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Period: Early 20th Century
Alington in Wiltshire (The First Swallow).
By Robin Tanner
Located in Storrs, CT
Alington in Wiltshire (The First Swallow). 1927. Etching. Garton 2.iv. 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 (sheet 10 1/2 x 13 1/2). Final state published by in an editon of 12 by Garton & Cooke in 1982 (Nicolson published an edition of 40 in 1927). In states iii and iv, the swallow of the title was removed. In state iv, the sky was re-etched and the cross-hatching was slightly finer. Signed in pencil.
Garton writes, page 11: "The design was based on the Anglican chapel-of-ease is the farmyard of Bulisge at Allinston near Chippenham....The print was originally entitled The First Swallow, but the swallow was burnished out before the 1927 edition....Fifty years later new work was effected in the worn-out areas of the sky and distance to produce prints which, in his opinion, were better than those of the original edition."
Robin Tanner was an English artist, etcher, and printmaker. He followed the visionary tradition of Samuel Palmer and English neo-romanticism. His etchings began following night-school classes at Goldsmiths College, London. He had been inspired by the major Samuel Palmer retrospective exhibition organized by Martin Hardie...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
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'Hurdy Gurdy Ballet' — New York City American Scene, Ashcan School
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Glenn O. Coleman, 'Hurdy Gurdy Ballet', lithograph 1928, edition 50. Signed, dated, and numbered '14/50' in pencil. Titled in the bottom left margin, in an...
Category
Ashcan School Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,840 Sale Price
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Le Croix - Etching by Enrico Veggetti - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Le Croix is a modern artwork realized by Enrico Veggetti in Early 20th century
Etching on paper
Hand-signed
Good conditions.
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Meaux Cathedral II
By John Marin
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Gazette de Beaux Arts, 1907. Etching with aquatint on cream wove paper, 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 inches (225 x 292 mm), narrow lefthand margin, with a full margin with a deckle edge on ...
Category
English School Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
"Dam Construction" Rare large colors etching.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Dam Construction" c.1920 is a very rare large original colors etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed and numbered 27/100 in pencil by the...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Na brehu (On the Shore) - Woodcut by Frantisek Kobliha - 1909
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print on vélin, realized by Kobliha in 1909.
Image dimensions: 28.5x23 cm.
Monogrammed and dated in the plate lower left.
Signed in pencil lower right.
Rare and valuable ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$755 Sale Price
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Bathing - Woodcut by Aristide Maillol - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bathing is a print realized by Aristide Maillol in the early 20th Century.
Woodcut on paper.
Good conditions.
Aristide Maillol, (born December 8, 1861, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France—die...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Picasso, Composition (Bloch 38; Cramer 13), Les Joues en feu, poèmes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les joues en feu, poèmes anciens et poèmes inédits, 1917-1921, p...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Erotic Scene - Etching by Chas Laborde - 1920s
By Chas Laborde
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic is an etching by Chas Laborde in the 1920s. This original print is hand-colored in watercolor.
In very good condition, including white cardboard Passepartout, 52 x 37cm.
This artwork belongs to the erotic series of Chas Laborde in which you recognize his authentic style of illustration.
Chas Laborde (Buenos Aires, 1886 - Paris, 1941)
Charles Laborde...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Klimt, Die Jurisprudenz, 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: 14.61 x 10.24 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the f...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$23,996 Sale Price
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Le repos du modèle
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Le repos du modèle
1922
Lithograph on Chine appliqué on Japon paper, Edition of 575
Paper size: not listed
Image size: 22.2 x 30.4 cms (8 3/4 x 12 ins)
HM15512
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Maenad in Frenzy, British Museum Roman Classical sculpture photogravure
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Maenad in Frenzy'
Photogravure from a collection of photogravures depicting Greek and Roman marbles and bronzes in the British museum. Plate number above top right corner of the im...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Transport in the Mountains - Lithograph by Alfred Kubin - 1929
By Alfred Kubin
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vellum, realized by Kubin in 1929.
Hand signed in pencil.
Framed under glass, frame dimension 63.5x51 cm.
Ref. Raabe 380.
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Varietesoubrette, Schwalbennest' also Dancer — 1920s German Expressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Martel Schwichtenberg (1896-1945), 'Varietésoubrette, Schwalbennest (Variety Soubrette, Swallow’s Nest), drypoint, 1922. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression; the full sheet of cream wove paper, with wide margins (3 3/4 to 5 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 7 3/16 x 4 5/16 inches; sheet size 16 3/8 x 12 1/8 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Published in Die Schaffenden...
Category
Bauhaus Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
$663 Sale Price
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"Landschaft mit Frauen" original woodcut
By Aloys Wach
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. The title means "Landscape with Women". Printed in 1920 for the German Expressionist art revue Das Kunstblatt, published in Berlin by Verlag Gustav Kiepenhe...
Category
Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Rodin, Composition, Douze aquarelles de Auguste Rodin (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 12.2 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Douze aquarelles de Auguste Rodin, 1920. ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil, Lithograph
$1,756 Sale Price
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Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
"Le centaure" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. This impression on thin wove paper was printed in 1902 and published by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Image size: 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches (207 x 140 mm). Signed in t...
Category
Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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...
Category
Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$15,996 Sale Price
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Posies for the Ladies by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Lithograph
Located in London, GB
Posies for the Ladies by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Lithograph
25.5 x 22.5 cm (10 x 8 ⅞ inches)
Stamped with initials lower right and numbered lower left 6
Executed circa 19...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Red Cross Annual Roll Call original vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Annual Roll Call vintage poster. Archival linen backed. Original fold marks touched up during linen backing.
With the red cross ship sailing on the horizon in this image; the two lost survivors floating on wooden planks out at sea can now be rescued. Saved by the Red Cross. Possibly a different outlook during wartime on the "Loose Lips Sink Ships" Very little information is documented about this artist, E. Seaver.
Linen-backed, post-World War 1 Red Cross poster...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$308 Sale Price
20% Off
Nude of Woman - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an Etching realized by Edouard Chimot in 1930s.
The very beautiful artwork is in good condition.
No Signature.
Represents a nude young lady.
Édouard Chimot (26 November 1880 – 7 June 1959) was a French artist, illustrator and editor whose career reached its peak in the 1920s in Paris, through the publication of fine quality art-printed books. As artist his own work occupies a characteristic place, but as editor also his role was extremely important...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Hunting Prince by Orovida Pissarro - Etching
Located in London, GB
The Hunting Prince by Orovida Pissarro (1893 - 1968)
Etching
15 x 20 cm (5 ⅞ x 7 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1926
Inscribed lower left Trial proof no.14 and titled lower middle
Provenance: Private collection, Europe
Artist biography:
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Die Bettler (The Beggars)
By Max Beckmann
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Die Bettler (The Beggars)
Lithograph, 1922
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
From: Berliner Reise Series, Plate 7
Printed on wove paper
Edition: 100...
Category
Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Hodorisch B2), Le manuscrit trouvé dans un chapeau (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des papeteries Lafúma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Le manuscrit trouvé dans un chapeau, orné de dessins a la ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Gill Proof Lettering
By Eric Gill
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Eric Gill (1882-1944)
Gill Proof Lettering
Lithograph
Image 25.5 x 31.5 cm
Unframed
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, lette...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Notre-Dame, Paris' — Historic French Gothic Cathedral
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Notre Dame, Paris', etching, 2nd state, 1927. Signed, titled, and annotated '2nd State', in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked...
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Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
The erotic scene is an original Héliogravure on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Limited edition of in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Cat...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Paper
$663 Sale Price
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Flowers and Bugs - Print - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers and bugs is a phototype print on paper realized in early 20th Century by a Unknown Chinese Master. Monogrammed on plate on the right corner
The artist use the stylized trai...
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Contemporary Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Kronborg Slot
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Kronborg Slot" 1919, is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed by the estate in pencil at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 17 x 22.75 inches, framed size is 28.75 x 34.85 inches. Custom framed in a distressed style wood and black frame, with fabric matting and dark grey fillet . It is in excellent condition.
About the artist.
Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand.
Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original 1910 Officiel Paris Spectacles vintage poster for theater performances
Located in Spokane, WA
Linen backed original of the official event spectacles of Paris, promoting Moulin Rouge, Salome, Musee Grevin, Sarah-Rita, Madame Butterfly, Carmen, La Vie de Boheme. Orignial in ex...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,500 Sale Price
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Original 'United Behind the Service Star' antique World War One vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: United Behind The Service Star ; Great vibrant colors. Linen backed. All the various support organizations that backed up the soldiers and war relief during World War One. A-, B+ condition. Paper tear from the bottom about 10" professionally laid down. No paper loss.
A large blue star appears over the flags, and below the image reads "United Behind the Service Star". The poster features American soldiers carrying the flags of seven major service organizations: the YMCA, the National Catholic War Council, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation Army, War Camp Community Service, the American Library Association, and the YWCA. These organizations were instrumental in providing various forms of support, such as food, medical care, and morale-boosting services, both to soldiers and civilians.
If you have ever looked to have a 'supreme' version of this great war poster...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Interior with Red Shawl (Young woman reads in this calm Vermeer-like interior)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Interior with a red shawl conveys a quite different mood and feeling: one of calm, and suspension of time. Here the suggestion is that the woman is waiting ...
Category
Dutch School Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Composition, Les Biches, Marie Laurencin
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier vélin des Manufactures d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Biches, 1924. Published by Édi...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$2,796 Sale Price
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Love and Death.
Located in Storrs, CT
Love and Death (after George Frederic Watts, R.A., H.R.C.A. 1817 - 1904). 1900. Mezzotint. Hardie 71 between i and ii. 24 1/2 x 12 (sheet 27 1/4 x 13 3/ 8). Edition 350 in state one. London, Published May 1st 1900 by Robert Dunthorne ,5 Vigo Street, London W. Rubbing and discoloration from a previous mat in the margins, well outside the image. A rich proof printed on Japon paper. Signed in pencil by Watts and by Short. Housed in an archival folder
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Winged Love...
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Victorian Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$1,000 Sale Price
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Peccarys and Tiger Pranks by Orovida Pissarro - Animal etching
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Peccarys and Tiger Pranks by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Etching and aquatint
31.5 x 23 cm (12 ⅜ x 9 inches)
Sig...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Kingsgate, Winchester
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 8 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (205 x 246 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. One minor printing defect appearing as a slightly folded bottom ...
Category
English School Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Etching
Man & Beast by Orovida Pissarro - Etching
Located in London, GB
Man & Beast by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Etching
27 x 22 cm (10 ⁵/₈ x 8 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, orovida 1924
Inscribed lower left, Final state no 12/40 and title...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Foul Rope (Left)' — Early American Southwest Rodeo
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Robinson Leigh, 'Foul Rope (Left)', etching, c. 1920, edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil and signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove Umbria paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 14 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (378 x 303 mm); sheet size 20 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (518 x 391 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia, on a plantation a year after the Civil War and raised in Baltimore, William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) became one of the foremost painters of the American West. His career spanning some seventy-five years, Leigh created some of the most iconic depictions of the Western landscape, with admirers referring to him as ‘The Sagebrush Rembrandt.’
The son of impoverished Southern aristocrats, Leigh received his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell at the Maryland Institute, where he was regarded as the best student in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama.
In 1896, Leigh began working as a magazine illustrator for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine in New York City. He also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes.
Leigh's trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he agreed to paint the Grand Canyon with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting, which led to more commissions and an extensive painting trip through Arizona and New Mexico. These travels inspired him to paint western subjects for the next 50 years, and his primary interests were the Hopi and Navajo Indians.
In 1910, he traveled to Wyoming, where he painted in Yellowstone Park and created sketches, many of which he later converted into large canvases such as ‘Lower Falls of the Yellowstone’ (1915) and ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ (1911).
In 1926, he traveled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience, wrote and illustrated 'Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa'. In 1933, he wrote and illustrated 'The Western Pony'. His adventures were chronicled in several popular magazines, including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers.
For many years, Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel handled his work exclusively in New York. In 1953, Leigh was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design and became a full Academician in 1955.
In March 1999, the Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, held an exhibition of his field sketches and finished works depicting his experiences near Cody early in the century. Between 1910 and 1921, when he often painted in the Carter Mountain vicinity, these years were considered pivotal to his artistic development and devotion to the Western landscape.
Leigh's work is held in many museum collections of American Western art...
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Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Figure Reading - Etching - Fauvism - French Art
Located in London, GB
HENRI MATISSE 1869-1954
(Emile Benoît)
Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869-1954 Nice (French)
Title: Figure Reading Figure lisant, 1929
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching o...
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Fauvist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Death and Life / - United in Laughter -
By Hans Frank
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Frank (1884 Vienna - 1948 Salzburg), Death and Life, 1911. Lithograph, 18 cm x 31 cm (depiction), 25.5 cm x 38.7 cm (sheet size), signed “H.[ans] Frank” in pencil lower right and inscribed “Tod und Leben” lower left.
- darkened, remains of an old mounting on the verso
- United in Laughter -
Here, Hans Frank refers to the skull as a vanitas motif. In Renaissance and Baroque portraits, this motif symbolizes the transience of the sitter, whose head has become a skull over time. Penitents, such as St. Jerome, often hold skulls in melancholy contemplation. Here, however, the boy stands up for life itself. He boldly grabs the skull and laughs at the absurdity of life and death. The laughter of death joins the laughter of life, and vice versa. The child's thumb penetrates the skull's cheekbone to illustrate the inseparable connection between death and life.
About the artist
Hans Frank studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1902 to 1906 and then studied painting under Franz Rumpler at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1907 to 1911. In 1911, he received a substantial travel grant from the emperor, which he used to travel to Switzerland, Paris, London, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. After serving in World War I, Frank moved to St. Marein im Mürztal, returning to Vienna in 1925. He took further study trips to Italy, southern France, and the Austrian countryside. In 1927, Frank became a member of the London Society of Color Printers. An exhibition of his work at the Medici Gallery in London brought him international recognition. He joined the Pasadena Printmakers Society of California and established contacts in Canada. In addition to his highly regarded paintings, Frank primarily worked as a graphic artist. He created over 300 prints and developed a new gradient technique for the fern woodcut with his twin brother, Leo Frank...
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Jugendstil Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Femme
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ARISTIDE MAILLOL (1861-1944)
FEMME ASSISE /
(WOMAN SEATED IN PROFILE, RIGHT, ONE LEG BENT. ONE LEG RAISED), 1926 (Gueirn 321)
Etching signed with “M” monogram in pencil. Image 9 x 9...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Portrait - Etching by Francis Brooks Chadwick - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Chadwick in 1915.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
There is a nice red ink stamp depicting a duck placed on the bottom margin of one sheet.
Very...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Rider - Lithograph - Early 20th Century
By Franz Müller-Münster
Located in Roma, IT
The Rider is an original impressive color lithograph, realized in the first half of the XX century by Franz Müller-Münster.
The artwork represents a naked rider with two horses on the beach...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Make Fast, Plate 2.
Located in Storrs, CT
Make Fast, plate 2. 1929. Etching. Laver catalog number 146; Hurst catalog number 258. Plate: 14 3/8 x 9 13/16 (sheet 17 5/8 x 11 3/4). Trial proof 2, before the edition or 75. Ill...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
$1,800 Sale Price
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La Poursuite by Orovida Pissarro - Animal etching
Located in London, GB
La Poursuite by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Etching with aquatint
17.2 x 12.5 cm (6 ³/₄ x 4 ⁷/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1917
Inscribed lower left Final State Trial proof no. 1
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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An Unexpected Visit - Lithograph by Marcel Vertés - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
An Unexpected Visit is an original litograph realized by Marcel Vertés in 1920.
Good condition for this artist's proof on a white paper.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner.
Marcel Vertès (Budapest, 10 August 1895 – New York 31 October 1961) was a French costume designer and illustrator of Hungarian-Jewish origins. Vertès is also responsible for the original murals in the Café...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Aus dem Composanto" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. The inscription on the banner translates to "Come Sweet Death". Printed in Germany in 1922 for the rare Ganymed portfolio of "Das vierte Jahrbuch der Marees...
Category
Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
“Sur le Bord de la Mer”
Located in Southampton, NY
Sheet sight size 11 by 13 inches.
Colored etching pulled from the master copper plate originally done in 1919. After Renoir. Executed at a later date by the estate of Ambrose Vol...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Rodin, Composition, Douze aquarelles de Auguste Rodin (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 12.2 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Douze aquarelles de Auguste Rodin, 1920. ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
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Die Zisterne - Vintage Héliogravure by Franz von Bayros - 1921 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Die Zisterne 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, a port...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Lockung - Vintage Héliogravure by Franz von Bayros - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Lockung" 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, ...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Fleet Street, London
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Fleet Street, London" c.1925 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist estate at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 20.5 x 15 inches, framed size is 34 x 28 inches. Custom framed in the wooden original brown and gold distressed style frame, with light beige fabric matting and gold color fillet. It is in excellent condition, the frame have very small minor restorations, practically invisible.
About the artist.
Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Gaillard, Lecomte, and Cie - Parisian Fashion Trade Hand Painted Catalogue Print
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Transport yourself to the elegance of Victorian French fashion with this vintage lithograph print featuring exquisite ladies' La Mode dresses. The unframed size of the print measures...
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Victorian Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ceremonial Dance by Orovida Pissarro, 1927 - Etching Print
Located in London, GB
Ceremonial Dance by Orovida Pissarro (1893 - 1968)
Etching
19.2 x 24.8 cm (7 ½ x 9 ¾ inches)
Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1927
Inscribed lower left Final state no. 12/35 and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Rodin, Composition, Douze aquarelles de Auguste Rodin (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 12.2 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Douze aquarelles de Auguste Rodin, 1920. ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,756 Sale Price
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