James Abbott McNeill Whistler

The Tyresmith

1890

Chelsea Rags. Chelsea Rags. 1888. Lithograph. Way 22, Levy 35, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 26. 7 1/8 x 6 5/16 (sheet 12 3/4 x 8). Printed on cream laid paper. Provenance: Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip, Whistler's sister-in-law, her seal verso: (Lugt 405). Michael Parkin Fine Art, Ltd. from whom purchased in 1972. Christie's, King Street.Signed with the butterfly in the image. One of 13 impressions listed by Way, before the image was transferred to supplementary stones for the edition of 500-1,000 printed by Way and issued in the Albemarle, January, 1892. Signed with the butterfly in the stone and in pencil. Housed in an elegant silk mat with a silver liner, and in a 16 3/4 x 14 3/4-inch silver leaf frame decorated with fleur-de-lis decorations. "And his interest in London has not been restricted to the Thames. Seeing the beautiful, where other men might be discouraged by dullness, he has taken his subject, now in the little cheap shop opening a low window upon the street, now in the forgotten church hidden away in a lonely square. And Chelsea Rags, the Shops of Chelsea, the Drury Lane, as well as The Butcher's Dog, are impressions of vague Rembrandtesque interiors where figures, grim or graceful, peer from out deep shadows— shops as lovely in his prints as the halls of a Veronese, or the palaces of a Claude." Elizabeth Robins...

Tête-à-Tête in the Garden. 1894. Lithograph. Way 54, Levy 85, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 90. 8 x 6 1/2(sheet 10 7/8 x 8 1/2). Edition of 25-lifetime impressions plus a few proofs re...

Lloyd William Wulff. Burlesque Girl. 1938. Lithograph. 10 1/4 x 11 3/8 (sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/8). Edition 28, #16. Federal Arts Project blind stamp. Printed on cream wove paper with fu...

Lithograph with watercolor. 22 3/8 x 30 5/8. Edition 56 (plus 5 artist's proofs). A bright impression printed on the full sheet of Arches paper. Signed and numbered 4/56 in pencil. ...

Christmas from the Gorslines. 1942. Etching. 4 7/8 x 2 7/8 (sheet 8 3/4 x 5 7/8). A fine impression on off-white laid paper with deckle edges on 2 sides. Excellent condition apart fr...

Sunday Morning, San Angel, Mexico. 1912. Woodcut printed in colors. Mason and Mason 104. 10 5/8 x 16 5/8 (sheet 13 1/8 x 20 3/8). A colorful tonal impression printed on fine Japanese paper. A delightful large, impressive processional image. Monogrammed and signed in pencil in the image. Housed in a 20 x 24-inch archival mat, suitable for framing. "On Sunday mornings,processions of old-fashioned figures, voluminous and rosily bespotted as to skirts, snugly wrapped in rebosos, carried votive candles on the way to Mass." Helen Hyde, "The Color Lure of Mexico", The International Studio, November 1913. Helen Hyde (1868-1919), printmaker and illustrator, was born in Lima, New York, but spent a cultured childhood in Oakland, California. At twelve she began art instruction under Ferdinand Richardt, but it ended abruptly two years later when her father died and her family resettled in San Francisco. Helen and her mother moved to Philadelphia and, after her graduation from Wellesley School, she returned to San Francisco and studied at the School of Design. Hyde studied briefly at the Art Students League in New York between 1888 and 1889. The following year she departed on a four year sojourn in Europe, which included studying with Franz Skarbina in Berlin, Rafael Collins and Albert Sterner...

Lucille Fink creates slightly bizarre, densely drawn spaces. Signed, titled, and numbered '19,' in pencil. Annotated on the reverse, "June, 1932, week of 6-10-32, last wk of school."...

Work by Alicia Wiencek (Mrs. Edward Fiene) is generally extremely scarce. This print comes up from time to time and was made an actual edition (of 8) at a time when many artists didn...

Lucille Fink creates densely drawn compositions, often a little off-beat. Signed and titled. Dated on the reverse.

The full title really should be ...And So I Give Your The Next President of the United States. The scene is the Republican Convention, in Philadelphia, in 1948. There are so many fas...

Joseph Hirsch had such empathy for his subjects! But he was also an amazingly skilled lithographer who could get extremely delicate details out of the stone. Signed and numbered in p...

Original lithograph, linen backed. Vetements Forchic. Pour Lui; Elle a Choise. Archival linen-backed vintage French fashion poster in fine...