille (4 April 1872, in Nîmes – 2 March 1922, in Rueil-Malmaison) was a French dramatist and poet. His works were popular between 1900 and the start of World War I. Bataille's parents died when he was young. He attended the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian to study painting, but started writing when he was 14. Henry wrote plays and poems, but after the success of his second play, La Lépreuse, he became a playwright exclusively. Bataille's early works explored the effects of passion on human motivation and how stifling the social conventions of the times could be. For example, Maman Colibri, is about a middle-aged woman's affair with a younger man. Later, Bataille would gravitate towards the theatre of ideas and social drama. Bataille was also a theorist of subconscious motivation. While he did not use his theories in most of his own works, he influenced later playwrights such as Jean-Jacques Bernard...

Getting Rest is aLithograph realized by Paul Hermann in 1905 ca. Good conditions except for some foxings. Signed on plate. The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.

L'Inspecteur Général "Revizor" is a litograph realized by Hermann Paul in 1897-98, for the Theatre Magazine "L'Art et la Scène". Signed on Plate. Edition Grande Imprimerie Centrale,...