Early 20th Century Figurative Prints

Profile Bust of a Girl - Woman's Head in Profile (Havard) Drypoint, 1920 Unsigned (as issued) From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from ...

Pair of erotic lithographs realized in France in the early 20th century. In very good condition, each has a contemporary frame cm. 43x33.

The European Macabre Dance N.28 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915. Signed...

Portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburgr is a Woodcut print on cream-colored paper. realized after Albrecht Durer, a reproduction of the early 20th...

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...

Arab Decorative Style is a print on ivory-colored paper realized by Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower. Vintage Chromolithograph. Very good...

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...

Italian State Railways is an original artwork realized in the early century by Aleardo Terzi. Mixed colored lithograph. A vintage affiche depicting Ita...

"The Newlyweds" is an original etching on ivory-colorated paper by R. de Los Rios. In very good conditions. Sheet dimension: 27 x 20.5 cm. Image Dimensions: 13.5 x 9 cm Hand-sign...

Decorative Motifs - Chaldean-Assyrian Styles is a print on ivory-colored paper realized after Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on th...

Les Prisonniers is a vintage Lithograph realized by Hermann Paul from the series " La Grande Guerre Par Les Artistes" Good condition on a yellowed cardboard. Monogrammed and titled...

Egyptian Decorative Style is a print on ivory paper realized by Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower. Vintage Chromolithograph. Very good con...

Frederique Vallet Bisson: 1862-1948. Well listed French artist with some auction prices for his paintings over $30,000. This beautiful lithograph was pr...

Image dimensions. 26x17.5 cm. Mele 2 is a precious color lithograph printed by G. Ricordi and C. Milano, Milan, between 1895 and 1914. A nice advertising poster representing two el...

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...

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...

Landscape is an original lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in the early 20th Century. Good conditions except for diffused foxings. Hand-signed on the lower right, Numbered, Editio...

‎Echo et Narcisse is an artwok realized in 1911, by the French Artist Auguste Roubille (1872-1955). Three Lithographs print on paper, cm 20x15 cad. Signed in plate. The artwork is p...

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...

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 ...

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le Cafe du Commerce, etching, 1913, signed in pencil lower left and numbered lower right 28/35 [also with the signature and d...

The Beauty is an original lithograph on paper realized by an anonymous artist. Hand-signed on the lower right. (unreadable) Numbered, Edition 6/10. The artwork represents a statue representing the goddess of beauty.

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This artwork "Personages with Lambs" 1924 is an original colors aquatint by noted French artist Felix Roy A.K.A Sylvain Sauvage, 1888-1948. It is hand signed and numbered 88/350 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 13 x 9.5 inches, framed is 20 16 inches. Published and printed by La Societe Des Graveurs Modernes, Paris. Custom framed in a wooden gold frame. It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age of this artwork About the artist. Félix Roy, said Sylvain Sauvage (born in Baume-les-Messieurs ( Jura ) on May 8 , 1888 and died in Paris in January 1948 ) is an illustrator and technician of the French book. He was an exhibitor at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and Director of École Estienne . He illustrated many books of the French classic literature. The work of Sylvain Sauvage is held in numerous private collections in France and Europe. Selected books illustrated by the artist. L'Ingénue de Voltaire, Kieffer, 1922 La fille aux yeux d'or de Balzac, G. Crès, 1923 Monsieur Nicolas ou le cœur humain dévoilé. Mémoires intimes de Restif de la Bretonne, illustrés par Sylvain Sauvage de Restif de la Bretonne, Henri Jonquières, 1924 Les Belles Dames de Paris, historiettes de Tallemant de Réaux, coll. « Le livre du lettré », 1924 (avec une préface de Gérard Bauër) Anatole France, Les sept femmes de la Barbe Bleue et autres contes merveilleux, A.&G. Mornay, Paris, 1925 Marquis de Sade, Ernestine, Cabinet du Livre / Jean Fort Éditeur, Paris, 1926 : 10 eaux-fortes Casanova (J. de, Seigneur de Seingalt.), Une aventure de Casanova, Histoire complète de ses amours avec la belle C. C. et la religieuse de Muran. Compositions de Sylvain Sauvage gravées avec la collaboration de E. Feltesse. Paris, [chez l'artiste], 1926. Candide de Voltaire, chez l'Artiste (imprimé chez Frazier-Soye et Haasen), 1928 Les Dieux ont soif de Anatole France, Éditions du Nord, 1928 Le Bon Plaisir d’Henri de Régnier, La Roseraie, 1929 : 20 eaux-fortes en couleurs et vingt bois gravés La Troisième Jeunesse de madame Prune de Pierre Loti, Calmann-Levy, 1936 Les Romanesques ; Les Deux Pierrots ; La Dernière Nuit de Don Juan d’Edmond Rostand, éditions Pierre Laffitte, 1939 ; illustrations de Auguste Leroux...

Hand signed and numbered.This lithograph is from the portfolio “Metamorphosis”. Reference: A. Ciranna, Giorgio de Chirico. Catalogo delle opere grafiche, Milan-Rome, p. 32, n.12 V...

Decorative Motifs - Japanese Styles is a print on ivory-colored paper realized by Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower. Vintage Chromolithogra...

Decorative motifs is an original Chromolithograph print realized by an anonymous artist. Good conditions. The artwork represents Decorative motifs in a well-balanced composition.

The European Macabre Dance n.25 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915. Origina...

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 ...

Les Pavots Noirs is a phototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon. They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923...

The European Macabre Dance N.5 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915. Signed ...

Image dimensions: 26x18.2 cm. S. Petrus is a beautiful colored lithograph on cardboard, realized by the Polish illustrator Franz Laskoff and printed aro...

Couple is an original etching realized by Louis Jou in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions. Specimen before the lettering. 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...

The European Macabre Dance N.3 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915. Signed ...

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...

Sadness is an etching realized by Albert Besnard in 1909. Etching ex. 6/30. Slab dimension cm. 15 x 9,5. paper cm. 25 x 18. Pencil signature and date in the lower right part, date in the left part. Good conditions. Paul Albert Besnard (Parigi 1849 - 1934)born in Paris, was the son of an artist; his father, Louis Adolphe, was a painter and his mother, Louise Pauline Vaillant, was an esteemed miniaturist, a pupil of Lizinska de Mirbel. Besnard first studied drawing and painting with Jean-François Brémond and at 17 entered the École des Beaux-Arts, where he was taught by Alexandre Cabanel. In 1874 he won the Prix de Rome with the canvas "Death of Timofane, tyrant of Corinth", and during his stay at Villa Medici he had the opportunity to meet Franz Liszt and his pupil André Worsmer, whose portrait he painted in 1877. his stay in Italy and, in 1879he married the sculptor Charlotte Dubray, daughter of the sculptor Gabriel-Vital Dubray, with whom he moved to England for three years, until 1884, exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. At the Paris Salon of 1886 his "Portrait of Madame Roger Jourdain...

Commerzienrat's daughter from Ecce Homo is an original offset and lithograph, realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n. 48 from the portfolio Ecce Homo, published betw...

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...

Jean HUGO ( 1894 - 1984 ) " Le miroir Magique " . PARIS .Jeanne Buchet .1927. Musée FABRE . Montpellier . portefeuille de 20 lithographies coloriées sur pochoir par Jean saudé d'apré...

Original Vintage Poster, issued 1987 by the ETH in Zurich on the occasion of its exhibition on Le Corbusier's famous – and revolutionary – Villa Savoye, c...

The European Macabre Dance N.7 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...

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 ...

Les Pavots Noirs 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....

Original 1921 Swedish Silent Movie Poster – "Om kvinnan bara visste" ("If Only Women Knew"). Linen-backed, ready to frame. Grade A- condition. These posters were hand printed one co...

Le Liseur 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. Titl...

Original Vintage Movie Poster: The Woman Michael Married (1919) - Starring Bessie Barriscale (Michaels Hustru). Archival linen backing and ready for framing. Theater fold marks resto...

Decorative Motifs - Arabic Style is a print on Ivory-colored paper realized by an A. Alessio in the early 20th Century Vintage Chromolithograph. Very good conditions. The artwork...

Christian Byzantine Decorative Style is a print on ivory-colored paper realized by Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on the ...

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...

Getting Rest is aLithograph realized by Paul Hermann in 1905 ca. Good conditions except for some foxings. Signed on plate. The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.

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...

Drypoint and aquatint (brown ink) on cream paper. Signed "Rehn" in pencil on the lower right margin. Titled and numbered in pencil on the lower left margin. Edition of 25 prints. Fr...

Sailor Man in 1579 is a woodcut print on creamy color paper print on paper realized by Charles Sterns in the early 20th century Good conditions. The artwo...

Venus Goddess is an original Drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by An anonymous artist in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented through...

Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976) Title: "Zwei Frauen (Two Women)" Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman) *Issued unsigned Year: 1918 Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany Reference: Schapire No. 222, page 45; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118 Overall size with attached page: 8.5" x 10.63" Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38" Image size: 6.5" x 3.63" Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). A few tiny pinholes in right margin. In very good condition Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. Presently attached to its accompanying page. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany. Biography: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died August 9, 1976, West Berlin [now Berlin]), German painter and printmaker who was noted for his Expressionist landscapes and nudes. In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff began to study architecture in Dresden, Germany, where he and his friend Erich Heckel met Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl...

Decorative motifs is vintage chromolithograph realized by an anonymous artist. Good conditions. The artwork represents several Decorative motifs in a well-balanced composition.

The Conversation is an original Modern artwork realized by Hermann-Paul (Paris,1864 – 1940). Original woodcut ph on paper. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right corner. Passep...

Add a piece of Parisian glamour to your collection with this Art Deco "Folies Bergere La Grande Folie" Lithograph Poster Print from France, circa 1927. This striking poster captures ...

Woodcut print realized by Paul Emile Colin in the 1907. Not signed. Very good condition.

The Dancing Maenad is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922. Original Lithograph on ivory paper. Excellent conditions. The Dancing Maenad is ...