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Medium: Drypoint
Notre-Dame Cathedral from the Seine
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper, 7 x 8 3/4 inches (177 x 223 mm); sheet 10 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches (267 x 300 mm), full margins. Signed V. E. Chapel and numbered 62/250 in penc...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Allée des Verges (Penis Alley)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Allée des Verges (Penis Alley)
Etching from 1969.
125/145 on Japan paper.
Dimensions of work: 38 x 28.5 cm.
Hand signed.
Publisher: Graphik Europa An...
Category
1970s Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Hélène of Septeuil (enfant au perroquet) (child with a parakeet).
By Mary Cassatt
Located in Storrs, CT
Hélène of Septeuil (enfant au perroquet) (child with a parakeet). c. 1889-1890. Drypoint. Breeskin, 134.v. 9 3/8 x 6 1/4 (sheet 15 3/4 x 9 7/8). A rich impression with burr and plate...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Drypoint
$12,000 Sale Price
52% Off
Tourelle, Rue de la Tixéranderie démolie en 1851
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on watermarked Hudelist laid paper, 9 5/8 x 5 inches (245 x 129mm) full margins. Second state (of five) after lettering. A superb condition with a pencil inscrip...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Téléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Téléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Cybernetic lobster phone, Imaginatio...
Category
1970s Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen
$22,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Christmas print with hand coloring in oil stick, Signed, Framed, hand colored
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine
The Christmas Print (Burg, 26), 2001
Drypoint, direct gravure, etching over offset lithograph with hand coloring by artist in oil stick, on T.H. Saunders paper, the full she...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Oil Crayon, Drypoint, Etching, Offset
Antiombrelle à atomiseurs de liquides (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Antiombrelle à atomiseurs de liquides (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Liquid atomizer anti-shade, ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen
'Riders at Sundown' — Mid-Century Southwest Regionalism
By Gene Kloss
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Riders at Sundown', aquatint and drypoint, edition 75, 1953, Kloss 451. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Artist's Proof' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmospheric impression, in ...
Category
1950s American Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
'Manhattan Old and New' — Vintage New York Cityscape
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Samuel Chamberlain, 'Manhattan Old and New', drypoint, 1929, edition 100, Chamberlain and Kingsland 81. Signed, titled, and numbered '81/100' in pencil. Titled and annotated '30.00' in pencil, in the artist's hand, bottom margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
A superb, finely-detailed impression, with selectively wiped plate tone, on heavy Rives cream wove paper; full margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/4 inches), in excellent condition.
The subject of the print is the lower Manhattan cityscape just before the Depression.
Image size 8 3/4 x 6 13/16 inches (222 x 173 mm); sheet size 12 3/4 x 10 inches (324 x 254 mm).
Impressions of this work are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Zimmerli Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
'There is something about the atmospheric vibrancy of an etching which imparts a peculiar and irresistible life to architectural drawing...A copper plate offers receptive ground to the meticulously detailed drawing which so often appeals to the architect'. —Samuel Chamberlain, from the Catalogue Raisonné of his prints.
Samuel V. Chamberlain (1896 - 1975), printmaker, photographer, author, and teacher, was born in Iowa. His family moved to Aberdeen, Washington in 1901, and in 1913, Chamberlain enrolled in the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied architecture under Carl Gould. By 1915, he was enrolled in the School of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. With the United States' involvement in the First World War, Chamberlain sailed to France, where he volunteered in the American Field Service. In 1918, he was transferred to the United States Army to complete his tour of duty. After the war, he returned to Boston and resumed his architectural studies, which he eventually discontinued, working for a few years as a commercial artist.
Chamberlain received the American Field Service Scholarship in 1923, which he used to travel to Spain, North Africa, and Italy. In 1924 he was living in Paris, where he studied lithography with Gaston Dorfinant and etching and drypoint with Edouard Léon, publishing his first etching the following year. In 1927, he studied drypoint with Malcolm Osborne...
Category
1920s American Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Madame Helleu Looking at Watteau drawings at the Louvre..
Located in Storrs, CT
Madame Helleu Looking at Watteau drawings at the Louvre. (En regardant les Watteau de Louvre). c. 1895. Drypoint printed in 2 colors - black and sepia. 11 3/4 x 15 7/8. Goncourt 3, d...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Color
$6,500 Sale Price
45% Off
Manhattan Mountains
Located in Storrs, CT
Manhattan Mountains. 1938. Etching and drypoint. 14 3/4 x 12 3/8 (sheet 17 1/4 x 14 3/4). Artist proof, previous to the edition of 40. An atmospheric impression printed on buff-colored laid paper. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Final state' and 'Jones Proof'in pencil. Housed in an archival sleeve.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson...
Category
20th Century American Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Newspapers on the Table - Still Life Etching on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Newspapers on the Table - Still Life Etching on Heavy Paper, #20/150
Black and white etching by Darien Payne (American, b. 1951). This piece is a meticulously detailed depiction of ...
Category
1990s Photorealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Thames Warehouses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER (American 1834–1903 London)
THAMES WAREHOUSES, 1859 (K 38 ii/ii; Glascow 46 iv/v; Mansfield 37)
Etching and drypoint on fine thin laid paper. Plate: 3 × 8 i...
Category
1850s Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Pierre Auguste Renoir, "Mère et Enfant , " rare drypoint
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Mère et Enfant, 1896
Drypoint in brown and green
From a very rare edition of 100 impressions on cream-toned Van Gelder laid paper
Reference: Delteil #10
Printed...
Category
Late 18th Century Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Baignoire à tornade liquide (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Baignoire à tornade liquide (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Liquid tornado bathtub, Imaginations a...
Category
1970s Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph, Drypoint, Screen
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Icart, Sans titre, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Southampton, NY
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
Category
1930s Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
$876 Sale Price
20% Off
The Plaza, Sunset Glow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'The Plaza, Sunset Glow', drypoint, c. 1920s, edition not stated. Signed in pencil and initialed in the plate, lower right. Titled 'The Plaza, Sunset' and annotated 'no. 165' in ink, in the bottom left sheet corner. A superb, luminous impression in dark brown ink, with selectively wiped plate tone; on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 2 1/4 inches). Pale tape stains on the top sheet edge, recto, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
A view across 'The Pond' in New York City's Central Park, toward Grand Army Plaza...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Faust (Walpurgis Night)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Faust (Walpurgis Night)
Portfolio of 11 drypoint etchings with roulette from 1969.
The edition 142/145.
Dimensions of work: 38 x 28 cm.
Hand signed.
...
Category
1970s Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Harry Wickey, Snug Harbor (Riverside Drive, NYC)
By Harry Wickey
Located in New York, NY
The sailors are still in uniform in this post-World War I print of young people meeting at a semi-secluded park setting, Snug Harbor, along Riverside Drive...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Chicago Skyline
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful turn-of-the-century lake view of Chicago by an American artist known for his Texas landscapes.
Etching with drypoint on watermarked Umbria laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (182 x 275 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/25 in pencil, lower margin. In good condition with adhesive residue at the sheet edges on the verso, does not show through to the recto. A lovely Lake Michigan landscape...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
L'atelier de Cannes (first state)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - L'atelier de Cannes (The Cannes Studio)
Lithograph from 1956.
The edition of 275.
Dated in the plate at the upper left: “7.4.56”.
Dimensions of work: ...
Category
20th Century Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Italian Boat at Sunrise
Located in Middletown, NY
A nostalgic image of a bucolic farmyard and thatched cottage, hearkening to a bygone era.
Etching with drypoint on laid watercolor paper, 9 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches, (251 x 229 mm), full...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Icart, Sans titre, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Southampton, NY
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
Category
1930s Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$876 Sale Price
20% Off
Icart, Sans titre, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Southampton, NY
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
Category
1930s Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$876 Sale Price
20% Off
French Landscape - Original Etching by E. Corneau - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
French Landscape is an original artwork realized by Eugène Corneau during the 1930s.
Etching and drypoint on paper.
Very good conditions except for some small folds on the left mar...
Category
1930s Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Icart, Sans titre, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Southampton, NY
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
Category
1930s Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
$876 Sale Price
20% Off
La Boullie (The Porridge), Old Masters Drypoint Etching by Jean Francois Millet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Etching printed in brownish black on light tan Chine collé, 1861. Image measures 6 x 5 inches, displayed in a 15.5 x 12.5 inch frame. Etched signature and date lower left. A very goo...
Category
1860s Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, 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 Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio, Drypoint, Aquatint
La Duchesse de Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt
Located in Storrs, CT
Paul César Helleu. La Duchesse de Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt. c. 1901. Drypoint. 21 1/2 x 13 3/4 (sheet 24 x 15). A rich impression printed o...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$16,000 Sale Price
36% Off
A Mirage
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
A Mirage. 1928. Etching. Hardie 238. 11 13/16 x 14 3/8 (sheet 12 3/16 x 18 3/4). Edition 76, #46. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1928 and 1938; Holmes, Etchings of Today. A ri...
Category
1920s Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,750 Sale Price
30% Off
Portrait de Marguerite (Portrait of Marguerite)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Portrait de Marguerite (Portrait of Marguerite)
Drypoint etching with roulette from 1969.
The edition 142/145.
Dimensions of work: 38 x 28 cm.
Hand si...
Category
1970s Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Composition - Original Etching and Drypoint - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original print in etching and drypoint on paper realized by an anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century.
In very good conditions.
The artwork created through conf...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$164 Sale Price
30% Off
The Way Home. A Winter Evening
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful, dark impression of a bucolic cow path.
Etching with drypoint on heavy cream wove paper, 6 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches (174 x 248 mm), full margins. Uniform light brown discolorat...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Handmade Paper, Etching
Billingsgate
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching printed in dark brownish black ink on cream laid paper, 6 x 8 7/8 inches (152 x 226 mm); full margins. Extremely minor and unobtrusive band of toning along the top sheet edg...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Feuille d'etudes Techniques: Neuf Tetes
Located in New York, NY
Etching and drypoint on laid paper, 1934. With Picasso's ink stamped signature lower right, and numbered 29/50 in pencil lower left.
Image 12.25 x 8.75 inches, full sheet 19.5 x 13...
Category
1930s Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Portrait of James McBey.
Located in Storrs, CT
James McBey. 1931. Drypoint. 8 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 9 ). An extremely rich impression with drypoint burr, printed by the artist on cream wove paper. Signed in the plate lower ...
Category
1930s American Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'The Furnace' — American Expressionism
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'The Furnace', drypoint, edition 26, 1924, Kennedy 5. Signed and annotated 'Drypoint. Ltd Ed. Del. et imp.' in pencil. Titled in pencil, in the bottom center sheet edge....
Category
1920s American Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Jardin biologique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Jardin biologique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Organic garden, Imaginations and Objects of the ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen
$14,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Here They Come !
Located in New York, NY
This impression of "Here They Come !" is from the fourth state of eight. There are six known impressions of the fourth state. Edition 150 (final state). It is signed in pencil in the lower left and inscribed "D-1". The image size 13 7/8 x 11 3/4" (34.6 x 28.8 cm) and sheet size 16 3/4 x 14 5/8" (42.8 x 37.1 cm).
FRANK W. BENSON (1862-1951)
Frank Weston Benson, well known for his American impressionist paintings, also produced an incredible body of prints - etchings, drypoints, and a few lithographs. Born and raised on the North Shore of Massachusetts, Benson, a natural outdoorsman, grew up sailing, fishing, and hunting. From a young age, he was fascinated with drawing and birding – this keen interest continued throughout his life.
His first art instruction was with Otto Grundman at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and then in 1883 in Paris at the Academie Julian where he studied the rigorous ‘ecole des beaux arts’ approach to drawing and painting for two years.
During the early 1880’s Seymour Haden visited Boston giving a series of lectures on etching. This introduction to the European etching...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
17th century etching Rembrandt biblical scene crucifixion figures
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Rembrandt's print 'Christ Crucified Between Two Thieves: an oval plate' is one of the most captivating of the artist's oeuvre. Etched to an oval rather than a rectangular plate and t...
Category
1640s Dutch School Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching, Printer's Ink, Drypoint
La Seine à Courbevoie
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on heavy cream wove paper, 11 5/8 x 18 1/4 inches (295 x 460mm); sheet 16 3/4 x 22 1/2 inches (425 x 570 mm), full margins. A superb proof printed in bistre brow...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Barcarolle.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Barcarolle. 1926. Etching. Carter 233. 14 7/8 x 8 3/8 (sheet 17 1/4 x 10 1/4). Edition 80, #xxv. Print Collector's Quarterly 24 (1938): 428; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth...
Category
1920s Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$9,000 Sale Price
33% Off
Salvador Dali "The Old Hippie"
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: The Old Hippie
Series: The Hippies
Date: 1969
Medium: drypoint with added color
Signature: Pencil signed
Edition: I...
Category
1960s Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
"A Mirage" signed etching / drypoint (trial proof)
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Catalogue reference: Seeber 194. This impression on japon paper is annotated "trial proof" and pencil-signed and titled in the margin, with Geo...
Category
1920s Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Becquet
Located in Storrs, CT
J. Becquet, Sculptor (The Fiddler). 1859. Drypoint. Kennedy 52 state iv; Glasgow 62. state i. 10 1/8 x 7 1/2 (sheet 15 5/16 x 9 3/4). Series: "Sixteen Etchings or Scenes on the Thame...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Icart, Sans titre, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Southampton, NY
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
Category
1930s Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$876 Sale Price
20% Off
'Blue Eyes' — Erotic Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hans Bellmer, 'Blue Eyes', engraving and drypoint, edition 99, 1971. Flahutez 89. Signed and numbered '74/99' in pencil. A fine impression, on Arches cream wove paper; the full sheet...
Category
1960s Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
Journal D'Un Graveur - Vol. 2 Plate 15 - Drypoint by Joan Mirò - 1975
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
This is an original drypoint realized by Joan Miró in 1975. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right and numbered on the lower left. Edition of 75 prints. It represents an abstract s...
Category
1970s Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
"Paysages" original drypoints
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. This pair of drypoints was printed in Paris in 1917 and published by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Plate sizes: 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches (89 x 58 mm) and...
Category
1910s Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Summer Maple
Located in New York, NY
A drypoint and aquatint by artist Sylvia Plimack Mangold.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
'European Landscape' —Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'European Landscape', drypoint, edition 50, 1942. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '7/50' in pencil. A superb, finely nuanced impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/4 inches); in excellent condition.
Image size 10 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
An impression of this work is included in the permanent collection of the Syracuse University Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
Category
1940s Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Poseidon, Surrealist Drypoint Etching by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Poseidon is one of 16 works in a suite by the artist called "The Mythology". The suite included works depicting other Greek/Roman gods such as Hypnos, Jupiter, and Athena, as well as lesser figures and concepts like the gorgon Medusa...
Category
1960s Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Sportsmen
Located in Storrs, CT
Sportsmen. 1908. Etching and drypoint. Exsteens 271.i/ii. 11 1/4 x 5 3/4 (sheet 17 3/8 x 12 1/4). Series: Les Bars. From the first state edition of 30 proofs with the remarque sketch...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$800 Sale Price
54% Off
Auction
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Kretzschmar (1889-1972), Auction, etching, drypoint, and burnished aquatint, 1921, signed and dated (’20) in pencil lower right [also initialed in the plate lower left] Refe...
Category
1920s Expressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Icart, Composition, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Southampton, NY
La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...
Category
1930s Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$876 Sale Price
20% Off
Make Fast, Plate 2.
Located in Storrs, CT
Make Fast, plate 2. 1929. Etching. Laver catalog number 146; Hurst catalog number 258. Plate: 14 3/8 x 9 13/16 (sheet 17 5/8 x 11 3/4). Trial proof 2, before the edition or 75. Ill...
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1920s Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
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The Unicorn Laser Disintegrates the Horns of Cosmic Rhinoceroses (The Conquest o
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Unicorn Laser Disintegrates the Horns of the Cosmic Rhinoceroses from the Conquest of Cosmos suite – 29.5 x 22" image size, signed ‘Dalí’ lower right and annotated lower left. Fr...
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20th Century Surrealist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Lithograph
Cherry Street
Located in Middletown, NY
A view of lower Manhattan's Cherry Street as it appeared at the turn of the 20th century. One of only 5 proof impressions.
New York: 1904.
Drypoint with aquatint on watermarked, cr...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Salvador Dalí -- Don Quichotte
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali
Don Quichotte, 1971
Color drypoint
Hand signed lower right
Numbered 16/100
Image size: 51 x 39 cm
Sheet size: 78.5 x 58.5 cm
Printed by Ateliers Rigal, Fontenay-aux-R...
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1970s Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
"Confidences" James Abbott McNeill Whistler Conversation with a Fellow Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
"Confidences" James Abbott McNeill Whistler Conversation with a Fellow Artist
"Confidences" James Abbott McNeill Whistler Conversation with a Fellow Artist
A Drypoint etching on Wove...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Drypoint Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Original Drypoint Art and Other Fine Art Prints
Original drypoint prints and other types of fine art prints can help enhance any room in your home while supporting your effort to tie an interior design together.
Similar to engraving, with drypoint, an artist incises a metal plate with a sharp tool. As the metal is carved, metal shavings, also called the burr, build up in the grooves. But unlike with engraving, the burr is not cleaned away with drypoint, resulting in very soft, velvety lines. Since the burr slowly wears away with each printing, fewer impressions can be made, and the first impression tends to be stronger than the last — a characteristic that sets the technique apart from many other printing methods.
Drypoint is a simple technique used to produce intaglio prints. Intaglio is a broad term for the variety of methods used to create images by incising a metal plate, either with a sharp instrument (engraving, drypoint and mezzotint) or with acid (etching, aquatint and photogravure).
“If you talk to great artists, they see printmaking as another part of their practice that often informs what they do,” says Sharon Coplan Hurowitz, a print specialist and art adviser who has worked on major print projects over the years with Johns and Ellsworth Kelly and authored the catalogue raisonné of John Baldessari’s prints.
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