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Period: Mid-20th Century
Couple : The Argument - Original Lithograph
By Le Corbusier
Located in Paris, IDF
Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
Couple : The Argument, 1938
Original lithograph
Signature printed in the plate
Dated in the plate
On light vellum 21 x 27 cm (c. 8 x 11 inch)
Very good con...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Study for Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, 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
Dusting Off Roses
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This striking color lithograph by James Rosenquist, Dusting off Roses, exemplifies the artist’s signature blend of surreal imagery and Pop Art sensibility. Created in 1965 in a limit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 at the atelier of Clot, Bramsen et Georges and published in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Parallèlement, Léonor Fini
By Leonor Fini
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on grand vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Parallèlement, Illustré de lithographies originales ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso - The Painter - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Lithograph
Title: Painter and his Model
From the illustrated book "Regards sur Paris" (Paris: André Sauret, 1962)
Pulled from the folio numbered 85 from the edition o...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paradise: Canto 16 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Paradise: Canto 16
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Paradise
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size:...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Picasso, Composition (Bloch 1276; Czwiklitzer 23), Toros y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, 1961. Published by aux Éditions Cercle d'...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled from In the Bottom of My Garden (Plate 11)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Untitled (Plate 11)
Portfolio: 1956 In the Bottom of My Garden
Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper
Date: 1956
Sheet Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Signat...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Klimt, Haus im Garten, Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese (after)
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype, metallic inks on vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.86 x 17.91 inches; image size: 12.13 x 12.24 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued....
Category
Symbolist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Soutine, Paysage à Cagnes, Soutine, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1966
Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Soutine, I, Collection Pierre ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Cancer (Cancer), Les Signes du zodiaque, Jean Lurçat
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Les Signes du zodiaque, 1959. Published by Édit...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Roy Lichtenstein Real Estate (hand-signed letterhead)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Roy Lichtenstein Real Estate (Inscribed letterhead):
A rare hand-signed Roy Lichtenstein Real Estate letterhead circa 1969.
Offset print...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Paper
WOMAN DRAWING
Located in Portland, ME
Packard, Emmy Lou (American, 1914 - 1998). WOMAN DRAWING. Color Woodcut, not dated. Edition size not known. Signed in pencil. 18 1/16" x 14 1/8" inches (...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Didn't He Ramble? (Jazz Musician Trumpet Player)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Whitford Carter (1915-1973). Didn't He Ramble?, 1964. Lithograph on paper, image measures 13 x 17 inches; 19 x 22 inches in original frame. Signed, dat...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Klimt, Unterach am Attersee, Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese (after)
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure, collotype vélin paper. Paper Size: 18.86 x 17.91 inches; image size: 11.89 x 12.01 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the f...
Category
Symbolist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sunrise
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this early color offset lithograph. Signed in pencil by Lichtenstein. Printed by Colorcraft, New York. Published by Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Catalo...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph, Offset
Clint Eastwood The Good The Bad The Ugly - Original 1966 French Lobby Card
Located in London, GB
The Good The Bad The Ugly - Original 1966 French Lobby Card
Vintage 1966 French Lobby Card:
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Cardboard
Spanish Artist signed limited edition original art print lithography portrait
Located in Miami, FL
Antonio Lopez Garcia (Spain, 1936)
'Mujer de Tomelloso', 1961
lithograph on paper
11.9 x 13.8 in. (30 x 35 cm.)
Edition of 170
Unframed
ID: LOP2001-008
Ha...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Lovers - Lithograph by Filippo De Pisis - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Lovers is an artwork realized by Filippo De Pisis (1896, Ferrara - 1956, Milano) in the 1960s.
Black and white lithograph.
Good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
2001: A Space Odyssey - Original 1968 Lobby Card #7
Located in London, GB
2001: A Space Odyssey - Original 1968 Lobby Card #7
Vintage 2001: A Space Odyssey Lobby Card:
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Cardboard
Pablo Picasso - Jeu de la Cape - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph by Picasso
Atelier Mourlot.
Paper: Vélin.
Dimensions : 9 5/8 x 12 7/16 inches
Reference: Bloch 1015
Picasso is not just a man and his work. Picasso is always a legend, ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso, The Rehearsal, original lithograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
The Rehearsal, (La Répétition)
Original Lithograph, (litho crayon composition on transfer paper, transferred to stone)
Hand signed in ink in lower left corner
Numbered ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Composition, Couleur amour (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du Moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good conditi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Original Bouliste XVII Campionnat de France vintage 'bocce' poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Bouliste, XVII Championship of France in 1943 in Clermont-Ferrand. Linen backed lithographic in very good condition, ready to frame. This poster has no restoration nor d...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rape of the Sabine Women - Original etching, 1943
By Yves Brayer
Located in Paris, IDF
Yves BRAYER
Rape of the Sabine Women
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Arches vellum 30 x 25 cm (c. 12 x 10 inch)
Printed in Haase...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Picasso, Composition (Orozco 238), Picasso, La flûte double (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas paper, spécialement filigrané pour cette édition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From ...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Color Suite from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Located in Wilton, CT
a rare set of the Color Suite from Les Amours de Cassandre. Paris: Editions Argillet, 1968. [15" x 11"]. 10pp. 10 illustrations. (10 hors text.) General Condition: Fine. Hand colored...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"Motif aus Improvisation 25: The Garden of Love" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Catalogue reference Roethel 105. Printed in Paris in 1938 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue number 3). Image size: 8 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (217 x 220 mm). Sh...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Spiderboy' — American Realism, New York City
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'Spiderboy', 1937, etching, edition 40, Ryan 86. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 7/8 inches). A s...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Picasso, Composition (Orozco 207-261), Vingt-Neuf Portraits Imaginaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Picasso, Vingt-Neuf Portraits Imaginaires, 1969. Published by Éditions Cerc...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Carousel" Blue Abstract Horse Serigraph
By Barbara Maples
Located in Houston, TX
Blue toned serigraph of a carousel with horses. The work is signed and numbered by the artist. It is not framed but comes with a white matte.
Artist Biography:
Barbara Maples...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bateau-Mouche au Bouquet (Mourlot 352; Cramer 53), Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 180, plus proofs. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Regar...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Hygieia” collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #10, Ausschnitt aus dem Bilde “Medizin”; multi-color collotype detail from Medicine, one of the faculty paintings for the Uni...
Category
Vienna Secession Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Signac, St-Tropez. Le jardin, Signac Dessins (after)
By Paul Signac
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin de Lana paper
Year: 1950
Paper Size: 9.75 x 12.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the album, Signac Dessins, 1950. Publi...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Clown with Mirror and Young Mother - Original Lithograph (Mourlot)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
Comédie Humaine, Clown with Mirror and Young Mother, 1954
Original lithography (Mourlot workshop)
Unsigned
On paper 26 .5 x 35.5 cm (c. 10,2 x 13.7 in)
I...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lily - Lithograph by Filippo De Pisis - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Lily is an artwork realized by Filippo De Pisis (1896, Ferrara - 1956, Milano) in 1968.
Black and white lithograph.
Good condition.
Not signed.
Published in the volume "De Pisis ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Warriors Returning from Troy - Lithograph by De Chirico - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
4 colors lithograph realized by De Chirico in 1966.
Edition by Carlo Bestetti.
Image dimension 32 x 46 cm.
Sheet dimension 50,5 x 64 cm.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Edit...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Kollwitz, Working-Class Woman with Sleeping Child (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Kathe Kollwitz, Ten Lithographs. Published by Henry C. Kleemann and...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Naomi and her daughters-in-law (Mourlot 230-277; Cramer 42) (after)
By Marc Chagall
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, Marc Chagall, Dessins Pour La Bible, Verv...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flordali : Surreal Tree, Fingers & Lips - Original Signed Etching (Field #68-3I)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI
Flordali : Surreal Tree (Fingers and Lips), 1969
Original Lithograph and Etching
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /175 copies
On Japan paper 77 x 57 cm (c. 31 x 22.4 inc...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Lithograph
Marilyn Monroe I Love Your Kiss Forever Forever, Deluxe VIP HAND SIGNED #85/100
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol
Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Feldman & Schellmann II.5
Marilyn Monroe I Love Your Kiss Forever Forever, 1964
Color lithograph on two pages wove paper (from the Artists & Collaborators hand signed edition of 1 Cent Life Portfolio, Estate of the artist Robert Indiana)
Edition 85/100
Hand signed by Andy Warhol on the front; numbered 85 on the colophon page a copy of which is affixed to the back of the frame
Framed: Elegantly floated in a museum quality wood frame with UV plexiglass
A copy of the colophon page has been affixed to the back of the frame. This is the first time the work has been removed from the original signed portfolio acquired from the Estate of Robert Indiana, one of the artists in 1 Cent Life.
Framed: elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality wood frame with UV plexiglass
Also accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee issued by Alpha 137 Gallery
This iconic 1964 Andy Warhol lithograph, splayed across two separate pages, is from the Deluxe, hand signed edition of only 100 of the legendary 1 Cent Life Portfolio - one of the most important and celebrated artistic collaborations of the 1960s. Provenance is superb as this was part of the complete portfolio acquired from the estate of Pop Artist Robert Indiana.
(There was also an unsigned regular edition of 2000)
"Marilyn Monroe I Love Your Kiss Forever Forever" is Warhol’s first depiction of Marilyn Monroe. Unlike later portrayals of the classic Hollywood star’s likeness set against vibrant colors, here Warhol has detailed a focused image of Monroe’s most seductive and elusive feature - her lips - set against a stark white backdrop.
Chinese American artist and writer Walasse Ting, in collaboration with Sam Francis, assembled a group of the most significant Pop and Abstract Expressionist artists in America, including Andy Warhol, along with the European COBRA artists to create the definitive artistic portfolio, with text by Walasse Ting. The Deluxe edition, which features hand signed prints, was published in a limited edition of only 100. This is one of them. Of the 100, editions numbered 60-100, or 40 portfolios, were reserved exclusively for Artists & Collaborators. This hand signed Andy Warhol lithograph...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Andy Warhol Bodley Gallery announcement 1957 (1950s Andy Warhol)
By Andy Warhol
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol Bodley Gallery 1957:
A rare, 1950s gallery announcement offset illustrated by Andy Warhol on the occasion of: Andy Warhol Golden Pictures: December 2 - December 24, 1957: The Bodley Gallery 223 East 60th St., New York, NY. A scarce, historical Andy Warhol Pre-Pop illustration; highly collectible.
Medium: Double-sided offset lithograph in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, before folding.
Dimensions: 12 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (32.4 x 49.5 cm)
Good overall vintage condition. Minor signs of aging & handling. Well-preserved.
Unsigned from an edition of unknown.
Warhol Foundation annotations in pencil on one side.
Provenance:
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.
Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York.
Private Collection, New York.
Literature:
Kornbluth: Pre-Pop Warhol, no. 66, pp. 164-165.
Further background:
Warhol’s career began as a commercial illustrator on New York’s Madison Avenue in 1949, during the massive post-war economic boom. His arrival additionally coincided with an extensive change in the motivations and strategies behind advertising, utilizing applied psychology to influence American consumers to purchase products. This stint as an ad man would further his Pop interest in cultural commercialization and start his artistic career; thus began the first chapter of Warhol’s oeuvre.
Several of Andy Warhol's earliest exhibitions in New York were at the Bodley during the 1950s, starting with two in 1956.
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Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop Art king, Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images. Warhol was widely influenced by popular & consumer culture, with this being evident in some of his most famous works: 32 Campbell's soup cans, Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe & Mick Jagger, for example. Rejecting the standard painting and sculpting modes of his era, Warhol embraced silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. The artist mentored Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and continues to influence contemporary art around the world: His most bold successors include Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons. Warhol has been the subject of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou, among other institutions.
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
Original Ford, The all New Taunus 12M Super vintage German poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Ford of Germany, The All New Taunus 12M Super vintage German antique poster. Archivally linen-backed om excellent condition and ready to frame. We have not be able to locate any other document copy of this poster.
The Taunus 12M, presented in 1952, was the first new German Ford...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Fisherman
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: The Fisherman
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 44/150
MEASUREMENTS: 39.87" x 23.75"
CONDITION: Excellent
AUTHENTICATION: ...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Jacqueline (Orozco 214), Grabados al linóleo (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso: Grabados al linóleo. Published by Gustavo Gili, S.A., Barcelona, and...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Feed Everyone (for the Black Panthers at 1960s Harvard Square Be-in) food in art
Located in New York, NY
Unknown Artist
Feed Everyone, ca. 1969
Offset lithograph poster
Frame included: held in original vintage metal frame
Measurements:
Framed
27.5 inches vertical by 16 inches vertical b...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Leonor Fini, Rogomelec (rare print on paper)
By Leonor Fini
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Leonor Fini, Rogomelec (rare original print on Rives paper)
Texte : Rare lithograph on Rives paper, handsigned and numered by surrealist artist Leonor Fini, now rediscovered and inscreasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women. Leonor Fini was actually the life of the party during the Surrealist movement like Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Jacqueline Lamba and Claude Lalanne. Many consider her to be the most fiercely independent female artist of the 20th centuryThis rare lithograph was made after the painting untitled Rogomelec, which was sold by Christie's on october 9th 2024 at GBP 907,200. Created in 1978, Rogomelec is an arresting example of Leonor Fini’s fantastical visions. Within a barren land stands a king dressed in an elaborate coat of peacock feathers. Light glints off his dazzling crown. He is magisterial, imperious, royalty incarnated. The painting shares its title with that of Fini’s third novella, first published in 1979; Rogomelec means ‘he who stones the king’. Written in the first person, the story tells of a traveller in a faraway land, home to a decaying monastery-turned-sanatorium, where monks proffer hallucinatory herbal cures, and culminates in an unsettling discovery during a ritual celebration of the king, the subject of the present work.
Born in Buenos Aires, Fini moved to Trieste as a young child. There, she developed an early interest in Renaissance and Mannerist art – the latter’s influence is evident in the elongated figure of Rogomelec – as well as Gustav Klimt, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the German and French Romantics, artists she discovered while riffling through her uncle’s extensive library. Largely self-taught, she moved to Paris in 1931 where she befriended René Magritte, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, and Victor Brauner. Through them, Fini grew close with the Surrealists and participated in their exhibitions, including Peggy Guggenheim’s landmark show 31 Women at her eponymous gallery on West 57 Street in New York.
Like her contemporaries, Fini’s paintings too seem wrenched from a dream and across her works she sought to reconcile the world that she experienced with that of her subconscious mind. In Rogomelec, the king’s clothing is meticulous, and the drama of the ensemble was likely influenced by Fini’s work outside the studio. She created sets and costumes for the ballet, stage, and film; collaborated on performances for the Paris Opéra and La Scala in Milan; and conceived of the bottle and packaging for Elsa Schiaparelli’s perfume...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
The Creation of Earth and Sea Animals - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
The Creation of Earthly and Sea Animals is an artwork realized by Salvador Dalí in 1964.
It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 an...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 412; Cramer 59), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 147. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Open Air School (iconic image of indigenous teacher by Mexican muralist)
By Diego Rivera
Located in New Orleans, LA
An indigenous teacher, surrounded by her multi-generational students, sits at the edge of a field, open book in hand. In the distance, we see campesinos working the fields with their horses. A lone, armed horseman watches over the class, locating the lithograph in its historical setting, the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joel's Prophecy - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature.
On bot sheets, recto and verso.
Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris.
Ref. Mourlot,...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
The Ship of Souls - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Ship of Souls is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
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Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Picasso, étude pour la céramique, Céramiques de Picasso (Orozco 105) (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype and lithograph on vélin gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on vélin paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 11.25 x 15 inches
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Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
