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Scenographies - Set of 3 Original Lithographs by European Master Early 1900

Early 20th Century

"The Rich" is included two original prints on creamy paper, realized by the French artist Auguste Brouet. In very good condition. These artworks represent men and women depicted s...

Clichy is a satirical illustration, an original hand-colored lithograph on creamy paper realized by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier, 1804-1866), ...

Figures is an original lithograph realized by an anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century Good conditions but aged. Hand-signed but illegible. The artwork is depicted through pe...

Scene from The Life of Casanova is an original etching realized by Pierre Georges Jeanniot in the early 20th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes ...

Medium: lithograph. Printed in 1897 and published in London for The Studio. Sheet size: 11 1/8 x 7 1/8 inches (282 x 182 mm). This impression on cream laid paper is embossed with The...

This etching with aquatint was created by French printmaker Manuel Robbe. Robbe’s innovative techniques, along with his sense of color harmony and his choice of subjects: stylish wom...

A crisp early 20th century lithograph with hand colouring, after English painter and engraver Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851). The scene shows a period coaching party taking an awkwar...

Marcus Behmer (German, 1879 – 1958) Die Geravbte orchidee (The robbed orchid), 1903 Signed ‘Marcus Behmer’ (lower right in pencil) Lithograph on paper 16.1/8 x 12in. (40.8 x 30.5cm.) It is apparent Behmer is influenced by the work of Aubrey Beardsley, though this work is no less beautiful in its execution. Little is known regarding his connections to Oscar Wilde though he is obviously an admirer and has many similarities with his private life and incarceration in prison. These works were a personal gift to Baron Detlev von Hadeln, the aristocrat and prominent art historian of the age. Behmer is known to be, since 1903, a member in the first ever homosexual organization in Berlin and was thus probably a part of Adolf Brand’s circle, and may have contributed to Brand’s publication Der Eigene. Until now, few know that Behmer was sentenced in April 1937 by a court in Konstanz to imprisonment for two years, being arrested in Freiburg and at other locations in southern Germany for being a homosexual. At times he was given the opportunity to work as an artist in prison. The works produced in this period are mostly calligraphic designed tablets with Greek text (prayers and Bible quotes...