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Art Subject: Drawing
Tribute to Gauguin : Tahitian Woman - Original etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Jacques BOULLAIRE (1893-1976)
Tribute to Gauguin : Tahitian Woman (Miriama)
Original etching
Signed in the plate
On vellum, 28.5 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 in)
INFORMATION: This etching i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Wrexham Tower, Yale University
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on watermarked cream laid J Perrigot Arches paper, 15 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches (400 x 248 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and dedicated to the the artist Ruth Knobl...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Gravure I from Poemes, Surrealist Woodcut Print by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) - Gravure I from Poemes, Year: 1968, Medium: Woodcut, Size: 14.5 x 11.25 in. (36.83 x 28.58 cm), Printer: Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, P...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dali - Baubo (Woman Riding a Sow), from Faust - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Baubo (Woman Riding a Sow), from Faust
Embossed signature (from the standard book edition of 731)
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 B / Michler ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Composition (Reinz 208-222), Voyages Fantastiques, Bernard Buffet
Located in Southampton, NY
Drypoint etching on papier de Rives B.F.K. pur fil paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Voyages fantastiques aux États et empires de la l...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$3,036 Sale Price
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Ninth Inning
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Sylvia Mayzer Rantz, 'Ninth Inning', lithograph, 1949, edition 24. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '9/24' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper. The ful...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
Reflections
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Reflections', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1979, edition 160 in 1983. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A superb impression, on cream ...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
John Lennon (blue version)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Title: John Lennon
Artist: John Van Hamersveld
Medium: Color SERIGRAPH
Substrate: COVENTRY RAG 320 GSM
Paper Size: 34.25″ x 44”
Image Size: 30” x 40”
Signed and Numbered Edition Printers Proof
Year: 2007
John Van Hamersveld (born September 1, 1941) is an American graphic artist and illustrator who designed record jackets for pop and psychedelic bands from the 1960s onward. Among the 300 albums[3] are the covers of Magical Mystery...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Michael Knigin, Golden Eagle, 1979, lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Michael Knigin, an extremely skilled draftsman, rides a fine line between realism and surrealism. Here he has conceived of an elegant and emotional eagle, a national symbol. In stark...
Category
1970s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sarracenia Porporina - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Big B Signs Up" 1976 signed Lithograph celebrating the Bicentennial 23/175
By Larry Rivers
Located in Southampton, NY
The work of controversial post-Abstract Expressionist artist Larry Rivers is in the collection most Major Museums. In 2021 a work of his sold at Sotheby's for over 2 Million Dollars.
"Big B Signs Up...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Raoul Dufy - Champs Français - Original Etching
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Raoul Dufy - Champs Français - Original Etching
Dimensions: 13 x 10".
Edition of 200
1940
Edition Les Bibliophiles du Palais, Paris
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Picasso, Composition (Hodorisch B2), Le manuscrit trouvé dans un chapeau (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des papeteries Lafúma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the album, Le manuscrit trouvé dans un ch...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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By the Nets - German Expressionism Woodcut Schmidt-Rottluff
Located in London, GB
KARL SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF 1884-1976
Rottluff, Germany 1884 - 1976 Berlin (German)
Title: By the Nets Bei den Netzen, 1914
Technique: Original Hand Signed Woodcut on Laid Paper
Paper size: 51.2 x 62.4 cm. / 20.2 x 24.6 in.
Additional Information: This original woodcut is hand signed in pencil by the artist "S. Rottluff" at the lower right margin.
This is the fifth woodcut of the portfolio "Zehn Holzschnitte von Schmidt-Rottluff" [Ten Woodcuts by Schmidt-Rottluff] that was published in 1919.
It was published by Graphisches Kabinett J. B. Neumann, Berlin in a limited unnumbered edition of 75 plus some proofs.
The printer was Fritz Voigt...
Category
1910s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Picasso, Femme de Face (Bloch 372; Baer 700; Cramer 41) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on papeteries vélin de Lana paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with full margins. Notes: From the folio, Jours de gloire, Histoire de la ...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,436 Sale Price
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Bible : Saul and David, 1939 - Original Etching
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1958)
Bible : Saul and David (Saül et David), 1939
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13.1 inch)
INFORMAT...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, The Escape - Original Etching (Baer #161)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, The Escape, 1936
Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris)
Unsigned
On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in)
REFERENCES :
- Catalo...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'UNALLOYED' - Screenprint signed and dated by Prefab77
By Prefab77
Located in Palm Desert, CA
'Unalloyed' - Screen Print by Prefab77
Size 24.25 x 24.25 inches / / 61,6 x 61,6 cm
Published on 21st of June 2017
Edition of 25
5 Color Screen Print on Fabriano 250gsm cotton paper...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$595 Sale Price
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Léger, Deux soldats dans un abri, Dessins de Guerre 1915-16 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger, Dessins de Guerre 1915-16, 19...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Smoker in White - Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, dated and numbered by artist with pencil. Etching and aquatint.
Edition of 90 prints plus 15 prints in Roman Numbers and 5 Artist's Proofs.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Bricklayers at Rest - Offset after Renato Guttuso - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Bricklayers at Rest is an artwork realized after the Italian artist Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1945.
Phototype print.
Good ...
Category
1940s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
Hyman J. Warsager, Canarsie Meadows, 1936-39, WPA lithograph
Located in New York, NY
An amazing New York City subject, Canarsie Meadows, is a lithograph by New York native Hyman J. Warsager (1909-1974). He was a painter and printmaker, technical innovator, and song w...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Friends - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Friends - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Les Elus de la Nuit
1986
Conditions: excellent
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 230
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Editions: Trinckvel...
Category
1980s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Four Heads - Original Etching (Baer #151)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Four Heads, 1936
Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris)
Unsigned
On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in)
REFERENCES :
- Catalo...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Léger, Soldats dans un abri, Dessins de Guerre 1915-16 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger, Dessins de Guerre ...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Coutances
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on thin, bluish-green cream laid paper, 9 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (233 x 120 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. First and only state. Printed by Frederi...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Harem - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Harem is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949).
Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La Fontai...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Four Nude Men - Original Etching (Baer #155)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Three Naked Women, 1936
Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris)
Unsigned
On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in)
REFERENCES :
-...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
LA PIENTRE ET SON MODELE
Located in Aventura, FL
Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of t...
Category
1980s Cubist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
$1,225 Sale Price
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Female Portrait (Head of Black Woman) Black Artist
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ellen Tiberino (1937-1992).
Head of Woman, ca. 1980. edition 450.
Offset print on paper, image measuring 15.5 x 21 inches. 21.5 x 27 inches in matting.
Hand signed and numbered i...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Paulownia Imperialis - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Human Bodies - Original Etching (Baer #144)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO
Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Human Bodies, 1936
Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris)
Unsigned
On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in)
REFERENCES :
- Cata...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Convento di S.Pietro in Montorio - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Convento di S.Pietro in Montorio is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good conditions.
Giuseppe Vas...
Category
18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chagall, Sans titre (Cramer 61; Mourlot 434), Le plafond de l'Opéra (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 13 x 9.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and Fernand Mourlot. Chagall Lit...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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CLAUDE ET PALOMA
Located in Aventura, FL
Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of t...
Category
1980s Cubist Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$2,450 Sale Price
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Jona and the Marine Monster - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature.
Héliogravure on bot sheets, recto and verso.
Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade on the A...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Elvis Presley Music Film Legend NYT Published King of Rock and Roll Grammy Award
Located in New York, NY
Elvis Presley Music Film Legend NYT Published King of Rock and Roll Grammy Award
Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003)
Elvis Presley
Etching and Aquatint
Sight 12 x 9 3/4 inches
Framed 21 3/4 x...
Category
1960s Performance Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Mother and Daughter
By Paula Rego
Located in New York, NY
Mother and Daughter
1997
Signed and numbered, recto
8 color screenprint on paper (Edition of 100)
12 x 9 inches
Category
1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Picasso, Composition, Picasso 1930-1935, Cahiers d'Art (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Picasso 1930-1935, 1936. Published and printed by Éditions des Cahiers d'Art, Pa...
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Rudolph Carlo Gorman, "Sora, " original color woodcut, hand singed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Rudolph Carl "R.C." Gorman (1932-2005)
"Sora"
1981
Original color woodcut print
Hand signed and dated "1981" in pencil by the artist
Numbered XV/XXV in Roman numerals
23 x 19 inches
...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Horse - Lithograph by Domenico Purificato - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Horse is an original artwork realized in the half of 20th Century by Domenico Purificato.
Mixed colored lithograph.
Hand signed on bottom right c...
Category
1970s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso, "Les Trois Graces, II, " original etching, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
Les Trois Graces, II
1922/23
This is numbered 74/100
Published by Marcel Guiot, Paris.
Original etching, hand signed in pencil by Pica...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Francois-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) Motherhood, 2002
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Francois-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) Motherhood, 2002
Techniques : etching on paper
Hand signed in pencil by François Xavier Lalanne, in perfect condition
Dimensions of the paper :...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
$846 Sale Price
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Le repos du modèle
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Le repos du modèle
1922
Lithograph on Chine appliqué on Japon paper, Edition of 575
Paper size: not listed
Image size: 22.2 x 30.4 cms (8 3/4 x 12 ins)
HM15512
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Kabuki Dancer
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Kabuki Dancer
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 79/190
MEASUREMENTS: 21" x 30"
YEAR: 1973
CONDITION: Excellent
REFERENCE: T...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Buveur d'Eau (The Water Drinker) - Etching by Edouard Manet - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Realized by Manet in 1870/1874, this famous subject was printed in an apparently unique lifetime proof, as stated in Harris' Catalog.
It was then printed in two posthumous edition, ...
Category
1860s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
CHEVALIER EN ARMURE, PAGE ET FEMME NUE
Located in Aventura, FL
Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of t...
Category
1980s Cubist Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$1,450 Sale Price
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Léger, Les Foreurs, Dessins de Guerre 1915-16 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger, Dessins de Guerre ...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Picasso, 3.5.64. (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 9.84 x 12.8 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Matisse, Madame Dorothy Parley II, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype, héliogravure, recto and verso, on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper, as issued
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.05 x 6.69 inches
Inscription...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Repos sur la banquette
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Repos sur la banquette
1929
Lithograph on Arches Velin paper, Edition of 50
Paper size: 49.5 x 65.5 cms (19 1/2 x 25 3/4 ins)
Image size: 44.5 x 54.5 cms (17 1/2 x 21 1...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Offering, Framed Modern Lithograph by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
An impression from the book of Marc Chagall's (Russian, 1887-1985) lithographs. Published in 1960 by Éditions André Sauret, Monte-Carlo. From 1960 to 1974 Chagall produced 28 lithographs for the six volumes of the Lithographs Catalogue Raisonné.
Artist: Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985)
Title: Offering
Year: 1960
Medium: Lithograph
Size: 12 in. x 9 in. (30.48 cm x 22.86 cm)
Frame: 20 x 17 inches
Editor: Andre Sauret
Publisher: George Braziller...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jacques Villon - Cubist Man - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jacques Villon - Man- Original Etching
1949
Signed in the plate
Dimensions : 44.5 x 32.5 cm
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 V. Inscribed 'J. F. note paper', in pencil, in the artist’s hand; with the Feininger estate stamp and catalog no. 'W 859' in pencil. Annotated 'W.290 V state 3609' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 5/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; NY, NY.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public. Still, he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Matisse, Nymphe et faune, Poésies (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper
Year: 1970
Paper Size: 11.24 x 8.46 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the fo...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Picasso, Le seigneur et la dame, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes, 1972. Published by Fernand Mourlot, ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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J, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Fini, Sans titre, Fruits de la Passion, XXe siècle (after)
By Leonor Fini
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin de Rives pur chiffon paper, manufactured by Les papeteries de Rives, Voiron, France. Paper Size: 16.93 x 14.17 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnu...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Texas Swing by Luis Jimenez
By Luis Jiménez
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Texas Swing
Luis Alfonso Jimenez 1940-2006
Stone Lithograph Edition of 50
Artist Proof
24 x 18 inches
Luis Alfonso Jimenez
Born, 1940, El Paso, Texas, died 2006, Hondo, New Mexico.
Statement: Luis Jimenez, in his work, celebrates the vitality of life. . . . Jimenez es un hijo de la frontera; he knows its people and the landscape. It is the transformation of these people into art that is his most important contribution to the art of this vast region which stretches between Mexico and the United States.
His subject matter utilizes the popular images of the cultura del norte, and a large part of it is depicted and transformed in the rough and tumble world of la frontera. He is also a son of el norte, and so he uses its materials and explores its emerging, popular myths. The tension and attraction of Jimnez’s work is that he always creates within the space of his two worlds, the Mexicano and the Americano. He constantly shows us the irony of the two forces which repel, while showing us glimpses of the synthesis he seeks. What a gift it has been to us for this talented artist to reflect on the soul of our region. He gives meaning to our existence and history.
Rudolfo Anaya (passage chosen by the artist), A View from La Frontera, Man on Fire: Luis Jimnez, pp. 1, 3, 6Biography: Luis Jimnez was born in Texas to parents who had emigrated from Mexico to the United States; he would later dedicate his 1989 sculpture Border Crossing to his father, who had entered the country illegally. The elder Jimenez was a neon sign designer in El Paso, and Luis worked with him as a youth. His experience working in the neon shop and his fascination with U.S. car culture would both become major influences on his art career.
Jimenez studied architecture at the University of Texas, Austin (UTA), and also took art courses in which he first created sculptures with wood, steel, and fiberglass, choosing the latter because of its association with U.S. popular culture. He subsequently became one of the artists who made fiberglass an acceptable medium in the 1960s. In 1964 Jimenez received his B.S. in art from UTA, and he continued his studies at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City.
In 1966 he moved to New York City and worked as an assistant to sculptor Seymour Lipton. Jimnez began to exhibit his art while in New York and in 1972 moved to New Mexico to focus on creating public sculptures, even as he maintained his diverse output of drawings, prints, and lithographs.
Drawing on his early experiences, Jimenez creates works that come from a border perspective, one that draws upon the hybridity bred by culture clashes. Often socially and politically informed, his works speak not only in regional terms, those germane to the southwestern United States, but to broader, more global issues as well. They exhibit a profoundly Chicano aesthetic and sensibility, one that is informed by Mexican and Mexican American traditions, North American popular culture, Chicano cultural icons, and images and themes unique to the Southwest. Death, sexuality, and the struggle of the common people are frequent themes.
Inspired by authors who write in an autobiographical style, Jimenez creates works that function as personal narrative yet are also able to make statements about culture in more global terms. His use of bold colors and lines, a legacy from his fathers work as a neon sign maker, lends a dynamic sensuality to his work, one that is particularly evident in his monumental fiberglass and acrylic urethane sculptural works
Many of Jimenez's works correspond to scholar Toms Ybarra-Fraustos definition of the Chicano aesthetic of rasquachismo, a lowbrow sensibility that appeals to the working class in that it applies to objects that subvert expressions of the mainstream or dominant culture. Creating art that speaks to the people, Jimenez is able to transform regional and culturally specific myths and symbols into globally recognized and relevant icons.
Exhibitions:
In addition to his personal work, Jimenez has been commissioned for numerous public art projects. In 1999 his sculpture Southwest Piet was designated a National Treasure by First Lady Hillary Clinton.
The many exhibitions featuring his work have included Human Concern/Personal Torment (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1969).
The First International Motorcycle Art Show (Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 1973).
Three Texas Artists (Centre Cultural Americaine, USIS, Paris, 1977),
Recent Trends in Collecting (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1982).
Committed to Print (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989)
Printmaking in Texas: The 1980s (Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX.
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, 1990.
The Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1991)
Man On Fire: Luis Jimnez (Albuquerque Museum of Art, NM, 1994-95).
47th Annual Purchase Exhibition (American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1995).
Traveling solo exhibition, Working Class Heroes: Images from the Popular Culture (1997-2000).
Jiménez
Collier Gallery has been in continuous operation for over 40 years. Originally located just off Main Street in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, we have moved to Phoenix to accommodate and showcase our large inventory including:
• Original works by Maynard Dixon, Lon Megargee, Ed Mell, Fritz Scholder, Bill Schenck, Bill Lesch, Luis Jimenez, Greg
Singley, Dan Budnik, and other 20th century Western, WPA and Contemporary Southwestern artists.
• The Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee
• Vintage rodeo...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph