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Art Subject: Men
Original Arie's Blue Jean's Amerian Style vintage French fashion poster on linen
Located in Spokane, WA
Original French poster: ARIE'S AMERICAN STYLE BLUE JEANS. Original French fashion vintage poster for Arie's American Style Blue Jeans. Archival linen backed and ready to frame.
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Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Epinal Print Battalle De Fleur US - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Epinal Print Battalle De Fleur US is a Hand-colored lithograph probably realized by Francis Pellerin of the 19th century.
It depicts the Battle of Fleurus, a significant engagement ...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Seurat, L'homme au plaid, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$876 Sale Price
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Léger, Composition, mes voyages (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger mes voyages avec un poème d'...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Images de Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.24 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, I...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Femmes De Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 9.5 x 13.5 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Femmes de Lau...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, hinged on archival backing paper, as issued
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 17.32 x 14.17 inches (backing paper size)
Inscription: Signed in the plate and u...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec, 1950. Published by Librairie Au Pont des Arts, Paris; rendered by Daniel Jacomet; and, printed by Ateliers Daniel Jacomet et Cie, Paris, Monday, October 30, 1950. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This album, including all the prints dedicated by Toulouse-Lautrec to Yvette Guilbert, was printed for the Librairie Au Pont des Arts, by D. Jacomet. The color state of the Colombine plate in Pierrot and the twenty-seven plates of the French and English series were executed according to the original lithographs (before the letter for the French suite) from the Toulouse-Lautrec workshop and kept in the Cabinet des Stampes of the National Library. The collection includes three plates in color and twenty-eight plates in black. All copies also include a lithograph: Colombine à Pierrot, taken, after special authorization from the Musée d'Albi, on the original stone of Toulouse-Lautrec, by Lucien Détruit. It was taken from this album: A non-trade and nominative example; L examples on a large vélin of Rives including: III proofs of the lithography Colombine à Pierrot printed...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Femmes De Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 13.5 x 9.5 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Femmes de Lau...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, hinged on archival backing paper, as issued
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 17.32 x 14.17 inches (backing paper size)
Inscription: Signed in the plate and u...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Les Affiches De Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Filigrané a sa marque paper
Year: 1950
Paper Size: 9.75 x 12.5 inches; image size: 6.3 x 9.05 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Vision de Paris II
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Vision de Paris II
Portfolio: 1953 Verve Vol VII No. 27-28
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1953
Edition: 6000
Frame Size: 28 1/4" x 21 1/2"
Sheet Size: 14" x 20"...
Category
1950s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Edward King Polo Scene"
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic polo scene drawn on stone featuring six ponies on the field drawn on stone & signed by Edward King (LL)
Print Sz: 10 3/4"H x 18 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 18"H x 25 3/8"W
Category
1920s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Fountain of the Turtles - Etching by Giuseppe Malandrino - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Fountain of the Turtles is an artwork realized by Giuseppe Malandrino.
Print in etching technique.
Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right corner.
Numbered edition ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Seurat, L'échafaudage, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$876 Sale Price
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Letter of the Alphabet S - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet S, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Various Authors in the 18th century.
Good conditions.
The etching belong...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Degas, On attend les Clients, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.125 inches; image size: 8.5 x 6.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$956 Sale Price
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Original "The Adventures of Captain Africa #3" vintage movie poster 1955
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. The Adventures of Captain Africa #3 vintage movie poster. Linen-backed and ready to frame. Original issued theater fold marks restored. A condition with excellent color. Printed in 1955. NSS: 55/3802. This is an original theatrical movie poster printed by the National Screen Service.
About: Trapper Nat Coleman and government agent Ted Arnold come upon a plot to take over an African nation. Its leader, Caliph Abdul el Hamid, has been exiled from his country and replaced by a look-alike usurper allied with an unnamed foreign power. The Caliph intends to return, but enemy agents Boris and Greg are out to stop him. Captain Africa a...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$680 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, hinged on archival backing paper, as issued
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 17.32 x 14.17 inches (backing paper size)
Inscription: Signed in the plate and u...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, hinged on archival backing paper, as issued
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 17.32 x 14.17 inches (backing paper size)
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, ...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Degas, Devant la Cheminee, E. Degas Monotypes (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Engraving on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 9.125 x 12.25 inches; image size: 6.5 x 9 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the vol...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$716 Sale Price
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Original U. S. Marines, Soldiers of the Sea vintage WW1 poster linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original U.S. Marines "Soldiers of the Sea" vintage poster by J.C. Leyendecker (c. 1917); linen-backed in A-, B+ condition, ready to frame.
The poster h...
Category
1910s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Roger de La Fresnaye, The Romanian Woman, 1968 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Roger de La Fresnaye (1885–1925), titled La Roumaine (The Romanian Woman), from the album Roger de la Fresnaye, III, Collection Pierre Levy, 1968, ori...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Original Marina Militare Concorso Anno 1961 vintage Italian Naval poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Marina Militare Concorso 1961 Vintage Italian Naval Poster – Linen Backed. Grade B+ condition with original fold marks restored.
Step back in time with this authentic 19...
Category
1960s Art Deco Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Fukuroi Dejaya No Zu - Orignal Woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige - 1833
Located in Roma, IT
Fukuroi Dejaya No Zu (An Outdoor Tea Stall at Fukuroi), is a beautiful color woodblock print on paper, the plate n. 28 from the series Fifty-three Stations Along the Tokaido (Tokai...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Utagawa Kunisada - Woodblock Print by Utagawa Kunisada - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Samurai is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19 century by Utagawa Kunisada.
Beautiful colored woodblock print, included a cardboard passpartout.
Includes frame: 45.5 x 35...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Hart Ski Colorado Vintage Poster (c.1970), Roger Staub USA
Located in London, GB
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Hart Ski Vintage Poster...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Street Booth, Tokyo, New Year's Eve
By Martin Lewis
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb impression of Martin Lewis's consummate image of Japan.
Etching with drypoint on fine cream laid paper, 13 7/8 x 10 3/8 inches (352 x 265 mm); sheet 17 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Hôtel De Sens, Paris
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Charles Hullmandel, c1839.
Stipple point lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 21 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (540 x 362 mm), the full sheet. In fair cond...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Fernand Leger, Wounded Soldier, from War Drawings 1915-16, 1956 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Fernand Leger (1881–1955), titled Soldat blesse (Wounded Soldier), from the album Fernand Leger, Dessins de Guerre 1915-16 (Fernand Leger,...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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OLIVE TREES, CAPRI
Located in Portland, ME
Carter, Clarence Holbrook (American, 1904-2000). OLIVE TREES, CAPRI. Aquatint in colors, 1932. Titled,signed and dated in pencil. 5 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches (plat...
Category
1930s Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Original Eriac Cyclomoteurs Paris to Tokio vintage French motorcycle poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Vintage Poster: Eria Cyclomoteurs - Paris to Tokyo 18,000 km. Endurance Race, Archival linen-backed and ready to frame. Printer: Rocher Studio.
Creator: Unknown (attribu...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original "Blazing the Overland Trail", Chapter 1, vintage serial movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original BLAZING the OVERLAND TRAIL 1956 Chapter 1, US 1-sheet .. Lee Roberts, Tom Bridger. Chapter 1. "Gun Emperor of the West!" NSS: 56/4803. Archival linen backed with original fold marks restored, ready to frame.
Blazing the Overland Trail, Heroes of the Pony Express!, the 1956 Spencer Gordon Bennet cowboy western serial ("A Columbia Super-Serial") starring Lee Roberts ("as Tom Bridger, Army Scout"), Dennis Moore, Norma Brooks, Gregg Barton, and Don C. Harvey.
Heroes of the Pony Express!
Movie poster description:
BLAZING THE OVERLAND TRAIL
15 CHAPTER SERIAL , Chapter !
1956
"Blazing the Overland Trail" is Columbia's 57th and last serial production and also the last sound-era serial (of 231 total) made for theatrical release by any major studio.
PLOT:
Rance Devlin intends to build his own empire in the American west, using his Black Raiders and allied Indians to do so. Only US Army scout Tom Bridger, associated with Pony Express rider Ed Marr and US Cavalry Captain Frank Carter, can stop him.
This is a genuine 27" x 41" U.S. one-sheet ORIGINAL MOVIE POSTER issued by the studio when the film was released and meant for theatrical display.
CAST:
Lee Roberts … Tom Bridger
Dennis Moore … Ed Marr
Norma Brooks … Lola Martin
Gregg Barton … Captain Carter
Don C. Harvey … Rance Devlin
Lee Morgan...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$556 Sale Price
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Ski Paradise, Anne Storno, Limited Edition print, Sport art, Skiiing art
Located in Deddington, GB
Ski paradise by Anne Storno [2021]
limited_edition and hand signed by the artist
Screenprinting
Edition number 30
Image size: H:58 cm x W:40 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:70 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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"Synchronicity (part 3)" Photography 40" x 30" inch Edition of 24 by Rob Woodcox
By Rob Woodcox
Located in Culver City, CA
"Synchronicity (part 3)" Photography 40" x 30" inch Edition of 24 by Rob Woodcox
Hahnemuhle Torchon Matte FineArt Paper (archival)
Ships in a tube
2021
ABOUT Rob Woodcox
Rob Woo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
Raoul Dufy, Reception of an English Admiral on a French Ship, 1969 (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), titled Reception d'un amiral anglais sur un bateau francais (Reception of an English Admiral on a French Ship), from the folio...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Original Les Vins de Bourgogne, Henri de Bahezre vintage French red wine poster
By Guy Arnoux
Located in Spokane, WA
Les Vins de Bourgogne de Henri de Bahèzre - Nuits-St. Georges Original Vintage French Wine Poster by Guy Arnoux, c. 1916
Linen-backed. This wine poster is one of the earliest zinc l...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Lost Trace / - The Holy Night as a real dream -
By Ernst Fuchs
Located in Berlin, DE
Ernst Fuchs (1930 Vienna - 2015 ibid), The Lost Trace, 1972. Vernis mou and aquatint etching, 46.8 x 36.4 cm (plate), 66 x 50 cm (sheet), 69.5 x 53.5 cm (frame), WVZ Hartmann no. 185...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
19th century color lithograph figures cemetery willow tree memorial headstone
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present hand-colored lithograph was produced as part of the funeral and mourning culture in the United States during the 19th century. Images like this were popular as ways of remembering loved ones, an alternative to portraiture of the deceased. This lithograph shows a man, woman and child in morning clothes next to an urn-topped stone monument. Behind are additional putto-topped headstones beneath weeping willows, with a steepled church beyond. The monument contains a space where a family could inscribe the name and death dates of a deceased loved one. In this case, it has been inscribed to a young Civil War soldier:
William W. Peabody
Died at Fairfax Seminary, VA
December 18th, 1864
Aged 18 years
The young Mr. Peabody probably died in service for the Union during the American Civil War. Farifax Seminary was a Union hospital and military headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The hospital served nearly two thousand soldiers during the war time. Five hundred were also buried on the Seminary's grounds.
13.75 x 9.5 inches, artwork
23 x 19 inches, frame
Published before 1864
Inscribed bottom center "Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier. 2 Spruce St. N.Y."
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and TruVue Conservation Clear glass, housed in a gold gilded moulding.
Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton.
A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America.
Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper.
In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business.
The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’
Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier.
Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published.
The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years.
In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death.
The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day.
Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives.
In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss.
Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife.
Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends.
Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production.
Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes.
Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier).
Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907.
Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey.
In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Figurative Prints
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Watercolor, Lithograph
Cosmic Umbrella Man, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Cosmic Umbrella Man
Year: 2003
Edition: 496/500, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper
Size: 3.5 x 3 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscr...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$571 Sale Price
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Edgar Degas, Sketch of Dancers, 1945 (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Croquis de danseurs (Sketch of Dancers), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The S...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Edgar Degas, Melina Darde, 1945 (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Melina Darde, originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., N...
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1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Edgar Degas, Dancer Arranging Her Dress, 1945 (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Danseuse arrangeant sa robe (Dancer Arranging Her Dress), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. P...
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1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Edgar Degas, Dancer Touching Her Earring, 1945 (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Danseuse touchant sa boucle d’oreille (Dancer Touching Her Earring), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet ...
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1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, High School Rider, from The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Ecuyere de haute ecole (High School Rider), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-Lautre...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, High School Rider, from The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Ecuyere de haute ecole (High School Rider), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-Lautre...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ballets, Fantasy, from The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Ballets, fantaisie (Ballets, Fantasy), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-Lautrec. Pu...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, High School Rider, from The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Ecuyere de haute ecole (High School Rider), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-Lautre...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Work on the Panel, from The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Travail sur le panneau (Work on the Panel), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-Lautre...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dog Trainer, from The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Dresseur de chiens (Dog Trainer), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-Lautrec. Publish...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Rehearsal Work, from The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Travail de repetition (Rehearsal Work), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-Lautrec. P...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amazon, from The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Amazone (Amazon), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-Lautrec. Published by Paris Book...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Recall, from The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Le Rappel (The Recall), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-Lautrec. Published by Pari...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Equestrienne of the Panel, The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Ecuyere de panneau (Equestrienne of the Panel), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-La...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Trick Riding, from The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Voltige (Trick Riding), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-Lautrec. Published by Pari...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, High School Rider, from The Circus, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), titled Écuyère de haute école (High School Rider), originates from the 1952 album The Circus of Toulouse-Lautre...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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