Etching Prints and Multiples

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: La Tauromachie Individuelle MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Pierre Argillet EDITION NUMBER: XXV/C MEASUREMENTS: 25.5" x 20" YEAR: ...

Artist: Barbara Kwasniewska, Polish (1931 - ) Title: Oiseau Moqueur Year: 1973 Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed and numbered in ink Edition: 75, EA Size: 34.5 in. x 29.5 in. (87.63 c...

Buhot, Felix. LE PETIT ENTERREMENT (The Small Funeral). B/G 154. Second state of two. Etching, roulette, aquatint and drypoint printed in blue on tan wove paper, 1880. 3 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 86 x 115 mm., (sheet 8 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches; 215 x 264 mm.). Signed with the red owl...

Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea) Color aquatint and etching, c. 1906 Signed in pencil in the image (see photo) Edition: c. 100 Reference: Merrill Chase, Volume 1, No. 85 Condition: F...

Figure and Creek Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Figure and Creek is a unique contemporary print by Graham Fransella. The warm orange...

EUGENE ABESHAUS Leningrad, Russia, (1939-2008) Hand-Colored, with watercolor painting, Etching hand signed in pencil in English and Hebrew Numbered 47/110 Framed 21.5 x 16. image 13.5 x 9 Eugene Abeshaus (also spelled Evgeny Abezgauz, Евгений Абезгауз in Russian; 1939–2008) was a Jewish artist who worked in Russia (then USSR) and Israel. Born in Leningrad to a typical intelligentsia family, Abeshaus was educated as an electrical engineer but soon abandoned this career and enrolled in the Mukhina School for Applied Art. By the time of his graduation from the famous “Mukha” (Fly in Russian), he had already developed a critical stance towards the official Soviet art dominated by the Communist ideology and began exhibiting at semi-underground exhibitions. This was culminated by his taking part in a famous 1975 exhibition at the Nevsky Palace of Culture. Abeshaus was fired from his job and censured by the official press – which however admitted his "artistic taste, a good sense of color and form". Soon afterwards, Abeshaus set up, together with several Jewish artists, the Alef Group and became its leader. The group’s first exhibition in November 1975 was held at Abeshauses’ small apartment. According to the Alef Manifesto written by Alek Rapoport, “We are trying to conquer the influence of small-town Jewish art and find sources for our work in deeper, wiser, and more spiritual European culture, and from it build a bridge to today and tomorrow". He was part of a generation of Russian, mostly Jewish artist's that included Oskar Rabin, Evgeny Rukhin...

Maria viene aiutata da un Angelo is an original Artwork realized by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice, 1727-1804) in 1753. Original Black and white etching and burin on paper. This is the 18th plate of a series of 24 engravings by Giandomenico Tiepolo for Carlo Filippo, Prince of Greinffenklau, in which the same theme, that of the Flight into Egypt, is represented in a new and original way for each sheet. The series entitled "Pictorial Ideas on the Flight into Egypt of Jesus, Mary and Joseph" and published in 1753 in Würzburg is considered the etching masterpiece of the old master Giandomenico Tiepolo. Dimensions: 185 x 240 mm. Wonderful etching in excellent impression, very fresh and bright, in a vibrant black ink. Very good conditions. Reference: D.V. no. 18; R. no. 84; Proutè no. 180, 1977. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice, 1727-1804). Tiepolo was an Italian painter and printmaker, mastering the art of etching. He is well known wolrdwide as he assited his father in Wurzburg (Germany), he made stairwell fresco in Vicenza (Italy) and at the Palace of Charles III in Madrid (Spain). La Via Crucis is among the earliest works engraved by Giandomenico Tiepolo, just about twenty years old, where he translates into etchings the namesake series of paintings realised for the oratory...

After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975) Surrealist engraving, etching after drawings from a 1942 notebook, engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris, Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4 Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company. Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life. Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington. Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work. Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton. He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940. After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...

Coloured etching and aquatint, edited in 1979. Limited edition of 130 copies , numbered as 92/130 in lower left corner.
 Hand-signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner. Paper...

Available individually ($2500), and also as a suite of five ($12,000). Born in Bronx, NY, Ida Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences (1949). She moved...

Artist: Priya Mookerjee, Indian Title: Composition Year: 1970 Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed in pencil Edition: AP Paper Size: 15 x 15.5 inches

Etching realized in 1771. It belongs to the first edition of the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". Good conditions with slight foxing.

hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969 limited edition of 145 copies water-colored , numbered in lower left corner ea ( artist proof ) signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner paper size: 38.5 x 28.5 cm framed size: 65 x 55 cm very good conditions Bibliography: Salvador Dalí Catalogue Raisoneé of etchings and mixed media prints Ref 369 pag 178 Fast and Tracked shipping with express currier DHL . We offer professional packaging and tracked shipping with DHL Express courier ( shipping time: 24 hours for European countries and 4 to 6 days for America and other non-eu countries...

Dine, Jim. THE NEW FRENCH TOOLS 5 - BOULEVARD VICTOR DOUBLE SKY. D;Oench and Feinberg 175. Etching and aquatint and electric tools on two plates, with hand ...

Artist: (after) George Morland (English, 1763-1804) Title: "A Rustic Family" Portfolio: Original Sketches from Nature by Various Masters *Signed by Morland in the plate (printed sign...

Salvador Dali - Original Handsigned Etching From La Quête du Graal Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Handsigned Edition: 38/100 From the rare additional suite of 100 aside from the edition of ...

An original hand signed and editioned etching by Leonor Fini from her "Parade des Chats " Cat Parade Series. This is an E.A or an edition of the artist. This piece comes in an ar...

A L'Ombre (In Shadow) Etching & drypoint, 1905 Signed with the red stamp of the publisher Pellet (see photo) Edition: 50 on velin paper, signed and numbered Publisher: Gustav Pellet, Paris (his red stamp lower right, recto; Lugt 1193) Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 5-7/8 x 8-5/8" (14.8 x 21.8 cm.) Sheet size: 11 5/8 x 17 1/8" Reference: IFF 119 Exteens 229 Arwas 256 v/V Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906. Life Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops. Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all." Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine. Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891. In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes). Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others. He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion. Books illustrated de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905. Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...

Mirror Graham Fransella Limited Edition 4 Panel Etching Etching on Paper Sheet Sizes: H 35.5cm x W 45cm x D 0.1cm Image Size: H 142cm x W 180cm x D 0.1cm Mirror is a limited editi...

Frank Benson created the etching "On the Kedgwick" in 1923, in an edition of 150. This impression is the second state of four. There are five known impressions of the second state. It is signed in pencil and inscribed "B-1" and "1 or 5" at the lower left paper edge (pencil). The image size 7 13/16 x 11 7/8" (19.9 x 30.2 cm) and sheet size 15 3/8 x 11 1/2" )29.3 x 39 cm). It is listed in the Frank W. Benson catalogue raisonne by Paff #222. 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...

Coriolis Effect is a limited edition etching by Sarah Duncan. Duncan is influenced by forms and light invisible to the naked eye, she seeks beauty in the realms of science, astronomy...

An enchanting Southern landscape by the mother of the Charleston Renaissance, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner(1883-1979) Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, 6 15/16 x 5 1/16 inches (175 x 128 mm), full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 72/100 in pencil, lower margin. Uniform age tone, minor surface soiling. A rich and inky impression of a magical southern landscape with figure tilling soil under Spanish moss covered oaks. A native of Charleston, South Carolina...

Etching , made in 1961 Very limited edition signature and numbering in pencil of the artist , example 11/20 paper size: 33 x 25 cm size with frame: 34,5 x 26,5 cm with frame accompan...

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Head of a Woman with Closed Eyes (Plate XXII) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper Year: 1949 Edition: 289 Frame Size: 22" x 19" Sheet...

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Engraving, aquatint and mixed intaglio Signed, dated and annotated "AP" References And Exhibitions: Tschacbasov was a Russian/Amiercan artist who was widely exhibited and collecte...

Waterloo Bridge Sunset. John Duffin Limited Edition Etching Printed on White 300g Somerset Paper Edition of 90 Signed – John Duffin Image Size: H 24cm ...

Add to cart Adored by collectors and art lovers around the globe, Alex Katz is renowned for his elegant and distinctive version of figuration, with printmaking serving as an essentia...

Lithograph from Carlos Schwabe’s series of hand-colored Symbolist fantasy illustrations for Catulle Mendès’ Hésperus, published in 1904 by Société de pr...

MARC CHAGALL ( 1887- 1985 ) “ Song of the Bow” 1958 from ‘The Bible’ Original Etching with hand-coloring in watercolor. Signed with initials and numbered ##/100 in pencil, published...

Artist: John Sell Cotman (English, 1782-1842) Title: "Entrance to the Castle at Tancarville" (Vol. 2, Plate 86) Portfolio: Architectural Antiquities of Normandy Year: 1822 Medium: Or...

Zorn, Anders. S. LOEB (SOLOMON LOEB). H&H76, Asplund 115, Delteil 113. Etching, 1897. Unsigned (signed in the plate). Apparently the 2d or 4th State of 4. All of the states are descr...

A superb impression of this color engraving, soft-ground etching, scorper and screenprint on Japan paper. Fifth state (of 5). Signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/50 in pencil, lower...

Drypoint etching with stencil on Rives paper, edited in 1971. Limited edition in 150 copies. Numbered as EA (épreuve d'artiste) (artist's proof) in lower left corner. Hand-signed in ...

Medium: original etching and aquatint. Printed in 1947 on Velin de Hollande paper and published in New York by the Quadrangle Press as the frontispiece of the deluxe edition of Rober...

To see our other Oxford and Cambridge pictures, including an extensive collection of works by Ackermann, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the view you want. D Havell (1785 - 1822) after William Westall (1781 - 1850) The Library of St John's College, Cambridge (1815) Hand-coloured aquatint 24 x 29.5 cm Published by Rudolph Ackermann...

Jorge Castillo - MARIENZA EN DOMINGO Date of creation: 1972 Medium: Etching on paper Edition: 150 + H.C. Size: 56 x 70 cm Condition: In perfect conditions and never framed Observatio...

Wassily Kandinsky - Horse Knight - Original Etching 32 x 24 cm 1966 From the art review XXe siècle, San Lazzaro Unsigned and unumbered as issued

Color etching with full margins. Signed by the artist and numbered 147/250 in pencil in lower right and left margins respectively. Printed and published by DeFrancony, Paris. Ca...

Richard Haas The Whitney (Marcel Breuer Building), 1979 Woodcut engraving Signed, titled, dated and numbered by the artist on the back. This is a rare Artist Proof 9/10, aside from ...

Richard Haas Downtown Los Angeles MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), 1991 Etching and aquatint on paper with printers blind stamp SIgned, dated '91 and numbered 14/35 in graphite pen...

Aquatint on BFK Rives paper, Edition of 25 Paper size: 56 x 38 cms (22 x 15 ins) Image size: 34.8 x 27.7 cms (13 3/4 x 10 7/8 ins)

Etching realized after Théodule Ribot in the early 19th Century. Not signed, in very good condition.

Artist: Roberto Matta Title: La Dulce Aqua Vita Medium: Carborundum etching on handmade paper Signed: Hand Signed Size: 41 x 48 Inches Framed: 51 x 58 Inches Edition: 23/125 Year: 20...

Artist: Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, Russian (1955 - ) Title: Tabula A from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990 Year: 1990 Medium: Etching on German Rag paper, signed and nu...

Etching realized by Pierre Guillaume Metzmacher in the mid-19th Century after Ingres. Not signed, as issued. Published by Marchant, édit. Alliance des Arts, 140, rue de Rivoli (Par...

Gorsline, Douglas (American, 1913-1985). THE NEW FUR. Etching, 1939. 5 x 3 1/16 inches (plate), 7 3/4 X 4 1/2 inches (sheet). Signed, titled and dated in penc...

Artist: Georges Rouault Title: Jean-Francois ne Chante Alleluia (Jean-Francois Never Sings Alleluia) no. 25 from the Miserere et Guerre series Year: 1923 (published 1948) Medium: Aqu...

Whistler, James A. M. NOCTURNE: PALACES. Glascow 200, Kennedy 202. Etching and drypoint with platetone, 1879-80. From the Second Venice Set. Signed on the tab with the butterfly in pencil. Printed in sepia on laid paper with no visible watermark. Trimmed just outside the platemark, leaving the tab. In excellent condition. As with all of the Whistler Nocturnes, each impressions of this print is different, dependng on how Whistler wiped and manipulated the platetone. 11 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches (plate and sheet, plus the tab). Framed to 20 x 16 inches. Provenance: Collection of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. with his collection stamp (Lugt 1429) verso; Kennedy Galleries, with its inventory number a65609 in pencil verso, and with another inscription, "FWCX" in pencil, verso. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, 1831-1920, was a great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson, a powerful Boston businessman, and an Ambassador to France. In 1875 he became the manager of the largest textile mill in America, the Amoskeag Mill in Manchester New Hampshire, and had major financial interests in the textile, banking, railroad, publishing and electrical industries. In 1880 he became the President of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. He was one of the founders of the United Fruit Company...

This work is hand signed in pencil by the artist "L. Fontana" in the lower right image. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 80, in the lower left image. It was pr...

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Robert Birmelin became a professor of fine arts at Queens College in New York, and is known for paintings that magnify through texture the realism of natu...

limited_edition etching and aquatint Edition number 28 Image size: H:21 cm x W:20 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:43 cm x W:37 cm x D:1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu i...

Erotic Scene is a fun and pleasant drypoint realized by the French painter, illustrator, and writer Amandine Doré around the mid-20th century. The state...

Pomerrigio (Afternoon) by Karen Keogh [2020] original Etching on Paper Image size: H:30 cm x W:40 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:58 cm x W:65 cm x D...

Artist: Enrico Baj, Italian (1924 - 2003) Title: Caius Julius Caesar Octivanius Augustus Year: 1972 Medium: Aquatint Etching with Collage, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 24/7...

Jean Cocteau - Portrait - Original Etching Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946 Edition of 340 Signed in the plate Unnumbered as issued

This artwork titled "Aggstein Castle on the Danube" 1915 is a color etching on wove paper by noted Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artis...

After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975) Surrealist engraving, etching after drawings from a 1942 notebook, engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris, Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4 Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company. Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life. Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington. Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work. Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton. He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940. After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...

Georg Baselitz (German, born 1938) Untitled (from Eine Woche), 1972 Medium: Etching on chine-collé, on wove paper Dimensions: 50 × 70 cm (19 7/10 × 27 3/5 in) Edition of 52: Hand-sig...

Carborundum etching on zinc printed on BFK Rives 250 gr/m2 paper - Unframed. Edition 1/7 Pierre Muckensturm added printmaking to his oeuvre in 2010. The engraving and printing pro...