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Jean Cocteau - Portrait - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Taureaux
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Trinckvel
1965
Jean Cocteau
W...
Category
1960s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Amaryllis formosissima (Sprekelia, Aztec Lily), antique botanical engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic More Prints
Materials
Engraving
Di-Faced Tenner
By Banksy
Located in New York, NY
The Di-faced Tenner was created for a public stunt Banksy had orchestrated that involved dropping a suitcase full of the fake currency in public, during rush hour at the Liverpool tu...
Category
Early 2000s Street Art More Prints
Materials
Offset
Le Picador
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Picador II
Lithograph from 1961.
Dimensions of work: 31 x 25 cm.
Reference: Bloch 1017; Mourlot 350; Cramer 113.IV.
Printed by Atelier Fernand Mourlot, P...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs'
Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs.
Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Small Print
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley
Small Print, 2023
Linocut on Somerset 300 gsm paper
Signed by the artist and numbered, on verso
10.5 x 10.5 cm (4 1/8 x 4 1/8 in)
Edition 51 of 100
published by Schaf...
Category
2010s Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Linocut
"Stepping Out" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
By John Lennon
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Stepping Out" first released on "Milk & Honey," the final album released after his death in 1980. ...
Category
1990s Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Other Medium
Le Calvaire, Heliogravure by Lucas van Leyden
By Lucas van Leyden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucas van Leyden, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1494 - 1533) - Le Calvaire, Year: 1873, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 12 x 16.5 in. (30.48 x 41.91 cm), Printer: Amand Durand,...
Category
Late 19th Century More Prints
Materials
Etching
Seafront Shelter (Left), St Leonards-on-Sea - British Seaside Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Seafront Shelters, are a typical of the British Seaside, they are part of a Seaside Towns identity, with nods to various architectural heritage. Photograph from Richard Heeps', On-Se...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Donald Judd New York 1988 (announcement)
By Donald Judd
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Donald Judd New York 1988:
A rare 1980s announcement card published on the occasion of Judd's "Untitled 1988" exhibition at Brooke Alexander, Inc.; 476 Broome Street, New York, NY. F...
Category
1980s Minimalist More Art
Materials
Offset
歌麿筆Utamaro Hitsu as Sealed-From Six Houses of Yoshiwara-Publisher Omiya Gonkuro
Located in London, GB
-In light of new tariffs, we’ve applied a 20% discount off the market price of this piece to support our collectors in facing potential added costs. At the gallery, we work closely w...
Category
1990s Edo More Prints
Materials
Ink, Washi Paper, Woodcut
Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs'
Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs.
Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Four 19th Century Hand Colored Engravings Depicting English Royal Residences
By Charles Wild
Located in Alamo, CA
Four hand colored etchings and aquatints depicting interiors within English royal residences, including "The Blue Velvet Room at Carlton House", "The Queen's Library at Frogmore", "T...
Category
1810s Academic Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Abstract Landscape Rajasthan Light Viscosity Print Natural Green Turquoise
Located in Norfolk, GB
There is a natural and raw understanding in Mukesh Sharma’s prints that depict, and are influenced by, the Rajastani communities of his home town in rura...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Paradise, Canto 25 - St. James of Hope
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Paradise, Canto 25 - St. James of Hope
Woodcut print from 1960.
Dimensions of work: 33 x 26.2 cm
Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris.
The work is...
Category
1960s Surrealist More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sealyham and Setter, Cecil Aldin 1930s dog lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Sealyham and Setter'
Cecil Aldin dog lithograph, 1935.
Cecil Aldin was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of...
Category
1930s English School Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chama Canyon hand pulled serigraph by William Hook
By William Hook
Located in Paonia, CO
Chama Canyon is a limited edition hand-pulled serigraph no. 225 /260 in excellent condition. It is signed in pencil and published by Aspen Mountain Graphics. sheet size 14 x 18 image 12 x 16
For American artist William Hook ( b. 1948- ) art was a central focus in his family home and he began his career in art at an early age.. He studied at several prestigious art schools in the US and abroad. His work has been featured in magazines such as Southwest Art, Art of the West, U. S. Art, American Artist and Focus Santa Fe. The book… Leading the West… by Donald Hagerty features William Hook as one of the most notable influences on the western art scene. Publishers Harper-Collins and North Light have included his work in numerous books written about the contemporary art process in Europe and America. Hook’s paintings can be found in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Tucson Art Museum, the University of New Mexico, the FORBES Museum, NYC, and the Genesee Museum, NY as well as in many corporate and private collections. His work has also been featured in prints for the New Mexico Symphony, Music from Angel Fire...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Paul Jenkins - Composition - Original Lithograph
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jenkins - Composition - Original Lithograph
1964
Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm
Edition of 200 (one of the 200 on Vélin de Rives)
Mourlot Press, 1964
Paul Jenkins, American (1923 - 2012)
Paul Jenkins, an artist originally associated with abstract expressionism, exhibits in his mature works a redefining of color, light and space on the canvas surface.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1923, Jenkins worked as a teenager in a ceramics factory, where he was first exposed to color intensity and the creation of form. From age 14 to 18, he studied drawing and painting at the city's Art Institute.
Initially interested in drama, Jenkins received a fellowship to the Cleveland Playhouse, then continued his dramatic studies in Pittsburgh at the Drama School of the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Deciding to become an artist, Jenkins moved to New York City in 1948 and studied at the Art Students League. During Jenkins's three years at the League, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor were his influential instructors.
While Jenkins continued to live and paint in New York City, his personal explorations took a metaphysical turn, which would ultimately become dominant in his work.
P.D. Ouspensky's The Search of the Miracu/ous changed the artist's thoughts on human growth and limitations, while the Chinese I Ching, through its thematic emphasis on constant change, heightened his interest in flowing paint on canvas. Painting for Jenkins became an intuitive, almost mystical process. He commented, "I paint what God is to me."
In 1953, Jenkins traveled to Paris, where, a year later, he had his first one-man show. While working at the American Artists Center, he continued to experiment with flowing paints, pouring pigment in streams of various thicknesses, with white thin spills as linear overlays.
Jenkins's intent was to deny stasis and create a literal and metaphysical sense of dynamism, while maintaining a sense of unity. Beginning in 1958, Jenkins titled each canvas Phenomena, with additional identifying words. He believed the work to be descriptive of the discovery process inherent in each painting.
Paralleling his beliefs, the artist's paintings have undergone subtle but definite changes. Beginning in the early 1 960s, a shift of color saturation and exposure of the white areas gave Jenkins's canvases an enhanced feeling of illumination.
If Jenkins's technique is unorthodox, he is in many other ways a traditional artist. He works in an acrylic medium on traditional linen canvas or fine rag paper. Often he uses an ivory knife...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Obra inèdita recent
By Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Initialed and numbered 73/100 in pencil by Miro. Published by Sala Gaspar, Barcelona. From the same-titled suite.
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
'Favourite Flowers' Limited edition book with signed aquatint 'Iris'
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
’Favourite Flowers (Iris)’
By Elizabeth Blackadder
A limited edition book of 100 copies specially bound for the Mercury Gallery. No 1 to 50 contain and original etching/aquatint 'Iris'. No 51 to 100 contain and original etching/aquatint 'Salpiglossis'. Each signed and numbered by the artist. All watercolours reproduced within the book by Elizabeth Blackadder and commentary by Deborah Kellaway.
Medium - Limited edition book with signed aquatint
Book Edition - 58/100
Print Edition - 8/50
Signed Book - Yes
Signed Print - Yes
Size Book - 234mm x 202mm
Size Print - 217mm x 187mm
Date - 1994
Published by Gillian Raffles. Mercury Gallery. Bond Street, London
Condition - Excellent. 10/10
Painter and printmaker, born Falkirk, Scotland. She studied at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, 1949-54. In 1954 she was awarded a Carnegie Travelling Scholarship and visited Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy and was much influenced by Byzantine architecture and mosaics. In 1956 she married the painter John Houston with whom she has since travelled widely. Flowers, cats and small objects are often arranged perpendicularly across the paper or canvas.
Elected RSW in 1960, an Associate of the RSA 1963, an Associate of the RA 1971, RSA 1972 and RA 1976, she is the first woman to be elected both RA and RSA. Blackadder has exhibited at the Mercury Gallery, London, Marjorie Parr Gallery and abroad and is a member of the Scottish Arts Club. Her work is represented in Aberdeen University, Bolton Art Gallery, Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Fleming Collection, Glasgow Print Studio, Gracefield Arts Centre, New Hall College, Cambridge, Otter Gallery, Reading Art...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Untitled from In the Bottom of My Garden (Plate 5)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Untitled (Plate 5)
Portfolio: 1956 In the Bottom of My Garden
Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper
Date: 1956
Sheet Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Signatu...
Category
1950s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Not-Chi-Mi-Ne, An ioway Chief: Original Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Not-Chi-Mi-Ne, An Ioway Chief ",...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alpine Plants, German antique botanical flowers chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Alpenpflanzen'
(Alpine Plants)
German chromolithograph, circa 1895. Central vertical fold as issued.
240mm by 305mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eurasian Wigeon, French antique bird duck art illustration print
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Canard Siffleur'
(Eurasian Wigeon)
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of...
Category
1930s Art Deco Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Colours Of The Night #1 +#2 - 2 Art Prints, 11"x14" Each, Figurative, Women
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Colours Of The Night #1 + #2: This pair of figurative art prints on paper capture the essence of timeless style. A neutral, atmospheric background suggests an evening-like ambiance. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Pop Shop II (4)
By Keith Haring
Located in Miami, FL
Screenprint in colors on Wove Paper. Reference Littmann, K, & Haring K. Keith Haring, Editions on Paper 1982-1990: The Complete Printed Works, Cantz, Stuttgart, 1997, p.97. Hand num...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
CB HOYO YES YOU COULD HAVE MADE THIS BUT YOU DIDN'T... Street Art
By CB Hoyo
Located in Draper, UT
Medium:
Print
Condition
Print in good condition and has been stored flat since purchase.
Signature
Hand-signed by artist, Hand Signed and Numbered by the Artist in Pencil, CB HOYO. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Screen
Signed and Numbered Screenprint Tigger on Zoloft with COA
By Ben Frost
Located in Draper, UT
Ben Frost "Tigger on Zoloft" Exclusive Archival Print
Description:
Delve into the captivating world of pop subversion with the evocative artwork of Ben Frost. "Tigger on Zoloft," a ...
Category
2010s More Prints
Materials
Digital Pigment
Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs'
Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs.
Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sangre de Christos hand-pulled serigraph by Robert Daughters
Located in Paonia, CO
Sangre de Christos is a hand-pulled, limited edition serigraph, no. 39 / 260 and is signed in pencil by the artist. Published by Aspen Mountain Graphic...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Fruitful (small)
By Damien Hirst
Located in London, GB
Damien Hirst
Fruitful (small), 2020
Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite panel
Digitally signed by the artist
39 x 39 cm
Edition of 3308
The editions titled Fruitful f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Giclée
White Stork "Storch Ciconia": An 18th Century Hand-colored Frisch Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 18th Century hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Der Storch Ciconia" (White Stork) by Johann Leonhard Frisch is plate 19...
Category
1730s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Faces - Linocut Print by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Faces is a linocut realized by Mino Maccari in the 1940s.
50 x 30 cm.
Handisigned in the lower right part. Edition of 12 copies.
Reference; Cat. Meloni , pag 367, n.1741.
Good c...
Category
1940s Modern More Prints
Materials
Linocut
Peintre et modèle
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Peintre et modèle
Lithograph from 1965.
Dimensions of work: 23 x 27 cm
Reference: Cramer 130
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure ship...
Category
1960s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
French Mid-Century 1970s Fashion Design Vintage Lithograph Print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original colour lithograph of a French fashion design from 'Haute Couture'. Published in a folio of designs for Summer 1971.
32cm by 22cm (sheet)
Category
1970s Post-War Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sol LeWitt, Lines, Not Long, Not Heavy, Not Touching, Drawn at Random (Circle)
By Sol LeWitt
Located in Hamburg, DE
Sol LeWitt (American, 1928-2007)
Lines, Not Long, Not Heavy, Not Touching, Drawn at Random (Circle), 1970
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions: 44.5 × 32.1 cm (17.5 × 12.6 in)...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Black Stork, "Ciconia Nigra": An 18th Century Hand-colored Frisch Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a rare 18th Century hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Ciconia Nigra" (Black Stork) by Johann Leonhard Frisch is plate 197 fro...
Category
1730s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le Calvaire - Etching and Heliogravure by Félicien Rops - 1882
Located in Roma, IT
Le Calvaire is an original etching, soft ground and colour héliogravure on Japanese paper, realized by Félicien Rops in 1882, signed on plate, plate from Les Sataniques
In very ...
Category
1880s Symbolist More Prints
Materials
Etching, Engraving
La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and s...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Set of Three Leaves from "Breviarium Pataviense" /// German Catholic Incunabula
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Erhard Ratdolt (German, 1442-1528)
Title: "Vol. 6, page 10-11", "Vol. 6, page 6-7", and "Vol. 6, 28-29"
Portfolio: Breviarium Pataviense
Year: 1490 (First edition)
Medium: Set of Three Original Incunabula Leaves on watermarked laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Erhard Ratdolt, Ausburg, Germany
Publisher: Friedrich von Öttingen and Christoph von Schachner, Passau, Germany
Reference: Hain No. 3875; Bod-Inc No. B-542; GW No. 5426; Weale/Bohatta No. 335; Schreiber No. 3615
Sheet size (each): approx. 12.5" x 8.88"
Condition: "Vol. 6, page 10-11", "Vol. 6, page 6-7", and "Vol. 6, 28-29" all have scattered wormholes, staining, foxing, and soiling about their sheets. The latter two have remnants of tape at their edges. "Vol. 6, 28-29" has heavier staining to its sheet and edge wear about. Have been professionally stored away for decades. They are all otherwise strong impressions in overall fair condition with strong colors
Extremely rare
Notes:
Comes from Ratdolt's six volume "Breviarium Pataviense", (1490) (First edition), which consists of 378 pages of Gothic texts in Latin with red rubricated initials, psalms, readings, hymns, and woodcut engraved illustrations. Printed in Augsburg by Erhard Ratdolt on May 12, 1490. There was a subsequent printing on November 27, 1490. Both "Vol. 6, page 10-11" and "Vol. 6, 28-29" have a bow and arrow watermark in the center of their sheets. Some information and old prices inscribed in pencil to their sheets.
Breviary is a liturgical book in the Roman Catholic Church that contains the daily service for the divine office, the official prayer of the church consisting of psalms, readings, and hymns that are recited at stated hours of the day.
Biography:
Erhard Ratdolt (1442–1528) was an early German printer from Augsburg. He was active as a printer in Venice from 1476 to 1486, and afterwards in Augsburg. From 1475 to 1478 he was in partnership with two other German printers. The first book the partnership produced was the Calendarium (1476), written and previously published by Regiomontanus, which offered one of the earliest examples of a modern title page. Other noteworthy publications are the "Historia Romana of Appianus" (1477), and the first edition of "Euclid's Elements" (1482), where he solved the problem of printing geometric diagrams, the "Poeticon astronomicon", also from 1482, "Haly Abenragel" (1485), and "Alchabitius" (1503). Ratdolt is also famous for having produced the first known printer's type specimen...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters More Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Woodcut
Carnations and Picotees, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Carnations and Picotees'
Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image.
Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Red Rider - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
The Red Rider
From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle
1957
See Mourlot 191
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985.
The Village
Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work.
At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well.
Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged.
The Beehive
Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period.
Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come.
War, Peace and Revolution
In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos.
To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia.
In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good.
Flight
After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research.
Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion.
With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way.
Haunted Harbors
Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs'
Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs.
Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ferruginous Duck, French antique bird duck art illustration print
By P. Mahler
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Canard Nyroca - Canard Milouinan'
(Ferruginous Duck)
French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series o...
Category
1930s Art Deco Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
THE VISITOR Signed Lithograph, Mini Surreal Landscape Seashell, Mountains, Water
Located in Union City, NJ
THE VISITOR is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Ar...
Category
1990s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs'
Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs.
Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Study, after An Election by William Hogarth
By Cecily Brown
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on light gray Rives BFK. It is signed, dated and numbered 119/120 in pencil by Brown. Printed and published by Gemini, G.E.L., Los Ang...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Ahava, Pop Art Offset Lithograph with Poetry after Robert Indiana
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Indiana, After, American (1928 - 2018) - Ahava, Portfolio: Master American Contemporaries II, Year: 1995, Medium: Offset Lithograph with Poetry, Image Size: 7 x 7 inches...
Category
1990s Pop Art More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
India Listed artist 19th Century Hand Coloured Lithograph Village scene palms
Located in Norfolk, GB
A 19th century, hand coloured lithograph, the colours fresh and in good condition for its age.
Artist: Captain Philip Meadows
Medium: Hand coloured lithograph
Plate 6
Created: 1842
Paper Size: 39 x 32.5 cm
Plate Size: 27.5 x 21.2 cm
With the description sheet on verso
TAYLOR, Captain Philip Meadows (1808-1876). Plate from Sketches in the Deccan. London: published by J McLean 1842
Plate 6
From a series of views of the Deccan, at this time the state of Hyderabad. The suite of plates includes views, scenes and settings of places and buildings at Goa, Arungabad, Tooljapoor, Golcondag, Hyderabad, Ellors, Rozah, and the Tandoor hills, among others. Meadows Taylor arrived in India as a young man to work with a Bombay merchant, but quickly accepted a military commission...
Category
1840s Other Art Style Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Litografía original III
By Joan Miró
Located in OPOLE, PL
Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Litografía original III
Lithograph from 1972.
Dimensions of work: 32 x 24.5 cm.
Dimensions in frame: 52 x42 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
Printed ...
Category
1930s Surrealist More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Shar-I-Tar-Ish, A Pawnee Chief: Original Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century 1st edition octavo hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled " Shar-I-Tar-Ish, A Pawnee Chief", lithographed by J. T. Bowen after a painting by Charles Bird King and published by Rice and Hart in Philadelphia in 1848. Shar-I-Tar-Ish's portrait has a reddish hue from the feathers in his headdress and amulet chain, with a brownish taupe color of the upper trim of his costume. He is wearing his presidential peace medal. He has a very serious and thoughtful expression.
This original McKenney and Hall hand-colored lithograph is printed on a sheet measuring 10.38" high and 7" wide. There are faint smudges in the margins. The print is otherwise in very good condition. The original descriptive text pages, 33-34, from McKenney and Hall's 19th century publication are included.
A famous Pawnee chief, Shar-I-Tar-Ish led his people during the early part of the 19th century. He was descended from a line of chiefs. Shar-i-tar-ish was a young man when he went to Washington in 1822 at the invitation of President James Monroe...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Strahlinge (Protozoa - Radiolarians or Radioza) German antique lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Strahlinge'
(Protozoa - Radiolarians or Radioza)
German lithograph, circa 1895. Key to protozoa in German below the image.
250mm by 305mm (sheet).
Central vertical fold as iss...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled, Jasper Johns. Colorful rainbow hatching on parchment
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
This print features Johns's exuberant hatching in orange, white, bright green, and purple atop collaged newsprint. Printing on translucent parchment makes the image particularly vibr...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Tropaeolum Majus Atrosanguineum, antique botanical nasturtium flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic More Prints
Materials
Engraving
New York Bouquet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
New York Bouquet
Lithograph, 1917
Edition: 93
Signed with the artist's cipher in pencil lower right (see photo)
This lithograph is inspired by Hassam's oil painting of the same title...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
8 Mortal Sins Suite
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: 8 Mortal Sins Suite
Anger
Avarice
Dalinean
Envy
Gluttony
Lust
Pride
Sloth
MEDIUM: 8 Etchings
SIGNED: Each piece is Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Jean Schne...
Category
1960s Surrealist More Prints
Materials
Etching
Sadao Watanabe Original Stencil Print, 1982 - Pentecost
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Stencil Print by Sadao Watanabe, hand colored on hand-made washi paper.
This image depicts the flames of fire seen on the day of Pentecost from the book of Acts.
Artist’s chop mark a...
Category
1980s More Prints
Materials
Paper
Act I, Scene I - From “Romeo and Juliet - Lithograph-1975
Located in Roma, IT
Act I, Scene I - From “Romeo and Juliet” is an artwork realized in 1975.
Mixed colored lithograph.
Signed and dated in plate on the higher left margin. Perfect conditions.
The ...
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1970s Surrealist More Prints
Materials
Lithograph