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Period: Early 20th Century
Endymion, British Museum Roman Classical sculpture photogravure
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Endymion' Photogravure from a collection of photogravures depicting Greek and Roman marbles and bronzes in the British museum. Plate number above top right corner of the image. 1...
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Other Art Style Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

"Edward King Polo Scene"
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic polo scene drawn on stone featuring six ponies on the field drawn on stone & signed by Edward King (LL) Print Sz: 10 3/4"H x 18 1/2"W Frame Sz: 18"H x 25 3/8"W
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs' Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs. Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
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Naturalistic Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Femme a l'Estampe
Located in Middletown, NY
Edition of 100. Color aquatint and etching, 21 x 14 7/8 inches (531 x 376 mm), wide margins (full). Signed in pencil, lower left image area. Light toning, otherwise in very good cond...
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French School Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Repos sur la banquette
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse Repos sur la banquette 1929 Lithograph on Arches Velin paper, Edition of 50 Paper size: 49.5 x 65.5 cms (19 1/2 x 25 3/4 ins) Image size: 44.5 x 54.5 cms (17 1/2 x 21 1...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Dam Construction" Rare large colors etching.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Dam Construction" c.1920 is a very rare large original colors etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed and numbered 27/100 in pencil by the...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Self-portrait, Modern Etching by Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
Located in Long Island City, NY
Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Japanese (1886 -1968) - Self-portrait: from "La Riviere enchantée", Year: 1929 (1951), Medium: Etching on Arches, Edition: 315, Image Size: 9.25 x 10 i...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

La Poursuite by Orovida Pissarro - Animal etching
Located in London, GB
La Poursuite by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Etching with aquatint 17.2 x 12.5 cm (6 ³/₄ x 4 ⁷/₈ inches) Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1917 Inscribed lower left Final State Trial proof no. 1 Artist biography Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies. She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy. Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

"Port d'Auteuil" original etching
By Ernst Walter Zeising
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1907 and published in Paris by the Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne. Plate size: 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (160 x 24...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Strand Gate, Winchelsea" signed original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Catalogue reference: Hardie 367. Signed in pencil. Executed in 1910, this is a nice impression with plate tone printed on laid paper. Plate siz...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'265. Helvella sulcata 266. Helvella lacunosa' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of French, Swi...
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Naturalistic Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Love and Death.
Located in Storrs, CT
Love and Death (after George Frederic Watts, R.A., H.R.C.A. 1817 - 1904). 1900. Mezzotint. Hardie 71 between i and ii. 24 1/2 x 12 (sheet 27 1/4 x 13 3/ 8). Edition 350 in state one. London, Published May 1st 1900 by Robert Dunthorne ,5 Vigo Street, London W. Rubbing and discoloration from a previous mat in the margins, well outside the image. A rich proof printed on Japon paper. Signed in pencil by Watts and by Short. Housed in an archival folder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Winged Love...
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Victorian Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint

Love and Death.
Love and Death.
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"Verite" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This impression on chine-colle paper was printed in 1900 and published in Paris by the Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne. Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Kronborg Slot
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Kronborg Slot" 1919, is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed by the estate in pencil at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 17 x 22.75 inches, framed size is 28.75 x 34.85 inches. Custom framed in a distressed style wood and black frame, with fabric matting and dark grey fillet . It is in excellent condition. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand. Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Le Beffroi de Douai" etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: etching. Etched by Favier after Corot. Printed in Paris by Chardon Wittmann on cream wove paper and published in 1911 by the Revue de l'art ancien ...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"La Neige (soleil couchant)" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Catalogue reference: Delteil 86. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1909 and published in Paris by Henri Floury. Plate size: 5 3/4 x ...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Man & Beast by Orovida Pissarro - Etching
Located in London, GB
Man & Beast by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Etching 27 x 22 cm (10 ⁵/₈ x 8 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed and dated lower right, orovida 1924 Inscribed lower left, Final state no 12/40 and titled lower centre Artist biography: Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies. She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy. Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

'Ex Libris Dr. Witropp' — German Expressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Ex Libris Dr. Witropp - Homunculus und Galatee', etching, 1923, edition not stated. Signed, dated, and numbered 'Op. 140' (the artist's inventory number) in pencil. Si...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Your War Savings Pledge, War Savings Stamps" original vintage 1918 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War 1 vintage military poster: YOUR WAR SAVINGS PLEDGE. Archival linen backed, very good condition; ready to frame. For War Savi...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Seebenstein Castle Courtyard, Austria, large color etching
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Seebenstein Castle, Austria" 1920 is a color etching on watermarked Kasimir Vienna paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist's estate at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 15.75 x 22.25 inches, the sheet size is 23.25 x 29.5 inches. with full margin. it is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand. Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Orientalism : Young Girl with a Pot - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Jules MIGONNEY (1876-1929) Orientalism : Young Girl with a Pot, 1921 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /125 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind sta...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Torse à l'aiguière
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse Torse à l’aiguière 1927 Lithograph on Chine paper, Edition of 50 Paper size: 49.5 x 34.5 cms (19 1/2 x 13 1/2 ins) Image size: 36.4 x 26 cms (14 1/4 x 10 1/4 ins) HM15...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les cygnes by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Animal themed monotype
Located in London, GB
Les cygnes by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Watercolour monotype 49 x 63 cm (19 ¹/₄ x 24 ³/₄ inches) Signed lower left, manzana Executed circa 1920 Provenance: Private collec...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Monotype

Jean Gabriel Domergue - Women's Love - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm 1924 Edition of 100 This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a Faun. Jean-Gabriel Domergue Jea...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

La Garçonne
Located in OPOLE, PL
Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968) - La Garçonne Original Lithograph, pochoir from 1925. Arches paper (no watermark). Dimensions of work: 23.5 x 18 cm Publisher: E. Flammarion Éditeur. ...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pierre Falké - Paris' Terrasse - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pierre Falké - Paris' Terrasse - Original Etching Dimensions : 13 x 10". Paper : Rives vellum. Edition : 225 copies. 1927 From Tableaux de Paris, E...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

'Old Cedars' – Early New Mexico Landscape, Southwest Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Elbert Burr, 'Old Cedars – New Mexico', etching, 1920, edition 40, Seeber 218. Signed and annotated '(c) George Elbert Burr Del. et Imp.' in pencil. ...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Le Nid de Pauvres, Vendee (shelter for the Poor, Vendee)
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 7 3/4 x 8 inches (195 x 200 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 8/35 in pencil, lower right margin. Laid down to non archival board, mat ...
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French School Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Death and the Woodcutter - Original wooodcut, Handsigned and numbered / 160
Located in Paris, IDF
Gabriel BELOT (1882-1962) Death and the Woodcutter, 1925 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /160 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of the ed...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Poem : The Happiness of this World - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
MORIN-JEAN (1877-1940) Poem : The Happiness of this World, 1929 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /160 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

From the Youth - Original Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
From the Youth is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n. 3 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923, edition of Der ...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph, Offset

Portrait of M. X (Anonymous Man) - Original etching - 1927
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Portrait of M. X (Anonymous Man) Original drypoint etching Printed signature in the plate On thin vellum 25 x 19 cm (c. 10 x 8 inch) REFERENCES : Catalogu...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Von Der Pflanze Zum Ornament
Located in Wilton, CT
30 plates of floral designs from the Jugendstil period
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Jugendstil Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Begrabnis" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This is one of the Berlin Scenes executed by Rudolf Grossmann during the years before World War I and published in Germany by Bruno Cassirer from 1911-14...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Oval Portrait by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Wood engraving
Located in London, GB
Oval Portrait by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952) Woodcut 15.1 x 11.3 cm (6 x 4¹/₂ inches) Initialled, inscribed and dated 1918 in the plate Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo and n...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Original Italian Contratto Sparkling Wine Poster by Cappiello 1922
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This famous image is by celebrated poster artist Leonetto Cappiello. This particular poster is from the first printing in 1922. We see an elegant, dreamy image that pops against the ...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923) Title: Untitled Year: c.1915 Medium: Lithograph Edition: Unknown, probably 400 Paper: Thin vellum Image size: 1...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Landscape with House
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with House" c.1950, is a color etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the arti...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Seated Nude (version 1) from the portfolio Maillol: Sculpture and Lithography)
Located in New York, NY
Aristide Maillol Seated Nude (version 1) from the portfolio Aristide Maillol: Sculpture and Lithography, 1925 Lithograph on watermarked paper 12 1/2 × 19 1/2 inches Edition AP Hand-s...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Open Gate
By John Hall Thorpe
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Open Gate" c.1925 is an original color woodcut by renown Australian/British artist John Hall Thorpe, 1874-1947 It is hand signed ...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"Portrait de femme" etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: etching (etched by Felix Bracquemond after Ingres). This impression on chine-colle paper was printed in 1903 and published in Paris by the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The image m...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ruff's Farm
Located in Middletown, NY
A nostalgic image of a bucolic farmyard and thatched cottage, hearkening to a bygone era. c 1920. Etching with drypoint on laid watercolor paper with deckle edges, and an indiscerni...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching

(after) Édouard Manet - "Olympia" woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: color woodcut (engraved by Jacques Beltrand after the Manet painting). This impression was printed on thin japon paper and published by Paul Cassirer in 1923. Size: 7 3/4 x 1...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Kopf, Modern Woodcut by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Located in Long Island City, NY
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German (1884 -1976) - Kopf, Year: 1915, Medium: Woodcut on wove paper, Image Size: 6.75 x 9.5 inches, Size: 10.25 x 13.75 in. (26.04 x 34.93 cm), Descripti...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Printed in Paris in 1927 on Arches paper, and issued in a limited edition of 750 for the artist's own "Histoires & Poemes de mon epoque". Image size: 5 1/4 ...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'45. Clitocybe clavipes 46. Clitocybe cartilaginea 47. Clitocybe nebularis' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgi...
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Naturalistic Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Over the Top for You Third Liberty Loan vintage World War 1 lithograph
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Over the Top for You; artist Sidney Riesdenberg, 1917, World War 1 original antique lithograph poster. Very good /...
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American Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Fruit Trees by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime landscape collotype, 1908-1912
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Impressionist Fruit Trees landscape, painted in 1901. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300. Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published Das Werk Gustav Klimts...
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Vienna Secession Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper

1920 Obligation au Porteur financial document by Alphonse Mucha
Located in PARIS, FR
Issued in the wake of World War I, this 1920 bearer bond from Paris-France symbolizes France’s attempt to rebuild and modernize after the devastation of war. The bond promises a 6% r...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

"Das Nest" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This striking lithograph was published in 1922 for Genius. The image size is 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (285 x 235 mm), printed on wove paper. This original C...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Femme assise sur un canapé" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching with drypoint. Catalogue reference: Fiorani 23. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1913 and published by Gazette des Beaux Arts. The image size is ...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Femme nu" woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: woodcut (engraved by Jacques Beltrand after Cezanne). This impression on cream laid paper was printed in 1914 and published by Bruno Cassirer and Theodore Duret. Image size: ...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Still Life - Original Woodcut by G. Haas-Triverio - The Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original woodcut print realized by Giuseppe Haas-Triverio in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through strong strokes in a well-bala...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

'The Bath' — Meji Era Cross-Cultural Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Helen Hyde, 'The Bath', color woodblock print, edition not stated, 1905, Mason & Mason 59. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Numbered '96' in pencil in the image, lower left. The artist's monogram in the block, lower left, and 'Copyright, 1905, by Helen Hyde.' upper right. A superb impression with fresh colors on tissue-thin cream Japanese paper; the full sheet with margins (7/16 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 16 1⁄4 x 10 1⁄8 in. (413 x 260 mm); sheet size: 19 1⁄4 x 11 1⁄8 in. (489 x 283 mm). Impressions of this work are held in the following collections: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (De Young), Harvard Art Museums, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Terra Foundation for American Art, University of Oregon Museum of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Helen Hyde (1868-1919) was a pioneer American artist best known for advancing Japanese woodblock printmaking in the United States and for bridging Western and Japanese artistic traditions. Hyde was born in Lima, New York, but after her father died in 1872, her family relocated to Oakland, California, where she spent much of her youth. Hyde pursued formal art education in the United States and Europe. She enrolled in the San Francisco School of Design, where she took classes from the Impressionist painter Emil Carlsen; two years later, she transferred to the Art Students League in New York, studying there with Kenyon Cox. Eager to expand her artistic repertoire, Hyde traveled to Europe, studying under Franz Skarbina in Berlin and Raphael Collin in Paris. While in Paris, she first encountered Japanese ukiyo-e prints, sparking a lifelong fascination with Japanese aesthetics. After ten years of study, Hyde returned to San Francisco, where she continued to paint and began to exhibit her work. Hyde learned to etch from her friend Josephine Hyde in about 1885. Her first plates, which she etched herself but had professionally printed, represented children. On sketching expeditions, she sought out quaint subjects for her etchings and watercolors. In 1897, Hyde made her first color etchings—inked á la poupée (applying different ink colors to a single printing plate)—which became the basis for her early reputation. She also enjoyed success as a book illustrator, and her images sometimes depicted the children of Chinatown. After her mother died in 1899, Hyde sailed to Japan, accompanied by her friend Josephine, where she would reside, with only brief interruptions, until 1914. For over three years, she studied classical Japanese ink painting with the ninth and last master of the great Kano school of painters, Kano Tomonobu. She also studied with Emil Orlik, an Austrian artist working in Tokyo. Orlik sought to renew the old ukiyo-e tradition in what became the shin hanga “new woodcut prints” art movement. She immersed herself in the study of traditional Japanese printmaking techniques, apprenticing with master printer Kanō Tomonobu. Hyde adopted Japanese tools, materials, and techniques, choosing to employ the traditional Japanese system of using craftsmen to cut the multiple blocks and execute the exacting color printing of the images she created. Her lyrical works often depicted scenes of family domesticity, particularly focusing on women and children, rendered in delicate lines and muted colors. Through her distinctive fusion of East and West, Hyde’s contributions to Western printmaking were groundbreaking. At a time when few Western women ventured to Japan, she mastered its artistic traditions and emerged as a significant figure in the international art scene. Suffering from poor health, she returned to the United States in 1914, moving to Chicago. Having found restored health and new inspiration during an extended trip to Mexico in 1911, Hyde continued to seek out warmer climates and new subject matter. During the winter of 1916, Hyde was a houseguest at Chicora Wood, the Georgetown, South Carolina, plantation illustrated by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith in Elizabeth Allston Pringle’s 1914 book A Woman Rice Planter. The Lowcountry was a revelation for Hyde. She temporarily put aside her woodcuts and began creating sketches and intaglio etchings of Southern genre scenes and African Americans at work. During her stay, Hyde encouraged Smith’s burgeoning interest in Japanese printmaking and later helped facilitate an exhibition of Smith’s prints at the Art Institute of Chicago. During World War I, Hyde designed posters for the Red Cross and produced color prints extolling the virtues of home-front diligence. In ill health, Hyde traveled to be near her sister in Pasadena a few weeks before her death on May 13, 1919. She was buried in the family plot near Oakland, California. Throughout her career, Hyde enjoyed substantial support from galleries and collectors in the States and in London. She exhibited works at the St. Louis Exposition in 1897, the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo in 1901, the Tokyo Exhibition for Native Art (where she won first prize for an ink drawing) in 1901, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition in Seattle in 1909 (received a gold medal for a print), the Newark Museum in 1913, a solo show at the Chicago Art Institute in 1916, and a memorial exhibition in 1920, Detroit Institute of Arts, Color Woodcut Exhibition in 1919, New York Public Library, American Woodblock Prints...
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Showa Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Lucky Bag Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Print with Added Brushwork Signature: n/a Sight Size 10.00" x 8.00;" Framed 16.00" x 14.00" This is a small print with added brush work accenting the figure.
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper

(after) Amedeo Modigliani "Buste de jeune femme"
By Amedeo Modigliani
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the painting). Printed in 1926 at the Leon Marotte atelier and published in an edition of 1000 by Editions des Quatre Chemins. Image size: 7 3/4 x 5 7/8 inch...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

A Yorkshire Dell or The Heron’s Pool.
Located in Storrs, CT
A Yorkshire Dell or The Heron’s Pool. (after J.M.W. Turner, R.A., 1775-1851.) Soft-ground etching and mezzotint. Hardie 85. mezzotint over etching on India paper printed on chine-co...
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Romantic Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint, Etching

Alphonse Mucha Figures Decoratives Poster Plate 9
Located in Dallas, TX
A framed Art Nouveau lithograph collotype poster by Alphone Mucha from 1905 representing the artist’s sketches of nudes, women and beautiful ladies in blacks and white pigments on ve...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Rouen - Original Etching by Auguste Brouet - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Rouen is an Original Etching realized by Auguste Brouet (1872-1941). The artwork is in good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (40x30 cm). No signature. Augu...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1926 on Montgolfier wove paper in an edition of 1260 for "Le The du Capitaine Sogoub" and published in Paris by Au Sans Pareil. The artist's name...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

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