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Period: 1950s
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso
The Human Comedy - Lithograph after an original drawing, as published in the journal "Verve"
Printed signature and date
Dimensions: 32...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso
The Human Comedy - Lithograph after an original drawing, as published in the journal "Verve"
Printed signature and date
Dimensi...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sitting Woman - Original Lithograph by P. Borra - 1950s
By Pompeo Borra
Located in Roma, IT
Sitting Woman is a beautiful black and white lithograph on the ivory-colored paper, realized in the Fifties by the Italian artist, Pompeo Borra (Milan, 1898-1973).
Hand-signed in pe...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso (after) Helene Chez Archimede - Wood Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after)
Helene Chez Archimede
Medium: engraved on wood by Georges Aubert
Dimensions: 44 x 33 cm
Portfolio: Helen Chez Archimede
Year: 1955
Edition: 240 (Here it is on...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
CIEL GRIS II
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed & numbered by the artist. Lithograph in colors on Rives paper. HC edition. Sheet size 19 x 13 inches. Image size 8.75 x 3.5 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Maeght...
Category
Abstract 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"Carrot Harvest" Etching with Aquatint, circa 1955 by Manuel Robbe
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Manuel Robbe, French (1872 - 1936)
Title: Carrot Harvest
Year: circa 1955
Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed in pencil
Image Size: 17.5 x 23 inches
Size: 24 x 28.5 inches
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
The Messenger - Original lithograph, Mourlot 1950
By André Derain
Located in Paris, FR
André DERAIN (1880-1954)
The Messenger, 1950
Original lithograph (MOURLOT workshop)
Signed with the artist's stamp
On vellum 26 x 18 cm (c. 10.2 x 7 inches)
Excellent condition
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adam and Eve, 1951, Woodcut by Martin Barooshian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - )
Title: Adam and Eve
Year: 1951
Medium: Woodcut, signed in pencil
Edition: 30
Size: 12 x 18 inches
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Henri Matisse (After) - Plant - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Henri Matisse (After) - Plant - Lithograph
Published in the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle
1954
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Altana Romana - Original Etching by Luigi Bartolini - 1954
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 33.4 x 24.4 cm.
Altana Romana (Roman Roof Terrace) is an original masterpiece realized by the great Italian artist, poet, and engraver Luigi Bartolini in 1954.
Or...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Carnival of Nice : Battle of Flowers - Signed lithograph - 50ex
Located in Paris, FR
Jules CAVAILLES
Carnival of Nice : Battle of Flowers
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Limited / 50 copies
On vellum 97 x 63 cm (c. 33 x 25 in)
Excellent condition
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
after Jean Dubuffet - Flowers - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Jean Dubuffet - Flowers - Pochoir
1957
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Edition: G. di San Lazzaro.
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Pietro Consagra - Composition - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pietro Consagra - Composition - Original Etching
1959
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Liberté j’écris ton nom.
Located in New York, NY
Éluard, Paul. Liberté j’écris ton nom. Paris (Seghers), [1953].
Folding broadside (leporello), with continuous color silkscreen by Fernand Léger, integrated with text, extending th...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
JUGGLER
Located in Portland, ME
Marini, Marino. JUGGLER. San Lazzarro Etcing no 35. Etching, 1954.
Edition of 65, from the album of 23 etchings published by Crommelynck
in 1970. Numbered 62/65 and signed in pencil...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Two Artists of the Circus - Lithograph - Verve, Mourlot
Located in Paris, FR
(after) Pablo PICASSO
Untitled from Suite de 180 Dessins
Lithograph, 1954
With the blind stamp of the editor (Ed. Verve)
Size 28 x 37 cm (c. 11 x 14.6 inch)
A lithograph on wove pap...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Laguna di Venezia - Original Etching and Aquatint by Luigi Bartolini - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24.5 x 31.8 cm.
La laguna di Venezia (Il gondoliere) is an original artwork realized by Luigi Bartolini in 1951.
Etching and aquating on China paper applied.
Tit...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
François Desnoyer - Free Child - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
François Desnoyer - Free Child
Original Lithograph
Handsigned
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
François Desnoyer was a French visual artist who was born in ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Carousel" Blue Abstract Horse Serigraph
By Barbara Maples
Located in Houston, TX
Blue toned serigraph of a carousel with horses. The work is signed and numbered by the artist. It is not framed but comes with a white matte.
Artist Biography:
Barbara Maples...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
after Henri Laurens - Cubism - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri Laurens - Cubism - Pochoir
Published in the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle
1956
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Etudes de Figures dans les Paysages - Original Lithograph by François Ferogio
Located in Roma, IT
Etudes de figures dans les Paysages is an original artwork realized by François Ferogio in the mid-XIX century. Original lithograph on paper.
Titled on plate on the lower margin. "L...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Inspired Village of Montmartre - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Maurice Utrillo
Inspired Village of Montmartre
Pochoir with printed signature
Edition of 490
Dimensions: 39 x 30 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...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Pablo Picasso (after) Helene Chez Archimede - Wood Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after)
Helene Chez Archimede
Medium: engraved on wood by Georges Aubert
Dimensions: 44 x 33 cm
Portfolio: Helen Chez Archimede
Year: 1955
Edition: 240 (Here it is on...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Jean Cocteau - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Untitled Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
with the printed signature, as issued
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
Including artist's stamp
Jean Cocteau
Writer, artist and film director Je...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Painter with his Model - Litograph on Arches Vellum - Verve, Mourlot
Located in Paris, FR
(after) Pablo PICASSO
Painter with his Model
Lithograph, 1954
On Arches vellum
With the blind stamp of the editor (Ed. Verve)
Size 37 x 26.5 cm (c. 14.6 x 10.43 inch)
Litograph cre...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Domergue - Naked - Original Signed Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Title: Naked
Signed
Dimensions: 40 x 31 cm
1956
Edition of 197
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio "La Parisienne"
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
after Jean Dubuffet - Man - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Jean Dubuffet - Man - Pochoir
1956
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Edition: G. di San Lazzaro.
From the art review XXè siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Marc Chagall - The 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: 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 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...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bareback Act, Old Hippodrome
By Gifford Beal
Located in Missouri, MO
Gifford Beal (1879-1956)
"Bareback Act, Old Hippodome" 1950
Lithograph
Signed Lower Right
With original Associated American Artists label verso
image: 6 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (16.2 x 24.6 cm)
sheet: 12 x 16 in. (30.4 x 40.6 cm)
framed: 17 x 20 in.
Gifford Beal, painter, etcher, muralist, and teacher, was born in New York City in 1879. The son of landscape painter William Reynolds Beal, Gifford Beal began studying at William Merritt Chase's Shinnecock School of Art (the first established school of plein air painting in America) at the age of thirteen, when he accompanied his older brother, Reynolds, to summer classes. He remained a pupil of Chase's for ten years also studying with him in New York City at the artist's private studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building. Later at his father's behest, he attended Princeton University from 1896 to 1900 while still continuing his lessons with Chase. Upon graduation from Princeton he took classes at the Art Students' League, studying with impressionist landscape painter Henry Ward Ranger and Boston academic painter Frank Vincent DuMond. He ended up as President of the Art Students League for fourteen years, "a distinction unsurpassed by any other artist."
His student days were spent entirely in this country. "Given the opportunity to visit Paris en route to England in 1908, he chose to avoid it" he stated, "I didn't trust myself with the delightful life in ParisIt all sounded so fascinating and easy and loose." His subjects were predominately American, and it has been said stylistically "his art is completely American." Gifford achieved early recognition in the New York Art World.
He became an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1908 and was elected to full status of academician in 1914. He was known for garden parties, circuses, landscapes, streets, coasts, flowers and marines. This diversity in subject matter created "no typical or characteristic style to his work."
Beal's style was highly influenced by Chase and Childe Hassam, a long time friend of the Beal family who used to travel "about the countryside with Beal in a car sketching...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Dragons des Mers - Vintage Book Illustrated by L.T. Foujita
Located in Roma, IT
"Le dragon des mers" is an illustrated book realized by Tsuguharu Foujita and Jean Cocteau in 1955 and published by Georges Guillot Editions, Paris.
The sheets are engraved with ill...
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1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude
By Earl Stroh
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed "Earl W Stroh" at lower right.
This is an Artist Proof.
The price includes a period wormy chestnut frame with gold leaf.
The outer frame...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Reclining Nude in Coral', California Fauve, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Certification of Authenticity for Wedo Georgetti (American, 1911-2005) stamped verso and created circa 1950.
Born in Italy, this California Post-Impressionist came to the United St...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Il Trampolino - Lithograph by Massimo Campigli - 1954
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on paper, 1954.
Dimensions: 56 x 45.5 cm
Hand signed. Artist’s Proof. Dedicated to his editor Nesto Jacometti who worked on the great part of Campigli's lithographs. “Il ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Andy Warhol, "Tattooed Woman", lithograph
By Andy Warhol
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an offset lithograph in orange on green paper created by Andy Warhol circa 1955.
Warhol used this piece as a business calling card in his early years as an illustrato...
Category
Pop Art 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The 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" (...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
MY BELOVED
Located in Portland, ME
Barton, John Murray. MY BELOVED. Color Woodcut, 1958. Edition of 125. Titled, numbered 1/125, signed and dated in pencil. 23 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (image), 11 1/2 x 27 inches (sheet). I...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut, Color
Cavalli e Rovine (Horses and Ruins) - Original Lithograph by Giorgio De Chirico
Located in Roma, IT
"Cavalli e rovine" is an original hand-signed lithograph realized by Giorgio de Chirico in 1954.
It comes from the Suite: "Cavalli e Ville". This is an edition of 125 prints.
It was...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joshua Reads the Word of the Law (Pencil Signed)
Located in Missouri, MO
Signed in Pencil Lower Right "Marc Chagall"
Numbered Lower Left 77/275
Image Size: approx. 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches
Framed Size: approx. 24 x 21 inches
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude in Repose with Blanket
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in the block upper left: "Hagedorn"
From the portfolio "Ten Nudes"
Edition 86
Printed by Henry Evans (1918-1990) for Peregrine Press, San Francis...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Suite de Dessins Cover Illustration - Lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
(after) Pablo PICASSO
Suite de 180 Dessins
Lithograph, 1954
Printed signature in the plate
Size 38 x 26.5 cm (c. 15 x 10,45 inch)
Lithograph created for...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The 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...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
NO OLVIDEMOS A JULIUS Y ETHEL ROSENBERG
By Ángel Bracho
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANGEL BRACHO (b. 1911 -)
NO OLVIDEMOS A JULIUS Y ETHEL ROSENBERG…….1953 (P. 151)
Linocut and letterpress 36 13/16 x 26 9/16” Some ...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Marc Chagall - The 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: 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 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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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Donne a Ischia - Lithograph - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated. Edition of 125 prints.
In “Donne a Ischia” (“Women in Ischia”), a lithograph dated 1952, there are three bathers, two of which are seen from
behind. Their red ...
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Lithograph
The Human Comedy - Title Page - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso
The Human Comedy - Lithograph after an original drawing, as published in the journal "Verve"
Printed signature and date
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
This ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Self Portrait - Lithograph by Giorgio De Chirico - 1954
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 90 copies, numbered and hand signed.
Published in the general catalogue "G. de Chirico: Catalogo dell'Opera Grafica 1921-1969", by Alfonso Ciranna, Edizone La Medusa, Roma...
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1950s Figurative Prints
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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
Donne ai Telai (Women Weaving) - Original Lithograph by M. Campigli - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Donne ai telai is an original artwork realized by Massimo Campigli in 1952. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin; "prova" is written in pencil on the lower left margin. Ve...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Surrealist Smile - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Surrealist Smile
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm
Edition: 200
1959
Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais
Unnumbered as issued
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Surrealist Creature - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Surrealist Creature
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm
Edition: 200
1959
Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais
Unnumbered as issued
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Positive, Abstract Screenprint by Peter Grippe
By Peter Grippe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Grippe, American (1912 - 2002)
Title: Positive
Year: 1960
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50
Image Size: 39 x 20 inches
Size: 46 x 35 in. (11...
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Pop Art 1950s Figurative Prints
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Screen
Jean Cocteau - Three Persons or One - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Three Persons or One
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm
Edition: 200
1959
Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais
Unnumbered as issued
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paul Jouve (after) - Antelope - Engraving
By Paul Jouve
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve (after) - Antelope - Engraving
19 x 14 cm
Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950.
Copy on velin creme de Rives
Copper engraving heightened with pochoir.
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Propels #4 (Edition 1/25)
Located in New York, NY
Unidentified Artist, "Propels #4" Edition 1/25, Abstract/ Figurative Lithograph numbered and signed in Pencil, 15 x 11 (Image: 11.75 x 9), Mid-20th Century, 1952
Colors: Turquoise, ...
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Abstract 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Flowers and Riuns - Original Etching by Giuseppe Viviani
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching. Artist's proof. Hand signed and dated with pencil on lower right margin. Signed and dated on plate. Original title: "Fiori e macerie".
Reference: G. Marino,...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Positive 2, Abstract Screenprint by Peter Grippe
By Peter Grippe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Grippe, American (1912 - 2002)
Title: Positive 2
Year: 1958-1960
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 75
Image Size: 26 x 20.25 inches
Size: 34 x ...
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Pop Art 1950s Figurative Prints
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Screen
MY BELOVED'S DREAM
Located in Portland, ME
Barton, John Murray. MY BELOVED'S DREAM. Color Woodcut, 1959. Edition of 100. Titled, numbered 1/100, signed and dated in pencil. 23 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (image), 11 1/2 x 27 inches (s...
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1950s Figurative Prints
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Woodcut, Color
Nude on the Beach - Original Etching and Drypoint by A. Soffici - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Very rare edition of 125 prints.
Good conditions.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an a...
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1950s Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
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