James McBey

Artist and Model

1925

Sunday Morning, San Angel, Mexico. 1912. Woodcut printed in colors. Mason and Mason 104. 10 5/8 x 16 5/8 (sheet 13 1/8 x 20 3/8). A colorful tonal impression printed on fine Japanese paper. A delightful large, impressive processional image. Monogrammed and signed in pencil in the image. Housed in a 20 x 24-inch archival mat, suitable for framing. "On Sunday mornings,processions of old-fashioned figures, voluminous and rosily bespotted as to skirts, snugly wrapped in rebosos, carried votive candles on the way to Mass." Helen Hyde, "The Color Lure of Mexico", The International Studio, November 1913. Helen Hyde (1868-1919), printmaker and illustrator, was born in Lima, New York, but spent a cultured childhood in Oakland, California. At twelve she began art instruction under Ferdinand Richardt, but it ended abruptly two years later when her father died and her family resettled in San Francisco. Helen and her mother moved to Philadelphia and, after her graduation from Wellesley School, she returned to San Francisco and studied at the School of Design. Hyde studied briefly at the Art Students League in New York between 1888 and 1889. The following year she departed on a four year sojourn in Europe, which included studying with Franz Skarbina in Berlin, Rafael Collins and Albert Sterner...

Self Portrait. 1920. Etching and drypoint. Dodgson 138. 6 1/8 x 5 (sheet 13 1/4 x 11). Edition 105. A rich impression with plate tone, printed on cream wove paper. Slight toning in ...

Paul César Helleu. La Duchesse de Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt. c. 1901. Drypoint. 21 1/2 x 13 3/4 (sheet 24 x 15). A rich impression printed o...

The Two Mélisandes. 1928. Etching. Fletcher 60. 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 (sheet 10 1/2 x 7 1/2). Edition size not stated. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1928; Salaman, Modern Masters of ...

Homme dévoilant une Femme. (Man uncovering a woman). 1931. Drypoint. Bloch 138; Baer 203 B.d. Vollard Suite, plate 5. Printed by: Lacourie...

Fletcher 6 state .ix. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 (sheet 14 7/8 x 11 3/8). Edition 111. A rich impression printed on cream wove paper with full margins. Excellent condition. Illustrated: Fine ...

Elegant pair of etchings by Marie Laurencin (French 1883-1956) from the "Poemes de Sapho" published in 1950 ref. 273. Each beautifully mounted in fram...

Richard Hamilton began studying James Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) during his national service in 1947. Hamilton was inspired by the idea of illustrating Joyce’s complex, experimental novel in and began making sketches the following year, only to put the project to one side in 1950, with no publisher willing to front the exorbitant cost of resetting the novel for illustrations. It was not until 1981 that he made the decision to create one illustration for each of the novel’s eighteen chapters, and a nineteenth image – a portrait of one of the novel’s main protagonists, Leopold Bloom – destined as a frontispiece. He conceived these images as large intaglio...

Adolph Gottlieb, David Smith, Dorothy Dehner, Edgar Levy, Lucille Corcos and Ether Gottlieb Collaborative Etching With 6 artist (Hand Signed by 3 artist), 1...

Jacques Villon - Surreal Cubism - Original Etching Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946 Edition of 340 Dimensions : 33 x 24.3 cm Unsigned and unumbered as issued

Edouard Goerg - Magic Jungle - Original Etching Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946 Edition of 340 Edouard Joseph Goerg ‘Edouard Goerg’: Born of French parents Edouard Joseph Goerg left Austral...

Jacques Maret - Dreamy Desk - Original Etching Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946 Edition of 340 Jacques Maret was a French visual artist who was born in 1900. Several works by the artist have...