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Period: 1940s
Surrealist Portrait - Original Etching (Plate signature), 1946
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Cocteau
Surrealist Portrait, 1946
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On BFK Rives vellum, 32,5 x 25 cm (c. 12,7 x 9,8 inch)
Edition limited to 300 copies (unnumber...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
1945 Mexican Modernist Silkscreen Serigraph Print Regional Folk Art Dress Mexico
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is for the one Silkscreen serigraph piece listed here.
Mexico City, 1945. First edition. plate signed, limited edition of 1000, these serigraph plates depict various types of traditional and folk art indigenous clothing...
Category
Folk Art 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Still Life with Eleven Objetcs in a Sphere - Etching by Giorgio Morandi - 1942
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with eleven objetcs in a sphere (Original Italian title: Natura morta in un tondo) is an etching realized by Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) in 1942.
Hand numbered Edition 5...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Rettung - Original Lithograph by Alfred Kubin - 1944
By Alfred Kubin
Located in Roma, IT
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist who has died requires a licence for export regardless of t...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$612 Sale Price
25% Off
Apparition, Surrealist Lithograph by André Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Apparition pour les poèmes de Emily Brontë, Year: circa 1945, Medium: Lithograph on thin wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Angel and Harmony', Art Deco Lithograph, Woman Artist, Salon d'Automne, Paris
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A mid-century, stone lithograph titled 'Angel and Harmony' by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950), created in 1943 and with certification o...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Original "Bern Svizzera" blind scale of justice vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Bern - Switzerland. Artist: Leutenegger. Year: 1941. Archival linen backed with some minor wear. B condition
The name of this statue is also known as Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen.
The blind scales of justice...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition (Ginestet/Pouillon 65-72), Jacques Villon, Huit lithographies
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Signed in pencil and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Jacques Villon, Huit Lithographies Originales, 1962. Published ...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$5,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, The Basket, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings, 1946. Published by Pantheon Books, Inc., ...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$3,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Intimate Circumstance - Linocut on Paper by Jean Barbe / Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Intimate circumstance is a beautiful black and white linocut on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by the Italian artist, Mino Maccari.
Hand-signed with the pseudonym "Jean Barbe...
Category
1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Kollwitz, Self-Portrait (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Kathe Kollwitz, Ten Lithographs. Published by Henry C. Kleemann and...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Patitcha
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Patitcha
1947
Aquatint on BFK Rives paper, Edition of 25
Paper size: 55.5 x 38 cms (22 x 15 ins)
Image size: 34.9 x 27.6 cm (13 3/4 x 10 7/8 ins)
HM15405
Selected Coll...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
$100,000
Matisse, Série L, var. 19 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$6,796 Sale Price
20% Off
Cathedral - Lithograph by F. Gentilini
Located in Roma, IT
Cattedrale is an original lithograph realized by Franco Gentilini between 1940 and 1950. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin; "prova dell'artista", artist's proof. Perfec...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$315 Sale Price
25% Off
Matisse, Série P, var. 1 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
IMMIGRANT FAMILY
By Ben Shahn
Located in Portland, ME
Shahn, Ben. IMMIGRANT FAMILY. Serigraph, 1941. Prescott 2. Edition size unknown; Prescott knew of only 3. This copy unsigned. 11 1/2 x 18 inches (image), 19 1/4 x 25 1/4 (sheet), framed to 23 x 28 1/4 inches. This was only the second print made by Shahn, and the first serigraph, a medium in which he continued to use for his prints throughout his career. Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, with its label, George Krevsky Gallery...
Category
1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Blessed are the merciful / - The support of care -
Located in Berlin, DE
Nehmer, Rudolf (1912-1983), Blessed are the merciful, 1948
Rudolf Nehmer (1912 Bobersberg - 1983 Dresden), Blessed are the merciful, 1948. Woodcut on yellowish wove paper, 18.8 cm x ...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Les Deux Anges
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this lithograph with strong colors. Second state (of 2). Signed and numbered 19/160 in pencil, lower left.
Category
Cubist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Mythological Beauty - Original etching, 1943
Located in Paris, IDF
Jacques BOULLAIRE
Mythological Beauty
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Arches vellum 30 x 25 cm (c. 12 x 10 inch)
Printed in Haasen workshop in 1943
Excellent con...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
1945 Mexican Modernist Silkscreen Serigraph Print Regional Folk Art Dress Mexico
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is for the one Silkscreen serigraph piece listed here.
Mexico City, 1945. First edition. plate signed, limited edition of 1000, these serigraph plates depict various types of traditional and folk art indigenous clothing...
Category
Folk Art 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Gauguin, Offerings of Gratitude (Maruru), Gauguin (after)
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin Utopian paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Gauguin, A portfolio of 12 color woodblocks, Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903 from the collection of the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946. Rendered by Albert Carman (1899-1949); published the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston and The Studio Publications, Inc., New York and London; printed by Holme Press Inc., New York, in an edition of MMMD. Excerpted from the folio, Paul Gauguin and Emil Bernard at Pont-Aven, Brittany, in 1888, each made a bas-relief, wooden panel to decorate a piece of furniture for a friend. In order to keep a record of their designs, a few inked impressions were made on paper. The illustration at left is a reproduction of a print which is possibly one of the above mentioned. It is further possible that this experiment later gave Gauguin the idea of making woodcuts. Just as his work in painting expressed a revolt against the overemphasis on factual representation of the nineteenth century in favor of decorative pattern and color, so also his woodcuts leaned strongly to the same side of the balance. Ten of the cuts reproduced (all excepting Soyez Amoureuses and Changement de Residence), which constitute the whole of his best known series, were made at Pont-Aven beginning in the fall of 1894, after Gauguin's return from his first trip to Tahiti and after he broke his ankle. They were at first roughly cut with a common carpenter's gouge, and the flat surfaces sandpapered and engraved with a sharp in-strument, perhaps an engraver's burin. A few trial proofs were printed in black ink only. Then the hollows were deepened with a woodcutter's gouge and highlights were added. An edition of thirty to fifty impressions of each subject, with the addition of color blocks (one, two or three), was made by Louis Roy...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches backing sheet, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Corres...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
44% Off
Joan Junyer Ballet Costume Design Print from "The Minotaur" 1947
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage Spanish lithographic print Measuring 19 x 23 inches overall and 14.5 x 18.5 image alone. In excellent original condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Gleizes, Composition, Du cubisme (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Drypoint on vélin du Lana Papiers Spéciaux pure rag paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Du Cubisme, 1947. Published by Compagnie Françai...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$6,716 Sale Price
20% Off
Nude and Mango - Original Lithograph On Paper by Alejandro Ramon - 1943
Located in Roma, IT
Nude and Mango is an original lithography artwork on ivory paper realized by Alejandro Ramon in 1943.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil, with dedication on the lower left.
T...
Category
1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bondage - Linocut on Paper by Jean Barbe / Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Bondage is a beautiful black and white linocut on paper, realized in 1945 by the Italian artist, Mino Maccari.
Hand-signed as "Jean Barbe" and numbered in pencil on lower margin. Ed...
Category
1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
$270 Sale Price
25% Off
Rembrandt, Composition, Rembrandt, Drawings from the Bible (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin Hamilton Kilmory paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Rembrandt, Drawings...
Category
Baroque 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Manet, Composition, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Foreign Affairs paper mounted on Foreign Affairs museum board, as issued . Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles, 1944. Published by Pantheon Books, New York; rendered and printed by Raymond and...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Orpheus - Drawing By Gustave Bourgogne - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Orpheus is an artwork realized by Gustave Bourgogne in the 1940s.
Pencil and watercolor, ink on paper.
Good conditions.
Gustave Bourgogne (1888-1968), a french painter born in 1888 in Veigné in Indre et Loire and died in Paris in 1968. He excelled in landscapes, still lifes and portraits and specialized in the abstract interpretation of great musical compositions.
In 1928, hearing the great carillon of the cathedral of Mechelen, he had the revelation of the correspondence of sounds and colors and began to reproduce in his paintings the impressions felt while listening to music, considering that painting is like music, the result of the same deep rhythm. In the company of Henri Valensi, Charles Blanc-Gatti and Vito Stracquadaini, Gustave Bourgogne published the Musicalism Manifesto in 1932 and created with them the Association of Musical Artists.
He exhibited his works at the first three salons of musical artists (which were held at the Renaissance Gallery) which were joined by, among others, Louise...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
$486 Sale Price
25% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Images de Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.24 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, I...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Images de Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.24 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, I...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Images de Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.24 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, I...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Images de Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.24 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, I...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Numerus Mensura Pondus - Original Lithograph by Felice Casorati - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Numerus Mensura Pondus is an original lithograph realized by the Italian artist Felice Casorati (1883-1963) in 1946.
Not signed. Title present on the same lithograph.
In very good ...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Renoir, L'arbre roux, Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches Johannot paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 15 x 10.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Seize ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Renoir, L'Estaque, Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches Johannot paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 10.75 x 15 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Seize ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, TLautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1946
Paper Size: 17 x 13 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, TLautrec, 1946. ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, TLautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1946
Paper Size: 17 x 13 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, TLautrec, 1946. ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Dance of the Skeletons - Original Lithograph by Carlo Carrà - 1944
By Carlo Carrà
Located in Roma, IT
Danza di Scheletri is an original Lithograph realized by Italian artist Carlo Carrà in 1944, signed in the plate, the edition of 55 copies, by La Conchigl...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,080 Sale Price
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Degas, Famille Cardinal, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.24 x 4.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
The Fire - Woodcut on Paper by Gu Yuan - 1947
By Gu Yuan
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 28 x 18 cm.
The Fire is an original artwork realized by Gu Yuan in 1947.
Original xylograph on watermarked paper.
Signed and dated in pencil on the lower right. ...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Degas, Dans l'Omnibus, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.5 x 7 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the vol...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
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Degas, Femme sortant du bain, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Degas, Devant la Cheminee, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 9.125 x 12.25 inches; image size: 6.5 x 9 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the vol...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Manet, Composition, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Foreign Affairs paper mounted on Foreign Affairs museum board, as issued . Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
My Parents - Lithograph by Alberto Savinio - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
My Parents is a modern artwork realized by Alberto Savinio in 1944-1947.
Black and white lithograph. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right.
Edition of 32 prints, this piece is a...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$2,161 Sale Price
25% Off
The Fieldman and Death / - Sowing and Harvest -
Located in Berlin, DE
Rudolf Nehmer (1912 Bobersberg - 1983 Dresden), The Fieldman and Death, around 1948. Woodcut on yellowish wove paper, 16.8 cm x 15.8 cm (depiction), 42 cm x 30 cm (sheet size), signe...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Mexican Babysitter, Folk Art Screenprint by Millard Sheets 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mexican Babysitter
Millard Owen Sheets, American (1907–1989)
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of AP
Image Size: 24 x 11 inches
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Rouault, Composition, Georges Rouault, Stella Vespertina (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin pur fil du Marais paper, archivally hinged on a vélin pur fil du Marais backing sheet, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Fro...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
'Judy & Jessica', Art Deco Lithograph, Woman Artist, Salon d'Automne, Paris, AIC
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A mid-century. stone lithograph titled 'Judy and Jessica' by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950), created in 1943 and with certification of authenticity stamped verso. A brigh...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Wings For Victory, original vintage Second World War poster
Located in London, GB
Wings for Victory -- The Sky's the Limit for Wartime Saving
Original vintage Second World War poster
Lithograph
50 x 37 cm
Dated to 1943
This 'Wings for Victory' poster was a prop...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Young Girl by the Window, Mid-century Portrait
By Ben Messick
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century portrait of a young girl by a window by acclaimed California artist Ben Messick (American, 1891-1981). Signed "Ben Messick" in plate, and in pencil in the lower right corner, by the estate. Presented in an off-white mat. Unframed. Paper size: 12"H x 12"W
The following is submitted by Jim Lafferty whose sources include the autobiography of the artist:
William Washington Messick married Sarah A. Bristow January 2,1889 and from this marriage a son, Benjamin Newton Messick was born on January 9, 1891 on a farm near Strafford, Missouri. His art talent was apparent from the time he was a child and later recognized by his commanding officer in World War I. He completed his training in Los Angeles at Chouinard in the late-1920s and is well-known for his Regionalist scenes and Modernist paintings. He was an instructor at Chouinard through the 1950s & influenced a generation of LA Modernists.
Little is recorded in his autobiography about Messick's life from his teen years and service during the War. He enrolled at Chouinard Institute in the Fall of 1925, and was given a three-year scholarship by Mrs. Chouinard. In 1925 he won a cash award at the Los Angeles County Fair for a group of pen and charcoal drawings done in the parks and streets of Los Angeles. These works give the appearance of being spontaneous and fluid.
In 1930 Messick left Chouinard as a full-time student and rented an apartment on West Eighth Street to use as a studio and living quarters. He had his own ideas on what he was trying to accomplish in art. "If you should ask what is the message of my drawings, I should say that they may explain themselves or may be just a technical exercise."
By the mid 1940s, Messick's position in the art world had been well established as a teacher, painter, printmaker, writer and critic. Over his life time he had over 400 shows and exhibitions. Starting in 1939 he produced a number of stone lithographs that appear to the untrained eye as original drawings. To Messick the image was the most important aspect of his lithographs, and his signature in the plate was sufficient. Hand signing each lithograph did not seem necessary to him. He exhibited prints widely including the Albany Print Club and the Metropolitian Museum.
To further substantiate the authenticity of Messick's prints the Eclectic Gallery under the authority of the Messick family posthumously pencil signed each estate-acquired stone lithograph.
Messick had a childhood fascination with the circus and started drawing and painting the circus in 1935. His circus work, especially his clown studies, and his lithographs became his trademark work for in the 1940s and 1950s. A critic for ART REVIEW described his Big Top work this way: "His circus canvases...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink
$575 Sale Price
23% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Raoul Dufy - Church - Original Etching
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Raoul Dufy - Church - Original Etching
Dimensions: 13 x 10".
Edition of 200
1940
Edition Les Bibliophiles du Palais, Paris
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Zero Hour / - After the End of the World -
Located in Berlin, DE
Rudolf Nehmer (1912 Bobersberg - 1983 Dresden), The Zero Hour, 1948. Woodcut on yellowish wove paper, 20 cm x 14.8 cm (image), 43 cm x 30 cm (sheet size), signed “Rud.[olf] Nehmer” i...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Composition (Duthuit 108), Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Matisse, Henri, et a...
Category
Fauvist 1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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