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Art Subject: Modern Art
FOREST IN THE SPRING
Located in Portland, ME
Hnizdovsky, Jacques. FOREST IN THE SPRING. T.31 Woodcut, 1960. Edition of 100. Signed, Titled, dated, numbered 10/100 and inscribed "Woodcut," all in pencil. 39 x 9 inches (sheet). I...
Category
1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Carpenter Woods, Abstract Screenprint by Thelma Appel
By Thelma Appel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thelma Appel, American (1940 - )
Title: Carpenter Woods
Year: 1982
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP 25
Image Size: 22 x 15 inches
Size: 29 in...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Emilio Grau Sala - Original Handsigned Lithograph - Ecole de Paris
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Emilio Grau Sala
Original Handsigned Lithograph
Dimensions: 76 x 54 cm
Edition: HC XXI/XXX
HandSigned and Numbered
Ecole de Paris au seuil de la mutation des Arts
Sentiers Editions ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vase with Tree, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Vase with Tree
Year: 2000
Edition: 140/500, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper
Size: 2 x 2.75 inches...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$475 Sale Price
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Spring Fever, Psychedelic Lithograph by Ronald Julius Christensen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Spring Fever
Ronald Julius Christensen, American (1923–1999)
Date: 1980
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 295
Size: 42 x 29.5 in. (106.68 x 74.93 cm)
Category
1980s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Tribe of Zebulun, Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 8 x 6 inches, image; 15 x 11 inches, overall. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Marc Chagall, The Jerusal...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Chagall, Tribe of Benjamin, Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 8 x 6 inches, image; 15 x 11 inches, overall. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Marc Chagall, The Jerusal...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Guy Bardone - Original Handsigned Lithograph - Ecole de Paris
By Guy Bardone
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Guy Bardone
Original Handsigned Lithograph
Dimensions: 76 x 54 cm
Edition: HC XXI/XXX
HandSigned and Numbered
Ecole de Paris au seuil de la mutation des Arts
Sentiers Editions
Guy Bardone was one of the great painters of the “Ecole de Paris” and of the second mid twenty century.
Guy Bardone French, (1927 - )
Guy Bardone
Guy Bardone was born in 1927 in Saint-Claude, on of the most beautiful old towns in France. His vocation as a painter was confirmed after admission to the Ecole National Supérieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Here he trained under Brianchon, Cavailles and Desnoyer. He was awarded the prestigious Prix Félix Fénéon in 1952 which set wider horizons and allowed him entry into the Paris arena.
Guy Bardone est né en 1927 à Saint-Claude (Jura). Après des études à l'école des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, il entre à l'école supérieure des arts décoratifs où il reçoit les enseignements de Brianchon, Cavaillès et Desnoyers. En 1950, il rencontre le critique George Besson qui l'encourage et le conseille.
En 1952, il obtient le Prix Félix Fénéon et commence à exposer dans divers salons et expositions de groupe. il est sélectionné en 1953 à la très importante expositions de groupe "célébrités et révélations de la peinture contemporaine...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Freeport Fishing Boats, Psychedelic Screenprint by Max Epstein
By Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Freeport Fishing Boats
Max Epstein, Canadian (1932–2002)
Date: 1980
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 150
Image Size: 19 x 28 inches
Size: 23 in. x 35 in. (58.42 ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Léger, Deux soldats dans un abri, Dessins de Guerre 1915-16 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger, Dessins de Guerre 1915-16, 19...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Chagall, Tribe of Judah, Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 8 x 6 inches, image; 15 x 11 inches, overall. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Marc Chagall, The Jerusal...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Chagall, Tribe of Naphtali, Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 8 x 6 inches, image; 15 x 11 inches, overall. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Marc Chagall, The Jerusal...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Chagall, Tribe of Zebulun, Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 8 x 6 inches, image; 15 x 11 inches, overall. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Marc Chagall, The Jerusal...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Saint-Germain des Prés (Cramer 24; Mourlot 100), Derrière le miroir
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc, and Julien Cain. Chagall Lithogr...
Category
1950s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$7,196 Sale Price
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Chandra - Moon and the Palm Tree - 24ct karat Gold leaf & Copper on Glass Print
Located in London, GB
Chandra - meaning the Hindu God of the Moon – as the image was taken in Sri Lanka. The image was first gilded with copper then that was rubbed back to reveal most of the glass, and t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Gold, Copper, Gold Leaf
Le bouquet noir et bleu (Cramer 34; Mourlot 202), Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 9.06 x 7.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc, and Julien Cain. Chagall Li...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Original Poster Sport au Soleil en Suisse - Hans Falk Switzerland Alps Skiing
By Hans Falk
Located in London, GB
Hans Falk (1918-2002)
Sport au Soleil en Suisse
Original Vintage Poster - lithograph (1957)
40x25"
Signed in the plate, and showing a procession of brightly-coloured skiers heading ...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mychael Barratt, Anish Kapoor’s Dog, Limited Edition Print, Animal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Mychael Barratt
Anish Kapoor’s Dog
Limited Edition Etching
Edition of 100
Sheet Size: H 40cm x W 38cm
Signed and titled
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Sans titre, Against All Odds
By Keith Haring
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on acid-free Rivoli paper. Paper Size: 8.5 x 10.3 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Against All Odds, 20 drawings - Oct. 3, 1...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,276 Sale Price
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Gold Palm, Conceptual Art Screenprint by Menashe Kadishman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (1932 – 2015)
Title: Brown Palm
Year: 1979
Medium: Screenprint, signed in pencil
Edition: WP (Working Proof)
Size: 30.5 x 21.5 inches
Category
1970s Conceptual Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
"Red, Yellow, Blue & Green, " Color Woodcut & Monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Red, Yellow, Blue & Green" is an original color woodcut by Carol Summers. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. This woodcut depicts four color fields. The edition number i...
Category
2010s Landscape Prints
Materials
Monotype, Woodcut
Picasso, 20.9.64. II (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Belgian Contemporary Art by Hugo Pondz - L'Equilibre des Choses
By Hugo Pondz
Located in Paris, IDF
C-Print on argentic paper
Edition of 7
Others sizes are available upon simple request
Shipping of the artwork will be done in a tube or flat in a crate with or without American box...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
C Print, Paper
$1,040 Sale Price
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Léger, Les Foreurs, Dessins de Guerre 1915-16 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger, Dessins de Guerre ...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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"Camogli, Italy", 1982, Lithograph by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - )
Title: Comogli Italy
Year: 1982
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300, HC
Image Size: 21.5 x 28 inches
Size: ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cavalli e cavalieri in piedi, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 1, Cahiers d'Art publ...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Scène XXV, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on Vélin de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire, 1958. Published by Tériade,...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$3,996 Sale Price
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Picasso, Composition, Faunes et Flore d'Antibes (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin pur chiffon d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Faunes et Flore d'Antibe...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$7,996 Sale Price
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SALVO, Landscape, Color aquatint
Located in Torino, IT
Landscape, 1990
Original aquatint and aquatint signed by hand by the artist.. (mm. 450x540).
Perfect specimen, imprinted on Hahnemühle paper in a total of 100 copies Perfect preserv...
Category
1990s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
"Light Emerging - Diffused Blue, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 36" x 48"
By Ken Elliott
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract landscape limited edition giclee print by Ken Elliott features abstracted trees in a cool-toned palette. The energetic blue and violet brush strokes that m...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Digital, Giclée
Winter Garden (Portfolio of 8) by Marc Quinn
By Marc Quinn
Located in Zug, CH
Marc Quinn
Winter Garden (Portfolio of 8)
2004
Pigment Print
83.6 × 124 cm
(32.9 × 48.8 in)
Signed, numbered, and dated
Edition of 59
In excellent condition
PLEASE NOTE: Edition num...
Category
Early 2000s Landscape Prints
Materials
Pigment
"Sharing" Multi Layer Screen Print on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant screen print of people gathering around a pond by Jane Leddy (American, 1925-2019). People and various animals - including goats, ducks, and cows - ...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Screen
LADY ON COUCH
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Artist Proof (AP) edition of 45. Sheet size 23 x 27.5 inches. Image size 18 x 22.5 inches. Custom framed as ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$2,100 Sale Price
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Space Rainbow 1978 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
By Peter Max
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Name: Peter Max
Space Rainbow
Year: 1978
Medium Type: Silkscreen, on Arches Paper
Size-Width Size-Height: 22” x 30” inches
Signed Edition Size: signed in pencil and marked ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Jacob Heller “Tropical Mexico”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous cubist wood cut of a Mexican village. It is titled tropical Mexico and is by the artist Jacob Heller. There is not much biographical information on him except that he was bo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
L’Inspirée (Cramer 56; Mourlot 398), The Lithographs of Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.216 x 9.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and Fernand Mourlot. Chaga...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Picasso, 20.5.64. V (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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X, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
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Untitled
By Nissan Engel
Located in Surfside, FL
Participation in salons:
Grand Prix International de Peinture, Cannes, France 1958
Jeune peinture, Paris, France 1960-65
Grands et jeunes d'aujourd'hui, France 1960-85
des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 1960-65
Comparaisons, Paris, France 1980
de Montrouge, France 1980-83
Nissan Engel's works are found in numerous private and
public collections, including the following:
Abright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
Bridgeston Museum, Tokyo
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Elf Atochem Corporation, Paris
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia
Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at
Purchase
Schlumberger Foundation, Paris
Weizman Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Nissan Engel graduated from the Beaux-Arts Bezalel in Jerusalem before receiving a diploma from the Centre Dramatic de L'Est in Strasbourg, France. He began his career designing costumes and sets for the theater in Paris. Engel moved to New York City in 1965 following a series of successful gallery exhibitions. His early work in Paris and New York was characteristic of his academic training and his subject matter was predominately figural and representational. He returned to Paris in 1975, and inspired by a flea market find of old sheet music...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Magritte, Un Séduisant Navire d'eau de Mer (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph in Colours on Vélin d'Arches paper. Edition: 350, plus proofs. Signed in the plate by the artist; hand signed in pencil by the printer, Fernand Mourlot. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the suite, Les Enfants Trouvés de Magritte, 1968. Published by A.C. Mazo et Cie, Paris; printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, 1968. Les Enfants Trouvés de Magritte comprised twelve coloured lithographs, four of which, Ma Mère l'Oye, Pierreries, La Belle Captive...
Category
1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,996 Sale Price
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Léger, Acrobates et musiciens (Saphire 270), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Léger, F...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" Woodcut & Monotype signed by Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. In the image, an abstracted volcano erupts in a joyous burst of purples and oranges. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form.
Art: 8 x 11 in
Frame: 17 x 19 in
Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented.
In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother.
From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum.
In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade.
After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957.
Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape.
In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge.
Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal.
By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MoMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia.
Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape.
In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country.
In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and non-western as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image.
The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist.
At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Monotype, Woodcut
Picasso, Composition, Les Bleus de Barcelone (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil with gouache and pastel inks on vélin de Rives paper, archivally hinged on vélin de Rives backing sheet, as issued. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumb...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$7,596 Sale Price
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Cannes, La Croisette
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cannes, La Croisette" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on watermarked Arches paper by noted French artist Jean Claude Picot, 1933-2020. It is hand signe...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Winter Tree, Impressionist Lithograph by Jean-Marie Picard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean-Marie Picard, French - Winter Tree, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, Image Size: 27 x 20 inches, Size: 22.5 x 29.75 in. (57.15 x 75.57 cm)
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
de La Fresnaye, Visage, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1968
Paper Size: 26 x 20 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Roger de la Fresnaye, III, Col...
Category
1960s Cubist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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"Farewell, " Sunset Landscape Woodcut by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Farewell" is an original color woodcut by Carol Summers. The artist signed the piece. This woodcut depicts a river flowing through green hills beneath a blood-red sky. The edition number is 20/50.
24 1/4" x 37" art
32" x 45" frame
Carol Summers has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter.
Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented.
In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned.
Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother.
From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts.
In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of...
Category
1990s Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 155), Pablo Picasso, La Chute D'Icare (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper
Year: 1972
Paper Size: 15.875 X 11.75 inches
Catalogue raisonné reference: Cramer, illustration 155
Inscription: Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Pablo Picasso, La Chute D'Icare, Décoration du Foyer des Délégués
Palais de l'UNESCO à Paris, Suite d'études préparatoires en noir et en couleurs réalisées du 6 décembre 1957 au 29 janvier 1958, 1972. Published by Albert Skira, Éditeur, Genève; printed by Roto-Sadag S.A. Genève, December 20, 1972. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This album contains the series of preparatory tests in black and VII color studies, reproduced, made by Pablo Picasso for the decoration of the home of the delegates at the Palais de l'UNESCO in Paris, was completed to print on December 20, 1972 on the presses of Imprimeries Roto-Sadag S.A. and Atar S.A. in Genève. The edition of this album is as follows: CXXV examples numbered from I to CXXV, XXV examples, out of commerce, numbered H.C. I to XXV, reserved for the artist and the publisher. Each of these albums contains an etching by Pablo Picasso, signed and numbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 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
Rouault, Clair de lune, Stella Vespertina (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin pur fil du Marais paper, archivally mounted on a larger vélin pur fil du Marais support sheet, as issued Paper Size: 9.25 x 11.5 inches, image; 19.25 x 15.25 in...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Rouault, Nocturne, Stella Vespertina (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin pur fil du Marais paper, archivally mounted on a larger vélin pur fil du Marais support sheet, as issued Paper Size: 9 x 11.5 inches, image; 19.25 x 15.25 inche...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Rouault, Puits de Jacob, Stella Vespertina (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin pur fil du Marais paper, archivally mounted on a larger vélin pur fil du Marais support sheet, as issued Paper Size: 9.25 x 11.5 inches, image; 19.25 x 15.25 in...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Rouault, De Profundis, Stella Vespertina (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin pur fil du Marais paper, archivally mounted on a larger vélin pur fil du Marais support sheet, as issued Paper Size: 11.25 x 8.5 inches, image; 19.25 x 15.25 in...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Madame Yxe, Divertissement, Éditions de la Revue Verve
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper, archivally mounted on a larger vélin d'Arches support sheet, as issued Paper Size: 11 x 8 inches, image; 16 x 12.5 inches, overall. Inscription: S...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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1933 Arnold Rönnebeck Lithograph Colorado Mountain Mine Winter Scene, Framed
Located in Denver, CO
This rare 1933 lithograph by renowned modernist artist Arnold Rönnebeck depicts a striking winter scene of a Colorado mountain mine blanketed in snow. Rendered in dramatic black-and-...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marina Reflections
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered. View of reflections of boats in a marina. Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 120.
Born in Berkeley, California, on December 21, 1949, he was raised...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Cocteau, Hommage au matador, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau (after)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Coc...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Arlequin, Divertissement, Éditions de la Revue Verve
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper, archivally mounted on a larger vélin d'Arches support sheet, as issued Paper Size: 11 x 8 inches, image; 16 x 12.5 inches, overall. Inscription: S...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Mexican Garden Tangle
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an artist proof (one of a kind) aquatint and watercolor depicting a cactus-filled Mexican garden, a mirror tilted up and an image of the artist s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Aquatint, Watercolor
Squall
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Yal...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$3,000