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Period: 20th Century
Livre du cœur d'amour épris, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Livre du cœur d'Amour épris...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Tête, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Art...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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David Hockney, The Prisoner for Amnesty International, hand signed 17/100 Framed
Located in New York, NY
From the rare, Deluxe, hand signed edition of only 100:
David Hockney
The Prisoner, for Amnesty International, 1977
Color Offset Lithograph
Hand signed, numbered 17/100 and inscribed...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Pencil, Graphite, Lithograph, Offset
Miró, Composition (Cramer 102; Mourlot 428-449), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 151-152, 1965. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éd...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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'Drop of Life' — from 'Solitude' for Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Naoko Matsubara, 'Drop of Life' for the portfolio 'Solitude', color woodcut, 1971. A fine impression with fresh, vivid colors, on cream laid Japan paper, the full sheet with margins,...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Conversation 1979 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Romare Bearden
Title: Conversation
Year: 1979
Print - Lithograph on Somerset Paper
Paper size: 22'' x 30'' inches
Edition: signed & numbered in pencil, HC 5/15
Image Size ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Night Shadows
By Edward Hopper
Located in Storrs, CT
Night Shadows. 1921. Etching. Levin 82. 7 x 8 3/8 (sheet 10 x 13 7 1/16).s Series: Six American Etchings: The New Republic Portfolio, 1924. Edition approximately 500-600. Illustrate...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$48,000 Sale Price
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The Songs of Songs, Hand-Signed Lithograph Poster after Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, After, Russian (1887 - 1985) - The Songs of Songs, Year: 1975, Medium: Lithograph Poster, signed in color pencil lower right, Edition: 8500, Size: 30 x 20.25 in. (7...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paradis II (Mourlot 230-77; Cramer 42)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Mourlot, Fernand. C...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,276 Sale Price
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Music Angel - Stone lithograph - Catalog Raisonne : Mourlot #CS25
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc CHAGALL
Music Angel (L'Ange de la Musique), 1966
Stone lithograph
Engraved by Charles Sorlier under the supervion of Marc Chagall in Atelier Mourlot
Printed signature in the pl...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sans titre, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXIe Année, ...
Category
Constructivist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Untitled from In the Bottom of My Garden (Plate 17)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Untitled (Plate 17)
Portfolio: In the Bottom of My Garden
Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper
Date: 1956
Frame Size: 15 3/4" x 18 3/8"
Sheet ...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jacqueline à l'étamine (Cramer 115), Diurnes
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Goeppert, Sebastian, et ...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$796 Sale Price
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original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 at the atelier of Clot, Bramsen et Georges and published in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, 8.10.64. VIII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 by Clot, Bramsen et Georges and issued in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist Times -- a radical...
Category
20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, 8.10.64. X (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Picasso, 20.5.64. VIII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Picasso, 8.10.64. I (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Anadyomine 1969 Signed Limited Edition Etching
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Name: Barbara Kwasniewska
Title: Anadyomine
Year: 1969
Medium Type: etching
Size-Width Size-Height: 22.5'' x 30" inches
Signed Edition Size: Signed, Titled, and Numbered 5...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Picasso, 8.10.64. XVII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Astrology - Zodiac : Scorpions - Original Etching Handsigned in pencil, 1979
Located in Paris, IDF
Raymond PEYNET
Astrology - Zodiac : Scorpions, 1979
Original etching
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /220
On Arches vellum 76x56 cm (c. 30 x 22 inches)
This etching is authentified by...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Grand Canal, Venice
By Elias S. Mandel Grossman
Located in Middletown, NY
1926. Etching in sepia ink on Japon paper, 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 inches (245 x 292 mm), full margins with the lower margin slightly notched. Signed, titled and dated in pencil in the lower ...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Pastorale, Surrealist Etching and Aquatint by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) - Pastorale, Portfolio: Historia de Don Quichote de la Mancha, Year: 1981, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed and numbered in penc...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Picasso, XII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Picasso, 8.10.64. X (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Place de la Concorde (Cramer 23; Mourlot 83), Verve: Revue Artistique
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and F...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
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Picasso, 8.10.64. II (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Magritte, Ma Mere l'Oye (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph in Colours on Vélin d'Arches paper. Edition: 350, plus proofs. Signed in the plate by the artist; hand signed in pencil by the printer, Fernand Mourlot. Good Condition; ne...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$15,996 Sale Price
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original 1971 poster Paintings-Drawings show in Sala Gaspar Barcelona Spain
Located in Miami, FL
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
'Pintura - Dibujo. Sala Gaspar', 1971
lithograph on paper
39.6 x 20.4 in. (100.5 x 51.7 cm.)
Unframed
Ref: PIC2001-P003
Conservation: Not previo...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hope - Progress, Pop Art Screenprint Diptych by Steven Gagnon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Two silkscreen prints by Steven Gagnon from 2011. Political commentary in pop art style imagery with a farcical tone. Unframed, hand signed in lower right corner.
Artist: Steven Ga...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
original lithograph
By Max Ernst
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference Spies/Leppien 202. Published in 1971 by XXe Siecle. Sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (310 x 238 mm). Not signed.
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
WARHOL & HARING - Jazz, Dancing on Music Sheet - Screenprint Poster, Montreux
By Andy Warhol
Located in Paris, IDF
Andy WARHOL and Keith HARING
Jazz, Dancing on Music Sheet, 1986
Screenprint
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 100 x 70 cm (c. 40 x 28 in)
Created by Haring for the Montr...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Picasso, Composition, La Comédie Humaine, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, La Comédie Humaine, Suite d...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Figure, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Art...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Pablo Picasso, Le Repos du Sculpteur II, from La Suite Vollard, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
Le Repos du Sculpteur II, from La Suite Vollard
Hand signed by Picasso in pencil in the lower right, Watermark "Vollard"
Reference: Bloch 172; Baer 325
Original etching...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Winged Horse Pegasus - Vintage Offset Print by Giorgio de Chirico - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset print realized after a watercolor by Giorgio de Chirico in 1962.
From the rare portfolio "Greek Mythology" realized for IRI and printed by Stab Salomone.
Excellent c...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Plate X, from Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Plate X, from Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
Medium: Lithograph in colors on Japon paper
Year: 1973
Edition: 209/250
Sheet Size: 29 3/4" x 21"
Imag...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
India Figurative Landscape 1910 Buddha Rare Early Original Etching
Located in Norfolk, GB
Ernest Stephen Lumsden RE, RSA
Ernest Stephen Lumsden RE, RSA
(1883 – 1948)
Buddha
Frame Size: 40.7cm x 52.5cm
Image: 21cm x 34 cm
Lumsden reference: 254
Edition 33/50
Whatman w...
Category
Other Art Style 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
KEITH HARING 'THE STORY OF RED AND BLUE - 1990, L. pp. 128-13, SIGNED & NUMBERED
By Keith Haring
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Keith Haring
Title: Plate 5 from Story of Red and Blue (L. pp. 128-133)
Medium: Screen print in colors on wove paper
Sheet Size: 22 x 16.5 inches
Frame Size: approx 28.5 x 22...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Figure in Movement
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an original offset lithograph poster created for the 1985 Francis Bacon exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, featuring the haunting and visceral work Figure in Movement.
Kno...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Original 1966 poster Harlequin Museo Picasso Palacio Aguilar Barcelona Spain
Located in Miami, FL
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
'Museo Picasso. Palacio Aguilar.', 1966
Original four-color offset printing on paper
30 x 21.5 in. (76 x 54.5 cm.)
Unframed
Ref: PIC2001-P011
Co...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Original Andy Warhol Brillo Pasadena Art Museum serigraph vintage poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in Spokane, WA
Original serigraph: Andy Warhol Brillo soap pads. Artist: Andy Warhol. Size 26" x 30" Year: 1970. Archival linen-backed original serigraph ready to frame.
Warhol's Billo ...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
'Body and Soul' — Mid-20th Century Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Federico Castellon, 'Body and Soul', 1938, lithograph, edition 30, Freundlich 3. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked, atmospheric impression on cr...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Comédie Humaine : The King's Muse - Lithograph (Mourlot)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
Comédie Humaine, The King's Muse, 1954
Lithograph (Mourlot workshop)
Unsigned
On paper 26 .5 x 35.5 cm (c. 10,2 x 13.7 in)
INFORMATION : Created for port...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cubist Still Life with a Glass - Original engraving (Baer #725)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO
Cubist Still Life with a Glass, 1944
Original engraving (printed on letterpress)
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 32 x 24 cm (c. 12 x 10 in)
REFERENCES...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
original lithograph
By Samuel Buri
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 by Clot, Bramsen et Georges and issued in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist Times -- a radical...
Category
20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (ULAE S13), Jasper Johns, Screenprints, Jasper Johns
By Jasper Johns
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen on Patapar printing parchment paper. Paper Size: 10.125 x 10.125 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Jasper Johns, Screenprints...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$4,796 Sale Price
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The Hugh O'Neill Building, 655-671 Sixth Avenue, NYC, lithograph Signed/N Framed
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas
The Hugh O'Neill Building, 655-671 Sixth Avenue, New York City, 1974
Lithograph on Arches paper
Signed, titled and annotated "TP" in graphite pencil on the front
Edition...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Blackfeet Indians, Great Northern Railway 14 prints
By Winold Reiss
Located in Spokane, WA
A group of 14 Blackfeet Indians prints created by the artist Winold Reiss. The Great Northern Railway printed and released these prints in c. 1940. This is for the entire group...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$576 Sale Price
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"Le Sacre Du Printemps" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1973 for the art revue XXe Siecle and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (310 x 238 mm). Not signed.
Category
20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Die Zauberflöte (Mourlot CS. 38), The Metropolitan Opera (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Die Zauberflöte (Mourlot CS. 38), The Metropolitan Opera
Year: 1973
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Size: 39.5 x 25.75 inches
Notes: From the opening of Mozart's 'The Magic F...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me, The 1st Commandment Lithograph Signed/N
By Kenny Scharf
Located in New York, NY
Kenny Scharf
Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me (The First Commandment), 1987
5-Color lithograph on Dieu Donne handmade paper with deckled edges
24 × 18 inches
Hand signed, date...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Affiche Exposition Zurich, Mourlot 841 (framed hand signed lithograph)
By Joan Miró
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on Arches wove paper. Hand signed lower right by Joan Miro. Hand numbered HC lower left (there was also a main edition of 150). Sheet size: 30.3 x 14.8 inches...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$7,462 Sale Price
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'Together' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Together', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1946, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '22/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 7/8 to 5 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (149 x 124 mm); sheet size 15 x 11 1/8 inches (381 x 283 mm).
Collection: Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945 and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions.
“The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.”
—Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature.
Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research.
Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June.
Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages."
In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking.
Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
'North Bank of the Chicago River' — WPA Graphic Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'North Bank of the Chicago River', color woodcut, c. 1935, edition 50. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Vision de Paris (Cramer 43; Mourlot 287), The Lithographs of Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.216 x 9.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and Fernand Mourlot. Chaga...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Margit Smiles
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
signed and numbered lower image
edition 7/40
Catalogue raisonné 00269
Internationally recognized painter and printmaker Alex Katz was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. Over a thir...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
$30,000
Circus : Clown, Dog and Rabbit - Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (after)
Circus : Clown, Dog and Rabbit, 1974
Lithograph
Unsigned
On Japan paper 38.5 x 28.5 cm (c. 15.2 x 11.2 inches)
INFORMATION : Lithograph based on drawings by P...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gay Sexuality
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The lithograph titled "Gay Sexuality" by Kees Ruyter, measuring 33 x 23.25 inches, explicitly addresses themes related to gay sexuality, as indicated by its title. While specific det...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
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