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Period: 1920s
The Widow - Woodcut Print by Hermann-Paul - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
The Widow is an original Modern artwork realized by Hermann-Paul (Paris,1864 – 1940).
Original woodcut on paper.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right corner.
Passepartout is ...
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Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Conversation from Ecce Homo - Original Offset and Lithograph by G. Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Conversation from Ecce Homo is an original offset and lithograph, realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is the plate n. 69 from the porfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923,ed...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
In the Brothel - Original Lithograph by Eugen Hamm - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
In the Brothel is an original lithograph realized by Eugen Hamm a german artist in 1922.
In good conditions.
This artwork represents a brothel with severa...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Military - Original Etching by Anselmo Bucci - 1917
Located in Roma, IT
"Military" is a beautiful print in the etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955).
In very good conditions.
Hand-signed. Image Dimensions: 15.5 x 22.5 cm.
Numbere...
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1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Frontispiece for Le Bonheur du Jour - Pochoir by G. Barbier - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Le Bonheur du Jour by George Barbie (Nantes, 1889 - Paris, 1932) is an artwork realized in 1929.
Original colored pochoir on cardboard.
Perfect conditions.
Le Bonheur du Jour is...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
The Wheel - Etching on Paper by Mino Maccari - 1920s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Wheel is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the XX Century by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original drypoint on paper. Editi...
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Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Escape of the Bacchantes - Original Lithograph by Ferdinand Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
The Escape of the Bacchantes is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922.
Signed and dated on plate on the lower right corner: F. Bac 1922.
Original Lithograph on ivory paper.
Perfect conditions.
The Escape of the Bacchantes is an elegant Liberty Lithograph realized by Ferdinand Bac in the second decade of the XX Century in France. The work, in full Liberty style, represents some women covered by transparent veils who are running with amphorae on their heads. The scene is very dynamic; behind them, several men are running behind them. The figures are in a structure covered by sqared bricks and are walking quickly up the stairs.
Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952). Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach, known as Ferdinand Bac was a French cartoonist, artist and writer, son of an illegitimate nephew of the Emperor Napoleon. As a young man, he mixed in the fashionable world of Paris of the Belle Époque, and was known for his caricatures, which appeared in popular journals. He also traveled widely in Europe and the Mediterranean. In his fifties, he began a career as a landscape gardener. He attended Adolphe Thiers, Gambetta, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Taine, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Paul Verlaine, Maurice Barrès, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Verdi, Gounod, Pierre de Nolhac, and many more other famous people of the time. He established himself as one of the first cartoonists and caricaturists of his time, as famous as Albert Robida...
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Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Vestal in the Waterfall - Original Lithograph by F. Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
The Vestal and the Waterfall is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922.
Original Lithograph on ivory paper.
Signed and dated on plate on the low...
Category
Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vers un Monde Volage, Surrealist Suit of 10 Etchings by Marcel Gromaire
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcel Gromaire, French (1892 - 1971) - Vers un Monde Volage, Year: 1926, Medium: Suit of 10 Etchings on Arches, each signed in pencil, Edition: 270, Image Size: 6.75 x 5.5 inches,...
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Surrealist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Stolen Kiss - Original Lithograph by F. Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
The Stolen Kiss is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922.
Original Lithograph on ivory paper.
Signed and dated on plate on the lower left corne...
Category
Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Tale - Original Lithograph by F. Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
The Tale is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922.
Original Lithograph on ivory paper.
Signed and dated on plate on the lower right corner: F. ...
Category
Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Old Man - Woodcut by Giuseppe Viviani - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Old Man is an original woodcut realized by Giuseppe Viviani in 1927.
Image dimensions: 38.5 x 27 cm.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lo...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Escape of Women - Original Lithograph by F. Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
The Escape of the Women is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922.
Original Lithograph on ivory paper.
Signed and dated on plate on the lower ri...
Category
Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Coronation - Original Lithograph by F. Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
The Coronation is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in the 1920s.
Original Lithograph on ivory paper.Image dimensions: 19 x 14 cm.
Signed and dated on plate on the lower right corner: F. Bac 1922.
Excellent conditions.
The Coronation is an excellent Liberty Style artwork realized by the French artist Ferdinand Bac in the Second decade of the XX Century. The work depicts a female figure bent over a man seated on a throne who is offering her a crown of flowers. The scene is enriched by the other characters that are carrying vases full of flowers.
This work has been realized the French artist Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952). Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach, known as Ferdinand Bac was a French cartoonist, artist and writer, son of an illegitimate nephew of the Emperor Napoleon. As a young man, he mixed in the fashionable world of Paris of the Belle Époque, and was known for his caricatures, which appeared in popular journals. He also traveled widely in Europe and the Mediterranean. In his fifties, he began a career as a landscape gardener. He attended Adolphe Thiers, Gambetta, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Taine, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Paul Verlaine, Maurice Barrès, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Verdi, Gounod, Pierre de Nolhac, and many more other famous people of the time. He established himself as one of the first cartoonists and caricaturists of his time, as famous as Albert Robida...
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Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Minotauros - Vintage Héliogravure by Franz von Bayros - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Minotauros" is an original Black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1924).
From Map...
Category
Symbolist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Automne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Automne (Autumn)
Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, 1927
Signed, titled, and annotated in brown ink (see photos)
Condition: Good
Signature and inscrption faded to brown
Image size: 17 x 22 1/4 inches
Sheet size: 21 5/8 x 28 1/2 inches
This is the second of three version of this image (a aquatint/heliogravure (1927, this lithograph (1933) and a color aquatint (1938).
Reference:
Francois Chapon and Isabelle Rouault, Rouault Oeuvre Grave (Monte Carlo: Editions Andre Sauret, 1978), 364 viii/VIII, third edition of 175 printed in 1933.
There is also a etching/heliogravure as well as a color aquatint version of this image. It is considered to by an important image in Rouault's work and recognized as a famous print...
Category
French School 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Old Man - Woodcut by Giuseppe Viviani - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 38.5 x 27 cm.
"Portrait of Old" is an original xilography realized by Giuseppe Viviani in 1927; Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right, and numbered in pencil on the lower-left. Edition of 200 prints.
Perfect conditions.
The artwork represents an old man portrait, with traditional costume, with an impressive tired look which is skillfully drawn and colored in light green and dark blue.
Giuseppe Viviani (1898) is a popular Italian artist and engraver famous especially for the marine subjects.
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Giuseppe Viviani (1898-1965) is a popular Italian artist and engraver. His figures are characterized by stylized silhouettes, big and sad eyes...
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Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Running the Rapids
By Frank Benson
Located in New York, NY
The etching "Running the Rapids" was created by Frank Benson in 1927. Printed in an edition of 150, this impression is signed in pencil, lower left. The image size is 5 13/16 x 7 7/8" (14.8 x 20 cm) and sheet size 8 1/16 x 10 5/16" (20.3 x 26.2 cm).
Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951), well known for his American impressionist paintings, also produced an incredible body of prints - etchings, drypoints, and a few lithographs. Born and raised on the North Shore of Massachusetts, Benson, a natural outdoorsman, grew up sailing, fishing, and hunting. From a young age, he was fascinated with drawing and birding – this keen interest continued throughout his life.
His first art instruction was with Otto Grundman at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and then in 1883 in Paris at the Academie Julian where he studied the rigorous ‘ecole des beaux arts’ approach to drawing and painting for two years.
During the early 1880’s Seymour Haden visited Boston giving a series of lectures on etching. This introduction to the European etching...
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American Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Beim Kornpuppenbinden (Corn Husking)
By Lesser Ury
Located in New York, NY
Lesser Ury (German, 1861–1931), Beim Kornpuppenbinden, drypoint, 1923, signed in pencil lower right and numbered 45/100, from the edition of 100. Reference: Rosenbach 17, only state...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Fishing Man - Original Etching by H. Le Bourdelles - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Fishing man is a beautiful black and white etching on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French artist Hervé Le Bourdelles.
Hand-signed and numbered in p...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Nu au fauteuil sur fond moucharabieh
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Nu au fauteuil sur fond moucharabieh
1925
Lithograph on Arches vellum paper, Edition of 50
Paper size: 65.5 x 50 cms (25 3/4 x 19 5/8 ins)
Image size: 54 x 44 cms (21 1...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Maternité
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful black and white lithograph on China paper. Excellent conditions, including a ivory colored cardboard passepartout 49.6 x 45 cm.
Image dimensions: 26 x 20.5 cm
Touching ar...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toujours Chic Tryptic.
Located in New York, NY
Set of 3 covers to the French fashion journal, "Toujours Chic" illustrated by Germaine Joumard who also sometimes signed her pieces "ZouZou." The three issues are: Les Robes de Soirees...
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1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Self Portrait with Decorated Hat, Surrealist Etching by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) - Self Portrait with Decorated Hat, Year: 1928, Medium: Etching on Wove Paper, Edition: 560, Image Size: 8 x 5.75 inches, Size: 19 x 13 in. (48....
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Surrealist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
FIRE CAN
By John Sloan
Located in Portland, ME
(Sloan, John). FIRE CAN. Etching, 1920. m. 199. 95 x 61mm; 3 3/4" x 2 3/8", signed and inscribed in pencil: Of the usual edition of 100, only 45 were printed. Very good conditon. Man...
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1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,200
Le repos du modèle
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Le repos du modèle
1922
Lithograph on Chine appliqué on Japon paper, Edition of 575
Paper size: not listed
Image size: 22.2 x 30.4 cms (8 3/4 x 12 ins)
HM15512
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vierge aux sept glaives (The Virgin pierced by seven swords) (Sorrowful Mother)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Vierge aux sept glaives (The Virgin pierced by seven swords) (Sorrowful Mother)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1926
Unsigned as issued
From: Miserere ...
Category
French School 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Coffee Huskers
Located in New York, NY
George Biddle (1885-1973), Coffee Huskers, 1928, lithograph, signed, titled and numbered [also inscribed ’43/Biddle/1928 in the plate]. Reference: Pennigar 77, Trotter 43. From the edition of 100, on Rives cream wove paper, with the Rives watermark. In excellent condition, probably never framed or matted, the full sheet, 13 1/4 x 9 3/4, the sheet 16 x 11 1/2 inches, archival mounting (mylar non-attached hinging between acid free boards glassine cover).
A fine black impression.
Biddle wrote of this lithograph, in 1943: “After scraping the tusche away…I worked back with a pensil (sic) and again with diamond. This all adds to the richness of texture and color.” This work produces a very sophisticated lithographic look, akin in some ways to drypoint work in etching.
After Groton, Harvard College and Harvard Law (and several breakdowns) Biddle concluded that a conventional career in law was not for him; he decided on art, went to Paris, worked with Mary Cassatt and familiarized himself with modernist currents in art (as well as more traditional European art).
After serving in WWI, and the dissolution of his marriage, he became interested in working outside of the European tradition (although his travels continued to include Europe, and he spent a period working under the influence of Jules Pascin in Paris in the mid-‘20’s). Coffee Huskers, like many of the Mexican and Haitian prints...
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American Realist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Waschemagazine Metzger
Located in New York, NY
Loupot, Charles. Waschemagazine, Munsterberg 2/Metzger/B. Brunnen Freistrasse/Herrenhemden-Kragen Damenwasche & Aussteuern. 1922. Color lithograph. On linen.Good condition with the e...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, ...
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, the taste of bitterness)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922
Unsigned as ...
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French School 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
1922 German Expressionist Figurative Train Tunnel Etching Paul Kleinschmidt
Located in Surfside, FL
Paul Kleinschmidt, (1883–1949)
"Tunnel" Etching
1922
Frame: 17" X 21"
Image: 10.5" X 13.5"
Rare Artist's Proof edition 1 of 4
An architectural study of a bridge and train tunnel
Prov...
Category
Abstract 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
NACH DEM BAD (AFTER THE BATH)
Located in Portland, ME
Pechstein, Hermann Max (German, 1881-1955): NACH DEM BAD (AFTER THE BATH). Krueger R 118. Etching and drypoint, 1920. Signed in pencil. Published by Die Schaffenden...
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1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Dutch Themes - 7 Etchings German Impressionism
By Lesser Ury
Located in London, GB
This complete set of seven etchings and drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "L. Ury" at the lower right margin of each print.
It was printed circa 1920 in a limited edit...
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Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Circus Dressing Room
Located in Missouri, MO
Dame Laura Knight
"The Circus Dressing Room" 1925
Etching
Ed. 20
Signed Lower Right
Image Size: approx. 14 x 10 inches
Framed Size: approx. 23.5 x 17.75 inches
An English impressio...
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Realist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, ...
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, the taste of bitterness)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922
Unsigned as ...
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French School 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
FRANKIE AND JOHNNIE or HIM
By John Sloan
Located in Portland, ME
Sloan, John (American, 1871-1951). FRANKIE AND JOHNNIE. or HIM Morse 236. Etching, 1928. Edition of 100 (but only 50 were printed, by Platt). Dated and Titled in the plate, and Signed in pencil by Sloan and inscribed "100 Proofs," and also signed by Peter Platt. With tack holes and deckled edges. 5 x 8 inches, 126 x 203 mm. (plate), 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (sheet). In excellent condition.
From Morse:
" A small chorus singing 'Frankie and Johnnie' crowds the tiny stage of the Provincetown Players Theater in MacDougal Street. An episode from E. E. Cummings' intelligent and entertaining production, HIM." (Sloan writing in 1945).
"HIM" is about as thrilling an evening's entertainment as I have ever experienced. I liked it thoroughly -- I do not claim to understand it -- I do not believe that a work of art can be, nor need be understood, even by the maker. It seemed to me to be a glimpse inside the cranium of an artist-poet." (Sloan in a letter to James Light, the director of the play)
Though Morse says the stars were Hemsley Williams and Goldye Steiner, it was actually Hemliey Winfield (1907 - 1934), the founder of the New Negro Art Theater Dance Group. This company was very successful and highly regarded. It appeared in the Metropolitan Opera's premier of Louis Gruenberg's setting of Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor...
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1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Portrait of Gladys Anne Hoskyns
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of Gladys Anne Hoskyns
Collotype after a Wyndham Lewis drawing, 1923
Singed in the plate and reinforced in pencil
Published by The Dial Publishing Company in Living Art...
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Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bezalel School Jerusalem, Middle Eastern Arab Man in Turban Circa 1920s Etching
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Realism
Subject: Portrait
Medium: Etching
Surface: Paper
Country: Israel
Dimensions with Frame: 18" x 114"
Jacob Eisenberg (1897–1965) (also Yaakov Eisenberg) was an Israeli ...
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Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Arabesque
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Arabesque
1924
Lithograph on Chine paper, Edition of 50
Paper size: 62.2 x 46 cms (24 1/2 x 18 1/8 ins)
Image size: 48.3 x 32 cms (19 x 12 1/2 ins)
HM15834
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$35,000
School Girls of Vienna Packing Rations from England and America for the Children
Located in Fairlawn, OH
School Girls of Vienna Packing Rations from England and America for the Little Children
Color lithograph poster, 1921
Signed lower right in the text (see photo)
Created in the Wein (...
Category
Jugendstil 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SHINE, WASHINGTON SQUARE
By John Sloan
Located in Portland, ME
Sloan, John. SHINE, WASHINGTON SQUARE. Morse 206. Etching, 1923. Signed, titled and inscribed "100 proofs," and further inscribed "Peter Platt imp."
Morse says that 80 were print...
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Ashcan School 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
LA PECHE (FISHING)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Portland, ME
Dufy, Raoul. LA PECHE (FISHING). Woodcut, c. 1925. From "The
Pleasures of Peace." Edition of 220 stamped with the estate stamp
"Atelier Raoul Dufy." 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (image) 1...
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1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Adam and Eva
Located in Wilton, CT
With 15 (8 signed) coloured original etchings and aquatints by C. E. Uphoff. Original vellum with gilt cover vignette in private linen case with gilt title on spine (stained due to m...
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Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
$5,200 Sale Price
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Siesta by Lon Megargee 1929, Archival Pigmrnt Print
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Tequila Siesta
Lon Megargee
Archival Pigment Print
100% 300 gram cotton rag paper
Size: 22.5 x 27 inches
Paper size: 24 x 28.5 inches
Creator of the iconic logo for the Stetson Hat Company, " Last Drop From his Stetson", still in use today.
Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee
At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar Ranch . . . and, after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook...
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1920s Figurative Prints
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Archival Pigment
Fashions of the Past
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan (American 1871 – 1954), Fashions of the Past, etching and aquatint, 1926, signed and titled by the artist in pencil (Morse 224 IV/IV), also signed by the printer. From the...
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American Realist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Hopi by Lon Megargee, Original Signed Block Print ca. 1920s
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Title: Hopi ca. 1920s
Artist: Lon Megargee
Medium: Block Print
Size: 11 x 11 inches (Sight Measurement)
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Creator of Stetson's hat logo "Last Drop from his Hat"
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Lon Megargee
1883 - 1960
At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy.
Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg, Arizona where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar R. . . and after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook of the T.T. Ranch near New River. By 1906, Megargee had learned his trade well enough to be made foreman of Cook’s outfit.
Never shy about taking risks, Lon soon left Cook to try his own hand at ranching. He partnered with a cowpuncher buddy, Tom Cavness, to start the El Rancho Cinco Uno at New River. Unfortunately, the young partners could not foresee a three-year drought that would parch Arizona, costing them their stock and then their hard-earned ranch.
Breaking with his romantic vision of cowboy life, Megargee finally turned to art full time. He again enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and then the Los Angeles School of Art and Design during 1909 – 1910. The now well-trained student took his first trip to paint “en plein air” (outdoors) to the land of Hopi and Navajo peoples in northern Arizona. After entering paintings from this trip in the annual Territorial Fair at Phoenix, in 1911, he surprisingly sold his first oil painting to a major enterprise – the Santa Fe Railroad . . . Lon received $50 for “Navajos Watching the Santa Fe Train.” He soon sold the SFRR ten paintings over the next two years. For forty years the railroad was his most important client, purchasing its last painting from him in 1953.
In a major stroke of good fortune during his early plein-air period, Megargee had the opportunity to paint with premier artist, William R. Leigh (1866 – 1955). Leigh furnished needed tutoring and counseling, and his bright, impressionistic palette served to enhance the junior artist’s sense of color and paint application. In a remarkable display of unabashed confidence and personable salesmanship, Lon Megargee, at age 30, forever linked his name with Arizona art history. Despite the possibility of competition from better known and more senior artists, he persuaded Governor George Hunt and the Legislature in 1913 to approve 15 large, historic and iconic murals for the State Capitol Building in Phoenix. After completing the murals in 1914, he was paid the then princely sum of roughly $4000. His Arizona statehood commission would launch Lon to considerable prominence at a very early point in his art career.
Following a few years of art schooling in Los Angeles, and several stints as an art director with movie studios, including Paramount, Megargee turned in part to cover illustrations for popular Western story magazines in the 1920s.
In the 1920s, as well, Lon began making black and white prints of Western types and of genre scenes from woodblocks. These prints he generally signed and sold singly. In 1933, he published a limited edition, signed and hard-cover book (about 250 copies and today rare)containing a group of 28 woodblock images. Titled “The Cowboy Builds a Loop,” the prints are noteworthy for strong design, excellent draftsmanship, humanistic and narrative content, and quality. Subjects include Southwest Indians and cowboys, Hispanic men and women, cattle, horses, burros, pioneers, trappers, sheepherders, horse traders, squaw men and ranch polo players. Megargee had a very advanced design sense for simplicity and boldness which he demonstrated in how he used line and form. His strengths included outstanding gestural (action) art and strong figurative work. He was superb in design, originality and drawing, as a study of his prints in the Hays collection reveals.
In 1944, he published a second group of Western prints under the same title as the first. Reduced to 16 images from the original 28 subjects, and slightly smaller, Lon produced these prints in brown ink on a heavy, cream-colored stock. He designed a sturdy cardboard folio to hold each set. For the remainder of his life, Lon had success selling these portfolios to museum stores, art fairs and shows, and to the few galleries then selling Western art.
Drawing on real working and life experiences, Lon Megargee had a comprehensive knowledge, understanding and sensitivity for Southwestern subject matter. Noted American modernist, Lew Davis...
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American Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
DER HIRT MIT DER GROSSEN ZIEGE (THE SHEPHERD WITH THE LARGE GOAT)
Located in Portland, ME
Campendonk, Heinrich. DER HIRT MIT DER GROSSEN ZIEGE (THE SHEPHERD WITH THE LARGE GOAT). WV47(b). Woodcut printed in colors, 1920. 12 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 321 x 250 mm. Signed in penc...
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1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Bullfight
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bullfight
Lithograph, 1928
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Numbered lower left (see photo)
Edition: 41 (22/41)
Reference: Davis L37
Printed chine applique on wove ...
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American Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Loading Vraic St. Malo
Located in New York, NY
Edmund Blampied (1886-1966), Loading Vraic St. Malo, drypoint, c. 1926, signed in pencil lower right margin and numbered 50/100 lower left. Reference: Appleby 122. In very good condition, with margins, on an ivory laid paper; 6 7/8 x 10, the sheet 10 x 15 1/2 inches, archival mounting.
A fine impression, with substantial burr from the drypoint work.
Provenance: Collection: Albert M...
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Realist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
In the Café. [Man in a Top hat in front of a Coffee House Window...]
By Lesser Ury
Located in London, GB
This original etching and drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "L. Ury" at the lower left margin.
It was published in an edition of 110 hand signed impressions by Propyläe...
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Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Lady with a Poodle on a Rainy Street (Carriage to the Left) - Impressionist
By Lesser Ury
Located in London, GB
This original etching is hand signed in pencil by the artist "L. Ury" at the lower left margin.
It is a signed proof from an edition of unknown size. It is a particularly rare subjec...
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Impressionist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye 1929 – Original Swiss Vintage Exhibition Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Poster, issued 1987 by the ETH in Zurich on the occasion of its exhibition on Le Corbusier's famous – and revolutionary – Villa Savoye, c...
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Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Vintage French Engraving - Sweet Slumber
Located in Houston, TX
Delightful black and white engraving of a small child peacefully sleeping in bed, circa 1930. Signed lower right.
Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a white mat wi...
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1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Paper
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, ...
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, the taste of bitterness)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922
Unsigned as ...
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French School 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Pecken Wood, 1925 - Rural Landscape Etching, with Farming, Trees and Countryside
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Graham Sutherland was a painter of imaginative landscapes, still life, figure pieces and portraits.
He was born on 24 August 1903 in London. He abandoned a railway engineering apprenticeship after a year and studied at Goldsmiths' College School of Art, where he specialized in engraving and etching. Sutherland's formative influences on his early work were Blake, Samuel Palmer, the late Turner, Paul Nash and Henry Moore. He held his first and second exhibitions of drawings and engravings at the XXI Gallery, London, in 1925 and 1928. and was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers from 1926-33.
Sutherland taught engraving at the Chelsea School of Art from December 1926 and composition and book illustration 1935 to July 1940. He exhibited at the N.E.A.C. 1929-33 and with the London Group from 1932 (member 1936-7), experimenting with painting in oils from 1930 until, in 1935, the year after his first visit to Pembrokeshire, he decided to become a painter. He participated in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London 1936 and had his first one-man exhibition of oil paintings, mainly Welsh landscapes, at the Paul Rosenberg and Helft Gallery 1938.
As an Official War Artist 1941-4 he painted scenes of bomb devastation and of work in mines and foundries. Sutherland's first New York exhibition was at the Buchholz Gallery 1946, and in the same year he completed the 'Crucifixion' for St Matthew's Church, Northampton. He taught painting at Goldsmiths' College as a visiting instructor and since 1947 worked for several months each year on the French Riviera. He was a trustee of the Tate Gallery 1948-54. Painted the portrait of Somerset Maugham 1949, the first of a series which includes Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill and others. He completed the designs for the Coventry Cathedral tapestry, 'Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph', between 1954 and 1957 (installed 1962). Has also designed posters, ceramics, book illustrations, and ballet costumes and décor for The Wanderer 1940. Important retrospective exhibitions have been held at the I.C.A. 1951, the Venice Biennale and the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1952, the Tate Gallery 1953, and at the São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, 1955. Awarded the O.M. 1960.
Collections include the Courtauld, London, and that of David Bow
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1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
An Shelley - Etching by Heinrich Reifferscheid - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on vélin paper, realized by Beier in the early 20th Century.
Signed on the plate at the top right, countersigned in pencil at the bottom right.
Good condition.
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Symbolist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Self-Portrait - Etching by Walter Jacob - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Self-portrait is an Artwork realized in 1920, realized by the german artist Walter Jacob (1893 - 1964).
Drypoint print on ivory paper. Hand signed and dated on the right margin.
T...
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Modern 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Franky and Johnny in Paris
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, and editioned in pencil by the artist
Edition:30, plus trial proofs; this print numbered 23/30
Printed by Edmond Desjobert, Paris
Provenance: Estate of the artist
The image is loosely based on the tragic love story of Frankie and Johnny, memorialized in Jazz, Blue, Country, Rock a Billy and Motown. At least 256 recordings of "Frankie and Johnny" have been made since the early 20th century.
Inspired by a traditional song first recorded by The Leighton Brothers in 1912.
Among the artist who have recorded the varying versions of the song are Gene Autrey (1929), Jimmie Rodgers (1929), Lead Belly (1939), Lena Horne (1946), Les Paul and Mary Ford (1952), Sammy Davis Jr. (1956), Pete Seeger...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
An Old Jew, from: My Life - Russian French Berlin Jewish Surrealism Mein Leben
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
This original etching and drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 110, at th...
Category
Surrealist 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Morita Kanya XIII As Genta Kagesue in the play Genta Kando
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Morita Kanya XIII As Genta Kagesue in the play Genta Kando
Color woodcut, 1928
Signed and stamped middle right edge
Natori stamp lower left image edge
Series: Collection of Creative...
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Showa 1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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