Portrait Prints

A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably Cubism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism. In 1949 Picasso’s illustrations...

Pablo Picasso (after) Man With Sailor Blouse (Garçonnet III) Stone lithograph in colors Printed signature in the plate On vellum 38 x 28 cm (c....

Henri Matisse Visage de profil reposant sur un bras, paravent Louis XIV, 1924 lithograph on China paper, edition 7 of 50, + 10 AP 26 x 20 1/16 in. (66 x 51 cm) Ref: Duthuit 447; Cat....

Henri Matisse Petite Liseuse, 1923 lithograph on Japanese vellum, edition 3 of 12 AP, apart from the edition of 50 17 3/16 x 11 in. (43.7 x 27.9 cm) Ref: Duthuit 431; Cat. 40 signed...

Henri Matisse La capeline de paille d'Italie, 1923 lithograph on China paper, AP 22 7/16 x 18 1/16 in. (57 x 45.9 cm)

Henri Matisse Jeune fille en robe fleurie au col d'organdi, 1923 lithograph on China paper, edition of 50 14 15/16 x 11 1/4 in. (37.9 x 28.6 cm)

Henri Matisse Jeune fille au col d'organdi, 1923 lithograph on China paper, edition of 50 14 15/16 x 11 3/8 in. (37.9 x 28.9 cm)

Henri Matisse Figure devant tapa africain, 1929 lithograph on Japanese vellum, edition of 50 25 3/8 x 19 11/16 in. (64.5 x 50 cm)

Henri Matisse Danseuse endormie, 1926-27 lithograph on Japanese vellum, AP 17 5/16 x 22 in. (44 x 55.9 cm)

Henri Matisse Danseuse à mi-jambes, Main au Menton (Pl. de l'album Dix danseuses), 1927 lithograph on wove paper 19 3/4 x 13 in. (50.2 x 33 cm)

Larry Rivers Map With Fraser, 1966 screenprint, ed. of 14 25 x 20 1/4 in. (63.5 x 51.4 cm)

Abstract Composition, 1959 Silkscreen Lithograph "Phoenix". This was from a portfolio which included works by Yosl Bergner, Menashe Kadishman, Yosef Zaritsky, Aharon Kahana, Jacob Wexler, Moshe Tamir and Michael Gross. Bergner, Yosl (Vladimir Jossif) (b Vienna, 13 Oct 1920). surrealist, surrealism. belongs to the generation of people uprooted from childhood landscapes and forced by circumstance to build a life elsewhere. Uniquely, he became an Israeli without shedding his Jewish cosmopolitan-refugee identity, an identity he zealously guarded in the melting pot of Israel of the "fifties" and "sixties". In the years that have passed since he acquired his art education at the Melbourne National Gallery Art School in Australia, concepts in the art world have changed many times over. from the Jewish paintings and the depictions of Australian Aborigines through the children of safed, the wall paintings, the masks, the angels and kings, the still lifes, the "Surrealistic" paintings, the toys and flowers, the paintings inspired by the Bird-head Haggada, the Kafka paintings, the Pioneers, the Kimberley fantasy (about his father's excursion in 1933 to northern Australia, in search of a "territory for the Jews"), Brighton Beach and the seascapes inspired by Eugene Boudin, through the chairs in the "Kings of Nissim Aloni" episode to the "Zionists" and the recent "Tahies". "During the six years that Bergner has lived in Israel," wrote Eugene KoIb, Direct. or of the Tel Aviv Museum, in the catalog of the Bergner exhibit in 1957, "he has established himself among Israeli artists." Bergner was indeed one of the artists who represented Israel in the Venice Biennial (1956; 1958) and in the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1957; this, in spite of the fact that Yosl Bergner did not harness his art to serve the Zionist ethos, that being, at the time, the order of the day (his paintings were in fact rejected at first as being those of a "Diaspora Jew"); he didn't "naturalize" himself by alliance to the country's landscape or its special light, nor did he turn to abstract painting. Painter of "the Jewish condition". the painter involved in Nissim Aloni's theater and the popular illustrator of poetry books and literary texts, he stuck to the narrative which drew its images from his childhood world, from Yiddish and from the Jewish culture of Poland in whose bosom he grew, with its literature, theater and fantasy. From this point of view his position as an "outsider", first in Australia and later in Israel, like that of the European Jew on the periphery of the dominant culture, afforded him a special dialectic vantage point from which to view his human and cultural surroundings. He was and remains a figurative painter even when he verges on the abstract. Israeli painter of Austrian birth, active in Australia. He grew up in Warsaw. His father, the pseudonymous Jewish writer Melech Ravitch, owned books on German Expressionism, which were an early influence. Conscious of rising anti-Semitism in Poland, Ravitch visited Australia in 1934 and later arranged for his family to settle there. Bergner arrived in Melbourne in 1937. Poor, and with little English, his struggle to paint went hand-in-hand with a struggle to survive. In 1939 he attended the National Gallery of Victoria’s art school and came into contact with a group of young artists including Victor O’Connor (b 1918) and Noel Counihan...

Kees VAN DONGEN Young Girl with Big Eyes, 1929 Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On china paper 27.3 x 22 cm (c. 11 x 9 i...

The Flight Into Egypt. 1969. Color dye stencil (Kappazuri). 20 5/8 x 17 5/8 (sheet 27 x 24). Edition 50, #35. Printed on crumpled, hand-made paper on...

This is not editioned. According to his wife this was done privately for his 80th birthday and just given to friends and family. they were not sold. This is from a group of very few that were hand signed by Hyman Bloom for his close friend the artist Martin Sumers. It depicts a 1955 charcoal drawing Rabbi with Torah. Provenance: Acquired from the Martin Sumers estate collection. Hyman Bloom (March 29, 1913 – August 26, 2009) was a Latvian-born American painter. His work was influenced by his Jewish heritage and Eastern religions as well as by artists including Altdorfer, Grünewald, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Blake, Bresdin, James Ensor and Chaim Soutine. He first came to prominence when his work was included in the 1942 Museum of Modern Art exhibition "Americans 1942 -- 18 Artists from 9 States". MoMA purchased 2 paintings from the exhibition and Time magazine singled him out as a "striking discovery" in their exhibition review. His work was selected for both the 1948 and 1950 Venice Biennale exhibitions and his 1954 retrospective traveled from Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art to the Albright Gallery and the de Young Museum before closing out at The Whitney Museum of American Art in 1955. In a 1954 interview with Yale art professor Bernard Chaet, Willem de Kooning indicated that he and Jackson Pollock both considered Bloom to be “America’s first abstract expressionist”, a label that Bloom would disavow. Starting in the mid 1950s his work began to shift more towards works on paper and he exclusively focused on drawing throughout the 1960s, returning to painting in 1971. He continued both drawing and painting until his death in 2009 at the age of 9 Hyman Bloom (né Melamed) was born into an orthodox Jewish family in the tiny Jewish village of Brunavišķi in what is now Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire At a young age Bloom planned to become a rabbi, but his family could not find a suitable teacher. In the eighth grade he received a scholarship to a program for gifted high school students at the Museum of Fine Arts. He attended the Boston High School of Commerce, which was near the museum. He also took art classes at the West End Community Center, a settlement house. The classes were taught by Harold Zimmerman, a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, who also taught the young Jack Levine at another settlement house in Roxbury. When Bloom was fifteen, he and Levine began studying with a well-known Harvard art professor, Denman Ross, who rented a studio for the purpose and paid the boys a weekly stipend to enable them to continue their studies rather than take jobs to support their families. He took Bloom and Levine on a field trip to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where Bloom was impressed by the work of Rouault and Soutine and began experimenting with their expressive painting styles. In the 1930s Bloom worked sporadically for the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project (WPA), He shared a studio in the South End with Levine and another artist, Betty Chase. It was during this period that he developed a lifelong interest in Eastern philosophy and music, and in Theosophy. He first received national attention in 1942 when thirteen of his paintings were included in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) exhibition Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States, curated by Dorothy Miller. MoMA purchased two of his paintings from that exhibition, and he was featured in Time magazine. The titles of his paintings in the exhibition reflect some of his recurring themes. Two were titled The Synagogue, another, Jew with the Torah; Bloom was actually criticized by one reviewer for including "stereotypical" Jewish images. He also had two paintings titled The Christmas Tree, and another titled The Chandelier, both subjects he returned to repeatedly. Another, Skeleton (c. 1936), was followed by a series of cadaver paintings in the forties, and The Fish (c. 1936) was one of many paintings and drawings of fish he created over the course of his career. Bloom was associated at first with the growing Abstract Expressionist movement. Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, who first saw Bloom's work at the MoMA exhibition, considered Bloom "the first Abstract Expressionist artist in America." In 1950 he was chosen, along with the likes of de Kooning, Pollock, and Arshile Gorky, to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. That same year Elaine de Kooning wrote about Bloom in ARTnews, noting that in paintings such as The Harpies, his work approached total abstraction: "the whole impact is carried in the boiling action of the pigment". In 1951 Thomas B. Hess reproduced Bloom's Archaeological Treasure in his first book, Abstract Painting: Background and American Phase, along with works by Picasso, Pollock, and others. Both de Kooning and Hess remarked on Bloom's expressive paint handling, a key characteristic of Abstract Expressionist painting. As abstract expressionism dominated the American art world, Bloom became disenchanted with it, calling it "emotional catharsis, with no intellectual basis." In addition, instead of moving to New York to pursue his career, he opted to stay in Boston. As a result he fell out of favor with critics and never achieved the kind of fame that Pollock and others did. He disliked self-promotion and never placed much value on critical acclaim. Many of Bloom's paintings feature rabbis, usually holding the Torah. According to Bloom, his intentions were more artistic than religious. He began questioning his Jewish faith early in life, and painted rabbis, he claimed, because that was what he knew. Over the course of his career he produced dozens of paintings of rabbis...

Alex Katz (born 1927) Big Smile (Vivien) 2021 Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper 35 x 70 inches (89 x 178 cm) Edition o...

Alex Katz (born 1927) Big Smile (Vivien) 2021 Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper 35 x 70 inches (89 x 178 cm) Edition o...

In Prayer is a splendid print in etching technique engraved by the Federico Pastoris (1837-1884). The state of preservation of the artwork is excellent. Sheet Dimension: 36 x 27 cm...

Date: 2004 Mixografia print on handmade paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 25 Size: 44 x 31 in. (111.76 x 78.74 cm) Printer: Mixografia Publisher: Mixografia

Presented here is an invitation to the Picasso Ceramics exhibition held at the Museu Picasso de Barcelona in 2012-13. The front of the invitation displays David Douglas Duncan...

A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developme...

Paul DELVAUX Elegant Woman, 1970 Engraving (Georges Leblanc workshop) On vellum applied on vellum 32 x 24.5 cm (c. 12.6 x 9.4 inches) Limited edition of...

Shepard FAIREY Mayday Flag Original screen print (serigraphy) Handsigned in pencil On cream paper 19 x 25.5 cm (c. 7.5 x 10 inch) Excellent condition ABOUT : "We found a stash of...

Pablo PICASSO Smiling Face for Madoura, 1958 Original linocut (printed in Arnera workshop) Handsigned with red pencil From a limited edition of 200 unumbered proofs On vellum 60 x ...

Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper ...

Henri MATISSE (After) Relaxing Woman Lithograph after a drawing Signature and date printed in the plate On vellum 24.5 x 32.5 cm (c. 9.4 x 12.6 inch) INFORMATION : This lithograph...

Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA Two Japanese women with dolls, 1955 Original etching Unsigned On Arches Vellum 33.5 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 inch) REFERENCES : C...

Henri MATISSE (After) On the Sofa : Waiting for the Lover Lithograph after a drawing Signature and date printed in the plate On vellum 24.5 x 32.5 cm (c. 9.4 x 12.6 inch) INFORMA...

Henri MATISSE (After) Dreaming Woman with a Floral Shirt Lithograph after a drawing Signature and date printed in the plate On vellum 32.5 x 24.5 cm (c. 12.6 x 9.4 inch) INFORMATI...

Paul DELVAUX The Empress, 1974 Original stone lithograph Signed in pencil Justified HC (aside the edition of 50 numbered copies) On Arches vellum 100 x 70...

Original lithograph printed in olive-green ink on wove paper. Signed on the stone with the artists monogram device lower right. A fine, impression of Wittrock and Adriani’s on...