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Indiana, Seven (Sheehan 46-55), Numbers (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Numbers, 1968. Published by the Edition Domberger, Stuttgart, and G...
Category
1960s Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$796 Sale Price
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PEACE KEEPERS
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition of 195. Image size: 27.5 x 20.5 i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$1,250 Sale Price
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The Absolute Real - Lithograph by Man Ray - 1964
By Man Ray
Located in Roma, IT
The Absolute Real is a lithograph realized by Man Ray in 1964.
Hand-singed in pencil by the Artist.
Lithograph in Red Ink, 1964. Published by Schwarz, the lithograph is part of th...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$1,065 Sale Price
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Composition (Cramer 105), Femmes, Joan Miró
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Joan Miró, Femmes, 1965. Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris; printed ...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,756 Sale Price
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Marinot, Intérieur, Fauves, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1972
Paper Size: 26 x 20 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Fauves, VII, Collec...
Category
1970s Fauvist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
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Vuillard, Intérieur aux tentures roses, L'œuvre gravé de Vuillard (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.81 x 9.05 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Purgatory 16 - In the Fumes of the Angry - woodcut - 1963 (Field #p. 189)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Purgatory 16 - In the Fumes of the Angry, 1960/63
Original woodcut
Signature printed in the plate
Printed on BFK Rives vellum 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10 in...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Composition, Éloge de André Lhote
By André Lhote
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Éloge de André Lhote, 1960. P...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Degas, Famille Cardinal, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size 6.24 x 4.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Icart, Composition, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$876 Sale Price
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Picasso, Pique (Orozco 214), Grabados al linóleo (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 14.5 inches; image size: 10.5 x 13 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Orozco, M. (2018)...
Category
1960s Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
$796 Sale Price
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Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Paper Size: 11 x 8.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins d...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Hölle XXXIV (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$956 Sale Price
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Shimada - Woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige - 1833
Located in Roma, IT
Asagiri is a woodcut print realized by Utagawa Hiroshige in 1832.
It is part of the suite "The Fifty-three Stations of Tokaido".
Very good condition.
Category
1830s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$710 Sale Price
25% Off
The Elegant Lovers - Lithograph and Stencil, 1959
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand LÉGER
The elegant lovers , 1959
Original lithograph and stencil
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum Auvergne 50,2 x 40 cm (c. 19,7 x 15,7 Inches)
Published in 1959, under the control of the wife of the artist, Nadia Léger...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Magritte, Composition, Les chants de Maldoror (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin papier pur chiffon paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Les chants de Maldoror, illustrat...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Lady with Flowers /// Pop Art Walasse Ting Colorful Girl Abstract Lithograph Art
By Walasse Ting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Walasse Ting (Chinese-American, 1929-2010)
Title: "Lady with Flowers"
*Signed and numbered by Ting in pencil lower left
Year: 1979
Medium: Or...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Absolut Vodka Absolument Galerie Lavignes, Paris poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Absolut Vodka Absolument vintage exhibition poster. Archival linen backed invery good condition, ready to frame. Like most Warhol artwork, this is very vibrant and colorful.
This 1994 poster was used for the exposition of contemporary artists at Galerie Lauvigne in Paris.
Andy Warhol...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Cocteau, Composition, Taureaux (after)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau, 1965. ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Miró, Joan Miró Fotoscop (Cramer 209; Mourlot 938) (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Guarro vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Published by Galerie Börjeson, Malmö; printed by La Polígrafa, Barcelona, 19...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
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SERENADE
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by Linda Le Kinff. From the edition of 350. Sheet size 12 x 15.5 inches. Image size 9.5 x 13 inches.
Artwork is in excellent c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$450 Sale Price
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Sea Spirit
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sea Spirit" 1965 is an original stonecut on thin paper by Eskimo artist Egevadluq (Eegyvudluk) Ragee, 1920-1983. It is hand signed, titled, dated, described and numbered 20/50 in pencil by the artist. With the blind stamp of the artist at the lower right corner. It is in excellent condition. it has a minor thin crease at the middle center, at the edge of the sheet, barely visible, see picture #4
About the artist:
Eegyvudluk Ragee was the oldest child born to Pamiaktok and Sorisolutu at the small campsite of Ikarasak, on the southern tip of Baffin Island in 1920.
When Egevadluq travelled to Cape Dorset (Kinngait) to trade for supplies, she would buy graphite pencil and paper from the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. Her early works filled entire sheets of paper, mythical creatures, bird-animal-human transformations, and images from reality - all randomly intermingled . By the mid-1960s, Eegyvudluk was using wax crayons, or coloured felt pens on paper.
In 1967, improved housing in Cape Dorset resulted in the Inuit abandoning most of the campsites. Eegyvudluk moved into the settlement, and by the early 1970s, explored the use of arcrylic washes, on which she drew her well-known figures and birds.
"I started drawing because I was 'tususkuk' (when I saw other people doing it, I wanted to do the same things)...When I start to make a drawing, I have a picture in my mind, but when I try to put that picture on paper, my hands won't do what my mind wants. When I have the picture in my head, I can't get it out by my hands. Sometimes I find it hard to draw when my children are in the house; I find it hard to think with so much noise around me. I make the kids go outside." Eegyvudluk, Cape Dorset Print Catalogue, 1978.
Exhibitions
Alaska Eskimo Dolls/Inuit Prints, Provincial Museum of Alberta, sponsored by the Alaska State Council on the Arts
ART ESKIMO, Galerie de France
Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Akenaton
Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1991, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Le Colombier
Art/Facts, McMaster Art Gallery
Art/Facts, McMaster Art Gallery
Canadian Eskimo Art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Other Medium
BLESSING OF THE HOUSE (JUDAICA ART)
By Amram Ebgi
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph with foil stamping on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. A...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Foil
$100 Sale Price
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Meeting
By Laura Berger
Located in London, GB
Meeting, 2023
18 x 20.75 inches
Archival pigment print
Edition of 50 + 5AP + 1PP
Signed and numbered by the artist
Meeting is a serene composition of three figures, ensconced in one...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Dove of the Ark - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Erté, Ebony in White, 1982
By Erté
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990)
Title: Ebony in White
Year: 1982
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Size: 33 x 24 inches
Condition: Good
Inscription: Signed by the artist
N...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$876 Sale Price
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The Connor Brothers We Are All In the Gutter
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: The Connor Brothers
Title: We Are All In the Gutter
Medium: Giclee print with silkscreen varnish
Year: 2020
Edition: 50
Sheet Size: 29" x ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Varnish, Giclée
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
$1,116 Sale Price
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Customs - Persian Kings - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Customs - Persian Kings is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
Titled on the lower.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " Hist...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$159 Sale Price
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Conversation
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Conversation" is an original color lithograph on Arches paper by Iranian/Israeli artist Elie (Eliahu) Abrahami, born 1941. It is signed and numbered 42/100 in pe...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “The Bride” collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #30, Brautzug; multi-color collotype after unfinished 1917/18 painting in oil on canvas.
Painted in the last months of Klimt’s life, The Bride was one...
Category
1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
The Colour Of Money - Al Capone and Pablo Escobar BATIK signed limited edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
The Colour Of Money
Al Capone and Pablo Escobar by BATIK signed limited edition POP ART print
Paper Size 20x16" inches / 51 x 41 cm
Signed & numbered ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Hölle V (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$956 Sale Price
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Soundsuit #6 (Performance Art, Artistic Expression, Contemporary Art)
By Nick Cave
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Cave
Soundsuit #6
Year: 2010
Archival Pigment Print on Premium Rag
Size: 17 x 12 in.
Edition: 200
Signed by hand on label
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-2069
Tags: #NickCave #Missou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
TAKASHI MURAKAMI: WITH THE COMING OF... Hand signed & numbered Superflat Pop Art
Located in Madrid, Madrid
WITH THE COMING OF SPRING, THE GRASS RETURNS NATURALLY
Date of creation: 2013
Medium: Offset lithograph with silver on paper
Edition: 300
Size: 50 x 50 cm
Condition: In mint conditio...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Varnish, Lithograph, Offset
Customs - Persian Deities - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Customs - Persian Deities is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
Titled on the lower.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " Hi...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$133 Sale Price
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The Amiddalees - 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
La Cascade - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Color lithograph after the 1961 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300.
The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Mag...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Friendship Quilt - still life, hand signed, Roy Fairchild
Located in London, GB
This serigraph print is for sale from Roy Fairchild's Personal Collection. This print will come with a certificate of authenticity from London Contemporary Gallery and a unique signe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Henry Moore, "Five Ideas for Sculpture, " original lithograph, hand signed
By Henry Moore
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Henry Moore
Five Ideas for Sculpture
1981
Original lithograph, hand signed
Paper size: 21.5 x 17.5 inches, Image size: 14 x 10 inches
From and edition of 50
Cat No: 610
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Renoir, Les Laveuses, Les Lithographies de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage filigrané à la marque de l'éditeur paper.
Year: 1951
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches; image size: 6.69 x 9.05 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and ...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #47: "Morning in the Spring" Lithograph
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art work) by designing architecture, furniture, jewelry, graphics, and tapestries meant to coordinate every detail of an environment. His work transcended the imitative decorative arts of earlier eras and helped to define Modernism for generations to come. Moser achieved a remarkable balance between intellectual structure (often geometric) and hedonistic luxury.
Collaborating with Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann, the artist was an editor and active contributor to Ver Sacrum, (Sacred Spring), the journal of the Viennese Secession that was so prized for its aesthetics and high quality production that it was considered a work of art. The magazine featured drawings and designs in the Jugendstil style (Youth) along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. It quickly disseminated both the spirit and the style of the Secession.
In 1903 Moser and Hoffmann founded and led the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) a collective of artisans that produced elegant decorative arts items, not as industrial prototypes but for the purpose of sale to the public. The plan, as idealistic then as now, was to elevate the lives of consumers by means of beautiful and useful interior surroundings.
Moser’s influence has endured throughout the century. His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Lovers - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Lovers is a colored lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica" after Egon Schiele.
It deals with a reproduction of the homonym artwork realized in watercolor and pencil by the Austria...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Maya, by Juan Fuentes
By Juan Fuentes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and titled in pencil, from the edition of 25. A young native girl in traditional clothes.
The turbulent times of the 70’s set the tone for Fuentes' approach to creating soc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
German Artist Impressionist Etching Judaica Jewish Sephardic Jewish Bezalel Era
Located in Surfside, FL
Yemenite or Moroccan Sefardic rabbi portrait.
Framed 11 X 9 sight 6 X 4.5
Hermann Struck (6 March 1876 – 11 January 1944) was a German Jewish artist known for his etchings.
Hermann...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chagall, Tribe of Reuben, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem. Published by Musée des Arts Décora...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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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
$1,116 Sale Price
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Zodiaco-Gemelli - Lithograph by Ossi Czinner - 1980
By Ossi Czinner
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le 2 - Lithograph by Erté - 1968
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Le 2 is a contemporary artwork realized in 1970s by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored lithograph on paper.
The artwork is from the Series "Les Chiffres"
Hand signed on the l...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,243 Sale Price
25% Off
Coucou Bazar at the Grand Palais, Paris, 1973 original poster by Jean Dubuffet
Located in New York, NY
Jean Dubuffet
Coucou Bazar at the Grand Palais, Paris, 1973 original poster by Jean Dubuffet, 1973
Offset typeset lithograph and lithograph
Bears publishers' stamp on the back, unsig...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Divers at Jones Beach
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Jessica Brilli (Sayville, NY 1977) has been drawing and painting since her childhood. Working in a style that encompasses American realism and 20th century graphic...
Category
2010s Figurative Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Bignoniaceae - 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
Undergarment Model (1970s Gay Bathhouse Jockstrap Ad)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Vintage jockstrap ad poster, 1975. Offset lithograph on paper measures 18.5 x 12.75 inches. Copyright Winifred Bonney. Original offset period print on perio...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$1,170 Sale Price
35% Off
Regiones Botanicas de la Tierra: Antilles No. 1 (Antilles, Botanical Art, ~40% O
Located in Kansas City, MO
Susan Davidoff
Regiones Botanicas de la Tierra: Antilles No. 1 (Antilles, Botanical Art, Botanical Exploration)
Year: 2001
Medium: 5 Color Lithograph with hand applied pigment and co...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Denis, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 158-159, 1966. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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"Night" Copper Plate Heliogravure
Located in Chicago, IL
2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extolling his artistic merits during his lifetime to showing something of a feigned disdain- more reflective of the world political order than a true change of heart for Hodler’s work. After years of Hodler being all but a footnote in the annals of art history and generally ignored, finally, the pendulum has righted itself once again. Recent retrospective exhibitions in Europe and the United States have indicated not only a joyful rediscovery of Hodler’s art but a firm conviction that his work and world view hold particular relevance today. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is not only a collection of printed work reflecting the best of all of his painted work created up to 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I, the portfolio itself is an encapsulation of Hodler’s ethos, Parallelisme.
Hodler developed his philosophy of Parallelisme as a unifying approach to art which strips away detail in search of harmony. By means of abstraction, symmetry and repetition, Hodler sought ways to depict Nature’s essence and her fundamental, universal order. He believed these universal laws governing the natural, observable world extend to the spiritual realm. Symbolist in nature with Romantic undertones, his works are equally portraits of these universal concepts and feelings governing all life as they are a visual portrait in the formal sense. Whether his subject is a solitary tree, a moment in battle, mortal fear, despair, the awe inspired by a vast mountain range, a tender moment or even the collective conviction in a belief, Hodler unveils this guiding principle of Parallelisme.
Several aspects of Hodler’s portfolio reinforce his tenets of Parallelisme. The Table of Contents clearly preferences a harmonious design over detail. The two columns, consisting of twenty lines each, list the images by order of appearance using their German titles. The abbreviated titles are somewhat cryptic in that they obscure the identities of the sitters. Like the image Hodler presents, they are distillations of the sitter without any extraneous details. This shortening was also done in an effort to maintain a harmonious symmetry of the Table of Contents, themselves, and keep titles to a one-line limit. The twenty-fourth title: “Bildnis des Schweizerischen Gesandten C.” was so long, even with abbreviation, that it required two lines; so, for the sake of maintaining symmetry, the fortieth title: “Bauernmadchen” was omitted from the list. This explains why the images are not numbered. Hodler’s reasoning is not purely esoteric. Symmetry and pattern reach beyond mere formal design principles. Finding sameness and imposing it over disorder goes to the root of Hodler’s identity and his art. A Swiss native, Hodler was bi-lingual and spoke German and French. Each printed image, even number forty, have titles in both of Hodler’s languages. Certainly, there was a market for Hodler’s work among francophones and this inclusion may have been a polite gesture to that end; however, this is the only place in the portfolio which includes French. With German titles at the lower left of each image, Hodler’s name at bottom center and corresponding French titles at the lower right of each image, there is a harmony and symmetry woven into all aspects of the portfolio. This holds true for the page design, as it applies to each printed image and as it describes the Swiss artist himself. Seen in this light, Hodler’s portfolio of printed work is the epitome of Hodler’s Parallelisme. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is also one of the most significant documents to best tell the story of how Hodler, from Switzerland, became caught between political cross-hairs and how the changing tides of nations directly impacted the artist during his lifetime as well as the accessibility of his art for generations to come.
The Munich-based publisher of the portfolio, R. Piper & Co., Verlag, plays a crucial role in this story. Publishing on a wide range of subjects from philosophy and world religion to music, literature and the visual arts; the publisher’s breadth of inquiry within any one genre was equal in scope. Their marketing strategy to publish multiple works on Hodler offers great insight as to what a hot commodity Hodler was at that time. R.Piper & Co.’s Almanach, which they published in 1914 in commemoration of their first ten years in business, clearly illustrates the rapid succession- strategically calculated for achieving the deepest and broadest impact - in which they released three works on Hodler to hit the market by the close of 1914. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS was their premier publication. It preceded C.A. Loosli’s Die Zeichnungen Ferdinand Hodlers, a print portfolio after 50 drawings by Hodler which was released in Autumn of 1914 at the mid-level price-point of 75-150 Marks; and a third less expensive collection of prints after original works by Hodler, which had not been included in either of the first two portfolios, was released at the end of that year entitled Ferdinand Hodler by Dr. Ewald Bender.
The title and timing of DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS' debut leaves little doubt as to the connection it has with another avant-garde portfolio of art prints, Das Werk Gustav Klimts, released in 5 installments from 1908 -1914 by Galerie Miethke in Vienna. Hodler, himself, was involved in Klimt’s ground-breaking project. As the owner of Klimt’s 1901 painting, “Judith with the Head of Holifernes” which appears as the ninth collotype print in the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts, Hodler was obliged to grant access of the painting to the art printers in Vienna for them to create the collotype sometime before 1908. Hodler had been previously invited in 1904 to take part in what would be the last exhibition of the Vienna Secession before Klimt and others associated with Galerie Miethke broke away. In an interview that same year, Hodler indicated that he respected and was impressed by Klimt. Hodler’s esteem for Klimt went beyond the art itself; he emulated Klimt’s method aimed at increasing his market reach and appeal to a wider audience by creating a print portfolio of his painted work. By 1914, Hodler and his publisher had the benefit of hindsight to learn from Klimt’s Das Werk publication.
Responding to the sluggish sales of Klimt’s expensive endeavor, Hodler’s publisher devised the same diversified 1-2-3 strategy for selling Hodler’s Das Werk portfolio as they did with regards to all three works on Hodler they published that year. For their premium tier of DAS WERKS FERDINAND HODLERS, R. Piper & Co. issued an exclusive Museum quality edition of 15 examples on which Hodler signed each page. At a cost of 600 Marks, this was generally on par with Klimt’s asking price of 600 Kronen for his Das Werk portfolio. A middle-tiered Preferred edition of 30, costing somewhat less and with Hodler’s signature only on the Title Page, was also available. The General edition, targeting the largest audience with its much more affordable price of 150 Marks, is distinguishable by its smaller size.
Rather than use the subscription format Miethke had chosen for Klimt’s portfolios which proved to have had its challenges, R. Piper & Co. employed a different strategy. In addition to instantly gratifying the buyer with all 40 of the prints comprising DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS and the choice among three price points, they advertised in German journals a fourth possibility of ordering single prints from them directly. These printed images are easily discernible from the three complete folio editions. The paper size of the single purchased images is of the larger format like the Museum and Preferred editions, measuring 65 h x 50 w cm; however, the paper itself is the same copper print paper used in the General edition and then mounted on poster board. The publishing house positioned itself to be a direct retailer of Hodler’s art. They astutely recognized the potential for profitability and the importance, therefore, of having proprietary control over his graphic works.
R. Piper & Co. owned the exclusive printing rights to Hodler’s best work found in their three publications dating from 1914. That same year, a competing publication out of Weimar entitled Ferdinand Hodler: Ein Deutungsversuch von Hans Muhlestein appeared. Its author, a young scholar, expressed his frustration with the limited availability of printable work by Hodler. In his Author’s Note on page 19, dated Easter, 1914, Muhlestein confirms that the publisher of Hodler’s three works from that same year owned the exclusive reproductive rights to Hodler’s printed original work. He goes further to explain that even after offering to pay to use certain of those images in his book, the publisher refused. Clearly, a lot of jockeying for position in what was perceived as a hot market was occurring in 1914.
Instead, their timing couldn’t have been more ill-fated, and what began with such high hopes suddenly found a much different market amid a hostile climate. The onset of WWI directly impacted sales. Many, including Ferdinand Hodler, publicly protested the September invasion by Germany of France in which the Reims Cathedral, re-built in the 13th century, was shelled, destroying priceless stained glass and statuary and burning off the iron roof and badly damaging its wooden interior. Thomas Gaehtgens, Director of the Getty Research Institute describes how the bombing of Reims Cathedral triggered blindingly powerful and deeply-felt ultra-nationalistic responses: “The event profoundly shocked French intellectuals, who for the most part had an intense admiration for German literature, music and art. By relying on press accounts and abstracting from the visual propagandistic content, they were unable to interpret the siege of Reims without turning away from German culture in disgust. Similarly, the German intelligentsia and bourgeoisie were also shocked to find themselves described as vandals and barbarians. Ninety-three writers, scientists, university professors, and artists signed a protest, directed against the French insults, that defended the actions of the German army.”
In similar fashion, a flurry of open letters published in German newspapers and journals as well as telegrams and postcards sent directly to Hodler following his outcry in support of Reims reflected the collectively critical reaction to Hodler’s position. Loosli documents that among the list of telegrams Hodler received was one from none other than his publisher in Germany, R.Piper & Co. Allegiances were questioned. The market for Hodler in Germany immediately softened. Matters worsened for the publisher beyond the German backlash to Hodler and his loss of appeal in the home market; with the war in full swing until 1918, there was little chance a German publisher would have much interest coming from outside of Germany and Austria. Following the war and Hodler’s death in 1918, the economy in Germany continued to spiral out and just 5 years later, hyper-inflation had rendered its currency worthless vis-a-vis its value in the pre-war years. Like the economy, Hodler’s reputation was slow to find currency in these difficult times. Even many French art fans had turned sour on Hodler as they considered his long-standing relationship in German and Austrian art circles. Thus, the portfolio’s rarity in Hodler’s lifetime and, consequently, the availability of these printed images from DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS since his death has been scarce.
In many ways, Hodler and his portfolios were casualties of war. Thwarted from their intended purpose of reaching a wide audience and show-casing Parallelisme, Hodler’s unique approach to art, this important, undated work has been both elusive and shrouded in mystery. Perhaps DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS was left undated as a means of affirming the timelessness of Hodler’s art. Digging back into the past, Hodler’s contemporaries, like R. Piper, C.A. Loosli and Hans Muhlestein, indeed provide the keys to unequivocally clarify what has largely been mired in obscurity. Just after Hodler’s death, the May, 1918 issue of the Burlington Review ran a small column which opined hope for better access to R.Piper & Co.’s DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS; 100 years later, it is finally possible. Hodler’s voice rings out through these printed works. Once more, his modern approach to depicting portraits, landscapes and grand scale scenes of Swiss history speak to us of what is universal. Engaging with any one of these images is the chance to connect to Hodler’s vision and his world view- weltanschauung in German, vision du monde in French- however one expresses these concepts through language, its message embedded in his work is the same: “We differ from one another, but we are like each other even more. What unifies us is greater and more powerful than what divides us.” Today, Hodler’s art couldn’t be more timely.
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