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THE BOOK OF LOVE SUITE (DELUXE)
Located in Aventura, FL
Complete deluxe set of 13 screen prints and accompanying 12 poems. Published by American Image Editions, New York. Includes original brown paper-covered portfolio and publisher insert. Each screen print measures 26 x 21 inches. Each screen print is hand signed, dated, numbered by Robert Indiana. Roman numeral edition XLII/L (there were also a main edition of 200 and 50 artist's proofs),
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist: Robert Indiana (1928–2018) was an American Pop artist whose work drew inspiration from signs, billboards, and commercial logos. He is best known for his series of LOVE paintings, which employed bold and colorful letterforms to spell out the word “love.” “Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the love generation and hippies,” he once explained. “It was a spiritual concept. It isn't a sculpture of love...
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Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
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Paper, Screen
Lania z mlodym Dinner
By Abram Krol
Located in Belgrade, MT
Krol also designed and engraved medals for the Paris mint, painted murals for various schools throughout France, created tapestries, and produced over 200 works in enamel. His work ...
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Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
THREE BALLET DANCERS Signed Lithograph, Women, Dance Rehearsal, Khaki, Orange
By Moses Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
THREE BALLET DANCERS is an original hand drawn lithograph by Moses Soyer, the renowned Russian-born American realist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. THREE BALLET DANCERS was hand printed on archival Arches printmaking paper, 100% acid free, signed in pencil by Moses Soyer. THREE BALLET DANCERS depicts a sensitive, realistic portrait of three young female ballet dancers, all dressed in dance rehearsal...
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Realist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Blue Fish
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - A Blue Fish
Original Lithograph from 1957.
Dimensions of work: 23 x 40 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$893 Sale Price
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Buffet, A la plage, Lithographs 1952-1966 (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin Acropole Papeteries de Renage paper.
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.5 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Dufresne, Le Rêve, Dufresne, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1971
Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Dufresne, VI, Colle...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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The First Word of Verse Arises from the Rilke Portfolio, lithograph by Ben Shahn
By Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969)
Title: The First Word of Verse Arises from the Rilke Portfolio
Year: 1968
Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in the plate
Edition: 750
Siz...
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Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"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
Church - Screen print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Franco Gentilini in 1970s.
Edition of 125.
Hand signed and numbered.
Belongs to the Series "Churches".
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
The Bystanders - Hand-signed numbered lithograph Leonor Fini Surrealist, 1975
By Leonor Fini
Located in New York, NY
Leonor Fini
The Bystanders, 1973
Lithograph
19 3/10 × 27 3/5 in 49 × 70 cm
Edition of 75
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Bloch 1276; Czwiklitzer 23), Toros y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, 1961. Published by aux Éditions Cercle d'...
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Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Degas, Trois Femmes de dos, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.25 x 8.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
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Les Lavandes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Les Lavandes, Provence" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by French artist Urbain Huchet, 1930-2014. It is hand signed and inscribed E.A ...
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Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Switzerland mid-century modern vintage travel poster
By Kurt Wirth
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Switzerland” vintage travel poster. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, Grade A, ready to frame. The images shown...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life with Eleven Objetcs in a Sphere - Etching by Giorgio Morandi - 1942
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with eleven objetcs in a sphere (Original Italian title: Natura morta in un tondo) is an etching realized by Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) in 1942.
Hand numbered Edition 5...
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Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Les Deux Matrones, Art Nouveau Etching by Georges Rouault
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Georges Rouault, French (1871 - 1958)
Title: Les Deux Matrones from Le Reincarnations du Pere Ubu
Year: 1928
Medium: Aquatint on Arches, signed in the...
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Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
CALIFORNIA VISTA
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD L. DOOLITTLE (1883 – 1974)
CALIFORNIA VISTA, 1923
Aquatint signed and titled in pencil. 8 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches. Sheet 11 x 14 inches. Good condi...
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American Realist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Picasso, Composition (Orozco 207-261), Vingt-Neuf Portraits Imaginaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Picasso, Vingt-Neuf Portraits Imaginaires, 1969. Published by Éditions Cerc...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$15,996 Sale Price
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Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray's Hand from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This print depicts a hand adorned with ornate jeweled rings, printed in teal turquoise. Underneath the hand is written “Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray’s Hand”. In Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray...
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20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
20th century lithograph figurative print male subjects hats dark scene signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Five Dutchmen with Hats" is an original lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. The artist signed the piece lower right and wrote the edition number (EA 15/30) in the lower left. This piece ...
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Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Nude drawing (Nude on her haunches draws ) - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
A nude woman squats on her haunches as she draws an image on a sheet of paper. Jos...
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American Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rue Royale (La Madeleine), Paris Capitale, Maurice Utrillo
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Johannot paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Paris Capitale, 1955; published by Joseph Foret, Editeur d'Art, Paris...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,436 Sale Price
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L'Opera (Cramer 24; Mourlot 102), Derrière le miroir
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc, and Julien Cain. Chagall Lithogr...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$7,196 Sale Price
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Mayan Trio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mayan Trio
Lithograph, 1950
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition 250 for Associated American Artists
Publsihed 1950
Reference: AAA Cat.: 1950‑05; 1958‑01
AAA Index 1087
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 x 9 1/2 inches
Francisco Dosamantes (b. October 4, 1911 - d. July 18.1986) was a Mexican artist and educator who is best known for is educational illustrations and graphic work against fascism. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Life
Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. He was not registered into the civil registry until he was about twenty years old on March 6, 1939. His mother’s name is not listed on the certificate. As a child, he demonstrated a strong interest in drawing and color, influenced by his father and his uncle Juan. The Mexican Revolution occurred while he was a young child and he stated that he remembered events such as soldiers on horses charging as well as the execution of rural farm workers.
He attended primary and high school in Mexico City but stated that his education was irregular and deficient. He then entered the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, where he studied for five years. Initially, however, he was disappointed with the inexperience of the young professors and he left for a short time to study on his own. During this time, some of the dissatisfied professors organized the 30 30 group against the academic system of the school and which whom he sympathized. The effort gained the attention of established artists such as Diego Rivera who intervened.
He died on Mexico City on July 18, 1986
Career
After he graduated, he worked with the cultural missions of the Secretaría de Educación Pública in Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Colima, Coahuila and Chihuahua (state) from 1932 to 1937 then again from 1941 to 1945. He stated that this experience was vital to his conscience as he worked with rural farm workers and others he stated were worthy of dignity and respect, but victims of deceit and exploitation. When he returned to Mexico City, he gave classes in high schools from 1937 to 1941. In 1945 he founded and directed the Taller Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura “Joaquín Claussell” in Campeche, Campeche.
Dosamantes was a politically and culturally active artist with most of his work and affiliations related to such. He was a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios from 1934 to 1938. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, serving as administrator in 1940 and remaining a member until his death except for one short hiatus. He created posters for conferences about fascism and Nazism such as Alemania bajo bayonetas (Germany under bayonets) in 1938. In 1940 he became the secretary general of the Sindicato de Maestros de Artes Plásticas. He was also a member of the Sociedad para el Impulso de las Artes Plásticas en 1948, a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1949 and a member of the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas from 1952.
He painted a number of murals in rural areas of Mexico generally when he was there on cultural missions. His main mural is at the former home of José María Morelos in Carácuaro, Michoacán, but there are a number at various rural schools. These were all painted between 1941 and 1946.
As a book illustrator he mostly worked for the Secretaría de Educación Pública working on books for literacy campaigns.
He exhibited his works, which included engravings, oils, tempuras and lithographs in Mexico and abroad. His first individual exhibition was in 1930 at the Galeria de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. His major exhibitions include the Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1932, various exhibitions in New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in 1937; the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Missouri in late 1947, and the Gallery of Mexican Art in...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Male Nude in Red Loincloth" Collotype plate II
Located in Chicago, IL
After Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
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Vienna Secession 20th Century Figurative Prints
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Paper
French Mid-Century 1970s Fashion Design Vintage Lithograph Print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original colour lithograph of a French fashion design from 'Haute Couture'. Published in a folio of designs for Summer 1971.
32cm by 22cm (sheet)
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Post-War 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
U, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
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Bicentennial Bandwagon, Pop Art Lithograph by Red Grooms
By Red Grooms
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bicentennial Bandwagon by Red Grooms, American (1937)
Date: 1975
Offset Lithograph (unsigned as issued)
Image Size: 10 x 13 inches
Size: 14 in. x 17 in. (35.56 cm x 43.18 cm)
Frame S...
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Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Still Life - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a vintage lithograph realized after Raoul Dufy in 1920.
Good conditions.
Edition of 110. Not signed and not numbered, as issued.
The artwork is depicted through conf...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$193 Sale Price
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Les Monstres de Notre-Dame (Cramer 24; Mourlot 101), Derrière le miroir
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc, and Julien Cain. Chagall Lithogr...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$7,196 Sale Price
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"Evening" By Joy Dunn, Lithograph
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Lithograph measures 20 x 26 inches.
Good/fair condition. Slight creasing on left side (pictures in primary photo).
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20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$136 Sale Price
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Composition (Duthuit 31), Apollinaire, Henri Matisse
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin a la forme des papeteries d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, 1952. Published by Éditions Raisons d'être, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, April 24, 1952. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Printing of this folio was finished on April, Twenty-Four, M.CM.LII for the Éditions Raisons d'être, 2 rue des Beaux-Arts in Paris, was produced by Fernand Mourlot, based on the models of Henri Matisse. The eight original lithographs were shot on the presses of Mourlot Frères who also printed the cover and case composed by the artist. The stones were erased after drawing. The text and letrins engraved by Henri Matisse were drawn by Coulouma S.A., printer in Paris. Justification of the draw— XXX examples on large vélin d'Arches a la form, signed by the author and the artist, accompanied by a series of original lithographs numbered from I to XXX; CCC examples on vélin d'Arches a la forme numbered from XXXI to CCCXXX; XX examples of non-commerce collaborators numbered from I to XX and in addition a few nominative copies on Grand Vélin.
HISTORY OF THE EDITION: According to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, This publication was a joint effort by Matisse and author André Rouveyre...
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Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,796 Sale Price
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MYTHS: II.267: THE SHADOW
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 200. From the Myths Portfolio. Screenprint With Diamond Dust on Lenox Museum Board. Published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc.,...
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Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Board, Screen
La Sirène de Paris (Juffermans JL 35), Regards sur Paris, Kees van Dongen
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: from the folio, Regards sur Paris, 1963. Publi...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$8,396 Sale Price
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Léger, Le Sapeur, Dessins de Guerre 1915-16 (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger, Dessins de Guerre 1915-16, 19...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall - Bath-Sheba at the Feet of David - Original Handsigned Etching
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Bath-Sheba at the Feet of David - Original Handsigned Etching
1958
Printed by Tériade
Dimensions: 54 x 39 cm
Handsigned and numbered
handcolored
Edition: 100
Reference: Cramer 30.
Etching with hand-coloring, circa 1930, initialled in pencil, numbered 75/100 (there were also twenty hors-commerce copies) , published 1958 by Tériade, Paris, on Arches wove paper
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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Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Judgment of Souls' — Surrealist Fantasy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Zena Kavin, 'Judgment of Souls', lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '17/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full marg...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Orozco 238), Picasso, La flûte double (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas paper, spécialement filigrané pour cette édition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From ...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$2,636 Sale Price
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Golgotha
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jacques Villon (French, 1875-1963)
Title: Golgotha
Year: 1956
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 74/80 in pencil
Paper: Rives
Image size: 25.25 x 18.5 inches
S...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 5 (double) Juin 1955,...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Xisco Mensua Spanish artist 1995 original signed framed engraving print n3
By Xisco Mensua
Located in Miami, FL
Xisco Mensua (Spain, 1960)
Untitled from Portfolio "Junio - Julio", 1995
engraving on paper
12.6 x 9.5 in. (32 x 24 cm.)
Edition of 6
Frame 16x20 in.
ID: MEN1253-003
Hand-signed by a...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
From "Valentina" to "O" - Vintage Offset Print after Guido Crepax - 1976
By Guido Crepax
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset print, from "Valentina" to "O", in a vintage poster realized in 1976 after Guido Crepax., in occasion of his exhibition at Galleria Rondanini, Rome.
Very Good condit...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Le Vermoulu et le Plisse, Surrealist Etching by Hans Bellmer
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Hans Bellmer, German (1902 - 1975) - Le Vermoulu et le Plisse, Year: 1940, Medium: Etching on Arches, signed in pencil, Image Size: 7 x 9 inches, Size: 11 x 15 in. (27.94 x 38.1 cm)...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Matisse, Série N, var. 1 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Soiree Chez Maxime, Lithograph by Francois Batet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Francois Batet
Title: Soiree Chez Maxine
Date: 1986
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 155/200
Image Size: 19 x 23 inches
Paper Size: 22 x 27 inches
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SUPERMODEL 2
By KAWS
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print in colors on Rives BFK wove paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Artwork size 29.2 x 21 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Frame size approx 34.5 x 2...
Category
Street Art 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$47,970 Sale Price
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Profile of an African Woman —1920s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Profile of an African Woman), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 15 in pencil. Number 15 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publish...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$760 Sale Price
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Bayros-Mappe III - Héliogravure by Fraz von Bayros - 1913
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on japanese paper realized by Fraz von Bayros in 1913 for Ex Libris Verlag K. Th. Senger, Munich.
Mounted on passepartout. Edition of 260, hand signed in pencil by the ...
Category
Symbolist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
$264 Sale Price
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Patitcha
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Patitcha
1947
Aquatint on BFK Rives paper, Edition of 25
Paper size: 55.5 x 38 cms (22 x 15 ins)
Image size: 34.9 x 27.6 cm (13 3/4 x 10 7/8 ins)
HM15405
Selected Coll...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
$100,000
Nijinsky in Cleopatre.
Located in London, GB
BARBIER, George.
Nijinsky in Cleopatre.
London, C. W. Beaumont, 1913.
‘The designs, although somewhat fantastic in treatment, do convey the impression produced by Nijinsky in hi...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pomegranates
By Kaiko Moti
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pomegranates" c.1970 is an original color aquatint on Japan paper by noted Indian artist Kaiko Moti, 1921-1989. It is hand signed and numbered XXII/LXXV in White pencil by the artist. The Size is 22 x 29.25 inches. Printed to the edge. It is in excellent condition, some hanging tape remaining on the back from a previous framing.
About the artist:
Born (Kaikobad Motiwalla) in Bombay, India on December 15, 1921, Moti was first educated at the Bombay School of Fine Arts but his talent led him onwards to study at the University College in London (on scholarship) and at the Slade School of Fine Arts, London, where he received a Master's degree in Painting and Sculpture. While still in London he studied under MacWilliam and Reginald Butler.
Eventually moving to Paris in 1950, Moti attended the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Atelier Zadkine, to pursue his love of sculpture but lack of space soon compelled him to turn his attention to working on copper plates and he studied engraving with William Stanley Hayter...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Published by Tériade, éditeur, Éditions de la Revue Verve, Paris; printed by Draeger Frères, Paris, February 1943. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This Manuscript entirely painted by Georges Rouault was engraved by the Master Printers, Draeger Frères and finished printing by them in February 1943 under the direction of Tériade for the Éditions de la Revue Verve. It was taken from this volume: XL examples on papier de Chine ancien with suite, numbered from I to XL, MCC examples on vélin d'Arches made especially for this volume numbered from XLI to MCCXL and XXX examples on Arches marked from I to XXX.
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance. Rouault was born in a cellar in Paris during a bombardment of the city by the forces opposed to the Commune. His father was a cabinetmaker. A grandfather took an interest in art and owned a collection of Honoré Daumier’s lithographs...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Dufy, Au Maroc, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches Arjomari paper
Year: 1965
Paper Size: 11.81 x 9.45 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Lettr...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Picasso, The Basket, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings, 1946. Published by Pantheon Books, Inc., ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$3,996 Sale Price
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Dufy, Composition, Les Côtes Normandes (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Les Côtes Normandes 1961. Publ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,596 Sale Price
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Ex Libris. Paper, etching, 11x7 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ex Libris A. Zuyeva
Paper, etching, 11x7 cm
Category
Jugendstil 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
$169 Sale Price
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The Plumed - Lithograph by Erté - 1970s
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
The plumed is a modern artwork realized in 1970s by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored lithograph.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Provenance :
- Collection Serge Leeman.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,586 Sale Price
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Miró, Composition (Cramer 112; Mourlot 439-442), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 164-165, 1967. ...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
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A form driven from a rectangular solid
By Sol LeWitt
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Sol Lewitt
"A form driven from a rectangular solid"
Year: 1.992
Woodcut on Japanese paper
copy 19/75
Signed and justified by hand
Print run of 75 copies.
57,5 x 77 cm.
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ruth Gleaner - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph realized by Marc Chagall in 1960 to illustrate "The Bible".
Edition of 6500, published by Tériade in no. 33 and 34 of the Art Magazine Verve.
Printed by Mourlot a...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$528 Sale Price
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