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Period: 1930s
National Palace, Mexico City (Juarez and the Reform Laws)
Located in Missouri, MO
(after) Diego Rivera
"National Palace, Mexico City (Juarez and the Reform Laws) 1933
from the portfolio "Frescoes of Diego Rivera"
Published by the Museum of Modern Art, NY
Hand-Signed by the Artist
Diego Rivera was born on December 13, 1886 in the mountain town of Guanajuato in Mexico. His mother was an ardent Catholic and his father was a rich and aristocratic revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swore his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his diatribes against the Church. When he was eleven he attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts; his real teacher was Jose Posada...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chapel of the Agriculture School, Chapingo (Forces Under the Earth)
Located in Missouri, MO
(after) Diego Rivera
"Chapel, Agriculture School, Chapingo" (Forces Under the Earth) 1933
from the portfolio "Frescoes of Diego Rivera"
Published by the Museum of Modern Art, NY
Approx. 18.5 x 13.5 with Matting
Hand-Signed by the Artist
Diego Rivera was born on December 13, 1886 in the mountain town of Guanajuato in Mexico. His mother was an ardent Catholic and his father was a rich and aristocratic revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swore his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his diatribes against the Church. When he was eleven he attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts; his real teacher was Jose Posada...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Broadway Parade
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Broadway Parade
Lithograph, 1934-1935
Signed, titled and editoned in pencil (see photos)
Printer: George Miller, New York
Edition: 100, plus trial proofs
Printed on cine collee
Creat...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Klimt, Kirche am Wolfgangsee, Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese (after)
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype, metallic inks on vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.86 x 17.91 inches; image size: 12.01 x 12.09 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued....
Category
Symbolist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Klimt, Sonnenblumen, Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese (after)
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype, metallic inks on vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.86 x 17.91 inches; image size: 12.09 x 12.2 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. ...
Category
Symbolist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Poppy' — Art Deco Pochoir from the acclaimed portfolio 'RELAIS'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edouard Benedictus, 'Poppy' from the portfolio 'Relais', plate 14, color pochoir, 1930. Signed in the matrix, in the center bottom margin. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh, vibrant colors, including metallic gold and silver inks, on heavy, cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. Published by Éditions Vincent, Fréal et Cie, Paris. The pochoir production is by Jean Saudé, the French printmaker known for his mastery of the technique and the author of the first how-to book on the pochoir process. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 14 3/8 x 11 inches (365 x 279 mm); sheet size 17 1/4 x 13 7/8 inches (438 x 352 mm).
Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library (Smithsonian), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, New York Public Library, Toledo Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
ABOUT THIS WORK
The Pochoir process is a refined stencil-based technique employed to create multiples or to add color to prints produced in other mediums. Characterized by its crisp lines and rich color, the print-making process was most popular from the late 19th century through the 1930s, with its center of activity in Paris. The pochoir process began with the analysis of an image’s composition, including color tones and densities. The numerous stencils (made of aluminum, copper, or zinc) necessary to create a complete image were then designed and hand-cut by the 'découpeur.' The 'coloristes' applied watercolor or gouache pigments through the stencils, skillfully employing a variety of different brushes and methods of paint application to achieve the desired depth of color and textural and tonal nuance. The pochoir process, by virtue of its handcrafted methodology, resulted in the finished work producing the effect of an original painting, and in fact, each print was unique.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Edouard Benedictus (1878 -1930), artist, designer, composer, and chemist, was born and died in Paris. A highly-regarded designer and art critic of the Art Nouveau era, Benedictus gained renown as a colorist and creator of Art Deco-inspired geometric and floral motifs. His work had a significant influence on international fashions in clothing, home furnishings, graphic design, and decorative objects of the period, earning him commissions from leading European design firms. In 1925 he was invited to represent Art Deco textile design...
Category
Art Nouveau 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
'Goin' Home' — WPA Era American Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Hart Benton, 'Goin' Home', lithograph, 1937, edition 250, Fath 14. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white, wove paper, with margins, in excellent condition. Published by Associated American Artists. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 9 7/16 x 11 7/8 inches; sheet size 10 3/4 x 13 5/16 inches.
Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Figge Art Museum, Georgetown University Art Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“Benton’s idiom was essentially political and rhetorical, the painterly equivalent of the country stump speeches that were a Benton family tradition. The artist vividly recalled accompanying his father, Maecenas E. Benton — a four-term U.S. congressman, on campaigns through rural Missouri. Young Tom Benton grew up with an instinct for constituencies that led him to assess art on the basis of its audience appeal. His own art, after the experiments with abstraction, was high-spirited entertainment designed to catch and hold an audience with a political message neatly bracketed between humor and local color.”
—Elizabeth Broun “Thomas Hart Benton: A Politician in Art,” Smithsonian Studies in American Art, Spring 1987.
Born in 1889 in Neosho, Missouri, Thomas Hart Benton spent much of his childhood and adolescence in Washington, D.C., where his father, Maecenas Eason Benton, served as a Democratic member of Congress from 1897 to 1905. Hoping to prepare Benton for a political career, his father sent him to Western Military Academy. After nearly two years at the academy, Benton persuaded his mother to support him in attending the Art Institute of Chicago for two years, followed by two additional years at the Académie Julian in Paris.
In 1912, Benton returned to America and moved to New York to pursue his artistic career. One of his first jobs involved painting sets for silent films, which were being produced in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Benton credits this experience with equipping him with the skills necessary to create his large-scale murals.
When World War I broke out, Benton joined the Navy. Stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, he was assigned to create drawings of camouflaged ships arriving at Norfolk Naval Station. These renderings were used to identify vessels that might be lost in battle. Benton later remarked that being a "camofleur" profoundly impacted his career: "When I came out of the Navy after the First World War," he said, "I made up my mind that I wasn’t going to be just a studio painter, a pattern maker in the fashion then dominating the art world—as it still does. I began to think of returning to the painting of subjects, subjects with meanings, which people, in general, might be interested in."
While developing his Regionalist vision, Benton also taught art, first at a city-supported school and later at The Art Students League from 1926 to 1935. One of his students was a young Jackson Pollock, who regarded Benton as both a mentor and father figure. In 1930, Benton was commissioned to paint a mural for the New School for Social Research. The "America Today" mural, now permanently exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, led to many more commissions as Benton’s work gained wide recognition.
The Regionalist Movement became popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Painters such as Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry rejected modernist European influences, choosing instead to depict realistic images of small-town and rural life—comforting representations of the American heartland during a period of upheaval. Time Magazine referred to Benton as "the most virile of U.S. painters of the U.S. Scene," featuring his self-portrait on the cover of a 1934 issue that included a story titled "The Birth of Regionalism."
In 1935, Benton left New York and returned to Missouri, where he taught at the Kansas City Art Institute. His outspoken criticism of modern art, art critics, and political views alienated him from many influential figures in both political and art circles. Nonetheless, Benton remained true to his beliefs, continuing to create murals, paintings, and prints that captured enduring images of American life. The dramatic and engaging characteristics of Benton’s artwork drawn the attention of Hollywood producers, leading him to create illustrations and posters for films, including his famous lithographs for the film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath," produced by Twentieth Century Fox.
During the 1930s, The Limited Editions Club of New York asked Benton to illustrate special editions of three of Mark Twain’s books...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miró, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°5-6, 1939. Published and printed under the direction...
Category
Surrealist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Rain at Shinagawa, Ryoshimachi' — lifetime impression
By Kawase Hasui
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A fine, atmospheric impression, with fresh colors; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Signed 'Hasui' with the artist’s seal 'Kawase', lower left. Published by Watanabe Shozaburo with the Watanabe 6mm round seal indicating a lifetime impression printed between 1945 - 1957. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 14 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (362 x 238 mm); sheet size 15 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (391 x 264 mm).
An impression of this work is in the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“I do not paint subjective impressions. My work is based on reality...I can not falsify...(but) I can simplify…I make mental impressions of the light and color at the time of sketching. While coloring the sketch, I am already imagining the effects in a woodblock print.” — Kawase Hasui
Hasui Kawase (1883–1957) is the most celebrated Japanese print designer of the shin-hanga ('new prints') movement. His prints, produced under the guidance and discerning eye of his publisher, Watanabe Shozaburo, represent the modern legacy of the renowned 19th-century Ukiyo-e masters Hiroshige and Hokusai. Hasui was able to evoke the fleeting beauty of Japan during the interwar period as no other printmaker of his time could.
Hasui's work enjoyed huge popularity upon producing his first print in 1918. Watanabe recognized and developed the enormous potential of the American market, resulting in Hasui's prints achieving high prices at auctions in New York as early as the 1920s. After the Second World War, his prints became highly sought-after collectible works among the American occupying forces in Japan. Hasui designed more than 600 prints during the 40-year span of his artistic career, and in 1956, he was named a 'Living National Treasure' of Japan.
Hasui’s woodblock...
Category
Showa 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Still Life - Offset Print after Giorgio Morandi - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a Photolithograph print, reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi created in 1932.
The signature by the artist is perfectly reproduced on the plate and d...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
'Public Building' — American Modernism, WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fred Becker, 'Public Building', wood engraving, c. 1937, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove Japan...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Lot Cleaning, Los Angeles' — 1930s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Lot Cleaning, Los Angeles', wood engraving, edition 60, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 69. Signed, titled and numbered '51/60' in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on Kitakata Japan pape...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Archway' — American Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Archway', color serigraph, 1939, edition 25. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered ' /25' in pencil. A rich, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Dancers, 1936 Woodcut by Georges Rouault
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dancers
Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958)
Date: 1936
Woodcut, initialed in the stone
Size: 3 x 2 in. (7.62 x 5.08 cm)
Frame Size: 9.5 x 8.25 inches
Category
Expressionist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Schwartzer Fleck" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Catalogue reference Roethel 145. Printed in Paris in 1938 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue number 3). Image size: 7 x 8 1/2 inches (170 x 218 mm). Sheet ...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Trio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trio
Color aquatint, 1938
Edition 250 printed on Montval wove paper with Maillol watermark
From: Les Fleurs de Mal III (12 color aquatints)
Published by Ambrose Vollard, 1940, Paris
...
Category
French School 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Triste Os (Sad Bones)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Triste Os (Sad Bones)
Color etching and aquatint on Montval laid paper, 1934
Monogrammed and dated in the plate (see photo)
Edition: 250
References And Exhibitions:
Plate 8 from the ...
Category
French School 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Irving Place Burlesk
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irving Place Burlesque
Etching, 1930
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edition)
Numbered in pencil lower left
Blind stamp of the Whitney Museum (WM) lower right
From: Reginald Marsh...
Category
Ashcan School 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Pipe and Brawn' — WPA Era American Realism
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'Pipe and Brawn,' 1937, lithograph, edition 40. Signed and annotated 'Ed/40' in pencil. A superb, richly inked impression on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margin...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Spring : Goat playing Violin and Woman with Bouquet - Lithograph (Mourlot 1938)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Spring : Goat playing Violin and Woman with Bouquet 1938
Lithograph (Mourlot workshop)
Engraved by Sorlier under Marc Chagall supervision
Other lithograph...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Negro' — California WPA Social Realism – Slavery
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Nicholas Panesis, 'Negro', 1934, color lithograph, edition 18. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 8/28 in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper, with margins (1 1/8 to 2 3/8 inches). Minor glue staining at the extreme sheet edges verso, where previously taped (not visible recto), otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 10 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches; (270 x 216 mm); sheet size 14 13/16 x 10 15/16 inches (376 x 278 mm).
Created for the California Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project (WPA). Scarce.
Impressions of this work are held in the public collections of La Salle University Art Museum (Philadelphia), U.S. General Services Administration, and Weisman Art Museum (University of Minnesota).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Massachusetts, Nicholas Panesis (1913-1967) studied art at Syracuse University, NY, and went on to teach ceramics at Alfred University, NY.
Panesis moved to San Francisco in the early 1930s shortly before settling in Los Angeles, where he worked for different animation studios...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Henri Matisse Teeny
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Teeny
Portfolio: Other Portfolios
Medium: Linocut
Date: 1938
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 19" x 16 1/4"
Sheet Size: 12 1/4” x 9 1/2”
Image Size: 11 7/...
Category
Fauvist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
By Max Beckmann
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen Bütten paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Der Mensch ist kein Haustier, 1937. Published by...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Financial District', New York City — American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Financial District', lithograph, 1931, edition 75, Duffy 155. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 3/4 to 5 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 13 5/16 x 10 3/8 inches (338 x 264 mm); sheet size 23 x 16 inches (584 x 406 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Literature: 'American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy Collection', the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., 1987.
Collections: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980) was one of the best-known of the second generation of artists who moved to Taos. A native of Massachusetts, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Woodstock Art Colony. Beginning his association with Taos in 1926, he became a resident of the community in the 1930s. During his career, he received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected an Academician in the National Academy of Design. He earned a national reputation as a painter, muralist, and printmaker.
Cook’s work in the print mediums received acclaim early in his career with one-person exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum (1927) and the Museum of New Mexico (1928). He received numerous honors and awards over the years, including selection in best-of-the-year exhibitions sponsored by the American Institute of Graphics Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Society of American Etchers, and the Philadelphia Print Club. His first Guggenheim Fellowship took him to Taxco, Mexico in 1932 and 1933; his second in the following year enabled him to travel through the American South and Southwest.
Cook painted murals for the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 and the Treasury Departments Art Program in 1935. The latter project, completed in Pittsburgh, received a Gold Medal from the Architectural League of New York. One of his most acclaimed commissions was a mural in the San Antonio Post Office in 1937.
He and Barbara Latham settled in Talpa, south of Taos, in 1938 and remained there for over three decades. Cook volunteered in World War II as an Artist War Correspondent for the US Navy, where he was deployed in the Pacific. In 1943 he was appointed Leader of a War Art Unit...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Grandmère et Louise Nue Assise à Terre-Etching by Suzanne Valadon-1932
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and signed on plate. Edition of 95 copies (1/95).
Provenance: Galleria Prandi 10/04/1968
Realized in 1910 and Published in 1932.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Les Amies - Etching by Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint on japanese paper applied on cardboard.
One of 10 artist's proofs, numbered I/X, aside of the edition of 100.
Hand signed and numbered.
Very Good condition.
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Prodigal Son
Located in London, GB
A man raises his hand to his chin, his neck tilted and face turned to look at a dilapidated farmhouse, barely held together by planks of wood and exposed to the elements. Behind him ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Street in Marblehead, Massachussets
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching on white, buff laid paper with deckle edges, 8 13/16 x 12 inches (224 x 305 mm), full margins. One of only 25 proof impressions. In superb condition with excellent i...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Composition, Le Peseur d'âmes (The Weigher of Souls), Francis Picabia
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Le Peseur d'âmes, précédé d'un frontispice et suivi de hui...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Art Deco Etching and Aquatint "Jeunesse" Original Signed by Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Soquel, CA
Art Deco Etching and Aquatint "Jeunesse" (Youth) Signed by Louis Icart
Iconic figurative of woman and horse titled "Jeunesse" (Youth) by famous Art Deco artist Louis Icart (French, ...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Aquatint
La Cité Notre Dame (Duthuit I.248), A La gloire à Paris, Henri Matisse
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin Canson et Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by L'Imprimerie Daragnès, Paris; printed by Jean Gabriel Daragnès, Paris, ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Two Boys On A Beach, No. 1' — Erotic Realism
By Paul Cadmus
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Cadmus, 'Two Boys On A Beach, No. 1', etching, 1938, edition 75, Johnson & Miller 85. Signed in pencil and initialed in the plate in the lower right image corner. Annotated by t...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Violets - Etching by Luigi Bartolini - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Violets is a modern artwork realzied by Luigi Bartolini in 1936
Black and white etching.
Hand signed, titled and numbered on the lower margin.
Includes frame
Edition of 13/50
Go...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Personnages Masqués et Femme Oiseau - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and Aquatint on Montval paper.
Hand Signed. Edition of 260 prints (not numbered and generally not signed).
Plate 24 from "La Suite Vollard".
Catalogue Bloch no. 227; Baer 44...
Category
Cubist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
'Plowing It Under' — WPA Era American Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Hart Benton, 'Goin' Home', lithograph, 1937, edition 250, Fath 14. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white, wove pape...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Horodisch D10), Serge Lifar, Destin d'un danseur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Saint-Vincent-de-Blanzat des Papeteries Navarre paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Sources du vent 1915-1929, avec ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bowling on the Green (from the Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington)
Located in Soquel, CA
Bowling on the Green (from the Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington)
'Bowling on the Green', by printmaker Frederick Childe Hassam, depicts George Washington and friends lawn b...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Etching, Laid Paper
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KURT SELIGMANN (1900–1962 American, born in Switzerland,)
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch) 1934
Etching and aquatint, unsigned ? possibly a proof aside from The ...
Category
Surrealist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Les Amants - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Les Amants is a color lithograph on ivory paper, realized by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949).
...
Category
Art Nouveau 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PROLETARIANS
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO (1893 - 1949)
PROLETARIANS (aka Basurero, Scavengers ) 1935 (Orozco 27)
lithograph, One of 88 signed and numbered of a total edition of 133, (+ 42 unnumbered a...
Category
Other Art Style 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Figurative Picasso Etching, 'Trois Femmes nues et une Coupe d’Anémones', 1933
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso's "Trois Femmes nues et une Coupe d'Anémones" (1933) is a powerful and evocative work that captures the artist's fascination with the female form and his ongoing explor...
Category
Cubist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Femme Nue se Couronnant de Fleurs - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval with watermark "Vollard"
Hand Signed in pencil.
One of 260 proofs
Ref. Catalogue Bloch n.135; Baer 195 B.d.;
Belongs to the "Suite Vollard". Édition Ambroise V...
Category
Cubist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
LA PARADE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871 – 1958)
La PARADE 1932 (CR.203, W.211) color etching and aquatint 1932. Edition 270. Frontispiece from “Cirque”. Signed in plate as i...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Chion-in Temple Gate' from 'Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms' — Jizuri Seal
By Hiroshi Yoshida
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hiroshi Yoshida, 'Chion-in Temple Gate (Sunset)' from the series 'Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms (Sakura hachi dai: Sakura mon)', color woodblock print, 1935. Signed in brush 'Yoshida' and in pencil 'Hiroshi Yoshida'. A superb, early impression, with fresh colors; the full sheet with margins, on cream Japan paper; an area of slight toning in the top right sheet corner, not affecting the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Marked with a jizuri (self-printed) seal, upper left margin. Self-published by the artist.
Image size 9 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches (444 x 375 mm); sheet size 10 7/8 x 16 inches (276 x 406 mm). Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Provenance: M. Nakazawa, Tokyo.
Literature: Japanese Landscapes of the 20th Century (Hotei Publishing calendar), 2001, May.
Collections: Honolulu Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
Located in Kyoto, Chionin is the main temple of the Jodo sect of Japanese Buddhism, one of the most popular Buddhist sects in Japan, having millions of followers. The Sanmon Gate, Chionin's entrance gate, standing 24 meters tall and 50 meters wide, it is the largest wooden temple gate in Japan and dates back to the early 1600s. Behind the gate, a broad set of stairs leads to the main temple grounds.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Painter and printmaker Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the Japanese 'shin hanga' (New Print) movement.
Yoshida was born as the second son of Ueda Tsukane in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, a schoolteacher from an old samurai family. In 1891 he was adopted by his art teacher Yoshida Kasaburo in Fukuoka and took his surname. In 1893 he went to Kyoto to study painting, and the following year to Tokyo to join Koyama Shotaro's Fudosha private school; he also became a member of the Meiji Fine Arts Society. These institutions taught and advocated Western-style painting, greatly influencing Yoshida’s artistic development.
In 1899 Yoshida had his first American exhibition at Detroit Museum of Art (now Detroit Institute of Art), making the first of many visits to the US and Europe. In 1902 he helped reorganize the Meiji Fine Arts Society, renaming it the Taiheiyo-Gakai (Pacific Painting...
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Showa 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Picasso, Composition, Picasso 1930-1935, Cahiers d'Art (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Picasso 1930-1935, 1936. Published and printed by Éditions des Cahiers d'Art, Pa...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Tentation de Saint Antoine, Gustave Flaubert's illustrated book by O. Redon
By Odilon Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Vol. In-Folio 45,2x34,2 cm., 205 pp.
Edition of 220 copies including a xylographic vignette, 14 xylographic illustrations (on heads and footers of chapters) and 22 original lithograp...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Woodcut
'North Bank of the Chicago River' — WPA Graphic Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'North Bank of the Chicago River', color woodcut, c. 1935, edition 50. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Geo Ham 1937 Paris Race Poster
By Geo Ham
Located in San Francisco, CA
Geo Ham: 1900-1972. Well listed French artist who is best known for his posters of car racing. He has auction results over $32,000 for a single poster. This original lithographic pos...
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1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Girlfriends II" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #1, Die Freundinnen II; multi-color collotype after 1916/17 painting in oil on canvas which was destroyed by fire in May 1945 at Immendorf Castle Lower Austria.
Eisler’s choice to begin his 1931 portfolio of works by Klimt with Girlfriends II was both bold and prescient. Just 14 years later, the painting was tragically destroyed in a fire. With such a loss, this rare and exquisite image is all the more valuable by virtue of having been made in color. In works from his late period, Klimt continued his fascination with exploring female dynamics and their various forms of love. Girlfriends II is a fine example of how space, color and ornament play a noticeable role in the evolution of his symbolic language. Wide swaths of space in the background as well as the two female forms create the structure. Klimt’s strong brushstrokes show a painterly quality and a new move toward abstraction which feels very far away from his earlier work. Nor should Klimt’s economy of line be overlooked. His draughtsmanship is what infuses the female bodies with movement, emotion and a profundity of life. Both women confront the viewer’s gaze unselfconsciously, as if they are modern-day Viennese women stepping out of a Klimtesque ukiyo-e print. Characteristic of this late period, Klimt uses ornament...
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Vienna Secession 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Open Air School (iconic image of indigenous teacher by Mexican muralist)
By Diego Rivera
Located in New Orleans, LA
An indigenous teacher, surrounded by her multi-generational students, sits at the edge of a field, open book in hand. In the distance, we see campesinos working the fields with their horses. A lone, armed horseman watches over the class, locating the lithograph in its historical setting, the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Stoops in Snow
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
Stoops in Snow. 1930. Drypoint and sandpaper ground. McCarron catalog 89.state ii. 9 x 14 7/8 (sheet 13 1/4 x 18 7/16 ). Edition 115 recorded impressio...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Klimt, Haus im Garten, Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese (after)
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype, metallic inks on vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.86 x 17.91 inches; image size: 12.13 x 12.24 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued....
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Symbolist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Klimt, Mohnwiese, Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese (after)
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype, metallic inks on vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.86 x 17.91 inches; image size: 11.93 x 12.09 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued....
Category
Symbolist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Klimt, Unterach am Attersee, Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese (after)
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.86 x 17.91 inches; image size: 11.89 x 12.01 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the f...
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Symbolist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Samuel Chamberlain, The Public Gaol, Williamsburg (Virginia)
Located in New York, NY
Samuel Chamberlain was a superb draftsman and his architectural images are often very complex. This image is, by contrast, quiet and understated: serene to the point of lonely. It's ...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Grand Tier and the Met
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Grand Tier at the Met
Etching, 1939
From: Reginald Marsh, Thirty Etchings and Engravings
Published by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edit...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Motif aus Improvisation 25: The Garden of Love" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Catalogue reference Roethel 105. Printed in Paris in 1938 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue number 3). Image size: 8 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (217 x 220 mm). Sh...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Tree, Manhattan' — Classic American Realism
By Martin Lewis
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Martin Lewis, 'Tree, Manhattan', drypoint, 1930, edition 91 (including 10 trial proofs), McCarron 87. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression, in warm black ink, on cream...
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American Realist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Flying Demons - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print from the Series "Der vreeselijke avonturen vas Scholastica" (The Terrible Adventures of Scholastica).
Edition of 300, published by A. J. van Dishoeck.
Unsigned, ass i...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Walter DuBois Richards, The Lobster Float
Located in New York, NY
Ohio-born Walter DuBois Richards (1907-2006) was educated at the Cleveland School of Art. He re-located to New York around 1933 where he had a successful career as a commercial artis...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Hygieia” collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #10, Ausschnitt aus dem Bilde “Medizin”; multi-color collotype detail from Medicine, one of the faculty paintings for the Uni...
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Vienna Secession 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
'Taxco Market' — American Modernist Scene of Mexico
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Taxco Market', aquatint and etching, 1932-33, edition 30, Duffy 181. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full shee...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
'Soaring New York' — 1930s American Modernism, New York City
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Soaring New York', aquatint, soft-ground etching, roulette, 1931-32, edition 25, Duffy 165. Signed, dated, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmosp...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Original art deco Monopole Radio mermaid vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1934 Lithograph poster for TSF radio Monopole "une vague de puissance et d'harmonie" (a wave of power and harmony) with the beautiful mermaid strumming her harp. Archival...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph