Early 20th Century Figurative Prints

Self-portrait is an Artwork realized in 1920,  realized by the german artist Walter Jacob (1893 - 1964). Drypoint print on ivory paper. Hand signed and dated on the right margin. T...

Artist: Percy John Delf Smith (English, 1882-1948) Title: "Scythers Resting" *Signed by Delf Smith in pencil lower right. It is also signed in the plate (printed signature) lower lef...

Automne (Autumn) Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, 1927 Signed, titled, and annotated in brown ink (see photos) Condition: Good Signature and inscrption faded to brown Image size: 17 x 22 1/4 inches Sheet size: 21 5/8 x 28 1/2 inches This is the second of three version of this image (a aquatint/heliogravure (1927, this lithograph (1933) and a color aquatint (1938). Reference: Francois Chapon and Isabelle Rouault, Rouault Oeuvre Grave (Monte Carlo: Editions Andre Sauret, 1978), 364 viii/VIII, third edition of 175 printed in 1933. There is also a etching/heliogravure as well as a color aquatint version of this image. It is considered to by an important image in Rouault's work and recognized as a famous print...

"Le Repos (Rest)" is an original etching by Victor Roux-Champion. It features a nude woman lounging on a couch. The artist signed the piece lower left and wrote the edition number, 2...

John Winkler "The Constitutional Convention" Original Signed Etching c.1932 Plate dimensions 13.75" wide x 9.5" high Paper dimensions 19.75" wide x 14....

Noon Hour. 1935. Etching. Teller 18. 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 (sheet 11 3/8 x 8 1/2). Edition 250 published by Associated American Artists in 1946 (were a few earlier impressions from a propose...

Artist: Georges Rouault Title: Jean-Francois ne Chante Alleluia (Jean-Francois Never Sings Alleluia) no. 25 from the Miserere et Guerre series Year: 1923 (published 1948) Medium: Aqu...

Henri DeGroux (1866-1930) was a Belgian Symbolist painter, sculptor and lithographer. He was known for his allegorical, religious and historical subject matter. He became an inspired...

Fille dite de joie (They Call Her Daughter of Joy) Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922-1927 Unsigned (as issued) From: Miserere (Have Mercy), 58 plate...

GAMY and MONTAUT, Ernest. La Voiture Th. Schneider, 1912 gagne à Dieppe Dinant et à la Sarthe vitesse et régularité / Magneto Bosch Corburateur Claudel Roues Riley. Mabileau & Co., ...

Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) - L'Amour La Danse, Year: 1915, Medium: Woodcut on laid paper, signed in pencil, Image Size: 10 x 8 inches, Size: 14.25 x 13.5 in. (36.2 x 34.29 cm...

Graham Sutherland was a painter of imaginative landscapes, still life, figure pieces and portraits. He was born on 24 August 1903 in London. He abandoned a railway engineering apprenticeship after a year and studied at Goldsmiths' College School of Art, where he specialized in engraving and etching. Sutherland's formative influences on his early work were Blake, Samuel Palmer, the late Turner, Paul Nash and Henry Moore. He held his first and second exhibitions of drawings and engravings at the XXI Gallery, London, in 1925 and 1928. and was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers from 1926-33. Sutherland taught engraving at the Chelsea School of Art from December 1926 and composition and book illustration 1935 to July 1940. He exhibited at the N.E.A.C. 1929-33 and with the London Group from 1932 (member 1936-7), experimenting with painting in oils from 1930 until, in 1935, the year after his first visit to Pembrokeshire, he decided to become a painter. He participated in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London 1936 and had his first one-man exhibition of oil paintings, mainly Welsh landscapes, at the Paul Rosenberg and Helft Gallery 1938. As an Official War Artist 1941-4 he painted scenes of bomb devastation and of work in mines and foundries. Sutherland's first New York exhibition was at the Buchholz Gallery 1946, and in the same year he completed the 'Crucifixion' for St Matthew's Church, Northampton. He taught painting at Goldsmiths' College as a visiting instructor and since 1947 worked for several months each year on the French Riviera. He was a trustee of the Tate Gallery 1948-54. Painted the portrait of Somerset Maugham 1949, the first of a series which includes Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill and others. He completed the designs for the Coventry Cathedral tapestry, 'Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph', between 1954 and 1957 (installed 1962). Has also designed posters, ceramics, book illustrations, and ballet costumes and décor for The Wanderer 1940. Important retrospective exhibitions have been held at the I.C.A. 1951, the Venice Biennale and the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1952, the Tate Gallery 1953, and at the São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, 1955. Awarded the O.M. 1960. Collections include the Courtauld, London, and that of David Bow

Henri DeGroux (1866-1930) was a Belgian Symbolist painter, sculptor and lithographer. He was known for his allegorical, religious and historical subject matter. He became an inspired...

Lissitzky, El, Kunstgewerbemuseum KGM - - USSR Russische Ausstellung 1929 (Zurich Museum of Design - USSR Exhibition). Reprint 1980 Offset, Photomontage. This is a reproduction of a very rare vintage...

Henri DeGroux (1866-1930) was a Belgian Symbolist painter, sculptor and lithographer. He was known for his allegorical, religious and historical subject matter. He became an inspired...

Lovis Corinth (German, 1859-1925) Rare Etching c.1920 Fine etching by noted German Expressionist artist Lovis Corinth. This striking imag...

Vierge aux sept glaives (The Virgin pierced by seven swords) (Sorrowful Mother) Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1926 Unsigned as issued From: Miserere ...

School Girls of Vienna Packing Rations from England and America for the Little Children Color lithograph poster, 1921 Signed lower right in the text (see photo) Created in the Wein (...

Paul Kleinschmidt, (1883–1949) "Daniel" Etching 1920 Frame: 21" X 17" Image: 9.5" X 7.5" Daniel in the Lions Den Rare Artist's second proof Provenance: bears labels from ACA Gallerie...

This calendar advertisement poster for White Horse cigarettes was produced by Hu Boxiang, a famous commercial advertising artist in Shanghai during th...

Bullfight Lithograph, 1928 Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo) Numbered lower left (see photo) Edition: 41 (22/41) Reference: Davis L37 Printed chine applique on wove ...

Ave Maria-Nanban Music Color woodcut with mica sprinkles, 1925 Signed Hide in image, Signed Kawanishi Hide on printed mount From: Dojin zasshi, Hanga Magazine, Volume 5, No. 4 Condi...

Title: The Heroine Umekawa in "Meido no Kiyaku" Medium: Color woodcut with mica background, silver metallic pigment, and "gofun" for the snow effect Date Of Execution: 1923 Dimension...

GAMY and MONTAUT, Ernest. Cycles Motos Alcyon. [Paris: Mabileau & Co., c. 1914]. Hand-coloured pochoir print. Framed and glazed, overall size: 93.6cm x 49.2cm. The Gamy-Montaut ...

Artist: (after) James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903) Titles: "Lithograph No. I" (Plate 1), "The Little White Girl" (Plate 13), and "Study of a Girl with Pitcher" (Plat...

A superb, richly-inked impression of this very scarce lithotint on Japan paper. Edition of approximately 55. Signed with the artist's cypher in pencil, lower right.

Genre: Realism Subject: Portrait Medium: Etching Surface: Paper Country: Israel Dimensions with Frame: 18" x 114" Jacob Eisenberg (1897–1965) (also Yaakov Eisenberg) was an Israeli ...

"Les Matelassiers (The Mattress Makers)" is an original etching by Auguste Brouet. It depicts people creating a mattress outside. The artist signed the...

An exciting hand-coloured Pochoir print of race horses completing a cross-country race. The jocky's wear brightly coloured riding jumpers and look eminently stylish. Signed in plate....

This original etching and drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 110, at th...

Masterfully executed etching which is signed but is illegible. The contrast of shadows and sunlight in doorway is particularly well done. Background figures could be Dutch. Etching ...

Charming little mystery etching pencil signed but I cannot make it out. A French seen probably a park in Paris with children playing. The image i...

Louis Ridel, born February 12, 1866 in Vannes and died November 10, 1937 in Paris, is a painter, sculptor, medalist, French decorator. Louis Ridel studied at the Académie Julian then under the direction of Gustave Moreau at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1889 (with Matisse, Camoin, Marquet and Rouault). He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français between 1893 and 1935, at the Salon des Tuileries between 1927 and 1934, the Universal Exhibition of Ghent in 1913 and the famous Georges Petit Gallery (1909-1910). The works of the artist are present in the museums of Nantes, Strasbourg, Pont-Aven but also Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. This symbolist painter, friend of Aman-Jean, Maxence and Albert Besnard, represented essentially women of the bourgeoisie, ethereal and diaphanous or landscapes of his native region, Brittany. In 1896, he received an honorable mention from the Salon des artistes français, then a third class medal in 1898 and second class in 1900. In 1901, he was out of competition. In 1909, he was named Knight of the Legion of Honor. He receives official orders for the Senate, the Ministry of Public Works or the mayor of the 12th arrondissement of Paris. Two Women in Boat...

An exciting hand-coloured Pochoir print of a buggy race. The jockeys wear brightly coloured riding jumpers and look eminently stylish. Signed in plate. Inscribed in graphite to the l...

Loupot, Charles. Waschemagazine, Munsterberg 2/Metzger/B. Brunnen Freistrasse/Herrenhemden-Kragen Damenwasche & Aussteuern. 1922. Color lithograph. On linen.Good condition with the e...

Mary Viola Paterson (British, 1899 – 1981) Serving tea at the theatre Etching Signed ‘V Paterson’, in pencil (lower right), and number ‘2.’ 5.3/4 x 3.3/4 in. (14.7 x 9.5 cm.) (to pla...

Original pochoir process print (hand-colored stencil). Paris, ca. 1925. Displayed in a custom silver giltwood frame.

"Le Petit Cirque Prinder" is an original etching by Auguste Brouet. This piece depicts a variety of circus performers surrounded by small children. The artist signed the piece in the...

McManus, Blanche. THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HORN. Color lithograph poster, 1901. Monogram in the plate. 16 1/4 x 12 inches, framed to 23 x 18 1/2 inches. In very good condition with ...

En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, the taste of bitterness) Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922 Unsigned as ...

Clearly a scene in France, the Bernard Sanders is showing us a seamstress/lacemaker. She seems to be shaping a traditional coiffe (sometimes 'coif') -- an elaborate headpiece worn b...

Beautiful proof of state on vélin, 2nd essai. Full margins. Ref. Cat. Salomon 98. Prov. Collection Henri Petiet, Paris.

Beautiful proof of state on vélin, 3rd state. Full margins. Ref. Cat. Salomon 98. Prov. Collection Henri Petiet, Paris.

STEINLEN, THEOPHILE ALEXANDRE (1859 -1923) "FemmeNue" (A Nude Woman) Original etching, c. 1900 Signed and numbered in Pencil Provenance: From the atelier of the artist Image Size: ...

Born Julius Pincas in 1885 in Bulgaria, the artist adopted the name Jules Pascin under which his paintings are known. Pascin studied in Vienna and Munich, and traveled and painted regularly in Paris and Berlin. Pascin came to the United States in 1914 and in 1920 became a US citizen. He returned later...

Beautiful proof of state on vélin, with notes by the author “1er essai” in pencil. Full margins. Ref. Cat. Salomon 98. Prov. Collection Henri Petiet, Paris.

This original etching on Chine appliqué to wove paper is signed in pencil by the artist “Henri Matisse.” at the lower right margin. The work is also hand numbered 4 from the edition ...

Venus is a print realized by Olivier Descamps in the early 20th Century.  Woodcut on paper. Signed on the lower Numbered, edition of 50 prints. Good conditions.

Ture Bengtz "Family Scene" Original Pencil Signed Lithograph C.1940 Lithograph dimensions 15.25" wide x 10.5" high Frame dimensions 21.5" wide x 17" high Pencil signed in the lowe...

Study of Figures is anartwork realized by Charles Paul Renouard (1845-1924) in the early 20th century. Pencil drawing. Good condition. Not signed. The drawing is glued on a cardb...

Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929. Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne. Edition of 2...

This is from the original first edition 1923 printing. there was a much later edition done after these originals. These are individually hand signed in pencil by artist as issued. This listing is for the one print. the other documentation is included here for provenance and is not included in this listing. The various images inspired by the Jewish Mysticism and rabbis and mystics of jerusalem and Kabbalah is holy, dramatic and optimistic Rubin succeeded to evoke the spirit of life in Israel in those early days. They are done in a modern art style influenced by German Expressionism, particularly, Ernst Barlach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Franz Marc, as introduced to Israel by Jakob Steinhardt, Hermann Struck and Joseph Budko. Reuven Rubin 1893 -1974 was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania. Rubin Zelicovich (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galati to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Finding himself at odds with the artistic views of the Academy's teachers, he left for Paris, France, in 1913 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He was of the well known Jewish artists in Paris along with Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine, At the outbreak of World War I, he was returned to Romania, where he spent the war years. In 1921, he traveled to the United States with his friend and fellow artist, Arthur Kolnik. In New York City, the two met artist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in organizing their first American show at the Anderson Gallery. Following the exhibition, in 1922, they both returned to Europe. In 1923, Rubin emigrated to Mandate Palestine. Rubin met his wife, Esther, in 1928, aboard a passenger ship to Palestine on his return from a show in New York. She was a Bronx girl who had won a trip to Palestine in a Young Judaea competition. He died in 1974. Part of the early generation of artists in Israel, Joseph Zaritsky, Arieh Lubin, Reuven Rubin, Sionah Tagger, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Mordecai Ardon, Yitzhak Katz, and Baruch Agadati; These painters depicted the country’s landscapes in the 1920s rebelled against the Bezalel school of Boris Schatz. They sought current styles in Europe that would help portray their own country’s landscape, in keeping with the spirit of the time. Rubin’s Cezannesque landscapes from the 1920s were defined by both a modern and a naive style, portraying the landscape and inhabitants of Israel in a sensitive fashion. His landscape paintings in particular paid special detail to a spiritual, translucent light. His early work bore the influences of Futurism, Vorticism, Cubism and Surrealism. In Palestine, he became one of the founders of the new Eretz-Yisrael style. Recurring themes in his work were the bible, the prophet, the biblical landscape, folklore and folk art, people, including Yemenite, Hasidic Jews and Arabs. Many of his paintings are sun-bathed depictions of Jerusalem and the Galilee. Rubin might have been influenced by the work of Henri Rousseau whose naice style combined with Eastern nuances, as well as with the neo-Byzantine art to which Rubin had been exposed in his native Romania. In accordance with his integrative style, he signed his works with his first name in Hebrew and his surname in Roman letters. In 1924, he was the first artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Tower of David, in Jerusalem (later exhibited in Tel Aviv at Gymnasia Herzliya). That year he was elected chairman of the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Palestine. From the 1930s onwards, Rubin designed backdrops for Habima Theater, the Ohel Theater and other theaters. His biography, published in 1969, is titled My Life - My Art. He died in Tel Aviv in October 1974, after having bequeathed his home on 14 Bialik Street and a core collection of his paintings to the city of Tel Aviv. The Rubin Museum opened in 1983. The director and curator of the museum is his daughter-in-law, Carmela Rubin. Rubin's paintings are now increasingly sought after. At a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2007, his work accounted for six of the ten top lots. Along with Yaacov Agam and Menashe Kadishman he is among Israel's best known artists internationally. Education 1912 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 1913-14 École des Beaux Arts, Paris and Académie Colarossi, Paris Select Group Exhibitions Eged - Palestine Painters Group Eged - Palestine Painters Group, Allenby Street, Tel Aviv 1929 Artists: Chana Orloff, Abraham Melnikoff, Rubin, Reuven Nahum Gutman, Sionah Tagger,Arieh Allweil, Jewish Artists Association, Levant Fair, Tel Aviv, 1929 Artists: Ludwig Blum,Eliyahu Sigad, Shmuel Ovadyahu, Itzhak Frenel Frenkel,Ozer Shabat, Menahem Shemi, First Exhibition of ''Hever Omanim'' First Exhibition of ''Hever Omanim'' Steimatzky Gallery, Jerusalem 1936 Artists: Gutman, Nachum Holzman, Shimshon Mokady, Moshe Sima, Miron Rubin, Reuven Steinhardt, Jakob Ben Zvi, Zeev Ziffer, Moshe Allweil, Arieh Group Exhibition Group Exhibition Katz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 1939 Artists: Avni, Aharon Holzman, Shimshon Gliksberg, Haim Gutman, Nachum Ovadyahu, Shmuel Shorr, Zvi Schwartz, Chaya Streichman, Yehezkel Tagger, Sionah Rubin, Reuven A Collection of Works by Artists of the Land of Israel A Collection of Works by Artists of the Land of Israel The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem 1940 Artists: Shemi, Menahem Rubin, Reuven Avni, Aharon Mokady, Moshe Jonas, Ludwig Steinhardt, Jakob Ticho, Anna Krakauer, Leopold Gutman, Nachum Budko, Joseph Ardon, Mordecai Sima, Miron Castel, Moshe Pann, Abel Struck, Hermann Gur Arie, Meir Ben Zvi, Zeev Litvinovsky, Pinchas Artists in Israel for the Defense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv 1967 Artists: Avraham Binder, Motke Blum, (Mordechai) Samuel Bak, Yosl Bergner, Nahum Gilboa, Jean David, Marcel Janco, Lea Nikel, Jacob Pins, Esther Peretz...

Delightful black and white engraving of a small child peacefully sleeping in bed, circa 1930. Signed lower right. Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a white mat wi...

The Portrait is a print realized by Robert Davaux, in the early 20th century. Signed on the plate, on the lower left margin. Woodcut on paper. Good conditions.

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...

Signed, dated, and editioned in pencil by the artist Edition:30, plus trial proofs; this print numbered 23/30 Printed by Edmond Desjobert, Paris Provenance: Estate of the artist The image is loosely based on the tragic love story of Frankie and Johnny, memorialized in Jazz, Blue, Country, Rock a Billy and Motown. At least 256 recordings of "Frankie and Johnny" have been made since the early 20th century. Inspired by a traditional song first recorded by The Leighton Brothers in 1912. Among the artist who have recorded the varying versions of the song are Gene Autrey (1929), Jimmie Rodgers (1929), Lead Belly (1939), Lena Horne (1946), Les Paul and Mary Ford (1952), Sammy Davis Jr. (1956), Pete Seeger...

Bernard Kretzschmar (1889-1972), Auction, etching, drypoint, and burnished aquatint, 1921, signed and dated (’20) in pencil lower right [also initialed in the plate lower left] Refe...

Heureux age! (Happy Age!) Etching and aquatint. c, 1900 Signed lower right in pencil Edition; 50 (14/50) Published by Edmund Sagot, Paris Sagot blindstamp, Lugt 2254, lower right Con...

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), L’ile Desert, etching, 1914, signed in pencil lower left and numbered lower right (33/35). Reference: Laboureur 135, only state, from the edition of...

Sloan, John. MAN, WIFE AND CHILD. Morse 135. Etching, 1905. Titled, signed, and inscribed "100 proofs," all in pencil. 5 x 7 inches (plate), 10 x 12 3/4 inches (sheet). Printed on w...