James Jacques Joseph Tissot

Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich, England

1878

The image depicts a restaurant on New York's Mott Street with ornamental iron work on the balconies. There are six figures in the scene in various stages of contrast. Mott Street is considered the unofficial Main Street of New York's Chinatown. Ella Fitzgerald sang it best: “And tell me what street compares with Mott Street in July? Sweet pushcarts gently gliding by.” CFW Mielatz was an early influence on the drypoints and etchings of Martin Lewis. This piece was created in 1906 and it is signed in pencil. It is part of the collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art C.F.W. Mielatz American, 1860-1919 Born in Bredding, Germany in 1864, Mielatz emigrated to the United States as a young boy and studied at the Chicago School of Design. Mostly self-taught, his first prints were large New England landscapes reminiscent of the painter-etcher school of American Art. Around 1890 he started to produce prints of New York City and by the time of his death, the number totaled over ninety images. He was a master technician in the field of etching, reworking many of his plates to get the exact feeling he was seeking. Mielatz was a member of the New York Etching...

Dimensions : Image 9 7/8” x 7 7/8”, Paper 19” x 15” Printed at Alfred University Press, Alfred, NY Chop mark: Alfred University Press Signed: Pencil 11/20 Voulkos ‘98 Peter Voulkos (popular name of Panagiotis Voulkos; January 29, 1924 – February 16, 2002) was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. While his early work was fired in electric and gas kilns, later in his career he primarily fired in the anagama kiln of Peter Callas...

This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered 50/110 in pencil from the edition of 11...

Drypoint print onto photolitho printed kitakata with subtle gold ink and mounted onto Hahnemule printmaking paper. This print of a tree uses litho printed kitakata chine collé to dep...