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Art Subject: Book
Marc Chagall - Revolution - Original 1960s Poster for Galiera Museum
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Marc CHAGALL (1887 - 1985)
Poster for "Les peintres témoins de leur temps Musée Galiera" 1963
Created by Charles Sorlier after Chagall's 1937 painting...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Tendres Stocks: The Complete Etchings
Located in New York, NY
Chas Laborde (1886-1941), Tendres Stocks: The Complete Etchings, c. 1924, etching, engraving, colored etching proofs before publication of the book. A suite of 13 impressions in black and white, and 13 in color; 26 in all; impressions printed before the book edition of Tendres Stocks by Paul Morand...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Engraving, Etching
"Sixieme Biennale de Peinture, " Vintage Lithographic Poster
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sixieme Biennale de Peinture" is an vintage Picasso exhibition poster printed in 1966 by Mourlot. It depicts a Picasso painting from 1965 and advertises a Biennial exhibition of pai...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Late 19th century color lithograph art nouveau ornate bookplate figures
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Guiding Light" and "Nature's Course" are two sides of one double-sided original lithograph by Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha. These illustrations were pages 113 & 114 of "Ilsee, ...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Chagall Gouaches et Lavis, " Offset Poster After Marc Chagall, Galerie Maeght
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Chagall Gouaches et Lavis" is an offset poster after a painting by Marc Chagall printed by Galerie Maeght. It depicts one of Chagall's self-portraits ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Grand Celebrites of France
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), Les Grandes Celebrites de la France, lithograph, 1939, plate 2 from the series Les Saltimbanques, from La Caricature Provisoire (also published later in Le Charivari, 1843). Reference: Daumier Register 620, second state (of 5). With lettering, and the initials (in the plate lower left). Printed on a wove paper. In good condition (formerly folded across the middle, now flattened) , 11 1/2 x 8 7/8, the sheet 13 1/8 x 10 inches.
A very good impression.
An impression of Les Grande Celebrites de la France was shown in the Metropolitan Museum's show Seurat's Circus Sideshow...
Category
1830s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Une Escale au Brasil (A Stopover in Brazil)
Located in New York, NY
Charles Dufresne (1876-1938), Une Escale au Brasil (A Stopover in Brazil), etching and drypoint, c. 1920, signed in pencil lower right margin and inscribed “epreuve de artist” lower ...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Affiche - Le Condottiere, signed inscribed to D.B.
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 29-3/8"x 21-1/8"
Frame: 31'x 22-1/2"
Original signed lithograph poster
Claude Weisbuch was born in Thionville, France in 1927 and was a pupil at L' École des Beaux-Arts de Nanc...
Category
1970s Animal Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
BOSBOOM. 1917.
Located in New York, NY
ROLAND HOLST, R.N. (Richard) (1868-1938). “Eere Tentoonstelling Bosboom/ 1817 1917/ Pulchri-Studio ‘s Gravenhage/ 21 Apr[il] 31 Mei”. Color lithograph (pa...
Category
1910s Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Italian Contemporary Art by Marco Santaniello - HK Chicken Store
Located in Paris, IDF
Edition of 30 & hand signed by the artist
Marco Santaniello is an Italian artist born in 1981 who lives & works in Cosenza, Calabria in Italy. He started his path doing Pop Portraits and in front of his “rainbow wall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Canvas, Digital
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
"Kiss Me Stupid Exhibition Poster, " Poster by Valerio Adami
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Kiss Me Stupid Exhibition Poster" is a poster by Valerio Adami. The poster was created for the Kiss Me Stupid show at the Galerie Maeght. This graphic black and white composition sh...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Other Medium
"7Eme Bal de l'AAAA Skater, " Original Lithograph Poster by Ludovic Rodo Pissarr
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"7Eme Bal de l'AAAA Skater" is an original color lithograph poster by Ludovic Rodo Pissarro. The artist signed the piece in plate lower right. It depicts a wo...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Fire and Police Department Record, " Chromolithograph by J.M. Vickroy & Co
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fire and Police Department Record" is a chromolithograph by J.M. Vickroy & Co. It features scenes of a Fire and Police department doing civic servic...
Category
Early 1900s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rozsa/Szucs
Located in New York, NY
Rozsa/Szucs. Ca 1915. Budapest. Color lithograph. Hungarian Art Nouveau posters are rare.
Bardócz was a graphic artist and painter, active between the 1910’s and the 1930’s.
His p...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Early 20th century color lithograph poster figures globe flags sun moon text
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Conquéte Du Pôle (The COnquest of the Pole)" is an original lithograph poster by an unknown artist published by the Club of America. It depicts personifications of major world po...
Category
Early 1900s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Museum of Genius - Original Signed Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Museum of Genius and Whim - Original Signed Engraving
Handsigned in pencil and Numbered
Edition: F195/195
- Printer: Atelier Rigal.
- Paper: Rives vellum ; each ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chap Book
Located in New York, NY
Hazenplug, Frank. Chap Book. Color Lithograph, 1895. 20 1/2 x 14"
Frank Hazenplug, was an artist who made engravings, typography, and posters. He also illustrated books
Hazenplug worked for Chicago firm Stone & Kimball and designed books for them, continuing with the company even after it became Herbert S. Stone. Hazenplug also designed books for other publishers, such as Fleming Revell, George Doran, A.C. McClurg, Reilly and Britton, Rand McNally, and John Lane...
Category
1880s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Marilyn Monroe Mugshot" Print on canvas 39 x 36 inch Ed. of 75 by Gerard Marti
By Gerard Marti
Located in Culver City, CA
"Marilyn Monroe Mugshot" Print on canvas 39 x 36 inch Ed. of 75 by Gerard Marti
Digital print on canvas.
Stretched on wooden bars.
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Marilyn is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Canvas, Digital
Ticket for the Bal Banal
Located in New York, NY
Ticket for the Bal Banal (complete), Union des Artistes Russes stamps on front. 1924.
Colour woodcut on grey mould-made paper. Plate signed: N. Gontcharova,
Complete with stub....
Category
1920s Futurist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Le Soleil de Minuite.
By Rene Pean
Located in New York, NY
Le Soleil de Minuite. 1898. Color lithograph. On Linen
A Student of Jules Cheret, he created posters between 1895 and 1905 in the workshop Chaix produced ...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Don't Try So Hard, limited edition, silkscreen, Pop Art, Green Eyes, unframed
By Mitch McGee
Located in Riverdale, NY
Mitch McGee, Don't Try So Hard, Limited Edition Pop Art Print, Silkscreen, Edition of 40. Image is 20" round, paper size 24x24. Each signed and numbered. It is unframed.
The influences for McGee's own artwork came from the style of Pop Art legend, Roy Lichtenstein. According to McGee, "Lichtenstein with a Red Bow was the first piece that started me down this rabbit hole. Roy Lichtenstein took comic strips and repositioned them as lithography. In an almost tongue-in-cheek fashion I wondered how I could take one of his pieces and recreate it in another medium. The easy answer for me was wood. I grew up working with it and, combined with my graphic design background, it left me with a new medium and expression that I think really works." From that start, Houston artist, McGee began to create his own style and establish his unique voice.
Today, his creativity exists in that space between painting and sculpture. In his Birch series, McGee uses pieces of wood, each illustrated, hand cut and stained or painted to create dimensional pieces. Each painting is filled with thick layers and subtle shadows. There is a warmth created by the imperfection of the birch and its grain that creates an emotional connection. Each painting is a labor of love, taking 40 to 50 hours or more to complete.
McGee has created original works inspired by Superhero comics, Sports icons, as well as romantic moments using thick lines and bold colors to bring these scenes to life in his own way. Each artwork is filled with humor, irony, compassion or seduction.
His artwork has been exhibited throughout Texas since 2001 and in New York with Elisa Contemporary Art...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Woodcut
Cricket Taplin, Art Collector. Cricket Taplin Art Collection, Sagamore Hotel
Located in New York, NY
Art Desks by E. Brady Robinson features photographs of the desks and working spaces of artists, curators, art dealers and critics throughout the East Coast. This project explores the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography
L'Estampe Moderne - David Barnett Gallery Exhibition, Feb. 18, 1978 - Mar. 25,
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"L'Estampe Moderne - David Barnett Gallery Exhibition, Feb. 18, 1978 - Mar. 25, 1978" is an offset poster limited edition, ed. 1/500. The poster...
Category
1970s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Claudine/Theatre du Moulin Rouge
Located in New York, NY
Freres. Clerice. Claudine 1910.On Linen. Color lithograph poster for the
Operette en 3 Actes de Willy. d'après les Romans de Willy & Colette Willy
with music by Rodolphe Berger. Ref. Broido No. 21
The Clerice Frères...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Antoine Georges Marie Rochgrosse
Located in New York, NY
Rochgrosse, Antoine Georges Marie. Poems Chantes/Gustave Carpentier /Paris/Henri Tellier, Editeur. 1896. 7 Color lithograph.
Das fruhe Plakat 750 (Music Sheet).
French painter, pri...
Category
1880s Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Merry Christmas, " Original Color Woodcut signed with stamp by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Merry Christmas" is an original color woodcut on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower right. This artwork features the an abstracted figure on orange p...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Cultured Woman - Tokyo
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered color woodcut from the edition of 15. Modern woman in Tokyo; signed and titled edition of 15.
Art Hazelwood calls himself artist, instigator and impresario to define the three intertwining areas of his practice. He uses printmaking within a range of political allegory and satire making work from political posters to fine press edition artist books. He has curated and organized a range of exhibitions at venues from museums to immigrant centers. He has worked for over 20 years with homeless rights groups; creating prints, and street posters, and has authored one book and contributed to another on art and homelessness.
He has been a regular visiting guest artist at San Quentin State Prison and teaches currently at the San Francisco Art Institute. He organized the San Francisco Poster...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Cendrillon
By Emile Bertrand
Located in New York, NY
Émile Bertrand's poster for Jules Massenet's Cendrillon, advertising the première performance at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris.
1899. Color lithograph. On linen. De...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Do it! Offset print Limited Edition by Mr. (Iwamoto Masakatsu)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Do it! Offset print by Mr. (Iwamoto Masakatsu)
Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist
65 x 50 cm
Edition 22/300
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
François Desnoyer - Free Child - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
François Desnoyer - Free Child
Original Lithograph
Handsigned
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
François Desnoyer was a French visual artist who was born in ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Twenty Flight Rock. Offset print Limited Edition by Mr. (Iwamoto Masakatsu)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Twenty Flight Rock. Offset print by Mr. (Iwamoto Masakatsu)
Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist
65 cm Diameter
Edition 22/300
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
THE WALL BLUE (KEITH HARING)
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print and spray paint on hand torn archival art paper. Hand signed and numbered on front, thumb print on verso by the artist. Edition 19/75. Artwork size 30 x 22 inches. F...
Category
Early 2000s Street Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$3,712 Sale Price
25% Off
Harper's May, 1895.
Located in New York, NY
[Poster for Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, May 1895]. Woman in a blue dress with Harper’s, wandering through a flock of sheep. Color Zincograph. New York: Harper & Brothers,1895. Signed in stone bottom right: EDWARD PENFIELD.
Ref: Das Plakat...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
D'Horticulture de France
By Eugene V. Bourgeois
Located in New York, NY
D'Horticulture de France. Ca 1899. Color lithograph. On Linen
47 x33".
Bourgeois was a painter of landscapes and murals.
Bourgeois received a bronze medal in1889 and 1900 ...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rebel
Located in New York City, NY
Eduardo Recife
Rebel I, 2018
Archival Pigment Print
Framed
44 x 30 inches
Edition of 5
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Daniel Richter: Greif zur Feder, Gymnasiastin - Limited Edition Print
Located in Hamburg, DE
Daniel Richter (German, born 1962)
Greif zur Feder, Gymnasiastin, 2020
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions: 53.5 x 76.0 cm (21.1 x 29.9 in)
Edition of 30: Hand-signed and num...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mani Sunset -- Reduction Woodcut, Print, Human Figure, Art by Tom Hammick
By Tom Hammick
Located in London, GB
Mani Sunset, 2025
Tom Hammick
Reduction woodcut in colours
On Saunders Waterford wove
Signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'E.V.' (edition variable)
From the edition of 25
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Serie Oratorios
Located in Toronto, ON
44" x 30" Unframed
3 Ink Woodcut Print on Paper
Hand Signed by Iván Bautista
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Enki Bilal - Cyclops - Original Lithograph
By Enki Bilal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Enki Bilal - Cyclops - Original Lithograph
Publisher: Amis du Livre
Edition: 240
2012
Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm.
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pigment
And Now The Neighborhood Kids, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Located in Orange, CA
And Now The Neighborhood Kids, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper
But As I Say, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Located in Orange, CA
But As I Say, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper
Oh I Miss You, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Located in Orange, CA
Oh I Miss You, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper
Perhaps I'll Climb, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Located in Orange, CA
Perhaps I'll Climb, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper
The Foreign Gifts, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Located in Orange, CA
The Foreign Gifts, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper
Right Now The Sun, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Located in Orange, CA
Right Now The Sun, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper
The World Is Altered, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Located in Orange, CA
The World Is Altered, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper
Today, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Located in Orange, CA
Today, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper
But I've Stopped Checking, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Located in Orange, CA
But I've Stopped Checking, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper
Everything Will Be Fine, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Located in Orange, CA
Everything Will Be Fine, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper
When I Return, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Located in Orange, CA
When I Return, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper
My Dearest, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Located in Orange, CA
My Dearest, Woodblock Print by Daniel Duford, 2013
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Rice Paper
Don't Try So Hard, limited edition, silkscreen, Pop Art, Green Eyes, Framed
By Mitch McGee
Located in Riverdale, NY
Mitch McGee, Don't Try So Hard, Limited Edition Pop Art Print, Silkscreen, Edition of 40. Image is 20" round, paper size 24x24. Each signed and numbered. It is currently framed to 25x25.
The influences for McGee's own artwork came from the style of Pop Art legend, Roy Lichtenstein. According to McGee, "Lichtenstein with a Red Bow was the first piece that started me down this rabbit hole. Roy Lichtenstein took comic strips and repositioned them as lithography. In an almost tongue-in-cheek fashion I wondered how I could take one of his pieces and recreate it in another medium. The easy answer for me was wood. I grew up working with it and, combined with my graphic design background, it left me with a new medium and expression that I think really works." From that start, Houston artist, McGee began to create his own style and establish his unique voice.
Today, his creativity exists in that space between painting and sculpture. In his Birch series, McGee uses pieces of wood, each illustrated, hand cut and stained or painted to create dimensional pieces. Each painting is filled with thick layers and subtle shadows. There is a warmth created by the imperfection of the birch and its grain that creates an emotional connection. Each painting is a labor of love, taking 40 to 50 hours or more to complete.
McGee has created original works inspired by Superhero comics, Sports icons, as well as romantic moments using thick lines and bold colors to bring these scenes to life in his own way. Each artwork is filled with humor, irony, compassion or seduction.
His artwork has been exhibited throughout Texas since 2001 and in New York with Elisa Contemporary Art...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Woodcut
Vintage Chinese Lithograph Advertisement Poster
Located in Chicago, IL
This commercial advertisement poster from 1930s Shanghai melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. Large companies often presented posters such as this to their clients to commemorate the Chinese New Year. This poster depicts a young woman luxuriously...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink
Fried Potatoes
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Framed dimensions: 24.75 x 29 inches
We proudly welcome Alejandro Sainz Alfonso, (b.1965), to the fold. Alfonsos hugely colorful and at times, comedic take on his life in Cuba is expressed in this series of silkscreen prints. From “Fried Potatoes” to “Review of History” we see a world from the perspective of a population living under the sea inside of the 100 year old divers suits. When I asked him if this is what it is like to live in Cuba under the current political regime – he said “no – that this is what its like to be a human on planet earth”. We were intrigued to see Cuba, from an artistic perspective. Like Darwin’s Galapagos Islands, we were able to see a vibrant artistic community that has had very few outside influences since 1959. The visual and literary diet seems to have been limited to 1950s movie stars, Albrecht Durers prints...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$1,400 Sale Price
22% Off
Enki Bilal - The Kiss - Original Lithograph
By Enki Bilal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Enki Bilal - The Kiss - Original Lithograph
Publisher: Amis du Livre
Edition: 240
2012
Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm.
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pigment
Floating Books
Located in Greenwich, CT
Floating Books is a lithograph on paper with an image size of 3.5 x 2.5 inches, initialed 'FMB' lower right and annotated lower left, framed in a contemporary silver and dark gray fr...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
LAYERS (SIMPSONS)
Located in Aventura, FL
Rag Photographique on 310GSM Fine Art Paper. Hand signed and numbered 1/1 by Broos. Sheet size 32 x 24 inches. Frame size approx 39.5 x 32.5 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$2,250 Sale Price
25% Off
Eduardo Arroyo - Can You Play Piano ? - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Eduardo Arroyo - Can You Play Piano ? - Original Lithograph
1984
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 495
Dimensions: 37,3 x 58 cm
Editions: Trinckvel
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Peter Doig, Metropolitain - Original Signed Exhibition Poster form 2004
By Peter Doig
Located in Hamburg, DE
Very rare original poster for Peter Doig's 2004 exhibition "Metropolitain" at Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover. The show took place from 9 July - 12 September 2004.
The exhibition po...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Felt Pen, Offset
Georges Braque - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Georges Braque - Original Lithograph
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Andre Sauret, Monte Carlo
The father of Cubism
Three Cubist that distinguishes art historian periods were initiated and developed by Georges Braque: The Cubist Cézanne (1907-1909), Executive (1909-1912) and synthetic (1912-1922).
Post-Impressionist and fawn, Braque no longer adheres to the contingency of a decorative way or the other. Cézanne’s paintings exhibited at the Grand Palais during the retrospective of 1907 are a revelation: Cézanne sought and invented a pictorial language. In his footsteps, Braque went to the South with the reasons of the Master. He returned with Estaque landscapes and surprising Ciotat it keeps Cezanne geometric model and retains the “passages” continuity from one surface to another to create the sensation of “turning around” of the object represented. But he wants to go after the consequences of the vision of Cezanne. In his paintings Houses in L’Estaque (1908) it simplifies the volumes of houses, neglects detail by removing doors and windows: the plastic rhythm that builds the table. Large Nude , a masterpiece of the period, can be considered the first work of Cézanne cubism .
Systematizing and deepening Braque discoveries open the door analytical cubism. In 1909, his painting became more cerebral than sensual. The pattern is recreated in the two-dimensionality of the canvas, leaving aside any illusionistic perspective. In Still Life with Violin, objects are analyzed facets according to their characteristic elements, each facet referring to a particular view of the object. There are so many facets of points selected view: Table reflects the knowledge of the object and the ubiquity of the eye. Moreover, Braque is looking for the essence of the objects in the world rather than their contingency, which explains the absence of light source and use of muted colors (gray, ocher), contingent aspects of the object . But formal logic has stepped facets, erased any anecdote to the object and ultimately led to his painting a hermetic more marked on the edge of abstraction (see the series of Castle Roche-Guyon ).
Braque, anxious to keep the concrete and refusing at all costs that the logic of Cubism takes the paintings to abstract, reintroduced signs of reality in his paintings in 1912 marks the beginning of Synthetic Cubism. Historians speak of “signs of real” rather than reality because what interests Braque, this is not to put reality into a table, but to create a painting which, by its language, refers to the real. To do this, he invented two major techniques XX th century inclusions and contributions. The inclusions consist of painting objects that have no real depth, materials (wallpaper in Nature morte aux playing cards faux wood is a pictorial inclusion) or letters (calligraphic inclusion in Portuguese ), made first brush and a few months later stencil. Contributions are defined in contrast with the collage on canvas of foreign materials: glued or sand paper, sawdust, etc.. Regarding the collages, Braque used for the first time in September 1912 a piece of adhesive paper imitating faux wood Compote and Glass , then the packet envelope of tobacco Bock in 1912-1913, or an advertisement in Damier , 1913). Inputs and inclusions refer to an external object in the table, without “emulate” this object. Away from their appearances, objects are represented in closest essence of the objects in the real world sense.
This is also the time of Synthetic Cubism that Braque invented paper sculpture. There are, unfortunately, and no one is living proof of a photograph makes it possible to realize: Paper and paperboard.
Métamorphoses period(1961-1963).
In 1961, Georges Braque worked on a Greek head for the Louvre, which obsesses him, and he wishes to free his mind. He tried several times to bring out the paint and the result was unsatisfactory. He thinks the ultimate metamorphosis its Greek head projected in three dimensions. He calls in his studio of Baron Heger Loewenfeld, master lapidary, and he communicates his enthusiasm during the “fateful encounter.” Nine months later, in honor of the eighty years of Georges Braque, Heger Loewenfeld offers the Master of the ring Circe: the famous Greek head finally exorcised, carved in an onyx. Braque Loewenfeld then asked to identify other issues that haunt him.
From dated and signed by Georges Braque, Heger gouaches Loewenfeld shapes works in the fields of jewelery, lapidary art...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph