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Period: Mid-20th Century
Hommage á la Nymphe, Cubist Collotype and Pochoir after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Between the years of 1946 and 1956, Pablo Picasso pulled concepts from his earlier creations, a series of drawings and watercolor, in order to form Faune a La Diaule, 1956. Pablo Pic...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
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Stencil
Composition, Signed Surrealist Etching by Andre Beaudin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Composition
Andre Beaudin, French (1895–1972)
Date: 1934
Etching on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 81/100
Image Size: 11.75 x 9.25 inches
Size: 24.25 x 18.25 in. (6...
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Surrealist 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
Matisse, Apollo (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
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Etruscan and Roman Costumes - Original Etching - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etruscan and Roman Costumes is a set of 7 etchings realized by Various artists in the 17th Century.
good conditions.
The artworks are realized with soft strokes in a well-balanced...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
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Etching
$426 Sale Price
20% Off
La Grosse Melie, Signed Nude Lithograph by Marie-Laure De Noailles
Located in Long Island City, NY
La Grosse Melie
Marie-Laure de Noailles, French (1902–1970)
Date: 1952
Lithograph on Arches, signed and dedicated in pencil
Edition of Dedicated Proof
Image Size: 14 x 11 inches
Size...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L’Incontro - Original Etching - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered by artist with pencil.
Edition of 20 Artist's Proofs in Roman Numbers.
Image dimensions: 44.5 x 31 cm
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing leg...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
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Etching
Two Nude Women Discussing with Men - Original etching - 1951
By André Derain
Located in Paris, IDF
Andre DERAIN
Two Nude Women Discussing with Men
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
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
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
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
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall - Moses with Tablets of Stone - 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...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La petite fille sur canape noir, Etching by Hans Bellmer
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hans Bellmer, German
Title: La petite fille sur canape noir
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 46/70
Image Size: 10.5 x 8 inches
Frame...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Matisse, Bateau (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
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
33% Off
Pablo Picasso (after) Helene Chez Archimede - Wood Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after)
Helene Chez Archimede
Medium: engraved on wood by Georges Aubert
Dimensions: 44 x 33 cm
Portfolio: Helen Chez Archimede
Year: 1955
Edition: 240 (Here it is on...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
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
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
38% Off
Morning Paper
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Morning Paper
Mezzotint, 1941
Signed in pencil lower right
Publisher: 32nd Presentation Print of the Chicago Society of Etchers
Edition: 350
Illustrated in GREAT AMERICAN PRINTS 1900...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
BREKER (Arno). Postdam, publisher of Eduard Stichnote - ZEICHNUNGEN
Located in Pasadena, CA
BREKER (Arno). Postdam, publisher of Eduard Stichnote - Berlin, printing stick by Sauer et consort, see folio in sheets in a publishing box with 10 prints of nude sketches, all signe...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
Salvador Dali - Knight & Death, from "Faust"
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - "Knight & Death" from Faust - Original Etching
With embossed signature (from the standard book edition of 731)
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Sator from "Faust"
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Sator, from "Faust"
Original Etching
Embossed signature
From the edition of 731
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...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Ex Libris - Ernest Monteux- Etching by Michel Fingesten - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Ernest Monteux is an Etching print created by Michel Fingesten in 1930s.
Hand signed on the lower margin. Numbered on the left corner, ex. 149/150
Good conditions.
Mi...
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Symbolist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
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
Materials
Etching
Faune et Femme Nue
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Faune et Femme Nue" from the portfolio "La Flute Double" published in 1967 is a lithograph on Moulin Richard De Bas paper after artist P...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,400
Le Peintre et Son Modele
By Hans Erni
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Peintre et Son Modele
Color lithograph on BFK Rives paper
Numbered and signed in pencil by the artist
Edition 200 (77/200) printed in colors
There is also a black and white editio...
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French School Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Mort de Daphnis for Les Bucoliques, Modern Lithograph by Jacques Villon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jacques Villon, French (1875 - 1963)
Title: Le Mort de Daphnis for Les Bucoliques
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Lithograph, Signed in Pencil
Image Size: 8 x 19 inches
Size: 15 in....
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alvar Sunol Embossed Figural Abstract Nude Lithograph C.1978
By Sunol Alvar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alvar Sunol Embossed Figural Abstract Nude Lithograph C.1978
Number 46 from an edition of 100
Dimensions 12" x 16.5"
The frame measures 22" x 27.5"
The frame shows a chip at one...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
after Henri Matisse - Zulma - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri Matisse - Zulma - Lithograph
Artist : Henri MATISSE
posthumous edition of 200 after the original paper cut-out
signature printed in the plate
80 x 60 cm
With stamp of t...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
40% Off
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
Materials
Etching
Sans Titre, Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
This raucous scene by Latin American Surrealist Roberto Matta shows leaping nude figures flying through the air above what look like boulders. Their bodies are warped and stretched a...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Marc Chagall - Double Portrait - 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: Édit...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Dawn Revel" - Mid Century Modern Modernist Serigraph by Phil Paradise
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful modernist figurative silkscreen on paper of women dancing by Phil Paradise, (American, 1905-1997), c.1960.
Edition No. 56. Signed lower right ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Reclined Nude - Etching by Valér Ferenczy - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude is an etching and drypoint on ivory-colored paper realized by Valér Ferenczy in the 1930s.
Hand-signed by pencil on the lower right.
Good conditions with foxing and ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Old Faust - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Old Faust - from "Faust"
Original Etching
Embossed signature
From the edition of 731
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Poems Secrets Nude at The Fountain
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Poems Secrets Nude at The Fountain
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris
EDITION NUMB...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Black and White Nudes - Etching by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 29 x 27.5 cm.
Black and White Nudes is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the second half of XX century.
Black and white etching.
Hand-signed by the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Phone - Mixed Media by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
"The Phone" is an original hand colored drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Mino Maccari (1898-1989).
Good condition except some tear on edges.
Sheet dimension: 35 x 50 cm.
This i...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Marc Chagall - The Bible - 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 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
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - George Washington - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - George Washington - Original Handsigned Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
1967
Signed in pencil
EA in Sanguine
Jean Schneider, Basel
References : Field 67-3
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Ex Libris Tibor Gubisi - Original Woodcut - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Tibor Gubisi is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the early 20th Century .
Original B/W Xilograph artwork on ivory-colored paper.
The work is glued on card...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Lovers - Etching by Amerigo Bartoli - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lovers is an etching and drypoint realized by Amerigo Bartoli in the Mid-20th Century.
Edition II / XXXV
9x11 cm , 40x55 cm with frame.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Amphitrite Nude Etching
By Raoul Dufy
Located in New York, NY
Original etching. This is the frontispiece etching published in Paris in 1930 by Floury for Marcelle Berr de Turique's monograph on the artist Dufy. Signed by Raoul Dufy within the p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Paper
Surreal Nude of Women - Etching by Henry Forge - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Women is an original etching realized by Henry Forge in 1940.
Good condition, with some pencil notes on the back of the cardboard.
Hand-signed by the artist.
Henry Forge (...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Female Figure - Original Etching by Emilio Greco - 1964
By Emilio Greco
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed.
Edition of 102 copies (16/102), etching on copper.
Image dimensions: 21x25 cm.
This is one artwork collected in the portfolio "Galleria Grafica Contemporanea", publis...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
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....
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Bicephale - Original Etching on Silk
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Bicephale - from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Original Etching
From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34
Dimensions: 38,5 x...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude on the Beach - Original Etching and Drypoint by A. Soffici - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Very rare edition of 125 prints.
Good conditions.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Kiss - Mixed Media by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
"The Kiss" is an original hand colored drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Mino Maccari (1898-1989).
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
Sheet dimension: 35 x 50 cm.
This is an original drawing representing a man kissing woman...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Giorgionesca - Original Etching by Emilio Greco - 1969
By Emilio Greco
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 32x24 cm.
Hand Signed and numbered.
Edition 11/60.
Provenience: Galleria Rossoni, 24/04/1969.
Ref.: Catalogue Raisonné "Emilio Greco Incisioni e Litografie", by...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Nudes - Original 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)".
Very rare print in perfect conditions.
This a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Bath - 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
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Erotic Scene - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is an original xilography artwork realized by Mino Maccari in 1945. Hand-signed in the pseudonym of "Jean Baschie" which is the artist's signature in 1944-45 ca. erotic ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Girl - Etching on Cardboard by Leo Guida - 1950s
By Leo Guida
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude - Etching on Paper by Carlo Vitale - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a beautiful etching realized by the Italian artist Carlo Vitale.
Signed on the plate
Original print in very good conditions except for some stai...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude - Lithograph by Pericle Fazzini - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a fine lithograph on paper, realized by the Italian artist Pericle Fazzini in 1958.
The print depicts a female nude posing.
Hand signed and d...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Suffering- Original Woodcut on Paper by Erikma Lawson Frimke - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Suffering is an original woodcut artwork on paper realized in 1937 by Russian artist Erikma Lawson Frimke (1878-1956), Hand-signed and dated on the lower in pencil.
The state of pre...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Telephone - Mixed Media by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Telephone is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1970's.
Mixed media colored drawing.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower margin.
Good conditions except for s...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
La Danse
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Medium: Lithograph
Title: La Danse
Year: 1938
Edition: Unnumbered
Framed Size: 20 1/2 x 27 inches
Sheet Size: 14 x 21 inches
Ref...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Phone Rings - Mixed Media by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
"The Phone Rings" is an original hand colored drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Mino Maccari (1898-1989).
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
Sheet...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Nude - Etching by D. Cantatore - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original black and white etching realized by Domenico Cantatore in 1964.
Hand signed on the right margin. Numbered on the lower left.
Edition of 102 copies (16/102), et...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint