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Period: 1930s
Robert Riggs Original Lithograph, Boxing Subject “Trial Horse”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Boxing subject original stone lithograph by Robert Riggs (1896-1970) Pencil titled lower left “Trial Horse” Pencil signed lower right “Robert Riggs” Image measures 13 1/2" H x 17 1/2...
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1930s Figurative Prints

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Paper

Robert Riggs Original Stone Lithograph, Boxing Subject “Afternoon at Max’s”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Boxing subject original stone lithograph by Robert Riggs (1896-1970) Pencil titled lower left “Afternoon at Max’s” Pencil signed lower right “Robert Riggs” Image measures 15 1/8"h x ...
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1930s Figurative Prints

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Paper

Bible : Joshua with the angel with the sword, 1939 - Original Etching
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Joshua with the Angel with the sword (Josué devant l'ange à l'épée), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Derain, Composition, Salomé, The Limited Editions Club (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Derain, Composition, Salomé, The Limited Editions Club (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Derain, Composition, Salomé, The Limited Editions Club (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Derain, Composition, Salomé, The Limited Editions Club (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Derain, Composition, Salomé, The Limited Editions Club (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Derain, Composition, Salomé, The Limited Editions Club (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Derain, Composition, Salomé, The Limited Editions Club (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Derain, Composition, Salomé, The Limited Editions Club (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Derain, Composition, Salomé, The Limited Editions Club (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, Stencil on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Salomé published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris; rendered by Jea...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Dix filles dans un pré. Ballet imaginaire. Avec quatre gravures à l'eau-forte de Marie Laurencin, 1926. Published by Au Sans Pareil, Paris; printed by Lacourière, Paris, 1926. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), 20 copies on tank vellin, with a double sequence of engravings, including one in first condition. These copies, reserved for Friends of the Unparalleled and printed in their name, are numbered from 1 to 20; 35 examples; 60 copies on Holland Van Gelder, with a series of engravings (Nos. 56 to 115); 80 copies on Holland Van Gelder (Nos 116 At 195); 800 copies on velly of Annonay, of the brothers Montgolfier (Nos. 196 to 995), and some non-commercial copies, marked J. R. B., and all signed by the publisher. MARIE LAURENCIN (1883-1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or. During the early years of the 20th century, Laurencin was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. A member of both the circle of Pablo Picasso, and Cubists associated with the Section d'Or, such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri le Fauconnier, and Francis Picabia, exhibiting with them at the Salon des Indépendants (1910-1911) and the Salon d'Automne (1911-1912), and Galeries Dalmau (1912) at the first Cubist exhibition in Spain. She became romantically involved with the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and has often been identified as his muse. In addition, Laurencin had important connections to the salon of the American expatriate and lesbian writer Natalie Clifford Barney. She had relationships with men and women, and her art reflected her life, her "balletic wraiths" and "sidesaddle Amazons" providing the art world with her brand of "queer femme with a Gallic twist." She had a forty years long love relationship with fashion designer Nicole Groult .
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
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...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Dix filles dans un pré. Ballet imaginaire. Avec ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Dix filles dans un pré. Ballet imaginaire. Avec quatre gravures à l'eau-forte de Marie Laurencin, 1926. Published by Au Sans Pareil, Paris; printed by Lacourière, Paris, 1926. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), 20 copies on tank vellin, with a double sequence of engravings, including one in first condition. These copies, reserved for Friends of the Unparalleled and printed in their name, are numbered from 1 to 20; 35 examples; 60 copies on Holland Van Gelder, with a series of engravings (Nos. 56 to 115); 80 copies on Holland Van Gelder (Nos 116 At 195); 800 copies on velly of Annonay, of the brothers Montgolfier (Nos. 196 to 995), and some non-commercial copies, marked J. R. B., and all signed by the publisher. MARIE LAURENCIN (1883-1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or. During the early years of the 20th century, Laurencin was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. A member of both the circle of Pablo Picasso, and Cubists associated with the Section d'Or, such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri le Fauconnier, and Francis Picabia, exhibiting with them at the Salon des Indépendants (1910-1911) and the Salon d'Automne (1911-1912), and Galeries Dalmau (1912) at the first Cubist exhibition in Spain. She became romantically involved with the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and has often been identified as his muse. In addition, Laurencin had important connections to the salon of the American expatriate and lesbian writer Natalie Clifford Barney. She had relationships with men and women, and her art reflected her life, her "balletic wraiths" and "sidesaddle Amazons" providing the art world with her brand of "queer femme with a Gallic twist." She had a forty years long love relationship with fashion designer Nicole Groult .
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Dix filles dans un pré. Ballet imaginaire. Avec quatre gravures à l'eau-forte de Marie Laurencin, 1926. Published by Au Sans Pareil, Paris; printed by Lacourière, Paris, 1926. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), 20 copies on tank vellin, with a double sequence of engravings, including one in first condition. These copies, reserved for Friends of the Unparalleled and printed in their name, are numbered from 1 to 20; 35 examples; 60 copies on Holland Van...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Dix filles dans un pré. Ballet imaginaire. Avec quatre gravures à l'eau-forte de Marie Laurencin, 1926. Published by Au Sans Pareil, Paris; printed by Lacourière, Paris, 1926. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), 20 copies on tank vellin, with a double sequence of engravings, including one in first condition. These copies, reserved for Friends of the Unparalleled and printed in their name, are numbered from 1 to 20; 35 examples; 60 copies on Holland Van...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Dix filles dans un pré. Ballet imaginaire. Avec quatre gravures à l'eau-forte de Marie Laurencin, 1926. Published by Au Sans Pareil, Paris; printed by Lacourière, Paris, 1926. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), 20 copies on tank vellin, with a double sequence of engravings, including one in first condition. These copies, reserved for Friends of the Unparalleled and printed in their name, are numbered from 1 to 20; 35 examples; 60 copies on Holland Van...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Scène d'intérieur, Dix Reproductions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Dix Reproductions, 1933. Published by Editions ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Derain, Paysage, Dix Reproductions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Dix Reproductions, 1933. Published by Editions ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Léger L'encrier, Dix Reproductions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Dix Reproductions, 1933. Published by Editions ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picasso, Intérieur, Dix Reproductions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Dix Reproductions, 1933. Published by Editions ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Lurçat, Baigneuse, Dix Reproductions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Dix Reproductions, 1933. Published by Editions ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Gris, Le Paquet de tabac, Dix Reproductions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Dix Reproductions, 1933. Published by Editions ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Dufy, Les blés, Dix Reproductions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Dix Reproductions, 1933. Published by Editions ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Braque, Nature morte, Dix Reproductions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Dix Reproductions, 1933. Published by Editions ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Bill, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. no. 4, 1938. Published by Editions XXe Siècle, Paris; Printed by Mourlot, Paris, 1938. MAX BILL (1908-1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer. Bill is widely considered the single most decisive influence on Swiss graphic design beginning in the 1950s with his theoretical writing and progressive work. His connection to the days of the Modern Movement gave him special authority. As an industrial designer, his work is characterized by a clarity of design and precise proportions. Examples are the elegant clocks and watches designed for Junghans, a long-term client. Among Bill's most notable product designs is the "Ulmer Hocker...
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Surrealist 1930s Figurative Prints

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Linocut

Death is something like Cousin Cynthia (Spies/Leppien 13 IV), Max Ernst
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Photogram from a frottage in black in white on photosensitive paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: A photogram was a...
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Surrealist 1930s Figurative Prints

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Photogram

Ernst, Elektra, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. no. 5-6, 1939. Published b...
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Surrealist 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Teeny (Duthuit 723), XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. no. 4, 1938. Published by Edi...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Linocut

Duchamp, Monte Carlo Bond (Schwarz 406b), XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. no. 4, 1938. Published by Editions XXe Siècle, Paris; Printed by Mourlot, P...
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Dada 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Rouault, Tête de jeune fille, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. I, N° 5-6, ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Braque, Tête de femme, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. I, N° 5-6, 1939. Print...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Mother and Child [With Arms Outstretched].
Located in Storrs, CT
Wood engraving. Physick catalog 917. Image: 3 3/4 x 2 5/16 (sheet 7 3/8 x 5 1/2). A fine impression printed on Japanese mulberry paper. Signed and numbered '5' in pencil. Housed in ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Woodcut, Engraving

Ex Libris - Gino Sabattini - Etching by Michel Fingesten - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Gino Sabattini is an Etching print created by Michel Fingesten. Hand Signed in the lower right margin. Good conditions except some foxings that doesn't affect the image...
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Symbolist 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Yellow Donkey (Der Gelbe Esel) (Esther Gentle Reproduction)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Paul Klee (after) The Yellow Donkey (Der Gelbe Esel) Year: 1939 Lithograph Size: 14.125x19.6 on 20.6x26 inches Esther Gentle, Reproduction, 1952 Edition: 300 Inscribed in pencil stam...
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Expressionist 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

A Gale at Port Errol
Located in Storrs, CT
A Gale at Port Errol. 1923. Etching. Hardie 215, #46. 13 x 8 3/4 (sheet 16 7 /8 x 11 1/2). Edition 76. #46. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1923. A rich...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching, Drypoint

Pride : Two Women with Rainbow Scarf - Lithograph and watercolor stencil
Located in Paris, FR
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) Pride : Two Women with Rainbow Scarf , 1938 Lithograph and watercolor stencil On light vellum 21 x 27 cm (c. 8 x 11 inch) Very good condition
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Cubist 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

African Forest - Original Lithograph by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
African Forest is an original lithograph realized in the early 1930s by Emmanuel Gondouin, (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934) The artwork is depicted through strong strokes and is ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides Original Etching Edition of 134 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

La Tentation de Saint Antoine, Gustave Flaubert's illustrated book by O. 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

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Lithograph, Woodcut

André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides Original Etching Edition of 134 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides Original Etching Edition of 134 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Nu Accroupi - Original Etching by Dunoyer de Segonzac - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 8 x 17 cm. Etching on ivory colored paper, with en embossing stamp "Libreria Prandi Reggio E." in lower-right corner. Edition of 50 prints. Beautiful etching rep...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching, Drypoint

Nocturnal Village - Original Screen Print by Lucie Navier
Located in Roma, IT
Nocturnal Village is an original artwork realized by the French artist Lucie Navier (1910-1996) in the 1930s. Original black and white serigraph...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Screen

André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides Original Etching Edition of 134 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Nude and cat - Original Lithograph - c. 1937
Located in Paris, FR
Jacques NAM Nude and cat Original lithographie Printed signature in the plate On vellum 15 x 11" (38 x 28 cm) Very good condition, manipulation bend in ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

LE RIRE
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Ginestet Pouillon 390. Sheet size 10.7 x 7 in. Image size 8 x 6 in. Framed. Edition of 140. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certi...
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Cubist 1930s Figurative Prints

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Paper, Etching

L'Aventure - 1930s - Jacques Villon - Etching - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 108 prints. Cat. Prouté, 1973, n.250. Provenance: Prouté 31/3/'73.
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Mexican Barber Shop (Getting a shave amidst revelry of community)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Irwin Hoffman created a lively scene of a Mexican barber shop that serves as a focal point of the community's life. A man is being shaved as people cook, eat and revel in the camaraderie of the scene. This print was issued by Associated American Artists and is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Art. Born in East Boston...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Wally" (Girl in Profile) collotype
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #27, Madchen im Profile; grey-toned monochrome collotype after the 1916 painting in oil on canvas. Original destroyed by fire May 1945. GUSTAV K...
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Vienna Secession 1930s Figurative Prints

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Paper

Whorehouse Scene : The Yellow Saloon - Original etching
Located in Paris, FR
Edgar DEGAS (after) Whorehouse Scene : The Yellow Saloon Original etching and aquatint On Japan paper 25 x 32 cm (c. 10 x 13 inch) In the early 1920s, Ambroise Vollard (the great ar...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Aquatint, Etching

André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides Original Etching Edition of 134 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938 Andre Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, an artist colony outside Paris. In 1898, he enrolled in the Academie Carriere in Paris where he met Matisse. He attended art school and in 1900, set up a studio with Maurice deVlaminck. After his military service from 1900-1904, Derain exhibited his work at the Salon des Independants and then at the Salon d'Automne with Matisse, Vlaminck and others, thus creating the movement of Fauvism.He worked with Henri Matisse in 1905 at Collioure, and participated in the 1905 Salon d’Automne with Matisse, Vlaminck, and Braque, the exhibition in which this group was labeled as Fauves, or Wild Beasts. Along with Vlaminck, Derain was one of the first artists to collect the tribal art of Africa which was influential to many of the artists of the early 20th century. In 1906, Derain met Picasso and his dealer, who purchased Derain's entire studio, creating newfound financial success. During this time, he was hired for the illustrations for works by Guillaume Apollinaire and Andre Breton. After World War I, his friend's Cubism movement affected his art, along with influence from Classicism and African Art. Derain stayed in Paris during most of the Occupation, where he was esteemed by the Nazis because of his artistic integrity. Hitler's Foreign Minister commissioned him to paint a family portrait, but he politely refused. His popularity began to decline after the war because of disagreement over new artistic movements. He later lost most of his eyesight due to illness, which may have been the reason he was hit by a truck in 1954, dying from shock at the age of 74. Derain’s Fauve paintings are typically bright with intense color. Influenced by the work of Cézanne as well as the early Cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque’s, Derain’s style changed and by 1912, the paintings became more traditional and structured. For the remainder of his career, he continued to investigate different compositional methods including the perspective of Cézanne and the pointillism of Seurat. He also designed ballet sets and made a number of sculptures. At the turn of the century, Andre Derain exhibited at the radical Fauve Salon d’Automne (1905) and was one of the founding members of the Fauvist movement together with his life-long friends Matisse and Vlaminck. The works he produced in this period, often under the guidance of Matisse, have been counted among the masterpieces of Fauvism. From around 1918, Derain turned his back on the avant-garde and had begun to explore some of the more traditional genres of Western art, including landscapes. His main source of inspiration once the Fauves group had dispersed was found in the Louvre, where he admired the early Renaissance works in particular. Talking of his frequent visits there, he once said, ‘That seemed to me then, the true, pure absolute painting.’ His work evolved through many styles and, most significantly, turned back to the past, particularly after 1922 when Lenin had publicly pronounced his disdain for abstract art. Derain built up an immense and fascinating collection of paintings, sculpture and objets d’art throughout his life which aided his experimentation and was reflected in his work between 1930 and 1945. During these years, his painting technique displayed the most avenues of invention, using a repertoire of primitivist motifs. His eclectic collection was constantly changing. In 1930 he sold his African collection in exchange for bronzes of antiquity and the Renaissance which indicated a real change of interest in the objects, as did his later pursuit of Greek ceramic painting and his enthusiasm for grand cycles of literary and antique themes...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Virgin and Child.
Located in Storrs, CT
. Wood engraving. Physick catalog 827. 5 3/4 x 2 3/4 (sheet 8 1/16 x 3 7/16). Proof printed on simili-Japan paper with one side deckle edge. Unsigned. Eric Gill was a painter, scu...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Engraving, Woodcut

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”. ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Women at Prayer
Located in Storrs, CT
10 15/16 x 8 7/16 (sheet 13 13/16 x 10 13/16). Subsequent to Dodgson. Edition 40 published by the Twenty-One Gallery for 7 guineas. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1936. A rich...
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Renaissance 1930s Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Vin Rouge (Red Wine)
Located in Storrs, CT
1932. Drypoint. Appleby 167. 9 1/4 x 11 5/8 (sheet 11 3/8 x 17 15/16). Edition 100 #48. Mat line, well outside the image; otherwise excellent condition. A rich impression with drypo...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Drypoint

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