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Period: Mid-20th Century
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograp...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Colorful Portrait - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Taureaux
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Trinckvel
1965
Jean Cocteau
Writer, artist and fi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
de La Fresnaye, L'entrée du village, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1968
Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Roger de la Fresnay...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
René Magritte - LE CHEF D'OEUVRE OU... Limited Surrealism French Contemporary
Located in Madrid, Madrid
René Magritte - LE CHEF D'OEUVRE OU LES MYSTÈRES DE L'HORIZON, 1965
Date of creation: 2010
Medium: Lithograph on BFK Rives Paper
Edition number: 131/275
Size: 60 x 45 cm
Condition: N...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vision of Paris, Lithograph from Mourlot Lithographe I
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Vision of Paris
Portfolio: Mourlot Lithographe I
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Framed Size: 22" x 19"
Image Size: 12 1/2" x 9 1/2"
Sh...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Stag
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Stag" 1957 is an original woodcut on laid paper by noted American artist Leonard Baskin, 1922-2000. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P. (Artist Proof) pencil by...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Leonor Fini - Dressed-up - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Dressed-up - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris
Unsig...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Basil in Black Leather Suit by Jim Dine from The Picture of Dorian Gray fashion
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Pictured in this monochromatic Jim Dine lithograph is Basil Hallward, the artist companion of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wearing a sleek black lea...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall, The Eiffel Tower and the Donkey, from Derriere le miroir, 1954
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled La Tour Eiffel a l'Ane (The Eiffel Tower and the Donkey), from the folio Derriere le miroir, No. 67–68, originates from ...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$7,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Herman Volz Original Woodcut, Social Unrest of the 1960's, Confrontation
Located in Phoenix, AZ
An original woodcut print depicting the social unrest of the 1960s by Herman Roderick Volz.
Pencil signed by the artist lower right. Image measures 11 1/2" x 17," sheet measures 18"...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
LE JARDIN DE POMONE
By Marc Chagall
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Signed and numbered 38/50 in pencil by Chagall.
Catalogue reference: Mourlot 541
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Le Christ a l'Horloge, Paris (Christ in the Clock)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Missouri, MO
Marc Chagall
"Le Christ a l'Horloge, Paris" (Christ in the Clock) 1957 (M. 196)
Color Lithograph on Arches Wove Paper
Signed in Pencil "Marc Chagall" Lower Right
Initialed "H.C." (Hors Commerce) Lower Left, aside from numbered edition of 90
*Floated in Gold Frame with Linen Matting, UV Plexiglass
Sheet Size: 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (47.5 cm x 38 cm)
Image Size: 9 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches
Framed Size: 28.5 x 24.25 inches
Marc Chagall was a man of keen intelligence, a shrewd observer of the contemporary scene, with a great sympathy for human suffering. He was born on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia; his original name was Moishe Shagal (Segal), but when he became a foremost member of the Ecole de Paris, he adopted French citizenship and the French spelling of his name. Vitebsk was a good-sized Russian town of over 60,000, not a shtetl. His father supported a wife and eight children as a worker in a herring-pickling plant.
Sheltered by the Jewish commandment against graven images, the young Chagall never saw so much as a drawing until, one day, he watched a schoolmate copying a magazine illustration. He was ridiculed for his astonishment, but he began copying and improvising from magazines. Both Chagall's parents reluctantly agreed to let him study with Yehuda Pen, a Jewish artist in Vitebsk. Later, in 1906, they allowed their son to study in St. Petersburg, where he was exposed to Russian Iconography and folk art. At that time, Jews could leave the Pale only for business and employment and were required to carry a permit. Chagall, who was in St. Petersburg without a permit, was imprisoned briefly.
His first wife, Bella Rosenfeld, was a product of a rich cultivated and intellectual group of Jews in Vitebsk. Chagall was made commissar for the arts for the area, charged with directing its cultural life and establishing an art school. Russian folklore, peasant life and landscapes persisted in his work all his life. In 1910 a rich patron, a lawyer named Vinaver, staked him to a crucial trip to Paris, where young artists were revolutionizing art. He also sent him a handsome allowance of 125 francs (in those days about $24) each month. Chagall rejected cubism, fauvism and futurism, but remained in Paris. He found a studio near Montparnasse in a famous twelve-sided wooden structure divided into wedge-shaped rooms. Chaim Soutine, a fellow Russian Jew, and Modigliani lived on the same floor. To Chagall's astonishment, he found himself heralded as one of the fathers of surrealism. In 1923, a delegation of Max Ernst, Paul Eluard and Gala (later Salvador Dali's wife) actually knelt before Chagall, begging him to join their ranks. He refused.
To understand Chagall's work, it is necessary to know that he was born a Hasidic Jew, heir to mysticism and a world of the spirit, steeped in Jewish lore and reared in the Yiddish language. The Hasidim had a special feeling for animals, which they tried not to overburden. In the mysterious world of Kabbala and fantastic ancient legends of Chagall's youth, the imaginary was as important as the real. His extraordinary use of color also grew out of his dream world; he did not use color realistically, but for emotional effect and to serve the needs of his design. Most of his favorite themes, though superficially light and trivial, mask dark and somber thoughts. The circus he views as a mirror of life; the crucifixion as a tragic theme, used as a parallel to the historic Jewish condition, but he is perhaps best known for the rapturous lovers he painted all his life. His love of music is a theme that runs through his paintings.
After a brief period in Berlin, Chagall, Bella and their young daughter, Ida, moved to Paris and in 1937 they assumed French citizenship. When France fell, Chagall accepted an invitation from the Museum of Modern Art to immigrate to the United States. He was arrested and imprisoned in Marseilles for a short time, but was still able to immigrate with his family. The Nazi onslaught caught Chagall in Vichy, France, preoccupied with his work. He was loath to leave; his friend Varian Fry rescued him from a police roundup of Jews in Marseille, and packed him, his family and 3500 lbs. of his art works on board a transatlantic ship. The day before he arrived in New York City, June 23, 1941, the Nazis attacked Russia. The United States provided a wartime haven and a climate of liberty for Chagall. In America he spent the war years designing large backdrops for the Ballet.
Bella died suddenly in the United States of a viral infection in September 1944 while summering in upstate New York. He rushed her to a hospital in the Adirondacks, where, hampered by his fragmentary English, they were turned away with the excuse that the hour was too late. The next day she died.
He waited for three years after the war before returning to France. With him went a slender married English girl, Virginia Haggard MacNeil; Chagall fell in love with her and they had a son, David. After seven years she ran off with an indigent photographer. It was an immense blow to Chagall's ego, but soon after, he met Valentine Brodsky, a Russian divorcee designing millinery in London (he called her Fava). She cared for him during the days of his immense fame and glory. They returned to France, to a home and studio in rustic Vence. Chagall loved the country and every day walked through the orchards, terraces, etc. before he went to work.
Chagall died on March 28, 1985 in the south of France. His heirs negotiated an arrangement with the French state allowing them to pay most of their inheritance taxes in works of art. The heirs owed about $30 million to the French government; roughly $23 million of that amount was deemed payable in artworks. Chagall's daughter, Ida and his widow approved the arrangement.
Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.
Sources:
Hannah Grad Goodman in Homage to Chagall in Hadassah Magazine, June 1985
Jack Kroll in Newsweek, April 8, 1985
Andrea Jolles in National Jewish Monthly Magazine, May 1985
Michael Gibson...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pyramid (hand signed three dimensional screen print)
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print in colors on lightweight board folded into a three-dimensional pyramid. Hand signed and numbered on interior edge by Roy Lichtenstein Numbered 41/300 (only approximate...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph, Screen
Flying Demons - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print from the Series "Der vreeselijke avonturen vas Scholastica" (The Terrible Adventures of Scholastica).
Edition of 300, published by A. J. van Dishoeck.
Unsigned, ass i...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Rene Magritte, On the Shore of the Sea…, 1968 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Rene Magritte (1898–1967), titled Il y a sur le Rivage de la Mer Deux Pommes Visiteuses (On the Shore of the Sea There Are Two Visiting Apples), from ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,996 Sale Price
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Maurice Utrillo, Montmartre, Moulin de la Galette, from Paris Capital, 1955
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955), titled Montmartre, Moulin de la Galette (Montmartre, Moulin de la Galette), from the album Paris Capitale (Paris Capital), o...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,436 Sale Price
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SUBWAY SHIFT - THE SECOND FRONT
Located in Portland, ME
Spruance, Benton (American 1904-1967). SUBWAY SHIFT - THE SECOND FRONT. Fine and Looney 223. Lithograph, 1943. Fine and Looney cite two editions, one of 35 and one of 30, this being ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Sirops Cazanove French vintage poster Grade A on linen
Located in Spokane, WA
SIROPS CAZANOVE Original Vintage French Poster by Eric — Excellent condition, Grade A. Linen-backed. Printer: Akarcher, Paris. Circa 1945–1955. Mid-century modern.
Discover a rare o...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
IRT INTERLUDE
Located in Portland, ME
Gorsline, Douglas (American, 1913-1985). IRT INTERLUDE. Engraving, 1940. 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches (plate), 9 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches (sheet). Signed, titled and dated in pencil. Edition size ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Belles de nuit 1969 Signed Limited Edition Etching Abstract Nude
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Name: Barbara Kwasniewska
Title: Belles de nuit - ladies of the Night
Year: 1969
Medium Type: etching
Size-Width Size-Height: 22.5'' x 30" inches
Signed Edition Size: Signe...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Living Painting - Colour Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Full-page, colour pochoir after costume designs by Sonia Delaunay.
Edition 331/500 copies on Velin Aussedat
Dimensions: 28.5 x 19.5 cm.
From 27 Living Paintings. [Milano, Edizioni d...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Ricordi - Original Woodcut on Paper by Raymond Brudieux - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Woman is an original woodcut on paper realized by Anonymous Artist in 1940s.
Including a white cardboard passepartout (49 x 34 cm).
Not signed.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Domestic Crocodile - Linocut by Mino Maccari - 1951
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Domestic Crocodile is an Original Linocut Print realized by mino Maccari in 1951.
Not signed, very good condition.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian writer, painter, eng...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Street Booth, Tokyo, New Year's Eve
By Martin Lewis
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb impression of Martin Lewis's consummate image of Japan.
Etching with drypoint on fine cream laid paper, 13 7/8 x 10 3/8 inches (352 x 265 mm); sheet 17 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
THE NEW FUR
Located in Portland, ME
Gorsline, Douglas (American, 1913-1985). THE NEW FUR. Etching, 1939. 5 x 3 1/16 inches (plate), 7 3/4 X 4 1/2 inches (sheet). Signed, titled and dated in penc...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Moses, the Tablets of the Law & His People - Original lithograph - Mourlot #689
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc CHAGALL
Moses with the Tablets of the Law & His People, 1973
Original stone lithograph (Printed in Mourlot workshop)
Unsigned and not numbered
On vellum 32 x 24 cm (c. 13 x 10 ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PKZ [Man Tipping His Hat].
By Franco Barberis
Located in New York, NY
Barberis, Franco. PKZ [Man Tipping His Hat]. 1953, Color lithograph, 50 1/2 x 35 1/2”
On Linen. Ref: American Poster Renaissance, p. 41
As a graphic designer, Barberis was initial...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nus Bleus III, from 1958 The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Title: Nus Bleus III
Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1958
Edition: 2000
Framed Size: 22" x 18"
Sheet Size: 14" x 10...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
I Think Continually Of Those... from 9 Drawings, Modern Lithograph by Ben Shahn
By Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Nine Drawings Portfolio is a strong example of Shahn’s commitment to the struggle for social justice and racial equity. It was “published and distributed as part of a fund-raisin...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Black Guard Scotland - Vintage Poster - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Black Guard Scotland is a poster designed by I.Sosteni, printed in Italy by Aga Cuneo" Edizione Aga il Portichetto".
Good condition.
The rare edition poster in the silver backgrou...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Parade (Surrealist Black Philadelphia Artist)
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roland Ayers (1932-2014).
Parade, 1960
Drypoint Etching, 5.5 × 17.75 inches.
Signed, titled and dated by the artist in pencil, lower margin.
Small tear, left margin which exte...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Les Affiches De Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Filigrané a sa marque paper
Year: 1950
Paper Size: 9.75 x 12.5 inches; image size: 7.48 x 10.63 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumber...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Bonnard, Place le soir, Bonnard Lithographe (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper.
Year: 1952
Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches; image size: 7.08 x 10.23 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
No...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Reading News in Cafe - Original Woodcut Print by Paul Baudier - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Reading News in Cafe is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s.
On the lower right description in French.
Very good con...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Leonor Fini, rare lithograph on Arches paper, circa 1980
By Leonor Fini
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare print handsigned by surrealist artist Leonor Fini, inscreasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women. This rare original lithograph is an artist proof in ve...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
The Yellow Castle, 1933 - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Jacques Camus
The Yellow Castle, 1933
Original lithograph and stencil
Unsigned
On paper 39 x 29 cm (c. 15.3 x 11.4 inch)
INFORMATION : This lithograph is part of the "Idées" portfo...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Maurice Utrillo, Montmartre, Under the Snow, 1965 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite woodcut after Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955), titled Montmartre, sous la neige (Montmartre, Under the Snow), from the folio Les Peintres mes amis (The Painters My Friends), originates from the 1965 edition published by Editions d'art Les Heures Claires, Paris, and printed by Atelier Raymond Jacquet, Paris, May 20, 1965. Montmartre, sous la neige (Montmartre, Under the Snow) captures Utrillo’s quiet poetry and emotional depth, translating his painterly vision of Paris into the medium of woodcut. The serene winter streets, rendered with rhythmic precision and tonal restraint, evoke the contemplative stillness that defines Utrillo’s deeply personal view of urban solitude and beauty.
Executed as a woodcut on grand velin d'Arches paper, this work measures 15 x 11 inches. Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. The edition exemplifies the exceptional standards of Editions d'art Les Heures Claires, Paris, and the master craftsmanship of Atelier Raymond Jacquet, Paris.
Artwork Details:
Artist: After Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955)
Title: Montmartre, sous la neige (Montmartre, Under the Snow), from the folio Les Peintres mes amis (The Painters My Friends), 1965
Medium: Woodcut on grand velin d'Arches paper
Dimensions: 15 x 11 inches (38.1 x 27.94 cm)
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued
Date: 1965
Publisher: Editions d'art Les Heures Claires, Paris
Printer: Atelier Raymond Jacquet, Paris
Catalogue raisonne reference: Monod, Luc. Manuel de l’amateur de livres illustrés modernes, 1875–1975. Ides et Calendes, 1992, illustration 11485.
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the folio Les Peintres mes amis (The Painters My Friends), published by Editions d'art Les Heures Claires, Paris; printed by Atelier Raymond Jacquet, Paris, May 20, 1965
Notes:
Excerpted from the folio (translated from the folio), The lithographs by Derain and Van Dongen were printed by Lucien Detruit. Those by Dufy, Matisse, Chagall, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cavailles, Terechkovitch, and Carzou were printed by Mourlot Freres. Those by Picasso and Buffet were printed by P.-J. Ballon. The lithograph by Miro was printed in the workshop Arte, which also printed, in phototype, the frontispiece. The etchings by Villon and Zadkine were printed by Manuel Robbe. That by Braque was printed by A. and P. Crommelynck. The wood engravings and printing of the illustrations by Vlaminck, Rouault, Pascin, and Utrillo were done by Raymond Jacquet. The texts by Andre Warnod, collected by his daughter Jeanine Warnod, were hand-set in De Roos type, size 24, and printed in Paris on the presses of Daragnes. Printing completed on May 20, 1965. Justification of the edition, III examples on large velin d'Arches containing the original copper plates inked for one intaglio illustration; a proof on silk of two lithographs; the four wood-engraved illustrations, mounted; a color separation of one lithograph; and a complete suite of the illustrations on Arches—numbered I to III. XVI examples on large velin d'Arches containing a proof on silk of two lithographs; the four wood-engraved illustrations, mounted; a color separation of one lithograph; and a complete suite of the illustrations on Arches—numbered IV to XIX. XXI examples on large velin d'Arches containing a proof on silk of two lithographs; the four wood-engraved illustrations, mounted; and a complete suite of the illustrations on Arches—numbered XX to XL. XL examples on large velin d'Arches containing a complete suite of the illustrations on Arches—numbered XLI to LXXX. CLXX examples on large velin d'Arches—numbered LXXXI to CCL.
About the Publication:
The folio Les Peintres mes amis (The Painters My Friends), published in Paris in 1965 by Editions d'art Les Heures Claires, stands among the most ambitious postwar French printmaking collaborations. Conceived as a celebration of modern art’s greatest masters, the volume unites original graphic works by Utrillo, Vlaminck, Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Braque, Villon, Derain, Zadkine, Miro, and others, alongside critical essays by Andre Warnod. Each plate was executed under the supervision of Paris’s foremost ateliers—Mourlot Freres, Lucien Detruit, P.-J. Ballon, Manuel Robbe, and Raymond Jacquet—representing the finest techniques of lithography, etching, and woodcut. This luxurious folio exemplifies the artistry and craftsmanship of mid-20th-century French printing, merging text, image, and handcraft into a unified artistic statement. A triumph of the livre d’artiste tradition, it remains a vital record of the enduring creative dialogue between the painters, printers, and publishers who defined the visual culture of their time.
About the Artist:
Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955) was a French painter whose poetic depictions of Montmartre and Paris transformed the city’s quiet streets, cathedrals, and cafes into enduring symbols of nostalgia and modern beauty. Born in Paris to the artist Suzanne Valadon—model and muse to Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec—Utrillo was immersed in art from an early age but led a turbulent life that found solace in painting. Entirely self-taught, he became one of the most distinctive figures of the Paris School, celebrated for his lyrical “White Period” (1909–1914), during which he employed thick impasto and a restrained palette of whites, grays, and ochres to capture the worn facades and atmospheric stillness of Montmartre. Influenced by Paul Cezanne’s structural precision, Vincent van Gogh’s emotional color, and Camille Pissarro’s realism, Utrillo forged a style that blended Impressionist light with Post-Impressionist solidity, expressing solitude, longing, and spiritual calm. He worked amidst the revolutionary ferment of early 20th-century Paris, alongside Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Braque, and Chaim Soutine, yet his art stood apart from their Cubist and Expressionist experiments, focusing instead on evoking emotional truth through representation. Though he shared his generation’s stage with avant-garde icons such as Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, and Man Ray, Utrillo’s paintings offered a poetic counterpoint—a meditative realism that captured the enduring soul of modern life. His mastery of perspective and tonal harmony imbued works like Rue Norvins and Place du Tertre with quiet majesty, transforming ordinary streets into sanctuaries of memory and light. Utrillo’s profound sensitivity influenced later artists including Balthus, Jean Dubuffet, Nicolas de Stael, and Giorgio Morandi, as well as Edward Hopper and Wayne Thiebaud, who echoed his stillness and emotional clarity in their own depictions of urban solitude. His art, now housed in major museums such as the Musee d’Orsay, Centre Pompidou, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Tate, remains a cornerstone of modern French painting, bridging the lyricism of Impressionism with the introspection of modernism. Revered for his sincerity and mastery of mood, Utrillo stands alongside Picasso, Miro, Dali, Kandinsky, Duchamp, Calder, Giacometti, and Man Ray as a pillar of 20th-century art, his work capturing the eternal poetry of Paris. The highest auction record for Maurice Utrillo was achieved by his masterpiece Rue Norvins a Montmartre (circa 1910), which sold for $4,882,500 USD at Sotheby’s, New York, on November 6, 2011, affirming his enduring legacy as one of the most beloved and collectible painters of his era.
Maurice Utrillo Montmartre...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
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Mimmo Rotella Rita Hayworth
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mimmo Rotella: 1918-2006. Very well listed Italian artist with Auction records over $1.5 million. He is known for his decollage style of art. He would literally tear up posters and o...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
RENÉ MAGRITTE Le Maître d'École - 1955 Limited edition Lithograph - Surrealism
Located in Madrid, Madrid
LE MAÎTRE D'ÉCOLE, 1955 (THE SCHOOLMASTER)
Date of creation: 2010
Medium: Lithograph on BFK Rives Paper
Edition: 275
Size: 60 x 45 cm
Observations: Lithograph on BFK Rives paper plat...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tamer of Lion - Original Woodcut Print by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Tamer of Lion is an original xilography artwork realized by Mino Maccari.
Included a white Passepartout: 49 x 34 cm.
The state of preservation is very good.
The artwork represents...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Vanity Fair (The Face Off) Recto, Camel Cigarette Verso, " by Paolo Garretto
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This double-sided lithograph by Paolo Garretto features a Vanity Fair cover "The Face Off" on the front and a Camel Cigarette ad on the back. It was pu...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Seurat, L'échafaudage, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$876 Sale Price
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Seurat, Le casseur de pierres, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$876 Sale Price
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Leonor Fini, rare lithograph on Arches paper, circa 1980
By Leonor Fini
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare print handsigned by surrealist artist Leonor Fini, inscreasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women. This rare original lithograph is an artist proof in ve...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Raoul Dufy, The Studio on Impasse Guelma, from Raoul Dufy, IV, 1969 (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), titled L’atelier de Impasse Guelma (The Studio on Impasse Guelma), from the folio Raoul Dufy, IV (Raoul Dufy, IV), Collection ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Images de Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.24 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, I...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Toulouse-Lautrec, Album De Marine (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on Papeteries de Rives paper
Year: 1953
Paper Size: 8.86 x 5.71 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the album, Toulouse-...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Toulouse-Lautrec, Album De Marine (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on Papeteries de Rives paper
Year: 1953
Paper Size: 8.86 x 5.71 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the album, Toulouse-...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Toulouse-Lautrec, Album De Marine (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on Papeteries de Rives paper
Year: 1953
Paper Size: 8.86 x 5.71 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the album, Toulouse-...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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after Jean Dubuffet - Man - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Jean Dubuffet - Man - Pochoir
1960
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Edition: G. di San Lazzaro.
From the art review XXème siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, hinged on archival backing paper, as issued
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 17.32 x 14.17 inches (backing paper size)
Inscription: Signed in the plate and u...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, TLautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1946
Paper Size: 17 x 13 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, TLautrec, 1946. ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Nus Bleus IV, from The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Title: Nus Bleus IV
Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1958
Edition: 2000
Framed Size: 22" x 18"
Sheet Size: 14" x 10 ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Degas, Famille Cardinal, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 8.5 x 6.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
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Joan Miro, Untitled, from Miro Recent Paintings, 1953
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1953 album Miro Recent Paintings. Published by the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New Y...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Rothenburg, City Hall Gate
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Rothenburg, City Hall Gate" c. 1975 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. Printed...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Sator from "Faust"
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Sator, from "Faust"
Original Etching
Embossed signature
From the edition of 731
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 K / Michler & Lopsinger 305
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figueras in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School. In 1923 his father bought his son his first printing press.
Dali began to study art at the Royal Academy of Art in Madrid. He was expelled twice and never took the final examinations. His opinion was that he was more qualified than those who should have examined him.
In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist artists grouped around Andre Breton, who was something like the theoretical "schoolmaster" of surrealism. Years later Breton turned away from Dali accusing him of support of fascism, excessive self-presentation and financial greediness.
By 1929 Dali had found his personal style that should make him famous the world of the unconscious that is recalled during our dreams. The surrealist theory is based on the theories of the psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud. Recurring images of burning giraffes and melting watches became the artist's surrealist trademarks. His great craftsmanship allowed him to execute his paintings in a nearly photo-realistic style. No wonder that the artist was a great admirer of the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael.
Salvador Dali and Gala.
Meeting Gala was the most important event in the artist's life and decisive for his future career. She was a Russian immigrant and ten years older than Dali. When he met her, she was married to Paul Eluard.
Gala decided to stay with Dali. She became his companion, his muse, his sexual partner, his model in numerous art works and his business manager. For him she was everything. Most of all Gala was a stabilizing factor in his life. And she managed his success in the 1930s with exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
Gala was legally divorced from her husband in 1932. In 1934 Dali and Gala were married in a civil ceremony...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Roman Vestal Virgins - Woodcut Print by Paul Baudier - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Vestal Virgins is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s.
Good conditions.
Paul Baudi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Adolf Dehn, Commodore Peak, 1940-42, mid-century lithograph of Colorado mountain
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Dehn (1895-1968) was an American painter, printmaker and draftsman. A native of Waterville, Minnesota, he attended the Minneapolis School of Art where he met colleague Wanda Ga...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini, rare lithograph on Arches paper, circa 1980
By Leonor Fini
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare print handsigned by surrealist artist Leonor Fini, inscreasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women. This rare original lithograph is an artist proof in ve...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
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