1910s Figurative Prints

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Une Marmite, engraving, 1916, signed in pencil lower left; titled, dated and inscribed “epreuve de 1er etat” bottom margin edge [with the initial an...

Arthur B. Davies, Up-Rising, soft ground etching and aquatint on a cream laid paper, 1919, signed in pencil lower right margin. Reference: Czestochowski 78, second state (of 3). In g...

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), L’ile Desert, etching, 1914, signed in pencil lower left and numbered lower right (33/35). Reference: Laboureur 135, only state, from the edition of...

Lion Brewery. 1914. Etching. Hardie 149. 11 1/2 x 8 1/8 (sheet 13 5/8 x 10 1/8). Edition 50, #7. Illustrated: Salaman, Modern Masters of Etching. A fine impression of this scarce pri...

KARL SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF 1884-1976 Rottluff, Germany 1884 - 1976 Berlin (German) Title: By the Nets Bei den Netzen, 1914 Technique: Original hand signed woodcut on laid paper ...

Pochoir Colored Plate for Journal Des Dames et Des Modes. Engraved by H. Reidel on wove paper. 15 x 19.5". 1914 Pochoir is a process where the plate is first stenciled and then ha...

Wood cut in two colors on laid silk woven paper, 1913 by Erich Heckel ( 1883-1970 ). Signed and dated in pencil lower right: Heckel. Framed. Height: 7.13 in ( 18,1 cm ), Width: 4.21 ...

"Mlle Landsberg" (grade planche, pl. 16), 1914 Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954) Signed and Numbered Lower Right Edition 12/15 Image size: 7 7/8 x 4 5/16 inches Sheet size: 17 11/16 x 12 1/2 inches With frame: 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches Henri Matisse came from a family who were of Flemish origin and lived near the Belgian border. At eight o'clock on the evening of December 31, 1869, he was born in his grandparents' home in the town of Le Cateau in the cheerless far north of France. His father was a self-made seed merchant who was a mixture of determination and tightly coiled tension. Henri had no clear idea of what he wanted to do with his life. He was a twenty-year-old law clerk convalescing from appendicitis when he first began to paint, using a box of colors given to him by his mother. Little more than a year later, in 1890, he had abandoned law and was studying art in Paris. The classes consisted of drawing from plaster casts and nude models and of copying paintings in the Louvre. He soon rebelled against the school's conservative atmosphere; he replaced the dark tones of his earliest works with brighter colors that reflected his awareness of Impressionism. Matisse was also a violinist; he took an odd pride in the notion that if his painting eye failed, he could support his family by fiddling on the streets of Paris. Henri found a girlfriend while studying art, and he fathered a daughter, Marguerite, by her in 1894. In 1898 he married another woman, Amelie Parayre. She adopted the beloved Marguerite; they eventually had two sons, Jean, a sculptor and Pierre who became an eminent art dealer. Relations between Matisse and his wife were often strained. He often dallied with other women, and they finally separated in 1939 over a model who had been hired as a companion for Mme. Matisse. She was Madame Lydia, and after Mme. Matisse left, she remained with Matisse until he died. Matisse spent the summer of 1905 working with Andre Derain in the small Mediterranean seaport of Collioure. They began using bright and dissonant colors. When they and their colleagues exhibited together, they caused a sensation. The critics and the public considered their paintings to be so crude and so roughly crafted that the group became known as Les Fauves (the wild beasts). By 1907, Matisse moved on from the concerns of Fauvism and turned his attention to studies of the human figure. He had begun to sculpt a few years earlier. In 1910, when he saw an exhibition of Islamic art, he was fascinated with the multiple patterned areas and adapted the decorative universe of the miniatures to his interiors. As a continuation of his interest in the "exotic", Matisse made extended trips to Morocco in 1912 and 1913. At the end of 1917, Matisse moved to Nice; he would spend part of each year there for the remainder of his life. A meticulous dandy, he wore a light tweed jacket amd a tie when he painted. He never used a palette, but instead squeezed his colors on to plain white kitchen dishes...

Anders Zorn (Utmeland/Dalarne, 1860 - Mora/Sweden, 1920) The Two", 1916 Signed in pencil lower right and monogrammed and dated in the plate. Etching on laid paper. 35,5 x 23 cm; 20,2...

A very fine copy of "Les Bars," an album of ten original etchings by the master Lobel-Riche, representing fashionable women in various Parisian social settings. This album, part of a...

Etching realized by Pierre Girieud (1876-1940). Good condition with foxing, on a yellowed paper included a white cardboard passpartout (50 x 70 cm). Hand signed on the lower right corner. Pierre Girieud was a French painter (Marseille 1875 - Nogent-sur-Marne 1948). Follower of P. Gauguin, friend of Cézanne and Van Gogh, he painted still lifes, landscapes of Provence, naked, in a massive, archaic style, with influences of Italian Renaissance painting.

Henri Matisse Torse de face, 1913 lithograph on Japanese vellum, edition 31 of 50 19 11/16 x 13 in. (50 x 33 cm) Ref: Duthuit 407; Cat. 31 signed in ink and numbered 31/50

L'Amore dei Tre Re is a colored lithographed original manifesto on cardboard, realized in 1913 by the Italian artist Luigi Caldanzano. Printed by Offi...

“One of Mucha’s best Czech posters, printed by the firm of V. Neubert in the Smichov quarter of Prague, was for Princezna Hyacinta, a fairy-tale ballet and pantomime with music by Oskar Nedbal and libretto by Ladislav Novák. The portrait of the popular actress Andula Sedlácková as the princess dominates the poster. The plot develops as a dream of a village blacksmith who falls asleep after digging for a buried treasure. In his dreams he becomes lord of a castle, and his daughter Hanicka becomes the Princess Hyacinth. Of her three suitors, one is a sorcerer who abducts her to his underground palace, but she is rescued by a poor knight who looks like her real-life lover. Mucha used the motif of the hyacinth throughout the entire design, from embroideries to silver jewelry, and for an elaborate circle sparkling against the mossy green background. The portrait of the actress is seen against a sky full of stars and encircled with images from the dream: the blacksmith’s tools...

The New Year's Cake is an original modern artwork realized after Kitagawa Utamaro (1753 –1806) and printed around 1910. Original Bijinga reprint (double page book). From the famou...

Image dimensions: 16 x 24 cm. Hand signed. Edition of 100 prints on Hollande paper. From the collection: “Croquis du Front Italien”, published in Paris by D'Alignan editions. Anselm...

Edition of 50 Signed and dated lower right

Edition of 200 Signed, dated and numbered

Drypoint on off-white laid paper Edition of 75 Signed & dated in pencil

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), La Marchande de Violettes, etching, 1914, signed in pencil lower left and numbered (33/35) lower right [also signed and dated in the plate lower rig...

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le Diner a L’Auberge, 1917-1922), engraving, signed in pencil lower left and numbered (45/55) lower right. Reference: Sylvain Laboureur 173, second ...

Driving Home in the Rain. 1914. Drypoint. Appleby 35. 7 3/8 x 10 1/8 (sheet 12 x 15 3/8). Edition 40. Illustrated: Guichard, British Etchers, 1850-1940; Print Collector's Quarterly 1...

LABOURER, Jean Emile. Le Gramophone. Woodcut on cream laid paper, 1918-21. full margins. Signed and numbered 41/45 in pencil, lower margin. A very goo...