Giovanni Domenico Campiglia

'Bacchus' — 18th Century Classical Italian Realism

1734

Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Bacchus Cumampelo', engraving, 1734, edition unknown. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the plate, lower left. Engraving by Gabbugiani, after the original...

Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Explorator', engraving, 1734, edition unknown, scarce. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the matrix, lower left. A fine impression, on handmade antique, l...

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 'Dancing', lithograph, 1928, edition 30, Davis L-29. Signed, dated, and numbered '8/30' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, printed on cream chine appliqué on heavy off-white wove backing; the full sheet with wide margins (1 3/8 to 4 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by Desjobert, Paris. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Impressions of this work are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi Museum (Japan). ABOUT THIS WORK The French economy boomed from 1921 until the Great Depression reached Paris in 1931. This period called 'Les années folles' or the 'Crazy Years', saw Paris reestablished as a capital of art, music, literature, and cinema. Paris in the 1920s and 1930s was the home and meeting place of some of the world's most prominent painters, sculptors, composers, dancers, poets, and writers. For those in the arts, it was, as Ernest Hemingway described it, "A moveable feast". Paris was home to an exceptional number of galleries, art dealers, and a network of wealthy patrons who offered commissions and held salons. Pablo Picasso, perhaps the most famous artist in Paris, shared renown with a remarkable group of others, including the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, the Belgian René Magritte, the Italian Amedeo Modigliani, the Russian émigré Marc Chagall, the Catalan and Spanish artists Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Juan Gris, and the German surrealist...

Edouard Goerg, 'Le Paradis Terrestre' (Paradise on Earth), etching, 1931, edition 40. Signed, titled, and numbered '3/40' in pencil. A fine richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream w...

At the sauna 1960s, paper, lithography, 38x49 cm Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still life. She is one of the most productive watercolors artists, in first post-war generation - the number of jobs estimated in the thousands. Especially popular paintings with floral motifs. The artist about herself says: "I was born in Jelgava in 1930 in family of teachers. As a child, together with brother we loved to draw and made figures of clay or plasticine. In Riga elementary school №8 was a great art teacher, artist Alphonse Mihaylovskis, he also gave the first direction in art. Father let us buy a good brushes, watercolors, art books and publications related to the Latvian art. We also visited the exhibition. Enthusiastically I absorb all that read, studied the basic concepts...

Stride for Days and Stride for Days Upside Down Diptych by Amy Gardner [2021] limited_edition Screenprint Edition number 25 Image size: H:59.4 cm x W:42 c...

Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923) Title: Untitled Year: c.1915 Medium: Lithograph Edition: Unknown, probably 400 Paper: Thin vellum Image size: 1...

Philip Pearlstein Untitled Nude, from Atelier International Portfolio, 1985 Etching. on wove paper Hand signed, numbered 78/85, and dated on the lower front with printer's and publisher's blind stamps. 30 × 22 1/2 inches Unframed This vintage (mid 1980s) etching by Philip Pearlstein is hand signed, numbered and dated from the edition of 85. The late Philip Pearlstein is one of the most renowned realist painters in the world, but has become best recognized of late as Andy Warhol's former roommate in Pittsburgh, who traveled together with Warhol to New York. The Warhol museum in fact hosted a show of the two unlikely artists and roommates. Philip Pearlstein Born in 1924 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Philip Pearlstein died in 2022. He is considered to be one of the masters of new figuration and modernist realism. He has been examining the question of how the model is represented since the 1960s, his complex works straddling the line between naturalism, abstraction and hyperrealism. His still lives in oil feature nudes with mask...