20th Century Figurative Prints

Samella Sanders Lewis, 'The House of Shango', lithograph, 1992, edition 60. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '31/60' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on Arches cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/4 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 24 x 18 inches (610 x 457 mm); sheet size 30 inches x 22 1/4 inches (762 x 565 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THIS WORK “The title of this piece is an unmistakable harkening to African roots. Shango is a religious practice with origins in Yoruba (Nigerian) belief, deifying a god of thunder by the same name. Shango has been adopted in the Caribbean, most notably in Trinidad and Tobago, a fact that underscores the importance of transnationalism to Samella Lewis’s piece. Her work often grapples with issues of race in the U.S., and The House of Shango is no exception. Through a reliance on the gradual transformation of Shango—one that took place across continents and time—Lewis’s piece forms a powerful link between black Americans and their African and Caribbean counterparts. The figure depicted in the piece appears to emerge, quite literally, from the house of Shango. Given the roots and transformative process of the religion, The House of Shango can draw attention to the historical intersections to which black American culture is indebted.” —Laura Woods, Scripps College, Ruth Chander Williamson Gallery, Collection Highlights, 2018 ABOUT THE ARTIST Samella Lewis’ lifelong career as an artist, art historian, critic, curator, collector, and advocate of African American art has helped empower generations of artists in the United States and worldwide, earning her the designation “the Godmother of African American art.” Born and raised in Jim Crow era New Orleans, Lewis began her art education at Dillard University in 1941, transferring to Hampton University in Virginia, where she earned her B. A. and master's degrees. She completed her master's and a doctorate in art history and cultural anthropology at Ohio State University in 1951, becoming the first female African American to earn a doctorate in fine art and art history. Lewis taught art at Morgan State University while completing her doctorate. She became the first Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Florida A&M University in 1953. That same year Lewis also became the first African American to convene the National Conference of African American artists held at Florida A&M University. She was a professor at the State University of New York, California State University, Long Beach, and at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Lewis co-founded, with Bernie Casey, the Contemporary Crafts Gallery in Los Angeles in 1970. In 1973, she served on the selection committee for the exhibition BLACKS: USA: 1973 held at the New York Cultural Center. Samella Lewis's 1969 catalog 'Black Artists on Art', featured accomplished black artists typically overlooked in mainstream art galleries. She said of the book, "I wanted to make a chronology of African American artists, and artists of African descent, to document our history. The historians weren't doing it. It was really about the movement." From the 1960s through the 1970s, her work, which included lithographs, linocuts, and serigraphs, reflected her concerns with the values of human dignity, democracy, and freedom of expression. Between 1969 and 70, Lewis and E.J. Montgomery were consultants for a groundbreaking exhibition at the Oakland Public L designed to create greater awareness of African American history and art. Lewis was the founder of the International Review of African American Art in 1975. In 1976, she founded the Museum of African-American Art with a group of artistic, academic, business, and community leaders in Los Angeles, California. Lewis, the museum’s senior curator, organized exhibitions and developed new ways of educating the public about African American art. She celebrated African American art as an 'art of experience’ inspired by the artists’ lives. And she espoused the concept of African American art as an 'art of tradition', urging museums to explore the African roots of African American art. In 1984, Lewis produced an extensive monograph on Elizabeth Catlett, her beloved mentor at Dillard University. Lewis has been collecting art since 1942, focusing primarily on the WPA era and work created during the Harlem Renaissance. Pieces from her collection were acquired by the Hampton University Museum in Virginia, the world’s earliest collection of African American fine art...

Gaston Suisse (1896-1988) Panthère noire dans les bambous, 1927 Gravure sur bois, sur papier Velin de Van Gelder. Rehaussé aux lavis d’encre de Chine par l’artiste Signé en bas à gauche et daté 1927 en bas à droite Black panther in a forest of bamboos, 1927 A handcolored woodcut on Velin de Van Gelder paper Signed and dated 1927 Bibliographie /Literature Gaston Suisse, splendeur du laque art déco. Emmanuel Bréon. Somogy Éditions d'art, Paris 2013, reproduite page 105 (un autre exemplaire reproduit) The artist made a wood engraving of which he made about twenty prints himself. These proofs were not marketed as is, Gaston Suisse reworked each of the proofs using Indian ink washes in order to obtain different effects for each proof, which are thus unique original works. Born in 1896 in a family of artists, his father Georges was a close friend of Siegfried Bing and a great lover of Japanese art and a bibliophile. He passed his taste for art to his son whom he often took to draw at the Botanic Garden . Around 1910, Gaston Suisse, who hasn't entered yet the artistic school, met Paul Jouve, then 18 years his elder, who was already famous. In 1911, at the age of 17, he entered the National School of Decorative Art where he followed the teachings of Paul Renouard. Thanks to his knowledge and taste for the Japanese art, he chose lacquer painting as his specialty. His practice of this noble and demanding subject were so much appreciated that he was awarded with two gold medals in 1913 and 1914. Mobilized during the war , he joined the army and go in Salonika where he found his friend Jouve. In 1918, he finished his studies at the School of Applied Arts in order to perfect his training. He learned in particular the techniques of gilding and oxidation of metals. The first productions of Gaston Suisse, furniture and objects in lacquer with geometrical patterns, were an instant success and Suisse was appointed as member of Salon d'Automne in 1924, the very year of his first exhibition. Considered as an artist-decorator, his sincere and deep friendship with Jouve linked him in parallel with the groups of the animaliers of the Jardin des Plantes and became a close friend of Edouard-Marcel Sandoz. When travelling to Maghreb and Middle-East between 1923 and 1925, he produced numerous drawings representing antelopes, apes and fennec foxes...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Varende, Rodin, 1944. Published by Éditions ...

Original Colour lithograph on wove paper hand-signed and numbered by the artist edition 950 of 1000 49 x 48 cm contained in the portfolio 'Del Calendario 5 artistes Catalans' catal...

This vintage David Hockney poster features whimsical imagery and rich, bright color. Palm trees, boats in the ocean, a cafe, and a bodega with an elaborate iron-wrought balcony sit a...

Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches Johannot paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 15 x 10.75 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Seize ...

A man raises his hand to his chin, his neck tilted and face turned to look at a dilapidated farmhouse, barely held together by planks of wood and exposed to the elements. Behind him ...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Chagall, Monumental Works XXe Siècle, ...

L’Etreinte is an artwork realized by Pablo Picasso in 1963. Etching and Aquatint on BFK Rives-Velin paper. Hand Signed lower right. Numbered on the lower margin. Edition of 14/50....

Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper mounted on backing museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Vuillard, Douze Pastels P...

Jean Cocteau, Portrait de Jean Desbordes is a Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929. Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", publ...

This artwork "Mother and Children" c.1970, is a colors lithograph on paper by American artist Edna Hibel, 1917-2014. It is signed and numbered II 3/10 Ed. 200 in pencil by the artist. The The artwork (sheet ) size is 34 x 23 inches, framed size is 40 x 29 inches. Custom framed in original wooden decorated grey/silver frame. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Edna Hibel, a painter of sentimental pictures of children, has had a more than 60-year career as painter and lithographer and promoter of peace through exhibitions of her artwork. She was born in 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Abraham and Lena Hibel, and she was raised in the Boston area and educated at Brookline High School where she met her future husband, Theodore Plotkin. She began to paint when she was nine years old and learned watercolor during summers at the shore where her family vacationed in Maine and Hull, Massachusetts. Hibel studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, from 1935-39, receiving a Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship to Mexico. In Boston, in 1966, she began lithography, continuing in 1970 in Zurich, where she still works every year. She has created lithographic works with up to 32 stones (or colors) on paper, silk, wood veneer and porcelain. The latter pieces are called lithographs on porcelain and result from a complicated process, that she keeps a secret, whereby she transfers stone lithographic color separations onto Bavarian hard paste porcelain. Hibel has created the "Arte Ovale" series and various plaques with this technique. She organized the Edna Hibel Museum of Art, in Jupiter, Florida, to display and promote her work and also created a United Nations stamp, "Mother Earth." In 1995, she was commissioned by the Foundation of the U.S. National Archives to commemorate the 75th anniversary of women receiving the universal right to vote. At the ceremony, Ms. Lucy Baines Johnson referred to Hibel as the "Heart and Conscience of America." In November, 2001, the World Cultural Council based in Mexico City gave her the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts. Hibel's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in more than 20 countries including Russia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, and the United States, and under the royal patronage of Count and Countess Bernadotte of Germany, Count Thor Bonde of Sweden, Prince and the late Princess Rainier of Monaco and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England. Pope John Paul II gave her a medal of honor as did the late Belgian King Baudouin. She also received honorary Doctoral degrees including from Eureka College, and Northwood University of Florida, Michigan and Texas. She also has received many humanitarian honors for her charitable efforts for children's and medical charities. Her exhibitions "Golden Bridge" and " Peace Through Wisdom" were efforts to promote peace and cultural understanding between China, the United States, Yugoslavia and Russia, and a television documentary titled "Hibel's Russian Palette" was based on her trips and art shows in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. In 2001, Edna received a Lifetime Achievement Award from "Women in the Visual Arts," an organization of artists in the South Florida area. Works in Permanent Collections: Harvard University Boston University Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Springfield Museum of Arts, Massachusetts University of New Hampshire Fleischmann Collection, Cincinnati Detroit Art Institute Milwaukee Art Museum Phoenix Art Museum La Jolla Museum, California Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Florida Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Georgia WarrenHall Coutts, Ill, Memorial Museum of Art, El Dorado, Kansas Palais des Nations,Geneva, Switzerland United Nations Headquarters, New York City Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California Russian Academy of Art, St. Petersburg, Russia Hibel Museum of Art, Lake Worth, Florida One Artist Exhibitions: Shacknow Museum of Fine Arts, Plantation, Florida, 2000 Cornell Museum of Art and History, Delray Beach, Florida, 1999 (and 1993) Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C., 1999 The Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas, 1999 (and 1998) Mitsukoshi Fine Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1995 (and 1994) Lyme Academy of Fine Art, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1994 Grenchen Art Museum, and Galerie BrechbUhl, Grenchen, Switzerland, 1992 Soviet Union Academy of Art, and Exhibition Hall of the Russian Union of Artists, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia, U.S.S.R., 1990 Northern Indiana Arts Association Gallery, Munste~ Indiana, 1990 Galerie Vindobona, Bad Kissingen,West Germany, 1988 The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1989 St. Peter An...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper Year: 1957 Paper Size: 14.5 x 11 inches Catalogue raisonné reference: Cramer, illustration 84 Inscription: Inscription: Unsigned and unnum...

This artwork "Intermission" 1995 is an original colors serigraph by American artist Barbara A. wood, born 1926. It is hand signed and numbered 251/350 in pencil by the artist. The a...

Original 1947 Paris 1900 lithographic movie poster by the artist Raymond Peynet. The poster had originally been folded, and there is some wrinkling at the bottom edge of the poste...

This proof depicts one of Jim Dine's signatures motifs, a deep red heart, which drips down the page. Along the right side of the heart, hand-drawn text reads: “Red design for satin h...

Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper Year: 1945 Paper Size: 13 x 17 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Degas, Ten Balle...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Le Peseur d'âmes, précédé d'un frontispice et suivi de hui...

Artist: Andy Warhol Title: Untitled (Plate 9) Portfolio: 1956 In the Bottom of My Garden Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper Date: 1956 Sheet Size: 8 1/2" x 11" Signatu...

Vintage, 1984, James Goodwin New York Gallery exhibition poster; signed, lower right, in pencil, 'R. Lichtenstein' for Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997) and accompanied by certi...

Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Femme Coudee au Drapeau Bleu et Rouge Year: 1982 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Size: 29.75 x 21.75 inches Edition: 1000, plus proofs Con...

This artwork "Flying Man" c.1990, is an original colors etching with aquatint on Wove paper by noted Mexican artist Jose Esteban Martinez, b.1951. It is hand signed in pencil by the ...

Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: hand signed and numbered, 159/175, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the Jazz Series, 1979. Published by London Arts Group, Detr...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Art in America, New York in an edition of CDVII/D. From the folio, The Four Se...

SERENATA DE GUITARRA by the South American artist Jorge Dumas(1928-1985), is an original hand drawn lithograph hand proofed and printed using traditional lithography techniques on ar...

Church is a modern artwork realized by Giovanni Stradone in the mid-20th century Black and white etching Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin Edition of 19/70 Includes frame

Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, A Los Toros Avec Picasso, 1961. Published by André Sauret, éditeur, Paris; prin...

Artist: Jamie Wyeth, American (1946 - ) Title: La Boheme (Metropolitan Opera) Year: 1978 Medium: Poster on Heavy Stock Size: 36 in. x 24 in. (91.44 cm x 60.96 cm)

Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. VII, N° 27-28, 1952. P...

Moulin Rouge. La Goulue and Valentin le Désossé  is a modern artwork realized in the mid-20th century. Mixed colored lithograph after H. de Toulouse-Lautrec. Original title: Moulin...

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Esther Lithograph from 1960. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.

Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Marc Chagall, Dessins Pour La Bible, Verv...

FAMILY IN BLUE is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the Trinidadian-American artist, Geoffrey Holder an actor, dancer, choreographer...

"Large Head of Vincent" by Alex Katz - sugarlift aquatint on Arches Cover paper. Offered in simple white wooden frame. Print size: 61 x 35.5 inches Frame s...

Lithograph in seventeen colors, on Arches paper. Year: 1958 Paper: Arches wove Signature & Inscription: Plate signed and dated in red at top center: “pour Gilberte et Serge, Picasso,...

Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Marc Chagall, Dessins Pour La Bible, Verv...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 36-37-38. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Édi...

Bold lithograph titled "Bread" by Kathe Kollwitz (German, 1867-1945). This piece is one of the Lithographic reproductions of the original lithographs, plate 2 from a series of 10, pr...

The Resurrection by Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904–1989) Date: 1979 Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 243/250 Image Size: 23 x 16 inches Size: 29.5 x 21.5 ...

Under the Crescent Moon is a black and white linocut on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by Mino Maccari. Hand-signed with the pseudonym "Jean ...

Dali’s Inferno by Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904–1989) Portfolio: Dali's Inferno Date: 1978 Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 2...

Artist: Sunol Alvar Title: Women with dove and Flowers Year: c.1980 Medium: Colors lithograph with embossing Edition: Numbered 28/195 in pencil Paper: Arches Image size: 16.75 x 21...

Artist: Jasper Johns Title: Untitled Medium: Screenprint in colors on Patapar printing parchment Year: 1977 Edition: 3000 Frame Size: 18 1/2" x 18 1/2" Sheet Size: 10 5/8" x 10 1/4" ...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°9, 1957. Published and printed under the direction of Gualti...

Héliogravure, collotype vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.23 x 17.32 inches; image size: 11.89 x 11.85 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the f...

An original fine art print by Jacob Lawrence from the Kent Spirit of Independence Poster Portfolio, published in 1975 by Lorillard. The offset prints from this portfolio are unsigned...

Charles Bragg, American (1931 - 2017) - Don Quixote 2, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Etching, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 8.5 x 10 inches, Size: 1...

This minimalistic portrait by Pablo Picasso features thin lines that outline and frame the features of the face without oversimplifying the understated, fresh composition. A restrike...

This reproduction of “Superman” by Mel Ramos, part of the De Young Museum’s permanent collection, showcases the artist’s signature Pop Art style, blending comic book aesthetics with ...

David Hockney is an English painter, printmaker, photographer, designer and dog-lover. Perhaps the most popular and versatile British artist of the 20th century, Hockney made appa...

Artist: Earnie Barnes (1938-2009) Title: Destination Unknown Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on archival paper Size: 25 x 19.5 inches Edition: 120/300, plus proofs Condition: Good Insc...

Linocut on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso: Grabados al linóleo. Published by Gustavo Gili, S.A., Barcelona, and...

RICHARD TESCHNER (Prague 1879 – 1948) From: A Thousand and One Nights - SURREALIST WOMAN DEAD IN A TREASURE BOX, 1917 Aquatint, Proof no. 17. Aqua...

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...

Artist: Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921-2006) Title: "L'Âne Trop Paisible Pour Les Enfants Cruels (A Donkey Too Gentle for the Cruel Children)" (Plate 19) Portfolio: Circus (Volume II) *Si...

Robert Longo Men in the Cities: Rare original 1985 announcement card published on the occasion of: Men In The Cities from November 9 - December 7, 1985 at Brooke Alexander, Inc.; 59...

Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 180, plus proofs. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Regar...

Untitled (Mirror) 1976 Serigraph Ed. Edition of 175 25.75 x 20.5 inches