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Period: 1920s
Night Shadows
By Edward Hopper
Located in Storrs, CT
Night Shadows. 1921. Etching. Levin 82. 7 x 8 3/8 (sheet 10 x 13 7 1/16).s Series: Six American Etchings: The New Republic Portfolio, 1924. Edition approximately 500-600. Illustrate...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$48,000 Sale Price
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'The Gateway to the New World' — Vintage New York City
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'The Gateway to the New World', etching (artist's proof), edition 16, 1926, Kennedy 25. Signed in pencil and annotated 'Japan Silk Paper - Trial Proof - Ltd. Ed. Del. et...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Portrait of an African Woman — 1920s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Portrait of an African Woman), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 13 in pencil. Number 13 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publis...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$760 Sale Price
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'Der Gartner' (The Gardener) — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Der Gartner' (The Gardener), woodcut, c. 1925. Signed, titled, and numbered '15/50' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left and right. A fine, richly-inked impression on buff wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Image size 5 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches (133 x 98 mm); sheet size 10 x 7 3/4 inches (254 x 198 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919 - 1933). In 1920, his work was featured in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Sisters' — Renowned Black American, Harlem Renaissance Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Lesesne Wells, 'Sisters', linocut, edition not stated but small, 1928. Signed, titled, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A fine impression on off-white wove Japan paper, with wide margins (1 7/8 to 3 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by the artist. Very scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 8 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches (208 x 171 mm); sheet size 13 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (343 x 273 mm).
Exhibition and Literature: 'Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection,' The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, extensive touring exhibition, 1998-2000.
Collections: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (Anacostia Community Museum).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“Wells is more than an artist with a deep concern for his fellow man. He carries many of his themes a step further into an apocalyptic world, a world of revelation and shifting lights. … He works on large blocks in a bold free style. … His work has a vigor, therefore, that is not often used in the medium today.”
—Jacob Kainen (painter, critic, and collector) from Richard J. Powell’s 1986 essay Phoenix Ascending: The Art of James Lesesne Wells.
James Lesesne Wells was an American painter, printmaker, educator, and pioneering figure of the Harlem Renaissance, whose work established a vital connection between African heritage, modernist form, and African American cultural identity. Known for his innovative use of linoleum and woodblock printing, Wells played a key role in shaping 20th-century African American art and inspired countless students throughout his lengthy career as a teacher at Howard University.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Wells' early exposure to the arts came through church and community, where African American cultural traditions were central. He pursued formal artistic training at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania (earning a B.A. in 1924), followed by studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Barnes Foundation, where he encountered European modernists as well as traditional African sculpture, which profoundly influenced his style.
Wells moved to New York in the late 1920s, swiftly immersing himself in the lively artistic and intellectual scene of Harlem. There, he became associated with artists, writers, and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, contributing to the growth of Black cultural identity. Considered a mentor to many famed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Wells served as director of a summer art workshop in Harlem where his assistants included Charles Alston, Jacob Lawrence, and Palmer Hayden...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Tempête à Nice - PhotoLithograph after Henri Matisse - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Tempête à Nice is a photolithograph realized in 1993 after Henri Matisse.
Signed on the plate
On Milano handmade paper.
Very good conditions.
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Mehr Sonne fur 1924' (More Sun for 1924)— German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Mehr Sonne fur 1924. Viel Gluck Wunscht Karl Michel U. Frau', woodcut, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op. 162' and '15/20' in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression on buff wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
New Year's Greeting – English translation: "More Sun for 1924. Good Luck Wishes from Karl Michel and his Wife."
Image size 4 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (118 x 121 mm); sheet size 7 3/4 x 10 inches (198 x 254 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Sale and Marketing Kiosk for P Cigarettes (Bauhaus) (20% OFF + Free Shipping)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Herbert Bayer
Sale and Marketing Kiosk for P Cigarettes (Verkauf- und Werbekiosk, Zigarettenmarke P ), 1924
Offset Lithograph
Year: 1994
Size: 33.2 × 23.2 inches
Publisher: Bauhaus A...
Category
Bauhaus 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$120 Sale Price
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Harry Wickey, Snug Harbor (Riverside Drive, NYC)
By Harry Wickey
Located in New York, NY
The sailors are still in uniform in this post-World War I print of young people meeting at a semi-secluded park setting, Snug Harbor, along Riverside Drive...
Category
Ashcan School 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Henri Matisse, Crayon, from Drawings by Henri Matisse, 1925 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Crayon (Crayon), from the album Dessins de Henri-Matisse (Drawings by Henri Matisse), originates from the 1925 editi...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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'Dancing' — 'les années folles' Paris Masterwork, 1928
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 'Dancing', lithograph, 1928, edition 30, Davis L-29. Signed, dated, and numbered '8/30' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, printed on cream chine appliqué on heavy off-white wove backing; the full sheet with wide margins (1 3/8 to 4 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by Desjobert, Paris. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Impressions of this work are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi Museum (Japan).
ABOUT THIS WORK
The French economy boomed from 1921 until the Great Depression reached Paris in 1931. This period called 'Les années folles' or the 'Crazy Years', saw Paris reestablished as a capital of art, music, literature, and cinema. Paris in the 1920s and 1930s was the home and meeting place of some of the world's most prominent painters, sculptors, composers, dancers, poets, and writers. For those in the arts, it was, as Ernest Hemingway described it, "A moveable feast". Paris was home to an exceptional number of galleries, art dealers, and a network of wealthy patrons who offered commissions and held salons.
Pablo Picasso, perhaps the most famous artist in Paris, shared renown with a remarkable group of others, including the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, the Belgian René Magritte, the Italian Amedeo Modigliani, the Russian émigré Marc Chagall, the Catalan and Spanish artists Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Juan Gris, and the German surrealist...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paresse, Art Nouveau Etching by Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950) - Paresse, Year: 1925, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 15 x 18.75 inches, Size: 23.5 in. x 27.5 in. (59.69 cm x 69.85 cm)
Category
Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Henri Matisse, Plume, from Drawings by Henri Matisse, 1925 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Plume (Feather), from the album Dessins de Henri-Matisse (Drawings by Henri Matisse), originates from the 1925 editi...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Notre Dame de Paris
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb, dark impression of a well known scene by Arms.
Etching with aquatint on watermarked handmade F.J. Head & Co. laid paper, 12 3/8 x 13 15/16 inches (315 x 354 mm), full marg...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
'Brooklyn Bridge' — Iconic New York City Landmark
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Luigi Kasimir, 'Brooklyn Bridge', color etching with aquatint, 1927, edition 100. Signed in pencil.
A superb impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, cream wove paper; with margins...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
A Mirage
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
A Mirage. 1928. Etching. Hardie 238. 11 13/16 x 14 3/8 (sheet 12 3/16 x 18 3/4). Edition 76, #46. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1928 and 1938; Holmes, Etchings of Today. A ri...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,750 Sale Price
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‘LE REPOSE du MODELE' - Rare First State
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRI MATISSE (French 1869-1954)
LE REPOSE du MODELE 1922 . (Duthuit 416)
Original lithograph, FIRST STATE, on Chine volant paper BEFORE image was reduced at the left edge. An uns...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Francois Auguste Rene Rodin, Untitled, from Twelve Watercolors, 1920 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Francois Auguste Rene Rodin (1840–1917), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Douze aquarelles de Auguste Rodin (Twelve Watercolors by Auguste...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil, Lithograph
$1,756 Sale Price
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Symphony in White No. 2, The Little White Girl
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Clifford James (active 1900-1930)
After James Abbott NcNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Symphony in White No. 2, The Little White Girl
Color mezzotint, 1922
Signed in pencil by James (see ...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Conchita, Art Nouveau Etching by Louis Icart 1929
By Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950)
Title: Conchita
Year: 1929
Medium: Etching, signed in pencil
Image Size: 20 x 13 inches
Frame Size: 32.5 x 25 inches
Reference: Figure 361 ...
Category
Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Nu à l'éventail - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1924
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
This wonderful original etching with drypoint was realized by Marc Chagall in 1924. Hand-signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right corner. It's an artist pro...
Category
Surrealist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$7,097 Sale Price
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“Recollections”/ “Dans Les Passes”
By Louis Icart
Located in San Francisco, CA
Still in her silken evening gown and dancing slippers, the glamorous ingénue is savoring her memories, her ribbon-tied love letters and long draws on her cigarette holder. Was he eve...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
"La Correspondance" Signed Etching, Edition of 25, Young Woman Writing
Located in Yardley, PA
Created at the height of Matisse’s mature period, this work exemplifies the artist’s turn toward clarity, purity of line, and compositional balance. Matisse, in his signature linear ...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Hydrangeas, Art Nouveau Color Etching by Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950) - Hydrangeas, Year: 1929, Medium: Color Etching, Signed in Pencil, Image Size: 16 x 20 inches, Frame Size: 24.5 x 28.5 inches, Reference: Figur...
Category
Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
Abstract 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Fille Nue from Le Reincarnations du Pere Ubu, by Georges Rouault
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fille Nue from Le Reincarnations du Pere Ubu
Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958)
Date: 1928
Aquatint on Arches, signed in the plate
Image Size: 10.5 x 6.5 inches
Size: 17 x 12.5 in. ...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
'The Furnace' — American Expressionism
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'The Furnace', drypoint, edition 26, 1924, Kennedy 5. Signed and annotated 'Drypoint. Ltd Ed. Del. et imp.' in pencil. Titled in pencil, in the bottom center sheet edge....
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Hand Signed in Pencil Etching Cafe de Paris Visage de Maisons Maurice Vlaminck
Located in Surfside, FL
Maurice Vlaminck
Le Cafe de Paris, Pl. X, from Visage des Maisons, c. 1927 (Walterskirchen 132)
Etching on Van Gelder laid paper, signed in pencil, trial proof with the blindstamp o...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
L'Homme sans Passeport Devant le Capitaine Ispravnik
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint on wove paper realized by Marc Chagall between 1923 and 1927.
Plate from the Suite "Les Ames Mortes de Gogol" published by Tériade in Paris in 1948.
Edition of 1...
Category
Surrealist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Profile of an African Woman — 1920s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Profile of an African Woman), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 15 in pencil. Number 15 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publish...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$760 Sale Price
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Henri Matisse, Fusain, from Drawings by Henri Matisse, 1925 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Fusain (Charcoal), from the album Dessins de Henri-Matisse (Drawings by Henri Matisse), originates from the 1925 edi...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Original 1929 Bruzelles, 10th Foire Commerciale vintage linen-backed poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1929 Bruxelles 10th Foire Commerciale Poster – Linen Backed & Ready to Wow! Art by Armand Massonet. Grade A condition poster almost 100 years old. No restoration but resi...
Category
1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tall Nude with a Fan - Original etching (Kornfeld #39), 1924
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Tall Nude with a Fan, 1924
Original etching
On vellum 34 x 51,5 cm (c. 14 x 20 in)
REFERENCE: Catalog raisonne Kornfeld #39
INFORMATION : Beautiful proof...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Erotic Scene - Lithograph by Albert Marquet - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a beautiful lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized in the 1920s by Albert Marquet (Bordeaux, 1875 - Paris,1947).
Monogrammed on the plate on the lower margin. ...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Chapeau Epinglé - Etching by Pierre Auguste Renoir - 1921
Located in Roma, IT
Le chapeau épinglé (La fille de Berthe Morisot et sa cousine) 3e planche. Etching realized by Renoir in 1894.
Image dimension 11.5x8 cm. / sheet dimension 33.2x15.1 cm.
The final s...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Moody Untitled 1920s Boris Anisfeld Lithograph of Figures and City Buildings
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1920s moody, Modernist lithograph by notable artist Boris Israelevich Anisfeld, depicting figures and buildings. Artwork size: 11 3/4" x 9". Archivally matted to 16" x 14".
...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Pablo Picasso, "Joie Maternelle, " original etching, numbered
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
"Joie Maternelle"
Original Etching
Stamp signed, Numbered 8/50 from the edition of 50 printed in 1961, (The first edition was printed in 1922)
Published by Galerie Loui...
Category
1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Vini di Lusso Italian wine vintage poster 1922
By Plinio Codognato 1
Located in Spokane, WA
Original, Italian, Vini di Lusso lithograph vintage poster for fine wines. The Italian Society for Superior Wine. The image of a satyr (or Bacchus) getting ready to eat a group ...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Auction
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Kretzschmar (1889-1972), Auction, etching, drypoint, and burnished aquatint, 1921, signed and dated (’20) in pencil lower right [also initialed in the plate lower left] Refe...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Barcarolle.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Barcarolle. 1926. Etching. Carter 233. 14 7/8 x 8 3/8 (sheet 17 1/4 x 10 1/4). Edition 80, #xxv. Print Collector's Quarterly 24 (1938): 428; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$9,000 Sale Price
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L’Auge II - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1925
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph, 1925.
Image Dimensions: 30 x 24 cm
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 100 prints.
Shipped from Italy.
Category
Surrealist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original LONDON MIDLAND & SCOTISH RAILWAY - LMS, 1925 vintage railroad poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) vintage Art Deco railway poster from 1925. The artist is Raymond Virac. Archival linen-backed and in excellent condition, ready to ...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
In Thought - Original Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1920
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
In Thought is an original offset and lithograph print realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is the plate n. 37 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of D...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
Marie Laurencin, Untitled, from Les Biches, 1924
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Les Biches (The Does), originates from the 1924 edition published b...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$2,796 Sale Price
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'Venus' — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Venus, Ex Libris - Hanns U. Herta Heeren', woodcut, 1923, edition not stated but small. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op.154' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. A fine impression, on cream Japan paper, with full margins (15/16 to 2 11/16 inches), in good condition. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards (unframed).
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Translation: Venus Ex Libris for Hanns and Herta Heeren.
Image size 5 15/16 x 4 inches (156 x 102 mm); sheet size 9 5/8 x 6 inches (245 x 152 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Marie Laurencin, Untitled, from Les Biches, 1924
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Les Biches (The Does), originates from the 1924 edition published b...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$2,796 Sale Price
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The Gargoyle and His Quarry
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gargoyle and His Quarry, Notre Dame. 1920. Etching.Fletcher 90. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 (sheet 10 1/2 x 9 1/16). Gargoyle series #1. Edition 75. A rich impression printed on 'FJHead&Co' c...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,750 Sale Price
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Marie Laurencin, Untitled, from Les Biches, 1924
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Les Biches (The Does), originates from the 1924 edition published b...
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Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph, Stencil
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La Dernière Lettre Persane
Located in Wilton, CT
A large format book (15.25 x 11.25 inches), following the trend among leading Parisian couture houses who had been producing elaborately designed luxury catalogs since Paul Poiret’s ...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Gouache
Louise, Art Nouveau Lithograph after Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Louis Icart, After, French (1888 - 1950) - Louise, Year: Of Original: 1927, Medium: Lithograph, facsimilie signature, Edition: 122/300, Image Size: 20 x 14 inches, Frame Size: 2...
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Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A view of the New York Public Library, looking uptown along 5th Avenue.
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: c 1920.
Etching with aquatint printed in brownish black ink on cream wove paper, 8 3/4 x 12 inches (220 x 304 mm), full margins. Signed and titled in pencil in the lower ma...
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American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
The Gothic Spirit
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gothic Spirit (also called A Gargoyle, A Gothic Spirit). 1922. Etching and stipple. Fletcher 120. 11 5/8 x 7 (sheet 15 1/4 x 11 1/4). Gargoyle Series #8. Edition 130. Illustrated...
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American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
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Early 20th Century British Street Scene - 1920s Figurative Landscape Etching
By E. Mary Shelley
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed figurative landscape lithograph of a street in London with a towering cathedral, old buildings, and figures walking the street below by E. Mary Shelley (English, late...
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Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
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Paper, Etching
Original The Sea Master Herre på Skutan 1920 Swedish art deco movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Swedish movie poster, The Sea Master. (Herre på Skutan).. Archival linen backed in good condition, ready to frame. The USA silent movie was produced in 1917 but released in ...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Madame Bovary, Art Nouveau Color Etching by Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950) - Madame Bovary, Year: 1929, Medium: Color Etching, Signed in Pencil, Image Size: 16 x 20.5 inches, Frame Size: 40 x 43 inches, Reference: Figu...
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Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Rare 1923 Cubist Reuven Rubin Woodcut Woodblock Kabbalah 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...
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Abstract 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Japanese Artisans - Silk Dying -Japanese Woodblock Print
By Tosa Mitsuyoshi
Located in Soquel, CA
Japanese Artisans - Japanese Woodblock Print J
Japanese woodblock depicting six women, all wearing vibrant kimonos, working on crafts by Tosa Mitsuoki (Japanese, 1617-1691). Japanese,c. 1600. Handcraft depiction (dye works).Section from a painted screen with presentations of handcraft.Kita-in, Saitama.
Stamped lower left.
Presented in a white mat and giltwood frame.
Frame: 19"H x 14"W
Mat: 18.25"H x 13.25"W
Image: 14.5"H x 9.5"W
Tosa Mitsuoki was a Japanese painter, reinvigorating the Yamato style of classical Japanese painting. Yamato-e originated from interest in reproducing early Tang dynasty paintings, and was later reinvented and further refined to fit Japanese cultural perceptions in the late Heian period. Yamato, sometimes referred to as wa or kazu had become synonymous with the Tosa-ha by the Muromachi period as a way for Japanese artist to distinguish their works from those of mainland Chinese paintings, kara-e. Yamato-e incorporated various visual and literary techniques for establishing narrative. Works were not always accompanied with text and may rely on heavily on period specific visual motifs, icons, and symbols to relay a story or theme. Tosa style by the time of Mitsuoki focused heavily on depicting themes of plants and nature, famous places, meisho, the four seasons, shik, bird-and-flower, kacho. Many of these popular symbols and icons from mimicking Chinese practices, treating the original Chinese masterwork as a sort of prototype to improve upon. Popular formats for Mitsuoki's pictures were wall scrolls kakemono, or handscrolls that would be read from right to left with the accompanied story, sliding doors fusuma and folding screen panels byobu that featured up to six panels. Mitsuoki's style incorporated the depth and calligraphy techniques of ink wash brushwork similar to Song dynasty and Yuan dynasty Chinese court paintings...
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Edo 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
Paris : Saint Michel Bridge - Original Etching (Duthuit-Matisse #108)
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri MATISSE (1869-1964)
Paris : Saint Michel Bridge, 1927
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
Limited to 225 copies
On BFK Rives vellum 25 x 33 cm (c. 9.8 x 12.9 in)...
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Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Shadows on the Ramp
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
Shadows on the Ramp. 1927. Drypoint and sand ground. McCarron 64. 9 x 10 1/2 (sheet 12 3/8 x 14). Edition 75 recorded impressions. A rich, tonal impression with drypoint burr, printe...
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American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
La Garçonne
Located in OPOLE, PL
Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968) - La Garçonne
Original Lithograph, pochoir from 1925.
Arches paper (no watermark).
Dimensions of work: 23.5 x 18 cm
Publisher: E. Flammarion Éditeur.
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Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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