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Medium: Woodcut
City Scene II — Mid-Century Modernism, Precisionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Brussel-Smith, 'City Scene II', wood engraving, 1949, artist's proof, edition 100. Signed, titled, and annotated 'A.P.' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on whit...
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1940s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
The Three Dancers - Woodcut by Raphaël Maurice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
The three dancers is a woodcut print realized by Raphaël Maurice (1884 - 1972) in 1920s
Hand-signed and numbered, edition of 160 prints.
Good conditions.
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1920s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Concert: the Conductor - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand SIMEON (1869-1931)
Concert: the Conductor, 1920
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of the edi...
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1920s Art Deco Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Roadside, Collonges-La Rouge
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Roadside, Collonges-La Rouge', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1980, edition 160 in 1983. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, l...
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1980s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
The lover's Interlacing - Original wooodcut, Handsigned and numbered / 105
Located in Paris, IDF
Robert BONFILS
The lover's interlacing, 1920
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /105
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of the editor 'Imagie...
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1920s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Fishing - Animal Print - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Black ink on buff Japanese rice paper. This image came from watching the sea birds on Kauai, Hawaii soaring along the bluffs on the north shore and diving for fish in the sea.
Fishi...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
The Minotaur - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Minotaur - The Divine Comedy is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Not signed, as issued.
...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Truck Traffic (Colorful Gridlock in Manhattan)
By David Kapp
Located in New Orleans, LA
A six block woodcut published in an edition of only 23. It is signed and archivaliity
David Kapp is best known for his paintings of the contemporary urban landscape. His paintings ...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
'Church with Star' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with Star (Kirche mit Stern)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W265. Annotated 'W 265' (Feininger catalogue number) and inventory no. '2808' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 inches; sheet size 10 1/16 x 7 1/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
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1930s Bauhaus Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Mythology : Harvest with Bacchus, Fauna and Nymph - Original woodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Honoré Broutelle
Mythology : Harvest with Bacchus, Fauna and Nymph, 1921
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm...
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1920s Art Deco Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
'La Pêche' (Fishing) — French Cubist Woodcut
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Raoul Dufy, 'La Pêche' (Fishing), woodcut, 1910, from the second edition of 220 printed in 1953. With the estate stamp 'ATELIER RAOUL DUFY' in the lower left margin. Numbered '106/220' in pencil, lower right. Titled in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (3 to 5 inches), slight toning at the sheet edges, well away from the image; otherwise in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 12 1/2 x 15 13/16 inches (318 x 402 mm); sheet size 19 9/16 x 25 3/4 inches (497 x 654 mm).
From the suite of four woodcuts entitled 'Les Plaisirs de la Paix' (The Pleasures of Peace), originally published by Éditions de La Sirène, Paris in 1926. The other three works in the series are 'La Danse' (The Dance), 'La Chase' (The Hunt), and 'L'amore' (Love). See our other listings for 'La Danse' and 'L'amore'.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Minneapolis Art...
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1910s Cubist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, 1940s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 IV. Annotated 'PW 290 state IV / IV 3669', in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. With the artist's typed address and date adjacent to the letterhead image: 'Falls Village, Connecticut September 26th, 1940'.
A fine impression, on buff, wove letterhead stock; several small losses, and tears, in the sheet edges (not affecting the image area); a crease in the bottom right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Very scarce.
Image size: 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 11 x 8 5/8 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Feininger moved from Germany to New York City in 1938 and began spending his summers in Falls Village in 1940.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Fujieda Station - Woodcut after Utagawa Hiroshige - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
Fujieda Station is a modern artwork realized after Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in the Late 19th Century.
Original Woodcut Print Oban Yoko...
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1880s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
"Aus dem Composanto" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. The inscription on the banner translates to "Come Sweet Death". Printed in Germany in 1922 for the rare Ganymed portfolio of "Das vierte Jahrbuch der Marees...
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1920s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Clinton Hill, Arroyo, 1962, woodcut, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor. Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, he joined the US Navy during World War II and beca...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Nihonbashi Bridge - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Yoshitora - 1875
Located in Roma, IT
Scene on the Nihonbashi Bridge is an artwork realized in 1875 by Utagawa Yoshitora.
Woodcut print triptych. Signed: Mosai ga. Publisher: Sawamuraya...
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1870s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
LOTUS FLOWER - ROEDING PARK - Provincetown Style
By Mary Travis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARY TRAVIS (Active 1935 - 40)
LOTUS FLOWER ROEDING PARK. c.1935-40
White line color woodcut. Signed and titled in pencil. Small edition. 10” x 8”. Full sheet. tears
in upper margin. Travis worked in Berkeley, California and was probably a follower of William S...
Category
1930s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
In the High Mountains -- Reduction Woodcut, Print, Art by Tom Hammick
By Tom Hammick
Located in London, GB
In the High Mountains, 2019
Tom Hammick
Reduction woodcut in colours, on Japanese paper
Signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'EV' (edition variable)
From the edition of 20
...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Aracne - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Aracne - "The Divine Comedy" - Song 12 - Purgatory is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not s...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
original woodcut
By Joan Miró
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original color woodcut. Reference: Dupin 1290. Published for the Jacques Dupin catalogue raisonne "Miro Graveur I" in 1984. Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (320 x 248 mm). ...
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1980s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Gauguin, The Long Night (Te Po), Gauguin (after)
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin Utopian paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Gauguin, A portfolio of 12 color woodblocks, Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903 from the collection of the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946. Rendered by Albert Carman (1899-1949); published the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston and The Studio Publications, Inc., New York and London; printed by Holme Press Inc., New York, in an edition of MMMD. Excerpted from the folio, Paul Gauguin and Emil Bernard at Pont-Aven, Brittany, in 1888, each made a bas-relief, wooden panel to decorate a piece of furniture for a friend. In order to keep a record of their designs, a few inked impressions were made on paper. The illustration at left is a reproduction of a print which is possibly one of the above mentioned. It is further possible that this experiment later gave Gauguin the idea of making woodcuts. Just as his work in painting expressed a revolt against the overemphasis on factual representation of the nineteenth century in favor of decorative pattern and color, so also his woodcuts leaned strongly to the same side of the balance. Ten of the cuts reproduced (all excepting Soyez Amoureuses and Changement de Residence), which constitute the whole of his best known series, were made at Pont-Aven beginning in the fall of 1894, after Gauguin's return from his first trip to Tahiti and after he broke his ankle. They were at first roughly cut with a common carpenter's gouge, and the flat surfaces sandpapered and engraved with a sharp in-strument, perhaps an engraver's burin. A few trial proofs were printed in black ink only. Then the hollows were deepened with a woodcutter's gouge and highlights were added. An edition of thirty to fifty impressions of each subject, with the addition of color blocks (one, two or three), was made by Louis Roy...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, Sans titre (J/Vollard 193; Monod 10485), Hélène chez Archimède (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin de Montval-Maillol paper. Paper Size: 17.3 x 12.6 inches; image size: 11.4 x 8.7 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné referenc...
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1950s Cubist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
$1,116 Sale Price
20% Off
Invaded Hypnosis
By Invader
Located in Bristol, GB
Woodcut on Fabriano Rosipina Avorio 285gsm paper
Edition 1 of 50
Signed, numbered and blindstamped by the publisher on the front
46 x 41.5 x 3.5 cm - Framed by Pauli
Excellent, incon...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Roman Church near Bordeaux - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Louis SOULAS (1905-1954)
Roman Church near Bordeaux, 1928
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of the e...
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1920s Art Deco Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Byzantine Court - Woodcut Print - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Byzantine Court is an artwork realized from 1856 to 1862 .
Black and white woodcut.
Published on the book "Usi e costumi di tutti i popoli dell'universo", Milano Borroni and Scotti...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
"Motif aus Improvisation 25: The Garden of Love" - Original woodcut
Located in Paris, IDF
Vassily KANDINSKY
Woodcut print
Second edition for 'XXe Siecle' the first edition was done in 1938
Printed signature (monogram) in the plate
On vellum 31 x 24 cm (c. 12.5 x 10 inc...
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1950s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Pinocchio by Jim Dine
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This is a silkscreen and woodcut print created in 2007. It is signed and numbered in graphite from the edition of 118 (plus 18 APs). This print comes directly from the publisher, Lin...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen, Woodcut
Weiblicher Kopf (Female Head) /// German Expressionism Rottluff Woodcut Modern
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976)
Title: "Weiblicher Kopf (Female Head)"
Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman)
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1918
Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany
Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany
Reference: Schapire No. 224, page 46; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118
Overall size with attached page: 8.5" x 10.63"
Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38"
Image size: 4.88" x 3.5"
Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). In very good condition
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. Presently attached to its accompanying page. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Biography:
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died...
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1910s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Shimada - Woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige - 1833
Located in Roma, IT
Asagiri is a woodcut print realized by Utagawa Hiroshige in 1832.
It is part of the suite "The Fifty-three Stations of Tokaido".
Very good condition.
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1830s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Bathing - Woodcut by Aristide Maillol - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bathing is a print realized by Aristide Maillol in the early 20th Century.
Woodcut on paper.
Good conditions.
Aristide Maillol, (born December 8, 1861, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France—die...
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
'Improvisation 7' second ed. woodcut from 'Klänge' by Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Improvisation 7' second ed. woodcut from 'Klänge' is a woodcut print created by Wassily Kandinsky. The present woodcut print comes from the second edition of 'Klänge (Sounds),' a book of original graphics and poetry by Wassily Kandinsky. The title of the album and of this print, 'Improvisation,' demonstrated Kandinsky's interest in music and how abstract musical forms could be translated into images on a two-dimensional surface. This particular composition is difficult to read, but through the abstraction, one can make out various figures and a landscape beyond. Originally carved and printed in 1911, this second edition print was done ca. 1938. It is a woodcut in black ink on woven paper. Signed with encircled 'K' in the block, lower right (from the book, signed in ink, ed. 117/300)
Image Size: 7 1/2" x 5 inches
Frame Size: 22 1/4" x 18 3/4"
Ref. Roethel 124
Artist Bio:
The Museum of Modern Art described 'Klänge (Sounds)' as follows:
Vasily Kandinsky's self-described "musical album," Klänge (Sounds), consists of thirty-eight prose-poems he wrote between 1909 and 1911 and fifty-six woodcuts he began in 1907. In the woodcuts Kandinsky veiled his subject matter, creating increasingly indecipherable images (though the horse and rider, his symbol for overcoming objective representation, runs through as a leitmotif). This process proved crucial for the development of abstraction in his art. Kandinsky said his choice of media sprang from an "inner necessity" for expression: the woodcuts were not merely illustrative, nor were the poems purely verbal descriptions. Kandinsky sought a synthesis of the arts, in which meaning was created through the interaction of, and space between, text and image, sound and meaning, mark and blank space. The experimental typography shows his interest in the physical aspects of the book.
Klänge is one of three major publications by Kandinsky that appeared shortly before World War I, alongside Über die Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art) and the Blaue Reiter almanac...
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1910s Blue Rider Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut, Laid Paper
Clare Leighton (1898-1989) - Mid 20th Century Wood Engraving, Strawberry Pickers
Located in Corsham, GB
An exquisite black & white wood engraving by the collectable English/American artist, Clare Leighton (1898-1989). Unsigned. Smartly mounted in a fine black frame. On paper.
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20th Century Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Charles William Taylor (1878-1960) - Framed Wood Engraving, Findon Sheep Fair
By Charles William Taylor
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming rural scene by the British artist Charles William Taylor. A sheepdog watches over the penned flock in the foreground, with the lively fair beyond. Inscribed with the artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Poltergeist - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print from the Series "Der vreeselijke avonturen vas Scholastica" (The Terrible Adventures of Scholastica).
Edition of 300, published by A. J. van Dishoeck.
Unsigned, ass i...
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1930s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Nude and Swan
Located in New York, NY
Woodcut on paper, 1921. Signed by the artist, numbered 13/24, dated, titled "Lead'r" and dedicated "To Rose - Nat - be careful" in pencil, lower margin.
The dedicatees named by E...
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1920s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Paris : Art Inspiration on the City - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Theo SCHMIED (1900-1985)
Paris : Art Inspiration on the City, 1928
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp...
Category
1920s Art Deco Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 V. Inscribed 'J. F. note paper', in pencil, in the artist’s hand; with the Feininger estate stamp and catalog no. 'W 859' in pencil. Annotated 'W.290 V state 3609' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 5/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; NY, NY.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public. Still, he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
All the things that I may have forgotten - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
This image has been printed in 3 differing colors. Yellow, orange and green. All the things I may have forgotten has nothing to do with the image. its just a random idea that came to...
Category
2010s Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled - O, Abstract Woodcut by Charlie Hewitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charlie Hewitt, American (1946 - )
Title: Untitled - O
Year: circa 1995
Medium: Woodblock, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: 100
Image Size: 16 x 20 inches
Size: 20 x 24...
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1990s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Harvest in the Fields : the Haystacks - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Paul BAUDIER (1881-1962)
Harvest in the Fields : the Haystacks, 1921
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /125
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind sta...
Category
1920s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Fish Market in Brittain - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
MORIN-JEAN (1877-1940)
Fish Market in Brittain, 1921
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /125
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of the editor...
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1920s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
North River Front (Hudson River)
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'North River Front', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1953, edition not stated. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Elderly Shepherd Leaning on a Staff (after Parmigianino)
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely chiaroscuro woodcut by Antonio Maria Zanetti the elder after a work by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola). Printed on cream laid paper, laid down to a cream lai...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Woodcut
EARLY MORNING (BROAD BROOK, CONN.)
By Asa Cheffetz
Located in Portland, ME
Cheffetz, Asa EARLY MORNING (BROAD BROOK, CONN.) Wood Engraving,1929. Springfield 15. Edition of 100, numbered 32/100, titled, signed, and inscribed "imp" all in pencil. 6 x 6 inches...
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1920s Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
ABS, Woodcut
Vanity : Death, my old Captain - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Maximilien VOX (1894-1974)
Vanity : Death, my old Captain , 1921
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /125
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp o...
Category
1920s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Poèmes, Planche II (trial proof)
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Poèmes, Planche II (trial proof)
Woodcut print from 1968.
Double-sided (front-verso) trial proof - unique work.
Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm
Dimen...
Category
1970s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Peasants in Front of a Castle - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Maurice BUSSET (1879-1936)
Peasants in Front of a Castle, 1928
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of ...
Category
1920s Art Deco Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
The Philosophers : Quiet Walk near the Sea- Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Baptiste VETTINER (1871-1935)
The Philosophers : Quiet Walk near the Sea, 1928
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bear...
Category
1920s Art Deco Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Mythology : The Hesperides Nymphs - Original Wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Raphaël DROUART
Mythology : The Hesperides Nymphs, 1921
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /125
On vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (c. 12,7 x 9,5 in)
Edited for the 'Imagier de la ...
Category
1920s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Persian Ballet - Original Woodcut Print by Arturo Martini - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Persian Ballet is a xylograph on ivory-colored, realized at the beginning of the XX century by the Italian artist Arturo Martini (Treviso, 1889 - Milan, 1947).
On the lower right ma...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
"Tending to a Perishing Bloom", Figurative, Dark Romanticism, Relief Print
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Tending to a Perishing Bloom" is an original print by Samantha Mendoza and is made by woodcut relief. This piece measures 38"h x 26...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Woodcut
original woodcut
By Hans Erni
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Executed by Hans Erni in 1970 for the "Dames des Décans" deluxe book portfolio. There were 324 copies of the book issued, but this impression was apart from...
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1970s Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Picasso, Composition (Horodisch C2), Calligrammes (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin de cuve à la forme des papeteries d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Calligrammes, poèmes de la paix et de l...
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1910s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
$1,996 Sale Price
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Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, Mangold developed a reductive vocabulary based on geometric forms, monochromatic color, and an emphasis on the flatness of t...
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1990s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Deutzia Flowers: The Wife of Kasamori - Original Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Deutzia Flowers: The Wife of Kasamori - Original Woodblock Print
Deutzia Flowers: The Wife of Kasamori, from the Series "Beauties of the Floating World Associated with Flowers" by S...
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1760s Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut, Ink, Rice Paper
Balance - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931.
On Hollande van Gelder paper.
Edition of 300.
Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....
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1930s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Nocturne
Located in Dallas, TX
David Everett was born in Beaumont, Texas, and received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from The University of Texas in Austin. Valley House began showing his multi-articulated, painted w...
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1990s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
wood engraving for Mille Nuits
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: wood engraving (after the watercolor). Printed in Paris in 1955 at the atelier Coulouma for "Mille nuits et une nuit" (1001 Nights) which was the last major portfolio by Kees...
Category
1950s Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
"Pictures Of Noh" - 1922 Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
"Pictures Of Noh" - 1922 Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Original Japanese woodblock print by Tsukioka Kogyo (Japanese, 1869-1927...
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1920s Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
$461 Sale Price
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The Football Player, Woodcut Print on Rice Paper by Leonard Baskin
Located in Long Island City, NY
This woodcut print was created by American artist Leonard Baskin. Baskin is well known for his somewhat grotesque, intricate, surreal drawings and natural subject matter. This print ...
Category
1950s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Find Original Woodcut Prints for Your Home
Original woodcut 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.
Woodcut is a type of relief print that is made by carving a block of wood with a knife or gouge. The surface is then inked with a roller and pressed onto paper. Unlike with intaglio techniques, the section of the surface that has not been incised is what appears in the print.
Woodcut printmaking is one of the oldest printing techniques, first used in 9th-century China, mastered by Albrecht Dürer during the Northern Renaissance and famously associated with the ukiyo-e artists of 17th- and 18th-century Japan. (For concision, power and delight, it’s hard to beat a Japanese woodblock print, the product of an artistic tradition that is aging very well indeed.)
Elsewhere, German Expressionists like Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner embraced the medium for its bold, graphic power in the 1920s, and artists continue to use it today.
OK, so what is the difference between a woodcut print and an intaglio print?
“[Intaglio] is the opposite of relief printing — woodcut, linoleum cut, letterpress, and rubber or metal stamping,” says Rhea Fontaine of Paulson Fontaine Press. “With relief printing, the raised areas of the printing surface are inked and printed, while the areas that have been cut away do not pick up the ink. Often these prints are made by hand.”
Find original woodcut prints by Katsushika Hokusai, Suzuki Harunobu, M.C. Escher, Mino Maccari and many other artists on 1stDibs.
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