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Period: 1950s
Jean Cocteau - Actress - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Actress
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 65 x 44 cm
Jean Cocteau
Writer, artist and film director Jean Cocteau was one of the most influen...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Calder, Composition, A Bestiary (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Dimensio...
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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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La Parade
Located in New York, NY
A superb impression of this offset lithograph with vibrant pochoir color. Signed and numbered in ink, from an edition of 185.
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Color, Offset
Woman with Monkey
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Woman with Monkey
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and se...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
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
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Lithograph
Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Paper Size: 11 x 8.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins d...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Paper Size: 11 x 8.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins d...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Paper Size: 11 x 8.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins d...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Heaven and Hell, Surrealist Nude Woodcut by Martin Barooshian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - )
Title: Untitled - Heaven and Hell
Year: 1951
Medium: Woodcut, signed in pencil
Edition: 30
Size: 16 x 1...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Manoah and his Wife, Offering a Sacrifice... - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Sanson and the Lion - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
By Beating the Philistines, Saul Killed... - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Song of the Bow - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Saul and David - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Samuel Called by God - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Bethsheba Visits King David - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Song of David - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
David and Absalom - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
David Forgives his Son - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in Jerusalem - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
"Puppet Theater" Japanese Figurative Wood Block Print
Located in Houston, TX
Jun’ichiro Sekino (1914-1988) Eizo and matsuomaru bunraku (Puppet Theatre) circa 1953. Yoshida Eizō handles the puppet Matsuomaru, a medieval warrior. There is more than one edition ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Isaiah's Prayer - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Vision of Isaiah - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Noah's Cloak - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Salvation of Jerusalem - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Jerusalem was Taken by Nebuchadnezzar as the... - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Jeremiah in the Pit - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Creation of Man - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Abraham Mourning for the Death of Sarah - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
Not signed nor numbered, as issued.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Moses and the Serpent - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Belongs to the series "The Bible".
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
N...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Le Taureau Blanc VI, Surrealist Etching by Lucien Coutaud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lucien Coutaud, French (1904 - 1977) - Le Taureau Blanc VI, Year: 1957, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 7.75 x 5 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Description: From the col...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Joseph Recognized by his Brothers - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Belongs to the series "The Bible".
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
N...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Josue and the Stone of Sichem - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Belongs to the series "The Bible".
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
N...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Moses Died Looking to the Promised Land - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Belongs to the series "The Bible".
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
N...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Joshua before the Angel with the Sword - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Belongs to the series "The Bible".
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
N...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Joshua Reads the Words of the Law - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Belongs to the series "The Bible".
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
N...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Etching
From the Series "La Ville"
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph was printed at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris in 1959 and is a part of the "La Ville" portfolio. It is annotated "Epreuve de l'atelier Mourlot /...
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Post-War 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Travel Poster: Swissair to Japan 1958 original vintage Swiss - Japanese
By Donald Brun
Located in London, GB
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Vallauris
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Vallauris
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure shi...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$369
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
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Lithograph
after Jean Arp - Pochoir
By Jean Arp
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Jean Arp - Pochoir
1957
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
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Stencil
Marc Chagall Night in Paris (cover)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Marc Chagall Night in Paris (cover)
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Lithograph
Title: Night in Paris (cover)
Portfolio: 1954 Paris - Derriere le Miroir
Yea...
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1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Jean Carzou - Venezia II - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Jean Carzou
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Carzou - Venezia II - Original Handsigned Lithograph
1985
Dimensions: 68 x 52 cm
Edition: 87 / 164
HandSigned and Numbered
Publisher Vision Nouvelle
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1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Gustave Singier - Abstract Fish - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Gustave Singier - Abstract Fish - Original Lithograph
Conditions: excellent
32 x 24 cm
1955
From XXe siècle, San Lazzaro
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The King and I - Original 1974 Lobby Card #1
Located in London, GB
The King and I - Original 1974 Lobby Card #1
Vintage The King and I Lobby Card:
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's child...
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1950s Figurative Prints
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Paper, Cardboard
Art et Solidarité (art and solidarity) by Fernand Leger
Located in New York, NY
This lithographic poster was printed in 1957 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris to promote the recent works of contemporary painters and sculptors, sold for the benefit of free vacation...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
After Georges Braque - Oiseaux - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Georges Braque
Oiseaux
Color Pochoir on Paper
Published in the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle (issue number 11 "Les nouveaux rapports de l'art et de la nature")
1958
Dimensions:...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Stencil
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...
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Pop Art 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
'Join The Regular Army: A Skilled Trade' 1950s British Army Recruitment Poster
Located in London, GB
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Join the Regular Army...
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Realist 1950s Figurative Prints
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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
Dimensions: 32...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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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: 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
Materials
Lithograph
Cosmicstrip IV, Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cosmicstrip IV by Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911–2002)
Date: 1959
Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 21/50
Image Size: 14.75 x 19.25 inches
Frame Size: 23.75 x 28 inches...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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
Matisse, Serge Stchoukine, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype, héliogravure, recto and verso, on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper, as issued
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.05 x 5.51 inches
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Matisse, Mademoiselle Eva Mudocci, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype, héliogravure, recto and verso, on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper, as issued
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.05 x 5.12 inches
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Matisse, Madame Sarah Stein, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype, héliogravure, recto and verso, on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper, as issued
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.05 x 6.69 inches
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
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Matisse, Mademoiselle Etta Cone I, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype, héliogravure, recto and verso, on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper, as issued
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.05 x 6.69 inches
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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