Sigmund Laufer

Eclesiastes I, 1964 Signed Etching by Sigmund Laufer

1964

Artist: Reuben Nakian Title: Nymph and Goat IV from Myths and Legends Date: 1979 Medium: Drypoint etching with Chine Colle on Rives, signed and numbe...

This print was created in 1979 by master printmaker, Chilean artist Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero. His work is characterized by his bold use of color and fascination with the silhouettes a...

Lauren Rothstein, American - Day Portrait V, Portfolio: Day Portraits, Year: 1968, Medium: Etching on Italia paper, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 14, Image Size:...

Lauren Rothstein, American - Day Portrait III, Portfolio: Day Portraits, Year: 1968, Medium: Etching on Italia paper, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 14, Image Siz...

This original etching is hand-coloured by the artist in yellow, orange and green watercolour. It is signed in pencil "M. Ch." in the lower right margin. It is numbered in pencil fr...

Interiors I: Family Reunion 1984 Resist ground etching and engraving on BFK Rives wove paper, 20 x 36 inches (501 x 913 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 49/175 in pencil, lower margin. In excellent condition with minor mat tone. A luminous, rich, and well-inked impression of this haunting image, with astonishing detail and depth. Framed handsomely under museum grade glass with archival materials in a solid wood frame with silver finish. [Milton 107] Intended to be a stand alone image in its inception, Family Reunion ended up spawning seven additional images, and became a sort of Primo Pensiero in the sprawling, masterpiece suite now known as Interiors. The suite took eight years to complete, and consists of works of varying format, psychological intensity, and subject matter. The thematic darkness in the eight images waxes and wanes, and Milton intentionally included several interlude works to lighten the tension he felt while composing several of the darker images. The first two in the series, Family Reunion, and Hotel Paradise Café, were meant to be companion pieces. The equilibrium of each composition is anchored on a central brooding figure; a man (perhaps based on a Thomas Eakins portrait of the American anthropologist Frank Hamilton...

(New York: John Taylor Arms, 1930) Etching on antique cream laid paper with a fancy "G" watermark, 7 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches (182 x 442 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Ed. 70" in pencil, lower margin. From a total edirion of 81 plus 5 trial proofs. Printed by Henry E. Carling. Number 18 from the Italian Series. A superb impression of this scarce print, with all of the subtleties and details of the reflections in the water printing clearly. [Fletcher 232] [Illustrated: Page 192, Arms, Dorothy Noyes, "Hilltowns and Cities of Northern Italy"]. Along with his constant companion and wife, Dorothy Noyes, Arms spent decades exploring and documenting gothic structures throughout Europe. Noyes, an accomplished travel writer, had gifted Arms an etching set...

Invitation to a party on the occasion of John and Dolly Sloan's twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Sante Fe: Printed by Peter J. Platt, 1926. 100. Etching on cr...