1930s Figurative Prints

Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....

The New Cable British Modern Mid 20th Century Vorticist European Vorticism Woman Sybil Andrews CPE (British/Canadian, 1898-1992) "The New Cable," 1931 12 x 16 1/2 inches Color linocut Signed, titled, inscribed 'Second State', and numbered 13/60 in pencil Framed: 19 x 24 inches Literature: Coppel Sa17 Illustrated on page 10 of the catalog The proposed edition of the first state of the Giant Cable was 50, but only 30 impressions were pulled. Andrews removed the blue background for the second state, which was published under the title The New Cable in an edition of 60. BIO Sybil Andrews was a printmaker, painter, graphic artist and educator who was born in Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England. She moved to London (England) in 1922. In 1947, she emigrated to Campbell River (Vancouver Island) British Columbia, Canada, where she worked, taught and lived for the rest of her life. She died at a hospital in Victoria (B.C.) Her mediums were the colour linocut (1) (most famous), etching, posters, pastels, ink, watercolour, monoprint and oil. Her subjects were human activity (at work, sports, travel, etc.), figures, animals, genre, allegory, architecture and landscape. Her style was Art Deco (see AskART styles), Futurism, Cubism and Vorticism (2). Her work is identified by a simple format, clean lines, distortion, vivid colours, drama and rhythm. Quote: "The colour linocut was just the medium for me, being interested in dynamics and ideas and patterns... It is impossible to be fussy with lines, you have to simplify, you are forced to simplify your idea to its fundamentals." Andrews produced 76 linocuts in her life, of which 43 were made from 1929 to 1939, which is considered to be her best period. John Hassall's art correspondence course (1918) was the beginning of her formal art education. She went from there to Heatherley's School of Fine Art (London/1922) where she studied under Henry Massey (see AskART) and met artistic partner Cyril Power (see AskART). At the same time, she studied independently with sculptor Henri Glicenstein (see AskART) who taught her drypoint etching and to draw from life. She also attended the Grosvenor School of Modern Art (1925). Iain McNab (1890-1967) was Principal and Claude Flight (3) (see AskART) an instructor who had a great influence on her choice of linocut as a primary medium. Some of his other students and her associates were Edith Lawrence (1890-1973), Lill Tschudi (1911-2001), Eileen Mayo (see AskART) and William Greengrass (1896-1970). After emigrating to Canada she taught art continuously until a month before her death. She was elected a member of the Canadian Painters - Etchers Society (after 1976 the Print and Drawing Council of Canada) in 1951. She began exhibiting her work in 1921.In 1929 she was included in "The First Exhibition of British Linocuts...

Benton Spruance, 'Slack Rope Artist', lithograph, 1930, edition 30, Fine and Looney 35. Signed and titled in pencil. Numbered '2' in the bottom right margin. A fine impression, with ...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...

An excellent impression of this large color aquatint. Numbered in pencil 99/175. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Published by Vollard, Paris. Catalogue reference: Chapon/Rouault 141; ...

Evidently, Cherry Kobler was a woman who composed songs and sang them while accompanying herself on the piano. Why she chose a fruity dessert as a stage name is anyone's guess. According to the French files of Columbia Records...

Lithograph and stencil with hand coloring on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Le Livre blanc, précédé d'u...

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, ...

Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....

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 ...

This elegant wood-engraving charcoal drawing lithograph print was designed by John Buckland-Wright (1897-1954). The piece is signed, dated, titled, and numbered in pencil on the marg...

Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....

Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by Aux Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1933; printed by F. Duval, February 20, 1933. Notes: Fr...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...

"Bal de l'AAAA Festival of Light" is an original lithograph poster by Paul Emile Pissarro. It depicts a silhouetted couple dancing in white, pink, and yellow ...

Madame Carmencita, Plate 9 From: Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1934-1936 (published 1938) Signed with the artist's initials and dated, lower right of plat...

Image dimensions: 25 x 33 cm. Storia del Martin Pescatore is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist and engraver Luigi Bartolini in 1935. Original etching applied on C...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Dance of Mary, sister of Moses, (Danse de Marie, sœur de Moïse), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 c...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Noah's coat (Le manteau de Noé), 1939 Original etching Not signed On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13.1 inch) INFORMATION: Published by ...

Lithograph and stencil with hand coloring on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Le Livre blanc, précédé d'u...

'New Rochelle - Before the Wind', drypoint, 1931, edition 30 (only a few impressions printed), Rose l.163. Signed, dated '1932' and numbered '1 – XXX' in ...

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...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Aaron and the Candle (Menorah), (Aaron et le chandelier), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 1...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : The fight with the angel (La lutte avec l'ange), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13....

An incredible photo-realist drypoint etching of a Native American man by Gilbert Adam Shoenbrod (American, 1903-1996), 1937. Titled "The Hunter", this hyper detailed portrait depicts...

An amazing New York City subject, Canarsie Meadows, is a lithograph by New York native Hyman J. Warsager (1909-1974). He was a painter and printmaker, technical innovator, and song w...

Some Monograms is an artwok realized in early-20th century, by the French Artist George Auriol (1863-1935) . Lithograph on paper. Signed in plate on the left margin. The artist depi...

Il Revoit le Thabor Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958) Woodcut, initialed in the block Size: 12 x 8 in. (30.48 x 20.32 cm) Frame Size: 18.5 x 14.5 inches

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 ...

Bernard Schardt worked on the the WPA in NYC during the Depression. (During this period, off and on, he lived with friend and colleague Jackson Pollock...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by Aux Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1933; printed by F. Duval, February 20, 1933. Notes: Fr...

From The robbers. lithographs by George Grosz for the drama of the same name. photolithography on laid paper. 19 X 25.5 inches (sheet size). This is not hand signed or numbered in ...

Artist: Manuel Robbe (French, 1872-1936) Title: Le Retour Des Pecheurs Year: 1933 Medium: Etching with aquatint Paper: B.F.K Rives Image (plate mark) size: 1...

Edgar DEGAS (after) Whorehouse Scene : A Gorgeous Woman Original etching and aquatint On Rives vellum 25 x 32 cm (c. 10 x 13 inch) In the early 1920s, Ambroise Vollard (the great ar...

Marsh, Reginald. FROZEN CUSTARD. S.183. Etching and engraving, 1939. Second State of two. Edition of only 18, printed by Marsh and signed and titled in pencil. 7 x 10 inches, 178 x 2...

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, ...

Suffering is an original woodcut artwork on paper realized in 1937 by Russian artist Erikma Lawson Frimke (1878-1956), Hand-signed and dated on the lower in pencil. The state of pre...

Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. Colophon of the edition. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Exc...

Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....

LOUIS & BAER AT YANKEE STADIUM. This lithograph from circa 1935 was printed in an edition of 50. This particular impression is signed in pencil and inscribed “25/50.” The image size is 15 7/8 x 19 ¾ inches and the paper (sheet) size is 19 1/8 x 22 7/8 inches. There are two small purple estate stamps on verso. "I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early." – Max Baer...

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, July 14, 1937. Notes: From the folio, A La gloire à Paris, 1937. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), The Glory of Paris. This dedicated album by the Paris municipality was written, illustrated, engraved and printed in the year MCMXXXVII. This album was decorated and printed by J.-G. Daragnes for the City of Paris. This album has been completed to print on Vélins des Manufactures de Canson et Montgolfier et des Papeteries on July 14, 1937, D examples, the first CC of which were reserved for the subscribers of the album. EDMOND CÉRIA (1879-1954) From his childhood, Edmond Ceria showed a predisposition for music, drawing and painting. After studying at the Évian college, he entered the Geneva School of Fine Arts. Disappointed by teaching, he went to Paris in 1904, entered the Académie Julian and attended the Louvre museum where he discovered the work of Paul Cézanne which shocked him. He becomes a disciple of this new vision of the world, where sensitivity and love of nature replace genre and anecdote. According to René Barotte, “its incisive pages are reminiscent of Guardi or Canaletto. His style gradually frees itself from a certain rigor in execution. The touch becomes a sign, almost an ideogram, and the small painting appears written like a love poem. He began his career by exhibiting at the Salon des Indépendants in 1908, then at the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon d'Automne of which he was a member. In 1919, he spent a year in Tuscany which made him aware, like Corot, of the importance of light in painting. During this stay, he copied the great Italian masters including Giotto, Uccello, Masaccio. Back in France, Ceria discovered the light of Provence, painting mainly in Marseille and Sanary. In Paris, he set up in a workshop near the Observatory and frequently went down to the quays to paint the Seine, the bridges, the Concorde, the Tuileries and the Luxembourg. In 1934, he stopped his travels in Provence to discover Brittany where he spent many years. Indifferent to fashions and unfailingly attached to the nature that he stylizes, he pursues a landscape work whose light touches highlight the accidents or reflections. When the climate forced him to paint in the studio, he devoted his talent to still lifes, which testify to his love of life, just as his landscapes reflect his taste for nature. Ceria participated, with his friends Charles Dufresne, Othon Friesz and Henry de Waroquier, in the first exhibition of the Masters of Independent Art at the Petit Palais in 1937. Always alongside Dufresne, to whom he entrusted the artistic education of his son Jacques Despierre, he decorated the small foyer of the Chaillot theater with Le Théâtre...

Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Elijah on Mount Carmel (Elie sur le mont Carmel), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13...

After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #4, Bildnis Baronin Wittgenstein; dark grey monochrome collotype after the 1905 painting in oil on canvas. GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GUSTAV KLIMT AN AFTERMATH), a portfolio of 30 collotypes prints, 15 are multi-color and 15 are monochrome, on chine colle paper laid down on heavy cream-wove paper with deckled edges; Max Eisler, Editor-Publisher; Osterreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office), Printer; in a limited edition of 500 numbered examples of which: 200 were printed in German, 150 were printed in French and 150 were printed in English; Vienna, 1931. 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s death. It is a fitting time to reflect upon the enduring legacy and deep impact of his art. Recognizing this need for posterity with uncanny foresight, the publication of Gustav Klimt: An Aftermath (Eine Nachlese) provides a rare collection of work after Klimt which has proven to be an indispensable tool for Klimt scholarship as well as a source for pure visual delight. Approximately 25 percent of the original works featured in the Aftermath portfolio have since been lost. Of those 30, six were destroyed by fire on 8 May 1945. On that fateful final day of WWII, the retreating Feldherrnhalle, a tank division of the German Army, set fire to the Schloss Immendorf which was a 16th century castle in Lower Austria used between 1942-1945 to store objects of art. All three of Klimt’s Faculty Paintings: Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence (1900-1907), originally created for the University of Vienna, were on premises at that time. Also among the inventory of Klimt paintings in storage there was art which had been confiscated by the Nazis. One of the most significant confiscated collections was the Lederer collection which featured many works by Gustav Klimt such as Girlfriends II and Garden Path with Chickens...

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, ...

(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...

Some of his prints were published by the WPA. it is a wood engraving signed in pencil. From a small edition. Albert Abramovitz (1879-1963), born in Riga, Latvia, on January 24, 187...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, N° 1, 1938. Published and printed under the direction ...

Auguste Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958) Offset Lithograph, signed in the plate Image Size: 12.5 x 8.5 inches Size: 17 x 14 in. (43.18 x 35.56 cm) Frame Size: 23 x 19.5 inches

Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by Aux Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1933; printed by F. Duval, February 20, 1933. Notes: Fr...

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...

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, ...

Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....

Laying the Ghost by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Etching 39 x 26.3 cm (15 ⅜ x 10 ⅜ inches) Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1932 Numbered lower left 1/9 and titled lower middle ...

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, ...

A Lizard and a Sphinx! Image: 25.0 x 16.7 cm Mount: 37.8 x 28.3 cm Wood engraving 1932 One of Fourteen Wood Engravings, from drawings made on Orient Line Cruises by Robert Gibbings...

Below Stairs. 1930-31. Drypoint. Appleby 143. 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 (sheet 15 3/4 x 10 1/8). Edition 100, #31. A very rich, tonal impression on cream-colored laid paper. Unobtrusive soiling in the top left- and lower-left hand margins, just below the platemark; and light mat line just outside the platemark. . Signed and numbered in ink. Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat, suitable for framing. A charming discussion between the chef and a scullery maid in a "Downtown Abbey...