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Period: 1950s
Calder, Composition, A Bestiary (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Letterpress printing on spécialement fabriqué Curtis Rag vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.1875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, A Best...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Giacometti, Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 7 (double) Juin 1956,...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
No title
Located in Paris, FR
Stencil
The work signed in the plate
20.50 cm. x 32.50 cm. 8.07 in. x 12.8 in. (image)
41.00 cm. x 52.00 cm. 16.14 in. x 20.47 in. (frame)
LCD5582
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1950s Figurative Prints
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Stencil
La famille du saltimbanque (B. 753; M. 249)
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO
Spanish, 1881 - 1973
La famille du saltimbanque (B. 753; M. 249)
signed in black ink "Picasso" (lower right)
numbered in pencil "5/50" (lower left)
lithograph on Arches...
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1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 6 (double) J...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Giacometti, Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 3 (double) Juin 1952,...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 5 (double)...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 5 (double) Juin 1955,...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 19.3 inches, with centerfold and stitch perforations, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 2 (double) Janvier 19...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Forme (Arntz 326), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Arntz, Wilhelm F., and Jean Arp. Hans (Jean...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cavalli e cavalieri in piedi, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 1, Cahiers d'Art publ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition, La Comédie Humaine, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
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. Notes: From the album, La Comédie Humaine, Suite d...
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Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Giacometti, Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 19.3 inches, with centerfold and stitch perforations, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album,...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Giacometti, Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 3 (double) Juin 1952,...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chien aboyant à la lune (Mourlot 189), Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 20.50 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue r...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition, La Comédie Humaine, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, La Comédie Humaine, Suite d...
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Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Astres et Danseurs (Derriere le Miroir: 10 Ans d'Edition)
By Joan Miró
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Joan Miro
Title: Astres et Danseurs
Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir: 10 Ans d'Edition
Medium: Etching with aquatint printed in colors
Date: 1956
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size:...
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Abstract 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Percy Drake Brookshaw Linocut of Marching Band Brugge (on blue) Brugges Belgium
Located in London, GB
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Percy Drake Brookshaw (1907-1993)
Marching Ban...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Linocut
La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and s...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Renoir, Ambroise Vollard, Les Lithographies de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage filigrané à la marque de l'éditeur paper.
Year: 1951
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches; image size: 10.63 x 8.27 inches
Inscription: Signed in th...
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
After Georges Braque - Antiborée - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph after Georges Braque.
Signed in the plate
Edition of 150
Dimensions: 76 x 117 cm
Bibliography:
« Les Métamorphoses de Braque» of Heger de Loewenfeld and Raphaël de Cuttoli , Editions FAC, Paris, 1989.
In 1961 Georges Braque decided with his laidary friend Heger de Loewenfeld to pick up certain of his works to in order to create artworks, this beautiful litograph is one of them.
Héméra in the Mythology:
In Greek mythology Hemera was the personification of day and one of the Greek primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebus and Nyx (the goddess of night). Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero's De Natura Deorum, where it is logically determined that Dies (Hemera) must be a god, if Uranus is a god. The poet Bacchylides states that Nyx and Chronos are the parents, but Hyginus in his preface to the Fabulae mentions Chaos as the mother/father and Nyx as her sister.
She was the female counterpart of her brother and consort, Aether (Light), but neither of them figured actively in myth or cult. Hyginus lists their children as Uranus, Gaia, and Thalassa (the primordial sea goddess), while Hesiod only lists Thalassa as their child.
The father of Cubism
Three Cubist that distinguishes art historian periods were initiated and developed by Georges Braque: The Cubist Cézanne (1907-1909), Executive (1909-1912) and synthetic (1912-1922).
Post-Impressionist and fawn, Braque no longer adheres to the contingency of a decorative way or the other. Cézanne’s paintings exhibited at the Grand Palais during the retrospective of 1907 are a revelation: Cézanne sought and invented a pictorial language. In his footsteps, Braque went to the South with the reasons of the Master. He returned with Estaque landscapes and surprising Ciotat it keeps Cezanne geometric model and retains the “passages” continuity from one surface to another to create the sensation of “turning around” of the object represented. But he wants to go after the consequences of the vision of Cezanne. In his paintings Houses in L’Estaque (1908) it simplifies the volumes of houses, neglects detail by removing doors and windows: the plastic rhythm that builds the table. Large Nude , a masterpiece of the period, can be considered the first work of Cézanne cubism .
Systematizing and deepening Braque discoveries open the door analytical cubism. In 1909, his painting became more cerebral than sensual. The pattern is recreated in the two-dimensionality of the canvas, leaving aside any illusionistic perspective. In Still Life with Violin, objects are analyzed facets according to their characteristic elements, each facet referring to a particular view of the object. There are so many facets of points selected view: Table reflects the knowledge of the object and the ubiquity of the eye. Moreover, Braque is looking for the essence of the objects in the world rather than their contingency, which explains the absence of light source and use of muted colors (gray, ocher), contingent aspects of the object . But formal logic has stepped facets, erased any anecdote to the object and ultimately led to his painting a hermetic more marked on the edge of abstraction (see the series of Castle Roche-Guyon ).
Braque, anxious to keep the concrete and refusing at all costs that the logic of Cubism takes the paintings to abstract, reintroduced signs of reality in his paintings in 1912 marks the beginning of Synthetic Cubism. Historians speak of “signs of real” rather than reality because what interests Braque, this is not to put reality into a table, but to create a painting which, by its language, refers to the real. To do this, he invented two major techniques XX th century inclusions and contributions. The inclusions consist of painting objects that have no real depth, materials (wallpaper in Nature morte aux playing cards faux wood is a pictorial inclusion) or letters (calligraphic inclusion in Portuguese ), made first brush and a few months later stencil. Contributions are defined in contrast with the collage on canvas of foreign materials: glued or sand paper, sawdust, etc.. Regarding the collages, Braque used for the first time in September 1912 a piece of adhesive paper imitating faux wood Compote...
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Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
de Vlaminck, La Maladrerie sous la neige, Vlaminck (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper.
Year: 1952
Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.25 inches; image size: 7.08 x 9.45 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
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Fauvist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall Moses III, from The Bible Lithographs 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Lithograph
Title: Moses III
Year: 1956
Portfolio: The Bible Lithographs 1956
Edition: 6500
Signed: No
Reference: Cramer 25, Mourlot 126
Framed Size: 22 1...
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1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Dierdre, Woodcut Print on Rice Paper by Leonard Baskin
Located in Long Island City, NY
This woodcut print was created by American artist Leonard Baskin. Baskin is well known for his somewhat grotesque, intricate, surreal drawings and natural subject matter. This print ...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Rice Paper, Woodcut
Nus Bleus VI, from 1958 The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Title: Nus Bleus VI
Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1958
Edition: 2000
Framed Size: 22" x 18"
Sheet Size: 14" x 10 1...
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1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Les Affiches De Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Filigrané a sa marque paper
Year: 1950
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches; image size: 11.02 x 7.87 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumber...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Calder, Composition, A Bestiary (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Letterpress printing on spécialement fabriqué Curtis Rag vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.1875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, A Best...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Madame M.P. La blouse roumaine, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, mounted on vélin paper backing sheet, as issued.
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 10.24 x 7.87 inches
Inscription: Signed in th...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Under the Fire Coat - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Under the Fire Coat - Original Lithograph
Signed "Jean" in the plate and dated 1954 in the plate.
Joseph Forêt Editions
Dimensions: 41 x 33 cm...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Kees van Dongen - Montmartre 1900 - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Kees van Dongen
Title: Montmartre 1900
Original Lithograph
Edition of 180
Dimensions: 39 x 30 cm
References: Juffermans JL 34
Information :
This lithograph was created for the portf...
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Picasso, Composition, La Comédie Humaine, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, La Comédie Humaine, Suite d...
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Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Calder, Composition, A Bestiary (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Letterpress printing on spécialement fabriqué Curtis Rag vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.1875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, A Best...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Don Quixote Galloping - Etching by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Don Quixote Galloping is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored Japanese paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951.
It belongs to a limited edition of 125 specimens.
Good c...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Don Quixote Galloping - Etching by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Don Quixote Galloping is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored Japanese paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951.
It belongs to a limited edition of 125 specimens.
Good c...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Don Quixote - Etching by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Don Quixote is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored Chinese paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951.
It belongs to a limited edition of 125 specimens.
Good conditions.
...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Entrance of Don Quixote - Etching by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
The Entrance of Don Quixote is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored China paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951.
They belong to a limited edition of 125 specimens.
Go...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Don Quixote on his Deathbed - Etching by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Don Quixote on his Deathbed is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored China paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951.
They belong to a limited edition of 125 specimens.
Go...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Renoir, Claude Renoir la tête baissée, Les Lithographies de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage filigrané à la marque de l'éditeur paper.
Year: 1951
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches; image size: 10.24 x 8.27 inches
Inscription: Signed in th...
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Broken Carousel' — Mid-Century American Symbolism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Broken Carousel', color lithograph, 1950, edition 35, Fine and Looney 285. Signed, titled, and numbered '18/35' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked ...
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American Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Danseuse Créole
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952
From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54'
Pr...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miró, Serie V (Cramer 36), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching from cuivre rayé après tirage on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches; image size: 5.91 x 4.92 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné ...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Nus Bleus V
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Title: Nus Bleus V
Portfolio: 1958 The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1958
Edition: 2000
Frame Size: 22" x 18"
Sheet Size: 14" x 1...
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1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L'Ecuyère (Cramer 26; Mourlot 153), Derrière le miroir
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall,...
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Expressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La femme au miroir (Cramer 35; Mourlot 242), Derrière le miroir
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, ...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - King Oedipus - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - King Oedipus - Original Lithograph
1956
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 66 x 50 cm
Provenance : Succession Dermit, Cocteau's heir
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SNAPSHOT
Located in Portland, ME
Frasconi, Antonio. SNAPSHOT. Cleveland 165. Woodcut in colors, 1950. Edition of 10. Titled, inscribed "Ed 4/10" and signed and dated in pencil. 22 1/4 x 14 15/16 inches in an oval fo...
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1950s Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Marc Chagall - Moses - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours
Year: 1956
Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet)
Published by: Éditions de la Revue Verve, Tériade, Paris
Printed by: Atelier Mourlot, Paris
Documentation / References: Mourlot, F., Chagall Lithograph [II] 1957-1962, A. Sauret, Monte Carlo 1963, nos. 234 and 257
Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985.
The Village
Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work.
At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well.
Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged.
The Beehive
Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period.
Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come.
War, Peace and Revolution
In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos.
To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia.
In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L'Eglise Saint Pierre de Montmartre - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Maurice Utrillo
Title: L'Eglise Saint Pierre de Montmartre
Pochoir with printed signature
Edition of 550
Dimensions: 39 x 32 cm
Information : This print was created for the portfolio "Le Village inspiré, Chronique de la bohème de Montmartre (1920-1950) " published by Vertex in 1950
Condition : Excellent
Maurice Utrillo (1883 - 1955)
The French painter Maurice Utrillo was born as the illegitimate son of the painter Suzanne Valladon in Paris on December 26, 1883. He was adopted by the Catalan art critic Miguel Utrillo...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Big Fish- Linocut by Mino Maccari - 1951
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Big Fish is a Linocut Print realized by Mino Maccari in 1951.
Very Good condition.
No Signature.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian writer, painte...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Siren - Linocut by Mino Maccari - 1951
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Siren is a Linocut Print realized by Mino Maccari in 1951.
Not signed, very good condition.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian writer, painter, engraver and journalist, winner...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Linocut
Original ceramic pendant " Vé et Astrology "
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 )
Vé and Astrology ceramic's pendant :
Vé : signed underneath White 1ere variant
( Terre blanche en relief ). page 212
Size: 7 x5.5 cm
catalogue rai...
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Art Deco 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Ceramic
Renoir, Le chapeau épinglé, état du noir, Les Lithographies de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage filigrané à la marque de l'éditeur paper.
Year: 1951
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.02 x 8.66 inches
Inscription: Signed in th...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - Colorful Bible - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours
Year: 1956
Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet)
Published by: Édit...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original French MCM Modernist Signed Abstract Lithograph Fernand Leger 1952
Located in Portland, OR
Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
Femme sur fond jaune (Woman Against Yellow Background), 1952
Created in 1952, this original color lithograph is hand signed in ink by Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) in the lower right margin. Printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris out of the total edition of 150 unnumbered proofs on Arches wove paper. We at Bloomsbury Fine Art & Antiques can...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Jean Cocteau - Angel - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Angel - Original Handcolored Lithograph
Signed in the plate
Stampsigned
Handcolored in pencil.
Edition : /XXV
Dimensions: 47.5 x...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eiffel Tower in Green
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Eiffel Tower in Green
Original Lithograph from 1957.
Dimensions of work: 23 x 20 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
The work is in Excellent conditi...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph