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Period: Mid-20th Century
"Man Receiving Himself" By NY graphic artist Mury
Located in New York, NY
Mury (Mury Rabin)
Man Receiving Himself, c. 1960s
Softground monoprint
Sight: 16 1/2 x 18 1/4 in.
Framed: 23 1/8 x 25 1/8 x 7/8 in.
Titled lower right, signed lower left
Graphic ar...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Monoprint
Casanova : Nude with Rhinoceros - Original etching (Field #67-4 N)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1969)
Casanova : Nude with Rhinoceros, 1967
Original etching
Signed in the plate
On vellum Rives 38 x 28 cm (c. 14.9 x 11 inch)
REFERENCES :
- Catalog raisonné ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Pablo Picasso - Le Peintre et son Modèle IV
Located in London, GB
Pablo Picasso
Le Peintre et son Modèle IV (B. 1141; Ba. 1139)
Aquatint and drypoint, 1963, signed in pencil, numbered 19/50 (total edition includes 15 artist's proofs), printed by C...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, 1952. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Casanova : Woman and the Truffle Pig - Original etching (Field #67-4 H)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI (1904-1969)
Casanova : The Woman and the Truffle Pig, 1967
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum Rives 38 x 28 cm (c. 14.9 x 11 inch)
REFERENCES :...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Casanova : Aphrodisiac Oyster - Original etching (Field #67-4 J)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI (1904-1969)
Casanova : Aphrodisiac Oyster, 1967
Original etching
Signed in the plate
On vellum Rives 38 x 28 cm (c. 14.9 x 11 inch)
REFERENCES :
- Catalog raisonné Fi...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Casanova : Snail Lady - Original etching (Field #67-4 K)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI (1904-1969)
Casanova : Snail lady, 1967
Original etching
Signed in the plate
On vellum Rives 38 x 28 cm (c. 14.9 x 11 inch)
REFERENCES :
- Catalog raisonné Field #67-...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Passion of the Lovers - Original lithograph (Atelier Michel Cassé), 1964
By Le Corbusier
Located in Paris, IDF
Le Corbusier
Passion of the Lovers, 1964
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
Limited to 250 copies
On Arches vellum 42.5 x 35.5 cm (c. 16.5 x 13.7 in)
Edited by Forc...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Nu Bleu VI (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, 1952. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Nu Bleu XI (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Le Nu aux oranges (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, 1952. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Deux Femmes Accroupies - Lithograph by Pablo Picasso - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
Realized by Picasso in 1956. Lithograph on Arches Paper.
Hand Signed and numbered.
Edition of 19/50.
Ref. Bloch n.790.
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Les Amies - Etching by Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint on japanese paper applied on cardboard.
One of 10 artist's proofs, numbered I/X, aside of the edition of 100.
Hand signed and numbered.
Very Good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Coppertone suntan lotion vintage poster - Italian
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Coppertone” Colore di Rame vintage Italian poster. Colore de Rame translates into the color of copper.
Abbronzatevi! (suntan)
Non bruciatevi! (don’t burn)
Archival linen-backed in fine condition, ready to frame.
This original Coppertone poster is in A condition.
The background in the poster is a brighter yellow; after all, it is a sunny day, and you need suntan lotion!
Coppertone is an American suntan cream. Interestingly, the American poster of this famous little girl and dog...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Offset
'Eyes for the Night' — Mid-century Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Eyes for the Night', lithograph, 1947, edition 35, Fine and Looney 260. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. A fine impression, on heavy, cream ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Parade of Women, from Deluxe, Hand Signed, 85/100 1 Cent Life Portfolio, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg
Parade of Women from the Deluxe hand signed edition of 1 Cent Life Portfolio (Acquired from the Estate of Robert Indiana), 1964
Color lithograph on wove paper
Published by E.W. Kornfeld, Germany, Written by Walasse Ting, Edited by Sam Francis
Hand-signed by Claes Oldenburg on the lower right front; numbered 85/100 on the colophon page a copy of which is affixed to the back of the frame -see photo
Frame included: elegantly floated and framed in hand made museum frame with UV plexiglass, and colophon page with unique edition number affixed to the back. (see photos)
This hand signed work is from the Deluxe hand signed edition of only 100 - not to be confused from the unsigned edition of 2000. (None of the works from the edition of 2000 were ever signed by Oldenburg.) Hand signed editions are rarely if ever seen on the marketplace.
This original lithograph, splayed across two pages, is from the Deluxe edition of the legendary 1 Cent Life Portfolio, one of the most important and celebrated artistic collaborations of the 1960s. Chinese American artist and writer Walasse Ting, in collaboration with Sam Francis, assembled a group of the most significant Pop and Abstract Expressionist artists in America, including Pop Artist Claes Oldenburg, along with the European COBRA artists to create the definitive artistic portfolio, with text by Walasse Ting. The Deluxe edition, which features hand signed prints was published in a limited edition of only 100. This is one of them. Of the 100, editions numbered 60-100, or 40 portfolios, were reserved exclusively for Artists & Collaborators. This hand signed Claes Oldenburg lithograph...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Modèle Contemplant un Groupe Sculpté /// Picasso La Suite Vollard Marie-Thérèse
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Title: "Modèle Contemplant un Groupe Sculpté (Model Contemplating a Sculpted Group)" (Plate 66)
Portfolio: La Suite Vollard
*Signed by Pica...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Intaglio
'Starry Night' — 1930s American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'Starry Night' wood engraving, 1933, edition 1750, Burne Jones 103. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan paper; with margins (7/8 to 1 ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, 1952. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Peter Grippe, Symbolic Group
By Peter Grippe
Located in New York, NY
This work is signed, titled, and dated, in pencil. Grippe was a master printer, highly creative printmaker, and sculptor.
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Intaglio
The Bath : Two Women Wiping - Lithograph (Petrides 1947)
Located in Paris, IDF
Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938)
Two Women Wiping
Lithograph enhanced with stencil after a drawing
Signed in the plate
On Lana vellum, 32 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
INFORMATION: Lithograph...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Mort Suite, Suite of Surrealist Etchings by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Le Mort Suite, Year: 1964, Medium: Complete Suite of 9 Etching and aquatints, each signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 43/60, Image Size: 9 ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Nude
Located in New York, NY
Pencil signed and numbered 32/200 in pencil on lower edge. Published by Original Editions, New York. From 11 Pop Artists, Volume II.
A spectacular, colorful image, and a Pop Art ma...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen, Color
Hand with Flowers
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Original lithograph on paper
Bears the AWAAB and Estate of Andy Warhol stamps, on verso
Annotated with initials 'LC' and a unique authenticity number in pencil, on verso
Accompanied ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, 1952. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Plate XII, Le Cocu Magnifique
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate XII, Le Cocu Magnifique
Etching & aquatyint, 1968
From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions printed on Rives BFK paper
There is also a signed edition of 30 impressions
The s...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Pablo Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) – hand-signed etching on BFK Rives paper – 1968
Located in Varese, IT
etching on BFK Rives paper, Edited in 1968
Limited edition of 50 copies
Current copy numbered: 8/50 on the lower left corner
signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner
Plate si...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
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
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Paper
Torso de Mujer
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Torso de Mujer (Torso de Femmee)" from the suite "The Mujeres File" 1969 is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by renown Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo, 1899-1991. It is hand signed and inscribed H.C. (Hors Commerce) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 26.85 x 21 inches, framed size is 40.75 x 33 inches. Published by Touchtone Publisher, New York, printed by Ateliers Desjobert, Paris. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne by Pereda, plate #108 page 107. Custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold bevel and light beige fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
A native of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico, Rufino Tamayo's father was a shoemaker, and his mother a seamstress. Some accounts state that he was descended from Zapotec Indians, but he was actually 'mestizo' - of mixed indigenous/European ancestry. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art). He began painting at age 11. Orphaned at the age of 12, Tamayo moved to Mexico City, where he was raised by his maternal aunt who owned a wholesale fruit business.
In 1917, he entered the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, but left soon after to pursue independent study. Four years later, Tamayo was appointed the head designer of the department of ethnographic drawings at the National Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City. There he was surrounded by pre-Colombian objects, an aesthetic inspiration that would play a pivotal role in his life. In his own work, Tamayo integrated the forms and tones of pre-Columbian ceramics...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, La grande décoration aux masques (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with publisher’s folds, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistiqu...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Parade of Women, from One Cent Life
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Claes Oldenburg
Title: Parade of Women
Series: One Cent Life
Year: 1964
Medium: Lithograph
Initialled in Plate, lower right
Dimensions: 16.25 x 23"
Provenance: Private Collec...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude drawing (Nude on her haunches draws )
Located in New Orleans, LA
A nude woman squats on her haunches as she draws an image on a sheet of paper. Joseph Hirsch created this lithograph in 1963 in an edition of 50. It was printed by Lucien Dutruit i...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Coquelicots (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with publisher’s folds, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistiqu...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, La perruche et la sirène (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with publisher’s folds, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistiqu...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude 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 Fontain...
Category
Art Nouveau Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Purgatory: Canto 29 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Title: Purgatory : Canto 29
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Purgatory
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/8" x 16 5/8"
Sheet Si...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
Original CAZALIS & PRATS Grand Cru Mermaid vintage French liquor poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original CAZALIS & PRATS since 1875. Artist: Emm. Gaillard. Size: 13" x 19.5". Professionally acid-free archival linen backed and ready to frame. Note that a small ink printing line ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Palm Springs Desert Oasis psychedelic vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Palm Springs The Desert Oasis original poster by Bill Ogden. The poster is not linen-backed. Excellent condition. Mint. 1969. ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Offset
Salvador Dali - Erotic Grapefruit - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Erotic Grapefruit - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
1969
Dimensions: P. 57 x 37 cm
Sheet: 75 x 56 cm
Handsigned, EA (Epreuve d'Artiste)
Excellent Condition
Reference...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, La Tristesse du Roi (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Li...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Figurative Picasso Etching, 'Trois Femmes nues et une Coupe d’Anémones', 1933
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso's "Trois Femmes nues et une Coupe d'Anémones" (1933) is a powerful and evocative work that captures the artist's fascination with the female form and his ongoing explor...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Le Taureau Blanc IV, Surrealist Etching by Lucien Coutaud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lucien Coutaud, French (1904 - 1977) - Le Taureau Blanc IV, Year: 1957, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 7.75 x 5 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Description: From the col...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
after Henri Matisse - Sleeping Blue Nude - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri MATISSE
Edition of 200
with the printed signature, as issued
76 x 56 cm
With stamp of the Succession Matisse
References : Artvalue - Succession Matisse
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Voil, I
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Provenance:
Marina Picasso Estate, her number verso
Purchased from Jan Krugier Gallery, NY
References And Exhibitions:
Georges Bloch, Picasso: Catalogue de l'oeuvre grave et lith...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Leonor Fini, rare original serigraph on Rives paper, circa 1970
By Leonor Fini
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare print handsigned by surrealist artist Leonor Fini, inscreasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women. This silkscreen is in perfect condition and from a ver...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Paper
Salvador Dali - The War
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The War - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 235
1967
Embossed signature
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Matisse, L'Escargot (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Deux Femmes Nues - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on wove Arches paper.
Hand signed and numbered in ink. Edition of 125 prints.
Published by Editions Albert Skira, Paris, in 1930.
Very good condition.
Catalogue Bloch no. 132.
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Nude from the Back- Etching - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized to illustrate Pierre Ronsard's "Les Amours de Cassandre".
Published by Argillet, Paris, in 1968.
Edition of 299 pieces. One of 165 specimen on Arches ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Bathers, Modern Lithograph by Fausto Pirandello
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fausto Pirandello, Italian (1899 - 1975) - Bathers, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 8/300, Image Size: 13 x 19 inches, Size: 17.25 x 2...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Dawn - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Dawn - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Guillard
SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali.
LIMITED : 233 copies.
SIZE : 41 x 33 cm
REFERENCES : Fiel...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude - Original Lithograph by Oscar Gallo - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original lithograph on greenish paper realized in 1946 by the italian artist Oscar Gallo (1909 - 1994).
Signed on the lower left and dated.
The state of preservation is ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
'The Bather' — American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'The Bather', wood engraving, 1931, edition 120, Burne Jones 63. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches (137 x 200 mm); sheet size 11 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (283 x 368 mm).
Impressions of this work are held in the following public collections: Burne Jones Collection (Illinois), Chazen Museum of Art, Chegodaev Collection (Moscow), Kent Collection (New York), National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; SUNY Plattsburg Art Museum, Princeton University Library, Pushkin Museum (Moscow), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection (New York), University of Illinois.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dali - The Drawers
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Drawers - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 235
1967
Embossed signature
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Henri Matisse (after) Nus Bleus VIII
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Title: Nus Bleus VIII
Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1958
Edition: 2000
Frame Size: 20" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size: 14" ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Mountain Climber' — American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'Mountain Climber', wood engraving, 1933, edition 250, Burne Jones 93. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 9/16 to 3 5/8 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge verso, where previously hinged; otherwise, in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (200 x 149 mm); sheet size 14 x 11 1/8 inches (356 x 283 mm).
Printed by Pynson Printers, New York. Distributed by The Print Club of Cleveland, Publication No. 11, 1933.
Literature: 'Rockwellkentiana,' Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1933. '101 of The World’s Greatest Books', edited by Spencer Armstrong, 1950.
Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Akron Art Institute, Burne Jones Collection, IL; Cincinnati Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Davis Museum at Wellesley College; Fine Art Museums of San Francisco; H. M. de Young Museum; Hermitage Museum; Kent Collection, NY; Library of Congress; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester; Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection, NY; SUNY, Plattsburg.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock. In 1905 Kent moved from New York to Monhegan Island in Maine, home to a summer art colony, where he continued to find inspiration in nature. Kent soon found success exhibiting and selling his paintings in New York, and in 1907, he was given his first solo show at Claussen Galleries. The following year he married his first wife, Kathleen Whiting (Thayer’s niece), with whom he had five children. The couple divorced in 1924, and Kent married Frances Lee the following year. They divorced after 15 years of marriage, and the artist married Sally Johnstone.
For the next several decades, Kent lived a peripatetic lifestyle, settling in several locations in Connecticut, Maine, and New York. During this time he took several extended voyages to remote, often ice-filled, corners of the globe, including Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland, to which he made three separate trips. For Kent, exploration and artistic production were twinned endeavors, and his travels to these rugged, elemental locations inspired his visual art and his writings. He developed a stark, realist landscape style in his paintings and drawings that revealed both nature’s harshness and its sublimity. Kent’s human figures, which appear sparingly in his work, often allude to the mythic themes of isolation, individualism, heroism, and the quest for self-connection. Important exhibitions of works from these travels include the Knoedler Gallery’s shows in 1919 and 1920, featuring Kent’s Alaska drawings...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut