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Period: 20th Century
Jacob's Blessing - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1979
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Jacob's Blessing is a beautiful contemporary art realized by March Chagall in 1979.
Color lithograph printed and published by Maeght, Paris, in 1979.
Ref. Catalogue Mourlot n. 94...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Spanish Dance - Lithograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Spanish Dance is a colored lithograph on paper realized by an unknown italian artist in the 1970s.
Hand-signed, illegible, and numbered, edition of 100...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Maison dans les arbres, Regards sur Paris, Jean Carzou
By Jean Carzou
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Regards sur Paris, 1963. Published by André Sauret, Paris;...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$876 Sale Price
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Ballerine sur fond vert, 1995, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Ballerine sur fond vert, 1995
Lithographie sur papier Arches, justifiée et numérotée 48/100
Signée en bas à droite
22 x 17 cm / 32 x 26 cm
Bibliographie:
...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Calder, Sans titre, 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...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Double profil d'hommes béliers
By Jean Cocteau
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025.
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Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) - Double profil d'hommes béliers
Lithograph from 1960.
With artist stamp.
Editio...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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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The Tribe of Benjamin, from: The Jerusalem Windows - Stained Glass Jewish Tribes
Located in London, GB
This lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" in the lower right margin
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 150, at the lower left margin.
...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Notre-Dame, Paris' — Historic French Gothic Cathedral
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Notre Dame, Paris', etching, 2nd state, 1927. Signed, titled, and annotated '2nd State', in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali, signed and numbered drypoint etching, Les Coche et la Mouch, 1974
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Le Coche et la Mouche (The Coach and the Fly) 1974
Drypoint etching on Japan paper
Signed and numbered '79/250' (lower left) and 'Dali' (lower righ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Woman Juggler, from 1960 Mourlot Lithographe I
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Woman Juggler
Portfolio: Mourlot Lithographe I
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Framed Size: 21 7/8" x 18 7/8"
Image Size: 12 1/2" x 9 1/...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Full Speed Ahead by Ed Mell
By Ed Mell
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Full Speed Ahead 1985
Ed Mell 1942-2024
Original signature lower right
Stone Lithograph
22 x 30 inches
MINT CONDITION. NEVER FRAMED!
SHIPPING CHARGES INCLUDE SHIPPING, PACKAGING...
Category
20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Astrology - Zodiac : Sagittarius - Original Etching Handsigned, 1979
Located in Paris, IDF
Raymond PEYNET
Astrology - Zodiac : Sagittarius, 1979
Original etching
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /22
On Arches vellum 76x56 cm (c. 30 x 22 inches)
This etching is authentified b...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Ottokar Mascha Folio, plate 8: "Poster for the 1st Vienna Secession Exhibition"
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918) THESEUS UND MINOTAURUS, 1898, final design submission for poster advertising the first exhibition of the Vienna Secession, (In Mascha, no. 8) As a cele...
Category
Vienna Secession 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Icart, Composition, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Southampton, NY
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$876 Sale Price
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GROWING (1)
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board. Hand signed, dated and numbered by Keith Haring. Image size 38.75 x 28.5 inches. Edition 21/100 (there were also 15 artist's proofs). P...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$199,500
Original Gustave Rouquier Bijouterie - jewelry art nouveau vintage poster
By Charles Naillod
Located in Spokane, WA
Original turn of the century French poster: Gustave Rouquier turn of the century stone lithograph for jewelry. Artist: Charles Naillod. Size: 47" x 63". "The most important choice in jewelry, watches, and goldsmith objects". This antique art nouveau authentic vintage poster...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sex Theme - Etching by Charkes Laborde - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching hand colored by Chas Laborde, realized to illustrate "Les Chansons Erotiqies" by Pierre-Jean Beranger.
Realized in the early 20th Century.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Death of Orpheus, Surrealist Etching by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 -1973) - Death of Orpheus from Ovids The Metamorphoses, Year: 1930, Medium: Etching on thin laid paper, Edition: , Image Size: 9 x 6.5 inches, Size: ...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'The Visitor' — Surrealist Fantasy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Zena Kavin, 'The Visitor', lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '9/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This was first executed for XXe Siecle in 1952; this impression is from the second printing in 1971 (Homage to Leger), also published by XXe Siecle. Shee...
Category
20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
James Rosenquist at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Lt. Ed. poster
Located in New York, NY
James Rosenquist
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art 1968-1983
Offset Lithograph Poster on White Wove Paper
Plate (printed) signature
Limited Edition of 500 (unnumbered)
Unframed
A...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Lithographie II (Duthuit 20), Repli, Gravures de Henri Matisse
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin a la forme des papeteries d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Repli, Gravures de Henri Matisse, 1947. Publ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$5,196 Sale Price
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A World at Altitude - Original Handsigned Screen Print
Located in Paris, IDF
Yvon TAILLANDIER
A World at Altitude
Original screen print
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 12 copies
On paper 38 x 28 cm (c. 14.9 x 11 in)
Excellent condition
Category
Street Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Original Marines World War 1 poster. E-E-E-YAH-YIP Go over with U. S. Marines
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War One: Go Over With U.S. Marines. E-E-E-YAH-YIP. This charging leather neck holds his Springfield high. The cropped design was influenced by candid photography, ...
Category
Academic 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Heating - Original Lithograph by Pietro Morando - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Heating is an original artwork realized by Italian artist Pietro Morando (Alessandria 1889- 1980).
Original Lithograph.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil.
Numbered on the l...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Family, Alice Neel
By Alice Neel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Alice Neel (1900-1984)
Title: The Family
Year: 1982
Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper
Edition: 57/175, plus proofs
Size: 31.25 x 27 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: ...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$11,600 Sale Price
20% Off
"Fashionable Boulevard Montmartre, " Original Lithograph Poster by Pierre Brenot
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fashionable Boulevard Montmartre" is an original lithograph poster by Pierre Laurent Brenot. This piece depicts four figures in fashionable costumes in a variety of dynamic poses. T...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
France : Traditional Village - Lithograph poster
Located in Paris, IDF
Michel DELACROIX
France : Traditional Village
Lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On wove paper 85 x 59 cm (c. 34 x 24 inch)
Lithographic poster for the artist personal exhibi...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec, 1950. Published by Librairie Au Pont des Arts, Paris; rendered by Daniel Jacomet; and, printed by Ateliers Daniel Jacomet et Cie, Paris, Monday, October 30, 1950. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This album, including all the prints dedicated by Toulouse-Lautrec to Yvette Guilbert, was printed for the Librairie Au Pont des Arts, by D. Jacomet. The color state of the Colombine plate in Pierrot and the twenty-seven plates of the French and English series were executed according to the original lithographs (before the letter for the French suite) from the Toulouse-Lautrec workshop and kept in the Cabinet des Stampes of the National Library. The collection includes three plates in color and twenty-eight plates in black. All copies also include a lithograph: Colombine à Pierrot, taken, after special authorization from the Musée d'Albi, on the original stone of Toulouse-Lautrec, by Lucien Détruit. It was taken from this album: A non-trade and nominative example; L examples on a large vélin of Rives including: III proofs of the lithography Colombine à Pierrot printed...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$716 Sale Price
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U. S. Census Saturday Evening Post original 1940 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: THE SAURDAY EVENING POST. Artist: Noman Rockwell. Size: 21.75" x 28". Archival linen backed in very fine condition. The painting for this original poster ...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$1,960 Sale Price
20% Off
Religion and Peace
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Religion and Peace" 1995, is an original color serigraph on thin rice paper taped to a sheet of wove paper for stabilization by noted Ch...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Greece : Thinker with a Watch (FIAC 1978) - Original lithograph, 1978
Located in Paris, IDF
Alekos FASSIANOS
Thinker with a Watch (FIAC 1978), 1978
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 92 x 60 cm (c. 37 x 24 ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Disney Diptych - Pair of Screenprints by Disney Architect Michael Graves
Located in Long Island City, NY
Two screenprints by architect and designer Michael Graves. Graves designed several buildings for the Walt Disney Company and these two pieces were likely designed for the interior of...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Window - Lithograph by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Window is a contemporary artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1970s.
Mixed colored lithograph.
Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin: 2/3
Artist's proof.
Original title: Fines...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sculptural Objects, School Prints, Henry Moore
By Henry Moore
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on English cartridge paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Published by School Prints Ltd., London; Printe...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,796 Sale Price
20% Off
Green Cat, etching and aquatint, pencil signed & numbered, rarely seen in market
By Walasse Ting
Located in New York, NY
Walasse Ting 丁雄泉
Green Cat, 1984
Color etching and aquatint on copper plate, printed on Fabriano Rosaspina paper
Pencil signed, numbered 178/230, dated 1984 along with artist's perso...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Pencil, Graphite, Etching, Aquatint, Mixed Media
Equis Allegory, Surrealist Hand-Colored Lithograph by Alvin Carl Hollingsworth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Alvin Carl Hollingsworth, American (1928 - 2000) - Equis Allegory, Year: circa 1960, Medium: Hand painted Lithograph on paper, signed in the plate lower right, Size: 11 x 15.5 in....
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
The souper dress
By Andy Warhol
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A wonderful piece of unknown edition by Andy Warhol.
A silkscreen print on a Cellulose and Cotton dress.
Fearing the artist's trade mark Campbell's soup can.
In very good condition.
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Textile, Screen
The Bible : Daniel the Prophet - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
The Bible, Daniel the Prophet
Original lithography (Mourlot Workshop)
On paper 37 x 26.5 cm (c. 14.5 x 10.2 in)
Second illustration on back, see photo no...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Girl in the Garden (Gelburd/Rosenberg 62), Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Title: Girl in the Garden (Gelburd/Rosenberg 62)
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Edition: 33/150, plus proofs
Size: Paper Siz...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Brass Section (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Title: Brass Section (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77)
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Edition: 144/175, plus proofs
Size: Paper Size...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bopping at the Birdland (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Title: Bopping at the Birdland (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77)
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Edition: 110/175, plus proofs
Size: ...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Out Corus (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Title: Out Corus (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77)
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Edition: 159/175, plus proofs
Size: Paper Size: 23...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Whirlpool at Awa - Lithograph After Utagawa Hiroshige - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Whirlpool at Awa is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige in the 19th c...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Louisiana Serenade (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Title: Louisiana Serenade (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77)
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Edition: 110/175, plus proofs
Size: Paper...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Composition, Couleur amour (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du Moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good conditi...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$7,196 Sale Price
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Tenor Sermon (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Title: Tenor Sermon (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77)
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Edition: 116/175, plus proofs
Size: Paper Size:...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Domergue - The Dancer - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Title: The Dancer
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 31 cm
1956
Edition of 197
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio "La Parisie...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Au Lido - Pochoir by G. Barbier - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
This pochoir belongs to the portfolio 'Le Bonheur du Jour', by George Barbier.
A very fine work of one of the most important and famous european illustrators of Art Deco, whose infl...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
$2,005 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall - The Red Rider - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
The Red Rider
From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle
1957
See Mourlot 191
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985.
The Village
Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work.
At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well.
Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged.
The Beehive
Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period.
Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come.
War, Peace and Revolution
In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos.
To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia.
In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good.
Flight
After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research.
Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion.
With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way.
Haunted Harbors
Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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Desert Series B
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This artwork titled "Desert Series B" c.1990, is an original colors monoprint aquatint on Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, titled and numb...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
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Aquatint, Monoprint
Departure of The Fisherman
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Departure of The Fisherman
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 32/150
MEASUREMENTS: 25.75" x 38"
YEAR: 1965
FRAMED: No
CONDIT...
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Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Picasso, Portrait de Jacqueline (Orozco 214), Grabados al linóleo (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Linocut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 14.5 inches; image size: 10.5 x 8.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Orozco, M. (201...
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Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
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Linocut
$796 Sale Price
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Melancholic Muses VI
Located in London, GB
'Melancholic Muses', one of a poignant set of six signed artist proof lithographs by the celebrated Spanish artist from Barcelona, Vicenç Caraltó (circa 1960s). This collection of li...
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Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
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Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a beautiful lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized in the 1920s by Albert Marquet (Bordeaux, 1875 - Paris,1947).
Monogrammed on the plate on the lower margin. ...
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Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
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Chagall, Sans titre, Le Dur Désir de Durer (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin bouffant d'Alfa paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Le Dur Désir de Durer, illustré par Marc Chagall, ...
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Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
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David à la harpe (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25)
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...
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Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
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Located in San Francisco, CA
Serigraph by Mexican painter Rafael Coronel. Edition 28 of 100. Certificate of authenticity included.
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