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At the Beach - Original Pastel - Mid-20th Century

Mid-20th Century

Le Petit Maitre (The Small Master) is an engraving made by the Parisian artist Louis-Marin Bonnet and realized in the second half of 1700 in Paris. Inside the matrix, the title is engraved on the lower center, whilst “A Paris, chez Bonnet rue St. Jacques” appears on the lower right. The state of preservation is somewhat good, except for fungal foxing spread on the left margin and some stains, of which one is more visible on the higher left of the image. The higher, lower, and left margins are fringed and present tiny tears. Louis-Marin Bonnet lived from 1736 to 1793 in Paris. He was a painter and engraver, and as such he invented one of the first color-printing methods with many matrices, with a pastel-like effect. In 1769, he published a treatise titled Le Pastel en gravure inventé, et execute par Louis Bonnet...

L’Ecuyer (The Squire) is an engraving made by the Parisian artist Louis-Marin Bonnet, realized in the second half of 1700 in Paris. Inside the matrix, the title is engraved on the lower center, whilst “L. Bonnet direx” is engraved on the lower right. The state of preservation is somewhat good, except for fungal foxing spread on the sides of the figure and some small stains, one of which is more evident on the lower center of the image. The right margin of the paper is fringed with tiny tears. Louis-Marin Bonnet lived from 1736 to 1793 in Paris. He was a painter and engraver, and as such he invented one of the first color-printing methods with many matrices, with a pastel-like effect. In 1769, he published a treatise titled Le Pastel en gravure inventé, et execute par Louis Bonnet...

The Man-Eagle is an original lithograph artwork, realised by Georges Bastia in the mid-20 century on a creamy colored paper. Signed on the plate on the lower right. Good conditions.

Still Life is an original colored lithograph realized by the artist Roger Chapelain-Midy in the 1970s. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left. E...

Portrait of a Child is a splendid Etching and drypoint realized by the French artist Lucien-Philippe Moretti in 23 numbered and signed specimens. Outside the matrix the artwork is s...

Girl at the Window is an original Etching realized by Benn (Bencjon Rabinowicz) in 1987. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Numbered. Edition ...

Elegant pair of etchings by Marie Laurencin (French 1883-1956) from the "Poemes de Sapho" published in 1950 ref. 273. Each beautifully mounted in fram...

Original Vintage Poster, issued 1987 by the ETH in Zurich on the occasion of its exhibition on Le Corbusier's difficult relation with his native country, using a photograph taken 193...

A poster by Erik Nitsche advertising General Dynamics' exhibition "Dynamic America" held 1961 at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York where the company promoted its achievements. Pictured is William Woodnut Griscom, an American inventor who founded the Electro Dynamic Company in 1880, based in Philadelphia. Griscom patented the world's first double induction motor, and his electric drive powered the the first trolley system in Washington D. C. In 1899 Electro Dynamic became Electric Boat...

Richard Hamilton began studying James Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) during his national service in 1947. Hamilton was inspired by the idea of illustrating Joyce’s complex, experimental novel in and began making sketches the following year, only to put the project to one side in 1950, with no publisher willing to front the exorbitant cost of resetting the novel for illustrations. It was not until 1981 that he made the decision to create one illustration for each of the novel’s eighteen chapters, and a nineteenth image – a portrait of one of the novel’s main protagonists, Leopold Bloom – destined as a frontispiece. He conceived these images as large intaglio...

This haunting portrait of Richard Hamilton is layered with textured lavender surrounding his form. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “In 1969, at the end of a characteris...

Printed in 1975, this poster features the encounter between an alluring woman dressed in red, and a man with his back to the viewer. The light of a streetlamp is beautifully imitated...