Mid-20th Century Prints and Multiples

Strong and vibrant color lithograph by the American artist Benton Murdoch Spruance. Edition size in pencil lower left margin Titled in pencil middle margin and signed in pencil lower...

Netherton Chapel. 1935. Etching. Comstock 53.v. 5 11/16 x 4 3/8 (sheet 8 15/16 x 6 1/2). Edition 85 in this state (total edition 88-89). Illustrated Fine Prints of the Year, 1936; Print Collector's Quarterly 26 (1939): 286. A fine impression on white laid paper with a partial crown watermark. Signed in pencil. Housed in a striking 11 1/2 x 10 7/8 wood and champagne gold frame. According to Comstock "The subject is a small memorial chapel, now much more ruinous than the etching shows, near Bredon Hill...

Although this work is titled Horses. It nice to think it could be (Horses in a Field in Woodstock, NY), but it was printed by Will Barnet at the Art Students League, about 1938, and Wilson, who visited Woodstock with Arnold Blanche...

ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893-1980) WAS HEISST HIER KUNST? (WHAT DOES ART MEAN HERE?) c 1953 Lithograph, signed in pencil and with the artist's Clan Press Stamp lower left corner. Image including the light PRINTED BORDER AROUND THE IMAGE is 15 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches. The full sheet 19 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches with deckle edges.. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. SHEET FRESH AND EVEN - PHOTO IS TOO DARK!! An image of EDVARD MUNCH''S "THE SCREAM" is below a satirical image of a man eating a sausage sitting on top of other works of art including - GOYA"S "SLEEP OF REASON...

Lithograph and pochoir realized by Emile Gallois in the mid-20th Century ca. to illustrate japanese costumes. Signed in the plate. Published by H. Laurens, Paris. Very good condit...

Jean Dubuffet - Original Lithograph from XXe Siecle magazine 1958 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Edition: G. di San Lazzaro. Unsigned and unumbered as issued

Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a dramati...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Filigrané a sa marque paper Year: 1950 Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches; image size: 9.05 x 6.69 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issue...

Color lithograph, 1967. Edition of 3000. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Published by Editions of the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Catalogue raisonne reference: Sorlier 38.

"Musee de L'Athenee" is an original color lithograph poster by Joan Miro. It is from an edition of 1000. It showcases Miro's surreal biomorphic marks and is an advertising poster for...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...

Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Dragon vert, Medium: Etching and aquatint, signed and numbered in pecnil, Edition: 14/50, Image Size: 10.5 x 8 inches, Size: 16.25 x 13 in. (41....

Additional Details: First edition, Printed by Maeght Editeur. Front and back cover for DLM 156. Fold line down the center as issued. DLM stands for Derriere Le Miroir, literally tran...

This piece is part of my private collection since the 1970's. It is an original color lithograph signed and numbered by the Japanese artist Shungo Sekiguchi. In 1935 Shungo Sekiguchi...

Nice original vintage poster from Jacques Dubois about the French Riviera and the French National railway printed in 1957. With the trains and coaches of the Société Nationale des C...

This artwork Titled "Moses Sees the Sufferings of his People" 1966 from the suite " The Story of Exodus" is an original lithograph on Arches paper ...

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1953 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1953 Spr...

Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015) Title: "Galerie Maeght" Year: 1964 Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer...

Nue - From the 12 plate Portfolio, 1959 Published by Denise Rene, Paris Lithograph in colors on heavy paper 20 x 26 inches Numbered in pencil, edition of 64/150 AUGUSTE HERBIN (188...

Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Paper Size: 11 x 8.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins d...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1967 Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Dunoyer de Segonzac...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin Hamilton Kilmory paper Year: 1947 Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Rembrandt, Drawings...

Unique mid century modern abstract limited edition serigraph titled "Poor Butterfly" by Madrid-based artist Mil Lubroth (American, 1925-2004). Lubroth uses a layering technique to build the fragmented form of the butterfly in neutral earth-tones, black and grey. Her serigraph “Poor Butterfly” was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum’s 13th Biennial National Print Exhibition in 1962. Signed "Mil Lubroth" lower right. Numbered 30/50 lower left and titled center. Displayed in a grey mat and metal frame with plexiglass. Image window: 19"H x 26"W. Paper size: 23.5"H x 32"W. Madrid artist...

Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Tribute to Toulouse Lautrec : Lovers, the Kiss Lithograph enhanced with stencil (Jacomet process) after a pastel by the artist Printed signature in the pla...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Nu couché Lithograph from 1964. Dimensions of work: 17.7 x 9 cm. Plate signed. Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris. The work is in Excellent cond...

LOTERIE NATIONALE des PARFUMS. Original vintage French poster, 1939 lithograph. Professional acid-free archival linen-backed, fine condition. Read...

Salvador Dali ( 1904 - 1989 ) Aliyah, Return, O Virgin of Israel, Aliyah suite edition 232/ 250 published Shorewood Press 1968 on Arches paper paper size 25 x 19.63 image size 20....

This piece is artist signed and numbered. Jacques Despierre was born in St. Etienne France, 1912-1995. He studied at the Academie Colarrossi and also at the Ecole des Beaux arts in P...

Color Collotype on Arches paper, 1965. Signed by Picasso and numbered 207/250 in pencil, lower margin. Published by Guy Spitzer, Paris, with the blind stamp. Overall framed dime...

The Beach is an artwork realized by Raphael Drouart in the mid-20th Century. Woodcut. Good condition. Hand signed..

Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...

Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...

Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...

Charles Quest, 'Work Bench', 1949, wood engraving, edition 40. Signed, dated and numbered 9/40 in pencil. Titled and annotated 'wood engraving 1949' in pencil, in the artist’s hand, lower right margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove Japan, with full margins (1 3/4 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THE ARTIST Charles Quest, a successful artist, and fine art instructor, worked in a variety of mediums including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture, but remains best known as a printmaker. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929, and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters. After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium which he apparently learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’ In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting a lot of critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’ were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’ and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’, was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in the Graphic Arts Division of the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). This one-man exhibition was a remarkable achievement for Quest, who had been working in the medium for only about ten years. In the press release for the show, Kainen praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’ At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had also won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951. Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’. Charles Quest retired from teaching in 1971 and made relatively few prints in his later years, as the rigors of the medium were too demanding. He moved to Tryon, North Carolina, with his wife Dorothy, an artist and portrait painter, and remained active as a painter until his death in 1993. An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted the interest of Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for the University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division became the grateful recipient of a large body of Quest's work including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, and stained glass, as well as his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...

Original lithographic print done as a gravure using black ink attributed to the hand of the well known French artist, Jean Dufy. Signed in the plate “Dufy” lower right. Circa 1960. Condition is very good. “Pierre Hautot...

I Love Lucy Lucille Ball 20th Century TV Icon Emmy Award Mid-Century Modern Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003) Lucille Ball with Fur Stole and Purse, 1962 Plate size: 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 Paper...

Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...

Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...

William P. Hicks has drawn everything about the circus that will fit in the plate. The main figure is an aerial act with a woman balancing on rope held by a figure on the floor. Ther...

Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...

Lithograph on hand made Fabriano vélin paper mounted on museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Elegy of Ihpetonga and Ma...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 121-122, published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; prin...

Salvador Dali - Nude with Snail - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 235 1967 embossed signature On Arches Vellum References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)

Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 -1973) - Amours de Jupiter et de Semele, Year: 1930, Medium: Etching, dated in the plate, Image Size: 9 x 6.75 inches, Frame Size: 17.75 x 13.75 inch...

Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...

Original WWII vintage poster: FOR THEIR FUTURE - BUY WAR BONDS. Original vintage WWII poster by the artist Munsett, 1943. U. S. Government printing: 1943-0-513138. Archival l...

This circa 1950 original poster, created by Luc-Marie Bayle, celebrates the global reach of TAI (Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux), one of France’s pioneering airline companies. ...

Brian Wall Untitled Hard Edge Minimalist Etching (Geometric Abstraction) from the 1960s, 1969 Etching on wove paper with deckled edges Hand signed and numbered 22/75 by the artist in...

Medium: Collotype and lithograph on vélin gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on vélin paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 11.25 x 15 inches Catalogue ...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 138, 1963. Published by Aim...

GIORGIO DE CHIRICO 1888-1978 Vólos, Greece 1888 - 1978 Rome (Italian) Title: The Invincible Chariot La biga invincibile, 1969 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithogr...

Beautiful poster created in 1960 by Jacques Nathan-Garamond 🇫🇷 (1910-2001) to promote Air France travel and flights to Africa. Thanks to his taste for abstraction, consolidated by...

Untitled is a contemporary artwork realized by Marcello Avenali in the mid-20th Century. Mixed colored lithograph on paper. Includes frame: 38 x 3 x 43 cm Hand signed and numbered...

This artwork titled "Composition" 1967, is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by renown Italian artist Alberto Magnelli, 1888-1971. It is hand signed and numbered 37/75 in...

This limited edition three-color silkscreen poster was designed by renowned artist Robert Indiana and donated to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1964. As the second pos...

Victor Vasarely (Hungarian/French, 1906-1997), "Yllam", Screenprint in Colors, circa 1950, numbered edition "190/200" lower left, signed in pencil lower right, silver-tone frame. Ima...

Medium: offset lithograph (after the the drawing). Executed as a sketchbook drawing during the middle 1950's and subsequently made available by Picasso for publication. Printed in Pa...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, hinged on archival support sheet, as issued Year: 1968 Paper Size: 13 x 16 inches; image size: 4.375 x 13.75 inches Inscription: Signed in the plat...

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Artist: Kiyoshi Saito – Japanese – (1907-1997) Title: Katsura, Kyoto (L) Year: 1964 Medium: Woodblock Image size: 18 x 24 inches. Sheet size: 21.5x 28.5 inches. Signature: Signed, ...