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H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
This listing is for a single print, pictured, from the Das Werk portfolio by Gustav Klimt and k.k. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, published by H.O. Miethke. Gu...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Paper
Man, Wife and Child
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Man, Wife and Child
Etching, 1905
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist below image (see photo)
Annotated in pencil by the artist "100 proofs"
Signed and dated in the plate lower...
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Ashcan School Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Mele - Vintage Advertising Lithograph by L. Metlicovitz - 1900 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster is a beautiful colored lithograph on cardboard, realized by the Italian artist Leopoldo Metlicovitz (Trieste, 1868 - Ponte Lambro, 1944) and printed around 1900 by G. Ricordi and C. Milano, Milan. Monogrammed on plate on the left at the center.
A wonderful and fashionable vintage Art Nouveau advertising poster of the Neapolitan tailoring company "Mele" in excellent condition except for three visible abrasions of the paper on the right margin do not affect the image.
This Modern and colorful poster shows the Metlicovitz's full mastery of the artistic medium, has the dignity of an object of art to collect and could be a sophisticated piece of your home furniture.
Leopoldo Metlicovitz (Trieste, 1868 - Ponte Lambro, 1944)
The Italian painter, illustrator, theatrical and advertising scenographer is considered one of the precursors of Futurism and, together with Leonetto Cappiello, Adolf Hohenstein, Giovanni Maria Mataloni and Marcello Dudovich, one of the fathers of modern Italian poster art.
He began his artistic career at the age of fourteen working as an apprentice in a typography in Udine, where he learned the technique of lithography. Here he is noticed by Giulio Ricordi, owner of the namesake Officine Grafiche, who invites him to Milan to work as a lithographer. In 1892, after collaborating with Tensi, a photographic product company, he returned to Ricordi as technical director. At the same time, he entered the theatrical environment and began his career as a set designer and costume designer at La Scala. The Mele di Napoli tailoring company entrusted him with the task of advertising his clothes and in 1906, on the occasion of the great Universal Exposition in Milan, he won the competition for the fair poster, establishing himself also as a poster artist and then collaborating with several magazines as an illustrator. For Ricordi he takes care of the illustrations of calendars, opera librettos, postcards. Other famous images created by him are those for the poster of the film Cabiria, a blockbuster of the silent film scripted by Gabriele D'Annunzio, and the trademark that is still used today by the Brothers Branca Distilleries, producers of Fernet Branca...
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Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
"Seated Woman Semi-nude" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #2 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
"Smiling Woman Reclined" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #14 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
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, A Tuscan Farm
Located in New York, NY
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan's small, even 'miniaturist' etching, 'A Tuscan Farm,' features an idyllic view of a scene he would have encountered on his European...
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American Modern Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Etching
L'Aieule (The Grandmother)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'Aieule (The Grandmother)
Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1904
Signed with the red stamp of the publisher, Gustave Pellet, Lugt 1193 and numbered (see photo)
Edition: 100 (81/100)
Reference: Arwas 202 iv/IV
IFF 98
Condition: Excellent, the sheet aged as usual
Image size: 14 1/4 x 18 5/8"
Sheet size: 16 15/16 x 24 1/4"
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906.
Life
Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops.
Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all."
Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine.
Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891.
In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes).
Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others.
He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion.
Books illustrated
de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905.
Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Aquatint
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Water Snakes I" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Water Snakes I, no. 9 from the first installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts
Known by various names, Women Friends, Girlfriends, Water Snakes I and what Kli...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II" 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
The Gate of Hundred Sorrows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Gate of Hundred Sorrows
Etching, 1900
Signed in the plate lower right (see photo)
From: A Series of Thirty Etchings by William Strang, Illustrating Subjects from the Writings of...
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English School Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Etching
"La Promanade" Black and White Print of a Women in a Carriage Edition
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white print of an upper class women in a carriage. There are other figures in the back riding in a carriage as well. Edition 17 of 58. Painting is signed by the artist and ...
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Expressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Engraving
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Beethovan Frieze 1 & 2" set of collotype prints
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
Young Woman - Original Lithograph by Charles Lucien Léandre - 1903
Located in Roma, IT
Young Woman is an original lithograph artwork, realized in 1903 by Charles Lucien Léandre (1862–1934).
Signed on plate on the lower left and dated.
Th...
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Modern Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Danaë" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Danaë, no. 2 from the fourth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts
Danae originates from Greek mythology. She is the daughter of the King of Argos. Because a...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Paper
Can Can - Original Etching by Luigi Bonazza - 1905
By Luigi Bonazza
Located in Roma, IT
Can Can is a beautiful etching on paper, realized around 1905 by Luigi Bonazza (1877-1965).
Signed in pencil on the lower left margin. Inscription in pencil in Italian on the lower ...
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Modern Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Etching
S. Petrus - Vintage Advertising Lithograph by A. Terzi - 1900 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 26x18.2 cm.
S. Petrus is a beautiful colored lithograph on cardboard, realized by the Polish illustrator Franz Laskoff and printed aro...
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Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Das Grausen - Lithograph After A. Kubin - 1903
By After Alfred Kubin
Located in Roma, IT
Das Grausen is a lithograph realized after a work by Alfred Kubin in 1903, Hand-signed and titled, plate from Faksimiledrucke nach Kunstblättern, edition H. Von Weber.
Included a...
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Symbolist Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$1,969 Sale Price
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'Lida & the Swan', New York Armory Show, Ashcan School, ASL, NYMOMA, AIC, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Arthur B. Davies' for Arthur Bowen Davies (American, 1862-1928) and created circa 1915.
An early twentieth-century sugar-lift aquatint showing Zeus in the guise of a swan, reclining and cradling Lida in his wings while King Tyndareus ponders the mutability of human circumstance.
Born in Utica, New York, Arthur Davies attended the Chicago Academy of Design from 1879 to 1882. He furthered his studies at the Chicago Art Institute, before moving to New York City in 1885 where he studied at the Art Students League and Gotham Art Students League. In 1893, he made the first of many trips to Europe, visiting Holland, Paris, and London. He became an arch-exponent of Modernism and the central organizing figure of 1913's watershed Armory Show. Davies developed a style that combined visionary Symbolism with elements of Tonalism and Cubism.
Who Was Who in American Art describes him as an “…important but enigmatic Modernist whose work was poetic, mysterious, and visionary”. Davies was the recipient of many gold medals and prizes and juried awards and his work is held in the permanent collections of museums nationwide, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.
Photo of Arthur B Davies circa 1907 in New York City by Gertrude Käsebier courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
Reference:
Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 1, p. 835; Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, p. 280; Thieme-Becker Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zu Gengenwart, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 7/8, p. 470; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 4, p. 293; Davenport’s Art Reference and Price Guide 2009/10 Edition, LTB Gordonsart, Inc. 2008, p. 672; et al.
Additional biographical information follows, written by Catherine Southwick and Robert Torchia from the National Gallery of Art Online Editions:
Arthur B. Davies’s mystical, mysterious paintings hearken back to 19th-century romanticism, even while Davies aligned himself with American artists advancing the most radical ideals of their day. Davies was born on September 26, 1862, in Utica, New York, the son of English and Welsh parents who had immigrated to the United States in 1856. He first took art lessons as a teenager from a local landscape painter, Dwight Williams...
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Modern Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Paper, Aquatint
Taubenliebhaber (Pigeon Fanciers) - Original Etching by Arthur Kampf - 1904
By Arthur Kampf
Located in Roma, IT
Taubenliebhaber is a black and white etching on ivory-colored paper, realized by the German artist, Arthur Kampf.
Signed and dated on plate on lower left margin. From the portfolio “Deutscher Kunstverein zu Berlin “ published by Vereinsgabe, Berlin, in 1904-1905 and composed by a frontispiece, a index, and eleven etchings by Karl Koepping, Leopold Graf Kalckreuth, Hans Herrmann, Max Slevogt, Ludwig Hofmann, Reinhold Lepsius...
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Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Etching
Portrait de femme en buste, de profil a gauche, un tres large ruban noir du cou
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait de femme en buste, de profil a gauche, un tres large ruban noir du cou, Mme Marthe Letellier
Drypoint, 1900-1901
Signed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Titled in pencil low...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Drypoint
Le Bouquet de Violettes (The Bouquet of Violets) /// Figurative Impressionist
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Manuel Robbe (French, 1872-1936)
Title: "Le Bouquet de Violettes (The Bouquet of Violets)"
*Signed by Robbe in pencil lower right
Year: 1903
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Etc...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
$1,000 Sale Price
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Minne Playing with a Cat (Minne Jouant avec un Chat)
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Villon (1875-1963) etching, aquatint, and drypoint, Minne Playing with a Cat (Minne Jouant avec un Chat),1907, signed in pencil and numbered (12/30)(Ginestet and Pouillon 192...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Marie Henneberg" 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
Les Roses
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
La composition de cette lithographie représente 3 roses vues en gros plan sur un fond de paysage bucolique, mêlant un parterre de fleurs blanches et, au second plan, quelques silhoue...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph, Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Sonja Knips" 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
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Sisters" 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 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 house had become Klimt’s exclusive art dealer and main promoter of his modernist vision. Paul Bacher and Carl Moll, a founding member with Klimt of the Vienna Secession, who all broke away during the rift in 1905, took stewardship of the gallery following the fallout with the Secession. Das Werk Gustav Klimts is a prime example of Miethke’s masterful and revolutionary approach to marketing art. Miethke’s innovative marketing strategy played to a penchant for exclusivity. The art gallery and publishing house utilized the press and art critics- such as Austria’s preeminent Art Historian, Hugo Haberfield, who became Director of the gallery in 1912- as a means of gaining publicity as well as maintaining effective public relations. Miethke used the grand exposition format to extend the art gallery’s market reach, cultivating their product’s prestige by stroking the egos of current art patrons while simultaneously creating accessibility for newcomers and others avid collectors to share a relative proximity to other wealthy and respected members of the art collecting community. Essentially, their approach paved the way for what is still the predominant means of marketing.
Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published a total of 5 installments of print folios of Klimt’s painted work, each comprising 10 prints. The series was limited in availability to 300 and purchase was arranged through subscription. Each issue was presented unbound in a gold embossed black paper folder. Included in the folio was a Title Page, a Justification page and a Table of Contents page itemizing each of the 10 printed works with details about their corresponding painted works as well as information about each work’s current owner. These folios were not comprehensive of Klimt’s work; but rather, they feature what he believed were his most important paintings from 1898-1913. Only 2 collotypes in each folio were multicolored.
To punctuate the fact that Klimt, himself, was very much an active player in creating these printed works, he created square-shaped signets, unique to each collotype which were intaglio printed in gold ink at the bottom of the cream wove papers to which the chine collie papers were affixed.These signets relate thematically to their corresponding printed images and designate each of those images by their placement in the folio’s Table...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Archival Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Family" 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 w...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Black Feather Hat" 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
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Helene Klimt" 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
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Death and Life" 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
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Lady in Red and Black" 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 each of the 50 prints is a gold signet intaglio...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Paper
Les Robes de Paul Poiret
By Paul Iribe
Located in Wilton, CT
The first of Poiret's two deluxe fashion albums featuring 10 full page (2 fold-out) pochoir illustrations by Paul Iribe. Poiret's syles indicate the new freedom in women's fashions ...
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Art Deco Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Other Medium
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Life is a Struggle" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Life is a Struggle (The Golden Knight), no. 10 from the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts
With his golden armor meticulously and faithfully rendered after examples found ...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Archival Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Hope II" 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
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Pallas Athene" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Pallas Athene, no. 9 from the third installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts
The Klimt-led Vienna Secession which rebelled against the Academic State-run e...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Paper
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
Color aquatint and etching, c. 1906
Signed in pencil in the image (see photo)
Edition: c. 100
Reference: Merrill Chase, Volume 1, No. 85
Condition: F...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Aquatint
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Gertha Felsövanyi" 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
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Paula Zuckerkandl" 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
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Train of the Dead" 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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H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Fritza Riedler" 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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Le Déshabille, Impressionist Etching with Aquatint by Manuel Robbe, circa 1907
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Long Island City, NY
This etching with aquatint was created by French printmaker Manuel Robbe. Robbe’s innovative techniques, along with his sense of color harmony and his choice of subjects: stylish wom...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Parisienne /// Art Nouveau French Lithograph Impressionist Figurative Lady Woman
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Maurice Eliot (French, 1862-1945)
Title: "Parisienne"
Portfolio: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne
*Issued unsigned, though signed by Eliot in the plate (printed signature) low...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
'The Bath' — Meji Era Cross-Cultural Woman Artist
By Helen Hyde
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Helen Hyde, 'The Bath', color woodblock print, edition not stated, 1905, Mason & Mason 59. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Numbered '96' in pencil in the image, lower left. The artist's monogram in the block, lower left, and 'Copyright, 1905, by Helen Hyde.' upper right. A superb impression with fresh colors on tissue-thin cream Japanese paper; the full sheet with margins (7/16 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 16 1⁄4 x 10 1⁄8 in. (413 x 260 mm); sheet size: 19 1⁄4 x 11 1⁄8 in. (489 x 283 mm).
Impressions of this work are held in the following collections: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (De Young), Harvard Art Museums, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Terra Foundation for American Art, University of Oregon Museum of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Helen Hyde (1868-1919) was a pioneer American artist best known for advancing Japanese woodblock printmaking in the United States and for bridging Western and Japanese artistic traditions. Hyde was born in Lima, New York, but after her father died in 1872, her family relocated to Oakland, California, where she spent much of her youth.
Hyde pursued formal art education in the United States and Europe. She enrolled in the San Francisco School of Design, where she took classes from the Impressionist painter Emil Carlsen; two years later, she transferred to the Art Students League in New York, studying there with Kenyon Cox. Eager to expand her artistic repertoire, Hyde traveled to Europe, studying under Franz Skarbina in Berlin and Raphael Collin in Paris. While in Paris, she first encountered Japanese ukiyo-e prints, sparking a lifelong fascination with Japanese aesthetics. After ten years of study, Hyde returned to San Francisco, where she continued to paint and began to exhibit her work.
Hyde learned to etch from her friend Josephine Hyde in about 1885. Her first plates, which she etched herself but had professionally printed, represented children. On sketching expeditions, she sought out quaint subjects for her etchings and watercolors. In 1897, Hyde made her first color etchings—inked á la poupée (applying different ink colors to a single printing plate)—which became the basis for her early reputation. She also enjoyed success as a book illustrator, and her images sometimes depicted the children of Chinatown.
After her mother died in 1899, Hyde sailed to Japan, accompanied by her friend Josephine, where she would reside, with only brief interruptions, until 1914. For over three years, she studied classical Japanese ink painting with the ninth and last master of the great Kano school of painters, Kano Tomonobu. She also studied with Emil Orlik, an Austrian artist working in Tokyo. Orlik sought to renew the old ukiyo-e tradition in what became the shin hanga “new woodcut prints” art movement. She immersed herself in the study of traditional Japanese printmaking techniques, apprenticing with master printer Kanō Tomonobu. Hyde adopted Japanese tools, materials, and techniques, choosing to employ the traditional Japanese system of using craftsmen to cut the multiple blocks and execute the exacting color printing of the images she created. Her lyrical works often depicted scenes of family domesticity, particularly focusing on women and children, rendered in delicate lines and muted colors.
Through her distinctive fusion of East and West, Hyde’s contributions to Western printmaking were groundbreaking. At a time when few Western women ventured to Japan, she mastered its artistic traditions and emerged as a significant figure in the international art scene.
Suffering from poor health, she returned to the United States in 1914, moving to Chicago. Having found restored health and new inspiration during an extended trip to Mexico in 1911, Hyde continued to seek out warmer climates and new subject matter. During the winter of 1916, Hyde was a houseguest at Chicora Wood, the Georgetown, South Carolina, plantation illustrated by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith in Elizabeth Allston Pringle’s 1914 book A Woman Rice Planter. The Lowcountry was a revelation for Hyde. She temporarily put aside her woodcuts and began creating sketches and intaglio etchings of Southern genre scenes and African Americans at work. During her stay, Hyde encouraged Smith’s burgeoning interest in Japanese printmaking and later helped facilitate an exhibition of Smith’s prints at the Art Institute of Chicago.
During World War I, Hyde designed posters for the Red Cross and produced color prints extolling the virtues of home-front diligence.
In ill health, Hyde traveled to be near her sister in Pasadena a few weeks before her death on May 13, 1919. She was buried in the family plot near Oakland, California.
Throughout her career, Hyde enjoyed substantial support from galleries and collectors in the States and in London. She exhibited works at the St. Louis Exposition in 1897, the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo in 1901, the Tokyo Exhibition for Native Art (where she won first prize for an ink drawing) in 1901, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition in Seattle in 1909 (received a gold medal for a print), the Newark Museum in 1913, a solo show at the Chicago Art Institute in 1916, and a memorial exhibition in 1920, Detroit Institute of Arts, Color Woodcut Exhibition in 1919, New York Public Library, American Woodblock Prints...
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Showa Early 1900s Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
LE POTIN
Located in Portland, ME
Villon, Jacques (French, 1875-1963) LE POTIN (GP E96) Drypoint and aquatint printed in green, 1904, Edition of 50. Printed on Arches paper, signed and numbered 32 in pencil. Publishe...
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Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Fra Åsgårdstrand (Schiefler 260; Woll 289), Edvard Munch
By Edvard Munch
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Drypoint on gewöhnlichem aber holzfreiem vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the album, Verzeichnis Des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs Bis 1...
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Expressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$15,996 Sale Price
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A la Corrida
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A la Corrida
Color aquatint, c. 1900
Signed "Osterlind" lower right in red pencil
Annotated: "No. 96" in pencil lower left
Edition: about 100
Published by Sagot, Paris: their blindst...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Katabexine
Located in Hinsdale, IL
CAPPIELLO, LEONETTO
(1875 - 1942)
"Katabexine"
Lithograph in color, linen-backed c. 1903
Sheet size: 54.25” x 39”
Cap./GP, 252; Cap/StV, 4.22; DFP-II, 118; Schardt, pp. 174-5; PAI-V...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
LES PETITS HALEURS
Located in Portland, ME
Villon, Jacques. LES PETITS HALEURS. GP 176. Etching and Aquatint, 1907. Edition of 50 on Arches laid paper, signed and numbered in pencil, 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 inch...
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Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Der Polster
By Max Kurzweil
Located in New York, NY
Kurzweil, Maximilian. Der Polster, 1903. Color woodcut on japon. Included as an insert in Pan. Unsigned. Framed.11 1/4 x 10 1/4. 1
Ref: Hofstatter, p. 241; Pabst, p. 154.
Maximillian Kurzweil was the co-founder of the Vienna Secession in 1897 and editor and illustrator of the influential Secessionist magazine Ver Sacrum...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
CAKE WALK DES PETITES FILLES
Located in Portland, ME
Villon, Jacques. CAKE WALK DES PETITES FILLES. GP.102, second state of four. Drypoint and aquatint in colors, 1904. Edition of only 10 (there was an edition of 30 in state 4, with th...
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Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Le Fondeur Paris [Steel Worker]
Located in New York, NY
Carriere, Eugene. Le Fondeur, Paris 1900 [Steel Worker], Color lithograph.
Ref: Das Fruhe Plakat 134. 51 x 34 3/4 inches.
Eugène Anatole Ca...
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Symbolist Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Kvinnehode (Schiefler 259; Woll 288), Edvard Munch
By Edvard Munch
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Drypoint on gewöhnlichem aber holzfreiem vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the album, Verzeichnis Des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs Bis 1...
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Expressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$15,996 Sale Price
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Early 20th century aquatint landscape figure boat water trees lake print signed
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Le Pecheur' is an excelletn example of the aquatints of Manuel Robbe, a French artists working during the turn of the 20th century. The image draws upon th...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Ouverture de la Chasse ua Bois de Boulogne
Located in New York, NY
Sem, (George Goursart). Ouverture de la Chasse ua Bois de Boulogne..
Ca 1900. Signed in the stone. Slight center vertical fold, otherwise in
very good condition.
Signed in the sto...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
20th century engraving figurative print interior dramatic black and white signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Les Emigrants" is an original roller engraving by Auguste Brouet. The artist signed the piece lower right and wrote the edition number (30/50) lower left. This engraving depicts a f...
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Modern Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Ballerina - Original B/W Etching by Auguste Legrand - 1900s
Located in Roma, IT
The Ballerina is a black and white etching realized by Auguste Legrand (French artist active between 1825 and 1860).
In very good conditions.
This modern artwork represents a balle...
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Modern Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$349 Sale Price
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Les Faneuses
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Camille Pissarro
Title: Les Faneuses
Portfolio: l'Histoire des Peintres Impressionistes
Medium: Etching on cream laid paper
Date: 1906
Edition: 1000
Frame Size: 19 1/2" x 17"...
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Modern Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Color Aquatint
Located in New York, NY
Ca. 1900. Original color aquatint. Very fine impression on cream laid Arches paper, signed in pencil lower right and numbered. No. 16 of 30 impressions. Full Margins. 17 1/2 x 12" Im...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Alphonse Mucha Figures Decoratives Poster Plate 7
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 red umber and white pigments on...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
$1,680 Sale Price
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TURNING OUT THE LIGHT
By John Sloan
Located in Portland, ME
Sloan, John. TURNING OUT THE LIGHT. M. 134. Etching, 1905. 5 x 7 inches; 127 x 178 mm. (plate), 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 (sheet). Titled, inscribed "100 Proofs" and signed, all in pencil. Whi...
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Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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