Modern Figurative Prints

"Balcony" 1938 WPA Print Mid 20th Century American Broadway Theatre Modernism. Silk screen on paper, 15” x 20". Numbered 15/20 lower left. Pencil si...

Leonor Fini - Duo - Original Lithograph The Flowers of Evil 1964 Conditions: excellent Edition: 500 Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris Unsigned and...

Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952 From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54' Pr...

FAILE - THE RIGHT ONE, HAPPENS EVERYDAY Date of creation: 2014 Medium: Screen print on Coventry Rag paper Edition number: 418/450 Size: 71 x 61 cm Condition: In mint conditions, bran...

Leon Bibel, 'Food Not Cannon', etching, 1937, edition 12 (an early state, probably unique). Signed in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/8 to 2 1/8 ...

Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Reflections Signed in the plate Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm Edition: 200 1959 Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais Unnumbered as issued

Jim Dine drew the plate for this image in the same period as his “Thirty Bones of My Body” 1972 portfolio of drypoint tool images. Crisbrook paper (30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 56 cm.) and p...

Inspiration or L'inspiré - The artist and his wife, self-portrait. This is a self-portrait of the great artist, depicting him as lost in thought before one of his paintings, which is apparently related to his home country Russia, as suggested by the small figure in the lower right of the work. Chagall’s wife Valentina (“Vava”), who was also from Russia, is looking over his shoulder, full of longing. The small surreal elements that are characteristic of Chagall’s paintings are also present here: the silhouettes of the houses that seems to stick out of the painting and a figure with a flute or trombone standing on its head. Chagall Lithographe, Volume II of the catalogue raisonné of Chagall's lithographic work, see Mourlot 398, 1957-1962, Paris 1963, imprinted by Imprimerie Mourlot for the publisher André Sauret. A lithographic plate from the catalog that was published in 10,000 copies. Condition : Excellent Set inside a cream mount bearing brass cartellino Visible sheet size length 23cm, Height 31.50cm In a carved and gilded frame Frame size Length 44cm, Height 55.5cm The reverse with a paper label in Japanese Provenance : Private Collection, purchased with Lovers in Grey

Lithograph after Georges Braque From the deluxe art review, Derrière le Mirroir 1964 Printed signature Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm DLM No. 148, 1964 Edition: Foundation Maeght at Saint P...

This artwork titled "Acrobats" c.1990, is an original colors lithograph by renown Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin, b.1943. It is hand signed and numbered 283/300 in pencil by the art...

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...

A lower Manhattan landscape as it existed in 1922, with Trinity Church and City Hall visible in the background. New York: c 1922 Etching with aquatint on heavy-weight cream wove pap...

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...

¿De qué mal morirá? from the first edition of Los Caprichos is an original artwork realized by the artist Francisco Goya and published in 1799. Etching and aquatint on paper. The etching is part of the First Edition of "Los Caprichos" published by the Calcografia Nacional for the Real Academia of Madrid. Plate N. 40. Numbered on the upper right corner, with very fresh inking and sheet in good condition. Titled on the lower central margin " ¿De qué mal morirá? " (What's going to happen?). Good conditions. Dimensions of plate: 2 x 3.4 cm. Assez bonnes marges. A scene that makes us reflect upon the condition of poor people during the Spanish court...

Working in the tradition of the Etching Revival, Ernest David Roth made this amazingly conceived and detailed study of the entrance to the Spanish ci...

Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...

View of Mount Fuji in Winter is a woodcut print realized by Katsushika Hokusai in the early 19th Century, probably around 1835. From the book "Fugaku hyakkei" (100 views of Mount Fu...

Original lithograph in colours on Arches watermarked paper, with full margins, framed Central panel from the triptych of the same title Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right on...

"Noel" is an original linocut on blue paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower center. This artwork features the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus. Both figu...

Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: The Kiss Signed in the plate Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm Edition: 200 1959 Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais Unnumbered as issued

Femme nue au bouquet by Alfred Defossez, French (1932) Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition Size: 125 Image Size: 20.75 x 15.5 inches Size: 25.5 x 19.5 in. (64.77 x 49.5...

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Le Cheval Vert Lithograph from 1973. This impression is notated as “Epreuve d’exposition” apart from the edition of 50 on Arches wove paper. Inscribed t...

Modern abstract earth toned figurative etching by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo. The work features a simplified portrait of a figure centered in a window set against a grey toned back...

Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...

André Minaux Original Handsigned Lithograph Dimensions: 76 x 54 cm Edition: HC XXI/XXX HandSigned and Numbered Ecole de Paris au seuil de la mutation d...

Georges Braque Cinq Poésies en Hommage à Georges Braque (Five Poems in Homage to Georges Braque), 1958 is the image Braque designed for the cover of a book containing five poems by R...

Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, embossed with the official Braniff Flying Colors Collection seal, and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Not...

Hand signed with initials, dated ‘72’ and numbered. Screen printed vacuum-formed relief. Published by Pace Editions, New York. Webel 1092. Edition 55/75 (there were also ten art...

This artwork titled "Mascara Roja" 1969 is an original colors lithograph on B.F.K. Rives paper by renown Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo, 1899-1991. It is hand signed and inscribed H.C. (Hors Commerce) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 21 x 27.25 inches, framed size is 37.25 x 42 inches. Published by Touchtone Publisher, New York, printed by Ateliers Desjobert, Paris. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne by Pereda, plate #124. Custom framed in a wooden gold leaf frame, with gold and red spacer and fabric matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: A native of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico, Rufino Tamayo's father was a shoemaker, and his mother a seamstress. Some accounts state that he was descended from Zapotec Indians, but he was actually 'mestizo' - of mixed indigenous/European ancestry. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art). He began painting at age 11. Orphaned at the age of 12, Tamayo moved to Mexico City, where he was raised by his maternal aunt who owned a wholesale fruit business. In 1917, he entered the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, but left soon after to pursue independent study. Four years later, Tamayo was appointed the head designer of the department of ethnographic drawings at the National Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City. There he was surrounded by pre-Colombian objects, an aesthetic inspiration that would play a pivotal role in his life. In his own work, Tamayo integrated the forms and tones of pre-Columbian ceramics into his early still lives and portraits of Mexican men and women. In the early 1920s he also taught art classes in Mexico City's public schools. Despite his involvement in Mexican history, he did not subscribe to the idea of art as nationalistic propaganda. Modern Mexican art at that time was dominated by 'The Three Great Ones' : Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueros, but Tamayo began to be noted as someone 'new' and different' for his blending of the aesthetics of post Revolutionary Mexico with the vanguard artists of Europe and the United States. After the Mexican Revolution, he focused on creating his own identity in his work, expressing what he thought was the traditional Mexico, and refusing to follow the political trends of his contemporary artists. This caused some to see him as a 'traitor' to the political cause, and he felt it difficult to freely express himself in his art. As a result, he decided to leave Mexico in 1926 and move to New York, along with his friend, the composer Carlos Chavez. The first exhibition of Tamayo's work in the United States was held at the Weyhe Gallery, New York, in that same year. The show was successful, and Tamayo was praised for his 'authentic' status as a Mexican of 'indigenous heritage', and for his internationally appealing Modernist aesthetic. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art). Throughout the late thirties and early forties New York's Valentine Gallery gave him shows. For nine years, beginning in 1938, he taught at the Dalton School in New York. In 1929, some health problems led him to return to Mexico for treatment. While there he took a series of teaching jobs. During this period he became romantically involved with the artist Maria Izquierdo...

Etching on cream laid paper, 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (99 x 150 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "Sketch Grolier Club Library Demonstration Print," and numbered "I" in pen...

Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...

FAILE - RISING Date of creation: 2023 Medium: Archival ink print on Entrada 290gsm Cotton Rag Edition: 350 Size: 101.6 x 81.3 cm Condition: In mint conditions, brand new and never fr...

Dufza - Paris - Le Vert Galant - Original Handsigned Etching Circa 1940 Handsigned in pencil Dimensions: 20 x 25 cm

Marianne & The Goddess of Liberty Jack Levine American (1915–2010) Date: 1967 Lithograph Poster Edition of 1000 Size: 28 x 21 in. (71.12 x 53.34 cm) Printer: Atelier Mourlot, LTD P...

The Stirrups of Musashi is an original modern artwork realized by Katsushika Hokusai in 1836. Mushae (double page, book 1836). B/W print. From the book "Ehon Musashi abumi" (The St...

Jacques Villon - Woman - Original Etching Circa 1949 Signed in pencil and numbered Dimensions : 34.8 x 25 cm

Etching on vélin de Rives BFK à la forme paper. Paper Size: 9.8 x 7.9 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Antarés, eaux-fortes ...

Pablo Picasso (after) Femme au grand nez, en raccourci, sur un lit (Woman with big nose) Etching on BFK Rives paper Posthumously published in 1978, printed before 1975 Plate 139 from...

Jean Cocteau - Portrait - Original Etching Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946 Edition of 340 Signed in the plate Unnumbered as issued

Etching on antique laid paper, 6 9/16 x 3 15/16 inches (167 x 100 mm), signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Potentially a trial proof impression aside from the unsigned edition of 1459. Non-archival tape residue along the top and bottom sheet edges, recto, well outside of image area. Scattered handling creases and general scattered soiling in the margins, minor and unobtrusive. [Fletcher 217]. This work was commissioned by The Architectural Forum...

The artist's proof presents an enigmatic black silhouette, reminiscent of a cut-out Chinese shadow, set against a faded background similar to parchment. Concordances and inspirations...

Lithograph and pochoir realized by Emile Gallois in the mid-20th Century ca. to illustrate japanese costumes. Signed in the plate. Published by H. Laurens, Paris. Very good condit...

Henri Matisse Patitcha 1947 Aquatint on BFK Rives paper, Edition of 25 Paper size: 55.5 x 38 cms (22 x 15 ins) Image size: 34.9 x 27.6 cm (13 3/4 x 10 7/8 ins) HM15405 Selected Coll...

Helios Gomez, 'Le Soldado (Soldier)', letterpress, 1929-1930. Signed in the matrix, lower left and numbered '18', upper left corner. Letterpress image after the original drawing, with text, in black ink on buff, wove paper; the full sheet with margins. Slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition. From the suite of 23 prints numbered, titled in five languages, and with Spanish verses in linotype. Matted to museum standards, unframed. As published in 'Días de Ira' (Days of Wrath), a portfolio of 23 drawings and poems on the “Spanish White Terror” by Spanish artist Helios Gómez, his first publication. Accompanied by an introduction by the 'Socialist International' and with a foreword by Romain Rolland. Printed in Berlín in 1930. Image size 7 13/16 x 5 9/16 inches; sheet size 12 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches. ABOUT THE ARTIST "Free art from representational conventions and make it live from its own dynamism; make the spectator feel the emotion of an idea thanks to pure abstract plastic art: that is, in short, my artistic aspiration... I wanted to touch the people through art". — Helios Gómez. Helios Gómez (1905–1956) was born in Triana, Seville, into a working-class Calé (gypsy) family. He received his training at the Seville Industrial Arts and Crafts School and the Cartuja factory as a painter and decorator of ceramics. His initial works were published in the anarchist Páginas Libres, and he illustrated books by local authors like Rafael Laffon and Felipe Alaiz. In 1925, he showcased his work for the first time at the Kursaal in Seville, followed by exhibitions in Madrid at the Ateneo and in Barcelona at the Dalmau Gallery the subsequent year. Gómez became increasingly aware of the need for political change, aligning himself with anarchist groups and committing to express his political beliefs through his art, writing, and speeches. His artistic career allowed him some acceptance in broader Spanish society, which still primarily viewed Romani identity as acceptable only through creative expression. Unfortunately, anti-Romani sentiment persisted, reflected in critical reviews and media coverage. His early illustrations for anarchist writer Felipe Alaiz and exhibitions at radical spaces like Café Kursaal marked the beginning of his activism. In 1927, due to his political involvement, he had to flee Spain and travel across Western Europe, connecting with avant-garde art movements and the labor movement. This experience significantly influenced his work, which incorporated elements of cubism, expressionism, and futurism. Upon returning to Spain in 1930, he settled in Barcelona and collaborated as a printmaker with the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo. Gómez later renounced anarchism and joined the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), believing that the international communist movement was the most effectively organized force opposing the rise of fascism. He participated in communist rallies and was imprisoned in Barcelona's Model prison. During the Spanish Civil War, he fought with the Communist Party. He gave an interview to the leftist magazine Crónica, where he spoke about the anti-fascist cause and praised the Soviet Union for its integration of Romani people. By 1938, he had rejoined the anarchist movement and worked on the design of the newspaper El Frente. After fleeing the country during the Nationalists' Catalonia Offensive, he was interned in French concentration camps. In the aftermath of the war, as details of the Romani Holocaust started to emerge, he embraced his Romani identity more openly, especially after his imprisonment under the Franco dictatorship. He spent time in Model prison from 1945 to 1946 and again from 1948 to 1954, during which he focused on writing. He produced two essays, including one on Romani art...

Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Diurnes, Human Shadow, 1962 Original collotype and stencil (Jacomet workshop) Unsigned Limited to 1000 copy On paper 40 x 30 cm (c. 15.7 x 11.2 in) REFER...

Photolithograph realized in 1993 after Henri Matisse. On Milano handmade paper. It belongs to the edition "H. Matisse, The Color of Light", by Seat Editore.

Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue "Liebe" (Dear), Text in German on the plate, The drawing created unusually bold erotic subjects through deft strokes. Good conditions. Mihály Zichy...

Josef Muller-Brockmann, Volg, Traubensaft Naturrein, Zuverlässigkeit. 1957 Offset. Rare. Josef Müller-Brockmann was one of the leading pioneers of the ...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Bernard Klein, éditeur, Paris, February 26, 1954. Notes: ...

Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952 From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54' Pr...

Arashi Rinosuke II is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hirosada (Japanese, active 1825–75) in 1848. Woodcut Print Chuban format, 1848 From the series "Kokon yujin ki"...

Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Europe's Diversity Signed in the plate Dimensions: 33 x 46 cm Edition: 200 Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Sciaky 1961 Jean Coc...

Etching with aquatint on cream wove paper, 1 3/4 x 5 inches (178x 127 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Ed. 150" in pencil, lower margin. Second state (of 3), before th...

Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving Mme.Helvetius' Cats Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF). Conditions: excellent Edition: 100 Support: Arches paper. Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm Editions: Moret, Paris. Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery. Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau. A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...

Lithograph realized by Daumier in 1845, belonging to the Series "Les Gens de Justice". Monogrammed in the plate. Very good condition. Ref. Delteil 1358

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) The Circus : The Spirit of the Circus, 1967 Original lithograph (Mourlot Workshop) On Arches vellum 42 x 32 cm (c. 17 x 13 in) REFERENCE : Catalog raiso...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, mounted on vélin paper backing sheet, as issued. Year: 1954 Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.05 x 7.08 inches Inscription: Signed in the...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, mounted on vélin paper backing sheet, as issued. Year: 1954 Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 10.63 x 6.69 inches Inscription: Signed in th...