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Art Subject: Face
Standing Male Nude - Original Lithograph after E. Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Standing Male Nude is a beautiful and original colored lithograph from the portfolio "Erotica" by Egon Schiele.
It deals with a reproduction of the homonym artwork realized in penci...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Red Host - Lithograph After Egon Schiele - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
The Red Host is a colored lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica" by Egon Schiele.
It deals with a reproduction of the homonym artwork realized in watercolor and pencil by the Aust...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Reclining Nude in Coral', California Fauve, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Certification of Authenticity for Wedo Georgetti (American, 1911-2005) stamped verso and created circa 1950.
Born in Italy, this California Post-Impressionist came to the United St...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Boots, female nude linocut by Fernando Reyes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered linocut, from the Sensual Line series of male and female nudes.
Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received a Bachelor of Fine A...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Linocut
Leaves of Love-Orange Lady plus signed/numbered trial proof after cancellationi)
Located in Middletown, NY
A colorful, myth-based female nude along with a proof impression of the same image.
Lithograph in color on white wove paper, 18 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches (462 x 297 mm), full margins. Sig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Justine Kelley Untitled 1" Text, botanical motif, illustration, screen print
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Justine Kelley Untitled 1" is an original artwork by Justine Kelley made from silkscreen printing on paper This piece measures 22.75”h x 12.5”w.
Justine Kelley is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Screen
Forbidden Goal, Modern Chromogenic Print and Acrylic on Canvas by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) - Forbidden Goal, Year: 2002, Medium: Chromogenic Print and Acrylic on Canvas mounted to board, signed, titled, and numbered on verso and sign...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Digital
In a heart. Figurative Etching Print, Black & White, Nude, Romantic, Polish Art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Monochromatic or rather black and white etching with aquatint figurative print by Polish artist Czeslaw Tumielewicz. Artwork depicts two nude bodies intertwined into a heart shape. P...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Beach Scene Art Screenprint "Three bathers with a fly" Limited Edition
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Nature scene, Contemporary Art, Beach Scene Art, Limited Edition Print, Graphic Illustration, Serigraphy, Printmaking Art, Colorful Print Art, Modern Art, Aesthetic Art, Nude Women A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Bust (Mauve): Erotic drawing of nude bound woman
Located in New York, NY
Printed in rich astral blue, this etching depicts a nude woman from the waist up. Emerging from her cupid’s-bow lips, the tip of a phallus imitates a ball gag, and across her chest, ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Kissing in flames. Figurative Etching Print, Monochromatic, Romantic, Polish Art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Black and white figurative soft varnish etching print by Polish artist Czeslaw Tumielewicz. Artwork depicts two people kissing. They are shown in rather cubistic style. Title of this...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
Erotic Scene - Lithograph by Albert Marquet - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a beautiful lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized in the 1920s by Albert Marquet (Bordeaux, 1875 - Paris,1947).
Monogrammed on the plate on the lower margin. ...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bath - Etching by Paul Emile Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bath is an Etching realized by Paul Emile Colin (1867 - 1949) in the early 20th Century.
Signed in pencil.
Numbered, Edition. 3/50.
Good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Contemplation, by Mark Jenkins
By Mark Jenkins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Male nude by San Francisco based Mark Jenkins. Jenkins has spent the majority of his career working as a commercial photographer and graphic designer. But in his personal work, much ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Digital
Naked Woman in the Bath - Original Etching Signed (Petrides #E2)
Located in Paris, IDF
Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938)
Naked Woman in the Bath, 1932
Original etching
Signed in pencil
On BFK Rives vellum 47 x 37 cm (c. 18.5 x 14.5 in)
INFORMATION : Printed in 1932, this e...
Category
1930s Academic Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
'The Female Gaze', NYMoMA, California College of Arts and Crafts, SFAI, CPLH
By Gerald Gooch
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'Gooch', for Gerald Gooch (American, born 1933) with number and limitation, '5/16' and dated 1965.
Born in Mainington, West Virginia, Gerald Gooch first studied...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Earth /// Contemporary Female Artist Nude Woman Figurative Lithograph Modern Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dagmar Mezricky (Czech, 1944-)
Title: "Earth"
*Signed, numbered, and dated by Mezricky in pencil lower right
Year: 1989
Medium: Original Lithograph on Rives BFK paper
Limite...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Retour au Noir III, by Miguel Conde
By Miguel Conde
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Sexual tension and ambiguity in this dynamic etching of a man making advances on a sleeping woman. in the background a beast approaches another man. Signed, titled and numbered in pe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
Original "The World Amuses Me With You." vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
This is a movie poster, but we have it in the gallery with our ski posters, so we have it in our "sports" category. Z Toba Bawi Mnie Swiat With You The World Is Fun
It is a great...
Category
1980s 85 New Wave Nude Prints
Materials
Offset
$478 Sale Price
20% Off
Sonia from La Ballade des Dames Hors du Temps, Etching by Man Ray
By Man Ray
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Man Ray, American (1890 - 1976)
Title: Sonia from La Ballade des Dames Hors du Temps
Year: 1970
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Si...
Category
1970s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"This Is Not A Composite" Barbie-inspired, pigment print on archival paper
By PJ Linden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "This Is Not A Composite" is an original artwork by PJ Linden and is made from digital photography, pigment print on archival paper, and framed with glass. This pie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Seated Nude - Original Lithograph by Carlo Carrà - 1920 ca.
By Carlo Carrà
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 100 prints. Hand signed and numbered.
Good conditions, just some minor stains on lower left margin.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any a...
Category
1910s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Afternoon, Impressionist Lithograph by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Afternoon, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 45, Image Size: 19 x 27 inches, Size: 23 in. x 29 i...
Category
1980s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Seated Model - Original Signed Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Antoniucci Volti (1915-1989)
Seated Model
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 80 copies
On Arches vellum 65 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20 in)
Excellent condition
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Femme Debout II, Surrealist Etching by Frantisek Kupka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Frantisek Kupka, Czech (1871 -1957) - Femme Debout II, Year: circa 1912, Medium: Etching on Pur Fil du Marais, stamp signed, Image Size: 15.75 x 9.75 inches, Size: 25.75 x 19.5 i...
Category
1910s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
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...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Titled "Aquarius Lavis" Water Color Print Etching with Gold Leaf, LE: 6/50.
Located in Chesterfield, MI
This unframed piece titled, "Aquarius Lavis" by Guillaume Azouky was created in 1995. The piece is a water color print etching with gold leaf, it is limited edition, being 6 out 50 t...
Category
20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dreaming Nude - Original lithograph, Handsigned and Numbered /100
Located in Paris, IDF
Alain BONNEFOIT
Dreaming Nude, 1975
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 100
On vellum 38 x 55 cm (c. 15 x 22 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
1970s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lady With Cat, Impressionist Lithograph by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Lady With Cat, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 45, Image Size: 26 x 21.5 inches, Size: 3...
Category
1980s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sensual Rest - Original handsigned etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Baptiste Valadie
Sensual Rest, 1976
Original etching
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 199
On vellum 37 x 52 cm (c. 15 x 21 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
1970s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig;...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Satyricon - Original Lithograph by Leonor Fini - 1970
By Leonor Fini
Located in Roma, IT
Satyricon is original colored lithography, realized in 1970 by Leonor Fini, an Argentine-Italian painter who spent her artistic career in France and was associated with the Surrealist movement.
In very good condition.
From series "Satiricon de Petron".
The artwork represents a portrait of a woman through confident strokes by bright and harmonic colors. Leonor Fini (1907-1966) was an emblematic painter, illustrator, writer, scene painter and draftswoman; one of her favorite subjects was human bodies painted with hybrid shapes, as animals, plants or minerals. Her subjects are neither naked nor dressed, their body is crossed by nervous tissues, veins and blood vessels.
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude at Dressing Table
By John Sloan
Located in Middletown, NY
Sloan was so fond of this composition that he made a painting after the etching ten years after its completion, in 1943. Completed in Santa Fe, the painting is now housed in the perm...
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Flower Dance, Impressionist Lithograph by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Flower Dance, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 45, Image Size: 29.5 x 22 inches, Size: 31 in. x...
Category
1980s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Crouching Male Nude (Self Portrait) - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Crouching Male Nude (Self-Portrait) is a beautiful lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " by Egon Schiele.
It is a reproduction of the homonym black crayon drawing, a self-portrai...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sitting Nude - Female nude after the original drawing of Gustav Klimt art deco
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Sitting Nude" (1963) is a lithograph based on Gustav Klimt's original drawing of 1914-16. It depicts in his typical art deco style a nude woman posing with her arms over her head. ...
Category
1910s Art Deco Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original etching realized by Sergio Barletta in 1980 ca.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil. Numbered, edition of 13/50 prints, on the lower left in pencil.
In ver...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
'Girl with Hands to Face' — Mid-century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Girl with Hands to Face', two-color lithograph, 1940, edition 30, Fine and Looney 180. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 30' in pencil. A superb impression, on cr...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$960 Sale Price
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Picasso, Femme Songeuse et Inquiète dans L'atelier de Sculpture (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Title: Femme Songeuse et Inquiète dans L'atelier de Sculpture (after Bloch 188)
Year: 1992
Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using ...
Category
1990s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Woman - Original Lithograph by André Planson - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original artwork realized by André Planson in the late 20th Century.
Original Lithograph.
Hand-signed and numbered, Edition 135/220
Very good conditions.
The woman is...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mexican Idyll, 1936 - 20th Century Nude Linocut Print with Trees and Shells
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Leon Underwood was a British sculptor, wood engraver, painter and writer of the twentieth century. Underwood was born 25 December 1890 in London, and studied at the Regent Street Pol...
Category
20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Linocut
Study for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of ecstasy and repose. The loose sketches were drawn directly onto the plate by the artist, a master draftsman whose erotic etchings are largely unknown. The composition is based on the drawing: Clinical Study, Towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comic Style...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Red Host - Lithograph by Egon Schiele - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
The Red Host is a colored lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica" by Egon Schiele.
It deals with a reproduction of the homonym artwork realized in watercolor and pencil by the Aus...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
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...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude Descending a Staircase, Pop Art Lithograph by Mel Ramos
By Mel Ramos
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mel Ramos, American (1935 - )
Title: Nude Descending a Staircase
Year: 2012
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude Girl With Raised Arms - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Girl With Raised Arms is a lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " after Egon Schiele.
It is a reproduction of the homonym pencil drawing realized by the Austrian master ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gee Gee, Pop Art Lithograph by Mel Ramos
By Mel Ramos
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mel Ramos (American, b. 1935)
Title: Gee Gee
Year: 1997
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 19 x 18.5 in.
Size: 28.5 in. x 22 in....
Category
1990s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hammam - Screen Print by Deanna Frosini - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Hammam is an original contemporary screen print on paper realized by Deanna Frosini.
Hand-signed on the lower right and numbered.
Good conditions.
Sh...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Two Reclining Nude Girls - Original Lithograph after E. Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Two Reclining Nude Girls is a beautiful original lithograph from the portfolio "Erotica" by Egon Schiele.
It is a reproduction of the homonym pencil drawing realized by the Austrian...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Naked Girl in Spray, Head Thrown Back' — 1930s Modernist Female Nude
By Eric Gill
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Eric Gill, 'Naked Girl in Spray, Head Thrown Back to Left, Four Leaves' and 'Naked Girl in Spray, Head Upright, Hands Over Head', wood engraving, 1930, edit...
Category
1930s Art Deco Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Balinese Mother and Child
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Balinese Mother and Child" 1970 is an original color lithograph on Japan nacre paper by noted Italian/American artist Beniamino Benevenuto Bufano, 1890-1970. It is hand signed, inscribed Bon a Tirer and dated 1970 in pencil by the artist. The image size 14 x 9,75 is inches, framed size is 27.35 x 21.75 inches. Published by First Impressions, San Francisco, printed by Fikrat Al-Khouri at First Impressions Graphic Society. it is beautifully custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano was born in San-Fele, Italy on Oct. 14, 1889. At age three Bufano's family brought him to NYC where he spent his childhood and was educated by private tutors. He studied at the ASL in NYC from 1913-15, the pupil of James L. Fraser, Herbert Adams, and Paul Manship. He came to San Francisco in 1915 to work on a sculpture for the PPIE. For awhile he worked in the studio of coppersmith Dirk van Erp. He then traveled extensively for four years in France, Italy, India, and China. After returning to San Francisco in 1921, he remained there the rest of his life except for visits to the Orient and Europe. Always a radical, he lost his teaching position at San Francisco Institute of Art in 1923 because he was too modern for the conservative faculty. He later taught at UC Berkeley and the CCAC (1964-65). Henry Miller wrote of him, "He will outlive our civilization and probably be better known, better understood, both as a man and artist, five thousand years hence." His work, simple in style and monumental in scale, includes smoothly rounded animals in granite and icons sheathed in stainless steel. Only five feet tall, Bufano was a controversial, free spirit until his death in San Francisco on Aug. 16, 1970. Member: SFAA; NSS; American Artists Congress. Exh: Whitney Museum (NYC), 1917; Arden Gallery...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Farnese Hercules
By Jacob Bos
Located in Chicago, IL
448 x 315 mm.; 17 5/8 x 12 1/4 inches
Watermark:
Eagle, close to Briquet 207 (Rome 1573-76)
Notes:
Bos was born in ‘s-Hertogenbosch in southern Netherlands (in French, the city’s name is “Bois-le-Duc”), and was active in Rome for a number of years from circa 1549 onward. His works were influenced by Marcantonio Raimondi (near Bologna 1480 – died between 1527 and 1534: see our no. 11).
The inspiration for this magnificent and extremely rare engraving was the famous so-called Farnese Hercules...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
$15,000
Romeo and Juliet - Lithograph by Tono Zancanaro - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Tono Zancanaro in 1966.
Artist Proof.
Hand signed and dated in pencil.
Very good condition.
Includes a wooden frame.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Flower hats)
By Leonor Fini
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled (Flower hats)
1976
Serigraph
Ed. Edition of 175
25.75 x 20.5 inches
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
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
1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Sleeping Nude - Original etching, 1943
By Camille Berg
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...
Category
1940s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Game with a rabbit. Mezzotint print, Figurative, Monochromatic, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative mezzotint print by Polish artist Krystyna Jaszke. Artwork is monochromatic, it comes from limited edition of 20. Print depicts portrait of a woman holding a r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper
La Philosophie dans le Boudoir - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
By Hans Bellmer
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...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Erotic Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching.
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Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that meeting Vlaminck or Matisse began his efforts to paint, and occasionally went to the countryside with an old friend of Cézanne's, Father Jacomin along with his two sons. In 1898, while studying to be an engineer at the Académie Camillo, he attended painting classes under Eugène Carrière, and there met Matisse. In 1900, he met and shared a studio with Maurice de Vlaminck and together they began to paint scenes in the neighbourhood, but this was interrupted by military service at Commercy from September 1901 to 1904. Following his release from service, Matisse persuaded Derain's parents to allow him to abandon his engineering career and devote himself solely to painting; subsequently Derain attended the Académie Julian.
At about this time Derain's work began overtly reflecting his study of the Old Masters. The role of color was reduced and forms became austere; the years 1911–1914 are sometimes referred to as his gothic period. In 1914 he was mobilized for military service in World War I and until his release in 1919 he would have little time for painting, although in 1916 he provided a set of illustrations for André Breton's first book, Mont de Piete.
After the war, Derain won new acclaim as a leader of the renewed classicism then ascendant. With the wildness of his Fauve years far behind, he was admired as an upholder of tradition. In 1919 he designed the ballet La Boutique fantasque for Diaghilev, leader of the Ballets Russes. A major success, it would lead to his creating many ballet designs.
The 1920s marked the height of his success, as he was awarded the Carnegie Prize in 1928 for his "Still-life with Dead Game" and began to exhibit extensively abroad—in London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio.
During the German occupation of France in World War II, Derain lived primarily in Paris and was much courted by the Germans because he represented the prestige of French culture. Derain accepted an invitation to make an official visit to Germany in 1941, and traveled with other French artists to Berlin to attend a Nazi exhibition of an officially endorsed artist, Arno Breker. Derain's presence in Germany was used effectively by Nazi propaganda...
Category
20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
