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Medium: Woodcut
German Israeli Expressionist Woodcut Print Pencil Signed Jerusalem
By Jacob Pins
Located in Surfside, FL
Jacob Otto Pins (17 January 1917 – 4 December 2005) was a German-born Israeli woodcut artist and art collector, particularly of Japanese prints and paintings.
Jacob Pins was born in Höxter, Germany, the son of Dr Leo Pins, a veterinarian, and his wife Ida Lipper. He immigrated to Palestine in 1936 to study art. His father tried to discourage him from becoming an artist for financial reasons.
Pins' younger brother, Rudolph, (1920-2016) moved to the United States in 1934. His father was sent to Buchenwald. In July 1944, both parents died in the Riga ghetto.
Pins first lived on a kibbutz, which was disbanded in 1941. He moved to Jerusalem and studied woodcut and linocut under woodcut master and painter Jacob Steinhardt, also a German immigrant, at his small private school. He lived in poverty in a tiny room, subsisting on a meagre diet. He continued his studies at the new Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.
Pins was married to Elsa, the subject of a number of his prints. They had no children.
Pins bought his first Oriental print in 1945, and acquired a house on Ethiopia Street, opposite the Ethiopian church, where he lived for the rest of his life. He continued collecting until his death and was one of Israel's foremost art collectors. His book on Japanese Pillar Prints, Hashira-e is the definitive work on the subject.
Pins died in Jerusalem in December 2005.
Pins' artwork was heavily influenced by German expressionism and traditional Japanese wood block printing. From 1956 to 1977, he taught at Israel's leading art schools, most notably Bezalel, where he later became a professor. He was known as a demanding teacher, emphasizing strong technical skills and discipline.
In the 1950s, Pins helped to found the Jerusalem Artists' House, a centre for the city's artists to meet and exhibit.
Legacy
Pins' extensive collection of Japanese woodprints...
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20th Century Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Rockwell Kent, Four Bookplates (on one sheet)
Located in New York, NY
Proof sheet with four wood engraved book plates by Rockwell Kent. Possibly for a book on this subject published in 1937. There are pencil numbers under each image that probably indic...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Greek Architecture Blueprint of Ancient Amphitheatre Cyanotype Print, Watercolor
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Details:
+ Title: Ancient Roman Amphitheater
+ Year: 2022
+ Edition Size: 50
+ Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided
+ Measurements : 70x100 cm (28x 40 in.), a standard frame size
+ All cyanotype prints...
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2010s Academic Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, C Print, Lithograph, Monotype, ...
The Amazons and the Hydra (woodcut print, figurative, mythical, feminism)
By Susan Kiefer
Located in Kansas City, MO
Susan Kiefer
The Amazons and the Hydra
Woodcut and chine collé on paper
Year: 2018
Size: 22x27in
Edition: 8
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1662
Framed woodcut print. A fan...
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2010s Feminist 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
Short-Eared Owl - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Short-Eared Owl is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .
Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870...
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1870s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Japanese Artisans - Silk Dying -Japanese Woodblock Print
By Tosa Mitsuyoshi
Located in Soquel, CA
Japanese Artisans - Japanese Woodblock Print J
Japanese woodblock depicting six women, all wearing vibrant kimonos, working on crafts by Tosa Mitsuoki (Japanese, 1617-1691). Japanese,c. 1600. Handcraft depiction (dye works).Section from a painted screen with presentations of handcraft.Kita-in, Saitama.
Stamped lower left.
Presented in a white mat and giltwood frame.
Frame: 19"H x 14"W
Mat: 18.25"H x 13.25"W
Image: 14.5"H x 9.5"W
Tosa Mitsuoki was a Japanese painter, reinvigorating the Yamato style of classical Japanese painting. Yamato-e originated from interest in reproducing early Tang dynasty paintings, and was later reinvented and further refined to fit Japanese cultural perceptions in the late Heian period. Yamato, sometimes referred to as wa or kazu had become synonymous with the Tosa-ha by the Muromachi period as a way for Japanese artist to distinguish their works from those of mainland Chinese paintings, kara-e. Yamato-e incorporated various visual and literary techniques for establishing narrative. Works were not always accompanied with text and may rely on heavily on period specific visual motifs, icons, and symbols to relay a story or theme. Tosa style by the time of Mitsuoki focused heavily on depicting themes of plants and nature, famous places, meisho, the four seasons, shik, bird-and-flower, kacho. Many of these popular symbols and icons from mimicking Chinese practices, treating the original Chinese masterwork as a sort of prototype to improve upon. Popular formats for Mitsuoki's pictures were wall scrolls kakemono, or handscrolls that would be read from right to left with the accompanied story, sliding doors fusuma and folding screen panels byobu that featured up to six panels. Mitsuoki's style incorporated the depth and calligraphy techniques of ink wash brushwork similar to Song dynasty and Yuan dynasty Chinese court paintings...
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1920s Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
The Angel of the First Heaven - Woodcut attr. to Salvador Dalì - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Angel of the First Heaven, from the Series "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, is a woodcut print realized in 1963.
Good conditions....
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Paul Stanley (autographed)
Located in Koto-Ku, 13
Craftsmen
Illustrator: Ishikawa Masumi
Woodcarver: Sekioka Senrei III
Printer: Ito Tatsuya
Details
Edition: limited edition of 200 (first 100 autographed by the members of the band)...
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2010s Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Arp, Composition, Arp: On My Way (after)
By Jean Arp
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, The Documents of Modern Art. Arp: On My Way, Poetry And Essays 1912 - 1...
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1940s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Katsura Kyoto (L)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Kiyoshi Saito – Japanese – (1907-1997)
Title: Katsura, Kyoto (L)
Year: 1964
Medium: Woodblock
Image size: 18 x 24 inches.
Sheet size: 21.5x 28.5 inches.
Signature: Signed, ...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
'Der Gartner' (The Gardener) — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Der Gartner' (The Gardener), woodcut, c. 1925. Signed, titled, and numbered '15/50' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left and right. A fine, richly-inked impression on buff wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Image size 5 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches (133 x 98 mm); sheet size 10 x 7 3/4 inches (254 x 198 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919 - 1933). In 1920, his work was featured in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat...
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1920s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Castle in Night - Woodcut by David Lucas - Early 20th century
By David Lucas
Located in Roma, IT
Castle in Night is a print realized by an Anonymous artist in the 20th century.
Woodcut on paper.
Good conditions.
Beautiful mysterious work depicted through delicate strokes.
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Michele Maria: bright yellow red Maria Callas opera artist portrait with poetry
By Rene Ricard
Located in New York, NY
Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. In this bright yellow, red, ...
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1980s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Screen, Woodcut
Saint Simon, from Christ and the Apostles
By Ludolf Ludwig Businck
Located in Middletown, NY
Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper, printed from three blocks in black, olive-green, and yellow ochre, 8 3/16 x 6 1/4 inches (207 x 157 mm), thread margins. Some scattered light discoloration throughout, lightly backed with laid paper, however the sheet retains translucence when viewed through raking light. Trimmed at or near the margin. Archivally sound small repaired corner tear, upper right, with a very minor (1/4 inch) vertical edge split in the center top margin, above the figure's head. All condition issues are consistent with age, and present an exceptionally good example of this truly remarkable work. With the collector's stamp of Friedrich August II, King of Saxony, last King of Poland (1797-1854), Dresden, on the right corner, recto (Lugt 971). This work likely appeared in a well-known posthumous sale of Friedrich August II's private collection, which was handled by C.G. Boerner, and took place in Leipzig, on May 7-9, 1928, presumably this print was presented as lot 1551.
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Ludolph Busïnck was born at Hann, Germany around 1590. By about 1620 he was actively working as a printmaker in Paris, collaborating with publisher and celebrated cartographer Melchoir Tavernier. Busïnck may have studied printmaking in the Netherlands, evidenced by the influence of Dutch printmaker Hendrick Goltzius we see in the bold woodcuts he produced in France. Busïnck was the first printmaker to create chiaroscuro woodcuts in France, a technique originated by German artist Hans Burgkmair...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Sculptor at Work - Woodcut after Takakane Fujiwara - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Sculptor at work is an artwork realized in the Early 20th Century after Takakane Fujiwara.
Sheet dimensions: 30 x 19.5 cm.
Reprint.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Heron Moon
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Heron Moon" c.1990, is a color woodblock print on paper by noted Canadian/Japanese artist Suezan Aikins, b.1952. It is signed, titled and numbered 58/150 in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 8.5 x 21 inches, framed size is 15.75 x 28.25 inches. Custom framed in a silver metal frame, with double off white matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame have some small minor rubs, barely visible.
About the artwork:
This artwork required have 5 different carved wood blocks and 9 layers of colors to complete.
About the artist:
Born in Montreal in 1952, Suezan was influenced early in her life by the works of modern Japanese woodblock printmakers which hung throughout her parents’ home. She attended the Fine Arts programme at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick (1969 - 1971), The Ontario College of Art (1971-73), L’ ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts (1974), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design -BFA (1975) as well as a very intensive year of study with Toshi Yoshida in Tokyo (1984-85).
She has exhibited extensively in both public and private galleries throughout North America and Japan. Recent exhibitions include solo shows in Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, and Boston with group exhibitions at the Wenniger Gallery, Boston, Royal Canadian Academy in Toronto and the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.
Her paintings and woodblock prints are found in many collections such as The Canada Council Art Bank, The Nickle Art Museum, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Royal Bank of Canada, Prince Takamanonamiya Norihito, the Embassy of Canada in Tokyo, The Thomas Moore Institute as well as private collections.
Suezan Aikins was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant in 1983, Nova Scotia Department of Culture - Development Grants in 1980, 1987 and 1988. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1990 and received the Canadian Progress Club- Women of Excellence Award for Culture in 1993. Her work has been featured in a number of television documentaries as well as many Canadian magazines.
STUDIES:
Yoshida Woodblock Print Studio Tokyo, 84-85
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, 74-75 BFA
Ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal, 74
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 71-73
Mt. Allison University, 69-72
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS:
25 Year Retrospective of Woodblock Prints traveled to three Public Galleries in Germany: Dornum Castle; Tollhousverein, Leer; Rastede Palace, Oldenberg 2000-2001 color catalog and reviews.
Private Exhibitions, Falmouth, Mass., July 1996; Montreal, November 1996; Gibson Island, Md., April 1999.
Gold Paintings and Woodblock Retrospective, travelling: Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo; Genkan Gallery, Tokyo American Club; Blue Nile Gallery, Osaka; Kanda's Gallery BOQ, Okinawa; May 1994 (color catalogue)
Edo Gallery, Boston, November 1992, Private Exhibitions, Chatham, Mass, July 1992, Toronto, Oct. 1991
New Paintings and Woodblocks Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo, May 1991, and also in 1987.
Japanese Garden and Pavilion Foundation, Montreal, September 1990, Ownens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University 1988
Zwickers Gallery, Halifax, NS, 1979; Gallery 78; Fredericton, November, 1983; Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, November, 1982
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
"A New Leaf" 30 foot instalation of mixed media/ goldleaf reliefs, Artsplace, Annapolis Royal, N.S., 2000 color catalog
"Far and Wide" Juried Bienials, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; 1996 to '99, travelling, catalogs
"Moku Hanga Travelling Exhibition: Contemporary Japanese Woodcuts...
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Late 20th Century Realist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Arp, Composition, Arp: On My Way (after)
By Jean Arp
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, The Documents of Modern Art. Arp: On My Way, Poetry And Essays 1912 - 1...
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1940s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Nude with Birds 1966 Signed Limited Edition Large Woodcut
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Philip Sutton
Nude with Birds - 1966
Print - woodcut 27'' x 33''
Edition: signed and numbered in pencil 16/30
Image Size; 18"x 18"
Condition Note; Handling Creases.
Philip Sutton s...
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1960s Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut, Woodcut
Fujikawa - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1832
Located in Roma, IT
Fujikawa is a woodcut print realized by Utagawa Hiroshige in 1833.
It is part of the suite "The Fifty-three Stations of Tokaido".
Very good condition.
Category
1830s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
"The Kaminarimon at the Kanseon Temple in Asakusa" - Original Japanese Print
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Kaminarimon at the Kanseon Temple in Asakusa" - Original Japanese Print
Japanese Print "The Kaminarimon at the Kanseon Temple in Asakusa", from the series "Famous Places in Ed...
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1850s Showa Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Composition (Arntz 148-175; Hagenbach A 25; Bolliger 54), Dreams and Projects
By Jean Arp
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects, 1951-1952. Published by Curt V...
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1950s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Conjunction, Fritallary, Mela
By Joe Tilson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joe Tilson, British (1924 - )
Title: Conjunction, Fritallary, Mela
Year: 1996
Medium: Woodcut with Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 1/10
Size: 21 x 29 ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen, Woodcut
Composition (Arntz 148-175; Hagenbach A 25; Bolliger 54), Dreams and Projects
By Jean Arp
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects, 1951-1952. Published by Curt V...
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1950s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
'Little Locomotive' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Little Locomotive (Kleine Lokomotive)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W158. Annotated 'W 158' (Feininger catalogue number) and '1936' 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 1/4 x 3 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (East Berlin KK).
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
Christ, from La Passion
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Christ, from La Passion" 1939, is a wood engraving by French artist Georges Rouault, 1871-1958. (Block engraved by Georges Aubert) It is signed in the block as issue. ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Boat with Houses Landscape Woodblock Print (Possibly Woodstock School of Art)
Located in Houston, TX
Small black and white woodblock print depicting boat with houses. Possibly from the Woodstock School of Art. Inscribed and signed by artist. ...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
'Viel Gluck 1923' (Good Luck Wishes) — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Viel Gluck 1923 Wunscht der Graphikverlag, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothenfelde', woodcut, 1922, edition 20. Signed and numbered op. 135d and 20/20 in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream Japan paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/8 inches), in good condition. With the artist’s blind stamp in the top left margin. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
New Year's Greeting - "1923, Good Luck Wishes from the Graphic Press, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothfelde."
Image size 5 x 3 1/2 inches (127 x 89 mm); sheet size 6 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (168 x 149 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
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1920s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Luis Miguel Valdes, ¨La Paleta I¨, 2014, Woodcut/Watercolor, 12x15.7 in
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
'La Paleta I', 2014
woodcut, watercolor on paper Velin Arches 300 g.
12.1 x 15.8 in. (30.5 x 40 cm.)
ID: VAL-3G2014-331
Hand-signed by author
________...
Category
2010s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Woodcut
The Courtesan Midorigi
By Chokosai Eisho
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed: Eisho zu
From the series: "Contest of Beauties in the Pleasure District" (Kakuchi bijin-kurabe)
Format: Oban
Publisher: Yamaguchi ya Chusuke
The courtesan Midorigi of the Wakamatsu ya bordello depicted against a decorated ground, holding an ornamental sculpture of an ox.
Eisho Chokosai was a pupil of Eisho Hosoda, and is also known as Eisho Hosoda.
Reference: Richard Lane...
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1790s Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Gravure pour 10 Origine - Woodcut after Vasilij Kandinskij - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gravure pour 10 origine is an original modern artwork realized by Vasilij Kandinskij
Black and white woodcut
Numbered on the lower margin.
Edition of 15/75.
This is the second e...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract 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
Gauguin, Change of Residence (Changement de résidence), Gauguin (after)
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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
"Watch for the Next Bloom", Still Life, Cat Depiction Patterns, Woodcut Print
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Watch for the Next Bloom" is an original print by Jun Lee and is made by reduction woodcut. This piece measures 35"h x 26"w framed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Woodcut
Amoureux a Tarang, Yap, Ouest Carolines (Lovers of Tarang, Yap, West Carolines)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Amoureux a Tarang, Yap, Ouest Carolines 1935 is an original color woodcut by French artist Paul Jacoulet, 1896-1960. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Woman and Goat- Original Woodcut by Guelfo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman and Goat is an original xilograph realized by Guelfo Bianchini in 1970s..
The artwork is hand signed by the artist.
Artist's proof. Original ti...
Category
1970s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
"California Gold Diggers": A 19th C. Hand-colored Woodcut Gold Rush Scene
By John Andrew
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed hand-colored woodcut engraving entitled "California Gold Diggers - A Scene From Actual Life At The Mines" created by John Andrew and publi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
"Oldies Swing", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut, Monoprint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Oldies Swing" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut and and found object stencil monoprint mounted on panel. This piece measures 19"h x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Found Objects, Wood Panel, Monoprint, Woodcut
Japanese Beauties Enjoy a Full Moon
Located in Burbank, CA
"Sun, Moon and Stars". Three beauties enjoy a full moon on the veranda of a teahouse or restuarant. The woman on the left kneels and adjusts her lavishly printed kimono. The beauty in the center has her hair down, and behind her is a screen against which shadows are beautifully silhouetted, which adds an air of mystery. The seated woman on the right is perhaps a geisha, as we see a shamisen lying next to her. Before her is a tray with an assortment of foods. One may surmise that the beauties are being compared to the sun, the moon, and the stars. On the left we glimpse a full moon shining over the peaceful bay, and boats at harbor. Original first edition Japanese color woodblock print triptych...
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1840s Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mulberry Paper, Woodcut
El roble y la caña, Vingt fables de La fontaine, Roldán Oudot
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Vingt fables de La fontaine, 1961. Published by Éd...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Ex Libris Karol Izakovic - Woodcut by Josef Weiser - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Karol Izakovic is an Artwork realized in 1982, by the Artist Josef Weiser (1914-1994).
Woodcut B./W. print on paper. Signed on plate and dated on back.
Good conditions.
...
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1980s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Floating Crap Game
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Floating Crap Game, chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1958, edition 145. Signed, titled, numbered 'Ed. 145' and dated '3/1958'. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, rich ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Paradise 6 - The Heaven of Mercury (Rhinoceros) - woodcut - 1963
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Paradadise 6 - The Heaven of Mercury
From the Divine Comedy (Dante)
Woodcut in color
Signature printed in the plate
1960/63
On BFK Rives vellum 32,8 x 26,4...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
La Peche lithograph (woodcut)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Belgrade, MT
Raoul Dufy was an important multifaceted French artist who worked in a variety of media including painting, print making, mural design, theatre and costume design, upholstery, wall paper, ceramics, and fabric. In his paintings he often depicted the circus, equestrian scenes, Parisian cafe life, yachting scenes, colorful views of the French Riviera, and musical events in a distinctive style that combined the various artistic trends of the day, most notably Fauvism. Born in 1877 in Le Havre France, and after a year of military service in 1900, Dufy won a scholarship to the Ecole Nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, studying under Othon Friesz. He exhibited extensively throughout Paris and France at the various salons, including the Salon des Tuileries. For the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris, Dufy completed one of the largest paintings ever conceived, a 250...
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Early 20th Century Fauvist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Woodcut
"Sunset One", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut, Monoprint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Sunset One" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut monoprint mounted on panel. This piece measures 19"h x 14.5"w.
Born in Mexico City, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Panel, Monoprint, Woodcut
"The dog came out again" 2007 original woodcut signed 17x23 in. Mexican humor
Located in Miami, FL
Fernando Aceves Humana (Mexico, 1969)
'Se volvió a salir el perro' (The dog came out again), 2007
woodcut on paper
17.6 x 23.1 in. (44.5 x 58.5 cm.)
Edition of 10
ID: ACE-103
Unframed
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Early 2000s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Slashing Eddie
Located in Koto-Ku, 13
Craftsmen
Illustrator: Ishikawa Masumi
Woodcarver: Watanabe Kazuo
Printer: Yoshida Hideo
Details
Edition: limited edition of 300
Size: 16.73 x 12 inches (42.5 x 30.5 cm)
Paper: Echi...
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2010s Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Susan's Delight
By Alan Davie
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
’Susan's Delight’
By Alan Davie
Medium - Woodcut
Edition - 6/200
Published by The Tate, St Ives
Signed - Yes
Size - 505mm x 570mm
Date - 2003
Condition - Excellent. 10 out of 10.
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Early 2000s Abstract 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
Untitled (A rose by any other name...)
Located in San Francisco, CA
vitreograph on paper, hand-colored with unique text and drawing; created during an artist's residency at Pilchuck Glass School 22 x 30 inches/55.9 x 76.2 cm
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20th Century Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Composition (Arntz 148-175; Hagenbach A 25; Bolliger 54), Dreams and Projects
By Jean Arp
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects, 1951-1952. Published by Curt V...
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1950s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Apartment 12
By Julian Opie
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Julian Opie
Title: Apartment 12
Portfolio: 2021 Apartments
Medium: Woodcut on Somerset Velvet 300gsm
Date: 2021
Edition: 8/20
Sheet Size: 10 3/4" x 28 3/4"
Signature: Hand si...
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2010s Contemporary 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...
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1930s Bauhaus Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Composition (Arntz 148-175; Hagenbach A 25; Bolliger 54), Dreams and Projects
By Jean Arp
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects,...
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1950s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Striped Stockings
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1997. After moving back to California, he opened his studio in 1999. Hi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
On The Edge of the Seventh Circle - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
On The Edge of the Seventh Circle - Hell plate 4 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good co...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples
Materials
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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