Sandro Chia

Lonely Dude, Etching on Handmade Paper by Sandro Chia

Artist: Theo Tobiasse, French (1927 - 2012) Title: Le Reve de Jacob Year: 1984 Medium: Etching with Carborundum, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 65/75 Image: 27 x 22.5 inc...

Mademoiselle Irma from Reincarnations du Pere Ubu Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958) Date: 1928 Aquatint Etching, signed in plate Edition of 305 Image Size: 11.5 x 7 inches Frame Si...

The Kiss, no. 1 from the fifth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Undoubtedly Klimt’s best known and most reproduced images, this printed version of The Kiss is the only one with which Klimt was directly involved. Unveiled at Vienna’s Kunstschau 1908, and saved for the fifth and final delivery of Das Werk, The Kiss marks a triumph in Klimt’s career and represents a culmination of many themes in his oeuvre up to that point. After all of the controversy surrounding the State’s prior rejection of the University murals commissioned from Klimt, the Ministry of Education reversed their policy toward the artist with a show of wholehearted support by purchasing for the Osterreichische Galerie BelvedereThe Kiss while it still hung in the Kunstschau exhibit. Considered in relation to the eight multicolored collotypes which preceded its print debut in the Das Werk portfolio, The Kiss literally embraces all which came before it. The golden seaweed dangling in tresses from the lovers’ feet harkens back to Water Snakes I and II. The bed of flowers evokes the settings Klimt created in both The Golden Knight and The Sunflower. In fact, this image sprung out of a particularly happy summer spent in the company of Klimt’s lover, Emilie Floge...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Etching on wove paper. Lust 185. Published by Galerie Beyeler, Basel. Edition 52/150. Artwork is in overall excellent condition. White spot...