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Period: Mid-20th Century
Papier Collés 1910-1914 - Lithograph - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph on BFK Rives, from the series "Papier Collés".
This series reproduces some of the most iconic works by Picasso in the years 1910-1914, during the birth of cubism.
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Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Will Barnet Early Important Figural B&W Etching American 1940 Framed Rare
By Will Barnet
Located in Buffalo, NY
A nice rare early etching by the noted American Artist Will Barnet titled "Mary", created in 1936.
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Manhattan Bridge
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph by Louis Lozowick was created in 1934. This scarce piece was printed in an edition of 10 and in very good condition. It is signed and dated in the lower right with ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 5 (double)...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Pablo Picasso, L'Atelier du vieux peintre
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original lithograph in five colors by Pablo Picasso, created in 1954. Each of the 5 colors of this lithograph was executed with litho crayon on transparent transfer...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Weeping Woman, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings, 1946. Published by Pantheon Books, Inc., ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$3,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Les Monstres de Notre-Dame (Cramer 24; Mourlot 101), 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
$7,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Ex Libris - Giorgio Balbi - Woodcut - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Giorgio Balbi is an Artwork in Mid 20th Century.
Woodcut.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ève Maudite par Dieu (Mourlot 230-77; Cramer 42)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Mourlot, Fernand. C...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Astres et Danseurs (Derriere le Miroir: 10 Ans d'Edition)
By Joan Miró
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Joan Miro
Title: Astres et Danseurs
Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir: 10 Ans d'Edition
Medium: Etching with aquatint printed in colors
Date: 1956
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size:...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Washington Monument
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Washington Monument
Medium: Screenprint on wallpaper
Date: 1974
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 44" x 29 1/2"
Framed Size: 50 5/8" x 36 1/8"
Signature: Uns...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
JACQUELINE KENNEDY I FS II.13
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Jacqueline Kennedy I, from 11 Pop Artists I. Screenprint in silver, on wove paper. Artist's stamped signature on the reverse and numbered. From the edition of 200. Published by O...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Dufy, Composition, Les Côtes Normandes (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Les Côtes Normandes 1961. Publ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
HAIL AND FAREWELL
Located in Portland, ME
Kent, Rockwell. HAIL AND FAREWELL. Burne-Jones 55. Wood engraving, 1930. Edition of 120. 8 x 5 1/2 inches, 203 x 140 mm. Signed in pencil. In excellent condition.
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Vision de Paris
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Vision de Paris
Original Lithograph from 1960.
Dimensions of work: 32 x 24 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Death of Orpheus, Surrealist Etching by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 -1973) - Death of Orpheus from Ovids The Metamorphoses, Year: 1930, Medium: Etching on thin laid paper, Edition: , Image Size: 9 x 6.5 inches, Size: ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Dwan Gallery Rare, Historic Pop Art exhibition print Hand Signed by Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers
At The Dwan Gallery: Rivers Small Recent Work (Hand Signed), 1965
Silkscreen on wove paper
Hand signed and dated "Rivers, 1965" in graphite pencil lower right front
Fram...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Pencil, Screen
Salvador Dali - Cleopatra - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Cleopatra
Original Etching
Dimensions: 28x 18.7cm
1969
Edition: /165
Plate signed
References : Field 68-7-I page 48
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le maître de cérémonie, Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 19.3 inches, with centerfold and stitch perforations, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. No...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
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: 12.5 x 9.75 inches; image size: 11.42 x 7.87 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumber...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Jean Cocteau - Olé - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Olé - Original Lithograph
1934
Signed and dated in the plate
Numbered in pencil
Edition : /200
Dimensions: 50 x 33 cm
Provenance : Succession Dermit, Cocteau's heir
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Wine Casks
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Wine Casks - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Delorme.
SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali.
LIMITED : Total edition of 233
SIZE : 41 x 33 cm
...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Portrait - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Taureaux
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Trinckvel
1965
Jean Cocteau
W...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jim Dine Red Design for Satin Heart "The Picture of Dorian Grey" bleeding heart
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This proof depicts one of Jim Dine's signatures motifs, a deep red heart, which drips down the page. Along the right side of the heart, hand-drawn text reads: “Red design for satin h...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Visit of the Three Kings to the...-Woodcut by Irma Stern-mid-20th Century
By Irma Stern
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print on paper realized by Irma Stern in the mid-20th Century.
Hand watercolored. Hand signed and numbered in pencil lower right.
Edition of 23/40.
Good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Cocteau, Taureau de Persepolis, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau (after)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Coc...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Original George Petty Pinup 'woman sitting with sunhat and phone
Located in Spokane, WA
Original George Petty pinup, woman sitting with big sunhat and telephone. Archivally linen backed vintage pinup in very fine condition, ready to frame. (Note: this lithograph is NOT removed from a pinup calendar!)
Introducing the original George Petty pinup, a captivating piece of art that showcases the iconic style and exquisite talent of George Petty himself. This artwork features a stunning woman adorned with a large red outlined sun hat, donning a classic one-piece bathing suit and high heels. The addition of a telephone in her right hand adds an intriguing element, making this pinup a unique and visually striking piece. The attention to detail and expert craftsmanship are evident in every brushstroke, bringing the woman to life and capturing the essence of Petty's artistic mastery. As an original George Petty pinup, this artwork holds historical and artistic value, making it a collectible and valuable addition to any art enthusiast's repertoire.
About Petty:
George Petty was an American pin-up artist from the 1920s to the 1970s. His pin-up art appeared primarily in Esquire and True magazine, but was also in calendars marketed by Esquire, True and Ridgid Tool Company. Petty's Esquire gatefolds originated and popularized the magazine device of centerfold spreads. Reproductions of his work were widely rendered by military artists as nose art decorating warplanes during the Second World War, including the Memphis Belle...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ex-Libris - Angiola Borrino - woodcut - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex-Libris - Angiola Borrino is an Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century.
Woodcut on paper.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents a minimalistic, clean design, through preciseness .
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Pink Tulips, 1933 - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Jacques Camus
Pink Tulips, 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" portfolio pr...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Jean Cocteau - Bulls - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Taureaux
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Trinckvel
1965
Jean Cocteau
W...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Inferno: Canto 29 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Inferno: Canto 29
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
Chapel of the Agriculture School, Chapingo (Forces Under the Earth)
Located in Missouri, MO
(after) Diego Rivera
"Chapel, Agriculture School, Chapingo" (Forces Under the Earth) 1933
from the portfolio "Frescoes of Diego Rivera"
Published by the Museum of Modern Art, NY
Approx. 18.5 x 13.5 with Matting
Hand-Signed by the Artist
Diego Rivera was born on December 13, 1886 in the mountain town of Guanajuato in Mexico. His mother was an ardent Catholic and his father was a rich and aristocratic revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swore his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his diatribes against the Church. When he was eleven he attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts; his real teacher was Jose Posada...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Peace
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Peace
Woodcut printed in orange red ink on japanese paper
Signed and titled in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Created along with an illustrated book project Song of Peace, 1950-1959.
Condition: Excellent
Image: 10 1/2 x 4 7/8"
Sheet: 16 1/8 x 7";
Anton Refregier (March 20, 1905 – October 10, 1979) was a painter and muralist active in Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project commissions, and in teaching art. He was a Russian immigrant to the United States.
Among his best-known works is his mural series The History of San Francisco, located in the Rincon Center in downtown San Francisco, California. It depicts the city's history across twenty seven panels that he painted from 1940 to 1948.
Life and early career
Refregier was born in Moscow and emigrated to the United States in 1920. After working various odd jobs in New York City, he earned a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design in 1921. After finishing school, Refregier moved back to New York in 1925. To earn a living, Refregier worked for interior decorators, creating replicas of François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard paintings...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Smoking Girl - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Smoking Girl is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s.
Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner.
Good conditions.
Édouard Chimot (26 November 1...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Angel, from 1960 Mourlot Lithographe I
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: The Angel
Portfolio: Mourlot Lithographe I
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Framed Size: 21 7/8" x 18 7/8"
Image Size: 12 1/2" x 9 1/2"
S...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jacques Villon - Woman - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jacques Villon - Woman - Original Etching
Circa 1949
Signed in pencil and numbered
Dimensions : 34.8 x 25 cm
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Target with Four Faces, 1968, Limited Edition offset lithograph Pop Art poster
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns
Target with Four Faces, 1968
Offset lithograph poster for Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Limited Edition of 300 (unsigned and unnumbered)
35 × 23 inches
Printed by by U...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Portrait of Francoise Gilot
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Portrait of Francoise Gilot
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
F...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cocteau, Evocation crétoise, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau (after)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Coc...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
East Tenth Street Jungle
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), East Tenth Street Jungle, 1934, etching, signed and annotated “Second Proof, First State”, in pencil [also initialed and dated in the plate]. Reference: S...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Chien aboyant a la lune, Surrealist Lithograph by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983)
Title: Le Chien aboyant a la lune from «Verve», Vol. VII, nn. 27/28
Year: 1952
Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate
Size: 14.5 x 21 in. (3...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PURGATORY CANTO 13
Located in Aventura, FL
Woodblock engraving on paper from the Divine Comedy series. Sheet size 13 x 10 inches. Frame size approx 18 x 15 inches. Edition 4,765 in French, 3,000 in Italian, 300 in German.
...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
$712 Sale Price
25% Off
Inferno: Canto 4 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Inferno: Canto 4
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size: 13...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Don Quixote - Etching by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Don Quixote is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored Chinese paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951.
It belongs to a limited edition of 125 specimens.
Good conditions.
...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Don Quixote Galloping - Etching by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Don Quixote Galloping is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored Japanese paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951.
It belongs to a limited edition of 125 specimens.
Good c...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall – LE BOUQUET BLANC – hand-signed Lithograph on Arches - 1969
By Marc Chagall
Located in Varese, IT
Color lithograph on Arches paper, edited in 1969
Limited edition of 50 copies plus 25 in roman numbers
signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner and numbered IX/XXV in lower l...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
THE TAILOR
By Will Barnet
Located in Portland, ME
Barnet, Will. THE TAILOR. Szoke 39, Cole 38, Johnson 30. Aquatint and etching, 1938. Edition of 25, titled, inscribed "25 Prints, and signed in pencil. Printed by the artist on Rives...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Entrance of Don Quixote - Etching by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
The Entrance of Don Quixote is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored China paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951.
They belong to a limited edition of 125 specimens.
Go...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Don Quixote - Etching by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Don Quixote is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored China paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951.
The artwork belongs to a limited edition of 125 specimens.
Good condi...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Don Quixote on his Deathbed - Etching by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Don Quixote on his Deathbed is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored China paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951.
They belong to a limited edition of 125 specimens.
Go...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Model
Located in Santa Monica, CA
RAPHAEL SOYER (1899 - 1987)
THE MODEL 1944 (Cole 64)
Lithograph Signed in pencil, edition 250, 11 ¾ x 7 ¾ Full margins, sheet 15 ¾ x 12
with deckle edge. Very slight toning to the ...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Intimacy - Original Handsigned Etching - Limited /99 copies (Flahutez #90)
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Paris, IDF
Hans BELLMER (1902-1975)
Intimacy, 1971
Original engraving
Numbered out of 99 copies
On vellum 56 x 38 cm (c. 22 x 15 in)
REFERENCE: Catalog Raisonne Flahutez #90
Excellent condition
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Reference: Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II.
Unsigned edition of over 5,000
Condition : Excellent
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...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tête de Jeune Fille, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By André Derain
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Artistique et ...
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Fauvist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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FLEURS DEVANT LA FENETRE (MOURLOT 478)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper. Hand signed and numbered by Marc Chagall. Mourlot 478. Edition 5/50 (there were also 25 artist’s proofs numbered in Roman numerals). Image size 17.75 x 16.5 inches. Sheet size 26.25 x 21 inches. Frame size approx 33 x 28 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist: Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887–1985) was an artist whose work anticipated the dream-like imagery of Surrealism. Over the course of his career, Chagall developed the poetic, amorphous, and deeply personal visual language evident in paintings like I and the Village...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
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Les Amoureux au soleil rouge
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Les Amoureux au soleil rouge
Original Lithograph from 1960.
Dimensions of work: 32 x 24 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
The work is in Excellent ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Monday in Wick Haven' original linoleum cut print by Howard Thomas
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this image, Howard Thomas presents the viewer with a domestic interior. The image is dominated by the figure of a black woman, resting her arm on an ironing board. To the right, the tool of her task dangles a chord above a checker tiled floor. Beyond, though a window, neighboring homes fill the landscape. The careful line-work of the linocut adds a sense of expressionism to the scene, but the image nonetheless falls into the Social Realism that captivated most American artists during the Great Depression.
This print was published in 1936 as part of the Wisconsin Artists' Calendar for the year 1937, which included 52 original, hand-made prints – one for each week of the year.
6 x 5 inches, image
10 x 7.13 inches, sheet
12.37 x 12.43 inches, frame
Entitled "Monday in Wick Haven" lower left (covered by matting)
Inscribed "Linoleum Cut" lower center (covered by matting)
Artist name "Howard Thomas" lower right (covered by matting)
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and museum glass, all housed in a silver gilded moulding.
Quaker-born in Ohio, Thomas trained in the Midwest at Ohio State University and the Chicago Art Institute. He taught in the Art Department of the Milwaukee State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) where he became good friends with Carl Holty, Edward Boerner, Robert von Neumann...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Salvador Dali - David Ben Gurion - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - David Ben Gurion - Original Handsigned Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
1968
Signed in pencil
EA in Sanguine
Jean Schneider, Basel
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
CHEESE MOLD STANDARD WITH OLIVE
By Ed Ruscha
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint in colors on wove paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered 'AP' by the artist (main edition of 150 plus 10 artist proofs made). Image size 19.5 x 37 inches. Sheet size 25.7...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Mid-Century Original Printed Menu, Transatlantic French Line, 'Ile de France'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century French transatlantic liner menu with printed illustration by French artist Jean Adrien Mercier. Signed in the print, top left and dated 1956 inside centre.
This highly c...
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Baroque Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Printer's Ink
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