1930s Prints and Multiples

The Courtship is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by L...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

'Pekingnese, Chow and Spaniel' Cecil Aldin dog lithograph, 1935. Cecil Aldin was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and ...

Original 1930s Danish Movie Poster – "Færdsels-Politiet Arbejder" (Crash Donovan) Featuring Jack Holt – Vintage Police Crime Action Artwork – Rare Universal Film Collectible movie...

Harem is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La Fontai...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, 1930. Published by Éditions des Chroniques du Jour, P...

Framed colour map of the West Indies published 1936 w/ border design motif adapted from native West Indian handicraft and indigenous tropical fruits Colorte...

Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Untitled 05 (Les Chants de Maldoror) Series: Les Chants de Maldoror Date: 1934 Medium: original drypoint Unframed Dimensions: 12.5" x 9.75" Framed...

From The robbers. lithographs by George Grosz for the drama of the same name. photolithography on watermarked paper. 19 X 25.5 inches (sheet size). This is not hand signed or numbe...

(New York: John Taylor Arms, 1930) Etching on antique cream laid paper with a fancy "G" watermark, 7 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches (182 x 442 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Ed. 70" in pencil, lower margin. From a total edirion of 81 plus 5 trial proofs. Printed by Henry E. Carling. Number 18 from the Italian Series. A superb impression of this scarce print, with all of the subtleties and details of the reflections in the water printing clearly. [Fletcher 232] [Illustrated: Page 192, Arms, Dorothy Noyes, "Hilltowns and Cities of Northern Italy"]. Along with his constant companion and wife, Dorothy Noyes, Arms spent decades exploring and documenting gothic structures throughout Europe. Noyes, an accomplished travel writer, had gifted Arms an etching set...

Zebra and foal by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Etching 20 x 17.3 cm (7⁷/₈ x 6³/₄ inches) Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1938 Titled lower middle and numbered 4/50 lower right ...

Artist: Manuel Robbe (French, 1872-1936) Title: Le Retour Des Pecheurs Year: 1933 Medium: Etching with aquatint Paper: B.F.K Rives Image (plate mark) size: 1...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...

Fleet Street, London Soft ground etching & aquatint, c. 1936 Signed in pencil by the artist (see photo) Condition: Very good condition with brown paper tape along the edges of the la...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...

The Lovers is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La F...

Héliogravure on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue A...

An amazing New York City subject, Canarsie Meadows, is a lithograph by New York native Hyman J. Warsager (1909-1974). He was a painter and printmaker, technical innovator, and song w...

Original Vintage 1933 French Automobile Poster – Roby Ranty Marot Art Deco Calendar Art Print Classic Car Advertisement. Archival linen backed in...

Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 V. Inscribed 'J. F. note paper', in pencil, in the artist’s hand; with the Feininger estate stamp and catalog no. 'W 859' in pencil. Annotated 'W.290 V state 3609' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce. Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 5/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; NY, NY. ABOUT THE ARTIST Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public. Still, he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892. After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin. One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...

Leon Bibel, 'Food Not Cannon', etching, 1937, edition 12 (an early state, probably unique). Signed in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/8 to 2 1/8 ...

'Canard Tadorne' (Common Shelduck) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of ...

LOUIS & BAER AT YANKEE STADIUM. This lithograph from circa 1935 was printed in an edition of 50. This particular impression is signed in pencil and inscribed “25/50.” The image size is 15 7/8 x 19 ¾ inches and the paper (sheet) size is 19 1/8 x 22 7/8 inches. There are two small purple estate stamps on verso. "I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early." – Max Baer...

Linen-backed original 1939 James Montgomery Flagg vintage poster: You're in Trust; we must protect it from fire. "If we would have forests--we must prevent fires: Maryland Stat...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

A La Queue (Join the Queue) original etching from the series Naughty Dogs of Paris showing a line of five dogs of various breeds trailing a small Chihuahua on a leash who is t...

A dazzling coastal escape unfolds in Roger Broders’ vibrant depiction of Bandol, a seaside resort nestled between Toulon and Marseille along the Var coastline of southern France. Tow...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Saul and David (Saül et David), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13.1 inch) INFORMAT...

Danish travel poster created by Bogelund (1890-1959) advertising Frederiksberg Svomme Hal, a large indoor public pool in Frederiksberg, Denmark.

Lithograph realized by Edouard Chimot in 1932. Belongs to the suite "Le Chat", in which the author classifies and represents pubic hairstyles that become progressively more surreal....

Original Vintage French Travel Poster "LE HOHWALD" by ROGER BRODERS ca. 1930. Size: 24.5" x 39.25". Archival linen-backed antique skiing French vinta...

Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938) Naked Women Under the Trees, 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, th...

Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938) Lying Naked Woman, 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 etching...

Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938) Mary in the Tub Sponging Herself, 1932 Original etching Signed in pencil On BFK Rives vellum 47 x 37 cm (c. 18.5 x 14.5 in) INFORMATION : Printed in 193...

Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938) Young Woman and Old Woman, 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...

Pablo PICASSO Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, Woman's Body, 1936 Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris) Unsigned On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in) REFERENCES : - Cata...

Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938) Nude Woman Doing her Hair, 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...

WARRENPOINT AND THE MOUNTAINS of MOURNE, horizontal stone lithograph. Printer: J.B. Stephens. Professional acid-free archival linen-backed, ready to frame. B condition image with only minor wear on the 1/2" cream outer border and a horizontal tear that was repaired during linen backing (shown in image #7). The last document copy of this poster was sold in 2021 on 1st dibs for $4518. Rare Irish Railway (railroad) lithograph poster. Warrenpoint is a small, but beautiful town in County Down, Ireland. The hamlet itself is situated on the shores of Carlingford Lough...

Irwin Hoffman created a lively scene of a Mexican barber shop that serves as a focal point of the community's life. A man is being shaved as people cook, eat and revel in the camaraderie of the scene. This print was issued by Associated American Artists and is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Art. Born in East Boston...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of sporti...

'Chow and Pekinese' (Pekingnese) Cecil Aldin dog lithograph, 1935. Cecil Aldin was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, an...

This striking 1935 travel poster by Otto Baumberger, one of Switzerland’s most influential poster artists, celebrates the modernization of the iconic Saint-Gothard railway line throu...

Artist: Paul Colin, French (1892 - 1985) Title: Alice Dufrene Year: 1930 Medium: Lithograph Poster Size: 60 in. x 45 in. (152.4 cm x 114.3 cm) Frame: 63.5 x 48 inches from the colle...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1930 in an edition of 250 and published in New York by The Downtown Gallery. Size: 10 x 6 3/4 inches (252 x 172 mm). Signed in the plate; not ...

Colour stencil with dense gouache inks on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered with printed title-heading designed by Delaunay, upper left, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or ...

Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Artistique et ...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...

Medium: pochoir (after the gouache). This pochoir illustrates a scene from Oscar Wilde's "Salomé". It was printed in 1938 at the atelier Saudé of Paris and published by The Limited E...

Young Boy is a black and white lithograph realized by Jean Cocteau, French draftsman, poet, essayist, playwright, librettist, film director, and actor, who lived from 1889 to 1963. ...

Claire Mahl Moore, 'Court' also 'The Authorities', woodcut, 1936, edition 5. Signed 'Mahl' and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on ...

Nice lithograph numbered 9/10 of Louis-François Schmied representing Athena. François-Louis Schmied (1873 - 1941), is a French painter, wood engraver, printer, publisher, illustrator, and bookbinder of Swiss origin. He is considered a major artist...

Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen Bütten paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Der Mensch ist kein Haustier, 1937. Published by...

Milton Avery, 'Little Girl', drypoint, 1936, edition 60, Lunn 11. Signed, dated, and numbered '22/60' in pencil. A superb impression, in warm black ink with delicate overall plate tone, on off-white wove paper, with wide margins (2 5/8 to 4 1/8 inches); hinge stains on the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 8 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (222 x 121 mm); sheet size 14 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches (378 x 333 mm). Collections: Cantor Arts Center, National Gallery of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST "I never have any rules to follow; I follow myself." "I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight." —Milton Avery 'His is the poetry of sheer loveliness.' —Mark Rothko in his 1965 eulogy to Avery. Milton Avery (1885-1965) is recognized as one of America's foremost modernist artists, renowned for his uniquely expressive style, evocative use of color, and captivating compositions. Growing up in a working-class family in Altmar, New York, Avery's early life was marked by the struggles and realities of rural New York. Despite lacking formal artistic training, he displayed an innate talent for drawing from an early age. In 1905, his family relocated to Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked various odd jobs while developing his artistic skills through self-study and experimentation. In 1915, he enrolled at the Connecticut League of Art Students, where he received formal instruction and began to refine his distinctive style. In 1918, Avery transferred to the School of the Art Society of Hartford and worked in the evenings so that he could paint during the day. He became a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts in 1924. That summer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he met the artist Sally Michael...

Treason is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La Font...

Lovers lunch is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La...

This original travel poster from around 1930 by French artist Yann Le Dall invites viewers to discover the coastal beauty of Plestin-les-Grèves, Saint-Efflam, and Saint-Michel-en-Grè...

BERNARD (JOSEPH) STEFFEN (1907 – 1980) PULLING CORN (FODDER HOPPER) c. 1935-45 Color serigraph signed with a full signature below the image at the lower right sheet edge . Unknown e...

An Ohio native Witonski made his home in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and this subject may well be a Chelsea scene. But mostly it is a homage to intaglio printmaking. It...