1930s Figurative Prints

Geef Het Boek Van PTT. Photomontage Poster adverstising the Het Boek van PTT. Leiden 1938. Extremely rare. Fine condition. A pioneer of modern typography...

Artist : Léonard Foujita (Tsuguharu) Title: Woman with Felines Engraving Edition of 315 Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm From La Rivière enchantée Unsigned and unumbered as issued

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...

Linoleum cut printed in colors on wove paper. Duthuit-Matisse 702. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size 7.5 x 6.75 inches. Sheet size 16 x 11.75 inches. Custom fra...

after Diego Rivera "Ministry of Education, Mexico City" (Workers' Meeting) 1933 from the portfolio "Frescoes of Diego Rivera" Published by the Museum of Modern Art, NY Signed by the artist lower center 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...

Plate 13 from La Suite Vollard. Bloch 229. Baer 444. Etching on Montval paper. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with larger margins). Printe...

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...

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...

Jean Arp (after) - Composition - Pochoir 1958 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm From the art revue XXe siècle Unsigned and unumbered as issued

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...

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 1...

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 1...

JEAN VICTOR DESMEURES - Paris International Colonial Exhibition - 1931 Robert Lang Paris Imp. 1931 Canvas and framed Good condition 100 x 62 cm 800 ...

Date: 1931 Medium: Color Lithograph on Paper Dimensions: 14.50" x 16.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right

Schanker, Louis (American 1903-1981). CAFE NO.1. Johnson 14. Woodcut in colors, 1938. Edition of 35. Titled, numbered 8/35 and signed in pencil. 9 x 5 1/2 inches (image), plus marg...

Date: 1931 Medium: Color Lithograph on Paper Dimensions; 14.50" x 16.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right

(after) Diego Rivera "Chapel of the Agricultural School, Chapingo" (Ceiling Detail, Workers) 1933 from the portfolio "Frescoes of Diego Rivera" Published by the Museum of Modern Art, NY Size with the Matt: 18.5 x 13.5 inches 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...

SOLD UNFRAMED Pig Sticking by Orovida Pissarro (1893 - 1968) Etching 17.3 x 27.4 cm (6 ¾ x 10 ¾ inches) Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1931 Numbered lower left 26/50 and titl...

Harriet (Keese) Lanfair (1900-1988) lithograph, c. 1935, signed in pencil on lower right margin. Printed on a very light japan paper, with margins. A proof impression, with printers...

Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Opera Box, 1936, engraving, signed, numbered and annotated in pencil (State II 4/5, “to Dolsy and Eddie”); one of only 11 proofs....

Que haces tu para Evitor Esto? Ayuda a Madrid. Ca 1936 -1939. ( What are you doing to prevent this? Help Madrid) On Linen. Hand-modified photographic image of a tearful mother and child in foreground with bombed-out building and war planes...

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...

Paul Cadmus Two Boys on a Beach 1938/1979 Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil, recto; Also blindstamped, l.l.; Initialed in plate, l.r. Etching (Edition of 35) 18 x 14.5 inch...

A risquee Modern print depicting a Cupid observing his good work on a Satyr & Nymph. The Bacchanalia has reached it's desired conclusion. This is an original 1935 linocut print on wo...

Rockwell Kent "Hail and Farewell" 1930 Wood Engraving on Paper Signed in Pencil Lower Right Sheet Size: 14 3/8 x 11 1/4 in. Image Size: 8 x 5 1/2 in. Framed Size: 17.5 x 13.5 in. Growing up in a genteel family in New York City, Rockwell Kent was a member of the rugged realist school of landscape painters as well as a popular illustrator and printmaker. His 1930 illustrations for Moby Dick are among his most lasting achievements. He was the first American artist to have work exhibited in the Soviet Union, a reflection of his Communist Party sympathies, which earned him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967. This espousal of radical politics caused his career to suffer badly in the '50s because his leftist views caused him disdain among many Americans. However, his work, reflecting both realism and modernism, has earned increasing attention from American art historians. His subject matter is wide-ranging including scenes of Maine's Monhegan Island, the Adirondack Mountains, book illustrations, and commercial art renderings for companies including General Electric, Rolls Royce, and Westinghouse. Although his first love was painting, in addition to illustration, he also did fabric, ceramic, and jewelry designs, and spent time as a dairy farmer, carpenter, home builder, and lobster fisherman...

Lithograph. From the 'Barcelona Series'. Signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 5. Printed in 1944 on Torras Juvinya paper. Publ...

A fabulous impression of this scarce Picasso etching from the Vollard Suite published in 1939. In an excellent hand-carved museum frame with all acid-free conservation materials. ...