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Lait pur de la Vingeanne (Pure Milk from Vingeanne), Lithographic poster.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
It is framed with black moulding all around. Era: Late 19th to early 20th century, often categorized under the Art Nouveau movement. The poster litho size is 36"x24", print informat...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Improvisation 11 Limited Edition Lithograph 1990
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Wassily Kandinsky - Improvisation 11 1910 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper, 1990 Paper size 24" x 24" inches Image size 18" x 20" inches Stamped signature Blindstamps of the Russ...
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Abstract Expressionist Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Merieanna
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Merieanna Etching and aquatint, c. 1900 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right Titled in pencil lower right corner of sheet Annotated "4" lower left below image Publisher's dryst...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Sunflower" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Sunflower, no. 10 from the third installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Created during his residency in Litzlberg on Attersee, where Klimt and the Floge family summered from 1900-1907, Klimt explores nature’s transcendental qualities. His single sunflower is human-like, it’s golden halo is like a ring of sun-kissed hair surrounding a bald pate. It’s known that at the same time Klimt was creating this image, he was also at work on a photo essay about the Floge sisters’ clothing from their fashion salon. Their fashion house was best known for its “reform dresses” which featured loose-fitting long robes which billowed at the arms and torso. Viewed with this in mind, it is not a hard leap to imagine the lone sunflower as a self-portrait from reverse. Klimt’s balding head crowned in a golden corona forms the apex of a pyramidal flowing gown of foliage and flowers. By orienting the anthropomorphic flower at the garden’s central foreground and adorning it with repetitive motifs of round flowers of varying sizes, Klimt’s sunflower...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Mlle Sablon, musical actress
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mademoiselle Sablon, MUSCIAL ACTRESS Lithograph, 1907 Unsigned Provenance: estate of the artist Reference: Belleroche No. K383 Albert Belleroche Log of lithographs...
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Impressionist Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lionne à l'affût - Etching and Aquatint by Evert van Muyden - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Lionne à l'affût is a wonderful etching on cream-colored laid paper, realized in 1900 by Evert Van Muyden (1853-1922). Signed and dated on plate on the lower left margin, this beaut...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

"Three Women Asleep" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #13 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Alphonse Mucha's 1902 Documents décoratifs - Pl 56 - Au paradis des bébés
Located in PARIS, FR
Alphonse Mucha's name shines like that of a visionary artist who left an indelible mark on the aesthetics of the early 20th century. The year 1902 saw the publication of "Documents d...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

"Masturbating Woman on Couch" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print - Courtesan Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #5 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Kli...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Etching of John Knox's House Hedley Fitton RA
By Hedley Fitton
Located in New York, NY
Hedley Fitton (British, c. 1857-1929) John Knox's House, c. 1900 Etching 17 x 12 3/4 in. Framed: 25 x 20 1/2 in. Signed in the plate by Hedley Fitton Sig...
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English School Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Original French Champagne Poster for Veuve Amiot Chinese Text C1900
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This charming poster was created by an anonymous artist in the early 1900's for the Champagne Brand Veuve Amiot. The company was named for the widow Amiot who succeeded her husband i...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"A Drury Lane: Avant de paraitre" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Published in Paris in 1906 for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. This is a magnificently rich, dark impression on laid paper. Sheet size: 11 1/2 x 8 inc...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Original poster from around 1900 by Job - Louis XIV dans le parc de Versailles
Located in PARIS, FR
This richly illustrated poster from around 1900, titled “Louis XIV dans le parc de Versailles”, is part of the iconic “Notre Histoire” educational series published by Delagrave, with...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Original Jules Cheret Antique Poster Musee Grevin Paris 1900
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Musee Grevin Avant La Lettre (Before Text), created in 1900, is one of the best known images by the great French artist, Jules Chéret. The poster advertises a show performance at the...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Venus and her Sisters - Etching by Max Klinger - 1909
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and aquatint realized in 1909. Belongs to the series "Amor und Psyche. Opus V". Very good condition.
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Symbolist Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Sleeping Woman" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #1 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Kli...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Hotel du Pacha Noir (before lettering).
Located in New York, NY
Hotel Pachenoir, 1900. Color lithograph. On Linen 51 x36. ( Image Size: 48 x33 3/4.) Jules-Alexandre Grünwas a French post-impressionist painter, poster artist, and illustrator. ......
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"La soupe" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This original Max Liebermann etching was published in Paris in 1901 by Gazette des Beaux-Arts (reference number Sanchez & Seydoux 1901-13). A good impressio...
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Expressionist Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

La Toilette
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Toilette Drypoint, 1908 Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos) Edition: 65 this state (35/65) Published by Gustave Pellet (1859-1919),...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

"Sleeping Couple" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #15 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Kl...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

1906 Original caricatural poster by Sem representing J. P. Morgan
By SEM
Located in PARIS, FR
Marie Joseph Georges Goursat, better known as SEM, was a versatile French illustrator, affichiste, and caricaturist born on November 22, 1863, in Périgueux, and passing away on Novem...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

POLSTER (The Cushion)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAXIMILLIAN KURZWEIL (Austrian 1867-1916) DER POLSTER / THE CUSHION, 1903. Color woodcut printed on laid japon paper, affixed as usual to a support sheet from its upper sheet edge...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Jardin des Supplices V, Modern Lithograph by Auguste Rodin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Jardin des Supplices V, Year: 1902, Medium: Lithograph with chine cole, signed in the plate, Image Size: 12.25 x 9 inches, Size: 17.5 x 13.25 i...
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Modern Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Seated Woman Semi-nude" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #2 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Farmhouse With Birch Trees" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

"L’Avant-foyer de l’Opera" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1903 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate size: 9 x 7 inches (228 x 178 mm). ...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Hawk Moths, English antique natural history Lepidoptera chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
English hawk moth chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Au restaurant" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1904 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Image size: 8 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches (220 x 1...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Original Cachou Lajaunie Vintage Art Nouveau Poster 1905 by Francisco Tamagno
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Cachou Lajaunie is French advertisement from 1905 by the artist, Francisco Tamangno. Cachou Lajaunie is a licorice candy whose strong flavor was designed to disguise the smoker's breath. Tamangno's composition places the Victorian woman in the center. She holds the small tin...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Butterflies, English antique natural history Lepidoptera chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1904 Original Art Nouveau poster by Camps - Elegant Woman with a Peacock feather
Located in PARIS, FR
Gaspar Camps, the Catalan artist born in 1874, made a lasting impression with his 1904 poster, "Élégante au Plume de Paon" (Elegant Woman with a Peacock Feather). This vintage master...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Pyramus and Thisbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pyramus and Thisbe Etching, c.1906 Signed along bottom edge in pencil "Augustus E John" Edition: 25 Reference: Dodgson 91 ii/II Condition: Excellent Plate: 5 1/8 x 4" (13.02 x 10.16 ...
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Young British Artists (YBA) Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Butterflies, English antique natural history Lepidoptera chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original etching
By Daniel (Daniel Ortiz y Vierge) Vierge
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1901 for Gustave Geffroy's "La Vie Artistique". Image size: 4 1/4 x 3 inches (110 x 75 mm). Signed in the plate...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

La Negresse (The Negress)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Negresse (The Negress) Etching & drypoint, 1909 Unsigned (as issued in the portfolio) From the album "Les Bars" (8 plates plus cover illustration) Editi...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

"Smiling Woman Reclined" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #14 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Butterflies, English antique natural history Lepidoptera chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original vintage poster for Cycles Clément Pneumatique Dunlop
Located in PARIS, FR
The vintage poster for "Cycles Clément Pneumatique Dunlop Clément, Gladiator & Humber Ltd" is a charming relic from the early 20th century, epitomizing the collaboration of renowned ...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper, Linen

Original Vintage Grande Kermesse de Charite Poster by Leonetto Cappiello 1903
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This bright and cheerful poster was created by famous poster artist, Leonetto Cappiello in 1903 for a fundraiser being held in Paris' Bois de Boulogne. One of his signature smiling l...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

A L'Ombre (In Shadow)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A L'Ombre (In Shadow) Etching & drypoint, 1905 Signed with the red stamp of the publisher Pellet (see photo) Edition: 50 on velin paper, signed and numbered Publisher: Gustav Pellet, Paris (his red stamp lower right, recto; Lugt 1193) Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 5-7/8 x 8-5/8" (14.8 x 21.8 cm.) Sheet size: 11 5/8 x 17 1/8" Reference: IFF 119 Exteens 229 Arwas 256 v/V Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906. Life Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops. Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all." Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine. Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891. In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes). Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others. He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion. Books illustrated de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905. Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Wren's City, by Joseph Pennell
Located in Palm Springs, CA
WREN'S CITY (Wuerth. 504) by Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) . Mezzotint, 1909, signed and inscribed imp. in pencil, edition of approximately 75. Fine rich impression and condition, trimm...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Emilie Flöge" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Portrait of Emilie Flöge, no. 10 from the first installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts His confidante and life companion of more than 30 years, Klimt capt...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Miss Taylor
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Miss Taylor Drypoint, c. 1900 Signed in pencil lower left (see photo) Small edition, about 10 Very rich impression, full of burr Condition: Excellent Image size: 21-1/4 x 13-1/4" She...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

Moths, English antique natural history Lepidoptera insect chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
English moth chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there is an ...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le Quadrille au Moulin Rouge Circa 1900 Original Poster - Paris Cabaret Dance
Located in PARIS, FR
Painter, draughtsman and poster artist, Louis Abel-Truchet (1857-1918) is, along with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, one of the most famous representatives of Parisian life at the end of...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

English Bar
Located in Storrs, CT
English Bar. 1908. Etching and drypoint. Exsteens catalog 275 state ii. 8 1/8 x 5 5/8 (sheet 17 3/8 x 12 1/4). Series: Les Bars. Edition 65 in this state (total edition 95). Printed ...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

English Bar
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Alphonse Mucha's 1902 Documents décoratifs - Planche 40
Located in PARIS, FR
Alphonse Mucha's name shines like that of a visionary artist who left an indelible mark on the aesthetics of the early 20th century. The year 1902 saw the publication of "Documents d...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

CANAL BRIDGE AMSTERDAM
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOHN MARIN (1872 -1953) CANAL BRIDGE AMSTERDAM, 1906 (Zigrosser 13 i/ii) Etching, drypoint and plate tone. A PROOF IMPRESSION of the 1st state, Annotated...
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American Impressionist Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Harem - Heliogravure - 1906
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 17.7 x 13.5 cm. The Harem is a black and white héliogravure on paper, realized in 1906 by an anonymous Austrian artist. An original illu...
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Symbolist Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Danaë" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
Danaë, no. 2 from the fourth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Danae originates from Greek mythology. She is the daughter of the King of Argos. Because a...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Androgyne, Hésperus by Carlos Schwabe, Mystical Symbolist illustration, 1904
Located in Chicago, IL
Lithograph from Carlos Schwabe’s series of hand-colored Symbolist fantasy illustrations for Catulle Mendès’ Hésperus, published in 1904 by Société de pr...
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Symbolist Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Aquatint

L'Aieule (The Grandmother)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'Aieule (The Grandmother) Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1904 Signed with the red stamp of the publisher, Gustave Pellet, Lugt 1193 and numbered (see photo) Edition: 100 (81/100) Reference: Arwas 202 iv/IV IFF 98 Condition: Excellent, the sheet aged as usual Image size: 14 1/4 x 18 5/8" Sheet size: 16 15/16 x 24 1/4" Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906. Life Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops. Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all." Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine. Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891. In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes). Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others. He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion. Books illustrated de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905. Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Circa 1900 theatre poster for Monte Carlo Jemima
Located in PARIS, FR
The circa 1900 theater poster for Monte Carlo Jemima is a fascinating example of early 20th-century poster art, encapsulating the artistic and cultural trends of its time. Designed t...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper, Linen

"Woman w/Lace Garment" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #6 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Vienna Secession Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Circa 1900 Original poster by Herouard A. Bichot & Cie a wine house in Beaune
Located in PARIS, FR
Around 1900, a beautifully crafted poster was designed by the renowned French illustrator Chéri Hérouard, promoting A. Bichot & Cie, a respected wine house in Beaune, Burgundy. Titled Vins de Bourgogne et de Bordeaux, the poster embodies the artistic and commercial spirit of the Belle Époque, capturing both the elegance of wine culture and the artisanal craftsmanship of French poster art during this vibrant period. The image is a lively and colorful depiction, filled with charm and historical references. At the heart of the poster, an older man dressed in traditional medieval garb sits comfortably on a wooden chair, enjoying a glass of wine poured by a playful court jester. The jester, adorned in vibrant reds and greens, contrasts sharply with the older man’s more somber and scholarly appearance. This contrast suggests a blend of wit and wisdom, reflecting the dynamic character of French wine and the cultural tradition of savoring both pleasure and knowledge. The design is not only visually engaging but also rich in symbolic elements. Scattered books and scrolls at the older man’s feet hint at knowledge and history, invoking the deep tradition of winemaking in Burgundy and Bordeaux. The careful balance between the whimsical jester and the contemplative elder evokes both pleasure and reverence, mirroring the way fine wine was (and still is) celebrated and respected in French culture. The grapevine motif framing the scene enhances the connection to wine, grounding the image in its subject matter. Hérouard’s skill in illustration is evident in the intricate details of the figures and objects. From the curling vine leaves to the worn pages of the books, every element has been carefully rendered. The color palette, dominated by earthy tones with splashes of vibrant reds and greens, conveys the warmth and richness of the wine-producing regions of Bourgogne and Bordeaux, further reinforcing the poster's celebratory tone. To the right of the image, the elegant typography reads A. Bichot & Cie, proudly announcing that the wine house was founded in 1831 in Beaune, one of the centers of Burgundy’s prestigious wine industry. The mention of Grands Vins des Hospices de Beaune further emphasizes the poster’s focus on promoting the finest wines from this historic region. The combination of stylized fonts and classic imagery positions A. Bichot as a trusted name in the wine world, blending tradition with sophistication. Chéri Hérouard, the artist behind this work, was one of France’s most accomplished illustrators of the early 20th century. He is best known for his long career as an illustrator for La Vie Parisienne, a popular French magazine that featured sophisticated and often provocative illustrations. Hérouard’s versatility as an artist allowed him to move seamlessly between erotic art, magazine illustration, and more commercial commissions like this one. His ability to imbue his work with both elegance and a touch of humor made him a beloved figure in the art world of his time. Born in 1881 as Chéri-Louis-Marie-Aime Haumé, Hérouard took on his mother’s maiden name after the death of his father. He began his artistic career in the early 1900s, quickly gaining recognition for his distinctive style. Though most of his work was published in magazines, Hérouard also created posters, advertisements, and book illustrations. His work often combined lush, decorative elements with finely detailed figures, making him a perfect fit for projects that required both artistry and commercial appeal, such as this A. Bichot & Cie poster. The Vins de Bourgogne et de Bordeaux poster...
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