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Medium: Etching
The Old Horse - Etching by Giovanni Fattori - 1900-1908 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20.2 x 15.3 cm.
The Old Horse is a superb original etching (on copper matrix) on paper, signed on plate by the Italian Macchiaioli master...
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$3,518 Sale Price
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Dancers - Original Etching and Drypoint by Robert Naly - Mid 20th Century
By Robert Naly
Located in Roma, IT
Dancers is an Original Etching and Drypoint realized by Robert Naly (1900-1984)
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Edition of 3/25.
Hand-signed and numbered on the lower margin.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
Methuselah - Etchings by Brian Eno, 2023, Etching on Somerset Velvet 400gsm
By Brian Eno
Located in Zug, CH
Brian Eno
Methuselah Etchings
2023
Etching on Somerset Velvet 400gsm, with deckled edges
65.5 × 65.5 cm
(25.8 × 25.8 in)
Signed and numbered
Edition of 25
In excellent conditions
P...
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2010s Abstract Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$3,127 Sale Price
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original etching
By John Sloan
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Executed by John Sloan to illustrate the Somerset Maugham classic "Of Human Bondage" and published in 1938 in a limited edition of 1500 by the Yale Universi...
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1930s Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Porta Pia Viminalis - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Porta Pia Viminalis is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good conditions except for consumed margins...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Le Taureau Blanc IV, Surrealist Etching by Lucien Coutaud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lucien Coutaud, French (1904 - 1977) - Le Taureau Blanc IV, Year: 1957, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 7.75 x 5 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Description: From the col...
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1950s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
'Chicago Harbor' — Urban Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Chicago Harbor', etching, edition 100, c. 1927. Signed and numbered '87/100' in pencil. Annotated '580 Chicago Harbor', in another hand, in the bottom left margin. A f...
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1920s American Realist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Le Chats Des Chartreux - Etching by Louis-Simon Lempereur - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Chats Des Chartreux is an etching realized by Louis-Simon Lempereur in 1771.
It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet ...
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1770s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
William Hogarth's "Analysis of Beauty": A Set of Two Framed 18th C. Engravings
Located in Alamo, CA
The two plates in this set were created utilizing both engraving and etching techniques by William Hogarth in 1753, originally as illustrations of his book on aesthetics, entitled "Analysis of Beauty". Due to their popularity, these plates were later published separately. The publication line in the lower right reads: "Designed, Engraved, and Publish'd by Wm. Hogarth, March 5th 1753, according to Act of Parliament." Hogarth's original copper plates were refurbished where needed by James Heath and engravings were republished in London in 1822 by Braddock, Cradock & Joy. This was the last time Hogarth's copper plates were used for printing. Most were melted during World War I for the construction of bombs.
These large folio sized "Analysis of Beauty" engravings are presented in antiqued gold-colored frames with double mats; the outer silk mats are light brown-colored and the inner mats are dark brown. Each frame measures 27.38" x 31.25" x 1.13". There is one tiny spot in the right margin of plate 1 and another in the lower margin; the latter could be from the printing process. The prints are otherwise in excellent condition.
The "Analysis of Beauty" series is in the collection of many major museums, including: The British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Tate Museum, The Chicago Art Institute and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
The first engraving (Plate 1) depicts a courtyard of statues which is filled with some of the most famous works of classical sculpture. The most important sculptures are surrounded by less impressive works. The Medicean Venus (#13) is in the center with a statue of Julius Caesar (#19) to the right, elevated on a pulley with a short, overdressed Brutus stands over the falling Caesar. The Apollo Belvedere (#12) is next. A judge stands to the right with his foot on a cherub (#16). Another crying cherub holds a gallows and wipes his tears with the judge's robe.
A sphinx (#21) and the drunken Silenus (#107) are below the Venus. Michaelangelo's torso (#54) and a statue of Antonius (#6) are seen in the foreground. The Farnese Hercules (#3) and a bust of another Hercules (#4) under two statuettes of Isis are also included in the scene.
The key to these objects is included in the form of a serpentine line winding around a cone (#26), Hogarth's "Line of Beauty". For Hogarth the winding line is an essential element of beauty in art. Hogarth's theory of beauty is communicated in this plate.
Plate 2 is thought to represent the Wanstead Assembly, with the Earl of Tynley and his household. It is an adaptation of a scene in the Happy Marriage series, which complements Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
OPHELIA (the artist's mistress / second wife) - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
This elegant etching titled the gilded youth is of the second wife of the artist ...
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1940s American Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Narrow Street in Rouen (Petite Rue Nationale, a Rouen)
Located in New York, NY
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Narrow Street in Rouen (Petite Rue Nationale, a Rouen), etching, drypoint, maniere grise, aquatint, 1896, signed in pencil lower right, numbered (No 6) ...
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1890s Impressionist Etching Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Owl On Branch Print Edition 92/120
By Kaiko Moti
Located in Houston, TX
Aquatint print of an owl perched on a branch with bright yellow eyes. The work is signed by the artist. It is framed in a wooden frame with a burlap matte.
Artist Biography: Kaiko M...
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1970s Naturalistic Etching Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Light Blue Composition, Surrealist Aquatint by André Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Light Blue Composition, Medium: Aquatint (unsigned), Image Size: 13 x 10 inches, Size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.94 cm), Description: From the co...
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1950s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Landscape - Etching by Étienne Fessard - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Étienne Fessard is a Etching print realized by Étienne Fessard in 1771.
Good conditions.
The artwork id depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
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1770s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Portrait of Albert Schweitzer.
Located in Storrs, CT
Portrait of Albert Schweitzer. Etching. 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 (sheet 16 1/4 x 14). Illustrated: Beall, American Prints in the Library of Congress, page 205....
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1950s American Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
$750 Sale Price
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Double Level I
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Richard Serra
Double Level I, 2009
Etching
67 1/2 x 65 inches (171.5 x 165.1 cm)
Edition of 12/22
Signed
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Early 2000s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
"Faubourg Montmartre" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...
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1930s Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
NIGHT GLOW
Located in Portland, ME
Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974). NIGHT GLOW. Etching and aquatint in colors, 1971. Edition of 65. Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 17/65 in pencil. Published and printed by 2RC Edizi...
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1970s Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
Situation #3, Abstract Minimalist Etching by Shlomo Cassos
Located in Long Island City, NY
Situation #3
Shlomo Cassos, Moroccan (1936)
Date: circa 1980
Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 63/95
Image Size: 26 x 19 inches
Size: 30 ...
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1980s Minimalist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
To Calais – after an illustration by Captain Frederick Marryat
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Thomas McLean, 1835.
Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper. 6 1/4 x 8 3/8 inches (157 x 210 mm), full margins. Initialed in the plate by Cruikshank, a...
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Early 19th Century English School Etching Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Etching, Watercolor
Suite de Vases - Original Etching By Jacques François Saly - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Suite de Vases is an original artwork realized by the French artist Jacques François Saly (1717-1776)
Etching print. drawing on the back, 1750 c. Passepartout cm 21x22,5
Good cond...
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Mid-18th Century Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Promenade dans la Neige - Etching by J. Tissot - 1880
By James Tissot
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful print on verge crème, 2° state on 3, with letters printed in red. Stamp “Lugt 1545”.
Little crack and fold on lower left margin of the sheet.
Some small traces of oxidati...
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1880s Post-Impressionist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
Blue Rose - Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Blue Rose is an original contemporary artwork realized by Giacomo Porzano in 1970s.
Colored etching.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Numbered on the lower left.
Edition 25/50
G...
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1970s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
$433 Sale Price
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Joan Miró -- Untitled from Tracé sur l'Eau
By Joan Miró
Located in BRUCE, ACT
JOAN MIRO
untitled from Tracé sur l'Eau, 1963
This one signed etching and aquatint in colors
Edition 88 of 100 lower left
Hand signed lower right
Image size 21 x 58 cm
Frame size ...
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1960s Etching Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Stoops in Snow
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
Stoops in Snow. 1930. Drypoint and sandpaper ground. McCarron catalog 89.state ii. 9 x 14 7/8 (sheet 13 1/4 x 18 7/16 ). Edition 115 recorded impressio...
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1930s American Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$35,000 Sale Price
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Le Taureau Blanc V, Surrealist Etching by Lucien Coutaud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lucien Coutaud, French (1904 - 1977) - Le Taureau Blanc V, Year: 1957, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 7.75 x 5 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Description: From the coll...
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1950s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
62: At Spithead
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Francis Bacon (1909–1992) - Color etching and aquatint on Guarro laid paper
Located in Varese, IT
Color etching and aquatint on Guarro laid paper, edited in 1981.
Limited edition, numbered as: 24/99
Signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner.
Very good conditions.
Plate si...
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1980s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Etching
Yearnings. Figurative etching, Monochromatic, Minimalistic, Polish art
By Leszek Rózga
Located in Warsaw, PL
20th century figurative etching print by Polish artist Leszek Rozga. This piece is signed by the artist.
LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015)
He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska pri...
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2010s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Etching
(Circle of) Francisco Goya "Un mendiant" etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This work was printed in 1901 and published by the Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne as an undiscovered Goya etching, but it is now understood to have been e...
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Early 1900s Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Portrait of a Man after Raphael - Etching by Nicholas Dupuis - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait After Raphael is an etching realized by N. Dupuis Junior in 1755.
Good conditions.
Signed in plate.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
The etching was re...
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1750s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
$342 Sale Price
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Hand Signed in Pencil Etching Cafe de Paris Visage de Maisons Maurice Vlaminck
Located in Surfside, FL
Maurice Vlaminck
Le Cafe de Paris, Pl. X, from Visage des Maisons, c. 1927 (Walterskirchen 132)
Etching on Van Gelder laid paper, signed in pencil, trial proof with the blindstamp o...
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1920s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Portrait d'Olga Picasso (Bloch 37; Baer 57)
Located in New York, NY
Drypoint etching, 1919-1920 on laid paper, printed later, 1961
#3 From the edition of 50
Signature Stamp Picasso, lower right and numbered, lower left
plate: 6 by 3 7/8 in (151 by...
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1920s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
3 Pink Figures, Surrealist Aquatint by André Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - 3 Pink Figures, Medium: Aquatint, numbered in pencil, Edition: 1/3, Image Size: 8.25 x 6.5 inches, Size: 9.5 x 7.75 in. (24.13 x 19.69 cm), De...
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1950s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Late Night (Where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope)
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Late Night", Frederick Mershimer created a winter scene where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope. This image, the seventh in t...
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1990s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint, Aquatint
Paul Cadmus Signed Original Etching, 1938 - “Two Boys on a Beach No. 1"
By Paul Cadmus
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Original Etching in excellent condition by New York artist Paul Cadmus (1904-1999).
Signed in pencil lower right. Created 1938.
Presents in a simple black frame, archivally matted. ...
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Mid-20th Century Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
La Descente de Croix Aux Flambeaux, Old Masters Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - La Descente de Croix Aux Flambeaux (B280), Year: 1878 (of original 1654), Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8.25 ...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Le Nu à la Jarretière, from The Hippies
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Salvador Dali
Le Nu à la Jarretière, from The Hippies
Etching with hand coloring on Japon
Signed in pencil and embossed signature to lower right
Edition V/C to lower left
Published ...
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1960s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
The Pink Tablecloth - Original etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri LE SIDANER (1862-1939)
The Pink Tablecloth, 1928
Original drypoint etching
Signed in the plate
On vellum, 28 x 20.5 cm
Very good condition, minor flaws at the edges of the page
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1920s Impressionist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
The Passengers - Original Etching by A. M. de Ghuy - 1775
Located in Roma, IT
The Passenger is an original artwork realized by Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy in 1775.
Original etching on paper. Titled on the lower margin at the center. The artwork is glued on ca...
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1770s Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
17th century etching animal print sketch ram sheep black and white signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Rams Looking Down & To Their Left" is an original etching by Karel DuJardin. DuJardin completed many delicate etchings of rams.
3 3/4" x 7 3/4" art
16 3/8" x 19 1/2" frame
Du Jardin was a master of various genres of painting, including refined and tranquil Italianising landscapes, monumental historical paintings and superb portraits of the aristocracy.
Unlike the majority of his contemporaries, Karel du Jardin (b. Amsterdam 1626, d. Venice 1678) was a talented painter in not one, but many different genres. He is especially famous for his small-scale landscapes, such as the charming Italian landscape with a woman milking a goa" (1652) from the Rijksmuseum's collection. Du Jardin depicted both sun-filled Italianate scenes and Dutch farmyards with pigs and sheep. He also painted a range of elegant portraits of aristocrats and merchants. His self-portrait (1662) on copper is one of the most fascinating 17th-century portraits of a Dutch artist. Du Jardin's spectacular large-scale historical pieces, represented is the show by the impressive Conversion of Saint Pau" (1662) from the collection of the National Gallery of London, are among his most remarkable achievements; he often chose themes that were only rarely depicted by other Dutch painters of the period.
During his own lifetime Du Jardin was praised by poets and writers, particularly for his attention to detail and elegant painting technique. As Cornelis de Bie, the artist’s biographer, wrote in 1661: "the surety of the brush at his finger and such sharpe clarity […] that the eye thereon doth linger." Du Jardin's valuable paintings were mainly purchased by rich individuals with an eye for elegance, but were also commissioned by prominent institutions such as the Amsterdam 'Spinhuis' (a women's prison), for whom he painted a vast group portrait of the prison-governors.
Karel du Jardin was an artist who liked to travel. He lived for a time in Lyon and in Paris, and sailed with Joan Reynst, Heer van Drakestein, by ship via England, Portugal and Spain to Tangier and Algiers, where they met Michiel de Ruyter...
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17th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Piramide - Porta S.Paolo - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Piramide - Porta S.Paolo is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good conditions.
Giuseppe Vasi (Corl...
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18th Century Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Dark Landscape (abstract expressionist)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Gabor Peterdi (1915-2001). Dark Landscape, 1958. Etching, engraving and aquatint with five stenciled colors. Image measures 20 x 24 inches. Signed, date...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Etching Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
$350 Sale Price
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Piazza della Minerva - Rome - Etching by Giuseppe Malandrino - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Piazza della Minerva - Rome is an artwork realized in the 1970s by Giuseppe Malandrino .
Original B.W. etching print.
Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right cor...
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1970s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Concetto Spaziale A
Located in New York, NY
Etching and aquatint with embossing and punched holes on Fabriani paper. Signed, numbered (96/210) and dated in pencil lower right corner. Published by International Graphic Arts S...
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1960s Abstract Etching Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Color
Playing Cards (Ace of Hearts)
Located in Vancouver, CA
Donald Sultan Playing Card Prints - Artist Proofs (APs)
We are excited to offer a rare collection of Artist Proof (AP) prints from Donald Sultan's acclaimed playing card series. Lim...
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1990s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil, Aquatint
La Colegiata Toro (Romanesque Santa Maria la Mayor/Zamora province Spain)
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Taylor Arms created this superb architectural image of La Colegiata in 1935 in an edition of 153. It is #12 in his Spanish Churches series and is referenced as Fletcher #284.
One of the most characteristic examples of transitional Romanesque architecture in Spain, the church of Santa María la Mayor is inspired by the Cathedral of Zamora, in turn inspired by the Old Cathedral of Salamanca. The tower-dome is usually listed as one of the four most typical in León together with those in the cathedrals of Salamanca, Plasencia and Zamora.
The church was begun around 1170, and was finished in the mid-13th century. Two different directors of the work have been identified, according to the different types of stone used (limestone in the old sections, sandstone in the most recent ones), and by the barrel vaults...
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1930s American Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Little Girl With Flat Cap
Located in Middletown, NY
Color mezzotint on fibrous, buff wove paper, 19 x19 inches (482 x 484 mm), full margins. Titled in pencil, lower left, and with the artist's stamp in black ink in the lower right mar...
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Early 20th Century Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
Salvador Dali - Venus in Furs - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : Field 68-6 (p. 40-41).
Salvador Dal...
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1960s Surrealist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Le Cheval de Briques, Modern Etching by Lucien Coutaud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lucien Coutaud, French (1904 - 1977) - Le Cheval de Briques, Medium: Etching on BFK Rives, signed and dedicated in pencil, Image Size: 5.5 x 8.75 inches, Size: 9.75 x 13 in. (24.77...
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1950s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$960 Sale Price
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Jules Pascin (French, 1885-1930) "Two Women Reclining" Original Etching C.1920
By Jules Pascin
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jules Pascin (French, 1885-1930) "Two Women Reclining" Original Etching C.1920
Plate dimensions 9" wide x 12" high
Frame dimensions 19.5" wide x 26.5" high
Plate signed
The etchi...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
A jackdaw. Figurative etching, Monochromatic, Animal, Bird, Polish artist
By Leszek Rózga
Located in Warsaw, PL
20th century figurative etching print by Polish artist Leszek Rozga. This piece is signed by the artist. Iscription on the piece could be translated into '[This is a] jackdaw' writt...
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2010s Contemporary Etching Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Etching
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...
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20th Century Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Untitled by Bruce Nauman abstract black and white drypoint etching 70s
By Bruce Nauman
Located in New York, NY
A moody, evocative black and white abstract etching by pioneer Bruce Nauman.
Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media inc...
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1970s Abstract Etching Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Sam Gilliam, Buoy Landscape IV Mixed media signed/n Abstract Expressionist print
By Sam Gilliam
Located in New York, NY
Sam Gilliam
Buoy Landscape IV, 1982
Color relief print, etching, screenprint, drypoint, aquatint and roulette all from deeply etched copper plates, on handmade wove paper
31 1/2 × 24 inches
Hand signed and numbered 3/25 in graphite pencil
Hand-signed by artist, Signed by artist, numbered, and dated in pencil and blind-stamped by printer-publisher on lower right, titled in pencil on lower left, recto
Unframed with elegant deckled edges
Rare vintage intaglio and relief, all from deeply etched copper plates. Other works from this series are in the permanent collections of major museums & institutions like the Smithsonian, so they are quite scarce on the open market.
Steven M. Andersen (Printer)
Philip Barber (Printer)
Hang Nguyen (Printer)
Stephanie Nowack (Printer)
Michael Reid (Printer)
Daniel Rounds (Printer)
Vermillion Editions Limited (Publisher)
Sam Gilliam Biography:
Sam Gilliam was one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting.
A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. Suspending stretcherless lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings of exhibition spaces, Gilliam transformed his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed. As an artist in the nation’s capital at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, this was not merely an aesthetic proposition; it was a way of defining art’s role in a society undergoing dramatic change. Gilliam pursued a pioneering course in which experimentation was the only constant. Inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, his lyrical abstractions took on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials.
In addition to a traveling retrospective organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 2005, Sam Gilliam was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1971); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1982); Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York (1993); J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (1996); Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2011); and Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2018), among many other institutions. A semi-permanent installation of Gilliam’s paintings opened at Dia:Beacon in August 2019. His work is included in over fifty public collections, including those of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sam Gilliam, Green April, 1969, acrylic on canvas, 98 x 271 x 3 7/8 inches (248.9 x 688.3 x 9.8 cm), Collection of Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, photography by Lee Thompson...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Etching Prints and Multiples
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Mixed Media, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Screen
L'Effet de la Jalousie, Heliogravure by Albrecht Dürer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Albrecht Durer, After by Amand Durand, German (1471 - 1528) - L'Effet de la Jalousie, Year: 1873, Medium: Heliogravure, Image Size: 12.5 x 8.5 inches, Size: 13.5 x 9 in. (34.29 x...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
18th C. Bartolozzi Portrait of Brooke Cobham from a 16th Century Holbein Drawing
By Hans Holbein
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century engraved portrait of Brooke Cobham, a nobleman in King Henry VIII's court, created by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728–1815), after a drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497- 1543) in the 16th century. Holbein was the official artist in the court of King Henry VIII. Bartolozzi used both etching and stipple engraving techniques to create the work which was then was printed in color on pink paper and hand finished with watercolor. It was published by John Chamberlaine in London in 1793 in "The Book of Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty".
Sir George Brooke, Baron Cobham (1497-1558) was a prominent member of King Henry VIII's royal court. He became a member of parliament in 1529 and served as a peer in the trial of Queen Anne Boleyn, which resulted in her beheading. He was rewarded for his political and military service to King Henry and Britain with land, castles and former monasteries and was made a Knight of the Garter, a prestigious membership limited to the king and a very limited number of prominent British subjects. As a member of the Privy Council following the death of young King Edward VI (Henry VIII's son), he fell out of favor when he signed a ruling disinheriting both of Henry VIII's daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, in favor of Lady Jane Grey...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Etching Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Etching
Fattipuff, from Imaginary Places II
By Frank Stella
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A print by Frank Stella. “Fattipuff, from Imaginary Places II” is a lithograph, screenprint, etching, aquatint, and relief print in a palette of bright colors by American painter and...
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1990s Abstract Etching Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Etching, Lithograph, Screen
Icart, Composition, Le Sopha (after)
By Louis Icart
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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...
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1930s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
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Prospetto della Piazza Riuarola e Fortezza in Perugia - Etching - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Prospetto della Piazza Riuarola e Fortezza in Perugia is an original drawing in etching technique on paper, realized by Giovanni Monotti and by engravers Carattoli and Frezzolini.
I...
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1930s Modern Etching Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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First invented in the 1500s, etching is a way of incising lines in a metal plate by first drawing on an acid-resistant coating, or ground, to reveal the metal beneath. The plate is then submerged in acid, which “bites” the lines into the metal plate. The ground is then removed and the plate inked for pressing. Etched lines tend to reveal the movement of the artist’s hand more than a technique like engraving, since the image is created on a softer ground.
“People often ask me what types of prints they should collect — etchings or woodcuts or linocuts or silkscreens or lithographs or whatever,” explains Ryan Cross, associate director of Boston’s Barbara Krakow Gallery. “But it’s really more how the artist used those processes and what he or she was trying to express through the medium.”
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