1940s Prints and Multiples

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Image dimensions: 19x12 cm. Hand signed, on ivory colored paper. Artist's proof. In excellent conditions. Passepartout included : 49 x 34 cm Reference: G. Di S. Lazzaro, 33; Toninell...

The X Ball is a prestigious event organized every year, usually in the spring, at the Garnier Opera House, by the X Ball Committee of the Association of Former Students and Graduates...

To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". 1944 Army "YAK-1" (1-26) - World War II USSR fighter aeroplane Original aeroplane recognition poster (1944) 63x47cm A particularly unusual style of aeroplane identification poster, owing to the very arty images. Most such posters rely on very plain silhouettes; this series - and we have many in this series - takes a much more arty approach to the task with shading and an interesting angle view. The Yakovlev Yak-1 was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II. The Yak-1 was a single-seat monoplane with a composite structure and wooden wings...

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Medium: pochoir (after the 1871 watercolor). Printed 1946 in a limited edition of 300 for the rare "Berthe Morisot Seize Aquarelles" portfolio, published in Paris by Quatre Chemins. ...

Medium: pochoir (after the 1881 watercolor). Printed 1946 in a limited edition of 300 for the rare "Berthe Morisot Seize Aquarelles" portfolio, published in Paris by Quatre Chemins. ...

Medium: pochoir (after the 1885 watercolor). Printed 1946 in a limited edition of 300 for the rare "Berthe Morisot Seize Aquarelles" portfolio, published in Paris by Quatre Chemins. ...

Medium: pochoir (after the 1888 watercolor). Printed 1946 in a limited edition of 300 for the rare "Berthe Morisot Seize Aquarelles" portfolio, published in Paris by Quatre Chemins. ...

Medium: pochoir (after the 1879 watercolor). Printed 1946 in a limited edition of 300 for the rare "Berthe Morisot Seize Aquarelles" portfolio, published in Paris by Quatre Chemins. ...

L'Otage aux mains is an original etching realized by Jean Fautrier in 1944. Hand signed in pencil on lower right margin. Artist's proof. Edition of 50 prints. Excellent conditions. ...

Rare Set of Four Original Color WDCT Skira 1943 after RABELAIS (François). The Horrible and Terrible Deeds and Prowess of the Renowned Pantagruel, King of the Dipsodes, Son of the ...

Beautiful poster created by Alfredo Lalia. Alfredo Lalia won the 3rd prize in the international competition for this beautiful poster. ERP To rise and live better. The European Recov...

Ducks at Play Frank Weston Benson, American (1862–1951) Date: 1940 Etching mounted to board, signed and dated in pencil Image Size: 10 x 8 inches Size: 12 x 10 in. (30.48 x 25.4 cm)

Hand signed. Edition of 121 copies printed by Igino Alessandrini. One of the only 15 prints in Roman Numerals on light blue Fabriano Paper. Image dimensions: 46 x 30 cm. Bibliograph...

Original ski poster was created by the artist Vecoux and published by the SNCF to promote winter sports tourism in France. It shows a locomotive ...

Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) - Les Ames Mortes Vignette Plate 8, Year: 1948, Medium: Etching on Arches, Image Size: 9.25 x 7.25 inches, Size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.94 cm), P...

Beautiful poster by Emil Hotz for the ERP: Towards a Better Future. The European Recovery Program (ERP), later known as the Marshall Plan, was a U.S.-sponsored program designed to r...

In this image from the ‘They Cheer’ series of WWII posters, we see an American Air Force pilot about to crash into another plane. He is distracted by the Axis leaders Hitler, Mussoli...

Original poster, made in the 1940's to promote Blackfield shoes. These shoes, timeless, were sold at the time, exclusively in spring. Every elegant man wears Blackfield shoes, the m...

In this image from the ‘They Cheer’ series of WWII posters, we see an American Air Force pilot crashing through a fence after overshooting his landing. Flaps are a part of the plane ...

In this image from the ‘They Cheer’ series of WWII posters, we see an American Air Force pilot nose-diving into the city below him, seemingly because he did not maintain flying speed...

Alberto Giacometti, Swiss (1901 - 1966) - Histoire de rats (Alexandre Kojeve), Year: 1947 (Printed 1995), Medium: Etching on Arches, Image Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches, Size: 8 x 6.5 in. ...

Medium: original etching. Printed in 1946 on at the atelier Quesneville on BFK Rives paper and published in a limited edition of 300 for the "Alternance" portfolio (a collective art ...

Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This impression in violet ink was printed in France in 1944 for the rare "Correspondances" portfolio, published by Teriade in a limited editio...

In this image from the ‘They Cheer’ series of WWII posters, we see an American Air Force pilot buried under a brick tarmac after forgetting to lower his landing gear. Axis leaders Hi...

In this image from the ‘They Cheer’ series of WWII posters, we see an American Air Force pilot tangled in telephone wires due to his lack of attention. His bandaged plane is clearly ...

Original poster by David Klein for TWA and its trips to Rome. A TWA Lockheed Super Constellation can be seen flying over the Neptune Fountain in Rome. Trans World Airlines (TWA) was ...

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Ian Hugo, 'Early Marshes', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1943, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '37/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (2 5/8 to 7 inches), in excellent condition. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 5 x 5 7/8 inches (127 x 149 mm); sheet size 15 x 11 inches (381 x 279 mm). Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945 and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions. “The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.” —Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’ ABOUT THE ARTIST Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature. Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research. Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June. Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages." In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking. Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...

Medium: lithograph (after the original Edouard Vuillard lithograph). Printed on Renage wove paper in 1948 by the atelier Mourlot and published in an edition of 2500. The image size i...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

Medium: heliogravure (after the etching from Goya's Tauromaquia series). Printed in 1947 in a limited edition of 500 on Guarro laid paper, and published in Barcelona by Ediciones Ome...

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The Star (Message of Spring) Rowena Fruth American (1896–1983) Date: circa 1940 Gelatin Silver Print Size: 20 in. x 16 in. (50.8 cm x 40.64 cm)

Glass Rowena Fruth American (1896–1983) Date: 1940 Chlorobromide Silver Print, signed Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm)

Beauty and the Beast (Lionfish) Rowena Fruth American (1896–1983) Date: 1941 Chlorobromide Silver Print Size: 13 in. x 10.5 in. (33.02 cm x 26.67 cm)

Life Begins at Four Rowena Fruth American (1896–1983) Date: circa 1940 Gelatin Silver Print Size: 20 in. x 16 in. (50.8 cm x 40.64 cm)

Design 7 Rowena Fruth American (1896–1983) Date: 1945 Gelatin Silver Print Size: 20 in. x 16 in. (50.8 cm x 40.64 cm)

The Younger Generation Rowena Fruth American (1896–1983) Date: 1941 Gelatin Silver Print mounted on board Size: 20 in. x 16 in. (50.8 cm x 40.64 cm)

Parrot Rowena Fruth American (1896–1983) Date: circa 1940 Gelatin Silver Print Size: 10 in. x 8 in. (25.4 cm x 20.32 cm)

Mine Rowena Fruth American (1896–1983) Date: 1942 Chlorobromide Gelatin Silver Print Size: 20 in. x 16 in. (50.8 cm x 40.64 cm)

Something New Rowena Fruth American (1896–1983) Date: 1941 Gelatin Silver Print, signed in pencil on matting l.r. Size: 17.5 x 15.5 in. (44.45 x 39.37 cm)

Double Trouble Rowena Fruth American (1896–1983) Date: 1941 Gelatin Silver Print, signed in pencil on matting l.r. Size: 11 x 13.5 in. (27.94 x 34.29 cm)