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Medium: Woodcut
On S'Amuse - Original Woodcut by Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
On S'Amuse is an original artwork realized in 1945 by Mino Maccari.
Original colored xylograph.
Includes passepartout: 49 x 33.5 cm
Good conditions except for yellowing of paper d...
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1940s Contemporary Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
A Merry Christmas original wood engraving by Thomas Nast 1880
Located in Paonia, CO
Thomas Nast is one of America’s great illustrators and is responsible for creating the image of Santa Claus as we know him today. This is a hand-colored wood engraving from the cover...
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1880s Other Art Style Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
1941 - Original Woodcut Prints by Jean Chieze - Mid 20th Century
By Jean Chieze
Located in Roma, IT
1941 is a black and white xylograph realized by Jean Chieze (1898-1975), in the First Half 20th Century.
The artwork represents the ode of the fourth centenary by Charles Forot to O...
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Mid-20th Century Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Paphy - Original Woodcut Print - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Paphy is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the Mid-19th Century.
Original B/W woodcut print on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted on the Upper margin in Capital Letters: Paph...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ex Libris Laszlo - Woodcut on Paper - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Laszlo is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the 1920s.
Original B/W woodcut on ivory-colored paper.
Signed and dated on plate on the lower margin: "Nemes Irm...
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1920s Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Dante - Original Woodcut by Adolfo de Karolis - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dante is an original Woodcut realized by Adolfo de Karolis (1874–1928).
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through perfect hatching in a well...
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Der Büsser - Original Woodcut by J.J. Weber - 1898
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 34 x 19 cm.
Der Büsser is an original print, realized in 1898.
Black and white xylograph on applied Japon paper.
Good conditions except for yellowing of paper (especially along the margins), and little stains on lower margin.
The print was realized by Johann Jacob Weber and it's part of the series Meisterwerke der Holzschneidekunst (original title: SECHZEHN HOLZSCHNITTE NACH GEMÄLDEN ARNOLD BÖCKLIN...
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1890s Symbolist Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Puppet Theater" Japanese Figurative Wood Block Print
Located in Houston, TX
Jun’ichiro Sekino (1914-1988) Eizo and matsuomaru bunraku (Puppet Theatre) circa 1953. Yoshida Eizō handles the puppet Matsuomaru, a medieval warrior. There is more than one edition ...
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1950s Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Rare 1923 Cubist Reuven Rubin Woodcut Woodblock Fisherman Print Israeli Judaica
By Reuven Rubin
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the original first edition 1923 printing. there was a much later edition done after these originals.
These are individually hand signed in pencil by artist as issued.
This listing is for the one print. the other documentation is included here for provenance and is not included in this listing.
The various images inspired by the Jewish Mysticism and rabbis and mystics of jerusalem and Kabbalah is holy, dramatic and optimistic Rubin succeeded to evoke the spirit of life in Israel in those early days.
They are done in a modern art style influenced by German Expressionism, particularly, Ernst Barlach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Franz Marc, as introduced to Israel by Jakob Steinhardt, Hermann Struck and Joseph Budko.
Reuven Rubin 1893 -1974 was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania.
Rubin Zelicovich (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galati to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Finding himself at odds with the artistic views of the Academy's teachers, he left for Paris, France, in 1913 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He was of the well known Jewish artists in Paris along with Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine,
At the outbreak of World War I, he was returned to Romania, where he spent the war years.
In 1921, he traveled to the United States with his friend and fellow artist, Arthur Kolnik. In New York City, the two met artist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in organizing their first American show at the Anderson Gallery. Following the exhibition, in 1922, they both returned to Europe. In 1923, Rubin emigrated to Mandate Palestine.
Rubin met his wife, Esther, in 1928, aboard a passenger ship to Palestine on his return from a show in New York. She was a Bronx girl who had won a trip to Palestine in a Young Judaea competition. He died in 1974.
Part of the early generation of artists in Israel, Joseph Zaritsky, Arieh Lubin, Reuven Rubin, Sionah Tagger, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Mordecai Ardon, Yitzhak Katz, and Baruch Agadati; These painters depicted the country’s landscapes in the 1920s rebelled against the Bezalel school of Boris Schatz. They sought current styles in Europe that would help portray their own country’s landscape, in keeping with the spirit of the time. Rubin’s Cezannesque landscapes from the 1920s were defined by both a modern and a naive style, portraying the landscape and inhabitants of Israel in a sensitive fashion. His landscape paintings in particular paid special detail to a spiritual, translucent light. His early work bore the influences of Futurism, Vorticism, Cubism and Surrealism.
In Palestine, he became one of the founders of the new Eretz-Yisrael style. Recurring themes in his work were the bible, the prophet, the biblical landscape, folklore and folk art, people, including Yemenite, Hasidic Jews and Arabs. Many of his paintings are sun-bathed depictions of Jerusalem and the Galilee. Rubin might have been influenced by the work of Henri Rousseau whose naice style combined with Eastern nuances, as well as with the neo-Byzantine art to which Rubin had been exposed in his native Romania. In accordance with his integrative style, he signed his works with his first name in Hebrew and his surname in Roman letters.
In 1924, he was the first artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Tower of David, in Jerusalem (later exhibited in Tel Aviv at Gymnasia Herzliya). That year he was elected chairman of the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Palestine. From the 1930s onwards, Rubin designed backdrops for Habima Theater, the Ohel Theater and other theaters.
His biography, published in 1969, is titled My Life - My Art. He died in Tel Aviv in October 1974, after having bequeathed his home on 14 Bialik Street and a core collection of his paintings to the city of Tel Aviv. The Rubin Museum opened in 1983. The director and curator of the museum is his daughter-in-law, Carmela Rubin. Rubin's paintings are now increasingly sought after. At a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2007, his work accounted for six of the ten top lots. Along with Yaacov Agam and Menashe Kadishman he is among Israel's best known artists internationally. Education
1912 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1913-14 École des Beaux Arts, Paris and Académie Colarossi, Paris
Select Group Exhibitions
Eged - Palestine Painters Group Eged - Palestine Painters Group, Allenby Street, Tel Aviv 1929
Artists: Chana Orloff, Abraham Melnikoff, Rubin, Reuven Nahum Gutman, Sionah Tagger,Arieh Allweil,
Jewish Artists Association, Levant Fair, Tel Aviv, 1929
Artists: Ludwig Blum,Eliyahu Sigad, Shmuel Ovadyahu, Itzhak Frenel Frenkel,Ozer Shabat, Menahem Shemi,
First Exhibition of ''Hever Omanim'' First Exhibition of ''Hever Omanim''
Steimatzky Gallery, Jerusalem
1936
Artists:
Gutman, Nachum Holzman, Shimshon Mokady, Moshe Sima, Miron Rubin, Reuven Steinhardt, Jakob Ben Zvi, Zeev Ziffer, Moshe Allweil, Arieh
Group Exhibition Group Exhibition
Katz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1939
Artists:
Avni, Aharon Holzman, Shimshon Gliksberg, Haim Gutman, Nachum Ovadyahu, Shmuel Shorr, Zvi Schwartz, Chaya Streichman, Yehezkel Tagger, Sionah Rubin, Reuven
A Collection of Works by Artists of the Land of Israel A Collection of Works by Artists of the Land of Israel
The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
1940
Artists:
Shemi, Menahem Rubin, Reuven Avni, Aharon Mokady, Moshe Jonas, Ludwig Steinhardt, Jakob Ticho, Anna Krakauer, Leopold Gutman, Nachum Budko, Joseph Ardon, Mordecai Sima, Miron Castel, Moshe Pann, Abel Struck, Hermann Gur Arie, Meir Ben Zvi, Zeev Litvinovsky, Pinchas
Artists in Israel for the Defense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv 1967
Artists: Avraham Binder, Motke Blum, (Mordechai) Samuel Bak, Yosl Bergner, Nahum Gilboa, Jean David, Marcel Janco, Lea Nikel, Jacob Pins, Esther Peretz...
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1920s Abstract Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ex Libris - PF - Original Woodcut by M. Fingesten - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - PF is an original xilograph artwork realized by Michel Fingesten in the 1930s
Hand-signed on the lower center.
Hand-written note on the lower center.
Good conditions.
Includes passepartout: 30 x 24 cm
Ex Libris is a Latin phrase meaning a bookplate that identifies the owner of the book into which it is pasted.
Michel Fingesten (Butzkowitz, 1884 - Cerisano, 1943) was a Czech painter...
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Kiyomizu Temple, Scenes of Famous Places along Tôkaidô Road - Woodblock on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Kiyomizu Temple, Scenes of Famous Places along Tôkaidô Road - Woodblock on Paper
Full Title:
Kyoto: Kiyomizu Temple (Kyô Kiyomizudera), from the series Scenes of Famous Places along...
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1860s Edo Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
Untitled, Horsewoman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "horsewoman" c.1960 is an original woodcut by noted Japanese artist, Tomikichiro Tokuriki, 1902-1999. It is hand signed and numbered 47/100 in pencil by the artist. The image (Block mark) size is 15.35 x 20.35 inches, sheet size is 15.35 x 20.5 inches. It is in very good condition, hanging tape remaining on the back.
About the artist:
Print artist. Tokuriki was born in Kyoto, where he has always worked. The last of a long line of traditional-style painters, he turned early to woodblock prints and became a leader of the Kyoto 'Sosaku Hanga'. He graduated from the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts and then from the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting in 1924. In 1928 he studied 'Nihonga' painting under Tsuchida Bakusen (1887-1936) and Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933) and exhibited with Kokuga Sosaku Kyokai, but about the same time in 1929 he changed to woodblock printing under the influence of Hiratsuka Un'ichi and began to contribute to the early print magazine 'Han'. He was a member of Nihon Hanga Kyokai from 1932, and active in promoting 'Sosaku Hanga' in Kyoto. He was a co-founder of the Kyoto magazine 'Taishu hanga' in 1932, which helped create the sense of a local school of the Creative Print Movement much encouraged by Hiratsuka. He produced many sets of prints before and during the Pacific War based on traditional subjects, such as 'Shin Kyoto fukei' ('New View of Kyoto', 1933-4), which also included designs by Asada Benji (q.v.) and Asano Takeji (b.1900), and 'Tokyo hakkei' ('Eight Views of Tokyo', 1942). Most of these were published by Uchida of Kyoto, but after the war Tokuriki set up his own publishing company called Matsukyu, which also began to teach block-carving to artisans and artists, in later years many of them foreigners. In 1948 he also set up a sub-company called Koryokusha consisting of artists who would produce their prints under the financial umbrella of Matsukyu. Later sets include 'Hanga Kyoto hyakkei' ('One Hundred Print Views of Kyoto', 1975). Tokuriki has continued to be active in teaching and writing, producing a long series of articles on print techniques in 'Hanga geijutsu' magazine during the 1970s.
Bibliography
Smith, Lawrence, 'Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989: Woodblocks and Stencils', BMP, London, 1994, p. 36 and no. 50.Statler, Oliver, 'Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn', Turtle, Rutland, Vermont, and Tokyo, 1956, pp. 118-22.Tokuriki, Tomikichiro (trans. Arimatsu, Teruko), 'Woodblock Printing', Arimatsu Color Book Series no. 14, 8th English edn, Hoikusha, Osaka, 1977.Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 'Kindai Nihon no mokuhanga-ten', exh. cat., 1990.Merritt, Helen, 'Modern Japanese Woodblock...
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Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Shorebreak, Japanese style woodcut print, contemporary handmade seascape print,
Located in Deddington, GB
Shore Break by Rod Nelson [2021]
limited_edition and hand signed by the artist
Woodcut Print on on Somerset Satin 300gsm acid free paper
Edition number of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Adam and Eve, Signed Modern Woodcut by Martin Barooshian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - )
Title: Adam and Eve
Year: 1951
Medium: Woodcut, signed in pencil
Edition: 30
Size: 12 x 18 inches
Category
1950s Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Ghost of Seigen Haunting Sakurahime
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Ghost of Seigen Haunting Sakurahime
Color woodcut, May 1889
Signed: Yoshitoshi; seal: taiso, lower right (see photo)
Plate 5 from the series "New Forms of the Thirty-six Ghosts"
Publisher: Sasaki
A very fine lifetime impression of the second state (bi-colored cartouche) (see photo)
The murdered lover of courtesan Sakurahime appears in the smoke from her brazier
Format: Oban
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 14 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches
Reference: Beauty and Violence, Plate 6
Stevenson, "Ghosts", Plate 5
TAISO YOSHITOSHI
(1839-1892)
Taiso Yoshitoshi was born in the city of Edo (now Tokyo) just before Japan’s violent transformation from a medieval to a modern society. In the mid 19th century pressures from the United States and Europe brought an end to Japan’s two hundred years of self-imposed isolation. In 1868 a pivotal period began known as the Meiji Restoration. It was marked by the return of Imperial power, heightened militarism, a new constitution and industrial advancement, as well as social and political reform. In the midst of shifting values, woodblock print artists like Yoshitoshi struggled to create images that would satisfy the public’s changing tastes.
During the Edo period (1600-1868) woodblock prints...
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1880s Other Art Style Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Wedding Party
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mid century modern woodblock print.
This work is hand signed illegibly and titled "Wedding Party".
Category
1960s Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
"Yanagibashi in Snow, " Color Woodcut Portrait with Umbrella
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Yanagibashi in Snow" is an original color woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada. This woodblock print depicts a woman walking in the snow near the Motoyanagi canal, which was located in Tokyo...
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1920s Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Polish French Expressionist Judaica Woodcut Had Gadya from Passover Haggadah
Located in Surfside, FL
Arthur Kolnik, Jewish painter and printmaker Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine) 1890 - Paris (France) 1972
Arthur Kolnik was born in Stanislavov, a small town in Galicia, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, who was originally from Lithuania, worked as an accountant and his mother, who was originally from Vienna, ran a shop. In 1905, he discovered Yiddish literature in Czernowitz, on the occasion of the first conference on Yiddish language, which was organized by several writers including I. L. Peretz, Cholem Aleichem, Shalom Asch, and Nomberg.
In 1909, Kolnik joined the School of Fine Arts in Krakow and took classes taught by Jacek Malezcewski and Joseph Mehoffer, a portrait painter and an artist who produced stained-glass windows in Fribourg (Switzerland).
He was mobilized in the Austrian army in 1914. He was wounded in 1916 and repatriated to Vienna, where he met the Judaic painter Isidor Kaufmann. In 1919, Kolnik settled in Czernowitz, which was then annexed by Romania. There, he met writer and poet Itzik Manger and storyteller Eliezer Steinberg for whom he produced several illustrations. In 1920, Kolnik left for the United States, bringing fifty paintings...
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20th Century Expressionist Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Tight Tuck - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Tight Tuck - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Limited Edition 01/04
This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA.
Immerse yourself in...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Leonard Baskin Woodblock Broadside Print Woodcut Vintage Poster in Red and Black
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an original gallery show poster the Boris Mirsky Gallery, Newbury St. Boston. titled Sculpture Prints Drawings. It is dated 1962. it is in red and black.
Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.
Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960).
The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin.
In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
The Bloody Bucket (portfolio of 10 prints)
By Tom Huck
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Each print is an individual edition out of 25 respectively:
Beef Brain Buffet 16/25
Ultimate Cock Fighting 24/25
Anatomy of a Crack Shack 10/25
A Dollar Dance 23/25
The Jolly Guano ...
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Early 2000s Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Island Life - Surfing Art
Located in Carmel, CA
Island Life - 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...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
April: Otsuyu of Yanagibashi in Wisteria Arbor at Kameido
Located in Fairlawn, OH
April: Otsuyu of Yanagibashi in Wisteria Arbor at Kameido
Color woodcut, 1880
From the series: "Pride of Tokyo's Twelve Months" (Tokyo jiman juni kagetsu)
Signed and sealed lower rig...
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1880s Other Art Style Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Buddies - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Buddies - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Limited Edition 01/04
This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA.
Immerse yourself in th...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
L'Enfer I (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Hölle I (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...
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1970s Surrealist Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Eric Gill 1934 Woodblock Print Canterbury Tales The Doctor's Tale, Initial H
By Eric Gill
Located in London, GB
From a series of wood engravings by Eric Gill. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want.
Initial Letter 'H' for The Canterbury Tales (1929) - The Doctor's Tale
Woodblock Print
Published Hague & Gill 1934 in an unnumbered edition of 300
23x21cm
Following Chichester Technical and Art School, Gill moved to London in 1900 to train with the ecclesiastical architects W D Caroe. Finding architecture somewhat pedestrian he took stonemasonry lessons at Westminster Technical Institute and calligraphy lessons at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, coming under the influence of Edward Johnson, the designer of the London Underground's own typeface. In 1903 he ceased his attempts to become an architect, instead becoming a monumental mason, letter-cutter and calligrapher.
Based in Ditchling, he began direct carving of stone figures, the semi-abstract figures taking their influence from mediaeval statuary, mixed with influences from Classical statuary from the Greeks and Romans, with a little post-Impressionism added in.
With major commissions from Westminster Cathedral for its Stations of the Cross (1914), a series of War Memorials including the Grade II* memorial in Trumpington, and three of the sculptures for Charles Holden's 1928 headquarters of London Underground at 55 Broadway, St James's, and a series of sculptures for the new 1932 Broadcasting House. The list continues.
Never one to rest on his laurels, he was at the same time engaged in typographical adventures. He had collaborated with Edward Johnson on the latter's initial thoughts on his London Transport typeface, but in 1925 designed Perpetua on his own, and Gill Sans between 1927-30. For the Golden Cockerel Press he created, in 1929, a bolder typeface to complement wood engravings.
And of course Gill was publishing decorated...
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1930s Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
PURGATORY CANTO 13
Located in Aventura, FL
Woodblock engraving on paper from the Divine Comedy series. Sheet size 13 x 10 inches. Frame size approx 18 x 15 inches. Edition 4,765 in French, 3,000 in Italian, 300 in German.
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Figurative Prints
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Paper, Woodcut
'The Bath' — Meji Era Cross-Cultural Woman Artist
By Helen Hyde
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Helen Hyde, 'The Bath', color woodblock print, edition not stated, 1905, Mason & Mason 59. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Numbered '96' in pencil in the image, lower left. The artist's monogram in the block, lower left, and 'Copyright, 1905, by Helen Hyde.' upper right. A superb impression with fresh colors on tissue-thin cream Japanese paper; the full sheet with margins (7/16 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 16 1⁄4 x 10 1⁄8 in. (413 x 260 mm); sheet size: 19 1⁄4 x 11 1⁄8 in. (489 x 283 mm).
Impressions of this work are held in the following collections: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (De Young), Harvard Art Museums, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Terra Foundation for American Art, University of Oregon Museum of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Helen Hyde (1868-1919) was a pioneer American artist best known for advancing Japanese woodblock printmaking in the United States and for bridging Western and Japanese artistic traditions. Hyde was born in Lima, New York, but after her father died in 1872, her family relocated to Oakland, California, where she spent much of her youth.
Hyde pursued formal art education in the United States and Europe. She enrolled in the San Francisco School of Design, where she took classes from the Impressionist painter Emil Carlsen; two years later, she transferred to the Art Students League in New York, studying there with Kenyon Cox. Eager to expand her artistic repertoire, Hyde traveled to Europe, studying under Franz Skarbina in Berlin and Raphael Collin in Paris. While in Paris, she first encountered Japanese ukiyo-e prints, sparking a lifelong fascination with Japanese aesthetics. After ten years of study, Hyde returned to San Francisco, where she continued to paint and began to exhibit her work.
Hyde learned to etch from her friend Josephine Hyde in about 1885. Her first plates, which she etched herself but had professionally printed, represented children. On sketching expeditions, she sought out quaint subjects for her etchings and watercolors. In 1897, Hyde made her first color etchings—inked á la poupée (applying different ink colors to a single printing plate)—which became the basis for her early reputation. She also enjoyed success as a book illustrator, and her images sometimes depicted the children of Chinatown.
After her mother died in 1899, Hyde sailed to Japan, accompanied by her friend Josephine, where she would reside, with only brief interruptions, until 1914. For over three years, she studied classical Japanese ink painting with the ninth and last master of the great Kano school of painters, Kano Tomonobu. She also studied with Emil Orlik, an Austrian artist working in Tokyo. Orlik sought to renew the old ukiyo-e tradition in what became the shin hanga “new woodcut prints” art movement. She immersed herself in the study of traditional Japanese printmaking techniques, apprenticing with master printer Kanō Tomonobu. Hyde adopted Japanese tools, materials, and techniques, choosing to employ the traditional Japanese system of using craftsmen to cut the multiple blocks and execute the exacting color printing of the images she created. Her lyrical works often depicted scenes of family domesticity, particularly focusing on women and children, rendered in delicate lines and muted colors.
Through her distinctive fusion of East and West, Hyde’s contributions to Western printmaking were groundbreaking. At a time when few Western women ventured to Japan, she mastered its artistic traditions and emerged as a significant figure in the international art scene.
Suffering from poor health, she returned to the United States in 1914, moving to Chicago. Having found restored health and new inspiration during an extended trip to Mexico in 1911, Hyde continued to seek out warmer climates and new subject matter. During the winter of 1916, Hyde was a houseguest at Chicora Wood, the Georgetown, South Carolina, plantation illustrated by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith in Elizabeth Allston Pringle’s 1914 book A Woman Rice Planter. The Lowcountry was a revelation for Hyde. She temporarily put aside her woodcuts and began creating sketches and intaglio etchings of Southern genre scenes and African Americans at work. During her stay, Hyde encouraged Smith’s burgeoning interest in Japanese printmaking and later helped facilitate an exhibition of Smith’s prints at the Art Institute of Chicago.
During World War I, Hyde designed posters for the Red Cross and produced color prints extolling the virtues of home-front diligence.
In ill health, Hyde traveled to be near her sister in Pasadena a few weeks before her death on May 13, 1919. She was buried in the family plot near Oakland, California.
Throughout her career, Hyde enjoyed substantial support from galleries and collectors in the States and in London. She exhibited works at the St. Louis Exposition in 1897, the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo in 1901, the Tokyo Exhibition for Native Art (where she won first prize for an ink drawing) in 1901, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition in Seattle in 1909 (received a gold medal for a print), the Newark Museum in 1913, a solo show at the Chicago Art Institute in 1916, and a memorial exhibition in 1920, Detroit Institute of Arts, Color Woodcut Exhibition in 1919, New York Public Library, American Woodblock Prints...
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Early 1900s Showa Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
RECLINING NUDE
Located in Aventura, FL
Reclining Nude, from Expressionist Woodcut Series (C. 172). Woodcut in colors with embossing, 1980, on Arches Cover. Hand signed, numbered and dated in ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Schwarze Madonna
Located in Wien, 9
Auguste Kronheim was born in Amsterdam in 1937. The artist makes woodcuts and drawings. She received her training in drawing from Hanns Kobinger and graduated from the Linz Federal T...
Category
20th Century Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Vintage Vibrant Mod Mythological 1960's Psychedelic Woodblock Woodcut Print
Located in Surfside, FL
This came out of a Chicago collection.
It appears to be signed Linda Tweed. It depicts a centaur like mythological figure. it is done on a fine tissue like paper and there is some w...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"The Court Jesters, " Two Woodcuts by Andre Derain
By André Derain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Court Jesters" includes two original color woodcuts by Andre Derain. This is from an edition of 200. It features two vignettes of brightly-clad j...
Category
1940s Fauvist Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Dierdre, Woodcut Print on Rice Paper by Leonard Baskin
Located in Long Island City, NY
This woodcut print was created by American artist Leonard Baskin. Baskin is well known for his somewhat grotesque, intricate, surreal drawings and natural subject matter. This print ...
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1950s Surrealist Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Shana Tova, New Year Woodcut Israeli Judaica Early Bezalel School Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed in Hebrew and English. Titled. Size matted 16 x 12, image is 3.5x5.5 inches.
Shulamit Wittenberg Miller
Born 1908 in Jerusalem, attended Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem, under P...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Peace
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and titled in pencil
Created along with an illustrated book project Song of Peace, 1950-1959.
Woodcut printed in orange red ink on Japanese paper
Sheet: 16 1/8 x 7"; ...
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1950s Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Georg Baselitz, 45 – August: Woodcut on Paper from 1990, Signed Print
Located in Hamburg, DE
Georg Baselitz (German, born 1938)
45 – August, 1990
Medium: Woodcut on paper
Dimensions: 124.2 x 68 cm
Edition of 30: Hand-signed, numbered and dated in pencil
Condition: Excellent
Category
20th Century Neo-Expressionist Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Heaven Canto 22 (The Divine Comedy)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Heaven Canto 22 is a wood engraving on BFK Rives with an image size of 10 x 7" from the popular French edition of the portfolio. Framed in a classic, gold-tone frame.
Cataloging:
M...
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20th Century Surrealist Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Easter : Crucifixion - Woodcut on Arches vellum - Printed signature
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges Rouault
Crucifixion
Woodcut and embossing (Raymond Jacquet workshop)
Printed signature in the plate
On Arches vellum
15 x 11" (38 x 28 cm)
INFORMATION : Woodcut published i...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Red Sand, Woodcut print, Traditional Japanese style print, Beach House Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Red Sand by Rod Nelson [2022]
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Red Sand is a beautifully crafted woodcut prin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Zwei Frauen (Two Women) /// German Expressionism Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Woodcut
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976)
Title: "Zwei Frauen (Two Women)"
Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman)
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1918
Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany
Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany
Reference: Schapire No. 222, page 45; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118
Overall size with attached page: 8.5" x 10.63"
Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38"
Image size: 6.5" x 3.63"
Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). A few tiny pinholes in right margin. In very good condition
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. Presently attached to its accompanying page. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Biography:
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died August 9, 1976, West Berlin [now Berlin]), German painter and printmaker who was noted for his Expressionist landscapes and nudes.
In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff began to study architecture in Dresden, Germany, where he and his friend Erich Heckel met Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl...
Category
1910s Expressionist Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Ex Libris-Giorgio Balbi-Libertà, Supremo Bene!-Woodcut Print - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Giorgio Balbi - Libertà, Supremo Bene! is an Artwork in Mid 20th Century.
Woodcut.
Good conditions.
The artist wants to define a well-balanced composition, through ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. This is a richly inked impression printed on laid paper, executed for the hard to find XXe Siecle Christmas issue (No. 13), published in Paris in 1959 by Sa...
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1950s Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Wahini - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Wahini - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Limited Edition 01/04
This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA.
Immerse yourself in the...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
UNTITLED (WOMAN WEAVING)
By Jehuda Wallersteiner
Located in Portland, ME
Wallersteiner, Jehuda Isaraeli 1915-2004). UNTITLED (WOMAN WEAVING). Woodcut in colors, not dated. Edition of 85. 38 x 26 inches.Signed in pencil and numbered. Framed,
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Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Woodcut
Le Purgatoire VII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Rare 1923 Cubist Reuven Rubin Woodcut Woodblock Print Israeli Hasidic Judaica
By Reuven Rubin
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the original first edition 1923 printing. there was a much later edition done after these originals.
These are individually hand signed in pencil by artist as issued.
This listing is for the one print. the other documentation is included here for provenance and is not included in this listing.
The various images inspired by the Jewish Mysticism and rabbis and mystics of jerusalem and Kabbalah is holy, dramatic and optimistic Rubin succeeded to evoke the spirit of life in Israel in those early days.
They are done in a modern art style influenced by German Expressionism, particularly, Ernst Barlach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Franz Marc, as introduced to Israel by Jakob Steinhardt, Hermann Struck and Joseph Budko.
Reuven Rubin 1893 -1974 was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania.
Rubin Zelicovich (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galati to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Finding himself at odds with the artistic views of the Academy's teachers, he left for Paris, France, in 1913 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He was of the well known Jewish artists in Paris along with Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine,
At the outbreak of World War I, he was returned to Romania, where he spent the war years.
In 1921, he traveled to the United States with his friend and fellow artist, Arthur Kolnik. In New York City, the two met artist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in organizing their first American show at the Anderson Gallery. Following the exhibition, in 1922, they both returned to Europe. In 1923, Rubin emigrated to Mandate Palestine.
Rubin met his wife, Esther, in 1928, aboard a passenger ship to Palestine on his return from a show in New York. She was a Bronx girl who had won a trip to Palestine in a Young Judaea competition. He died in 1974.
Part of the early generation of artists in Israel, Joseph Zaritsky, Arieh Lubin, Reuven Rubin, Sionah Tagger, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Mordecai Ardon, Yitzhak Katz, and Baruch Agadati; These painters depicted the country’s landscapes in the 1920s rebelled against the Bezalel school of Boris Schatz. They sought current styles in Europe that would help portray their own country’s landscape, in keeping with the spirit of the time. Rubin’s Cezannesque landscapes from the 1920s were defined by both a modern and a naive style, portraying the landscape and inhabitants of Israel in a sensitive fashion. His landscape paintings in particular paid special detail to a spiritual, translucent light. His early work bore the influences of Futurism, Vorticism, Cubism and Surrealism.
In Palestine, he became one of the founders of the new Eretz-Yisrael style. Recurring themes in his work were the bible, the prophet, the biblical landscape, folklore and folk art, people, including Yemenite, Hasidic Jews and Arabs. Many of his paintings are sun-bathed depictions of Jerusalem and the Galilee. Rubin might have been influenced by the work of Henri Rousseau whose naice style combined with Eastern nuances, as well as with the neo-Byzantine art to which Rubin had been exposed in his native Romania. In accordance with his integrative style, he signed his works with his first name in Hebrew and his surname in Roman letters.
In 1924, he was the first artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Tower of David, in Jerusalem (later exhibited in Tel Aviv at Gymnasia Herzliya). That year he was elected chairman of the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Palestine. From the 1930s onwards, Rubin designed backdrops for Habima Theater, the Ohel Theater and other theaters.
His biography, published in 1969, is titled My Life - My Art. He died in Tel Aviv in October 1974, after having bequeathed his home on 14 Bialik Street and a core collection of his paintings to the city of Tel Aviv. The Rubin Museum opened in 1983. The director and curator of the museum is his daughter-in-law, Carmela Rubin. Rubin's paintings are now increasingly sought after. At a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2007, his work accounted for six of the ten top lots. Along with Yaacov Agam and Menashe Kadishman he is among Israel's best known artists internationally. Education
1912 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1913-14 École des Beaux Arts, Paris and Académie Colarossi, Paris
Select Group Exhibitions
Eged - Palestine Painters Group Eged - Palestine Painters Group, Allenby Street, Tel Aviv 1929
Artists: Chana Orloff, Abraham Melnikoff, Rubin, Reuven Nahum Gutman, Sionah Tagger,Arieh Allweil,
Jewish Artists Association, Levant Fair, Tel Aviv, 1929
Artists: Ludwig Blum,Eliyahu Sigad, Shmuel Ovadyahu, Itzhak Frenel Frenkel,Ozer Shabat, Menahem Shemi...
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1920s Abstract Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Surf Elements - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Surf Elements - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Limited Edition 01/04
This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA.
Immerse yourself...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Hölle XXII (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 Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Poems : The Couple - Original Woodcut, Rare Trial Proof
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Poèmes : the couple
Original woodcut, 1968
Unsigned
On vellum size 36 x 28 cm (c. 14 x 11 inch)
A rare trial proof before the final state
NOTE : Trial proo...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Picasso, Composition (Johnson, Vollard 193), Hélène chez Archimède (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut Engraving on cream wove Montval paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Hélène Chez Archimède, 1955. Publis...
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1950s Modern Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Inari Kozo Tasaburo- Kabuki
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Inari Kozo Tasaburo- Kabuki
Color woodcut, c. 1820
Signed: ‘Toyokuni’
Publisher: ‘Yamamoto Heikichi’
Censor: Hama and Magome
Very good impression and color
Sheet/Image size: 15 1/2 x...
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1820s Other Art Style Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Männlicher Kopf an weibliche (Male Head Leaning against Female) /// Rottluff
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976)
Title: "Männlicher Kopf an weibliche (Male Head Leaning against Female)"
Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman)
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1918
Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany
Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany
Reference: Schapire No. 225, page 46; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118
Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38"
Image size: 6.25" x 3.57"
Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). In very good condition
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Biography:
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died...
Category
1910s Expressionist Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
19th century color woodcut Japanese ukiyo-e print samurai figure
By Toyoharu Kunichika
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ichimura Hazaemon as Hatsuyumeya Mitsujiro" is a woodcut print by Toyoharu Kunichika in red, blue, and black.
14" x 9 1/2" art
20 3/4" x 16 3/4" framed
From the series “First Per...
Category
1860s Edo Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Nir Hadar, Rabbit in the club, Print on wood or plexiglass
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Hadar takes euphoric moments and try to generate a three dimensional feeling with every image inviting the viewer to jump into the game and to be part of it.
There's a hidden message...
Category
2010s Pop Art Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Woodcut
The Dutiful Youth of Mino Province Collecting Wood to Warm His Old Father
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Dutiful Youth of Mino Province Collecting Wood to Warm His Old Father
Color woodcut, c. 1842-43
Signed and sealed lower right (see photo)
From the Series: "Honcho nijushi-ko" (Tw...
Category
1840s Other Art Style Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Boy Botaro and his Nurse Otsuji and a Lotus Pond
Located in Burbank, CA
The boy Bôtarô watches his nurse Otsuji haul a bucket of water from the well. From the kabuki play Osanago no adauchi. Most interesting is the lush backdrop of lotus flowers and pump...
Category
1880s Other Art Style Woodcut Figurative Prints
Materials
Mulberry Paper, Woodcut
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