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Period: 1930s
The British Evacuate Boston - 1932 Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
The British Evacuate Boston - 1932 Etching on Paper by Allen Lewis. From the portfolio "The Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington."
In this piece George Washington is front and ...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
La Danse
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Medium: Lithograph
Title: La Danse
Year: 1938
Edition: Unnumbered
Framed Size: 20 1/2 x 27 inches
Sheet Size: 14 x 21 inches
Ref...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ray Kaiser, (Abstracted Seated Woman)
Located in New York, NY
This print was made for the American Abstract Artists Portfolio, 1937. All the images were lithographs made on zinc plates. Usually they were signed or initialed in the image -- on the plate, as this one is. As a group they explored abstraction in the 1930s, while maintaining their individual styles. The plan was to make an edition of 500 portfolios although it seems highly unlikely that this was accomplished. The Whitney Museum of American Art has a set.
The dimensions, 12 x 9 1/4 inches, are for the sheet; this work signed and dated in the plate.
Ray Kaiser...
Category
Abstract 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
UNTITLED (CLEANING CREW)
Located in Portland, ME
Braun, Ruth Light (American, 1906-2003). UNTITLED (CLEANING CREW). Lithograph, not dated, but likely 1930s. Edition size not stated. Signed in pencil, lower left. 13 3/8 x 10 1/2 inc...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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 the 1930's)
these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph.
James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor”
Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro.
These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great.
Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War.
Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work.
In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending.
Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles.
Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968).
In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale.
One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas."
Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Conversation - Original Woodcut Print
Located in Paris, IDF
François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941)
Conversation, 1938
Original Woodcut Print
Signed with the stamp of the artist
On Japan paper
36 x 24 cm (c. 14.2 x 9....
Category
Art Nouveau 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Byron Browne, (Abstraction)
By Byron Browne
Located in New York, NY
This print was made for the American Abstract Artists Portfolio, 1937. All the images were lithographs made on zinc plates. Usually they were signed in the image -- on the plate, as ...
Category
Abstract 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
William Gropper, (Choral Group)
Located in New York, NY
An early serigraph (screen print) by William Gropper. There's a harpist to provide the music and a choir master conducting. The seated members of the group are individually drawn as ...
Category
Ashcan School 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Bible: Joseph and his brothers, 1939 - Original Etching
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1958)
Bible: Joseph and his brothers (Joseph et ses frères), 1939
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13.1 ...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Byrd Map of Antartic Expedition 1934 vintage poster map
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Authorized Map of the Second BYRD Antarctic Expedition vintage poster map. Printed in 1934 by G.F. Corp. Artist: George Annand. Authentic 1934 Print: This is the genuin...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
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 ...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
THE FIT YOURSELF SHOP
By Kyra Markham
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 ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$780 Sale Price
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Original Cycles Favor Motos Bicycles & Motorcycles vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original " CYCLES FAVOR MOTOS “ linen-backed, horizontal-format vintage Art Deco poster. This original 1937 poster was printed as a stone lithograph in large and small formats. The one listed here is the smaller version. Excellent condition, 1937 original antique poster. Condition Grade A: Excellent - professionally linen-backed for durability and preservation. Ready to frame.
Transport yourself to the golden age of French cycling with this stunning original 1937 Cycles Favor Motos vintage poster...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Whorehouse Scene : Waking Up After a Long Love Night - Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Edgar DEGAS (after)
Whorehouse Scene : Waking Up After a Long Love Night
Etching and aquatint
On Rives vellum 25 x 32 cm (c. 10 x 13 inch)
In the early 1920s, Ambroise Vollard (the ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,436 Sale Price
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Les Chantes de Maldoror (Piano) Memory of Music
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: LEs Chantes de Maldoror Memory of Music
MEDIUM: Etching Arches paper
SIGNED: Not signed
PUBLISHER: Albert Skira, Paris
MEASUREMENTS: 10" x13"
YEAR...
Category
Surrealist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Bible : Elijah on Mount Carmel, 1939 - Original Etching
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
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...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Cocteau, Untitled, from The White Book, 1930
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Le Livre blanc (The White Book), precede dun fronti...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$3,036 Sale Price
20% Off
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 on the lower margin.
Good conditions except some foxings that doesn't affect the immage.
M...
Category
Symbolist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'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...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Court' — WPA Social Conscience, Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Claire Mahl Moore, 'Court' also 'The Authorities', woodcut, 1936, edition 5. Signed 'Mahl' and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on ...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
THE PARTISAN (SF Dock strike)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HERMAN VOLZ (Swiss/American 1904 - 1990)
THE PARTISAN, 1937
Lithograph, signed and no. in pencil. Edition 30. 10 1/2 x 14. Sheet 11 1/4 x 17 1/2" Generally good condition aside fro...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marie Laurencin, Alice Outside the White Rabbit's House, 1930
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Alice a l'exterieur de la maison du lapin blanc (Alice Outside the White Rabbit's House), from the folio Les aventure...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,436 Sale Price
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Jean Cocteau, Untitled, from The White Book, 1930
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Le Livre blanc (The White Book), precede dun fronti...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$3,036 Sale Price
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Chicago : The Wacker Drive - Original etching, c. 1931
Located in Paris, IDF
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Chicago : The Wacker Drive, c. 1931
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum 38 x 50 cm (c. 15 x 20 in)
Very good condition, light defects ...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Hula Hoop
By Huchs
Located in Houston, TX
Captivating black and white etching of a crowd gathered to watch performers with hula hoops by Huchs, 1939. Titled and signed in lower margin.
Original artw...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
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 ...
Category
Dada 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$7,196 Sale Price
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Ex-Libris - Luigi Servolini - Woodcut by Luigi Servolini - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex-Libris - Luigi Servolini is an Artwork realized in 1930 by the Italian Artist Luigi Servolini (Livorno, 10 marzo 1906 – Livorno, 21 settembre 1981)
Woodcut colored print on ivory...
Category
Contemporary 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ex Libris - Attilii Vicentini - woodcut by Luigi Angelini - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Attilii Vicentini is an Artwork realized in 1930 s. by the Italian Architect Luigi Angelini(1884-1969)
Woodcut print on ivory paper. Hand Signed on the right corner and...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Original "Campionato del Mondo, Tiro al Piccione" vintage sports poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster Italian lithograph. Tira Al Piccion - Roma. Skeet Shooting. VII World Championship “Tiro a Piccione” pre-World War II Olympic style poster.
Powerful pre-world War II poster.
This shows the American flag flying next to the Nazi flag for the skeet shooting championship in Italy. Note that the year 1935 corresponds with the fascist year date of XIV-XV. Museum linen backed.
The USA flag is sitting right next to the German Nazi...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$920 Sale Price
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Jean Cocteau, Untitled, from The White Book, 1930
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Le Livre blanc (The White Book), precede dun frontispice et accompagne de 17 dessins de Jean Cocteau (preceded by a frontispiece and accompanied by 17 drawings by Jean Cocteau), originates from the 1930 edition published by Editions du Signe, Paris, printed by Maitres-Imprimeurs, Ducros et Colas, Paris, and hand colored by M.B. Armington (a probable pseudonym of Jean Cocteau), May 10, 1930. The work reflects Cocteaus mastery of linear elegance and psychological nuance, distilling intimacy, vulnerability, and symbolic clarity into a composition that occupies a pivotal place in early twentieth-century modernism and queer cultural history.
Executed as a lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring on velin d'Arches paper, this work measures 11.81 x 9.06 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. The edition exemplifies the refined craftsmanship of Ducros and Colas, Maitres-Imprimeurs, and the exceptional hand-coloring attributed to Cocteau himself.
ARTWORK DETAILS
Artist: After Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
Title: Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Le Livre blanc (The White Book), precede dun frontispice et accompagne de 17 dessins de Jean Cocteau (preceded by a frontispiece and accompanied by 17 drawings by Jean Cocteau)
Year: 1930
Medium: Lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring on velin d'Arches paper
Size: 11.81 x 9.06 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Publisher: Editions du Signe, Paris
Printer: Maitres-Imprimeurs, Ducros et Colas, Paris
Catalogue Raisonne References:
Bezit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. Gründ, 1976, vol. 3, p. 744.
Carteret, Leon. Le Tresor du Bibliophile: Livres Illustres Modernes, 1875–1945. Editions Carteret, 1958, vol. 5, p. 51.
van der Veen, H. In Liefde Verzameld: Homoseksualiteit en de Nederlandse Literatuur. De Buitenkant, 1992, no. 136.
Monod, Luc. Manuel de Lamateur de Livres Illustres Modernes: 1875–1975. Ides & Calendes, 1992, no. 2912.
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the album Le Livre blanc, published by Editions du Signe, Paris; printed by Ducros et Colas, Paris; hand colored by M.B. Armington (a probable pseudonym of Jean Cocteau), May 10, 1930
NOTES
Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This album, whose plates have been entirely colored by hand by M.B. Armington, an artist-painter, was completed to print on May 10, 1930, by Ducros and Colas, Maitres-Imprimeurs in Paris. The draw has been limited to: XVIII examples on japon nacre, each containing one of the XVIII original drawings and a suite on Hollande, numbered from I to XVIII; VI examples, H.C., marked from A to F; XVIII examples on japon imperial, numbered from XIX to XXXVI; VI examples, H.C., marked from G to L; CCCLXXX examples on velin d'Arches, numbered from XXXVII to CDXVI; XXII examples, H.C., marked from A to V.
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Le Livre blanc (The White Book), published in 1930 by Editions du Signe with plates printed by Ducros et Colas and hand colored by the enigmatic M.B. Armington (likely Cocteau himself), occupies a singular and foundational place in the history of LGBTQ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$3,036 Sale Price
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Jean Cocteau, Untitled, from The White Book, 1930
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Le Livre blanc (The White Book), precede dun fronti...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$3,036 Sale Price
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Naked Young Man Sitting On Lopped Branch; Naked Young Woman Sitting on a Branch.
By Eric Gill
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Wood engraving, 1930, edition small, Physick 642 / 643. Initialed in pencil.
Two blocks printed on a single sheet: fine impressions on cream laid Japan with full margins (1 1/2 to 2...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Lovers Lunch- Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Lovers lunch 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...
Category
Art Nouveau 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bible : Prophecy about Jerusalem, 1939 - Original Etching
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1958)
Bible : Prophecy about Jerusalem (Prophétie sur Jérusalem), 1939
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x ...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original art deco Monopole Radio mermaid vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1934 Lithograph poster for TSF radio Monopole "une vague de puissance et d'harmonie" (a wave of power and harmony) with the beautiful mermaid strumming her harp. Archival...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$638 Sale Price
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Composition, Le Peseur d'âmes (The Weigher of Souls), Francis Picabia
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Le Peseur d'âmes, précédé d'un frontispice et suivi de hui...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,436 Sale Price
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Eric Gill 1934 Woodblock Print 'From the Books of Philip Hofer' 'Ex Libris' Lion
By Eric Gill
Located in London, GB
From a series of wood engravings by Eric Gill. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Original Swiss Industries Fair Basle English version vintage antique poster
By Donald Brun
Located in Spokane, WA
Original SWISS INDUSTRIES FAIR BASLE (Basel, Switzerland) vintage poOriginal 1938 Swiss Industries Fair Basel Poster by Donad Brun – Linen Backed, Industr...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Flowers - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Flowers 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 ...
Category
Art Nouveau 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Which Way?" Martin Lewis, Atmospheric, Snowy 1930s Setting, Outdoor Scene
By Martin Lewis
Located in New York, NY
Martin Lewis
Which Way?, 1932
Signed lower right
Aquatint etching on pale blue paper
Plate 10 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Sheet 14 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches
Edition of approximately 53
Provenance...
Category
Realist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Le Petit Chat est Mort - Lithograph by Edouard Chimot - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Edouard Chimot in 1932.
Belongs to the suite "Le Chat", in which the author classifies and represents pubic hairstyles that become progressively more surreal....
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau, Untitled, from The White Book, 1930
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Le Livre blanc (The White Book), precede dun frontispice et accompagne de 17 dessins de Jean Cocteau (preceded by a frontispiece and accompanied by 17 drawings by Jean Cocteau), originates from the 1930 edition published by Editions du Signe, Paris, printed by Maitres-Imprimeurs, Ducros et Colas, Paris, and hand colored by M.B. Armington (a probable pseudonym of Jean Cocteau), May 10, 1930. The work reflects Cocteaus mastery of linear elegance and psychological nuance, distilling intimacy, vulnerability, and symbolic clarity into a composition that occupies a pivotal place in early twentieth-century modernism and queer cultural history.
Executed as a lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring on velin d'Arches paper, this work measures 11.81 x 9.06 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. The edition exemplifies the refined craftsmanship of Ducros and Colas, Maitres-Imprimeurs, and the exceptional hand-coloring attributed to Cocteau himself.
ARTWORK DETAILS
Artist: After Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
Title: Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Le Livre blanc (The White Book), precede dun frontispice et accompagne de 17 dessins de Jean Cocteau (preceded by a frontispiece and accompanied by 17 drawings by Jean Cocteau)
Year: 1930
Medium: Lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring on velin d'Arches paper
Size: 11.81 x 9.06 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Publisher: Editions du Signe, Paris
Printer: Maitres-Imprimeurs, Ducros et Colas, Paris
Catalogue Raisonne References:
Bezit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. Gründ, 1976, vol. 3, p. 744.
Carteret, Leon. Le Tresor du Bibliophile: Livres Illustres Modernes, 1875–1945. Editions Carteret, 1958, vol. 5, p. 51.
van der Veen, H. In Liefde Verzameld: Homoseksualiteit en de Nederlandse Literatuur. De Buitenkant, 1992, no. 136.
Monod, Luc. Manuel de Lamateur de Livres Illustres Modernes: 1875–1975. Ides & Calendes, 1992, no. 2912.
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the album Le Livre blanc, published by Editions du Signe, Paris; printed by Ducros et Colas, Paris; hand colored by M.B. Armington (a probable pseudonym of Jean Cocteau), May 10, 1930
NOTES
Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This album, whose plates have been entirely colored by hand by M.B. Armington, an artist-painter, was completed to print on May 10, 1930, by Ducros and Colas, Maitres-Imprimeurs in Paris. The draw has been limited to: XVIII examples on japon nacre, each containing one of the XVIII original drawings and a suite on Hollande, numbered from I to XVIII; VI examples, H.C., marked from A to F; XVIII examples on japon imperial, numbered from XIX to XXXVI; VI examples, H.C., marked from G to L; CCCLXXX examples on velin d'Arches, numbered from XXXVII to CDXVI; XXII examples, H.C., marked from A to V.
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Le Livre blanc (The White Book), published in 1930 by Editions du Signe with plates printed by Ducros et Colas and hand colored by the enigmatic M.B. Armington (likely Cocteau himself), occupies a singular and foundational place in the history of LGBTQ...
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The New Engagement - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The new engagement 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
Walter DuBois Richards, The Lobster Float
Located in New York, NY
Ohio-born Walter DuBois Richards (1907-2006) was educated at the Cleveland School of Art. He re-located to New York around 1933 where he had a successful career as a commercial artis...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Ex Libris - Gianni Mantero - Ex Musicis - Etching by Michel Fingesten - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Gianni Mantero -Ex Musicis is an Etching print created by Michel Fingesten.
Hand Signed on the lower margin.
Good conditions.
Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Cze...
Category
Symbolist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Yellow Donkey (Der Gelbe Esel) (Esther Gentle Reproduction)
By Paul Klee
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...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Pierre Bonnard, The Breakfast, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1939
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), titled Le petit-dejeuner (The Breakfast), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. II, No. 5–6, originates from the 1...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
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'Monday in Wick Haven' original linoleum cut print by Howard Thomas
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this image, Howard Thomas presents the viewer with a domestic interior. The image is dominated by the figure of a black woman, resting her arm on an ironing board. To the right, the tool of her task dangles a chord above a checker tiled floor. Beyond, though a window, neighboring homes fill the landscape. The careful line-work of the linocut adds a sense of expressionism to the scene, but the image nonetheless falls into the Social Realism that captivated most American artists during the Great Depression.
This print was published in 1936 as part of the Wisconsin Artists' Calendar for the year 1937, which included 52 original, hand-made prints – one for each week of the year.
6 x 5 inches, image
10 x 7.13 inches, sheet
12.37 x 12.43 inches, frame
Entitled "Monday in Wick Haven" lower left (covered by matting)
Inscribed "Linoleum Cut" lower center (covered by matting)
Artist name "Howard Thomas" lower right (covered by matting)
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and museum glass, all housed in a silver gilded moulding.
Quaker-born in Ohio, Thomas trained in the Midwest at Ohio State University and the Chicago Art Institute. He taught in the Art Department of the Milwaukee State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) where he became good friends with Carl Holty, Edward Boerner, Robert von Neumann...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Marie Laurencin, Portrait of Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1930
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Portrait d'Alice (Portrait of Alice), from the folio Les aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles (Alice's Adventures...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Man and Shadow - Original Lithograph (Morance 1938)
By Le Corbusier
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
The Treason - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Treason 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 ...
Category
Art Nouveau 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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.
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Windy Night, Stockholm.
Located in Storrs, CT
Windy Night, Stockholm. 1935. Drypoint. Dodgson 457.x. 11 7/8 x 7 5/8 (sheet 15 1/2 x 10 7/8). Edition of 80 in this state (total 93 in 10 states). Illustrated: Guichard, British Etc...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,600 Sale Price
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Ex Libris - Marco Binnholz - Woodcut by Michel Fingesten - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Marco Binnholz is a woodcut print created by Michel Fingesten.
Hand Signed on the lower right margin.
Good conditions.
Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech pa...
Category
Symbolist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Médici Fountain, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, A La gloire à Paris, Othon Friesz
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on vélin Canson et Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by L'Imprimerie Daragnès, Paris; printed by Jean Gabriel Daragnès, Paris, ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
CHANGING FLIES
By Levon West
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEVON WEST (1900 – 1968)
CHANGING FLIES c. 1930
Etching and drypoint, signed in pencil and no. 28. Image, 13 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches, sheet 17 1/4 x 11 5/8 full margins with deckle edge...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Lady Washington's Levee - 1932 Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Lady Washington's Levee - 1932 Etching on Paper
1932 black and white etching titled "Lady Washington's Levee" (from the portfolio "The Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington"), 1...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
$760 Sale Price
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Ex Libris - Nina Tosi - Woodcut by Michel Fingesten - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Nina Tosi is a woodcut print created by Michel Fingesten.
Hand Signed on the lower right margin.
Good conditions.
Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech painter a...
Category
Symbolist 1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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