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Period: Early 1900s
Seasons: Autumn - Original lithograph (Catalog raisonne Bridges P50), 1903
Located in Paris, IDF
Alphonse Mucha Seasons: Autumn, 1903 Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate Printed on paper 71 x 31 cm (c. 27.9 x 12.2 inches) On paper linen on canvas, 75 x 35.5 cm (c...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original Quinquina Royal Est un vrai trésor vintage liquor poster c.1902
Located in Spokane, WA
Quinquina Royal Est un vrai trésor. Original Quinquina Royal antique French liquor poster. Artist: Eugene Oge. Size: 38.75" x 55". Archiv...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Peste Dessous Peste Dessus Peste Partout!-Original Etching by James Ensor-1900s
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on zinc plate, realized in 1904 on japan paper. It is signed in plate in small letters at the bottom right. On the lower right margin, it is signed also in pencil. Not dated...
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Modern Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Original Le Boxer Caricature vintage French antique lithograph sports poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original boxing print with the initials P.B. in the upper left corner. Printer Ed. Sagot Editeur, Paris. Professional acid-free archival linen backed and ready to frame. Excel...
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Art Deco Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Japanese Kimono Fabric Design — Vintage Color Woodblock Print
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anonymous, Japanese Kimono Fabric Design, color woodcut, c. 1930. A superb impression, with fresh colors, fine graduations, and metallic gold motifs, on ...
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Showa Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Guillaumin au pendu (Guillaumin with Hanged Man)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Paul Cezanne Title: Guillaumin au pendu (Guillaumin with Hanged Man) Portfolio: l'Histoire des Peintres Impressionistes Medium: Etching on cream laid paper Date: 1906 Edition...
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Modern Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Gunner Riding - Original Etching by Giovanni Fattori - 1900 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 16.5x10 cm Signed on plate by the artist. Bibliography: A.Baboni, L’Ottocento: le incisioni di Giovanni Fattori, Museo Civico “Giovanni Fattori”, Livorno 2001, p. 7...
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Naturalistic Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

HAMBURGER KNIEPPE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KATHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945) HAMBURGER KNIEPPE, 1901) (K.58 IIIb) Soft Ground Etching, Plate 9 ¾ x 8 ¼ sheet 10 ½ x 13 ¾. With the von de Becke blind stamp in the lower right. Prin...
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Expressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Kiss" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
The Kiss, no. 1 from the fifth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Undoubtedly Klimt’s best known and most reproduced images, this printed version of The Kiss is the only one with which Klimt was directly involved. Unveiled at Vienna’s Kunstschau 1908, and saved for the fifth and final delivery of Das Werk, The Kiss marks a triumph in Klimt’s career and represents a culmination of many themes in his oeuvre up to that point. After all of the controversy surrounding the State’s prior rejection of the University murals commissioned from Klimt, the Ministry of Education reversed their policy toward the artist with a show of wholehearted support by purchasing for the Osterreichische Galerie BelvedereThe Kiss while it still hung in the Kunstschau exhibit. Considered in relation to the eight multicolored collotypes which preceded its print debut in the Das Werk portfolio, The Kiss literally embraces all which came before it. The golden seaweed dangling in tresses from the lovers’ feet harkens back to Water Snakes I and II. The bed of flowers evokes the settings Klimt created in both The Golden Knight and The Sunflower. In fact, this image sprung out of a particularly happy summer spent in the company of Klimt’s lover, Emilie Floge...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper

Original Vintage Secession Poster celebrating the emperor's jubilee
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Poster by the Austrian artist Ferdinand Ludwig Graf, a member of the Hagenbund. This Viennese artist association moved as soon a...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Paper

Dance at Gopsmor /// Impressionist Swedish Anders Zorn Etching Party Antique
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920) Title: "Dance at Gopsmor" *Signed by Zorn in pencil lower right. It is also signed and dated in the plate (printed signature) lower left Year: 1906 (second state of two) Medium: Original Etching on cream Van Gelder Zonen laid paper Limited edition: approx. 50 impressions Printer: the artist Zorn himself, Mora, Sweden Publisher: the artist Zorn himself, Mora, Sweden Reference: Asplund No. 197; Hjert & Hjert No. 205; Loys Delteil No. 192 Framing: Recently framed in a gold ornate moulding and 100% cotton rag matting with 99% UV protective Museum Glass. All archival Framed size: 22.75" x 18.25" Sheet size (irregular margins): 16.5" x 11" Image size: 11.88" x 7.75" Condition: A strong impression in very good condition Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Chicago, IL; acquired from Rothschild & Company, Chicago, IL in the early 1900's. Fleur-de-lis shield with text underneath (Van Gelder Zonen) watermark in center of sheet. "Towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century, Anders Zorn became increasingly interested in the history and ancient traditions of his native town Mora and its wider cultural territories which at the time, as a result of industrialisation and urbanisation, were begining to disappear. In 1904, Anders Zorn purchased an ancient farmhouse which he moved to the parish of Gopsmor, situated by the river Dal, North-West of Mora. The simple ritualistic lifestyle of its people, with whom he felt affinity, and Gopsmor's geographical isolation, became for Zorn, a place of refuge for the cosmopolitan artist". - Christie's, London, UK Biography: Anders Leonard Zorn...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Laid Paper, Etching, Intaglio

L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera /// French Impressionist Etching Figurative Lady Man
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Tony Minartz (French, 1873-1944) Title: "L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera" Portfolio: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne *Issued unsigned Year: 1903 Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Unknown Publisher: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne, Paris, France Framing: Recently framed in a traditional gold and black moulding with 100% cotton rag matting Framed size: 18.63" x 16.38" Sheet size: 12" x 9" Image size: 9" x 7.25" Condition: In excellent condition Notes: Printed in one color: bistre. This review was founded in 1897 in the continuity of the review Les Beaux-Arts published between 1861 and 1865; Jules Comte, the founder, entitled his first issue Les Beaux-Arts - Revue nouvelle then changed the title to La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Jules Comte directed the review until his death in 1912. Raymond Woog took over , who was provisional director until the start of the war in July 1914. In 1919, André Dezarrois took over this review and was its director until December 1937, date of last issue (published in January 1938). In the meantime, it publishes the Bulletin of ancient and modern art, which has gained a certain notoriety in the community. Biography: Tony Minartz, pseudonym of Antoine Guillaume, born 8 April 1873 to Cannes and died in that city on 13 December 1944 Is a painter, draftsman , illustrator and engraver French. Painter autodidact , Tony Minartz starts to become known in 1896 by exhibiting paintings at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts , and then decorates the Pompadour theater of painted panels for fashion shows " Grand Guignol ", directed by L. Darthenay. In 1903, Henri Béraldi , with whom he worked, praised him in The Journal of ancient and modern art, writing that "it was thirty years ago," and he has received advice from Paul Renouard to be formed the technique of etching ; Béraldi adds that his favorite subjects are "Paris at night Paris at night, always." Minartz also gives them some high-remarkable in The Journal of ancient and modern art until 1910: balls, cafe concerts, Parisian in their most beautiful dresses, but also music-halls, music halls, restaurants, large and small theaters, are the preferred settings of his compositions. Its fertile period seems to end in 1914. In addition to the National Salon, Minartz exhibited in Paris at the gallery Bartholomew (1903), the Independent Living (1905, 1906) and the gallery Devambez (1909) and received the Academic Palms . He occasionally collaborates with periodic illustrated as The Almanac Sports (Ollendorff, 1899), or satirical as Gil Blas...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Laid Paper, Intaglio, Etching

L'Angellus
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'Angellus Etching, engraving and acquatint on Arches paper, 1902 Signed lower right by the artist (see photo) This is a first state impression printed in a brown/black ink, one of ...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

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...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"Masturbating Woman" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #9 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Paper

Zolfi - Original Advertising Lithograph by G. E. Malerba - 1905 ca.
By Gian Emilio Malerba
Located in Roma, IT
Zolfi is a beautiful colored lithographed original manifesto on cardboard, realized around 1905 by the Italian artist Gian Emilio Malerba (Milan, 1880 - 1926). Printed by Officine R...
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Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Flirt Biscuits by Alphonse Mucha
Located in Hinsdale, IL
ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860 – 1939) Flirt Biscuits Rennert/Weill 72 Lithograph in colors c. 1900 Signed in stone, lower right margin Image: 24” x 11”, Paper: 25 ¼” x 11 ¾” F...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Old Horse - Etching by Giovanni Fattori - 1900-1908 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20.2 x 15.3 cm. The Old Horse is a superb original etching (on copper matrix) on paper, signed on plate by the Italian Macchiaioli master...
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Naturalistic Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

"Woman Leaning Forward" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #3 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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"Couple Making Love" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #4 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Kli...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Venus and her Sisters - Etching by Max Klinger - 1909
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and aquatint realized in 1909. Belongs to the series "Amor und Psyche. Opus V". Very good condition.
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Symbolist Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Lait pur de la Vingeanne (Pure Milk from Vingeanne), Lithographic poster.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
It is framed with black moulding all around. Era: Late 19th to early 20th century, often categorized under the Art Nouveau movement. The poster litho size is 36"x24", print informat...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Omegas Død (Omega's Death) /// Edvard Munch Alpha and Omega Expressionist Litho
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) Title: "Omegas Død (Omega's Death)" Portfolio: Alfa og Omega (Alpha and Omega) *Signed by Munch in pencil lower right Year: 1908-1909 Medi...
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Expressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Mädchen am Fenster. 1906-08.
Located in New York, NY
Mädchen am Fenster. 1906-08. Color lithograph printed on smooth card stock. Full margins. Tipped into a later presentaion folder, signed by the artist in pencil, on the recto. Published by the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, with the printed postcard text on verso. Among Kokoschka's earliest prints were a series of 14 postcards, the current work and the following lot that he produced for the Wiener Werkstätte. Wingler/Welz 4. Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Portrait de petite fille, en buste, cheveux sur les epaules (Ellen 14 ans)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait de petite fille, en buste, cheveux sur les epaules (Ellen 14 ans) Portrait of a little girl, bust, hair on shoulders) Drypoint, 1902 Signed lower right corner Very small ed...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Drypoint

Claude Renoir, la Tete Baisee (Claude Renoir, Head Lowered)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Claude Renoir, la Tete Baisee (Claude Renoir, Head Lowered) Lithograph, 1904 Edition 1,000, this one of 950 on wove paper with the stamp signature (there were also 50 impressions pri...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"Sleeping Couple" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #15 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Kl...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Paper

Psyche on a Rock - Etching by Max Klinger - 1909
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and aquatint realized in 1909. Belongs to the series "Amor und Psyche. Opus V". Very good condition.
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Symbolist Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Original Liqueur Menthe Pastille vintage French drink poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Liqueur Menthe Pastille antique French stone lithograph poster (E. Giffard distillateur) linen-backed in very good condition, ready to frame. Artist: Misti. Turn of the c...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Fifth Avenue Critics.
Located in Storrs, CT
Fifth Avenue Critics. 1909. Etching. Morse 128.x/xi. 6 x 8 (sheet 9 3/4 x 12 1/4). Edition 100 in this state (few proofs in earlier states, and a large unsigned edition printed for t...
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American Modern Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

English Victorian 19th Horse Racing scene with Jockeys
Located in Woodbury, CT
Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life. Aldin executed village scenes and rura...
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Victorian Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Adam and Eve / - United in Death -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Thoma (1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe), Adam and Eve, 1897. Algraph on strong wove paper, published by Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig as ‘Zeitgenössisches Kunstblatt Nr. 113’, 44...
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Realist Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Paper

Alphonse Mucha Sarah Bernhardt Lefèvre-Utile 1903
Located in Dallas, TX
Mucha, Alfons Maria 1860 - 1939 Lefevre-Utile - Sarah Bernhardt Lithograph 1903 Dimensions: 27.5 x 20 in. (70 x 51 cm) Framed: 28 x 35.5 Inches Printe...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Paper

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Three Ages of Woman" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Paper

Roofs, Summer Night.
Located in Storrs, CT
Roofs, Summer Night. 1906. Etching. Morse catalog 137 state ii. 5 1/4 x 7 (sheet 9 1/2 x 12 1/8). Series: New York City Life. A fine impression on cream ...
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American Modern Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Harem - Heliogravure - 1906
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 17.7 x 13.5 cm. The Harem is a black and white héliogravure on paper, realized in 1906 by an anonymous Austrian artist. An original illu...
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Symbolist Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Engraving

"Reclined Woman w/Necklace" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print - Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #7 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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"Masturbating Woman on Couch" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print - Courtesan Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #5 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Kli...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Nuda Veritas" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper wi...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Landscape - Etching on Paper by Francesco Vitalini - 1904
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original etching artwork realized in the 1904 ca. by Italian artist Francesco Vitalini. Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil. The State of preservation is very ...
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Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Lionne à l'affût - Etching and Aquatint by Evert van Muyden - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Lionne à l'affût is a wonderful etching on cream-colored laid paper, realized in 1900 by Evert Van Muyden (1853-1922). Signed and dated on plate on the lower left margin, this beaut...
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Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Hotel du Pacha Noir (before lettering).
Located in New York, NY
Hotel Pachenoir, 1900. Color lithograph. On Linen 51 x36. ( Image Size: 48 x33 3/4.) Jules-Alexandre Grünwas a French post-impressionist painter, poster artist, and illustrator. ......
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"Women Sleeping Face Down" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesan Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #12 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Flowers
Located in PARIS, FR
Alphonse MUCHA (1860-1939) "Flowers" Variante 2 Rare original lithograph Each flower, carnation, iris, lily and rose, is signed at the lower part of the plate "Mucha". This lithogra...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper

POLSTER (The Cushion)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAXIMILLIAN KURZWEIL (Austrian 1867-1916) DER POLSTER / THE CUSHION, 1903. Color woodcut printed on laid japon paper, affixed as usual to a support sheet from its upper sheet edge...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Etching of John Knox's House Hedley Fitton RA
By Hedley Fitton
Located in New York, NY
Hedley Fitton (British, c. 1857-1929) John Knox's House, c. 1900 Etching 17 x 12 3/4 in. Framed: 25 x 20 1/2 in. Signed in the plate by Hedley Fitton Sig...
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English School Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

A Greek Idyll - Proof Etching by Robert Walker MacBeth after G F Watts
Located in London, GB
ROBERT WALKER MACBETH (British 1848-1910) After GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS (British 1817-1904) A Greek Idyll Proof etching Signed in pencil by both the artist l.l. and engraver l.r. Framed Plate size 42 by 54 cm., 16 ½ by 21 ¼ in. (frame size 72.5 by 85 cm., 28 ½ by 33 ½ in.) After Watt’s 1894 painting...
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Pre-Raphaelite Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Water Snakes II" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Water Snakes II, no. 9 from the fourth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts The last painting Klimt exhibited with the Secession before resigning, Water ...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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"Woman w/Lace Garment" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #6 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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La Toilette
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Toilette Drypoint, 1908 Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos) Edition: 65 this state (35/65) Published by Gustave Pellet (1859-1919),...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Drypoint

"Woman Leaning Over Chair" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesan Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #8 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Kli...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Emilie Flöge" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Portrait of Emilie Flöge, no. 10 from the first installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts His confidante and life companion of more than 30 years, Klimt capt...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Pyramus and Thisbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pyramus and Thisbe Etching, c.1906 Signed along bottom edge in pencil "Augustus E John" Edition: 25 Reference: Dodgson 91 ii/II Condition: Excellent Plate: 5 1/8 x 4" (13.02 x 10.16 ...
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Young British Artists (YBA) Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Etching

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "University of Vienna Murals" 3 collotype prints
Located in Chicago, IL
This listing is for 3 collotypes: "Medicine", "Jurisprudence", and "Philosophy", pictured, from the Das Werk portfolio by Gustav Klimt and k.k. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, published by H.O. Miethke. Gustav Klimt created glyphs, unique to each of these pieces, specifically for this portfolio. Further information below: About the portfolio: DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under each of the 50 prints is a gold signet intaglio printed on the cream paper each of which Klimt designed for the publication as unique and relating to its corresponding image; H.O. Miethke, Editor-Publisher; k.k. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, Printer; printed in a limited edition of 300 numbered plus several presentation copies; Vienna, 1908-1914. The idea of collaboration in the arts is anything but new; however it has so often been viewed and assessed as somehow devaluing the intrinsic worth of art. It’s as if it was a dirty secret to be hidden away. More so even than the eroticism explored by Klimt, which divided public opinion, the artistic avant-garde began to boldly flaunt artistic collaboration beginning in the 19th century- which gained steam in the first part of the 20th century- to become a driving vehicle of contemporary artistic creation. Viewed in this context, the folios of collotype prints published by H.O. Miethke in Vienna between 1908-1914 known as Das Werk Gustav Klimts, are important art documents worthy of as much consideration for their bold stand they take on established ways of thinking about artistic collaboration as they are for their breathtakingly striking images. 1908 is indeed a watershed moment in the history of art. To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I, Kunstschau opened in Vienna in May of that year. It was there that Klimt delivered the inaugural speech. Speaking about the avant-garde group’s unifying philosophy of Gesamtkunstwerk, or the synthesis of the arts, Klimt shared his belief that the ideal means to bring artists and an audience together was via “work on major art projects.” It was at Kunstschau 1908 that Klimt first exhibited his most iconic painting, The Kiss, as well as The Sunflower, Water Snakes I and II and Danae. It was at Kunstschau 1908 that Das Werk Gustav Klimts was first available for purchase. Thanks to Galerie Miethke’s organization, Kunstschau 1908 was possible. Miethke’s pioneering art...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Virgins" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
The Virgins, no. 2 from the fifth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts The Virgins speaks to a new chapter of Klimt’s artistic development. That it was sel...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Judith I" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Judith I, no. 9 from the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Much like his treatment of the Classical personage, Danae, from Greek mythology, Klimt’s depiction of Judith takes an Old Testament character, a heroine who avenges the death of her husband by killing an Assyrian king, and firmly positions her in his present-day Vienna. His multicolored collotype rips the canvas from its gilded frame which directly references the subject with its title: “Judith und Holofernes”. Now in print form, Judith, holding the severed head of a male in murky shadow, is the ultimate Viennese femme fatale. Her likeness is unmistakably similar to a former lover of Klimt’s and famous Viennese soprano, Anna von Mildenburg. Though his allusion to ancient Assyria is apt, Klimt literally lifted the gold patterned background’s design motif from a relief detail from Sennacherib’s Palace displayed in a London museum. His context then is contemporary. In a sensual and sexually powerful tour de force, Klimt’s Judith...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink

Alphonse Mucha Figures Decoratives Plate 30
Located in Dallas, TX
A framed Art Nouveau lithograph collotype poster by Alphone Mucha from 1905 representing the artist’s sketches of nudes, women and beautiful ladies in blues and white pigments on vel...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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"Three Women Asleep" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #13 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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English Bar
Located in Storrs, CT
English Bar. 1908. Etching and drypoint. Exsteens catalog 275 state ii. 8 1/8 x 5 5/8 (sheet 17 3/8 x 12 1/4). Series: Les Bars. Edition 65 in this state (total edition 95). Printed ...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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English Bar
English Bar
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"Sleeping Woman" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #1 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Kli...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints

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