René-Yves Creston

Vintage French Lithograph - Tending the Oyster Bed

1940

Over 350 year old antique copper engraving of the female Roman goddess Bellona, the goddess of war, circa 1650. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border...

Alluring black and white fine art stone lithograph of three females frolicking in the shallow water around a dock by artist McVey, circa 1950. Signed lower right. Original one-of-a-...

Engrossing black and white fine art lithograph of several village women sitting at the docks and appearing to look out to sea in wait of returning seamen by artist JP Tertre, circa 1...

Delightful black and white engraving of a small child peacefully sleeping in bed, circa 1930. Signed lower right. Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a white mat wi...

Absorbing black and white woodcut of a nude female figure in the water surrounded by sea life and small figures by French artist Colette Pettier, 1936. Signed, dated and numbered 49 ...

Romantic black and white etching of a pair of ballet dancers performing on stage by artist Ernst Oppler (1867-1929), circa 1920. Signed lower right, numbered 88 of 100 lower left. ...

Judith I, no. 9 from the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Much like his treatment of the Classical personage, Danae, from Greek mythology, Klimt’s depiction of Judith takes an Old Testament character, a heroine who avenges the death of her husband by killing an Assyrian king, and firmly positions her in his present-day Vienna. His multicolored collotype rips the canvas from its gilded frame which directly references the subject with its title: “Judith und Holofernes”. Now in print form, Judith, holding the severed head of a male in murky shadow, is the ultimate Viennese femme fatale. Her likeness is unmistakably similar to a former lover of Klimt’s and famous Viennese soprano, Anna von Mildenburg. Though his allusion to ancient Assyria is apt, Klimt literally lifted the gold patterned background’s design motif from a relief detail from Sennacherib’s Palace displayed in a London museum. His context then is contemporary. In a sensual and sexually powerful tour de force, Klimt’s Judith...

Artist: After Giuseppe Cesari (Italian 1568-1640) Title: St. George Slaying the Dragon Medium: Giclée Fine Art Print on Ilford Galerie Textured Cotton ...

John Muafangejo Style, 2013. Linoleum block print on paper. Edition of 5. Elia Shiwoohamba was born in 1981 in Windhoek, Namibia. He graduated from th...

Balantu Woman, 2017. Cardboard Print on Paper, 3/3 Petrus Amuthenu was born in Swakopmund and grew up in northern Namibia in Uukwaludhi. In 2002 a chance encounter with the late art...

The Seed, 2018. Linoleum block print on fabriano paper, edition of 20 Petrus Amuthenu was born in Swakopmund and grew up in northern Namibia in Uukwaludhi. In 2002 a chance encounte...

Don't judge what you can't understand, 2016. Cardboard block print on paper, edition of 3 Petrus Amuthenu was born in Swakopmund and grew up in northern Namibia in Uukwaludhi. In 20...