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Period: Early 20th Century
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 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Illustration from the series "Les Fleurs du Mal" after Odilon Redon - 1923
By Odilon Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Illustration from the series "Les Fleurs du Mal" is an etching print realized after Odilon Redon and published by Henri Felury in 1923.
Monogrammed on the plate.
Good conditions, w...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,083 Sale Price
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E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Kneeling Female, Semi-Nude" Collotype plate
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
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Vienna Secession Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Weddigen - Vintage Héliogravure by Franz von Bayros - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Weddigen" is an original Black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1924).
From Mappe...
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
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 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper
Matisse, Plume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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DeVilbiss Purfume Art Deco Poster by George Petty for the A.C. Schultz Company
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful Art Deco poster was realized by the esteemed American Artist George Petty for the A.C. Schultz Company in 1926. The work is an advertisement for DeVilbiss Perfume, which depicts a "Petty Girl" (as they came to be known) in the center of the composition floating in a pentagonal black color block. With short cropped silvery white hair and red lipstick, the female figure in center (suggestive of a stylized flapper) squeezes the atomizer of her perfume bottle misting herself in fragrance. Skyscraper style geometric forms suggesting elaborately faceted gemstones- in hues of rose, lavender, orange sapphire and yellow diamond- explode around her, suggesting the stage design for the set of the iconic film "Metropolis". The top of the composition features a bronze color block reading "DeVilbiss Perfume sprays" and in scrolling Deco lettering text reads “A drop of perfume bursting into myriad atoms of fragrance makes the use of perfume an added delight” near the bottom of the piece. Additionally, there is a solid black color block with crystalline black forms emanating outwards at the base of the composition, as well as a geometric abstract form on the right side of the piece imbuing it with a distinctly modernist inflection. With its quintessentially Art Deco sensibility, this piece is sure to delight discerning collectors of the period as well as those with a distinct appreciation for unusual (and stunning) fine art pieces. its vibrant palate and clean modernist lines make this piece a winning addition to any style of interior from classic Deco to contemporary. The piece comes presented in a custom gallery frame and is in excellent vintage condition.
George Petty was an American illustrator known for his series of pin-ups known as "Petty Girls" which he created for Esquire magazine. The Petty Girl were coquettish women whose legs were elongated to create idealized female forms. They were featured on magazine centerfolds, billboards, and calendars for companies such as Ridgid Tools. Born George Brown Petty IV on April 27, 1894 in Abbeville, LA, Petty received his formal training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under Ruth Van Sickle Ford...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
India Figurative Landscape 1910 Buddha Rare Early Original Etching
Located in Norfolk, GB
Ernest Stephen Lumsden RE, RSA
Ernest Stephen Lumsden RE, RSA
(1883 – 1948)
Buddha
Frame Size: 40.7cm x 52.5cm
Image: 21cm x 34 cm
Lumsden reference: 254
Edition 33/50
Whatman w...
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Other Art Style Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Death and the Woodcutter - Original wooodcut, Handsigned and numbered / 160
Located in Paris, IDF
Gabriel BELOT (1882-1962)
Death and the Woodcutter, 1925
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of the ed...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled: Female Dancer
By Troy Kinney
Located in New York, NY
Troy Kinney (American 1871 - 1938) "Untitled: Female Dancer", Figurative Drypoint/ Etching/ Pencil signed on bottom right hand corner, 13 x 10 (18.75 x 14, In Frame), Early 20th Century
Troy Kinney (December 1, 1871 – January 29, 1938) was an American artist, etcher, and author. He was most notable for his works portraying dance performers, fanciful subjects, and classically styled nudes...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Pencil, Drypoint, Etching
Two Girls with Horses and Dog - Signed Stone Lithograph - 1928
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN
Two Girls with Horses and Dog (1928)
Stone Lithograph
Printed in Atelier Mourlot
Printed signature in the plate
On China paper 31 x 42 c...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Kostume, Plakate, und Dekorationen, "The Blue Flame"
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East.
In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color.
SCHNACKENBERG: KOSTUME, PLAKATE UND DEKORATIONEN, a cardboard bound art book consisting of 43 prints of work by Walter Schnackenberg, 30 of which are color lithographs that are signed and some are titled and dated in the plate, as well as black and white prints and photographs with accompanying text by Oskar Bie; lithographs printed at Kunstanstalt Oskar Consee in Munich, other images printed by Gesellschaft Pick & Co. in Munich, the text and cover with color images by Schnackenberg front and verso printed by R. Oldenbourg in Munich; published by Musarion Verlag, Munich, 1920.
The majority of Walter Schnackenberg’s artistic output was destroyed by bomb attacks in Munich in 1944. The highly publicized 2013 auction in New York of the recovered pre-war poster collection once belonging to German poster aficionado, Hans Sachs has reintroduced the world to Walter Schnackenberg’s graphic genius and priceless ephemeral art from a lost era. Besides the museum world, designer Karl Lagerfeld is one of the most prodigious collectors of Schnackenberg. Flipping through the pages of Kostume, Plakate und Dekorationen, it becomes quite clear that Schnackenberg’s collection is ground zero at the crossroads of early modern fashion where the cult of celebrity meets up with dance, music, theater and cabaret, film and the graphic medium. Berlin and Munich under Germany’s Weimar Republic in the first quarter of the 20th century produced just the atmosphere to feed this burgeoning industry. Rising inflation sparked a recklessness to live large for the moment and heightened a desire for escapism. An influx of Indian and East Asian dancers and musicians added to the artsy bohemian cultural mix. A new decadence and tolerance resulted. Film boldly featured provocative subject matter. Cabarets became popular venues giving rise to the demi-monde in which people from all social stations mixed more freely in a thriving underground economy and culture where there was a blurring of boundaries and of social codes. Noted art historian and cultural doyen, Oskar Bie astutely observes in his introduction to Schnackenberg’s publication that what unites the images is fantasy and advertisement. Schnackenberg uses the eye as an instrument to brilliantly construct and convey this double message. His personages never directly confront the viewer. Their eyes gaze off in the distance like those of the screenplayer and film star Hedamaria Scholz in Schnackenberg’s “Die Rodelhexe” movie poster. Their eyes follow the path of a dance composition or become a transfixed and ogling male gaze such as the iconic 1911 Odeon Casino poster...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Triumph der Salome - Vintage Héliogravure by Franz von Bayros - 1921 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Triumph der Salome is a black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1924).
From Mappe, ...
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
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...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Patient, Doctor, Death and Devil - Etching and Aquatint by E. Nolde, 1911
By Emil Nolde
Located in Roma, IT
Patient, Doctor, Death and Devil, is an original etching and aquatint on paper, realized by Emil Nolde in 1911, hand-signed, titled and numbered IV.5, total edition 30 copies in 5...
Category
Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Studies - Original Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Studies is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is the plate n.10 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of Der Malik-V...
Category
Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
$343 Sale Price
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Three Whorehouses - Lithograph by Luc-Albert Moreau - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Three Whorehouses is a Lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by Luc Albert Moreau.
The artwork is in good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (48.5x32.5 cm).
Han...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Crying Women - Original Lithograph by Ferdinand Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
The Falling Woman is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922.
Signed and dated on plate on the lower left corner: F. ...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$270 Sale Price
25% Off
Ballet und Pantomime "Maskerade", plate #9.
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East.
In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color.
SCHNACKENBERG BALLET UND PANTOMIME...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
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 20th Century Figurative Prints
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Paper
Les Arcades, Dieppe France (the arches along coastline of a town in Normandy)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The image show a panoramic view of the architectural arches and the boats in the harbor of Dieppe in Normandy France. Dieppe was occupied by German naval and army forces after the f...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Salome Tanzt - Vintage Héliogravure by Franz von Bayros - 1921 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Salome Tanzt is a colored cliché from watercolor on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, as is remembered Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1924).
From Mappe, ...
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Kuwana Station - Woodcut after Utagawa Hiroshige -1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Kuwana Station is an original modern artwork realized after Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in 1920s.
Original woodcut print oban yokoe. After the famous Tokaido series, ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$270 Sale Price
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Poem : The Happiness of this World - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
MORIN-JEAN (1877-1940)
Poem : The Happiness of this World, 1929
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
OLD MAN WITH BOWL OF FRUIT
Located in Portland, ME
Heintzelman, Arthur William. OLD MAN WITH BOWL OF FRUIT. 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches,250 x 197 mm., with wide margins. Signed in pencil. In excellent condition.
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Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
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 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Ballet und Pantomime "Columbine", plate #20.
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East.
In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color.
SCHNACKENBERG BALLET UND PANTOMIME...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ballet und Pantomime "Bingha", plate #8.
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East.
In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color.
SCHNACKENBERG BALLET UND PANTOMIME...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Lily of the valley - Etching, Handsigned
By Mily Possoz
Located in Paris, IDF
Mily POSSOZ
Lily of the valley
MEDIUM : Etching
SIGNATURE : Handsigned
LIMITED : 60 copies
PAPER : Rives vellum
SIZE : 20 x 13"
INFORMATIONS : B...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
Matisse, Plume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Ange Déchu - after Odilon Redon - 1923
By Odilon Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Ange Déchu is a prototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon.
They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923.
Tit...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
$144 Sale Price
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Le Modèle au Manteau Noir - Etching by Albert Besnard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful print on verge, 1st state on 3 after which several changes were made. Numbered, signed and noted in pencil by the artist. Full Margins.
Former Collection Henri Prost and Lo...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Suffering Folk - Original Etching by Louis Jou - Early 20th Century
By Louis Jou
Located in Roma, IT
The Suffering Folk is an original etching realized by Louis Jou in the Early 20th Century.
Applied on a Passpartout by gluing: 47 x 63 cm.
Hand-Signed, Numbered. Edition, 14/40.
Good conditions.
Louis Jou (Gracia, 1882 - Baux, 1968), the twentieth-century etcher and wood engraver, was a prolific illustrator of a large number of books in France, authored by big names like Andre Gide...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Divina Commedia - Héliogravure by Franz von Bayros - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Divina Commedia" is an original Black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (A...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Matisse, Crayon, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Matisse, Fusain, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Matisse, Fusain, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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The Irish Fair
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irish Fair
Lithograph, 1923
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photo)
Titled "Irish Fair" by the artist in pencil
Edition: 84
Housed in an archival frame with acid free matting (see photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist, Bellows Family Trust
H.V. Allison & Company (label)
Private Collection, Columbus
References And Exhibitions:
Reference: Mason 153
Note: An illustration commissioned by The Century Company for Don Byrne's novel The Wind Bloweth
Image: 18 7/8 x 21 3/8"
Frame: 29 1/2 x 30 1/2"
“Eleven on a hot July morning, and the little town...
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Ashcan School Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Crayon, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma Navarre paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the album, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Matisse, Crayon, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma Navarre paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the album, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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They Thunder forth from Their Clouds-Lithograph by George Grosz - 1922
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
They Thunder forth from Their Clouds is an original lithograph, realized by George Grosz in 1922, from Die Raüber, edition Malik Verlag in 100 prints, plate n°8 da Die Raüber, hand-signed in pencil.
"They thunder forth from their clouds about gentleness and forbearance, while they sacrifice human victims to the God of love." (Da donnern sie Sanftmut und Duldung aus ihren Wolken und bringen dem Gott der Liebe Menschenopfer.)"
Sheet dimension: 61,5 x 42 cm.
In very good conditions.
Here representing a man in front of cross miserably praying, below of his feet laid down many dead bodies and ruined part of the city. here is one of his artwork affected by consequences drama of war.
George Grosz (1893 -1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic.
He studied drawing at the Dresden Academy 1909-11 and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Berlin 1912-14, He was in the army 1914-15 and again for a short time in 1917, but spent the rest of the war in Berlin where he made violently anti-war drawings...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph, Paper
$2,572 Sale Price
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E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Kneeling Female Nude" Collotype plate
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
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Vienna Secession Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ange Déchu - Lithograph after Odilon Redon - 1923
By Odilon Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Ange Déchu is a prototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon.
They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923.
Tit...
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
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Romantic Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
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"Praying Warrior" Copper Plate Heliogravure
Located in Chicago, IL
2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extolling his artistic merits during his lifetime to showing something of a feigned disdain- more reflective of the world political order than a true change of heart for Hodler’s work. After years of Hodler being all but a footnote in the annals of art history and generally ignored, finally, the pendulum has righted itself once again. Recent retrospective exhibitions in Europe and the United States have indicated not only a joyful rediscovery of Hodler’s art but a firm conviction that his work and world view hold particular relevance today. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is not only a collection of printed work reflecting the best of all of his painted work created up to 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I, the portfolio itself is an encapsulation of Hodler’s ethos, Parallelisme.
Hodler developed his philosophy of Parallelisme as a unifying approach to art which strips away detail in search of harmony. By means of abstraction, symmetry and repetition, Hodler sought ways to depict Nature’s essence and her fundamental, universal order. He believed these universal laws governing the natural, observable world extend to the spiritual realm. Symbolist in nature with Romantic undertones, his works are equally portraits of these universal concepts and feelings governing all life as they are a visual portrait in the formal sense. Whether his subject is a solitary tree, a moment in battle, mortal fear, despair, the awe inspired by a vast mountain range, a tender moment or even the collective conviction in a belief, Hodler unveils this guiding principle of Parallelisme.
Several aspects of Hodler’s portfolio reinforce his tenets of Parallelisme. The Table of Contents clearly preferences a harmonious design over detail. The two columns, consisting of twenty lines each, list the images by order of appearance using their German titles. The abbreviated titles are somewhat cryptic in that they obscure the identities of the sitters. Like the image Hodler presents, they are distillations of the sitter without any extraneous details. This shortening was also done in an effort to maintain a harmonious symmetry of the Table of Contents, themselves, and keep titles to a one-line limit. The twenty-fourth title: “Bildnis des Schweizerischen Gesandten C.” was so long, even with abbreviation, that it required two lines; so, for the sake of maintaining symmetry, the fortieth title: “Bauernmadchen” was omitted from the list. This explains why the images are not numbered. Hodler’s reasoning is not purely esoteric. Symmetry and pattern reach beyond mere formal design principles. Finding sameness and imposing it over disorder goes to the root of Hodler’s identity and his art. A Swiss native, Hodler was bi-lingual and spoke German and French. Each printed image, even number forty, have titles in both of Hodler’s languages. Certainly, there was a market for Hodler’s work among francophones and this inclusion may have been a polite gesture to that end; however, this is the only place in the portfolio which includes French. With German titles at the lower left of each image, Hodler’s name at bottom center and corresponding French titles at the lower right of each image, there is a harmony and symmetry woven into all aspects of the portfolio. This holds true for the page design, as it applies to each printed image and as it describes the Swiss artist himself. Seen in this light, Hodler’s portfolio of printed work is the epitome of Hodler’s Parallelisme. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is also one of the most significant documents to best tell the story of how Hodler, from Switzerland, became caught between political cross-hairs and how the changing tides of nations directly impacted the artist during his lifetime as well as the accessibility of his art for generations to come.
The Munich-based publisher of the portfolio, R. Piper & Co., Verlag, plays a crucial role in this story. Publishing on a wide range of subjects from philosophy and world religion to music, literature and the visual arts; the publisher’s breadth of inquiry within any one genre was equal in scope. Their marketing strategy to publish multiple works on Hodler offers great insight as to what a hot commodity Hodler was at that time. R.Piper & Co.’s Almanach, which they published in 1914 in commemoration of their first ten years in business, clearly illustrates the rapid succession- strategically calculated for achieving the deepest and broadest impact - in which they released three works on Hodler to hit the market by the close of 1914. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS was their premier publication. It preceded C.A. Loosli’s Die Zeichnungen Ferdinand Hodlers, a print portfolio after 50 drawings by Hodler which was released in Autumn of 1914 at the mid-level price-point of 75-150 Marks; and a third less expensive collection of prints after original works by Hodler, which had not been included in either of the first two portfolios, was released at the end of that year entitled Ferdinand Hodler by Dr. Ewald Bender.
The title and timing of DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS' debut leaves little doubt as to the connection it has with another avant-garde portfolio of art...
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
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Paper
E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Artist's Sister-in-Law" Collotype plate
Located in Chicago, IL
After Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
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Vienna Secession Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
St. Gervais - Watercolor and China Ink by C. Lartigue- Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
St. Gervais is an original drawing in mixed media: watercolor and China ink on paper, realized by the French Artist C. Lartigue in the early 20th Century
Hand-signed on the lower ri...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Les Soirs d'Opium - Woodcut after Jean Paul Sauget - 1921
Located in Roma, IT
Les Soirs d'Opium is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium.
Published in 1921.
Good conditions.
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$180 Sale Price
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The European Macabre Dance N.40 - Lithograph by A. Martini - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
The European Macabre Dance N.40 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915.
Signed on the plate, Original Edition.
Published by Domenico Longo, Treviso.
Handcolored lithographic postcards.
Very good conditions.
Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 - Milan, 1954); was an Italian draftsman, painter, engraver and illustrator, forerunner of the surrealist movement...
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$414 Sale Price
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Mein Weg mit dem Weib, plate 7
Located in Roma, IT
Drypoint and aquatint (brown ink) on cream paper.
Signed in pencil on the lower right margin. Titled and numbered in pencil on the lower left margin. Edition of 25 prints. From the s...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Drypoint
Klimt, Die drei Alter, Das Werk von Gustav Klimt (after)
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.23 x 17.32 inches; image size: 13.58 x 13.23 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the f...
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$23,996 Sale Price
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Fishermen - Etching by Pierre Louis Dumont - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Fishermen is an etching and aquatint print on ivory-colored paper realized by Pierre Louis Dumont (1884 -1936), in the early 20th Century
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions with diffused foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft strokes, the application of chiaroscuro, and hatching in a perfect manner.
Pierre Jean Baptiste Louis Dumont (1884 -1936), in 5th arrondissement, Paris[1] – 8 April 1936, in Paris[2]) more commonly known as Pierre Dumont...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
Romantic Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
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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 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
"Fete Champetre" - 20th Century Framed Antique Cubist Etching
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jacques Villon, pseudonym of Gaston Émile Duchamp, (born July 31, 1875,Damville, Normandy, France—died June 9, 1963, Puteaux,near Paris), French painter and printmaker who was involved in the Cubist movement; later he worked in realistic and abstract styles. Villon was the brother of the artists Suzanne...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$320 Sale Price
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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 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
$1,000 Sale Price
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Composition, Propos d'un intoxiqué, Léonard Tsugouharu Foujita (藤田 嗣治)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper size: 11.42 x 9.05 inches. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: from the folio, Propos d'un intoxiqué, Aquarel...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Couple - Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Couple from Ecce Homo is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz.
The artwork is the plate n. 57 from the porfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923,edition o...
Category
Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
$361 Sale Price
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