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Period: Mid-20th Century
Matisse, Série C, var. 3 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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The Lovers in the Countryside - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Lovers in the countryside is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949).
Illustration for “Tales and Sho...
Category
Art Nouveau Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled from In the Bottom of My Garden (Plate 5)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Untitled (Plate 5)
Portfolio: 1956 In the Bottom of My Garden
Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper
Date: 1956
Frame Size: 15 3/4" x 18 3/8"
Sh...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Siren with Pine, from Nice and the Cote d'Azur (Unsigned Proof)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall (after)
Title: Siren with Pine
Portfolio: Nice and the Cote d'Azur
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1967
Edition: Unsigned and unnumbered proof (aside from the edition o...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Les Visages, Lithograph by Georges Rouault (After)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Les Visages
Georges Rouault (after), French (1871–1958)
Date: 1968
Lithograph, restrike by the Collectors Guild
Size: 6 x 7.75 in. (15.24 x 19.69 cm)
Frame Size: 15.5 x 17.25 inches
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adam & Eve, Folk Art Woodblock by W Hahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
W Hahn - Adam & Eve, Year: 1954, Medium: Woodblock on Japon, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 5/50, Image Size: 15 x 11 inches, Size: 18.5 x 15 in. (46.99 ...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
La Dame aux Camelias - Sarah Bernhardt (after) Alphonse Mucha, 1969
Located in New York, NY
These beautiful and colorful lithographic posters were hand reproduced by the Mourlot Studio's Master Printer Henri Deschamps in 1969. They are not to be mistaken with later cheap digital and giclée reproductions. Ed. 1,500
In December of 1894, Mucha visited a print shop contracted to create a new advertising poster for a play featuring Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress in Paris at the time. Mucha volunteered to produce a lithographic poster within two weeks, and on January 1, 1895, the advertisement for the play Gismonda by Victorien Sardou was posted in the city, where it attracted much attention. Bernhardt was so satisfied with the success of this first poster that she signed a six-year contract with the artist.
Written by Alexandre Dumas (son) when he was 23 years old, and first published in 1848, "La Dame aux Camélias...
Category
Art Nouveau Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Les Amoureux - Lithograph after Fernand Léger - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized after Fernand Léger in 1959, on Moulin Richard de Bas paper.
Monogrammed in the plate.
It belongs to the suite "Contrastes", printed by Daniel Jacomet and publi...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$670 Sale Price
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Freedom From Fear original 1943 Four Freedoms vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War II "Freedom from Fear" Ours ... To fight for by Rockwell. One of the 4 freedom posters created in 1943 by Norman Rockwell.
Fre...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Street in Marblehead, Massachussets
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching on white, buff laid paper with deckle edges, 8 13/16 x 12 inches (224 x 305 mm), full margins. One of only 25 proof impressions. In superb condition with excellent i...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Pablo Picasso - La Petite Corrida - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Original Lithograph
La Petite Corrida (The Small Bullfight)
1958
Edition of 2000, unsigned
Published in the journal XXe Siecle
Dimens...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tête de Femme (Duthuit 23), Pierres Levees, Poèmes, Henri Matisse
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin de Lana a la forme paper. Inscription: signed in pencil and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Jules Romains, de l'academie Française, ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$13,596 Sale Price
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Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,116 Sale Price
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Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,116 Sale Price
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Diurnes : Birdman - Original Collotype and Stencil (Cramer #115)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
Diurnes, Birdman, 1962
Original collotype and stencil (Jacomet workshop)
Unsigned
Limited to 1000 copy
On paper 40 x 30 cm (c. 15.7 x 11.2 in)
REFERENCE ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Landscape by Moonlight, Barges in Vietnam lithograph by Vietnamese Master
Located in Norwich, GB
Wonderful original original artist's proof lithograph by Vietnamese/French Master Dang Lebadang. Marked EA (for "Epreuve d'Artiste" lower left, signed lo...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Paradis XX (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$796 Sale Price
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Original Vinaigreries Generals Bordeaux Bastide vintage vinegar poster, round
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: VINAIGRERIES GENERALS BORDEAUX BASTIDE, FRANCE. A more unique vintage poster that is round. The poster features a sun in the middle in deep red, with th...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chicago in 1857
By Raoul Varin
Located in Middletown, NY
Chicago: A. Ackermann & Son, Inc., 1930.
Aquatint with engraving on heavy wove paper with a deckle edge, 15 1/8 x 12 inches (384 x 304 mm); sheet 24 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (622 x 445 m...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Ballet
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Le Ballet
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1954
Edition: 10,000
Framed Size: 20 1/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size: 12 1/2" x 8 3/4"
Signature: Signed in the stone
Refere...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Vetements Forchic French fashion vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original lithograph, linen backed. Vetements Forchic. Pour Lui; Elle a Choise. Archival linen-backed vintage French fashion poster in fine...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,000 Sale Price
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Vintage Bob Dylan Souvenir Poster (Milton Glaser Bob Dylan 1960s)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Original 1967 Milton Glaser Fold Out Poster for Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits.
Offset lithograph printed in colors 33 x 22 in (83.82 x 55.88 cm)
Fold lines as issued; very good vinta...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$227 Sale Price
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The Princess in her tower David Hockney Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
Located in New York, NY
One of David Hockney’s Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm illustrations, taken from the story of ‘The Little Sea Hare’. This tower was likely inspired by Hockney’s travels throu...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Grenade (Cramer 51; Kornfeld 121), Paroles peintes I, Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin Johannot d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Paroles peintes I, 1962. Published by Éditions O. La...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$3,036 Sale Price
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Dali - De Draeger - Portfolio Luxury edition - 1968
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Dali -De Draeger, Portfolio by Max Gérard
Luxury edition inside special packaged box bearing a cover with “soft melting pocket watch” and bronze medal of “L'Unicorne Dyonisiaque” minted and numbered by Monnaie de Paris...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Bronze
Indian Mother and Child
By Max Pollak
Located in San Francisco, CA
This color etching is titled "Indian Mother and Child" (c. 1950) by Czech/American artist Max Pollak (1886 - 1970) is an original etching on wove paper. It is hand signed and numbered 37/100 in pencil by the artist. It is framed in its original frame and is in excellent condition. Image (plate mark) size is 5.65 in. x 5.25 in.
Max Pollak, painter and printmaker, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on February 2, 1886, but his family moved to Vienna, Austria. He was raised in Vienna and, in 1902, he entered the Vienna Academy of Art. He studied painting and printmaking under William Unger and Ferdinand Schmutzer. In 1912, he traveled to Italy, France, and Holland to study and paint. During the First World War, he was appointed painter of the Austrian Army.
He immigrated to the U.S. in 1927. His first exhibition at the 57th Street Art Gallery in New York was a commercial success and he was commissioned by Theodore Dreiser...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Delaunay, Air, Fer, Eau, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°9, 1957. Published and printed under the direction of Gualti...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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U. S. Census Saturday Evening Post original 1940 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: THE SAURDAY EVENING POST. Artist: Noman Rockwell. Size: 21.75" x 28". Archival linen backed in very fine condition. The painting for this original poster ...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$1,960 Sale Price
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'Plowing It Under' — WPA Era American Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Hart Benton, 'Goin' Home', lithograph, 1937, edition 250, Fath 14. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white, wove pape...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Tentation de Saint Antoine, Gustave Flaubert's illustrated book by O. Redon
By Odilon Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Vol. In-Folio 45,2x34,2 cm., 205 pp.
Edition of 220 copies including a xylographic vignette, 14 xylographic illustrations (on heads and footers of chapters) and 22 original lithograp...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Woodcut
Chagall, Tribe of Zebulun, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem. Published by Musée des Arts Décora...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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The Jewish Welfare Board original 1918 vintage World War 1 antique poster
Located in Spokane, WA
The Jewish Welfare Board. Original World 1 vintage poster, excellent condition; archival linen backed and ready to frame. Printer: Alco-Gravure, Inc., N. Y.
Civilians: When we...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,116 Sale Price
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OPHELIA (the artist's mistress / second wife) - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
This elegant etching titled the gilded youth is of the second wife of the artist ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Reginald Wilson, Horses
Located in New York, NY
Although this work is titled Horses. It nice to think it could be (Horses in a Field in Woodstock, NY), but it was printed by Will Barnet at the Art Students League, about 1938, and Wilson, who visited Woodstock with Arnold Blanche...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Cocu Magnifique - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Le Cocu Magnifique is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Pablo Picasso in 1968.
Original Etching Specimen on BFK Rives.
Edition of 180 prints. Numbered in pencil on the ...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Indiana, Five (Sheehan 46-55), Numbers (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Numbers, 1968. Published by the Edition Domberger, Stuttgart, and G...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$796 Sale Price
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Salvador Dali - Venus in Furs - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : Field 68-6 (p. 40-41).
Salvador Dal...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Panthéon (Cramer 24; Mourlot 95), Derrière le miroir
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc, and Julien Cain. Chagall Lithogr...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
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The Red Rooster
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - The Red Rooster
Original Lithograph from 1957.
Dimensions of work: 23 x 40 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$906 Sale Price
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Nude - Original Lithograph by Oscar Gallo - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original lithograph on greenish paper realized in 1946 by the italian artist Oscar Gallo (1909 - 1994).
Signed on the lower left and dated.
The state of preservation is ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Samuel Chamberlain, The Public Gaol, Williamsburg (Virginia)
Located in New York, NY
Samuel Chamberlain was a superb draftsman and his architectural images are often very complex. This image is, by contrast, quiet and understated: serene to the point of lonely. It's ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Icart, Composition, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$876 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall - The Red Rider - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
The Red Rider
From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle
1957
See Mourlot 191
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985.
The Village
Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work.
At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well.
Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged.
The Beehive
Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period.
Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come.
War, Peace and Revolution
In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos.
To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia.
In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good.
Flight
After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research.
Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion.
With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way.
Haunted Harbors
Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dufy, Réception d'un amiral anglais, Raoul Dufy, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1969
Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Raoul Dufy, IV, Col...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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The Angel of the First Heaven - Woodcut attr. to Salvador Dalì - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Angel of the First Heaven, from the Series "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, is a woodcut print realized in 1963.
Good conditions....
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Published by Tériade, éditeur, Éditions de la Revue Verve, Paris; printed by Draeger Frères, Paris, February 1943. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This Manuscript entirely painted by Georges Rouault was engraved by the Master Printers, Draeger Frères and finished printing by them in February 1943 under the direction of Tériade for the Éditions de la Revue Verve. It was taken from this volume: XL examples on papier de Chine ancien with suite, numbered from I to XL, MCC examples on vélin d'Arches made especially for this volume numbered from XLI to MCCXL and XXX examples on Arches marked from I to XXX.
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance. Rouault was born in a cellar in Paris during a bombardment of the city by the forces opposed to the Commune. His father was a cabinetmaker. A grandfather took an interest in art and owned a collection of Honoré Daumier’s lithographs...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Rippled Surface - Linocut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Linocut realized by Escher in March 1950.
Released through linoleum cut in black and gray-brown on Japan paper, and printed from two blocks.
Hand signed lower left, marked "eigen d...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Linocut
Matisse, Ilya Ehrenbourg, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype, héliogravure, recto and verso, on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper, as issued
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.05 x 7.08 inches
Inscription...
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Lithograph
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Marc Chagall - Hommage à Julien Cain - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
Frontispiece for André Dunoyer de Segonzac, and Julien Cain. "Humanisme Actif: Mélanges d'Art et de Littérature Offerts à Julien Cain." Paris: H...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Fete Champetre
By Jean Dufy
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Fete Champetre" c.1950 is an original colors lithograph by renown artist Jean Dufy, 1888-1964. It is hand signed and numbered 80/220 in pencil by the artist. The...
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Fauvist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Via Veneto, Rome - Offset Print by Fausto Battelli - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Via Veneto, Rome is an original modern artwork realized in the half of 20th century.
A mixed colored offset depicting one of the most famous street in Rome...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Offset
Chagall, Tribe of Asher, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem. Published by Musée des Arts Décora...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Cyclist - Original Etching by Giuseppe Viviani - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Original title: Il Ciclista
Cyclist is an original etching realized by Giuseppe Viviani in 1955. Hand signed and dated in pencil on lower right margin "G. Viviani 955", edition of 200 prints. It represents a cyclist who is riding along a tree-lined road. Very good conditions except for foxings and faded paper.
- Published on “Giuseppe Viviani Catalogo Generale” cured by Silvio Guarasci Pisa, Editore Saletta d’Arte Viviani s.a.s. Pisa, p.216.
Giuseppe Viviani (1898-1965) is a popular Italian artist and engraver. His figures are characterized by stylized silhouettes, big and sad eyes...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Composition (Cramer 36; Bloch 360; Horodisch A6), Non Vouloir, Pablo Picasso
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Zincograph on Vélin Bouffant paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Non Vouloir, 1942. Published by Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris; printed...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
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Les baigneuses
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph Les baigneuses ( The bathers) by Andre Marchand is part of my private collection since the 1970's. It is in very good condition, artist pencil signed in the lower lef...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
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1960's Alexander Calder lithographic cover Derrière le miroir
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder Lithographic cover c. 1968 from Derrière le miroir:
Lithograph in colors; 11 x 15 inches.
Very good overall vintage condition.
Unsigned from an edition of unknown with crisp bright colors.
Published by: Galerie Maeght, Paris, c. 1968.
Unsigned from an edition of unknown.
Looks fantastic framed.
Derrière le miroir:
In October 1945 the French art dealer Aimé Maeght opens his art gallery at 13 Rue de Téhéran in Paris. His beginning coincides with the end of Second World War and the return of a number of exiled artists back to France.
The publication was created in October 1946 (n°1) and published without interruption until 1982 (n°253). Its original articles and illustrations (mainly original color lithographs by the gallery artists) who were famous at the time.
The lithographic publication covered only the artists exhibited by Maeght gallery either through personal or group exhibitions. Among them were, Pierre Alechinsky, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Eduardo Chillida, Alberto Giacometti, Vassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Saul Steinberg and Antoni Tapies.
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Polyxène, Fille de Priam, est égorgée sur la Tombe d'Achille
Located in Roma, IT
Original etching from the portfolio "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide" realized by Pablo Picasso in 1930 and published by Skira. Edition of 145 copies.
Very good conditions.
Re. Bloch p....
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Vintage Bob Dylan Souvenir Poster (Milton Glaser Bob Dylan 1960s)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Original 1967 Milton Glaser Fold Out Poster for Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits.
Offset lithograph printed in colors 33 x 22 in (83.82 x 55.88 cm)
Fold lines as issued; very good vinta...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
"Les affinites ambigues" original lithograph
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1963 for the art revue XXe Siecle and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (312 x 235 mm). Not signed.
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
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