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Period: 1950s
Original "New England American Airlines" vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original New England American Airlines vintage travel poster. Size 30” x 40”. Archival linen backed, untrimmed, A condition.
This original vintage poster from the 1950s captures the essence of New England and American Airlines flights to the region. Designed by Bern Hill...
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American Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Original Kaffee-Rahm, Swiss vintage coffee poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Swiss Kaffee Rahm Pilatus ; Swiss coffee cream poster. Linen backed. The coffee-colored woman poises with a coffee cup on her head, pouring s...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Ruiz Picasso Spanish signed limited edition original art print lithograph
Located in Miami, FL
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
'Paloma', 1952
lithograph on paper Velin Arches 250 g.
26 x 19.9 in. (66 x 50.5 cm.)
Edition of 50
Unframed
ID: PIC2001-001
Hand-signed by autho...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Pablo Picasso - La Petite Corrida - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Original Lithograph
La Petite Corrida (The Small Bullfight)
1958
Edition of 2000, unsigned
Published in the journal XXe Siecle
Dimens...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Henri Matisse (after) Nus Bleus II
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Title: Nus Bleus II
Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1958
Edition: 2000
Framed Size: 22" x 18"
Sheet Size: 14" x 10 ...
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1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
MARKET IN ERONGARICUARO
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MORTON DIMONDSTEIN (NY 1920 - LA 2000)
MARKET IN ERONGARICUARO 1954
Serigraph, silkscreen. Signed titled and dated in pencil. Image 10 ¼ x 25 ½ inches. Large full sheet 17 1/4 x 30...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Original Holiday Come to Belgium by Dover Ostend vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Holiday, Come to Belgium vy Dover Ostend vintage travel poster.
Conservation linen backed in A condition ready to frame. Printer: Cocu & Mairesse, Quaregnon.
An adorable...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Salisbury British Railways vintage travel poster 1952
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Salisbury where history lingers vintage poster. Visit of King Charles II, 1651. See Britain by Train. Artist: Claude Henry Buckle. Lithograph printed in 1952 by Jor...
Category
Gothic 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
after Henri Matisse - Acrobat
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri Matisse - Acrobat
Edition of 200
with the printed signature, as issued
76 x 56
With stamp of the Succession Matisse
References : Artvalue - Succession Matisse
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Bruxelles Foire Internationale vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original linen-backed Bruxelles (Brussels) Foire Internationale oversize vintage travel poster. The poster features the most famous Grand Pal...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Temple - Woodcut Print After Mizuno Toshikata - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The temple is an artwork realized by Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908).
Woodcut print, early 20th Century.
33 x 43 cm with frame.
Good conditions
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
MARC CHAGALL "THE VISION OF EZEKIEL - 1956" ETCHING WITH WATERCOLOR
By Marc Chagall
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Marc Chagall, 1887-1985 (Russian, French)
The Vision of Ezekiel - 1956, From bible 1931-1939, 1952 - 1958
Etching with watercolor
signed lower right, numbered '52/100' lower left
Printed by Tariade
DIMENSIONS: Image H: 16.12" W: 12.37", & Frame H: 23.37" W: 19.62"
Condition: Excellent
A certificate of Authenticity is included.
After Chagall completed his etchings for The Fables (1930), Vollard again offered Chagall a commission, this time for a set of etchings illustrating themes from the Bible. Chagall went to Palestine to get a sense of the land itself. Returning to Paris, he began work on the 105 etchings for this project, first between 1931 and 1939 (when the first sixty-five etchings were executed and printed) and then between 1952 and 1956 (when the remaining forty etchings were completed and printed). Meyer Schapiro, the noted art historian, observed that Chagall was the ideal artist to have undertaken the task of illustrating the Bible: "Chagall was prepared for this achievement by his permanent receptivity of mind. He is a rare modern painter whose art has been accessible to the full range of his emotions and thoughts. . . . He has represented themes of an older tradition not in a spirit of curiosity or artifice, but with a noble devotion. . . . Although these etchings are marvels of patient, scrupulous craftsmanship, there is no assertion here of skill or technical research, but an immersion in a subject which the artist convinces us often equals or transcends value in the work of art . . . In almost every image we experience the precise note of his emotion, his awe or sadness or joy, which is voiced in the melody of shapes and the tonal scale peculiar to each conception. If we had nothing of Chagall but his Bible, he would be for us a great modern artist."
Most of the etchings for The Bible were executed by Chagall between 1931 and 1939; the last pieces were completed between 1952 and 1956. The Bible was issued in an edition of 275 signed and numbered portfolios and 20 portfolios hors commerce. There are also 100 sets of the etchings with hand-coloring on paper with large margins, each of which is numbered lower left and initialed in pencil by Chagall lower right. References: Marc Chagall: Druckgraphische Folgen 1922-1966. Verzeichnis der Bestande (Hannover: Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammling Sprengel, 1981); Charles Sorlier, Marc Chagall et...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Web
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Web
Engraving and soft ground, 1950
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by the artist
Edition: 35 (26/35)
Printed by Master Printer, Jon Clemens, 2000
Provenance:
Estate of the ar...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Westermann and Kapsalis Sculpture at Four Fourteen Art Center Poster
By HC Westermann
Located in New York, NY
H.C. Westermann, Thomas Kapsalis
Rare artist designed early poster: Westermann and Kapsalis Sculpture at Four Fourteen Art Center and Gallery Chicago, 1957
Historic offset lithograph poster designed by both artists
Not signed
17 × 22 inches
Unframed
This extremely rare poster on handmade paper was published for the Tom Kapsalis/H.C. Westermann sculpture exhibition at 414 Art Workshop and Gallery, Chicago Momentum, 1020 Art Center, Chicago in December 1957. The poster was hand designed by both artists, with each one designing his respective half for a cohesive whole, for an exhibition at a small, now defunct regional art center in the late fifties -- so it's not unreasonable to believe that there just aren't too many of these out there anymore. A must have for anyone seriously involved in the careers and legacies of each or both of these sculptors.
About H.C. Westermann:
American artist Horace Clifford Westermann (Los Angeles, 1922 – Danbury, 1981) assembled a distinctive and singular body of sculptures. His works were predominantly made from wood through his masterly command of carpentry and cabinetmaking, yet he also used other techniques and materials such as metal, glass and enamelling with incredible precision. Without adhering to one particular style, Westermann was a maker of objects, of separate pieces: his sculptures, laden with meaning, often irony, result from the processing of experience, coalescing to yield specific fragments of reality.
It is the course of these fragments that the retrospective presented by the Museo Reina Sofía follows. A concern with going back to shelter would soon emerge, be it in the home or the body —and blighted by the threat of confinement and death. Also, stubborn or helpless figures would recur through Westermann’s oeuvre. The motif of the “death ship” runs right through the breadth of his production as well, pointing, on one side, to continued wandering and latent abandonment and, on the other, to a determined pursue of refuge which seems to hold firm across his work.
At the turning point of the 1960s, Westermann’s sculptures drew from mass culture, and made part of several exhibitions of the new realisms, when the “cold” tag of Pop art had not yet fully taken shape. The exhibition presents this output and the “specificity” of Westermann’s objects, which interested Donald Judd in 1963. In later pieces his work increasingly deals with the absurd, either through playfulness with language, in the confusion between work and instrument, or with references to the impermanent
Besides the sculptures, the show displays Westermann’s paintings, letter-drawings —in his correspondence with other artists, critics and friends— and series of prints, in which he applied vibrant colours to address themes such as an escapist, while critical depiction of the American scene; catastrophe, and fragility.
A graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954, Horace Clifford Westermann produced most of his work from a small town in Connecticut, where he settled in 1961. He regularly exhibited his work in New York, and occasionally in Chicago and on the West Coast.
Courtesy of Venus Over Manhattan
About Tom Kapsalis:
One of Chicago’s great abstractionists, painter Thomas H. Kapsalis (born 1922) has been an important artist and educator since the late ’40s, when he graduated from the School of the Art Institute. A prisoner of war in Germany, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, Kapsalis returned to continue his pursuit of art-making, eventually returning to Germany in the early ’50s on a Fullbright-Hays Fellowship to study with Willi Baumeister. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute since 1954, and his work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows. Among the honors bestowed upon Kapsalis are Huntington Harford Foundation Grants (1956, 1959); Robert Rice Jenkins Prize, Chicago & Vicinity Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago (1956); Pauline Palmer Prize, Chicago & Vicinity Exhibition, AIC (1960); Mr. & Mrs. Julie F. Brower Prize, Chicago & Vicinity Exhibition, AIC (1969).
Courtesy of Corbett vs...
Category
Abstract 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
THREE PILLOWS
Located in Portland, ME
Toledo, Francisco.(Mexican, 1940-2019). THREE PILLOWS Woodcut, 1956. Signed and dated in pencil. 18 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches, framed to 27 x 35 1/8 inches. In ...
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1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Picasso. Oeuvres de 1900 a 1914. Oeuvres de musees Handwritten Signature
Located in Pasadena, CA
Pablo PICASSO Catalog
Picasso. Oeuvres des musées de Leningrad et de Moscou 1900-1914
Maison de la Pensée Française, Paris 1954, 15,5x22 cm, broché.
First edition of this exhibitio...
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Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Black and White
Le Messager Sidéral - Etching by Pierre-Yves Trémois - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Le Messager Sidéral is an etching on paper, realized in 1955 by the French artist Pierre-Yves Trémois (Paris, 1921).
From Edition of 140 copies of the Suite "Cynégétique", includi...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Cinq Poésies en Hommage à Georges Braque (Five Poems in Homage to Georges Braque
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Georges Braque Cinq Poésies en Hommage à Georges Braque (Five Poems in Homage to Georges Braque), 1958 is the image Braque designed for the cover of a book containing five poems by R...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Homo Universalis - Etching by Pierre-Yves Trémois - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Homo Universalis is an etching on paper, realized in 1955 by the French artist Pierre-Yves Trémois (Paris, 1921).
From Edition of 140 copies of the Book "Cynégétique", including 3...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Robert Bonfils French Market
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Bonfils: 1886-1972. Well listed French artist with auction results for posters and prints over $8000. This fabulously busy etching measures 12 1/2 inches wide by 9 high. It is...
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Realist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Harmonies - Platonism - Etching by Pierre-Yves Trémois - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Harmonies - Platonism is an etching on paper, realized in 1955 by the French artist Pierre-Yves Trémois (Paris, 1921).
From Edition of 140 copies of the Suite "Cynégétique".
Intro...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Fiat Lux- Etching by Pierre-Yves Trémois - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Fiat Lux is an etching on paper, realized in 1955 by the French artist Pierre-Yves Trémois (Paris, 1921).
From Edition of 140 copies of the Suite "Cynégétique".
Introduction by Mar...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Don Quixote
By Ernest Freed
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ERNEST FREED (1908 – 1974)
DON QUIXOTE 1956
Color intaglio, Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Image, 14 ¾ x 8 3/4 sheet, 16 1/2 x 10 ¼ inches. In good condition.
The following i...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Intaglio
A Feeding Woman - Etching by Suzanne Tourte - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
A feeding woman is an artwork realized by Suzanne Tourte in 1950s.
Etching, 22 x 13 cm.
Artist's proof.
Hand signed on the right left.
Good conditi...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Copernic and Kepler - Etching by Pierre-Yves Trémois - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Alchimie du Monde is an etching on paper, realized in 1955 by the French artist Pierre-Yves Trémois (Paris, 1921).
From Edition of 140 copies of the Suite "Cynégétique".
Introduct...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Torero
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Toreros seek to elicit inspiration and art from their work. Their intentions are not to deliberately cause harm the bull, but create an emotional connection with the crowd through th...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Newton - Laplace - Etching by Pierre-Yves Trémois - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Newton - Laplace is an etching on paper, realized in 1955 by the French artist Pierre-Yves Trémois (Paris, 1921).
From Edition of 140 copies of the Suite "Cynégétique", including ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jeune Fille au Chat
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 220. Signed and inscribed "E.A." in pencil by Foujita. Printed by the Guilde de la Gravure,...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
(after) Vieira da Silva - 1956 pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the painting). Issued for XXe Siecle (No. 7) and printed by Daniel Jacomet. Published in Paris by San Lazzaro in 1956. Sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (313 x...
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1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mayan Trio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mayan Trio
Lithograph, 1950
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition 250 for Associated American Artists
Publsihed 1950
Reference: AAA Cat.: 1950‑05; 1958‑01
AAA Index 1087
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 x 9 1/2 inches
Francisco Dosamantes (b. October 4, 1911 - d. July 18.1986) was a Mexican artist and educator who is best known for is educational illustrations and graphic work against fascism. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Life
Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. He was not registered into the civil registry until he was about twenty years old on March 6, 1939. His mother’s name is not listed on the certificate. As a child, he demonstrated a strong interest in drawing and color, influenced by his father and his uncle Juan. The Mexican Revolution occurred while he was a young child and he stated that he remembered events such as soldiers on horses charging as well as the execution of rural farm workers.
He attended primary and high school in Mexico City but stated that his education was irregular and deficient. He then entered the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, where he studied for five years. Initially, however, he was disappointed with the inexperience of the young professors and he left for a short time to study on his own. During this time, some of the dissatisfied professors organized the 30 30 group against the academic system of the school and which whom he sympathized. The effort gained the attention of established artists such as Diego Rivera who intervened.
He died on Mexico City on July 18, 1986
Career
After he graduated, he worked with the cultural missions of the Secretaría de Educación Pública in Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Colima, Coahuila and Chihuahua (state) from 1932 to 1937 then again from 1941 to 1945. He stated that this experience was vital to his conscience as he worked with rural farm workers and others he stated were worthy of dignity and respect, but victims of deceit and exploitation. When he returned to Mexico City, he gave classes in high schools from 1937 to 1941. In 1945 he founded and directed the Taller Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura “Joaquín Claussell” in Campeche, Campeche.
Dosamantes was a politically and culturally active artist with most of his work and affiliations related to such. He was a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios from 1934 to 1938. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, serving as administrator in 1940 and remaining a member until his death except for one short hiatus. He created posters for conferences about fascism and Nazism such as Alemania bajo bayonetas (Germany under bayonets) in 1938. In 1940 he became the secretary general of the Sindicato de Maestros de Artes Plásticas. He was also a member of the Sociedad para el Impulso de las Artes Plásticas en 1948, a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1949 and a member of the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas from 1952.
He painted a number of murals in rural areas of Mexico generally when he was there on cultural missions. His main mural is at the former home of José María Morelos in Carácuaro, Michoacán, but there are a number at various rural schools. These were all painted between 1941 and 1946.
As a book illustrator he mostly worked for the Secretaría de Educación Pública working on books for literacy campaigns.
He exhibited his works, which included engravings, oils, tempuras and lithographs in Mexico and abroad. His first individual exhibition was in 1930 at the Galeria de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. His major exhibitions include the Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1932, various exhibitions in New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in 1937; the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Missouri in late 1947, and the Gallery of Mexican Art in...
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American Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Atelier Mourlot.
SIGNATURE : printed in the image
LIMITED : 197 copies.
SIZE : 64.5...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original 'Bundesbahn durch das Gastliches Deutschland' vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Linen-backed original German / Germany culinary map in excellent condition. MIT DER DEUTSCHEN BUNDESBAHN DURCH DAS GASTLICHE DEUTSCHLAND. Mit der Deutschen Bundesbahn durch das Gastliche Deutschland (With Deutsche Bundesbahn through Hospitable Germany).
A map of Germany showing all the food and wine features in various regions and cities. If you go to Germany and want to find the origins of foods, this will lead you to the correct city. From wine, bread, fish, cookies, spat, prezels, pork, bier, french...
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American Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Oiseau dans son nid (Bird in its Nest) from Août (August)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Braque Oiseau dans son nid (Bird in its Nest) from Août (August), 1958 is an exquisite work that revisits Braque’s beloved bird motif. Beautifully inspir...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Shepherdess and Lamb - Lithograph and Charcoal stencil
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre Auguste RENOIR (after)
Shepherdess and lamb
Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet process)
Printed signature in the plate
On paper mounted on vellum 45 x 34 cm (c. 18 x 13 inch)
E...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph, Stencil
PLATE IX (FROM LA BAGUE D'AURORE SUITE)
By Joan Miró
Located in Aventura, FL
Plate IX from Suite La Bague d'aurore (The Ring of Dawn Suite). Aquatint in colours, on BFK Rives paper, with full margins. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size 4.5 x 5...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Henri Matisse (after) Danseuse Creole
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Title: Danseuse Creole
Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1958
Edition: 2000
Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 17"
Sheet Size: 14" ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Midnight Madness - Witches on Night Flight
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering female illustrator Gwenda Morgan creates an exuberantly complex image of a squad of broom-riding - pointed-hatted witches with black cats in tow. They fly through an inky black moonlit sky and are witnessed by only a rooftop owl. With the simple means of black and white, Morgan has rendered a highly charged composition that pluses with electricity. The whole image is on the cusp of being abstract while being representational. It is brilliantly designed with great attention to detail and is evocative of a sorcerer's malignant powers. Unframed. not signed
Printed from the original block as part of the suite of 8 prints that accompanied the limited edition book Diary of a Land Girl, Whittington Press, 2000. The suite of prints was included with the first 50 copies of the book, and a further 8 suites were printed, from which this print comes.
Gwenda Morgan (1 February 1908 – 1991) was a British wood engraver. She lived in the town of Petworth in West Sussex.
Early life
Morgan was born in Petworth, her father having moved there to work at the ironmongers, Austen & Co, of which he later became proprietor. He was the son of a Welsh-born military farrier.
Education
Following school in Petworth and at Brighton and Hove High School, Morgan, studied at Goldsmiths' College of Art in London from 1926. From 1930 she attended the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in Pimlico where she was taught and strongly influenced by the principal, Iain Macnab. The Grosvenor School was a progressive art school and the championing of wood engraving and linocuts fitted with its democratic approach to the arts.
Works
Morgan was commissioned to illustrate a number of books published by private presses. For the Samson Press she produced the frontispiece for Duke Hamilton...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Apres Ski Time 1951 Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski Time 1951
Skiers on the terrace of a resaurant, Skihous Schwendi in Klosters, Switzerland, 1951.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Archival pigm...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
La Perruch et la Sirene
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Title: La Perruch et la Sirene
Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1958
Edition: 2000
Sheet Size: 14" x 30 3/4"
Signatur...
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Abstract 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Place de la Concorde
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Lithograph
Title: Place de la Concorde
Portfolio: Verve Vol VII No. 27-28
Year: 1953
Edition: 6000
Signed: No
Framed ...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
On Tips - Etching by Suzanne Tourte - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
On tips is an artwork realized by Suzanne Tourte in 1951.
Etching, 33 x 24 cm.
Hand signed and dated in the right left.
Good conditions, exept some ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original "Holiday on Ice of 1957" vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Holiday on Ice of 1957 linen-backed vintage poster. Size is 22” x 28”.
Excellent condition, ready to frame. Rarely seen and rarely available. Mid-century modern, over ...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Still Life with Fruits - Original Lithograph
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, FR
Raoul DUFY
Still Life with Fruits, 1953
Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor
With printed signature in the plate
On Arches vellum
28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch)
Excellent cond...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Red Rider - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
The Red Rider
From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle
1957
See Mourlot 191
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
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 Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good.
Flight
After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research.
Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion.
With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way.
Haunted Harbors
Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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Located in Washington Depot,, CT
Marc Chagall
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color lithograph
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$ 29,000.00 USD
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Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
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Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Detruit.
SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali.
LIMITED : 233 copies.
SIZE : 41 x 33 cm
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
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