Ian Fleming

Symbol 2 - Eternal Woman

1977

Marino Marini Due Pomone Plate X from "Tout pres de Marino" Aquatint Etching on Arches paper Year: 1971 Lithograph Size: 10.25x7.45 on 22x15in Edition: 95 Not individually signed (o...

Manuel Ayaso Artist with Models Etching on wove paper Year: 1970 Size: 6.5x7.25 on 15x13in Edition: 50 Signed and numbered by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1357 Manuel Ayaso is known for Mod figure, genre, sculptor. Painter; Sculptor Born in Riviera, Spain in 1934. Studied at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. His work is in the Whitney Museum of American Art, Worcester Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Friedrich Meckseper Feuer Etching on Velum, BFK Rives Year: 1973 Size: 7.2x8.8 on 14.8x13.4in Edition: 200 Signed, dated and numbered by hand Drystamp lower left COA provided Ref.: 924802-1356 Friedrich Meckseper (born June 8, 1936 in Bremen ; † June 5, 2019) was a German painter, graphic artist, draftsman, designer and author. Friedrich Meckseper grew up in Stuttgart . The building researcher Cord Meckseper is his older brother. From 1952 to 1955 he completed his apprenticeship as a mechanic with the planned professional goal of becoming a locomotive engineer. Then he first began studying at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Karl Rössing , in order to continue this from 1957 to 1959 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin under Wolf Hoffmann . The first of his etchings also date from this period. In addition to his artistic work, Meckseper was also interested in technology. He designed and built a steamboat from 1972 to 1974 and crossed the Alps five times in a gas balloon between 1978 and 1986. Meckseper was influenced by, for example, Anton Heyboer...

Marie Thérèse Vacossin Le Collier de Lussie Color etching on hand-made paper Year: 1971 Signed, numbered, dated and titled by hand Edition: 8 Size: 8.3 × 11.6 on 22.0 × 14.8 inches ...

Heinz Wehlisch Building Color etching Signed by hand Size: 15.2 × 22.4 on 20.1 × 26.9 inches COA provided Heinz Wehlisch was a modern artist of the late 20th century and worked in Berlin. He was a member of the professional association of visual artists in Berlin from 1946-1980; his specialty were etchings but also watercolors based on old postcard...

Hans Juergen Diehl 2. Ebene Year: 1971 Medium: Color Etching Edition: Proof (P) Size: 33.5 x 25.5 in. Publisher: Ketterer, Germany Signed, numbered and/or titled Hans-Jürgen Diehl w...

Catherina Dorothea Viehman (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP" Paper 1...

Sheet from “Rapunzel” story (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Text printed letterpress and “Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your Hair” etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP" Etching 10.5 × 9.85 in. / 26.7 × 25 cm Paper 17.5 x 12.25 in. / 45 x 31 cm Unsigned: apart from the published edition of 400 books and 100 portfolios. This is one of eleven images recently found in our archive which we have decided to make available. There is one only of each image. Perhaps the most famous story from the Grimm Brothers, Rapunzel spins the tale of a beautiful young princess locked away by an evil sorceress. Captured in this scene is the moment a King's son came across the tower and fell in love with her sweet singing, beseeching her: 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair to me.' Though the sorcerer banishes Rapunzel and maims the prince, they are of course ultimately reunited to live happily together. Hockney illustrates this scene with incredible texture detail: layers of aquatint defining the soft forest floor, delicate hatching on the horse's haunch, the tower's tight crosshatching, and of course the lyrical gesture of Rapunzel's hair which cascades from the upper right corner. This print from our publisher's archives is one of thirty-nine etchings from David Hockney’s 1969 "Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm". Hockney worked on this series with Paul Cornwall-Jones at Petersburg Press over the course of a year. 400 books and 100 portfolios plus artist’s proofs were printed. The artist illustrated six stories: 'The Little Sea Hare', 'Fundevogel', 'Rapunzel', 'The Boy who left Home to learn Fear', 'Old Rinkrank' and 'Rumpelstilzchen'. According to Hockney, "They're fascinating, the little stories, told in a very, very simple, direct, straightforward language and style, it was this simplicity that attracted me. They cover quite a strange range of experience, from the magical to the moral." He was inspired by earlier illustrators of the tales, including Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, but Hockney reimagined the stories for a modern audience. The frontispiece for the project pictures Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, the elderly German woman who recounted fairy tales to the Grimm brothers when they were in their late twenties. In Hockney's words: “The stories weren’t written by the Brothers Grimm…they came across this woman called Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, who told 20 stories to them in this simple language, and they were so moved by them that they wrote them down word for word as she spoke.” Hockney drew the German woman in the style of Dürer, formally posed yet naturalistic against an impeccably crosshatched swath of grey. Hockney wrote about the surreal plots contained in the Brothers Grimm tales: “…the stories really are quite mad, when you think of it, and quite strange. In modern times, it’s like the story of a couple moving into a house, and in the next door’s garden they see this lettuce growing: and the wife develops this craving for the lettuce that she just must have and climbs over to pinch it, and the old woman who lives in the house next door says well, you can have the lettuce if you give me your child, and they agree to it. And if you put it into terms like this and imagine them in their semi-detached house agreeing to it all, it seems incredible.” Hockney enhanced this unbelievable quality with his illustrations which traverse inky, dense areas of intense crosshatching and minimalist line work. Rather than serving as direct interpretations of the plot, the images capture moments and feelings. Some portray the magic yet mundane -- Rapunzel's tiny face gazing placidly at a well-tended garden, or project danger and unease as in The Haunted Castle, with its citadel perched atop craggy rocks, dramatically lit against a dark sky. Hockney's sense of humor comes through in Cold Water About to Hit the Prince, in which a man tucked into bed stares straight at a rush of water drawn with a splash (this technique is likely Spit Bite, and the resultant bold spattered brushstroke contrasts beautifully with the rest of the carefully crosshatched image). A Wooded Landscape, with its lush textures, conveys the bucolic setting of a fairy tale and the potential danger hidden within the woods -- the viewer is left to wonder who lives on the hilltop in that diminutive cabin. These etchings defy the conventions of beautiful fairy tale illustrations...

Between 1964 and 1965, Picasso created 10 aquatint etchings that were published as a supplement to Pierre Reverdy's literary work "Sable Mouvant". A stri...

A powerful black figure stares out from the composition emoting authority and confidence. Aptly titled Le Marechal des Logis (The Sergeant) a badge of accolades is present in vibrant primary colors, just under an eye which stares out intimidatingly. Best known for his playful compositions, Miró...

The magnificent scale of this work truly allows us to step into the surreal reality that Miró creates in La Harpie. It is an absolute world full of color, whimsical imagery, and bri...

Miró's La Sorcière (The Sorcerer), 1969 is a monumental piece whose abstract forms work in combination with splashes of green and red. Each element coexists in perfect harmony, echoi...