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Period: Mid-20th Century
Pour les Erophages, Surrealist Hand-Colored Etching by André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Pour les Erophages, Medium: Etching, Hand-colored in color pencil, initialed and numbered in pencil, Edition: Epreuve D'artiste, Image Size: 14...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Women, from One Cent Life
By Alfred Leslie
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alfred Leslie Title: Women, from One Cent Life Series: One Cent Life Year: 1964 Medium: Lithograph Initialled in Plate, lower right Dimensions: 1...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Nude Figure - Original Lithograph - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original lithograph on paper realized by an anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century. In very good conditions. The artwork created through confident strokes, short and...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Nude on the Bed - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude on the Bed is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s. Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner. Good conditions. Édouard Chimot (26 November 18...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Stencil, Lithograph

Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Jean Cocteau - Profil - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Profil Signed Dimensions: 60 x 44 cm
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Roi Pausole - Original Etching by Marcel Vertès - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Roi Pausole is an original etching on ivory paper. glued on cardboard, realized by Marcel Vertès, in 1930s. In good conditions. Image Dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm This artwork represe...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Pierre-Yves TRÉMOIS : Harmony - Original Handsigned Etching, 1968
Located in Paris, IDF
Pierre-Yves TREMOIS Harmony, 1968 Original etching Handsigned by the artist Justified by "Epreuve d'artiste" (Artist proof) On BFK Rives vellum 76 x 56 cm (c. 29 x 22 inch) Exce...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Nude
By Earl Stroh
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed "Earl W Stroh" at lower right. This is an Artist Proof. The price includes a period wormy chestnut frame with gold leaf. The outer frame...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Standing Nude - Etching by Mino Maccari - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Standing Nude is an artwork realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the 1930s. Drypoint etching print on paper. Hand-signed by the artist. Good conditions an aged.
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Paper, Etching

Etreinte, Surrealist Etching by André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Etreinte, Year: 1955, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: Epreuve d'Artiste, Image Size: 7 x 10.75 inches, Size: 10 x 13...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Nude Woman after the Bath - Original etching - 1951
Located in Paris, IDF
Andre DERAIN Nude Woman after the Bath Original drypoint etching Stamp signature of the artist On vellum 45 x 34 cm (c. 18 x 14 in) Excellent condition
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Feuilles Épaisses, Surrealist Etching and Aquatint by André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Feuilles Épaisses, Year: 1958, Medium: Etching and Aquatint, Image Size: 8 x 6.75 inches, Size: 9.25 x 7.75 in. (23.5 x 19.69 cm), Description...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Matisse, La Négresse (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Three Graces - Original lithograph poster - 1960 ( Buisson #60.28)
Located in Paris, IDF
Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA La jeunesse, les trois graces Stone lithograph printed by MOURLOT Printed signature in the plate On paper 20 x 30...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

James Spence (1929-2016) - 1979 Etching, Floating
Located in Corsham, GB
A surreal drypoint etching with aquatint by James Spence. Multiple nude female forms overlap, evoking an out-of-body experience or dream-like state. Signed and dated below the plate ...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Feuilles Épaisses II, Surrealist Etching by André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Feuilles Épaisses II, Medium: Etching on BFK Rives, numbered in pencil, Edition: 1/3, Image Size: 8.25 x 6.5 inches, Size: 9.5 x 7.75 in. (24....
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Nude Woman - Original Etching - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Women is an original etching on paper, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. There is The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimension : 31 x...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Matisse, Nu Bleu I (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

La Philosophie dans le Boudoir - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
This beautiful artwork is hand-signed. It comes from the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968. Copy on Velin d'Arches. Includes matting. Hans Bel...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Paper, Etching

Girl in Pink - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Girl in Pink" is an original woodcut artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1898-1989). Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil, and numbered on the lower left, edition of 71/89 print...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Woodcut

Three Crouching Nudes
Located in Berlin, MD
Reza Yahyaei (born 1948, France). Three nude females crouching against bold color strokes. Matisse like simplicity of lines. A very striking piece, unframed though within a mattin...
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Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Homme nu avec femme ivre et jeune flutiste
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Homme nu avec femme ivre et jeune flutiste Etching, 1955 Signature stamp lower right (see photo) Annotated in penci lower leftl: "epreuve d'artiste" (see photo) Inventory number vers...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Akt Podwòjny - Lithograph by Moise Kisling - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Akt Podwòjny is an modern artwork realized by Moïse Kisling. Black and white lithograph. Signed in plate. Polish painter (Krakow 1891 - Sanary-sur-Mer, Var, 1953), naturalized Fre...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Girl - Etching on Cardboard by Leo Guida - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Girl is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the 1950s by Leo Guida. Original Etching on cardboard. Perfect conditions. Excellent artwork on paper realized in the half of the 20th Century in Italy by the artist Leo Guida. The work depicts a nude female figure. The woman is skinny and is standing on a basement. She also has a black mantle...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Matisse, Fleurs et fruits (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Torso, Nude Signed Etching by Leonard Baskin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Torso Leonard Baskin, American (1922–2000) Date: 1967 Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, dated in the plate Edition of HP Image Size: 10 x 8.75 inches Size: 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

La Sirene, Japanese Surrealist Nude Etching and Aquatint by Masuo Ikeda
Located in Long Island City, NY
La Sirene Masuo Ikeda, Japanese (1934–1997) Date: 1969 Etching and Aquatint on BFK Rives, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 38/45 Image Size: 23.5 x 19.5 inches Size: 28 x 21....
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Dialogue Entre un Prêtre et un Moribond - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968. Copy on Japon Nacré from the additional suite. Includes matting Hans Bellmer was a Ge...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Paper, Etching

Henri Matisse (after) Baigneuse Dans Les Roseaux
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after) Title: Baigneuse Dans Les Roseaux Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse Medium: Lithograph Year: 1958 Edition: 2000 Frame Size: 21 1/2" x 26" Shee...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Nude - Original Etching - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original artwork realized by an artist of the mid-20th century. Etching and Aquatint. The drawing is inside a white cardboard passepartout (69x49 cm).
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Salvador Dali - John Kennedy - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - John Kennedy - Original Handsigned Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm 1968 Signed in pencil EA in Sanguine Jean Schneider, Basel References : ...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Sleeping Nude - Original etching, 1943
Located in Paris, IDF
Camille BERG Sleeping Nude Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 30 x 25 cm (c. 12 x 10 inch) Printed in Haasen workshop in 1...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Jean Cocteau - Lovers - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Under the Fire Coat - Lovers - Original Lithograph Signed "Jean" in the plate and dated 1954 in the plate. Joseph Forêt Editions Dimensions: 4...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

The Fan by Paul Delvaux (1968)
Located in New York, NY
This is an original Lithograph by Paul Delvaux printed by the Atelier Mourlot in Paris. It is annotated "Epreuve d'Exposition" bottom left of the image and dated "3-68" in the plate,...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Nude - Original Etching by Pierre Dubreuil - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an origina etching realized by Pierre Dubreuil in the mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Numbered. Edition, 83/100. Good conditions.
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Matisse, Femmes et Singes (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Lament for Aubrey Beardsley - Garden of Dreams, Surrealist Etching
Located in Long Island City, NY
Unknown Artist - Lament for Aubrey Beardsley - Garden of Dreams, Year: 1952, Medium: Etching, signed, titled and dated in the plate, Image Size: 7 x 9 inches, Size: 9 x 10 in. (22....
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Nude - Monotype by Louis-Albert Demangeon - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a Monotype print realized by Louis-Albert Demangeon in the mid-20th century. Hand-signed In Good condition. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph, Monotype

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)
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Nude - offset after Renato Guttuso - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an artwork realized by the Italian artist  Renato Guttuso  (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1959. Colored Offset on paper.  Good condition. Italian title on the back " Fig...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Offset

Matisse, Nu Bleu VII (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Peter Grippe, Symbolic Group
Located in New York, NY
This work is signed, titled, and dated, in pencil. Grippe was a master printer, highly creative printmaker, and sculptor.
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Intaglio

Nude - Original Etching on Paper - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original etching on creamy paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork represents a white standing nude woman, with a bla...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Matisse, Rosace (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Sleeping Woman - Lithograph by Felice Casorati - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 100 prints plus 5 prints in Roman Numerals. From the portfolio: "Dieci Litografie (Numerus, Mensura, Pondus)". Rare print in very good conditions. This artw...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

L'Amour de l'Art - Woodcut by Constant Le Breton - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
L'Amour de l'Art is an artwork realized by Constant Le Breton (1895 - 1985) in 1930s. Woodcut print. Good condition. Constant Le Breton (1895 - 1985) devoted to painting his entir...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Woodcut

Lovers - Original etching, 1943
Located in Paris, IDF
Luc-Albert MOREAU Lovers Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 30 x 25 cm (c. 12 x 10 inch) Printed in Haasen workshop in 1943 Excellent condition
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Model in the Studio - Original Lithograph by Felice Casorati - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Modella nello studio is an original lithograph realized by the Italian artist Felice Casorati (1883-1963) in 1946. Hand-signed and numbered in pencil "F. Casorati" on the lower marg...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Original Lithograph
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 Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion. With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way. Haunted Harbors Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Stephane Mallarme Poesis Pg 143, Modern Etching by Henri Matisse
Located in Long Island City, NY
Henri Matisse, French (1869 - 1954) - Stephane Mallarme Poesis Pg 143, Year: 1939, Medium: Etching, Size: 13 x 9.75 in. (33.02 x 24.77 cm), Printer: Roger Lacouriere, Paris, Publis...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Etching

Femme au Collant Noir, 1969, (4/150)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rufino Tamayo Femme au Collant Noir, 1969 Color lithograph Unframed dimensions: 27.50 x 21 in Framed dimensions: 37.625 x 30.75 Edition 4/150 This limited edition color lithograph i...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Color, Lithograph

Fire - Original Woodcut on Paper by Erika Lawson Frimke - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Fire is an original woodcut artwork on paper realized in 1937 ca. by Russian artist Erika Lawson Frimke( 1878-1956), Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil. The state of preservat...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints

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Woodcut

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