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Ex Libris - Spoorenberg - Woodcut Print - Mid-20th Century

Mid-20th Century

Landscape is an Original woodcut print realized by A. Jacquol in January 1934. The beautiful artwork is in good condition included a green cardboard (25x32.7 cm). Monogrammed on th...

Prisoners is an Original Woodcut print realized by A. H. Laboureur. The artwork on a green paper is in good condition, glued on a page of magazine. No signature. Titled on the uppe...

Knowledge is an Original woodcut print realized by Georges Zevort (1883-1959). The artwork is in good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (50x35 cm). Signature stamped.

Trieste: l'Androne degli Orti is an original woodcut print by Alberto Zanverdiani in the early 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through stong strokes in a wel...

A surrealist illustration from Salvador Dalí’s (Spanish, 1904-1989) Divine Comedy series based on the Italian writer Dante’s epic poem. Inferno is the first part of the epic, which follows Dante in his journey through Hell, guided by Virgil. The woodblock print is printed on BFK Rives paper and signed in the block. Inferno Canto 5...

This Winslow Homer woodcut engraving entitled "Skating on the Ladies' Skating-Pond in Central Park, New York", was published in Harper's Weekly in the January 28, 1860 edition. It depicts a large number of men, women and children skating on a recently opened pond in Central Park. At the time of publication of this engraving, Central Park was in the early stages of construction. This engraving documents the very early appearance of Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux's masterpiece of landscape design. According to Olmsted, the park was "of great importance as the first real Park made in this century – a democratic development of the highest significance". The people of New York were very proud of the plans for their park. It was stated at the time: "Our Park, which is progressing very satisfactorily under the management of the Commissioners, will undoubtedly be, one of these days, one of the finest place of the kind in the world...Those who saw the Park before the engineers went to work on it are amazed at the beautiful sites which have been contrived with such unpromising materials; all fair persons believe that the enterprise is managed with honesty and good taste." Skating was rapidly rising in national popularity in part due to the opening of Central Park’s lake to skaters on a Sunday in December 1858 with 300 participants. The following Sunday it attracted ten thousand skaters. By Christmas Day, a reported 50,000 people came to the park, most of them to skate. There were rules governing who could use the skating pond. “The Ladies’ Pond...

This artwork titled "Iris at Dusk" 1980 is an original color woodblock print with embossing by American artist Daniel Joshua Goldstein, b.1950....

SADAO WATANABE (Japanese 1913-1996) JONAH, 1959 Color stencil, signed, numbered and dated in white ink. Sheet, 25 5/8 x 22 5/8 inches. Edition: 44/50. Good color and generally good ...