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Art Subject: Bird
Days Like These II
Located in Deddington, GB
Days Like These ii [2021]
limited_edition
Screenprint
Edition number 15
Image size: H:60cm cm x W:60cm cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:65cm cm x W:65cm cm x D:400gsmcm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Days Like these ii is the second in a series of coastal print...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
The Swallows Arrival by Emma Reynolds, Limited edition print, Birds
Located in Deddington, GB
The Swallows Arrival [2022]
limited_edition and hand signed by the artist
Screenprint
Edition number 20
Image size: H:58 cm cm x W:58 cm cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:62....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Gulls at Sunset, Ann Burnham, Limited edition print, Seascape and coastal 2022
Located in Deddington, GB
Gulls at Sunset [2022]
limited_edition and hand signed by the artist
Linocut on paper
Edition number 1-10
Image size: H:19 cm x W:31 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:80 cm x D:0.5cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Reduction linocut This print was based on some pictures I took back in the hot summer at sunset overlooking the calm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Birds - Lithograph by Saverio Terruso - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 1983.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Edition of 100.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Tree- Screen Print by Franco Fortunato - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Franco Fortunato.
Hand signed.
Artist proof.
Very good condition.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Curlew Bird and Charleston, SC: Original 1st Ed. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original rare and extremely collectible first edition John James Audubon hand colored lithograph entitled "Long-billed Curlew", No. 71, Plate 355, from Audubon's "Birds of America. It was lithographed, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen and published in Philadelphia between 1840-1844. It depicts a male and a female Long-billed Curlew standing on a grassy mound with water and the skyline of the city of Charleston...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Three Herons - At the flaming lake -
Located in Berlin, DE
Rudolf Hayder (active in the 1st half of the 20th century), Heron. Color woodcut on thin Japanese paper, 24 x 29 cm (image), 29 x 36 cm (sheet size), signed by hand at lower right "R. Hayder" and titled by hand as "Reiher". Lower left inscribed by hand "Orig.[inal] woodcut, hand print".
- A little bit stained in the margins and very occasionally in the image, minimal hole above the signature, traces of creasing. At the back side's margins with remnants of an old mounting.
About the artwork
In the context of French Japonism, the color woodblock print, which was widespread in the Asian region, was rediscovered for Western art. The artists of the time, such as Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, were inspired not only by the cultural influence, but also by the two-dimensionality of the pictorial spaces. Thus, color woodcuts became an important moment in the development of the modern pictorial concept founded by Impressionism.
In Rudolf Hayder's "Herons", too, the two-dimensionality of the pictorial space is decisive for the pictorial effect. The herons, surrounded by reeds, are framed by the yellow background of the lake, followed by the dark blue-greenish stripe of the opposite shore and, above it, the sky in a lighter blue-green. Formally, it is a sequence of planes, but the two-dimensionality of the motif creates a spatial effect. This spatiality in the surface creates an intense pictorial effect. Hayder intensifies this effect with the blazing lake. In terms of color, the water becomes a sunset. The yellow turns reddish brown toward the shore, then fades to brownish red, while the shore is a watery turquoise...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Color
Bearded Tree Swift Birds: 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a remarkable hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Dendrochelidon Mystaceus" (Bearded Tree-Swift) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Great Britain", publi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sora Rail Bird Family: Original 19th C. 1st Ed. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century 1st octavo edition John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Sora Rail, 1. Male, 2. Female, 3. Young", No. 62, Plate 306, from Audubon's "...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Black-throated Diver: Original 1st Edition Hand Colored Audubon Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
An original rare and extremely collectible first edition John James Audubon hand colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "Black-throated Diver", No. 96, Plate 477, from Audubon's "Birds of America". It was lithographed, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen and published in Philadelphia between 1840-1844. It depicts three Black-throated Divers; an adult male (1), an adult female (2) and a young Diver (3). The male sits on the bank, while the young Diver floats in the water and the female watches...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Earth Day
Located in Naples, Florida
In response to a massive oil spill off the coast of Southern California in 1969, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson initiated the idea of the first annual Earth Day on April 22, 1970, ...
Category
Late 20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Watch Dogs: 1300 hrs, Pop Art Etching by Kingsley Parker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Kingsley Parker, American (1947 - ) - Watch Dogs: 1300 hrs, Year: 1986, Medium: Etching, signed, numbered, titled and dated in pencil, Edition: Working Proof, Size: 24.5 x 21.75 ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Bald Eagle Bird: A 1st Edition 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 1st edition John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "White-headed Sea Eagle or Bald Eagle", No. 3, Plate 14 from Audubon's "Birds of America, lithogra...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eagle: A 16th/17th Century Hand-colored Engraving by Aldrovandi
Located in Alamo, CA
This very rare, first edition, folio hand-colored engraving of an eagle is plate K2 from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s 'Opera Omnia', published between 1599 an...
Category
Early 17th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Least Bittern Birds: Original 19th C. 1st Ed. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century 1st octavo edition John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Least Bittern, 1. Male, 2. Female, 3. Young", No. 74, Plate 366, from Audubon...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
FRENCH CASTLE : Azay Le Rideau - Original Lithograph, HANDSIGNED & Ltd /250
Located in Paris, IDF
Dan GANDRE (1936-)
FRENCH CASTLE : Azay Le Rideau, 1982
Original Lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 250 (the number you can see can be different)
On Vellum 56 x 76 cm (c. 2...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Family of Common Snipe Birds: A 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Gallinago Scolopacinus" (Common Snipe) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Great Britain", published in London in 1...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Yellow-breasted Rail Bird: Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 1st octavo edition John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "yellow-breasted Rail, Adult Male in Spring", No. 62, Plate 307, from Audubon's "Birds of America". It was lithographed, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen and published in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1841. It depicts an adult male yellow-breasted Rail bird on the left standing on a rock on the bank of a body of water, looking to the right, perhaps at something in the water or on an island on the right with trees. The landscape surrounding the bird is striking.
This original 1st octavo edition hand-colored Audubon lithograph...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Charles Lapicque, The Song of the Birds, Memories and Portraits of Artists, 1972
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Charles Lapicque (1898–1988), titled Le chant des oiseaux (The Song of the Birds), originates from the 1972 edition published by Editions A. C. Mazo et C...
Category
1970s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall, Tribe of Levi, from The Jerusalem Windows, 1962 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Tribe of Levi, from the album Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows, originates from the 1962 edition published by Andr...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Hummingbirds: 19th C. Gould Hand-colored "Cyanifrons", Blue-capped Saucerottia
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Saucerottia Cyanifrons", Blue-capped Saucerottia Hummingbirds by John Gould, published in his "A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds", published in London in 1850. The print, which was drawn by Gould and Henry Richter and lithographed by Hullmandel and Walton, depicts two green, blue and a little brown colored hummingbirds about a plant with green leaves and pink flowers.
This beautiful Gould hand-colored hummingbird lithograph has a few very small faint spots, but it is otherwise in excellent condition. The original text page is included.
There are other unframed Gould hummingbird...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Golden-winged Woodpecker: First Octavo Edition Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored royal first octavo edition lithograph entitled "Golden-winged Woodpecker, 1. Male, 2. Female2", No. 55...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pair of 19th C. Hand-colored Lithographs of Ducks by John Gould
By John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
A pair of hand-colored lithographs of ducks entitled "Tadorna Vulpanser" (Sheldrake Ducks) and "Mergus Umbellus' (Smew or Nun Ducks) from John Gould's publication "Birds of Great Br...
Category
1860s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Bird, School Prints, Georges Braque
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on English cartridge paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Published by School Prints Ltd., London; Printe...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,556 Sale Price
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Colorful Parrot: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of a parrot bird entitled "La Perruche-Ara, de Cayenne (Parrot)" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 864 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in ass...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Chasing the seagulls, original painting, landscape, seascape
By Colin Moore
Located in Deddington, GB
CHASING THE SEAGULLS
Lino print
Sheet 56 x 90 cm
Outside frame 65 x 99 cm
Edition of 150 plus 15 artist's proofs
Colin Moore artist has many landscape and seascape lino cut prints a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
Original Harley-Davidson / Daytona motorcycles horizontal poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Harley-Davidson Daytona Poster - Iconic Motorcycle Brand Artwork for Enthusiasts. Archival linen backed and ready to frame. The poster from the 1980s was created by the ...
Category
1980s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
EARLY SNOWFALL
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the artist: As a self taught artist, Jake's style has developed over many years, evolving since childhood. Early in life he nurtured a bond with nature and wildlife that eventually became the basis for his artistic endeavors. Jake captures the landscape with striking compositions emphasizing light and color. Among the artist\'s favorite subjects are serene lakes, forests, and mountains of North America. Jake has enjoyed a popular following throughout the past 23 years that he has been showing, and his art continues to attract collectors throughout Canada and beyond. His art has found homes in his native province of Ontario, as well as internationally. He is honored to have collectors as far away as Japan, Dubai, Europe, as well as a growing clientele in Western Canada.
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$150 Sale Price
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WINTER IS UPON US
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$150 Sale Price
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Veillot's Crested Fireback Birds: 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a remarkable hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Euplocomus Vielloti" (Viellot's Crested Fireback) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Great Asia", publi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bird of Prey: An 18th Century Hand-colored Bird Engraving by Martinet
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of a parrot bird entitled "La Bondree (Bird of Prey)" by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 420 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in association wi...
Category
1760s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Iveresse, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille (1922-2010)
Title: Iveresse
Year: 1981
Edition: 176/200, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Size: 25.5 x 19.5 inches
Insc...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,600 Sale Price
20% Off
RIVIERA : Fishermen at Cassis - Original Lithograph, HANDSIGNED & Ltd /250
Located in Paris, IDF
Oliver ZLADKU (1952-)
Fishermen in Cassis, 1982
Original Lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 250 (the number you can see can be different)
On Vellum 28 x 38 cm
Excellent con...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
In the Port of Bretagne - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Yvonne CHEFFER DELOUIS
In the Port of Bretagne
Original lithograph
Unsigned
On vellum 36 x 55 cm (c. 14.1 x 21.6 in)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Family of Moorhens & Lilly Pad: A 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled "Gallinula Chloropus" (Moorhen) by John Gould, published in his "Birds of Great Britain", published in London between 1862 and 1873. The print, which was drawn by Gould and Henry Richter and lithographed by Walter & Cohn, depicts a family of Moorhens, including two adults and six babies in a beautiful landscape. The adults are in the water and the babies are lying on the leaves a flowering lilly pad.
This striking Gould hand-colored moorhen family lithograph is augmented with gum-arabic paint. The sheet measures 14.88" high and 21.75" wide. It is in excellent condition, other than a spot in the upper portion of the right margin and two small spots at the edge of the lower margin on the left. The original descriptive text pages from Gould's 19th century publication are included.
There are several other unframed Gould hummingbird lithographs available on our 1stdibs and InCollect storefronts. Two or more of these striking lithographs would make an attractive display grouping. A discount is available for purchase of a set depending on the number. These additional Gould hummingbirds may be viewed by typing Timeless Intaglio...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Large Classical Bird Color Print after John James Audubon - Broad Winged Hawk
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Bird print,
after John James Audubon,
printed by Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York
unframed, 17 x 14 inches color print on paper
condition: very good
provenance: from...
Category
20th Century Victorian Animal Prints
Materials
Color
Classic Bird Color Prints x 3 - Beautiful Set of 3 Classical Birds
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of 3 Colored Bird Prints
each unframed, 10.5 x 14.5 inches
condition: very good
A beautiful set of 3 colored prints of classical birds in landscape settings. As a set, they make wonderful interior design either presented on their own or as a gallery wall grouping.
Category
20th Century Old Masters Animal Prints
Materials
Color
Le Matin
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Cadart & Luquet, 1865
Etching and engraving on Chine-collé mounted to watermarked Aqua-Fortistes cream laid paper, 9 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches (243 x 322 mm), full margins with thr...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Roberto Matta (1912-2002)
Title: Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393)
Year: 1974
Edition: 38/125, plus proofs
Medium: Etching on Arches paper
Size: 23.875 x 17.5 inches
Inscription: ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$2,800 Sale Price
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Large Classical Bird Color Print after John James Audubon - Wild Turkey
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Bird print,
after John James Audubon,
printed by Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York
unframed, 17 x 14 inches color print on pap...
Category
20th Century Victorian Animal Prints
Materials
Color
Night Heron Birds: A 19th C. Folio-sized Hand-colored Lithograph by John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled "Nycticorax Griseus" (Night-Heron) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Great Britain...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
McMullan-Life in a Spring Salt Marsh-Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Life in a Spring Salt Marsh by James McMullan is an informational poster that reveals the rich ecosystem within a salt marsh. Initially appearing as a barren grassland, the artwork u...
Category
1960s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Stork Family: A Framed Original 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed original 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled “Ciconia Alba” (A family of storks) by John Gould, from the supplement to his "Birds of Great Brit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Everyday Life of the Army - Lithograph by Auguste Raffet - 1838
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on wove paper, realized by Raffet in 1838.
Signed and dated in the plate.
Image dimension 15x33 cm.
The sheet shows foxing (brown spotting) scattered throughout, but re...
Category
1830s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall, Tribe of Gad, from The Jerusalem Windows, 1962 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Tribe of Gad, from the album Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows, originates from the 1962 edition published by Andre...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Cloud Reflection, Seascape Print, Coastal Art, Beach Art, Bird Art, Animal Art
By Rob Barnes
Located in Deddington, GB
On a bright sunlit day at the coast, I was inspired by a cloud reflection on the wet sand. It was dramatic and completed by seeing a dog walker in the distance. The linocut is all ab...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Missouri Meadow Lark: An Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Missouri Meadow Lark, Male", No. 98, Plate 489 from Audubon's "Birds of America, lithographed, p...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salle's Hermit Hummingbirds: A 19th C. Gould Hand-colored "Phaethornis Augusti"
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Phaethornis Augusti", Salle's Hermit Hummingbird by John Gould, published in his "A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds", published in London in 1850. The print, which was drawn by Gould and Henry Richter and lithographed by Hullmandel and Walton, depicts three brown, grey, black, white and some green colored hummingbirds about a plant with green leaves and coral and yellow flowers.
This beautiful Gould hand-colored hummingbird lithograph is in excellent condition. The original text page is included.
There are five other unframed Gould hummingbird...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Georges Braque, The Bird and Its Nest, from Derriere le Miroir, 1964 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Georges Braque (1882–1963), titled L’Oiseau et son nid (The Bird and Its Nest), originates from the 1964 folio Derriere le Miroir, Nos. 144–145–146, L...
Category
1960s Cubist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Benevolent Cottagers /// English Landscape Figurative Village Scene Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (English, 1779-1844)
Title: "Benevolent Cottagers"
Year: 1816
Medium: Original Etching and Engraving on laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown...
Category
1810s Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Buff-breasted Merganser: Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Buff-breasted Merganser Goosander, 1. Male 2. Female", No. 83, Plate 411 from Audubon's "Birds of America, li...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Monopoli Sunrise (framed) - large scale photo of Mediterranean beach ritual
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Puglia ritual by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern lei...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper,...
Large Classical Bird Color Print after John James Audubon - Belted Kingfisher
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Bird print,
after John James Audubon,
printed by Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York
unframed, 17 x 14 inches color print on pap...
Category
20th Century Victorian Animal Prints
Materials
Color
Large Classical Bird Color Print after John James Audubon - Summer or Woodduck
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Bird print,
after John James Audubon,
printed by Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York
unframed, 17 x 14 inches color print on paper
condition: very good
provenance: from...
Category
20th Century Victorian Animal Prints
Materials
Color
London Bestiary, Art print, Animals Art, Contemporary Art, Figurative
Located in Deddington, GB
London Bestiary by Mychael Barratt. Limited Edition Silkscreen Print. Edition of 100. Image Size: H 66cm x W 99.7cm. Sheet Size: H 112.1cm x W 76.9cm x D 0.1cm. Signed and titled. So...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Marc Chagall, Tribe of Zebulun, from The Jerusalem Windows, 1962 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Tribe of Zebulun, from the album Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows, originates from the 1962 edition published by A...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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"Winter Wildfowling" Frank Weston Benson, Hunting Scene, Outdoors, Marshes
Located in New York, NY
Frank Weston Benson
Winter Wildfowling, 1927
Signed lower left
Etching on paper
Image 8 1/2 x 7 inches
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, a descendant of a long line of sea captains, Benson first studied art at Boston’s Museum School where he became editor of the student magazine. In 1883, Benson enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris where artists such as Bouguereau, Lefebvre, Constant, Doucet and Boulanger taught students from all over Europe and America. It was Boulanger who gave Benson his highest commendation. “Young man,” he said, “Your career is in your hands . . . you will do very well.” Benson’s parents gave him a present of one thousand dollars a twenty-first birthday and told him to return home when it ran out. The money lasted long enough to provide Benson with two years of schooling in Paris, a summer at the seaside village of Concarneau in Brittany and travel in England.
Upon returning to America, Benson opened a studio on Salem’s Chestnut Street and began painting portraits of family and friends. An oil of his wife, Ellen Perry Peirson, dressed in her wedding gown is representative of this period. It demonstrates not only the academic techniques he learned at the Academie Julian but also his own growing emphasis on the effects of light. And yet, despite all the technical mastery displayed in the work, the painting exudes the warmth that existed between model and artist. More than a likeness, it is a study in serenity. Perhaps it was of a work such as this that Benson was thinking when he said, “The more a painter knows about his subject, the more he studies and understands it, the more the true nature of it is perceived by whoever looks at it, even though it is extremely subtle and not easy to see or understand. A painter must search deeply into the aspects of a subject, must know and understand it thoroughly before he can represent it well.”
Following a brief stint as an instructor at the Portland, Maine, Society of Art, Benson was appointed as instructor of antique drawing at the Museum School in Boston in the spring of l889. Benson’s long association with the school was particularly fruitful. Under the leadership of Edmund Tarbell and Benson the Museum School became a national and internationally recognized institution. The students won numerous prizes, enrollment tripled, a new school building was erected and visiting delegations from other schools sought the secret of their success. Benson cherished his role as teacher and was held in high esteem by his students, many of whom called him “Cher Maitre.” Reminiscing about his long career with the school Benson once said, “I may have taught many students, but it was I who learned the most.”
In 1890, Benson won the Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy in New York. It was the first of a long series of awards, that earning for him the sobriquet “America’s Most Medalled Painter.” In the early years of his career, Benson’s studio works were mostly portraits or paintings of figures set in richly appointed interiors. Young women in white stretch their hands out towards the glow of an unseen fire; girls converse on an antique settee in a room full of objets d’arts; his first daughter, Eleanor, poses with her cat. Works of this sort, together with a steady influx of portrait commissions, earned Benson both renown and financial rewards, yet it was in his outdoor works that gave Benson his greatest pleasure.
In the latter half of the 1890s, Benson summered in Newcastle, on New Hampshire’s short stretch of seacoast. It was here, in 1899, that Benson made his first foray into impressionism with Children in the Woods and The Sisters, the latter a sun-dappled study of his two youngest daughters, Sylvia and Elisabeth.
This painting was one of the first works that Benson hung at an exhibition with nine friends. The resignation of these ten illustrious artists rocked the American art establishment but, the catalogue for their first exhibition was titled, simply, “Ten American Painters.” When, in 1898, the three Bostonians and seven New Yorkers began to exhibit their best work in exquisitely arranged small shows, the group (dubbed by newspapers, “The Ten” ) quickly became known as the American Impressionists, a bow to the style of their French predecessors. The Ten’s annual shows soon became an eagerly awaited part of the annual exhibition calendar and were always well reviewed. Held annually in New York City, the group’s yearly exhibitions usually traveled to Boston and were occasionally seen in other cities. Benson’s association with other members of the group such as Childe Hassam, Thomas Dewing, William Merrit Chase and J. Alden Weir, only reinforced his growing emphasis on the tenets of Impressionism. As he later said to his daughter Eleanor, “I follow the light, where it comes from, where it goes.”
The principles of Impressionism began to dominate Benson’s work by 1901, the year that the Bensons first summered on the island of North Haven in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. His summer home “Wooster Farm,” which they rented and finally bought in 1906, became the setting for some of Benson’s best known work and there, it seemed, he found endless inspiration. Benson’s sparkling plein-air paintings of his children–Eleanor, George, Elisabeth and Sylvia–capture the very essence of summer and have been widely reproduced: In The Hilltop, George and Eleanor watch the sailboat races from the headland near their house.
As a boy, Benson dreamed of being an ornithological illustrator. In mid-life, he returned to the wildfowl and sporting subjects that had remained his lifelong passion. Using etching and lithography, watercolor, oil and wash, Benson portrayed the birds observed since childhood and captured scenes of his hunting and fishing expeditions.
Together with his two brothers-in-law, Benson bought a small hunting retreat on a hill overlooking Cape Cod’s Nauset Marsh. Here, in the late 1890s, he began experimenting with black and white wash drawings. These paintings became so popular that Benson was not able to keep up with the demand. He turned to an art publishing company to have several made into it intaglio prints; twelve wash drawings are known to have been reproduced in this manner. At least two of them were given as gifts to associate members of the Boston Guild of artists, of which Benson was a founding member.
Benson was also an avid fisherman and his salmon fishing expeditions to Canada’s Gaspé Peninsula where one of the high points of his summer. There, in 1921, he began the first in a series of watercolors that would eventually over 500 works.
Benson’s watercolors conveyed the joy and beauty of a sportsman’s life whether in a painting of a hunter setting out decoys, a flock of ducks coming in for a landing or a grouse flushed from cover. The critics favorably compared Benson’s watercolors to those of Homer. “The love of the almost primitive wilderness which appears in many of Homer’s landscapes and the swift, sure touch with which he suggests rather than describes–these also characterize Benson’s work,” one critic wrote. “The solitude of the northern woods is very much like Homer’s.”
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