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Art Subject: Animal
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching by Carlo Oratij - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Ortij in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions except f...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Bird - Lithograph by Giselle Halff - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Bird is an Original lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by Giselle Halff in 1950 ca.
Hand-signed by pencil on the rear.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Tunisian Camels - Photolithograph by Bettino Craxi - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Tunisian Camels is an original photolithograph realized in the 1990s by the Italian politician Bettino Craxi after A. Lumière.
Hand-signed.
Artist's proof.
Very good conditions.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Monkey - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Monkey is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publishe...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Night Heron - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Night Heron is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917).
Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-colored, published by London,...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Animal Skeleton - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Animal Skeleton is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Troi...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Skeleton - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Skeleton is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publis...
Category
1850s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
The Skeleton - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Skeleton is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publis...
Category
1850s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
The Physiognomy- Insects - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
The Physiognomy - Insects is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Lov...
Category
1810s Post-Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Cat - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Cat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
Category
1850s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
The Dog - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Dog is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bird in the Branches - Original Print by Giselle Halff - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Bird in the Branches is an original artwork realized by Giselle Halff in the mid-20th century.
Original woodcut print.
Good condition.
Artist’s proof.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ancient Roman Relief - Original Etching by Vincenzo Campana - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Relief, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Campana in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lowe...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Bat - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Bat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
Category
1850s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
The Bat - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Bat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
Category
1850s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Rat on the Border - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1971
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Rat on the Border is an original artwork realized in 1971 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original colored etching on ivory-colored cardboard.
Not s...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Flight of the Rat - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1973
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Flight of the Rat (Volo del ratto) is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1973 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original colored etching on i...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Robert Heindel serigraph from the set design of the Garden of Eros
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful serigraph by the noted artist Robert Heindel (1938 - 2005). This piece is the only one left of a serigraph "#2 From the Set Design f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Animal Figures - Original Etching by Various Old Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome, from the Series "The Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is an original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Bird - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
The Bird is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1972 by the italian artist Leo Guida.
Original Etching and Burin on paper.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right co...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
Chinese Contemporary Print by Su Yu - Black Swan
By Su Yu
Located in Paris, IDF
Edition of 100
Digital print on paper
Hand signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Digital
Fishing - Etching on Cardboard by Giovanni Omiccioli - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Fishing is a beautiful etching on cardboard, realized in 1971 by the Italian artist Giovanni Omiccioli (Rome, 1901-1975).
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right and dated. Number...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Squirrels - Original Lithograph - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Squirrels is a color lithograph realized by an anonymous artist in the late 19th century.
Good conditions. This print reproduces four squillers indicated with the alphabet letters...
Category
Late 19th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Hunting Scene - Original Lithograph - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
A Hunting Scene is a color lithograph realized by an anonymous artist in the late 19th century.
Good conditions, except for usual signs of aging.
The artwork shows a hunting scene involving three animals indicated with the alphabet letters...
Category
Late 19th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Buffet, Les deux oiseaux, Lithographs 1952-1966 (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin Acropole Papeteries de Renage paper.
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.5 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Mouton de Barbarie - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Mouton de Barbarie is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière ...
Category
1770s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"A Carp Leaping in a Pool" by Katsushika Taito. Haddad's Fine Arts, Inc.
By Katsushika Taito II
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Published By Haddad's Fine Arts, Inc
Distressed condition, water damage
Measures 35 in x 22.5 in
Category
20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Crow - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
The Crow is an original etching print realized by Leo Guida in 1972.
From the edition of 10 prints.
Good condition.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
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...
Category
1980s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Les Essencies de la Terra
By Joan Miró
Located in Palo Alto, CA
This bright and lively work was originally created for a poster showcasing Miró's works at the Galleria del Milione, Milan. Bold colors, lively imagery, and vivid spontaneity are sta...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paul Jouve (after) - Tiger - Original Engraving
By Paul Jouve
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve (after) - Tiger - Engraving
19 x 14 cm
Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950.
Copy on velin creme de Rives
Copper engraving heightened with pochoir.
Category
1950s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Forbidden Tree, by Stan Washburn
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching
Edition of 90
Year: 1977
ImageSize: 4 x 4 inches
Signed, titled and numbered etching from the edition of 90. Humorous portrait of the Serpent (from Adam and Eve) on ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Pierrot. Limited edition print, Surreal, Established Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Size of sheet is ca. 21 x 29 cm (A4)
Contemporary figurative giclee print by Polish artist Rafal Olbinski.
RAFAŁ OLBIŃSKI (born in 1943)
He graduated from the Faculty of Architect...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
Salvador Dali - from Biblia Sacra - Offset Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Biblia Sacra was published in 1969 by Rizzoli of Rome
- SIGNATURE: printed in the image
- LIMITED EDITION: 1499
- SIZE : 19 x 13 3/4"
- REFERENCES: Michler and ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ruins of a Mosque, Tlemciem, Algeria
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: New York Etching Club, 1887.
Etching with aquatint in brown ink on cream laid paper, 4 x 5 inches (98 x 125 mm), full margins. In excellent condition.
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
"Butterfly 14" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 1/24 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Butterfly 14" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 1/24 by Giuliano Bekor
Title: Butterfly B12
Year: 2018
Print size: 24" x 24" Inch
Edition: 1/24
Artist proof: 2
Medium:
Archival f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Flamingo - Lithograph by Alberto Mastroianni - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Flamingo is a lithograph realized by Alberto Mastroianni in the 1970s.
The artwork represents an interesting pink flamingo, a combination of fantasy and realism.
The artist's effo...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Les cygnes by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Animal themed monotype
Located in London, GB
Les cygnes by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Watercolour monotype
49 x 63 cm (19 ¹/₄ x 24 ³/₄ inches)
Signed lower left, manzana
Executed circa 1920
Provenance: Private collec...
Category
1920s Art Deco Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Monotype
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
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flamingo - Lithograph by Alberto Mastroianni - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Flamingo is a lithograph realized by Alberto Mastroianni in the 1970s.
Hand Signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower in pencil.
The artwork represents an interesting...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Alfred Bendiner, The Son also Raises
Located in New York, NY
No matter the seriousness (or lack thereof) of the subject, everything is always beautifully drawn on the lithographic stone by Bendiner.
Here a bull fight has gone amiss. Perhaps ...
Category
1940s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Serenata equinofrebígua II" Equinefebrifuge serenade, surrealist horses, zebras
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Pedro Friedeberg is an artist and designer from Mexico of Italian origin, known for his surreal work full of lines, colors, and ancient religious symbols. His best-known piece is the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Silver
"Black Lab" by Elliott
Located in Bristol, CT
Image Sz: 14 1/4"H x 18 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 25 1/4"H x 29 1/2"W
Charming sporting print of a Black Lab in the duck blind by 'Elliott' signed (LR) in a vintage...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color
A Twig Snapped, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - A Twig Snapped, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 40, Image Size: 19 inches x 23 inches, Siz...
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Evening Visit - Offset after Renato Guttuso - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
The Evening Visit is an offset poster print after the Sicilian artist Renato Guttuso. This print was realized on the occasion of the exhibition held in Rondanini Gallery in Rome in ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
House of the Rising Sun - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and aquatint realized by Fifo Stricker in 1985.
Edition of 60 (50 in arab numbers and X in roman numbers).
Hand signed, numbered and dated.
Excellent condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Longhorn Beetle
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 15
Signed, titled, dated and print type
Platinum Palladium print
Paper size: 14 x 11 3/4 in., Image size: 10 x 10 in.
While integrating photography and his passion for g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Klimt, Bauerngarten mit Hühnern, 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: 11.69 x 11.81 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued....
Category
1930s Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
MUPPETS - KERMIT
Located in Aventura, FL
Unstretched giclee on canvas. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 35. Image size when stretched is approx 14 x 14 inches. Unstretched canvas size is 19 x 19 inches. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée, Canvas
CANBIRD (BLACK)
By FAKE
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand finished hand pulled screen print on 310 GSM archival art paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Edition of 20. Frame size approx 34 x 26 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist: Dutch artist FAKE from Amsterdam was born on May 15th 1980 and has been doing graffiti and street art half his life. FAKE is self-taught and started experimenting and combining styles early on to come to a unique signature. FAKE’s work is some of the cleanest stuff around. His clean, taut work, full of color, has been in shows all over the world; from Holland, Norway, Denmark and the UK until the US and even countries as Iran. Apart from being a perfectionist, FAKE’s signature style is that of storytelling. Stencils give him the power to use any image on any desired background and give it a humorous or ironic twist. One of his most iconic works, FAKE love...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Untitled from How I Spent My Summer
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Derrick Adams
Title: Untitled (Sheet 4)
Portfolio: How I Spent My Summer 2021
Medium: Screenprint with collage
Year: 2021
Edition: BAT (the good-to-print proofs, aside from t...
Category
2010s Portrait Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Screen
HUNTING FOR VOLES
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
WINTER IS UPON US
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Hope (unique screen print with gold leaf)
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique UV pigment print on a 6-colour silkscreen printed background 410gsm Somerset Tub-sized Radiant white 100% cotton paper, finished with hand-applied 24 carat gold leaf and ink. Hand signed lower left by Pejac. Hand numbered 723/1000 lower right corner. Artwork size 31.49 x 21.65 inches. Frame size 38 x 28 inches.
The artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity by Pejac included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
HOPE was born in 2020 when, at the height of the pandemic, Pejac painted a mural on a hospital in his hometown – Santander. Seen from afar, thousands of figures formed the illusion of large crevice. The artwork quickly went viral online, and became a symbol of hope for many. Begun in the middle of 2023, our collaboration is centered on the question of how hope is found or created. To create the original work, Pejac undertook a month-long residency at Make-Ready in London. HOPE is an unprecedented collaboration between artist and printmaker. With the edition, Pejac reinterprets his iconic crevice which, seen up close, you will be surprised to see is made up from a multitude of tiny, individually-painted people. Each one plays their part in an overarching story of humanity. In the first print, just three figures appear, in the second, there are six and so on until the final print in the series of 1000, which features several thousand figures – each one unique.
About the Artist: Pejac, born in Santander in 1977 is a Spanish street artist known for his minimalist style whilst exploring sensitive social, environmental and political issues. His work is powerful and deliberately provocative about real-world issues and he uses a range of artistic styles and mediums to get his often critical message across. Pejac studied art in Barcelona and Milan where he became disillusioned with the elitist attitude of the art world he was studying; he left formal education and embarked on his street art career.
To label Pejac as a street artist is only capturing one element of his work. Pejac works to such fine detail and is technically highly skilled; he is quite capable at getting his message across with silhouette paintings on a wall or floor as he is at producing work in a classical style with exquisite fine detail. Pejac’s art...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
'On Stage' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'On Stage', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1946, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '22/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (3 5/8 to 4 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 7/8 x 3 7/8 inches (149 x 98 mm); sheet size 15 1/8 x 11 1/8 inches (384 x 283 mm).
Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945, and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the United States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions.
“The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.”
—Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature.
Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research.
Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June.
Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages."
In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking.
Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...
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1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Engraving
WHITE OWL
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
Calder, Composition, A Bestiary (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Letterpress printing on spécialement fabriqué Curtis Rag vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.1875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, A Best...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph