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Item Ships From: USA
Medium: Aquatint
BAT
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bat
Embossed color aquatint and etching on Arches paper, 1976
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (See photo)
The Print Club of Cleveland stamp verso
Edition: 261
The Print Cl...
Category
1970s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Fisherman
By Peter Doig
Located in New York, NY
A superb impression with vibrant colors.
A superb impression of this color aquatint and etching on Zerkall paper. Edition of 119. Signed and dated in pencil by Doig. Proofed by the a...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
"La Mer VE 2/8" Intaglio, hand colored, seashell motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "La Mer VE 2/8" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from two-plate intaglio with drypoint, aquatint, and soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
The Razor's Edge
Located in New York, NY
A superb impression of this scarce color aquatint and lift-ground etching on German Etching paper. Signed and numbered 27/36 in pencil, lower right. Printed by Catherine Mousley in t...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Owen Weiri (also Wiiri), The Coal Miner
Located in New York, NY
Owen Weiri (also Wiiri, 1916-1974) was a Finnish-American who served in the Spanish Civil War and then, during World War ll, in the American armed forces as a marine.
Industrial sub...
Category
1940s Ashcan School Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"La Mer VE 5/8" Intaglio, hand colored, seashell motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "La Mer VE 5/8" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from two-plate intaglio with drypoint, aquatint, and soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
"La Mer VE 1/8" Intaglio, hand colored, seashell motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "La Mer VE 1/8" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from two-plate intaglio with drypoint, aquatint, and soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Etching, Intaglio, Drypoint, Aquatint, Archival Paper
"La Mer VE 6/8" Intaglio, hand colored, seashell motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "La Mer VE 6/8" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from two-plate intaglio with drypoint, aquatint, and soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
"La Mer VE 7/8" Intaglio, hand colored, seashell motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "La Mer VE 7/8" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from two-plate intaglio with drypoint, aquatint, and soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
"La Mer VE 3/8" Intaglio, hand colored, seashell motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "La Mer VE 3/8" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from two-plate intaglio with drypoint, aquatint, and soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
Célestine, Young Girl and Client, 1968 (347 Series, B.1588)
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Celestine, Young Girl and Client," 1968 is an aquatint from Picasso's 347 Series. The image size is 3.5 x 5 inches and the framed size is 18.25 x 19.5 inches. Signed 'Picasso' lower...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Joan Miró, "Escalade de la butte, " etching and aquatint, hand signed
By Joan Miró
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Joan Miro
Escalade de la butte
1976
Original etching and aquatint in colors on BFK Rives paper
Hand signed in pencil and numbered 35/50 from the edition of 50
Published by Atelier La...
Category
1970s Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Breath of Mercy, by Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 15. While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, their sense of whimsy, satire and irony relate more...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
The Ruswarp Suite 1
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Ruswarp Suite 1
2023
Etching, aquatint on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 6
Plate size: 39.4 x 39.4 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins)
Paper size: 57.2 x 57.8 cms (22 1/2 x 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
"Two Eggs", Aquatint Etching, Egg Motif, Representation of Common Objects
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Two Eggs" is a limited edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 2”h x 1.5”w x 1.5”d.
Kate VanVliet is a sculp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Aquatint, Etching
"Timesteps", Two Plate Intaglio Etching, Representation of Common Objects
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Timesteps" is an limited edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from two-plate etching with sugarlift, aquatint, drypoint on Rives BFK. This piece is an editio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Intaglio, Etching, Drypoint, Paper
The Ruswarp Suite 2
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Ruswarp Suite 2
2023
Etching, aquatint on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 6
Plate size: 39.4 x 39.4 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins)
Paper size: 57.2 x 57.8 cms (22 1/2 x 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Embrace, 1963 (B.1116)
Located in Greenwich, CT
"The Embrace" is an aquatint on paper, image size 13.75 x 16.75 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and annotated lower left, and framed in a Spanish-style, closed-corner, black and...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Untitled (Plate 3)
By Terry Haass
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From: Kaleidoscope (6 plates)
Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100 (3/100)
Printer: Lacouriere et Frelaut Imprimeur, Paris
Paper: BFK RIVES watermark on some sheets from the se...
Category
1970s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Pablo Ruiz Picasso Spanish 1968 signed limited edition original art print n6
Located in Miami, FL
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
'Reitre raptando a una mujer por encargo de un caballero', 1968
aquatint, etching on paper
9.9 x 13 in. (25.1 x 32.8 cm.)
Unframed
ID: PIC2001-006
Hand-signed by author
The work is documented in the catalog raisonné Picasso Suite 347...
Category
1960s Cubist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
BARBER SHOP
By John Sloan
Located in Portland, ME
Sloan, John. BARBER SHOP. Etching and aquatint, 1915, (Morse 173), 3rd (final) state, Only 35 were printed, by Sloan. Signed in pancil, lower right. 10 x 12 inches (256 x 308 mm (pl...
Category
1910s Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Ruswarp Suite 3
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Ruswarp Suite 3
2023
Etching, aquatint on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 6
Plate size: 39.4 x 39.4 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins)
Paper size: 57.2 x 57.8 cms (22 1/2 x 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"The Second Coming of Ophelia", Aquatint Etching, Floral Motif, Intaglio Print
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "The Second Coming of Ophelia" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from intaglio with aquatint and soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece is an edition ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Intaglio, Aquatint, Paper
"I'll Be Your Mirror", Intaglio Print, Still Life Print
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "I'll Be Your Mirror" is a limited edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from intaglio with soft ground, sugarlift, aquatint and spit bite on Rives BFK. This p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Intaglio, Aquatint, Etching
"Space Oddity", Hand-Colored Etching, Decorative Motifs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Space Oddity" is a limited edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from hand-colored intaglio with drypoint, aquatint, and soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
The Ruswarp Suite 5
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Ruswarp Suite 5
2023
Etching, aquatint on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 6
Plate size: 39.4 x 39.4 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins)
Paper size: 57.2 x 57.8 cms (22 1/2 x 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Ruswarp Suite 4
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Ruswarp Suite 4
2023
Etching, aquatint on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 6
Plate size: 39.4 x 39.4 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins)
Paper size: 57.2 x 57.8 cms (22 1/2 x 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Ruswarp Suite 6
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Ruswarp Suite 6
2023
Etching, aquatint on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 6
Plate size: 39.4 x 39.4 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins)
Paper size: 57.2 x 57.8 cms (22 1/2 x 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Mulgrave Suite
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
William Tillyer
The Mulgrave Suite
2023
Etching, aquatint and embossing with hand colouring in watercolour on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 7
Image size: 40 x 40 cms ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
The Mulgrave Suite
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
William Tillyer
The Mulgrave Suite
2023
Etching, aquatint and embossing with hand colouring in watercolour on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 7
Image size: 40 x 40 cms ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Mulgrave Suite
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Mulgrave Suite
2023
Etching, aquatint and embossing with hand colouring in watercolour on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 7
Image size: 40 x 40 cms (15 3/4 x 15 3/4...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Mulgrave Suite
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
William Tillyer
The Mulgrave Suite
2023
Etching, aquatint and embossing with hand colouring in watercolour on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 7
Image size: 40 x 40 cms ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Mulgrave Suite
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Mulgrave Suite
2023
Etching, aquatint and embossing with hand colouring in watercolour on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 7
Image size: 40 x 40 cms (15 3/4 x 15 3/4...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Mulgrave Suite
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Mulgrave Suite
2023
Etching, aquatint and embossing with hand colouring in watercolour on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 7
Image size: 40 x 40 cms (15 3/4 x 15 3/4...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Mulgrave Suite
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
William Tillyer
The Mulgrave Suite
2023
Etching, aquatint and embossing with hand colouring in watercolour on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 7
Image size: 40 x 40 cms ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Painter and Model with Necklace (B.1389), 1966
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Painter and Model with Necklace" is an intaglio print on paper, comprised of etching, aquatint and drypoint technique. The image size is 11.5 x 14.75 inches and the framed size meas...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Cuban Artist ¨Los ritos del silencio¨ signed limited edition original art print
Located in Miami, FL
Agustin Bejarano (Cuba, 1964)
'Los ritos del silencio', 2005
etching on paper
17.4 x 24.9 in. (44 x 63 cm.)
Edition of 40
ID: BEJ-109
Unframed
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Screen
Blue Rythms (Agerup 188) after the 1966 painting, Peinture.
By Zao Wou-Ki
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blue Ruthms (Agerup 188)
after the 1966 painting, Peinture.
Etching with aquatint, 1968
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 95 (74/95)
Plate: 17 1/2 x 21 1/2"
...
Category
1960s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
"New York - Taken from the Northwest angle of Fort Columbus, Governor's Island"
Located in New York, NY
New York - Taken from the north west angle of Fort Columbus Governor's Island, 1846
Engraved by Henry Papprill after a sketch by F. Catherwood, published by Henry J. Megarey
Hand-colored engraving on paper
Image 16 x 26 1/2 inches
Henry A. Papprill (1816–1903) was a British engraver. Noted as an aquatint engraver from 1840. His plates were published from 1840 till 1883 mainly by Ackermann of the Strand.
Papprill was born in Holborn, London. Lived for much of his life at Wharton Street, Lloyd Square, London. Papprill is thought to have been based in New York City for brief period in the mid-1840s. His work in the USA appears to classify him as an American engraver but he was based and gained his reputation and bulk of his work in England.
He produced a series of works for Ackermann & Co from 1840 beginning with four plates called "The Jolly Squire", with verses, after James Pollard.
In the following years Papprill engraved a number of military plates for Ackermann as well a series of engravings of New York (1846-9) for H.I.Megarey (published in New York). The most notable of these are: "The North West Angle of Fort Columbus, Governor's Island" (the Catherwood-Papprill view) and New York from the Steeple of St. Paul's Church, Looking East, South & West." (The Hill-Papprill view) listed in the American Historical Prints - Early Views of American Cities, etc: I.N.Phelps Stokes & Daniel C. Haskell. New York Public Library 1932.
Papprill also produced for Ackermann a series of sporting prints after G. H. Laporte between 1860 and 1865. These were entitled: Racing, Hunting and Coursing. He also produced a series of shipping prints...
Category
1840s Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Engraving, Paper
Put out All Flags
Located in New York, NY
A superb impression of this color aquatint and lift-ground etching on German Etching paper. Signed and numbered 22/50 in pencil by Motherwell. Printed by Catherine Mosley in the arti...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Man Ray 'Le Mannequin' aquatint engraving - 1975
By Man Ray
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Man Ray
'Le Mannequin'
Aquatint/Engraving
1975
Edition: From the rare limited edition of 150
Size: 50x35 CM.
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist
Published by Cleto Polcina E...
Category
1970s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Guadalmar
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled andnumbered by the artist. Abstract image invoking imagery of the Mediterranean ocean and the desert of Morocco.
Christian Bozo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Finale, from Carnival of Animals (Tyler Graphics, 119:SB31), mixed media Framed
Located in New York, NY
Stanley Boxer
Finale, from Carnival of Animals (Tyler Graphics, 119:SB31), 1979
Etching, aquatint, engraving and drypoint on hand colored TGL handmade paper
Edition 16/20
Pencil sign...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Mixed Media, Pencil, Graphite
The White Eagle, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.340)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The White Eagle is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8.15 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Adam and Eva
Located in Wilton, CT
With 15 (8 signed) coloured original etchings and aquatints by C. E. Uphoff. Original vellum with gilt cover vignette in private linen case with gilt title on spine (stained due to m...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
The Deer, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.336)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Deer is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8.15 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Bull, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.331)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Bull is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.15 x 8.5 inches...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Mexican Artist ¨Decantacion verde¨ signed limited edition original art print
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Sebastián Barberá Durón (Mexican, 1964)
'Decantación verde', 2004
Engraving
Series number: HC Archivo
Limited edition of 99
Size: 50 x 70 cm. (19.7 x 27.6 in.)
Surface: Guarro S...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Paper, Etching, Aquatint, Screen
The Ox, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.330)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Ox is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.7 x 8.2 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Lizard, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.355)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Lizard is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8.15 inch...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Sparrow Hawk, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.342)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Sparrow Hawk is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Monkey, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.339)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Monkey is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 7.9 inche...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Oiseau Multicolore, Cubist Etching by Georges Braque 1950
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oiseau Multicolore by Georges Braque, French (1882–1963)
Date: 1950
Aquatint Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 69/200
Image Size: 10 x 19.5 inches
Size: 17.75 x 25.25...
Category
1950s Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Mon Dieu, quel homme, qu'il est petit… (347 Series, B.1629)
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Mon Dieu, quel homme, qu'il est petit..." is an aquatint from Picasso's 347 Series with an image size of 2.3 x 3.3 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right, and ...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Clown et Enfant (Clown and Child) From the suite Cirque (Circus)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Clown et Enfant (Clown and Child)" from the suite "Cirque (Circus) by Andre Suarez" created in 1930, is an original color aquatint, etching and drypoint by renown French artist Georges Rouault, 1871-1958. It is signed in the plate as issue. According to Isabelle Rouault (Daughter of the artist) the total edition was 500. Published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris and printed by Maurice Potin, Paris. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonnes by Rauch #153, Kornfeld, Klipstein Catalog 120, #134 to #144, Soby pages 110 and 120, and Ambroise Vollard Editeur by Una E. Johnson #202 and page #109. . The plate mark (image) is 12.15 x 8.25 inches, framed size is 24.75 x 21 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black and gold frame, with fabric matting, fabric spacer, and gold color bevel. Artwork and frame are in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright. Example of this artwork is held in many museums including The Museum of Modern Art, New York
About the artist:
French painter, draughtsman, printmaker and designer, Georges Rouault created a personal style of Expressionism that gives him a highly distinctive place in Modern Art. Rouault was born in 1871, in the cellar of a house in Belleville, a working class quarter of Paris near the Père Lachaise cemetery, while the city was being bombarded by government troops quelling the Paris Commune. His father was a finisher and varnisher of pianos at a local factory. Rouault's grandfather was an amateur art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
The Frog, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.357)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Frog is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.6 x 7.9 inches,...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Turkey, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.346)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Turkey is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.8 x 7.9 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The Lobster, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.352)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Lobster is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.6 x 7.9 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers).
Catalogue - Cramer #37
The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work.
Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential.
For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate).
These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Shop a Collection of Aquatint Prints and Other Fine Art Prints on 1stDibs
Buying art and design is one thing. Collecting it is quite another. Whether you’re looking to add a focal point to your living room or you’re introducing a new acquisition to an already thriving collection of art, the range of aquatints and other fine art prints on 1stDibs is waiting for you.
A technique named for its resemblance to watercolor or ink wash, aquatint is often combined with etching to create rich tonal variations. It’s a similar process to etching but the resin ground is more granulated, so the acid handles the metal differently.
Different degrees of darkness are created during the aquatint printmaking process based on the amount of time the plate is in contact with the acid. The process was famously deployed by Goya, but contemporary artists, ranging from Wayne Thiebaud and Susan Rothenberg to Joel Shapiro and Marcel Dzama have used it to dramatic effect.
And prints — as well as sculpture, photography and and other types of art — should help a residence feel more like itself. “Art plays such an important function in the home,” says Sophie Ashby, who founded her eponymous interior design studio in London in 2014. “Out of everything in a space, it has the most power.”
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