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Medium: Engraving
Herd - Etching by Eugène Burnand - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Herd is an original etching realized by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921) in the Late 19th century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with foxing.
The a...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
The Leper - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Leper is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art belongs to a late edition of ...
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19th Century Old Masters Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Self-Portrait in a Fur Cap - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-Portrait in a Fur Cap is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful pi...
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19th Century Old Masters Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Kvinnehode (Schiefler 259; Woll 288), Edvard Munch
By Edvard Munch
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Drypoint on gewöhnlichem aber holzfreiem vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the album, Verzeichnis Des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs Bis 1...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Chamomile & Safflower: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Chamemelum Romanum flore simplici (Chamomile), Cincus Sativus (False saffron, Safflower), Chamaemelum Romanum Flore (Roman Chamomile)", depicting flowering Chamomile, Safflower and Roman Chamomile plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper with wide margins. There are a few small spots and some irregularity of the lower edge. There is some bleed-through of text from the verso. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 22.25" high and 17.38" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
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Early 18th Century Academic Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Punt
By Rosamond Tudor
Located in Middletown, NY
A dynamic football image from the 1920s by a female artist known for her sports scenes.
Etching with drypoint on exceptionally fine laid Japon paper with a double watermark, 10 7/8 ...
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Early 20th Century Realist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
The Shadowed Valley.
Located in Storrs, CT
Sir Frank Short, R.A., P.R.E. 1857-1945. The Shadowed Valley. 1927. Mezzotint. Hardie 128. 14 3/8 x 19 3/8 (sheet 19 x 24). A rich, glowing impression p...
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1920s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Standing Men - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Standing Men is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art belongs to a late edition ...
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19th Century Old Masters Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le Cocu Magnifique - Original Complete Suite of Etchings by Pablo Picasso - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
In-folio Oblong
Dimensions : 29x39 cm.
Paris
Atelier Crommelynck
1968
Edition of 200 copies including 12 original out-of-text etchings (7 etchings, 4 etchings and acquatint and 1 e...
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1960s Cubist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Barnacle Geese Affrighted
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, full margins. Signed and numbered 59/75 in pencil, lower margin. Notations in pencil along the lower sheet edge, recto, well outside of ima...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Woolworth Building, New York
Located in Middletown, NY
A rich and tonal image of an icon of Manhattan architecture.
Etching with drypoint, 11 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (300 x 186 mm), full margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
William Hamilton Classical Greek Vase-Painting Engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Subject : Ancient Greek vase-painting from depicting a departure scene with a young warrior between two women.
Technique : Copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring
Back...
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Early 1800s Other Art Style Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
TOD UND FRAU (DEATH AND WOMAN)
Located in Portland, ME
Kollwitz, Kathe. TOD UND FRAU (DEATH AND WOMAN). Knesebeck 107, State VII; Klipstein 103. Line etching, drypoint, sandpaper, soft ground with imprint of granulated tone paper and Zie...
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1910s Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Degas, Un Client serieux, 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 8.5 x 6.375 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
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1940s Impressionist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le Singe - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Etching, aquatint and drypoint. Not Signed and not Numbered as issued.
Edition of 226 pieces.
Belongs to the Suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon" (plate p. 86).
Printed by Lacourièr...
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1940s Cubist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
Peterhead - Engraving by Edward Frencis Finden - 1845
Located in Roma, IT
Peterhead is an etching realized in the Early-20th Century by R.Brandard.
Signed in plate.
The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1840s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Self-Portrait - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-Portrait is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art belongs to a late edition...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt - engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized after Rembrandt by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful pi...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Degas, On attend les Clients, 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: 8.5 x 6.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
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1940s Impressionist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Fiancee of King of Garbe
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: The Fiancee of King of Garbe
Series: Le Decameron
Date: 1972
Medium: drypoint printed in color
Unframed Dimensions: 17.72" x 12.2"
Framed Dimension...
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1970s Surrealist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Portrait of James McBey.
Located in Storrs, CT
James McBey. 1931. Drypoint. 8 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 9 ). An extremely rich impression with drypoint burr, printed by the artist on cream wove paper. Signed in the plate lower ...
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1930s American Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Beheading of the King of England; Enthauptung des Königs in England
Located in Middletown, NY
The execution of Charles I (1600-1649) at Whitehall, January 30th 1649, in front of the Banqueting House. The executioner holding the head of Charles up to the crowd below.
Engravin...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Isaac Newton, physicist, scientist, 19th century portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Isaac Newton'
Steel-engraving. C1850. Facsimile signature below title.
80mm by 60mm (image) 260mm by 170mm (sheet)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726/27) was an English polymath acti...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Buitenzijde Van Het Colosseum (Exterior of the Colosseum)
Located in Middletown, NY
The Hague: circa 1799.
Engraving with burin on cream laid paper, 7 7/8 x 13 inches (198 x 330 mm) full margins. Octavo fold with additional hard creases with an associated loss in t...
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Late 18th Century Dutch School Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Sexual Encounter - Original Etching ad Drypoint by A. Doré - Late 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Sexual Encounter is a beautiful drypoint made by the French painter, illustrator, and writer Amandine Doré in the second half of the 20th century. The st...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Spanish Artist signed limited edition original art print silkscreen on Canvas n2
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Serrano Martínez (Spain, 1900-1970)
'Grutesco de Villa Bonelli', 2001
silkscreen on canvas
9.9 x 32.7 in. (25 x 83 cm.)
Edition of 75
ID: SE...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Canvas, Engraving, Screen
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Going to Market, Jamaica
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Going to Market, Jamaica
Image: 24.0 x 14.0 cm
Mount: 36.8 x 25.8 cm
Wood engraving
1932
One of Fourteen Wood Engravings, from drawings made on Orient Line Cruises by Robert Gibbings...
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1930s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Wood, Engraving
18th-century celestial - Camelopardal & Auriga
Located in London, GB
18th-century celestial
FLAMSTEED, John.
Camelopardal & Auriga
London, C. Nourse, 1753.
Hand coloured star chart heightened with gold and silver, engraved by John Mynde, from the s...
Category
1750s Naturalistic Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
The Well - Etching by Eugène Burnand - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Well is an original etching realized by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921) in the Late 19th century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with foxing.
The artwork is realized through...
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Late 19th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Bust of an Old Woman - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bust of an Old Woman is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a late edition of...
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19th Century Old Masters Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Man at Desk, Wearing Cross - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Man at Desk, Wearing Cross and Chain is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1641. This...
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19th Century Old Masters Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Salvador Dali - The Beloved Feeds Among the Lilies - Signed Aquatint
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989)
THE BELOVED FEEDS AMONG THE LILIES, 1971
Board for the series "The Song of Songs hymns"
Aquatint and dry point on wove paper...
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1970s Surrealist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Aphrodite - Héliogravure and Drypoint attr. to Salvador Dali - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Attr. to S. Dalì, "Aphrodite", Heliogravure and dry-point. Paris, Argillet. 1963-65.
Image dimensions 49,2 x 39,7 cm.
Beautiful Proof on vélin filigrané “Arches”, Signed and Dated...
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1960s Surrealist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Paul Jouve - Chimpanzee - Original Engraving
By Paul Jouve
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve - Chimpanzee - Original Engraving
Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950.
Copy on velin creme de Rives
Artwork by Paul Jouve.
Original copper engraving ...
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1950s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Spring Song /// Antique Female Artist Children Child Etching British Art
By Eileen Soper
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Eileen Alice Soper (English, 1905-1990)
Title: "Spring Song"
*Signed by Soper in pencil lower right
Year: 1924
Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper
Limited edition: 178
Printer: Likely printed by Eva Soper, London, UK
Publisher: H C Dickens, London, UK
Reference: "The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Etchings of George and Eileen Soper" - Beetles No. 83, page 119, 141, 157
Sheet size: 8.13" x 10.13"
Image size: 6.63" x 9.63"
Condition: Paper trimmed in the margins. A few faint areas of discoloration. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Boulder, CO.
Biography:
Eileen Soper was born in 1905 in the Municipal Borough of Enfield and moved to the house where she was to spend the rest of her life in Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside in 1908. The house she later named "Wildings" was built by her father, the artist George Soper...
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1920s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching, Intaglio
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
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Aquatint, Screen, Engraving
Giovanni Piranesi Etching of Ancient Roman Architecture, 18th Century
Located in Alamo, CA
"Veduta del Sepolcro della Famiglia Plauzia per la Strada Che Conduce da Roma a Tivoli vicino a Ponte Lugano" from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities), one of the most famous works by Piranesi. "Antichita" illustrates the tombs along the Appian Way...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Engraving, Drypoint
Illustrations From The Book of Job - "The Fire of God is Fallen From Heaven"
Located in Soquel, CA
"Illustrations of the Book of Job" Engraving "The Fire of God is Fallen From Heaven...And the Lord said unto Satan Behold All that he hath is in thy Power"
Engraving, third printing...
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1870s Symbolist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
Inferno: Canto 20 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Inferno: Canto 20
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size: 1...
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1960s Surrealist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
"The Fern Gatherers" 18th Century Antique Mezzotint Engraving by John R. Smith
Located in Carmel, CA
"The Fern Gatherers" After a painting by George Morland. 1763-1804. - Mezzotint engraving by John Raphael Smith. 1752-1812.
Print: 20.75" x 26" - With Frame: 28" x 33.5"
Published:...
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Late 18th Century Realist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Salvador Dali, signed and numbered drypoint etching 'The oak and the reed', 1974
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904 – 1989)
The oak and the reed
Drypoint etching with hand coloured pochoir, on Richard de Bas Auvergne, 1974
From the suite Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine pri...
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20th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
"Open Wide" 1972 original signed engraving lithograph limited edition American
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Smith (United States, 1944)
'Open wide', 1972
lithograph in color on paper
21.7 x 29.6 in. (55 x 75 cm.)
Edition of 75
Unframed
ID: SMI1158-001-075
Hand-signed by author
Category
1970s Contemporary Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Ascension, Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Mezzotint
Year: 2023
Edition: 25
Image Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inches
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
One of a series of prints created to accompany a deluxe l...
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2010s Contemporary Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Bain-Froid Chevrier; Chevrier's Cold-Bath Establishment, "School Baths", Paris
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with engraving on cream laid Hudelist paper with a large indicative watermark, 5 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches (130 x 143 mm), full margins. From the edition of only 50 impressions prin...
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Mid-19th Century French School Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Engraving
Spanish Artist signed limited edition original art print silkscreen on Canvas n1
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Serrano Martínez (Spain, 1900-1970)
'Grutesco de tribaldos', 2001
silkscreen on canvas
9.9 x 32.7 in. (25 x 83 cm.)
Edition of 75
ID: SER130...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Canvas, Engraving, Screen
As We Were
By Art Werger
Located in Fairlawn, OH
As We Were
Mezzotint printed on Hannemuelle Copperplate paper, 2014
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Chop stamp of the publisher, The ...
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2010s Contemporary Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Bibi Valentin
Located in Storrs, CT
Bibi Valentin. 1859. Etching and drypoint. Kennedy catalog 50 state ii; Glasgow catalog 34 state ii. 6 x 8 7/8 (sheet 8 11/16 x 10 11/16). Glasgow records 44 known impressions. A rich impression with burr, printed on watermarked laid paper with full margins. Signed and dated in the plate. Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat
A young girl, sits facing the viewer, leaning on her left elbow, legs extended to left. She wears a high-necked smock and buttoned boots...
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19th Century American Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
14th Street Oriental
Located in Middletown, NY
New York, Associated American Artists, 1950. Drypoint and aquatint on cream wove paper, 5 7/8 x 3 15/16 inches (150 x 100 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 48/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Stephen Sholinsky...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Fritz Scholder American artist 1982 original hand signed engraving protrait
Located in Miami, FL
Fritz Scholder (United States, 1937-2005)
'Mystery portrait in Barcelona -1', 1982
engraving on paper
30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.)
ID: SCH1341-006-000
Unframed
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1980s Contemporary Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Le Calvaire - Etching and Heliogravure by Félicien Rops - 1882
Located in Roma, IT
Le Calvaire is an original etching, soft ground and colour héliogravure on Japanese paper, realized by Félicien Rops in 1882, signed on plate, plate from Les Sataniques
In very ...
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1880s Symbolist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Engraving
Vin Rouge (Red Wine)
Located in Storrs, CT
1932. Drypoint. Appleby 167. 9 1/4 x 11 5/8 (sheet 11 3/8 x 17 15/16). Edition 100 #48. Mat line, well outside the image; otherwise excellent condition. A rich impression with drypo...
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1930s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
'Cargo Carriers' — New York Harbor
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'Cargo Carriers', etching and drypoint, c. 1932, edition 10, Kennedy 44. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression with rich burr and selectively wiped overall plate tone, in dark brown ink, on Arches cream laid paper; wide margins (2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Original Kennedy Galleries mat and label. Scarce.
"On my trips up and down N.Y. harbor on the Weehawken Ferry, the late evening sun playing on the side of the big liners has always intrigued me... The liner shown I believe to be the Vaterland of the North German Lloyd...
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1930s American Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; ...
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1910s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
The Mountain
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Mezzotint print. Edition of 18, signed, titled and numbered by the artist.
Caulfield has exhibited his prints, drawings, installations and artist’s books extensively throughout Cana...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Queen of Rewa, 19th century Fiji portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Queen of Rewa'
Portrait of seated Fijian woman, draped from the waist in tapa cloth, holding a fan, wearing jewelry and an elaborate headdress.
From Narrative of the United States...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Xisco Mensua Spanish /artist 1995 original signed framed engraving print n14
By Xisco Mensua
Located in Miami, FL
Xisco Mensua (Spain, 1960)
Untitled from Portfolio "Junio - Julio", 1995
engraving on paper
12.6 x 9.5 in. (32 x 24 cm.)
Edition of 6
Frame 16x20 in.
ID: MEN1253-0014
Hand-signed by ...
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1990s Contemporary Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Picasso, Pour Roby, Noir (Bloch 680; Cramer 57), L'Âge de Soleil (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, L'Âge de Soleil, 1950. Published by Robert J. Godet, Paris; rendered by ...
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1950s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
'Fantasia Americana, 1880' — Mid-Century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches.
Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
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1940s Surrealist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Querelle d'amoureux. (Quarreling). 1
By James Tissot
Located in Storrs, CT
En plein soleil. (In the Sunlight). 1881. Etching and drypoint. Tissot 54, Béraldi 45, Wentworth 54. 7 13/16 x 11 1/2 (sheet 11 1/4 x 15). Edition about 100. Mat line and two hinge s...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Walking Sticks and Round-A-Bouts. For the Year 1801
Located in Middletown, NY
An excellent example of Rowlandson's visual commentary on the challenges of changing fashion for those with a less than ideal physique.
Rowlandson, Thomas (after George Murgatroyd W...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
English Bar
Located in Storrs, CT
English Bar. 1908. Etching and drypoint. Exsteens catalog 275 state ii. 8 1/8 x 5 5/8 (sheet 17 3/8 x 12 1/4). Series: Les Bars. Edition 65 in this state (total edition 95). Printed ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Rainy Night in Rome.
Located in Storrs, CT
Rainy NIght in Rome.. 1913. Drypoint. Dodgson 299.x. 12 x 9 (sheet 16 x 11 1/4). Edition 125 in 10 states. A rich impression with burr and tonal wiping. Pr...
Category
1910s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
HRH (Her Royal Highness), Polymer gravure on Zerkall paper, Signed/N, Framed
By Tracey Emin
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin
HRH (Her Royal Highness) Royal Britannia, 2012
Signed, dated and numbered 141/200 in graphite on the front
Polymer gravure on Zerkall paper
Frame included
Polymer gravur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Polymer, Engraving
Synagogue Duke's Palace Houndsditch by Th. Sunderland after Pugin & Rowlandson
Located in Middletown, NY
A faithful architectural rendering of the earliest Ashkenazi synagogue constructed in London; built about 1690, and subsequently destroyed in the Blitz, 1941.
London: Rudolph Ackerm...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Aquatint
Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving of Flowering Tulip & Wild Garlic Plants
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Tulipa viridiscoloris, Fritillaria iuncifolns, Allium Vrsinum" depicting flowering tulip, fritillary and wild garlic plants fro...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Bowling Green, New York
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Conrad Rosenberg, 'Bowling Green, New York', etching, 1940. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with all the fine lines printing c...
Category
1940s American Realist Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
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