Max Slevogt

Entwurf zu Kleist's Penthesilea - Original Lithograph by M- Slevogt - 1904/5

1904/5

Die tapferen Zehntausend is an original rare book written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and illustrated by Max Slevogt (Landshut, 8 October 1868 – Leinsweiler...

Walkürenritt (the Ride of the Valkyries) is a beautiful colored etching (on zinc plate) on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1890 by Albert Welti (Zurich 1862, Bern 1912). Inscript...

Etching realized in 1922 to illustrate Richard Strauss' work. Hand signed in pencil ower right. A tear in the right margin and a corner crease in the upper right, otherwise overall...

Surprise is a black and White etching realized by François Chifflart in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 24x32. Very good impression with wide margins and a very fresh...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed on laid paper in 1919 and published in Berlin by Paul Cassirer. Sheet size: 6 3/4 x 9 inches (175 x 229 mm). Not signed.

Adolphe WILLETTE (1857-1926) French Revolution, the Battle of Valmy, 1899 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Printed signature in the plate On ...

"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne)" is a print watermarked PL BAS after a drawing by Adolphe Willette. It depicts a general with his army and a young girl. 15 3/4" x 12" art 23" x 19 1/4" frame Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857 – 4 February 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Willette ran as an "anti-semitic" candidate in the 9th arrondisement of Paris for the September 1889 legislative elections. Biography Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne. He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. Whether comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or political satire, his work is instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set Pierrot upon a lofty pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France, and established Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable, and essentially good-hearted, in the affections of the nation. Willette is at once the modern Watteau of the pencil, and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional section of the public. Always a poet, and usually gay, fresh, and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more "charming" side of love, often pure and sometimes extremely materialistic. Willette frequently reveals himself bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they be ground down under the heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims ot unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment. There is charm even in his thrilling apotheosis of the guillotine, and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of Death itself. The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms "Cemoi", "Pierrot", "Louison", "Bebe", and "Nox", but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, Le Courrier français, and published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of Busch. He decorated several "brasseries artistiques" with wall-paintings, stained glass, &c., notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale...

Medium: original etching and drypoint. The English translation of the German title is "The Hug". Published in Leipzig, Germany by Zeitschrift fur bildende Kunst in 1915. The plate me...