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Reclined Nude - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1970
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude is an original etching and aquatint in sanguine realized by Leo Guida in 1970s.
Good condition for the 8 copies of the artwork.
Mounted on a white cardboard (50x34 cm...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
$264 Sale Price
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Steam Bath, Aniak
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Steam Bath, Aniak" 1995 is a color offset lithograph on paper by noted American artist Rie Mounier Munoz, 1921-2015. It is hand signed and numbered 38/950 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 6.75 x 10 inches, sheet size is 10.5 x 14 inches. It is in excellent condition..
About the artist:
Alaska painter Rie Mounier Munoz was the child of Dutch parents who immigrated to California, where she was born and raised. She is known for her colorful scenes of everyday life in Alaska.
Rie (from Marie) Munoz (moo nyos), studied art at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. In 1950, she traveled up the Inside Passage by steamship, fell in love with Juneau, and gave herself until the boat left the next day to find a job and a place to live. Since then Juneau has been home to Munoz. She began painting small vignettes of Alaska soon after arriving in Juneau, and also studied art at the University of Alaska-Juneau.
Munoz painted in oils in what she describes as a "painstakingly realistic" style, which she found stiff and "somewhat boring." Her breakthrough came a few years later when an artist friend introduced her to a versatile, water-soluble paint called casein. The immediacy of this inexpensive medium prompted an entirely new style. Rie's paintings became colorful and carefree, mirroring her own optimistic attitude toward life. With her newfound technique she set about recording everyday scenes of Alaskans at work and at play.
Of the many jobs she has held journalist, teacher, museum curator, artist, mother, Munoz recalls one of her most memorable was as a teacher on King Island in 1951, where she taught 25 Eskimo children. The island was a 13-hour umiak (a walrus skin boat) voyage from Nome, an experience she remembers vividly. After teaching in the Inupiat Eskimo village on the island with her husband during one school year, she felt a special affinity for Alaska's Native peoples and deliberately set about recording their traditional lifestyles that she knew to be changing very fast.
For the next twenty years, Rie practiced her art as a "Sunday painter," in and around prospecting with her husband, raising a son, and working as a freelance commercial artist, illustrator, cartoonist, and curator of exhibits for the Alaska State Museum. During her years in Alaska, Munoz has lived in a variety of small Alaskan communities, including prospecting and mining camps.
Her paintings reflect an interest in the day-to-day activities of village life such as fishing, berry picking, children at play, as well as her love of folklore and legends. Munoz says that what has appealed to her most were "images you might not think an artist would want to paint," such as people butchering crab, skinning a seal, or doing their laundry in a hand-cranked washing machine.
In 1972, with her hand-cut stencil and serigraph prints selling well in four locations in Alaska, she felt confident enough to leave her job at the Alaska State Museum and devote herself full time to her art. Freed from the constraints of an office job, she began to produce close to a hundred paintings a year, in addition to stone lithograph and serigraph prints.
From her earliest days as an artist, Rie had firm beliefs about selling her work. First, she insisted the edition size should be kept modest. When she decided in 1973 to reproduce Eskimo Story Teller as an offset lithography print and found the minimum print run to be 500, she destroyed 200 of the prints. She did the same with King Island, her second reproduction. Reluctantly, to meet market demand, she increased the edition size of the reproductions to 500 and then 750. The editions stayed at that level for almost ten years before climbing to 950 and 1250.
Her work has been exhibited many solo watercolor exhibits in Alaska, Oregon and Washington State, including the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Alaska State Museum in Juneau, Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Tongass Historical Museum in Ketchikan, and Yukon Regional Library in Whitehorse; Yukon Territory, and included in exhibits at the Smithsonian Institute and Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
Munozs paintings have graced the covers of countless publications, from cookbooks to mail order catalogs, and been published in magazines, newspapers, posters, calendars, and two previous collections of her work: Rie Munoz...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Treason - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Treason is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949).
Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La Font...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograph...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Minotaure aveugle guidé par une Fillette (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Title: Minotaure aveugle guidé par une Fillette dans la Nuit (after Bloch 225)
Year: 1992
Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using t...
Category
1990s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$4,000 Sale Price
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Helmut Newton BABY SUMO Book, Limited Edition
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Helmut Newton (German 1920-2004)
Marking(s); notes: no marking(s) apparent (book is shrink wrapped); ed. of 10,000
Materials: paper, acrylic
Dimensions...
Category
20th Century Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Paper
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975)
Surrealist engraving, etching
after drawings from a 1942 notebook,
engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims
Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris,
Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso
Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4
Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company.
Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life.
Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany.
He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington.
Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work.
Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton.
He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940.
After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Tout Bas Cover - Original Lithograph by Renzo Vespignani - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Tout Bas Cover is an original lithograph realized by Renzo Vespignani.
Not signed. Titled on the center of the print.
Good conditions. In this Artwork there is a written in green ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$176 Sale Price
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Sunbathing
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sunbathing
Etching and color aquatint on watermarked Umbria Italy paper, c. 1915
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Annotated: "No. 6" in pencil lower left (see photo)
An early color print by the artist
Condition: Excellent
Plate size: 11-3/4 x 15-7-8" (30 x 40.3 cm.)
Frame size: 21 x 26 1/8 x 1 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
By decent
Louis Oscar Griffith
(1875-1956)
Born in Greencastle, Indiana, Griffith grew up in Dallas, Texas where Texas artist and teacher Charles Franklin Reaugh recognized young “Griff’s” artistic talent. At age 18, Griffith moved to St. Louis where he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts.
In 1895, he moved to Chicago where he worked making color prints for the firm Barnes and Crosby. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and during a brief stay in New York, the National Academy of Design. A successful commercial artist with a studio in the Chicago Loop...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude with Stockings (BU 04)
By Thomas Ruff
Located in New York, NY
Iris print on heavy white wove paper. Signed and numbered 42/50 in pencil by Ruff.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Color
La femme au poisson, Surrealist Etching by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - La femme au poisson, Year: 1972, Medium: Etching, signed in pencil, Image Size: 6 x 5.5 inches, Size: 12.5 x 11 in. (31.75 x 27.94 cm), Descript...
Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Magician - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Magician - Original Etching
Stamp Signed
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 K / Michler & Lopsinger 305
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figueras in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School. In 1923 his father bought his son his first printing press.
Dali began to study art at the Royal Academy of Art in Madrid. He was expelled twice and never took the final examinations. His opinion was that he was more qualified than those who should have examined him.
In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist artists grouped around Andre Breton, who was something like the theoretical "schoolmaster" of surrealism. Years later Breton turned away from Dali accusing him of support of fascism, excessive self-presentation and financial greediness.
By 1929 Dali had found his personal style that should make him famous the world of the unconscious that is recalled during our dreams. The surrealist theory is based on the theories of the psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud. Recurring images of burning giraffes and melting watches became the artist's surrealist trademarks. His great craftsmanship allowed him to execute his paintings in a nearly photo-realistic style. No wonder that the artist was a great admirer of the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael.
Salvador Dali and Gala.
Meeting Gala was the most important event in the artist's life and decisive for his future career. She was a Russian immigrant and ten years older than Dali. When he met her, she was married to Paul Eluard.
Gala decided to stay with Dali. She became his companion, his muse, his sexual partner, his model in numerous art works and his business manager. For him she was everything. Most of all Gala was a stabilizing factor in his life. And she managed his success in the 1930s with exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
Gala was legally divorced from her husband in 1932. In 1934 Dali and Gala were married in a civil ceremony...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
lithograph for Florilege des amours de Ronsard
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after Matisse). Printed in sanguine ink on cream laid paper from the Papeteries Casteljoux and published in Geneva by Edito-Service in 1970. This reproduces one o...
Category
1970s Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ecce Homo Plate X
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ecce Homo Plate X
Woodcut, 1921
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Edition: One of two known impressions
This image wwas unknown to the catloger Ingrid Rose in 1984 when she published the catalog raisonne of Drewes prints.
Done while Drewes was studying at the Bauhaus.
Reference: Ingrid Rose, Werner Drewes: A Catalogue Raisonne of His Prints (Munich: Verlag Kunstgalerie Esslingen, 1984), 33, one of two known impressions.
Provenance: Gift of the artist to one of his Bauhaus professors.
Held in East Germany until the opening of the wall
Jorg Maas Kunsthandel, Berlin
Other image from the suite of Ecce Homo images are available.
Extremely early, rare Bauhaus works.
n 1921 Drewes went to the Bauhaus in Weimar, where, after completing the compulsory preliminary course with Johannes Itten, he continued to study with Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer and Georg Muche and initially went to the wall painting workshop. He then traveled extensively through Europe, North America and Asia. After returning to Germany in 1927, he went back to the Bauhaus, this time to his new location in Dessau, where he studied in the classes of László Moholy-Nagy and Wassily Kandinsky. He was one of the first artists to introduce the groundbreaking concepts of the Bauhaus School in the United States through his painting, printmaking, and teaching.
Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher. Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States. His mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and the emotional content of this work was consistently more expressive than formal. Drewes was as highly regarded for his printmaking as for his painting. In his role as teacher as well as artist he was largely responsible for bringing the Bauhaus aesthetic to America.
Early life and education
Drewes was born in 1899 to Georg Drewes, a Lutheran pastor, and Martha Schaefer Drewes. The family lived in the village of Canig within Lower Lusatia, Germany. From age eight to eighteen he attended the Saldria Gymnasium, a boarding school in Brandenburg an der Havel. There, he showed talent both for painting and woodblock printing. Graduating from Saldria in 1917, he was drafted by the German army and served in France from then until the close of the war. About this period of his life he is reported to have said that the horrors of life at the front were only made tolerable by his sketchbook, a copy of Goethe's Faust and a volume of Nietzsche.
For a decade following the close of the war he studied, made paintings and prints, and traveled widely. His friend, Herwarth Walden, helped shape his appreciation for expressionist literature and art. Walden produced the quarterly magazine, Der Sturm and ran a gallery of contemporary art, Galerie Der Sturm, from which, in 1919, Drewes purchased an expressionist painting by William Wauer titled Blutrausch (Bloodlust). In the same year he made the acquaintance of Heinrich Vogeler and participated in Vogeler's socialist utopian artists' commune, Barkenhoff, at Worpswede, Lower Saxony. In 1919 Drewes also enrolled at the Königlich Technischen Hochschule Charlottenburg to study architecture and the following year he studied the same subject at the Technischen Hochschule Stuttgart. Preferring art over architecture, he then enrolled in Stuttgart's school of applied arts (Kunstgewerbeschule) where he studied life drawing and learned to work with colored glass. At this time he joined a group of artists and architects associated with the newly formed Merz Akademie, a college of design, art, and media in Stuttgart.
In 1921 his friendship with a French artist, Sébastien Laurent, led him to begin studies in Weimar at Bauhaus, then a new school which taught an integrated approach to the fine and applied arts. His instructors were Johannes Itten and Lyonel Feininger, whose paintings were expressionist and abstract, and Paul Klee, who taught bookbinding, stained glass, and murals. While at Bauhaus Drewes produced a portfolio of ten woodblock prints entitled "Ecce Homo."
In 1923 and 1924 he studied art during travels throughout Italy, Spain, the United States, and Central America and in 1926 he traveled to San Francisco, Japan, and Korea, thence taking the Trans-Siberian railway to Manchuria, Moscow, and Warsaw. He later said the El Grecos he saw proved to be most influential in his work. While traveling, he exhibited: (1) etchings in Madrid (1923) and Montevideo (1924), oils and etchings in Buenos Aires and St. Louis (1925), and (3) etchings in San Francisco (1926). He paid his way by the sales these exhibits produced and by taking commissions to paint portraits. While in San Francisco he set up a shop from which he sold prints he had made in Spain and South America.
After his return to Germany in 1927 he resumed study at Bauhaus, which had been forced to relocate in Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt. His instructors at that time were László Moholy-Nagy (metal work), Wassily Kandinsky, and (painting), and Lyonel Feininger (prints). At this time he also worked and exhibited in Frankfurt. With the rise of Nazism abstract artists found it increasingly difficult to sell their work and, in 1930, Drewes, finding the political pressure unbearable, emigrated to the United States. There, despite the world economic crisis, Drewes was able to earn a living as a professional artist.
Mature style
After Drewes moved to New York, Kandinsky, who was both friend and mentor, continued to exert a strong influence over his style. Later in life he said he had a hard time getting away from Kandinsky's influence as he developed his own style. In time he was able to bring a more emotional approach to his work and to base it, more than Kandinsky did, on natural forms.
In 1930 Drewes had a solo exhibition at the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library and a two-person show at the S.P.R. Penthouse Gallery...
Category
1920s Bauhaus Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Female Nude - Lithograph by Nicolas Gloutchenko - 1928
By Nicolas Gloutchenko
Located in Roma, IT
Female nude is an original artwork realized by Nicolas Gloutchenko in 1928.
Lithograph on paper.
Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lower and numbered, edition of 8/12 prin...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$246 Sale Price
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Picasso, Minotaure, Buveur et Femmes (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Minotaure aveugle guidé par une Fillette dans la Nuit (after Bloch 225)
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Spanish painter and sculptor is one of the most recognized figures of twentieth cen...
Category
1990s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Figure assise, le bras droit appuye sur une table - Etching by H. Matisse - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Seated figure is an original modern artwork realized by Henri Matisse in 1929.
Etching on Chine appliquè on Arches Velin paper.
Original title: Figure assise, le bras droit appuye ...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall - Moses - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours
Year: 1956
Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet)
Published by: Éditions de la Revue Verve, Tériade, Paris
Printed by: Atelier Mourlot, Paris
Documentation / References: Mourlot, F., Chagall Lithograph [II] 1957-1962, A. Sauret, Monte Carlo 1963, nos. 234 and 257
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...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Minotaure aveugle guidé dans la Nuit par une Petite (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Title: Minotaure aveugle guidé dans la Nuit par une Petite Fille au Pigeon (after Bloch 223)
Year: 1992
Medium: Reproduced from the original e...
Category
1990s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Nude XVII - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Nude IX - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Aquatint Etching Print
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Paper
Reclining Nude (Blue) II /// Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Minimal Screenprint
By Dan May
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-)
Title: "Reclining Nude (Blue) II"
Portfolio: Reclining Nudes
*Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left
Year: 1983
Medium: Original Screenprin...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Nude XVIII - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint, Etching
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975)
Surrealist engraving, etching
after drawings from a 1942 notebook,
engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims
Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris,
Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations verso Editioned from a very small edition of #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp.
Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4
Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company.
Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life.
Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany.
He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington.
Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work.
Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton.
He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940.
After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Rupert Everett
Located in CANNES, FR
Karl Lagerfeld ( 1933 -2019 )
Kaiser de la Mode !
Photograph , dessinateur , designer ...
" Rupert Evrett " , magnifique litho-photographie sepia
de 1997 , d'un ensemble de modèles...
Category
1990s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Paper
Jean Cocteau - Parametabolismes - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Parametabolismes - Original Lithograph
Signed "Jean Cocteau" in the plate and dated 1956 in the plate.
39 x 29 cm
Edition: 500
Hand numbered
Stamp signed lower right
Category
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Drei Grazien (Three Graces)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Drei Grazien (Three Graces)
Etching and drypoint, 1920
Signed and titled in pencil (see photo)
Total Edition 100: 30 on Japan and 70 on Butten paper as here
Published by von Wohlgemu...
Category
1920s Expressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Assemblage de femmes, Surrealist Etching by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Assemblage de femmes, Year: 1966, Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 24/50, Image Size: 6.75 x 7.75 inches, S...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Overture 2 BY CLARE GROSSMAN, Limited Edition Figurative Nude Print, Affordable
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Grossman
Overture 2
Limited edition of 70.
A solar plate etching on Somerset 300gsm paper.
Image Size: H 12.5 x W 17.5cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Feminist Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Nude Woman - Original Etching - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is an original etching artwork on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
With the stamp of "Galerie J. Frapier Paris" o...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
$246 Sale Price
25% Off
Adam and Eve - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Adam and Eve is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949).
Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Venere e Amore sui Delfini (Venus and Cupid on Dolphins) /// Old Masters Raphael
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Marco Dente da Ravenna (Italian, 1493-1527)
Title: "Venere e Amore sui Delfini (Venus and Cupid on Dolphins)"
*Monogram signed by Dente in the plate (printed signature) lower left
Circa: 1515-1520 (second state of three)
Medium: Original Engraving on laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: Antonio Salamanca, Rome, Italy
Reference: Bartsch XIV, page 244, No. 324; Passavant VI, page 69, No. 32; Le Blanc, II, page 111, No. 16; Imolesi Pozzi pages 71-72, 113, No. 10
Sheet size: 10.63" x 6.94"
Condition: Thread margins. A strong impression in excellent condition
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Périgueux, France. This work is also sometimes referred to as "Venus and Cupid riding two sea monsters, Cupid raises an arrow in his right hand, two heads representing wind in the clouds above". The engraver's monogram "SR" lower left. Published by Antonio Salamanca (1478-1562) in Rome, Italy with his address printed lower right: "Ant. Sal. Exc.". No watermark found. This engraving is after a drawing by Italian artist Raphael aka Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520).
"This engraving by Marco Dente is after a design by Raphael, now lost, used by Giulio Romano for his fresco on the south wall of the Stufetta of cardinal Bibbiena - a small room in the Apostolic Palace, at the Vatican, that originally served as a washroom for the cardinal. The engraving differs from the fresco in some details, such as the cityscape in the background and the two winds above, which may indicate that these elements were present in Raphael's drawing. " - Christie's, London
Biography:
Marco Dente da Ravenna (1493–1527), usually just called Marco Dente, was an Italian engraver born in Ravenna in the latter part of the 15th Century. He was a prominent figure within the circle of printmakers around Marcantonio Raimondi...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Nude Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograp...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Couple - Lithograph on Cardboard by Leonor Fini - 20th Century
By Leonor Fini
Located in Roma, IT
The Couple is original colored lithography on the cardboard, realized by Leonor Fini, an Argentine-Italian painter who spent her artistic career in France and was associated with the...
Category
20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Cardboard, Lithograph
Odalisque, brasero et coup de fruits
Located in New York, NY
A very good, richly-inked impression of this lithograph. Signed and numbered 57/100 in pencil by Matisse. Printed at the studio of Duchatel, Paris 1929.
Category
1920s Fauvist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
New Ways of Seeing (Le Plongeur / Paper Pool) Exhibition Poster
Located in London, GB
Offset lithograph poster print on paper
Edition of Unknown Size
Unsigned
11.65 x 16.54 in (29.6 x 42.0 cm)
This is an original vintage artist-authorized David Hockney exhibition po...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Leonor Fini, original lithograph from Satiricon, 1970
By Leonor Fini
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare lithograph by surrealist artist Leonor Fini. This signed print is in perfect condition and from a very searched series untitled Satyricon and dealing with Antique Rome and its f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975)
Surrealist engraving, etching
after drawings from a 1942 notebook,
engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims
Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris,
Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso
Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4
Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company.
Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life.
Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany.
He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington.
Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work.
Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton.
He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940.
After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Picasso, Modèle et Grande Tête Sculptée (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Title: Modèle et Grande Tête Sculptée (after Bloch 170)
Year: 1992
Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using the grain Autotype halft...
Category
1990s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,920 Sale Price
20% Off
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975)
Surrealist engraving, etching
after drawings from a 1942 notebook,
engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims
Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris,
Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations verso Editioned from a very small edition of #7/10
'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp.
Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4
Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company.
Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life.
Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany.
He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington.
Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work.
Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton.
He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940.
After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Picasso, Sculpteur au Repos avec Modèle démasqué et sa Représentation (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Title: Sculpteur au Repos avec Modèle démasqué et sa Représentation sculptée (after Bloch 159)
Year: 1992
Medium: Reproduced from the original...
Category
1990s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,920 Sale Price
20% Off
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975)
Surrealist engraving, etching
after drawings from a 1942 notebook,
engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims
Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris,
Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso
Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4
Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company.
Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life.
Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany.
He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington.
Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work.
Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton.
He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940.
After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Femme debout dans sa baignoire
Located in New York, NY
A very good, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce lithograph. First state (of 4), with the remarqués in the lower margin. One of only 5 proofs in this state, aside from t...
Category
1920s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ex libris. Paper, woodcut, 11x7cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ex libris Olav Tähe
Paper, woodcut, 11x7cm
Category
1990s Jugendstil Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
$169 Sale Price
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Rest, Two Nudes with Greyhounds - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri Clement-Serveau
Rest, Two Nudes with Greyhounds, 1929
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On Perrigot vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind sta...
Category
1920s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Nude VIII - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Weib Vom Manne Begehrt (Woman Desired by Man) /// Max Pechstein Woodcut Modern
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Hermann Max Pechstein (German, 1881-1955)
Title: "Weib Vom Manne Begehrt (Woman Desired by Man)"
Portfolio: Deutsche Grapiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)
*Unsigned edition
Year: 1919, (published 1920)
Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on cream wove paper
Limited edition: 500, (there was also a signed and numbered edition of 30)
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, Germany
Reference: "Das Graphische Werk Max Pechsteins" - Krüger No. 224; Fechter No. 157; Rifkind No. 2252; Söhn I, page 108-114
Sheet size: 12.75" x 9.5"
Image size: 9.88" x 6.25"
Condition: One small skillfully repaired tear lower left in margin. It is otherwise a strong impression in excellent condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Kiel, Germany. Comes from the 1920 "Deutsche Grapiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)" portfolio of fifteen lithographs, eight woodcuts, eight reproductions, and one lithographed cover by various artists. The artists who contributed to this portfolio were George Grosz, Ernst Barlach, Lovis Corinth, Richard Seewald, Heinrich Campendonk, Erich Heckel, Otto Mueller, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Lyonel Feininger, Conrad Felixmüller, Max Unold, Karl Caspar, Max Lieberman, René Beeh, Adolf Ferdinand Schinnerer, Ludwig Meidner, Max Beckmann, Richard Seewald, Käthe Kollwitz, August Gaul, Rudolf Grossman, Alfred Kubin, and Paul Klee. This very same work is within many permanent museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
"Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)" brings together woodcuts, lithographs, and reproductions by thirty-one artists representing a cross-section of styles from Impressionism to Expressionism, uniting under a single cover works ranging from naturalistic self-portraits to left-wing political caricatures. It features works by artists associated with the Berlin Secession (an exhibiting society comprised primarily of German Impressionists), with Expressionist groups like the Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, and with the political Novembergruppe, as well as artists like Max Beckmann who were not affliliated with any group.
In his introduction, art historian Kurt Pfister identified Expressionism as the leading force in German art at the time, while stressing the plurality of approaches to style and subject matter that the movement encompassed. Pfister emphasized the openness of German artists to foreign sources, and cited the importance of Paul Cézanne, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso as well as Japanese, Indian, African, and Gothic art for the development of German art. There was a fifty-year difference in age between the oldest artist, Max Liebermann, and the youngest, Conrad Felixmüller, featured in the collection. The volume also included Lyonel Feininger, an American who had lived in Germany since 1896, as well as Austrian artists Oskar Kokoschka and Alfred Kubin.
Biography:
Pechstein was born in Zwickau, the son of a craftsman who worked in a textile mill. Early contact with the art of Vincent van Gogh stimulated Pechstein's development toward expressionism. After studying art first at the School of Applied Arts and then at the Royal Art Academy in Dresden, Pechstein met Erich Heckel and joined the art group Die Bru¨cke in 1906. He was the only member to have formal art training. Later in Berlin, he helped to found the Neue Sezession and gained recognition for his decorative and colorful paintings that were lent from the ideas of Van Gogh, Matisse, and the Fauves. His paintings eventually became more primitivist, incorporating thick black lines and angular figures.
From in 1933, Pechstein was vilified by the Nazis because of his art. A total of 326 of his paintings were removed from German museums. Sixteen of his works were displayed in the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art...
Category
1920s Expressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
The Draped Figure, Seated
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Draped Figure, Seated
Lithograph on fine japanese paper, 1893
Signed in pencil with the butterfly (see photo)
Signed in the stone with the butterfly on the sofa (see photo)
Numbered: "No. 20" in pencil
Printed by Thomas Way, London
A beautiful impression with tonal variations in the stump work (shading)
As published in: L'Estampe Originale, Paris, 1893, Album IV
Edition: 107 impressions, this No. 20
There were an additonal 24 impressions printed by Way for Whistler and 20 impressions printed for the Fine Art Society, London
Lacking the huge support sheet and embossed series stamp by Charpentier
With the letterpress lower left: "T. Way. Imp London"
The stone erased in 1904
The majority of the lifetime impressions are in public collections
Condition: Excellent condition
Hinges from original issuance of L'Estampe Originale verso at top as described in Spink
Three hinges residue along right edge of the sheet from a later matting of the print
Image size: 8 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches
Sheet size: 11 3/8 x 9 1/16 inches
Reference: Spink/Tadeschi 72, published edition
Levy 74
Way 46
A superb Neoclassical lithograph...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Minotaure blesse VI (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Title: Minotaure blesse VI (Bloch 196)
Year: 1992
Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using the grain Autotype halftone screen process by Druck- und Verlag GmbH, 4200 Oberhausen, Germany; lithographically printed by Druck- und Verlag GmbH on japon handmade 200 g/sqm paper by created by Richard de Bas in Ambert, France and imported by Japico Drissler Feinpapiere, Frankfurt, Germany.
Paper Size: 18 x 12.75 inches; a size slightly reduced from the original Vollard edition for differentiation
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Artist’s signature posthumously lithographically reproduced from the original Vollard edition, and numbered in pencil by the curators of the Municipal Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. 168/300.
Notes: Published by Municipal Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany in cooperation with the Society for the Promotion of the museum in 1992 and the Fundación Picasso; printed by Plitt Druck- und Verlag GmbH, 4200 Oberhausen, Germany. The following is a German to English translation of the original text issued by the Municipal Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany in the following from which this graphic is a part, “In order to give a broad public access to this unique print work by Pablo Picasso in its entirety and at the highest quality level, the support group for the city. Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr initiated and significantly supported the new edition of the “Suite Vollard.” The reprint of the "Suite Vollard" includes a limited edition of 300 copies of 100 loose sheets each in a linen cassette. The copies were numbered from 1 to 300 on the leader sheet. The reproductions were produced in grain screen mode, a process in which which eliminates the traditional line grid and achieves maximum originality. The paper was hand-made specifically for this work by Richard de Bas in Ambert, France, one of the most traditional paper mills in Europe. The paper for the original edition also comes from this factory. The quality Blane narcisse, belin, 200 g/sqm was selected and imported from Japico Drissler Feinpapiere, Frankfurt. Reproduction and paper format has been slightly reduced compared to the original edition. The technical development and overall production was carried out by Plitt Druck- und Verlag GmbH, 4200 Oberhausen.”
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Spanish painter and sculptor is one of the most recognized figures of twentieth century art. During his artistic career, which lasted more than 75 years, he created thousands of works using all kinds of mediums. He changed art more profoundly than any other artist of his time. First famous for pioneering cubism...
Category
1990s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,400 Sale Price
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Untitled by Ken Price
By Ken Price
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Ken Price
silkscreen on Arches 88 paper
14.875 x 12.375”
1981
edition of 150
stamped by Ken Price, SOMA Fine Art Press and Arabesque Books
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Marc Chagall - Creation - Adam and Eve - Original Lithograph from Bible
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234)
On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Plate V, Le Cocu Magnifique
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate V, Le Cocu Magnifique
Etching, 1968
Unsigned
From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions printed on Rives BFK paper
There is also a signed edition of 30 impressions
The set of...
Category
1960s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Stehendes nacktes Mädchen im Profil (Standing Naked Girl in Profile) /// Woodcut
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976)
Title: "Stehendes nacktes Mädchen im Profil (Standing Naked Girl in Profile)"
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. 220, page 45; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118
Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38"
Image size: 6.5" x 3.57"
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. 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...
Category
1910s Expressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Nude of Woman - Original Etching and Aquatint by Eliane Petit - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an original etching and aquatint realized by Eliane Petit (1910-1969).
Good condition on a white cardboard passpartout (53x37 cm).
Sign...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
$264 Sale Price
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Nude Woman in Bed, Surrealist Etching and Aquatint by Saint Clair Cemin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Saint Clair Cemin, Brazilian (1951 - ) - Nude Woman in Bed, Year: 1978, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 9/30, Image Size: 5.75...
Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Garden With Henry, by Peter Milton
By Peter Milton
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Resist Ground Etching & Engraving
Image Size: 9.5 x 12 inches
Year: 1993
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist, this print was specially made by Milton to accom...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Torse, Fond à Losanges - Drypoint on China by H. Matisse, 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Image size: 8.6x13.9 cm.
Original drypoint on Chine Appliqué realized by Matisse in 1929 in an edition of only 25 prints.
Signed and numbered in pencil lower right.
Excellent conditi...
Category
1920s Fauvist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Acting Proud, Nude Art Giclee Print by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) - Acting Proud, Portfolio: Vintage Nudes, Year: 2001, Medium: Giclee signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Giclée
'Courtesan and Young Man at Fuchu' Original Erotic Shunga Woodblock
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work is an excellent example of the erotic Shunga prints produced by Utagawa 'Ando' Hioshige and his school. Shunga imagery became especially widespread in Japan with the...
Category
Mid-19th Century Edo Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Nude VII - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Etching Print
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching