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Period: 1930s
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Three Head Fragments - Original Etching (Baer #159)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Three Head Fragments, 1936 Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris) Unsigned On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in) REFERENCES :...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Andre Derain, Head of a Young Girl, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1939
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Derain (1880–1954), titled Tete de Jeune Fille (Head of a Young Girl), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. II, No. 5–6, originates fro...
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Fauvist 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Four Nude Men - Original Etching (Baer #155)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Three Naked Women, 1936 Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris) Unsigned On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in) REFERENCES : -...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

View of Venice - Etching by Alcione Gubellini - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Alcione Gubellini in the mid-20th Century. Edition of 16. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Excellent condition.
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Original Leipziger Messe International Leipzig Trade Fair vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original German vintage poster: International Leipzig Trade Fair Leipziger Messe in NYC. Beginning Feb. 28th, 1937. Held in New York City. Th...
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Academic 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Oscar Weissbuch, Westchester Hills (NY), New Deal, WPA-era wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
New York City native Oscar Weissbuch (1904-1948), attended the Yale University School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League, NY. He participated in the NYC-WPA printmaking project...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Phantasy
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CARL HOECKNER (1883 – 1972) PHANTASY c 1935 Lithograph edition unknown, but rare. Slight glue stain upper margin. 10 ½” x 15 ¾” ...
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Surrealist 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Phantasy
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Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in t...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Figure, " Nude Portrait Linoleum Cut by Gerrit Sinclair
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Figure" is an original linoleum print by Gerrit Sinclair, signed in plate the lower left corner. It features a woman fixing her hair in front of a mirror, her nude body visible to the viewer from the back and front reflecting in the mirror. Image: 6" x 5" Framed: 13.37" x 12.43" Gerrit Sinclair brought the charming style of American Regionalism painting...
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American Realist 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Linocut

Brunelleschi, Sans titre, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Marcel Duchamp, Monte Carlo Bond, from XXe siecle, 1939
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), titled Bond de Monte-Carlo (Monte Carlo Bond), from the album XXe siecle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue Valette (5e), Directeur ...
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Dada 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'Three Masted Ship, 2' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Three Masted Ship, 2 (Dreimastiges Schiff, 2)', woodcut, 1937, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W296. Feininger estate stamp and inventory no. 'W 865' in pencil, bottom left sheet corner. Annotated 'W 296' and 'on block : 3702a' in pencil, bottom right sheet corner. A fine impression, on cream, laid, letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce. Image size 2 1/4 x 2 11/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 6 3/4 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY. ABOUT THE ARTIST Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892. After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin. One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
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Bauhaus 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

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.
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Four Nude Men - Original Etching (Baer #155)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Four Nude Men, 1936 Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris) Unsigned On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in) REFERENCES : - Cat...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

THE FIT YOURSELF SHOP
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KYRA MARKHAM (1891 – 1967) THE FIT YOURSELF SHOP, 1935 Lithograph, signed, titled, dedicated, dated and no 24/50 in pencil. 12 5/8 x 9 5/8”. Signed in ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Cherry Kobler - Columbia, original French vintage poster full lithograph
Located in Spokane, WA
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...
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Conceptual 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Lurçat, la lyre 1932, huit dessins à la plume (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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...
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Surrealist 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

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

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Laying the Ghost by Orovida Pissarro - Animal etching
Located in London, GB
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 ...
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1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

'To Market, to Market' — Surrealist Fantasy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Zena Kavin, 'To Market, to Market', lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '6/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full ma...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Tales of the Trojan War - Original Etching (Baer #166)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Tales of the Trojan War, 1936 Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris) Unsigned On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in) REFERENCE...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Four Heads - Original Etching (Baer #151)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Four Heads, 1936 Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris) Unsigned On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in) REFERENCES : - Catalo...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

"When Day is Done, " an Original Etching signed by John Edward Costigan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"When Day is Done" is an original etching and aquatint signed lower right in pencil by the artist John Edward Costigan. It depicts a man and a woman with their young child at the end...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

"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...
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Expressionist 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

'Food Not Cannon' — WPA Modernist Work of Social Conscience
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Food Not Cannon', etching, 1937, edition 12 (an early state, probably unique). Signed in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/8 to 2 1/8 ...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Two Standing Figures - Original Etching (Baer #170)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Two Standing Figures, 1936 Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris) Unsigned On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in) REFERENCES :...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Sweet Awakening - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
 The sweet awakening  is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stori...
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Art Nouveau 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Bonal, " Original Lithograph Poster by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bonal" is an original lithograph poster by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre. It features an abstracted figure drinking Bonal Gentiane Quina, a cocktail or aperitif, which, consumed before a...
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Art Deco 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Bible : The judgment of Solomon, 1939 - Original Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : The judgment of Solomon (Le jugement de Salomon), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13...
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1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

A Loving Embrace - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
A loving embrace  is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” ...
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Art Nouveau 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Alberto Magnelli, Composition 66, from XXe siecle, 1938
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite linocut by Alberto Magnelli (1888–1971), titled Composition 66, from the album XXe siecle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue Valette (5e), Directeur G. di San Lazzaro, Sommai...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Linocut

Nellie O Winning the Open at the Coney Island Track
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1931 Medium: Color Lithograph on Paper Dimensions: 14.50" x 16.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Le Retour Des Pecheurs
Located in San Francisco, CA
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...
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Impressionist 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Aquatint

Expressionist Windy Day Portrait
Located in Surfside, FL
Arthur Kolnik was born in Stanislavov, a small town in Galicia, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, who was originally from Lithuania, worked as an accoun...
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Expressionist 1930s Figurative Prints

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Paper

Whorehouse Scene : In the Intimacy of the Room - etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Edgar DEGAS (after) Whorehouse Scene : In the Intimacy of the Room Original etching and aquatint On Rives vellum 25 x 32 cm (c. 10 x 13 inch) In the early 1920s, Ambroise Vollard (t...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph after a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper reproduction after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawi...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Grey City, 1933 - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Jacques Camus The Grey City, 1933 Original lithograph and stencil Unsigned On paper 39 x 29 cm (c. 15.3 x 11.4 inch) INFORMATION : This lithograph is part of the "Idées" portfolio ...
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Art Deco 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Original Vintage 1933 French Automobile Poster – Roby Ranty Marot deco poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Vintage 1933 French Automobile Poster – Roby Ranty Marot Art Deco Calendar Art Print Classic Car Advertisement. Archival linen backed in...
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Art Deco 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Man and Shadow - Original Lithograph (Morance 1938)
Located in Paris, IDF
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) Man and Shadow, 1938 Original lithograph Signature printed in the plate Dated in the plate On light vellum 21 x 27 cm (c. 8 x 11 inch) Very good condition,...
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Cubist 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Joan Miro, Woman, from XXe siecle, 1938
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite linocut by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Femme (Woman), from the album XXe siecle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue Valette (5e), Directeur G. di San Lazzaro, Sommaire du no...
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Surrealist 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Linocut

'Sailing' — Modernism, New York City WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fred Becker, 'Sailing', wood engraving, c. 1935, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper; with full margins (1 to 2 15/16...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

20th century drypoint etching figurative animal print black and white signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Boy With Cows" is an original drypoint etching by John Edward Costigan. It depicts a young boy with three cows standing in a watering hole. The artist si...
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American Realist 1930s Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Saul Raskin, The Cry of Union Square, about 1935
By Saul Raskin
Located in New York, NY
Saul Raskin's Cry of Union Square, has all my favorite things: a view of Union Square with S. Klein's department store on the right and a Chop Suey restaurant on the left. There's a ...
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Ashcan School 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Henri Matisse, Fruits, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1938 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Fruits, from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 4, originates from the 1938 issue published by Edi...
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Fauvist 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'Little Girl' — American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Milton Avery, 'Little Girl', drypoint, 1936, edition 60, Lunn 11. Signed, dated, and numbered '22/60' in pencil. A superb impression, in warm black ink with delicate overall plate tone, on off-white wove paper, with wide margins (2 5/8 to 4 1/8 inches); hinge stains on the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 8 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (222 x 121 mm); sheet size 14 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches (378 x 333 mm). Collections: Cantor Arts Center, National Gallery of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST "I never have any rules to follow; I follow myself." "I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight." —Milton Avery 'His is the poetry of sheer loveliness.' —Mark Rothko in his 1965 eulogy to Avery. Milton Avery (1885-1965) is recognized as one of America's foremost modernist artists, renowned for his uniquely expressive style, evocative use of color, and captivating compositions. Growing up in a working-class family in Altmar, New York, Avery's early life was marked by the struggles and realities of rural New York. Despite lacking formal artistic training, he displayed an innate talent for drawing from an early age. In 1905, his family relocated to Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked various odd jobs while developing his artistic skills through self-study and experimentation. In 1915, he enrolled at the Connecticut League of Art Students, where he received formal instruction and began to refine his distinctive style. In 1918, Avery transferred to the School of the Art Society of Hartford and worked in the evenings so that he could paint during the day. He became a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts in 1924. That summer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he met the artist Sally Michael...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint

Hirschhorn, Germany
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork depicts the town of Hirschhorn, a resort town in Germany on the River Neckar near Heidelberg. It is an original color etching by Austrian/American artist Tana Kasimir Ho...
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Realist 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Color

'Little Locomotive' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Little Locomotive (Kleine Lokomotive)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W158. Annotated 'W 158' (Feininger catalogue number) and '1936' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce. Image size 2 1/4 x 3 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY. Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (East Berlin KK). ABOUT THE ARTIST Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892. After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin. One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
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Bauhaus 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Stepping Up from La Dame aux Camelias, Art Nouveau Etching after Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Louis Icart, After, French (1888 - 1950) - Stepping Up from La Dame aux Camelias, Year: 1938, Medium: Hand-Colored Etching, Image Size: 5 x 3.5 inches, Frame Size: 20.5 x 17 inches
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Art Nouveau 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, 1940s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 IV. Annotated 'PW 290 state IV / IV 3669', in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. With the artist's typed address and date adjacent to the letterhead image: 'Falls Village, Connecticut September 26th, 1940'. A fine impression, on buff, wove letterhead stock; several small losses, and tears, in the sheet edges (not affecting the image area); a crease in the bottom right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Very scarce. Image size: 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 11 x 8 5/8 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Feininger moved from Germany to New York City in 1938 and began spending his summers in Falls Village in 1940. Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY. ABOUT THE ARTIST Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892. After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin. One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
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Bauhaus 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Swimming under waterfalls - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Swimming under waterfalls is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short S...
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Art Nouveau 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse, The Hand and the Paintbrush, from Verve, Revue, 1938 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled La Main et le pinceau (The Hand and the Paintbrush), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 4, or...
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Fauvist 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'The Yankee' — America's Cup, 1934
By Jacques La Grange
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jacques La Grange, 'The Yankee', color woodcut, edition 500, 1934. Signed and numbered '25/500' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 1/8 to 1 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. A work from La Grange’s celebrated series of woodcuts 'Drama and Color in the America's Cup Races'. Image size 10 x 10 11/16 inches (254 x 271 mm); sheet size 12 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (311 x 337 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. When the artist created this print in 1934, the 'Yankee' was one of the most promising yachts eligible for the America's Cup but ultimately 'Rainbow' was chosen to defend against England's 'Endeavor' in that year's race. The 'Endeavor' was built for Thomas Sopwith who used his aviation design expertise to ensure the yacht was the most advanced of its day with a steel hull and mast. She was launched in 1934 and won many races in her first season but the Cup challenge was blighted by a strike of Sopwith's professional crew prior to departing for America. Forced to rely mainly on keen amateurs, who lacked the necessary experience, the campaign failed. 'Rainbow' won the series 4–2. This was one of the most contentious of the America's Cup battles and prompted the headline "Britannia rules the waves and America waives the rules." ABOUT THE ARTIST Jacques La Grange was born in Clanwilliam (near Cape Town) in South Africa in 1895. He studied at London University and later immigrated to the United States. La Grange established himself as a painter, illustrator, and printmaker specializing in nautical subjects. He and his wife, Helen La Grange, published 'Drama and Color in the America's Cup Races' in 1934 and 'Clipper Ships of America and Great Britain 1833-1869', in 1936. Both were deluxe hardcover limited edition volumes with signed original color woodblock prints. La Grange had solo exhibitions at the Buchanan Gallery in 1929; the Babcock Gallery and the 56th Street Gallery, New York, in 1930; and at the Nicholas Roerich...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Joe Louis vs. Max Baer at Yankee Stadium
Located in New York, NY
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...
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Naturalistic 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Louis Marcoussis, Rimbaud, from XXe siecle, 1939
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite burin etching, engraving by Louis Marcoussis (1878–1941), titled Rimbaud, from the album XXe siecle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue Valette (5e), Directeur G. di San Lazza...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving, Etching

The Lovers - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Lovers is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La F...
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Art Nouveau 1930s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

George Rouault, Christ et Mammon from The Passion, etching, hand coloring
Located in Chatsworth, CA
George Rouault "Le Christ et Mammon" from The Passion Original etching with aquatint and hand coloring, initialed lower right Paper size: 19 x 15.5 inches Im...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

The Waterfall - Etching by Paul Emile Colin - 1930 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Paul Emile Colin in 1930s. Edition of 3/50. Hand signed and numbered. Very good condition.
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Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Bible : David ascending the hill of olives, 1939 - Original Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : David ascending the hill of olives (David montant la colline des oliviers), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, ...
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1930s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Matisse, Scène d'intérieur, Dix Reproductions (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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

'Cargo Carriers' — New York Harbor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'Cargo Carriers', etching and drypoint, c. 1932, edition 10, Kennedy 44. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression with rich burr and selectively wiped overall plate tone, in dark brown ink, on Arches cream laid paper; wide margins (2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Original Kennedy Galleries mat and label. Very scarce. "On my trips up and down N.Y. harbor on the Weehawken Ferry, the late evening sun playing on the side of the big liners has always intrigued me... The liner shown I believe to be the Vaterland of the North German Lloyd...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Drypoint

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