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Medium: Aquatint
"Angels" Illustration for Hésperus, Art Nouveau Lithograph by Carlos Schwabe
Located in Chicago, IL
Hand-colored Stone Lithograph on Japon; Aquatint.
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Aquatint
Que, Aquatint Etching by Sergio Gonzales-Tornero
Located in Long Island City, NY
Que
Sergio Gonzales-Tornero, Chilean (1927)
Portfolio: Grafica Latinoamericana
Date: 1970
Aquatint Etching, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in red pen
Edition of 100
Image Size: ...
Category
1970s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Joseph Kirkpatrick (1872-1936) - Framed Aquatint, A Sussex Hilltop
Located in Corsham, GB
An original aquatint in colours by the listed British artist Joseph Kirkpatrick (1872-1936). Elegantly housed in a gilt-effect frame with original a...
Category
Early 20th Century Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
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
'Coenties Slip' — 1920s Lower Manhattan, Financial District
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Luigi Kasimir, 'Coenties Slip', color etching with aquatint, 1927, edition 100. Signed in pencil. Dated in the plate, lower right. Annotated 'NEW YORK HANOVER SQUARE (COENTIES SLIP)'...
Category
1920s American Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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
Francisco De Goya Desastres de guerra Sera lo mismo 1edition original art print
Located in Miami, FL
Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828)
'Será lo mismo (Estampa 21)', ca.1810-1014
Serie: Desastres de la guerra
burnished aquatint, etching on wellum paper...
Category
1810s Romantic Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Vellum, Etching, Aquatint
Harwich
Located in Middletown, NY
Essex: c1899. Etching with aquatint on cream wove paper, 7 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (190 x 310 mm), full margins. Signed and titled in pencil in the lower margin. In very good condition w...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
The Rooster, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.344)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Rooster 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 8.15 inc...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Femme a la Cruche (Woman with Jug)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Exhibited for the first time in 1928 at Galerie Bernhiem-Jeune, Paris, this work was published by Bernheim-Jeune and printed under the direction of Villon. Assuming a pose resembling...
Category
1920s Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
Alice in Grayland
Located in New York, NY
Alan Shields
Alice in Grayland, 1979
Mixed media collage: Etching, aquatint, screen print with stitching and collage on hand made paper
Hand signed, dated, titled and numbered 1/13 by Alan Shields on the front
Unique variant
This very unique and imaginative mixed media paper collage with stitching and fabric is floated and framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglass.
It is hand signed, dated, titled and numbered from the limited edition of 13 - but each is a unique variant.
Frame included:
Measurements:
Frame:
27.75 x 22.5 x 2 inches
Artwork:
23.5 x 18 inches
Catalogue Raisonne: K. Tyler Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonné, 1974-1985, New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. p. 289.
Alan Shields came of age artistically in the late 1960s in New York. Expanding the boundaries of Minimalism, he became known as a master of aesthetic invention through his wide-ranging exploration of materials and techniques. His mixed media works often contain combinations of traditional silkscreen processes combined with found materials. New York Times critic Roberta Smith wrote in her 2005 obituary for the artist: "Mr. Shields's work combined expanses of gorgeous stained color, reminiscent of Helen Frankenthaler's canvases, with the humbler crafts and a Gypsy sense of portability." Critic Robert Hughes has described Shields as a brilliant bricoleur who could, and often did, make art out of just about anything. He became an innovative printmaker, experimenting with handmade paper and turning out editions in which each print was unique. After his passing, Shields was awarded a Judith Rothschild Foundation grant given to recently deceased abstract artists whose work is of the highest quality but merits further recognition.
About Alan Shields:
Alan Shields (b. 1944, Herington, KS; d. 2005, Shelter Island, NY) created unique, imaginative, and theatrical structures using unconventional materials and vibrant color. His three-dimensional paintings convey a playful, deconstructive impulse through the incorporation of un-stretched hand-dyed canvas, rope, yarn, beads, and wood. Shields moved to New York City in 1968, where he showed with Paula Cooper...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint, Screen
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
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 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
Aquatint, Drypoint
Theorbes et Belieres
Located in Wilton, CT
Beautiful example of Roberto Matta's book with 1 full color/ full page engraving and 4 black and white vignettes. On Arches. Signed on the justification page by the author and the ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, 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
Aquatint, Drypoint
Marion Rhodes (1907-1998) - 20th Century Aquatint, Open Cast Coal Mining
Located in Corsham, GB
An accomplished aquatint print depicting industrial work at Over Hulton in Greater Manchester. Signed and titled in graphite below the plate line. On paper.
Category
20th Century Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Fille au Pigeon, Etching & Aquatint by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Fille au Pigeon by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Etching & aquatint
36 x 13.8 cm (14 ⅛ x 5 ⅛ inches)
Signed lower left
Provenance
Private Collection, London
Exhibition
Fort ...
Category
1910s Art Deco Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, 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 Hot and Cold Pools of Persuasion from In the Realm of Carceral
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Morris, American (1931 - 2018)
Portfolio: In the Realm of the Carceral
Title: The Hot and Cold Pools of Persuasion
Year: 1979
Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed and ...
Category
1970s Minimalist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Valerie Thornton (1931-1991) - Framed 20th Century Aquatint, The Tower of London
Located in Corsham, GB
Typical of Thornton's oeuvre, this beautiful etching & aquatint details the magnificent architecture and exterior of The Tower of London. Signed, dated and titled below plate lines. ...
Category
20th Century Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Joseph Kirkpatrick (1872-1936) - Framed Aquatint, Departing Day
Located in Corsham, GB
An original aquatint in colours by the listed British artist Joseph Kirkpatrick (1872-1936). Elegantly housed in a gilt-effect frame with original a...
Category
Early 20th Century Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
'Around the Unknown Masterpiece' 1968 (347 Series, B.1824)
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Around the Unknown Masterpiece" is an aquatint on paper from Picasso's 347 Series, with an image size of 9 x 12.75 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and annotated lower left, fra...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Purple Stripe
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Caviar20 is excited to be offering this evocative print by the inimitable Louise Nevelson - one of the most revered and unique sculptors of the 20th century.
Nevelson is renowned for her mysterious and complex artworks. She was an active printmaker, experimenting with different techniques and approaches while working with some of the best print-making studios in the United States and Italy.
Many of the leading, ground-breaking American abstract artists experienced success in post-war Europe. Nevelson was notably well-embraced in Italy arguably because of parallels to Arte Povera in her work. She had an important and enduring connection to Italy, beginning with representing America at the Venice Biennale in 1962. Nevelson would then exhibit at the legendary Studio Marconi in Milan during the succeeding decades. This fruitful relationship led Nevelson to start working with Italian printmakers during the 1970s.
This impressive aquatint is a paradigm of both the era and Nevelson's later printmaking, notable for its use of metallic elements, color, and collage. This work features unexpected shades of magenta, lime green, and rust, which punctuate her signature monochromatic black forms that sweep the surface of the page creating an intriguing architectural form.
This work is an example from Nevelson's 1973 portfolio, "Aquatints Portfolio (B. 116)" which comprised six aquatints with metallic elements. Click here to see another example from this body of work.
Over the last few years, there has been tremendous momentum in both interest and appreciation of Nevelson's work. In May of 2021, a new auction record of $1.35 million was established for one of Nevelson's signature white construction sculptures...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Georg Baselitz, Farewell Bill #4 - Signed Print, Edition of 15, Abstract Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Georg Baselitz (German, b. 1938)
Untitled #4 (from Farewell Bill), 2013
Medium: Aquatint and line etching on wove paper
Dimensions: 85.1 x 64.9 cm
Edition of 15: Hand-signed and numb...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Sueño de Verano, by Christian Bozon
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, title and numbered by the artist
Image Size: 8.25 x 10.25 inches
Year: 2009
Edition: 50
Bozon's abstract imagery recalls the colors and textures of Morocco and southern Spai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
"Sublime Elevation" for Hésperus Art Nouveau Lithograph by Carlos Schwabe
Located in Chicago, IL
Hand-colored Stone Lithograph on Japon; Aquatint.
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Lithograph
Fan Art, In Front of Mirror, by Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Intaglio and Chine Colle
Year: 2020
Image Size: 18 x 12 inches
Edition of 15
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. A young woman with traditional Japanese fan in front ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Ma Boheme
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist.
Image size: 4.5 x 4.5 inches
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Year: 2012
Edition size: 50
Christian Bozon was born in Lons-le-Saunier, France ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Impressions of Italy - Italian Views
Located in London, GB
This complete set of fifty etchings, aquatints and drypoints are each hand signed by the artist "Edgar Chahine" at the lower left margins.
The folio was printed by A. Routy, Paris an...
Category
Early 1900s Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Drypoint
Nymphee, Surrealist Etching by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Nymphee" is a colorful Roberto Matta etching from his Requiem pour la Fin des Temps suite. The print is signed and numbered (44/100) in pencil w...
Category
1970s Surrealist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
The Donkey, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.329)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Donkey 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,...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Drypoint
Cuban signed limited edition original art print etching, aquatint, sugarlift
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
'Tres columnas', 2002
etching, aquatint, sugarlift on paper
24.5 x 31.2 in. (62 x 79 cm.)
Edition of 30
Unframed
ID: VAL-120
Hand-signed by author
___...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching, Paper
Dark Choco and Marshmallow Bear, by Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Intaglio and Chine Colle
Year: 2023
Image Size: 10.5 x 7 inches
Edition of 15
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. A young woman with chocolate and marshmallow figures...
Category
2010s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Pigeon, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.347)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Pigeon 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 10.75x 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
Le Roi David (King David), Modern Etching by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
A classic example of a Miro figure. Rendered in bold black lines with sparse details of color, this etching harkens upon the Biblical figure King David. The piece is nicely framed and is signed and numbered by the artist.
Le Roi David...
Category
1970s Surrealist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Wasp, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.351)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Wasp 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 8 inches, u...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Drypoint
James Hansen "Untitled III", Abstract Aquatint Etching Lithograph, Signed & No.
Located in Detroit, MI
ONE WEEK ONLY SALE AT 40%
"Untitled III" is a work that displays James Hansen's intense colors and shapes of his abstract and surrealist style. This print made with etching and aquatints with hand-coloring on Arches paper pops with the illusion of three dimensions set against a muted background of esoteric shapes and symbols. The print is 32-3/4 x 25-3/4 inches and is signed and numbered from an edition of 30 by the artist. Numbered edition may not necessarily be number 20 as there are multiple prints in the possession of Collected Detroit.
James Hansen was born in 1951 in New Haven, Connecticut and spent most of his artistic career in Provincetown, Massachusetts where he befriended and worked with Paul Bowen...
Category
1990s Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph
The Mother Hen, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.345)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Mother Hen 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 8 inc...
Category
20th Century Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Manilva, by Christian Bozon
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 50.
Medium: Drypoint and aquatint
Edition: 50
Image Size: 8.5 in. x W 10.63 in.
Year: 2016
Bozon's prints are often a balance betwee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Spanish 1986 signed limited edition original art print etching 15x11 in.
Located in Miami, FL
Antonio Lorenzo Carrión (Spain, 1922)
Piloto de Pruebas IV, 1986
Etching and aquatint on paper
Image size: 7.08 x 4.92 in (18 x 12.5 cm.)
Sheet...
Category
1980s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Dors Mon Amour
Located in Irvine, CA
This is an aquatint print by French painter Georges Rouault titled "Dors mon amour" ("Sleep, My Love") (plate facing page 164) from Cirque de l'étoile filante (The Shooting Star Circ...
Category
1930s Expressionist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Etching, aquatint and chalcography on wove paper, 1989
Signed in pencil, numbered 17/40
Published by 2RC Edizioni d'Arte, Rome with their blindstamp, the full sheet
Very Good condit...
Category
1980s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n13
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989)
'Le Cheval et le Loup', 1974
Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine
dry point, aquatint on japanese paper
22.9 x 30.8 in. (58 x 78 cm.)
Edition of 250
Unframed
ID: DAL2001-013
Hand-signed by author
It appears reviewed in the catalog raisonné: The official catalog of the graphic works of Salvador Dalí. Albert Field. Page: 2/93. Nr. 74-1 L.
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Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was a Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver, set designer and writer of the 20th century. An artist associated with surrealism, he is one of the most important figures in 20th century art, representing the archetype of the spectacular contemporary multifaceted artist.
He develops his creative activity in various fields through the most diverse cultural formulas: painting, written media, performing arts, cinema, or public appearances in the press, radio, cinema, advertising, television, etc.
Master of the most refined pictorial technique, especially drawing, along with various aesthetic languages - from impressionism, cubism, purism or late ultraism with Dadaist edges to the most radical surrealism, hyperrealism, pop-art or art optical—, will absorb every influence that is useful to build its own and personal language, halfway between technical tradition and thematic avant-garde.
His paranoid-critical method is his main contribution to the surrealist movement and to the history of art as a new creative model with which Dalí's theories acquire theoretical entity - thanks to the successive interpretations that the Empordà artist made of his readings of Dalí's work. Sigmund Freud—and practice, applying it as a revealing liquid of images that can be represented plastically through multiple images, anamorphisms, relational mirages, irrational and heterogeneous symbolic images, pseudohallucinations, childhood memories, atavisms, obsessive ideas, etc., and recreating a polyphonic method capable of critically relating any visual or sensitive experience. With his method, Dalí makes paranoid delirium a whole mode of expression of an art that introduces us to the concrete irrationality that inhabits every creative process, constructing not only his works, but also his own character. as an artist.
In Dalí, the relationship between his work and his personal history becomes evident. Much of the most significant biographical facts for the artist are implicitly or explicitly present in the content of his work and are the explanation of his complex and contradictory personality.
In 1910, at the age of 6, he was enrolled by his father in the Hispano-French school of the Immaculate Conception of Figueres, where he learned French, his future language of culture.
Dalí's first contact with Impressionism occurred in 1916, when he spent some time on the outskirts of Figueres, specifically at the Molí de la Torre estate, property of the Pichot family (intellectuals and artists), where he was the collection of the painter Ramón Pichot.
In 1919 he participated for the first time in a group exhibition in the halls of the Societat de Concerts, and with a group of friends from the institute founded the magazine Studium, in which he published his first writings. A year later he moved to Madrid to study at the School of Fine Arts.
In 1922 he won his first prize at the Concurs-exposició d'obres d'art originals d'students, held at the Galeries Dalmau (Barcelona). This same year he attended the School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving in Madrid (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando), and lived in the Student Residence, where he became friends with prominent personalities such as Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, Pedro Garfias , Eugenio Montes, or Pepín Bello.
However, a year later he was expelled from the Academy for his rebellious and revolutionary character, accused of leading a protest. It would be in 1927 when his surrealist period began, after having traveled to the Netherlands and France, meeting Flemish painters and Picasso. In Paris itself, in 1929, through Joan Miró, he came into contact with a group of surrealists headed...
Category
1970s Surrealist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Paper, Aquatint
Don Quijote : Lady Dulcinea - Original etching, Handsigned (Field #80-1B)
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI (1904-1989)
Don Quijote : Lady Dulcinea, 1980
Original etching with aquatint
Hansigned in pencil
Numbered / 125
On Arches vellum 76 x 56.5 cm (c. 30 x 22 in)
Authentic...
Category
1970s Surrealist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Cuban signed limited edition original art print etching, aquatint, sugarlift 130
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
'Homenaje a Dominguin II', 2006
etching, aquatint, sugarlift on paper
21.3 x 27.4 in. (54 x 69.5 cm.)
Edition of 20
Unframed
ID: VAL-130
Hand-signed b...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Paper, Aquatint
Flower
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Flower. Original color aquatint and etching, 1976. Edition of A.P. (artist’s proof) signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper.
Kyu-Baik Hwang is contemporary painter and printm...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Pablo Ruiz Picasso Spanish signed limited edition original art print etching
Located in Miami, FL
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
'Viejo payaso con una persona encantadora', 1968
aquatint, sugarlift on paper
12.9 x 10 in. (32.7 x 25.2 cm.)
Edition of 50
Unframed
ID: PIC2001-004
Hand-signed by author
It is documented in the catalog raisonné Picasso Suite 347...
Category
1960s Cubist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Paper
'Brooklyn Bridge' — 1920s view of an iconic New York City landmark
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Luigi Kasimir, 'Brooklyn Bridge', color etching with aquatint, 1927, edition 100. Signed in pencil.
A superb impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, cream wove paper; with margins...
Category
1920s American Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Francisco De Goya Caprichos Nadie se conoce 1st edition original art print
Located in Miami, FL
Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828)
'Nadie se conoce (Caprichos. Estampa 06)', ca.1797-1799
etching, aquatint, dry point on laid paper
12.5 x 8.7 in. (31.5 x 22 cm.)
1st Edition
Iro...
Category
1790s Romantic Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Laid Paper, Aquatint
The Idol - Etching by Massimo Campigli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The idol is a print realized by Massimo Campigli in the 1970/1971s.
Etching on paper.
This artwork it is part of a series of works created in the last period of the artist and pri...
Category
1970s Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
"Fire Ecology", Still Life, Depictions of Nature, Hourglass Motif, Etching Print
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Fire Ecology" is an original print by Samantha Mendoza and is made from copper etching with aquatint. This piece measures 27" x 21"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Spanish 1986 signed limited edition original art print etching 15x11 in.
Located in Miami, FL
Antonio Lorenzo Carrión (Spain, 1922)
Piloto de Pruebas I, 1986
Etching and aquatint on paper
Image size: 7.08 x 4.92 in (18 x 12.5 cm.)
Sheet ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Pablo Ruiz Picasso Spanish 1968 signed limited edition original art print n7
Located in Miami, FL
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
'Visitante con nariz borbónica en casa de la Celestina', 1968
aquatint, sugarlift on oiled plate, dry point on paper
9.7 x 12.9 in. (24.6 x 32.6 cm.)
Edition of 50
Conservation: The paper and the beards have been recently restored
Unframed
ID: PIC2001-007
Hand-signed by author
The work is documented in the catalog raisonné Picasso Suite 347...
Category
1960s Cubist Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Drypoint, Etching
Glacier Divide, by Stephen McMillan
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist.
Image size: 4 x 16 inches
Glacier Divide from Humphreys Basin, John Muir Wilderness, California. Scene of sunlight on snow-capped mountain...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Cuban signed limited edition original art print etching, aquatint, sugarlift 129
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
'Homenaje a Dominguin I', 2005
etching, aquatint, sugarlift on paper
21.3 x 27.4 in. (54 x 69.5 cm.)
Edition of 20
Unframed
ID: VAL-129
Hand-signed by...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Paper, Aquatint
DRIOTE LIBEREES
Located in Wilton, CT
Roberto Antonio (Echaurren) Matta (1911 - 2002) "Driote Liberees" Etching & Aquatint on Japon Nacré Paper. Signed in pencil and numbered 73/100. Published and printed by Georges Visa...
Category
1970s Abstract Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Two Women - Etching by Massimo Campigli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The two women is an print realized by Massimo Campigli in the 1970/1971s.
Beautiful etching and drypoint on paper.
This artwork it is part of a series of works created in the last ...
Category
1970s Modern Aquatint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
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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