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Period: Mid-20th Century
French Mid-Century 1959/1960 Fashion Design Vintage Lithograph Print
By Jean Darroux
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French fashion design published as a Supplement to 'L'Homme', a Parisien fashion periodical. Darroux was a Parisien tailor, who designed several ...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Bird - Original Etching by Giselle Hallf - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Bird is an original artwork realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971) in the mid-20th Century.
Original black and white etching on cardboard.
Good conditions. Not signed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Beaudin, Composition, André Beaudin, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, André Beaudin, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paradise: Canto 25 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Title: Paradise: Canto 25
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Paradise
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/8" x 16 5/8"
Sheet Size:...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
La Vilaine, France
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roger Hebbelinck (Belgian, born 1912)
Title: La Vilaine
Year: Circa 1965
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Numbered 30/350 in p...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Salvador Dali - Nude with Snail
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude with Snail - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 235
1967
embossed signature
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Rettung - Original Lithograph by Alfred Kubin - 1944
By Alfred Kubin
Located in Roma, IT
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist who has died requires a licence for export regardless of t...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
French Mid-Century 1950s Mens Fashion Design Vintage Suit Lithograph Print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French men's fashion design from 'La Revue de l'Homme' a Parisien fashion periodical.
370mm by 270mm (sheet)
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Graeder - Vintage Poster - Offset Print - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Graeder - Manifesto is an original poster print in 1969.
The artwork represents the manifesto of Graeder
Good conditions.
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Capogrossi, Chemin de croix, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°5, 1955. Published and printed under the direction o...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Inferno: Canto 26 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Inferno: Canto 26
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size: 1...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Jewish Shtetl Hasidic Wedding Dance Judaica Lithograph Yiddish Social Realism
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed in pencil and numbered with Roman numerals 8/24. A very small edition.
Old Lower East Side of New York or East European Shtetl. Jewish Shtetl Hasidic Klezmer Musicians. ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Zulma
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Title: Zulma
Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1958
Edition: 2000
Frame Size: 21" x 15"
Sheet Size: 14" x 10 1/2"
Sign...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Inferno: Canto 25 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Inferno: Canto 25
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size: 1...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Peintre dessinant et modèle nu au chapeau
Located in Naples, Florida
This wonderful Linocut was produced 1956 at the height of Picasso's talent. It is in excellent original condition with its period frame. It is signed by the artist in pencil and numb...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
END OF THE DAY
Located in Portland, ME
Gwathmey, Robert (American, 1903-1988). END OF THE DAY. Williams 4.
Screenprint in colors, 1944.
Edition size not known. Signed in ink, lower right, within the image.
12 1/4 x 14 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Pout
By Leonor Fini
Located in Columbia, MO
Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, in the full swing of the Surrealist movement....
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Moon by Day - Lithograph by Filippo De Pisis - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Moon by day is a modern artwork realized by Filippo De Pisis.
Black and white lithograph and a text by the same Filippo De Pisis.
Good conditions except for some folds, foxings and...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sucking his Beard - Woodcut Print by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Sucking his beard is an original colour print on paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989),.
Coloured woodcu...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Black and White Horses - Lithograph by R. Mendes France - Mid 1900
By René Mendes France
Located in Roma, IT
Black and White Horses is an original lithograph by the France artist René Mendes France (1885-1985).
Monogrammed "RMF" on plate on lower right corner in the matrix area, and signed...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le 1 - Lithograph by Erté - 1968
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Le 1 is a contemporary modern artwork realized in 1968 by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored lithograph on paper.
The artwork is from the Series "Les Chiffres".
Hand signed o...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le 4 - Lithograph by Erté - 1968
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Le 4 is a contemporary artwork realized in 1970s by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored lithograph on paper.
The artwork is from the Series "Les Chiffres".
Hand signed on the ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Boatmen-Eight Scenic Spots Along Sumida River After U. Hiroshige-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Boatmen - Eight Scenic Spots Along Sumida River is a modern print realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japanese artist Ut...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Derrière Le Miroir - Lithograph by Alberto Giacometti - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Derriere Le Miroir is a suite of original lithographs realized by Alberto Giacometti in 1961.
The artwork is an interesting edition of the French art periodical “Derriere Le Miroir”...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ex-Libris Giorgio Balbi - Woodcut Print - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris. Dr. Giorgio Balbi is an artwork realized by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1944.
Etching on paper. Hand-signed on the lower right margin. Limited edition...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Il Giacinto - Original Etching by Luigi Bartolini - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 16.7 x 10.7 cm.
This is an original etching realized by Luigi Bartolini in 1934. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right and titled on the lower left.
Very good ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Dierdre, Woodcut Print on Rice Paper by Leonard Baskin
Located in Long Island City, NY
This woodcut print was created by American artist Leonard Baskin. Baskin is well known for his somewhat grotesque, intricate, surreal drawings and natural subject matter. This print ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Bird in the Branches - Original Woodcut Print by G. Halff - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bird in the Branches is an original artwork realized by Giselle Halff in the mid-20th Century.
Original woodcut print.
Good condition.
Artist’s proof.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Le 2 - Lithograph by Erté - 1968
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Le 2 is a contemporary artwork realized in 1970s by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored lithograph on paper.
The artwork is from the Series "Les Chiffres"
Hand signed on the l...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le 3 - Lithograph by Erté - 1968
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Le 3 is a contemporary artwork realized in 1968 by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored lithograph on paper.
The artwork is from the Series "Les Chiffres"
Hand signed on the lo...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Travel Poster: Donald Brun Primavera in Svizzera Spring in Switzerland: Lamb
By Donald Brun
Located in London, GB
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Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Europe's Construction - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Europe's Construction
Printed signature in the stone
Dimensions: 33 x 46 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Sciaky
...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
TAUREAU AILE CONTEMPLE PAR QUATRE ENFANTS (BLOCH 229)
Located in Aventura, FL
Plate 13 from La Suite Vollard. Bloch 229. Baer 444. Etching on Montval paper. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with larger margins). Printe...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Wielki Theatre - Vintage Poster by Waldemar Swierzy - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Wielki Theatre is an original manifesto realized by Waldemar Swierzy (Poland, 1931 - 2013) in 1968.
Good condition.
Hand-signed.
Waldemar Swierzy (Poland, 1931 - 2013); born in Katowice, Poland, he graduated from the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. He was subsequently Professor in the University of Fine Arts in Poznań from 1965 and Professor in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1994.
In 1992 the government of Poland issued a postage stamp to honor one of his Cyrk posters, 'Clown with derby'. Swierzy is one of the Polish School of Posters' most prolific artists, having created over 2500 posters.
He employed unusual concepts with a variety of techniques, frequently mirroring Polish social history from 1950s through 1980s, with a myriad of styles: folk art from the 50s, pop art from the 60s...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
Scottish Official - Vintage Poster - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Scottish Official is a vintage poster designed by I.Sosteni, printed in Italy by Aga Cuneo" Edizione Aga il Portichetto" in the mid-20 century.
...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Salvador Dali - Sator - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Sator - Original Etching
Stamp Signed
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
“Woman Riding Horse”
Located in Southampton, NY
Hand colored original artist proof etching by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Marked “AP” lower left for artist proof in pencil. Signed by the artist lower...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Cityscape
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: cityscape
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 11.25 x 8.2...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Daikoku, Dieu de la Richesse" Japanese Style Woodblock Print
Located in Austin, TX
A woodblock print of a Japanese geisha in elegant clothing against a yellow decorative background.
By Paul Jacoulet
15.5" x 12" Woodblock print on paper
Framed Size: 22.5" x 18.5"
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
The Human Pot - Original Etching by R. Naly - 1955
By Robert Naly
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 17 x 17 cm.
The Human Pot is an original contemporary Artwork realized by Robert Naly in 1955.
Original Etching on paper.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower r...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Exotic Fishes - Etching by Kaiko Moti - 1960
By Kaiko Moti
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 95/200.
Image Dimensions : 24 x 34 cm
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Children Asleep Under A Tree - Original Illustration for a book by C. Farrère
Located in Roma, IT
Children Asleep Under A Tree is a graceful hand-colored xylograph print, born presumably as an illustration of a book for children, unidentified, written by the French author Claude ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Greta & Grace', Leapfrog, Modernism, Woman Artist, Art Deco, Smithsonian, Paris
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A mid-century, stone lithograph titled 'Greta and Grace' by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950), created in 1943 and with certification of ...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Walking in Snowy Winter - Lithograph After Utagawa Hiroshige - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Walking in Snowy Winter is a modern print realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige in the 1...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hummingbird - Etching and Aquatint by Marino Marini - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Hummingbird 1963 is an original contemporary artwork realized by Marino Marini.
Color etching and aquatint
Edition of 100 copies. On the back oh the artwork there is an inscription...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Dog - Etching by Enotrio Pugliese - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Dog is an Etching realized by Enotrio Pugliese in 1963.
Limited edition of 12 copies numbered and signed by the artist.
Good condition on a white cardboard.
Enotrio Pugliese (May ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Lithograph Lady Rider Woman on a Horse Marie Laurencin French Post Impressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Marie Laurencin (French, 1883-1956)
Lithograph of a colored pencil drawing depicting a woman wearing a hat and riding horseback side saddle,
Edition "37/115" to lower left and hand signed "Laurencin" in pencil to lower right, with a cloth mat and housed in a silvered wood frame.
Dimensions: Image, 12" H x 16" W; frame, 19.75" H x 23.5" W x 1.5" D.
Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or.
Laurencin was born in Paris, where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. At 18, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres. She then returned to Paris and continued her art education at the Académie Humbert, where she changed her focus to oil painting.
During the early years of the 20th century, Laurencin was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. A member of both the circle of Pablo Picasso, and Cubists associated with the Section d'Or, such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri le Fauconnier and Francis Picabia, exhibiting with them at the Salon des Indépendants (1910-1911) and the Salon d'Automne (1911-1912), and Galeries Dalmau (1912) at the first Cubist exhibition in Spain. She became romantically involved with the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and has often been identified as his muse. In addition, Laurencin had important connections to the salon of the American expatriate and lesbian writer Natalie Clifford Barney. She had relationships with men and women, and her art reflected her life, her "balletic wraiths" and "sidesaddle Amazons" providing the art world with her brand of "queer femme with a Gallic twist."
Laurencin's oeuvre include painting, watercolor paintings, drawing, and prints. She is known as one of the few female Cubist painters, with Sonia Delaunay, Marie Vorobieff, and Franciska Clausen...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Biblia Sacra - Offset Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Biblia Sacra was published in 1969 by Rizzoli of Rome
- SIGNATURE : printed in the image
- LIMITED EDITION: 1499
- SIZE : 19 x 13 3/4"
- REFERENCES : Michler an...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
The Phoenix - Original Etching on Paper by Guelfo Bianchini - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
The Phoenix is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in Italy by Guelfo Bianchini (Ancona, 1937) in 1962.
Original colored Etching on paper.
Hand-signed and dated in pencil on...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dalí, Composition (Field 69-5, A-M), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on Papeterie de Mandeure vélin paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - Bath-Sheba at the Feet of David - Original Handsigned Etching
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Bath-Sheba at the Feet of David - Original Handsigned Etching
1958
Printed by Tériade
Dimensions: 54 x 39 cm
Handsigned and numbered
handcolored
Edition: 100
Reference: Cramer 30.
Etching with hand-coloring, circa 1930, initialled in pencil, numbered 75/100 (there were also twenty hors-commerce copies) , published 1958 by Tériade, Paris, on Arches wove paper
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...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Eric Gill 1934 Woodblock Print 'From the Books of Philip Hofer' 'Ex Libris' Lion
By Eric Gill
Located in London, GB
From a series of wood engravings by Eric Gill. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Relaxing Bull - Original Woodcut Print by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Relaxing Bull is an original woodcut print realized by Mino Maccari.
Included a white Passepartout: 49 x 34 cm.
The state of preservation is very good except for small riping along...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Abel Pann Israeli Bezalel School Lithograph Judaica Biblical Print Jewish Art
By Abel Pann
Located in Surfside, FL
Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under...
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Symbolist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and s...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Bob Dylan, 1960s Pop Art Portrait, A/P Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
Pop Art portrait of a young Bob Dylan, a 1967 etching by Marc Foster Grant (American, 20th Century). Signed and dated "Marc Grant '67" lower right. Titled "...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Paper, Printer's Ink, Etching
Paradise: Canto 4 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Title: Paradise: Canto 4
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Paradise
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Siz...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Engraving