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Art Subject: Outdoors
Carzou, Le Pont-Neuf, Au Temps de Paris Seine (after)
By Jean Carzou
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on grand vélin des Papeteries de Lana paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Au Temps de Paris Seine...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Whirlpool at Awa - Lithograph After Utagawa Hiroshige - 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Whirlpool at Awa is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige in the 19th c...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Hope II" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
View of the Island of San Mauro - Lithograph by Giuseppe Ruo- 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored, realized by Giuseppe Ruo in 1880s.
Good condition.
Category
1880s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$170 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Houses on the Shore
Located in Roma, IT
Japanese Houses on the Shore is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Last Look Back, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - A Last Look Back, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 17.5 x 25 inches, S...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Helping Nose, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - A Helping Nose, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 19 inches x 25.5 inch...
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mac-Avoy, Panorama de Paris, Au Temps de Paris Seine (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on grand vélin des Papeteries de Lana paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Au Temps de Paris Seine...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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The Artist in Green - Lithograph by Giorgio Ramella - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Artist in Green is an etching on paper realized by Giorgio Ramella in the 1970s.
Hand-signed, illegible, and numbered, edition of 99 prints.
Good conditions except for small cu...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Reguliersracht during winter, Amsterdam
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper with a deckle edge, 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (200 x 125 mm); sheet 15 x 11 inches (380 x 280 mm), full margins. In excellent condition with mino...
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch School Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Dove of peace - Surrealist print, Limited edition, Established Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
The work comes directly from the artist, is numbered, signed and made on sealed paper. Limited edition of 20.
RAFAŁ OLBIŃSKI (born in 1943)
He graduat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
Whirlpool at Awa - Lithograph After Utagawa Hiroshige - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Whirlpool at Awa is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige in the 19th c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Degas, Le Divan, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
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Degas, Avenue du Bois-de-Bologne, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 4.75 x 6.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
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Presence - Vintage Offset Print After Franco Fontana - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Presence is a beautiful offset realized after a photograph by Franco Fontana.
Good conditions.
Franco Fontana (Modena, 1933) is one of the Italian most famous contemporary photogra...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Ancient View of Niagara Waterfalls - Original Lithograph - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Niagara Waterfalls is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the first half of the 19th Century.
Original Lithograph on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted in capital...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Boats - Eight Scenic Spots in Suburban Edo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Boats - Eight Scenic Spots in Suburban Edo is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japanese artist Utag...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Stockhorn Mountain Range at Thuner Lake" Copper Plate Heliogravure
Located in Palm Beach, FL
2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extol...
Category
1910s Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Three Quarter Moon - Two Evening Stars, Lithograph by Bill Beckley
By Bill Beckley
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bill Beckley, American (1946 - )
Title: Three Quarter Moon - Two Evening Stars
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil...
Category
1980s Conceptual Figurative Prints
Materials
ABS, Lithograph
Scenic Spots in Suburban - Lithograph After Utagawa Hiroshige - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Rain - Eight Scenic Spots in Suburban Edo is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japanese artist Ut...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Lost Trace / - The Holy Night as a real dream -
By Ernst Fuchs
Located in Berlin, DE
Ernst Fuchs (1930 Vienna - 2015 ibid), The Lost Trace, 1972. Vernis mou and aquatint etching, 46.8 x 36.4 cm (plate), 66 x 50 cm (sheet), 69.5 x 53.5 cm (frame), WVZ Hartmann no. 185...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
At the pond / - The longing of the landscape -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Thoma (1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe), At the pond, 1897. Algraph on strong wove paper, published by Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig as ‘Zeitgenössisches Kunstblatt Nr. 148’, 23....
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
$179 Sale Price
20% Off
Werner Bronkhorst - Ride Me Crazy
Located in London, GB
Ride Me Crazy
Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks.
Hand-stretched over FSC-certified, finger-joint...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Giclée, Canvas
Spring - Original Screen Print by Maddalena Striglio - Late 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Spring is a very brightly colored serigraph realized by the contemporary Italian artist Maddalena Striglio in the late 20th Century.
Hand-sign...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
The Last Roundup
By David Avery
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from the edition of 30. Avery's prints often mix elements of satire, myth and legend with his own light touch of surrealism. This skeleton is riding an oil pump...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape - Etching on Paper by Francesco Vitalini - 1904
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original etching artwork realized in the 1904 ca. by Italian artist Francesco Vitalini.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil.
The State of preservation is very ...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$414 Sale Price
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Bror Jonsson (b.1931) - 20th Century Etching, The Firewood Cart
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower right. Presented in a part gilt frame. On canvas.
Category
20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Rabbit on Volcano - Original Lithograph - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Rabbit on Volcano is an original lithography realized by an unknown artist of the late 20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil, numbered" H.C."
The state of pres...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
De que Sirvé una Taza? - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
Located in Roma, IT
Di que sirvé una taza? is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810.
Original Etching on paper.
The artwork belongs to the famous series "Lo...
Category
1860s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Valtur Where the Summer Lasts Eight Months - Original Screen Print by C. Cintoli
Located in Roma, IT
Original Title: Valtur, Dove l'Estate dura otto mesi.
Edition of 120 pieces numbered and signed by the Artist.
The name of the artist is Cintoli, but the artwork is signed under t...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Tim Southall, Snow on the Hill, Landscape Art, Affordable Art, Winter Scene Art
By Tim Southall
Located in Deddington, GB
Tim Southall
Snow on the Hill
Limited Edition Screen print
Edition of 50
Size: H 40cm x W 60cm
Sold Unframed
(Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
The Sea and the Sky - Lithograph by Claudio Cintoli - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Sea and the Sky is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in 1974 by Claudio Cintoli, with the pseudonym of Marcanciel Stupro.
Plate-signed on the center.
Numbered on the lo...
Category
1970s Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Metta Mattina
Located in Deddington, GB
Metta Mattina (Mid Morning) by Karen Keogh [2020]
original
Etching on Paper
Image size: H:30 cm x W:40 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:58 cm x W:65...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
TAOS INDIAN JESTERS
By Gene Kloss
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GENE KLOSS (1903 – 1996)
TAOS INDIAN JESTERS, 1944
Etching and aquatint, Signed and titled in pencil. Edition 30. Image 11” x 13 7/8”, sheet 13 ¼ x 16 ½”. In very good condition sa...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Memphis Minnie
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5, with 2 APs.
GINA PHILLIPS is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Inkjet
Landscape - Lithograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 1980s.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Hand retouched.
Not numbered.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$165 Sale Price
30% Off
Man at Dusk, Surrealist Hand-Colored Etching and Embossing by Rita Simon
By Rita Simon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rita Simon (aka Atirnomis), American (1938 - ) - Man at Dusk, Year: 1979, Medium: Hand colored Etching and Embossing on dyed handmade paper, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, E...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
N.C. Winters - Fading Away / Variant - Lush - Contemporary Prints
By N.C. Winters
Located in Asheville, NC
N.C. Winters - Fading Away / Variant - Lush - Contemporary Art Posters
Artists: Winters, N.C.
Manufacturer: VGKids
Edition Details:
Year: 2020
Class: Art Print
Status: Official
R...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Original Pink Panther Supporting Characters, Production Cel/Drawing
By MGM Studios
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: MGM Studios
Title: Pink Panther, Supporting Characters
Year: 1993-1995
Medium: Original, hand-painted production animation cel with laser color background, plus pencil drawin...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Venice Beach Lifeguard Hut, Vibrant Landscape Artwork, Contemporary Beach Print
Located in Deddington, GB
The bright colours of the rainbow coloured Lifeguard hut seem a perfect fit for the Venice Beach lifestyle. I love the contrast of the hut's colours against the lightness of the sand...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Metal
Elwood W. Bartlett, Turtle Creek (Wisconsin), about 1945, mid-century wood eng.
Located in New York, NY
Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana. Turtle Creek (named of course for its many turtles,) is in the southeastern part of the Wisconsin. It is now ...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
In Schnee - Etching by Fritz Schwimbeck - 1918
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Fritz Schwimbeck in 1918.
Edition of 125 realized in Munich on mulberry paper.
Hand signed in pencil.
Category
1910s Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Horse Ride, Hawaii
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Horse Ride, Hawaii" c.1985, is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and numbered 065/300 in pencil by t...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tiendelitas
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “TIENDECITAS” in 1967. This impression is signed, titled, and inscribed “21/50” in pencil. The printed image size 15 x 23.13 inches (38 x 58.8 cm) and paper size 20.75 x 29 3/8 inches (53 x 74.5 cm). Printed in an edition of 50. Stamped on verso "Estate of Emilio Sanchez."
“Best known for his architectural paintings and lithographs, Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) explored the effects of light and shadow to emphasize the abstract geometry of his subjects. His artwork encompasses his Cuban heritage...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sleeping with the Fishes
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sleeping With the Fishes is a lithograph on paper, 9.25 x 9 inches image size, and initialed 'BD' lower right. From the edition of 395, numbered 171/275 (there were also 100 Roman a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Brussels Theatrical Centrepiece, Bright Impressionist Print, Art of Belgium
Located in Deddington, GB
Cities 4 – Brussels’ Theatrical Centrepiece by Susan Brown.
Hand signed by the artist
“Walking through La Grand Place in Brussels, is taking a journey t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée, Paper
Pomerrigio
Located in Deddington, GB
Pomerrigio (Afternoon) by Karen Keogh [2020]
original
Etching on Paper
Image size: H:30 cm x W:40 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:58 cm x W:65 cm x D...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Composition, Description of a Masque, Jane Freilicher
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin Tosa Hanga à la main paper. Paper Size: 16 x 12 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Description of a Masque, 1998. Publis...
Category
1990s Academic Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$1,436 Sale Price
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Spring Landscape - Lithograph by Franco Azzinari - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on paper realized by Franco Azzinari in 1980s.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Edition of 130.
Excellent condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$165 Sale Price
30% Off
Salvador Dali - The Vision - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Vision - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Detruit.
SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali.
LIMITED : 233 copies.
SIZE : 41 x 33 cm
REFERENCES ...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Save Us" Photography 24 x 32 in Ed. of 7 by Brendan North
Located in Culver City, CA
"Save Us" Photography 24 x 32 in Ed. of 7 by Brendan North
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 18" x 24" inch
Edition of 7: 24" x 32" inch
Edition of 3: 45" x 60" inch
ABOUT:
Brenda...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Campement en Valachie - Lithograph by Auguste Raffet - 1840s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph, c. 1840s.
Signed in the plate.
Image dimension: 17x27.5 cm.
A finely detailed lithograph by Auguste Raffet, representing a bustling encampment in Wallachia. In the cen...
Category
1840s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Andrew Wyeth, Quaker Ladies, from The Four Seasons (after)
By Andrew Wyeth
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009), titled Quaker Ladies, originates from the distinguished 1962 folio The Four Seasons: Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth. Published and printed by Art in America Company, Inc., New York, the edition exemplifies Wyeth’s deep reverence for nature and his mastery of tonal subtlety. Quaker Ladies captures the full flowering of spring—an intimate study of delicate wild blossoms rendered with Wyeth’s signature restraint and sensitivity to atmosphere, texture, and light.
Executed on velin paper, this lithograph measures 17 x 13 inches (43.2 x 33 cm). As issued, it is unsigned and unnumbered, representing the folio’s authentic format. The Four Seasons series was conceived by the editors of Art in America in collaboration with Andrew and Betsy Wyeth, who selected drawings from the artist’s studio to express the cyclical beauty of nature’s transformations. Each image demonstrates Wyeth’s ability to translate fleeting seasonal impressions into works of quiet emotional resonance and painterly poetry.
Artwork Details:
Artist: After Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009)
Title: Quaker Ladies, from The Four Seasons, Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth, 1962
Medium: Lithograph on velin paper
Dimensions: 17 x 13 inches (43.2 x 33 cm)
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Date: 1962
Publisher: Art in America Company, Inc., New York
Printer: Art in America Company, Inc., New York
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the 1962 folio The Four Seasons, Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth, published and printed by Art in America Company, Inc., New York
Notes:
Excerpted from the 1962 folio:
"In 1962 the editors of Art in America proposed to Wyeth a portfolio of images of his recent dry-brush drawings. The artist and his wife suggested the theme, 'The Four Seasons,' because of the essential role played in his work by the cycle of the seasons. The drawings were selected by Andrew and Betsy Wyeth from works in the house and studio at Chadds Ford, supplemented by some owned by friends. With a few exceptions they had never been exhibited or reproduced. The plates were made directly from the originals. In these drawings Wyeth's loving concentration on the object is fully revealed. But as always in his work, this concern with the tangible is balanced by sensibility to mood, to the emotion arising from the actual. They are pervaded with a sense of the season—the exact time of year, the hour of the day, the quality of the light. To the truth and subtlety with which he captures these intangible factors, these drawings owe their poignant poetry."
About the Artist:
Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) was an American visual artist and one of the best-known painters of the mid-20th century. Although he considered himself an abstractionist, Wyeth’s work is characterized by a meticulous realism imbued with psychological depth and atmosphere. He often painted the landscapes and people surrounding his homes in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Cushing, Maine, creating an intimate record of American rural life. The son of the celebrated illustrator N. C. Wyeth, Andrew trained under his father before developing his own deeply personal visual language inspired by Winslow Homer, Henry David Thoreau, and King Vidor. His wife, Betsy Wyeth, was both his muse and career manager, while his son Jamie Wyeth continued the family’s artistic legacy.
Among Wyeth’s best-known works is Christina’s World (1948), housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York—a quintessential image of 20th-century American art. His other notable series include The Helga Pictures and his window studies, each reflecting a profound meditation on solitude, memory, and perception. Wyeth was the first painter to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, and was elected to the French Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1980.
In 2022, Andrew Wyeth's painting Day Dream sold for USD 23.29 million at Christie’s New York, setting a world record for the artist.
Andrew Wyeth lithograph...
Category
1960s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Le Château des Pyrénées - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Numbered: 193/300
Color lithograph after the 1959 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300.
The lithograph features the dry...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fairmount Forest - Contemporary, 21st Century, Pigment, Limited Edition
By Robert Longo
Located in Zug, CH
Robert Longo, Fairmount Forest
Contemporary, 21st Century, Pigment, Limited Edition
Pigment print
Edition of 25
90,6 x 152,2 cm (35.6 x 59.9 in.)
Signed, accompanied by Certificate o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Pigment
Mooseamour 17/80 - figurative, landscape, contemporary, lithograph print
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The majestic Moose is just one of many iconic Canadian images to which contemporary artist Charles Pachter has devoted many pieces to. Rendered in a neutral palette this framed litho...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Porto Ferrajo - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Porto Ferrajo is a hand colored lithograph realized in 1864.
Good conditions.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe, or History of th...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$153 Sale Price
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"Three Mountaintops Emerging From Fog" Copper Plate Heliogravure
Located in Palm Beach, FL
2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extolling his artistic merits during his lifetime to showing something of a feigned disdain- more reflective of the world political order than a true change of heart for Hodler’s work. After years of Hodler being all but a footnote in the annals of art history and generally ignored, finally, the pendulum has righted itself once again. Recent retrospective exhibitions in Europe and the United States have indicated not only a joyful rediscovery of Hodler’s art but a firm conviction that his work and world view hold particular relevance today. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is not only a collection of printed work reflecting the best of all of his painted work created up to 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I, the portfolio itself is an encapsulation of Hodler’s ethos, Parallelisme.
Hodler developed his philosophy of Parallelisme as a unifying approach to art which strips away detail in search of harmony. By means of abstraction, symmetry and repetition, Hodler sought ways to depict Nature’s essence and her fundamental, universal order. He believed these universal laws governing the natural, observable world extend to the spiritual realm. Symbolist in nature with Romantic undertones, his works are equally portraits of these universal concepts and feelings governing all life as they are a visual portrait in the formal sense. Whether his subject is a solitary tree, a moment in battle, mortal fear, despair, the awe inspired by a vast mountain range, a tender moment or even the collective conviction in a belief, Hodler unveils this guiding principle of Parallelisme.
Several aspects of Hodler’s portfolio reinforce his tenets of Parallelisme. The Table of Contents clearly preferences a harmonious design over detail. The two columns, consisting of twenty lines each, list the images by order of appearance using their German titles. The abbreviated titles are somewhat cryptic in that they obscure the identities of the sitters. Like the image Hodler presents, they are distillations of the sitter without any extraneous details. This shortening was also done in an effort to maintain a harmonious symmetry of the Table of Contents, themselves, and keep titles to a one-line limit. The twenty-fourth title: “Bildnis des Schweizerischen Gesandten C.” was so long, even with abbreviation, that it required two lines; so, for the sake of maintaining symmetry, the fortieth title: “Bauernmadchen” was omitted from the list. This explains why the images are not numbered. Hodler’s reasoning is not purely esoteric. Symmetry and pattern reach beyond mere formal design principles. Finding sameness and imposing it over disorder goes to the root of Hodler’s identity and his art. A Swiss native, Hodler was bi-lingual and spoke German and French. Each printed image, even number forty, have titles in both of Hodler’s languages. Certainly, there was a market for Hodler’s work among francophones and this inclusion may have been a polite gesture to that end; however, this is the only place in the portfolio which includes French. With German titles at the lower left of each image, Hodler’s name at bottom center and corresponding French titles at the lower right of each image, there is a harmony and symmetry woven into all aspects of the portfolio. This holds true for the page design, as it applies to each printed image and as it describes the Swiss artist himself. Seen in this light, Hodler’s portfolio of printed work is the epitome of Hodler’s Parallelisme. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is also one of the most significant documents to best tell the story of how Hodler, from Switzerland, became caught between political cross-hairs and how the changing tides of nations directly impacted the artist during his lifetime as well as the accessibility of his art for generations to come.
The Munich-based publisher of the portfolio, R. Piper & Co., Verlag, plays a crucial role in this story. Publishing on a wide range of subjects from philosophy and world religion to music, literature and the visual arts; the publisher’s breadth of inquiry within any one genre was equal in scope. Their marketing strategy to publish multiple works on Hodler offers great insight as to what a hot commodity Hodler was at that time. R.Piper & Co.’s Almanach, which they published in 1914 in commemoration of their first ten years in business, clearly illustrates the rapid succession- strategically calculated for achieving the deepest and broadest impact - in which they released three works on Hodler to hit the market by the close of 1914. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS was their premier publication. It preceded C.A. Loosli’s Die Zeichnungen Ferdinand Hodlers, a print portfolio after 50 drawings by Hodler which was released in Autumn of 1914 at the mid-level price-point of 75-150 Marks; and a third less expensive collection of prints after original works by Hodler, which had not been included in either of the first two portfolios, was released at the end of that year entitled Ferdinand Hodler by Dr. Ewald Bender.
The title and timing of DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS' debut leaves little doubt as to the connection it has with another avant-garde portfolio of art prints, Das Werk Gustav Klimts, released in 5 installments from 1908 -1914 by Galerie Miethke in Vienna. Hodler, himself, was involved in Klimt’s ground-breaking project. As the owner of Klimt’s 1901 painting, “Judith with the Head of Holifernes” which appears as the ninth collotype print in the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts, Hodler was obliged to grant access of the painting to the art printers in Vienna for them to create the collotype sometime before 1908. Hodler had been previously invited in 1904 to take part in what would be the last exhibition of the Vienna Secession before Klimt and others associated with Galerie Miethke broke away. In an interview that same year, Hodler indicated that he respected and was impressed by Klimt. Hodler’s esteem for Klimt went beyond the art itself; he emulated Klimt’s method aimed at increasing his market reach and appeal to a wider audience by creating a print portfolio of his painted work. By 1914, Hodler and his publisher had the benefit of hindsight to learn from Klimt’s Das Werk publication.
Responding to the sluggish sales of Klimt’s expensive endeavor, Hodler’s publisher devised the same diversified 1-2-3 strategy for selling Hodler’s Das Werk portfolio as they did with regards to all three works on Hodler they published that year. For their premium tier of DAS WERKS FERDINAND HODLERS, R. Piper & Co. issued an exclusive Museum quality edition of 15 examples on which Hodler signed each page. At a cost of 600 Marks, this was generally on par with Klimt’s asking price of 600 Kronen for his Das Werk portfolio. A middle-tiered Preferred edition of 30, costing somewhat less and with Hodler’s signature only on the Title Page, was also available. The General edition, targeting the largest audience with its much more affordable price of 150 Marks, is distinguishable by its smaller size.
Rather than use the subscription format Miethke had chosen for Klimt’s portfolios which proved to have had its challenges, R. Piper & Co. employed a different strategy. In addition to instantly gratifying the buyer with all 40 of the prints comprising DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS and the choice among three price points, they advertised in German journals a fourth possibility of ordering single prints from them directly. These printed images are easily discernible from the three complete folio editions. The paper size of the single purchased images is of the larger format like the Museum and Preferred editions, measuring 65 h x 50 w cm; however, the paper itself is the same copper print paper used in the General edition and then mounted on poster board. The publishing house positioned itself to be a direct retailer of Hodler’s art. They astutely recognized the potential for profitability and the importance, therefore, of having proprietary control over his graphic works.
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