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Medium: Engraving
Galileo, late 18th century science astronomy portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Galileo Galilei (1564- 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution....
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Man with Outstretched Arms
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maurice Pasternak has created a portrait of his signature figure with outstretched arms. He moves images around on the paper to create a sense of mystery and drama. This impression ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Singer Needle
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's "Singer Needle" is a mezzotint issued in an edition of 100. It was originally designed to illustrate the step by step mezzotint process in the Abrams publication: "The Mezzotint: History and Technique" authored by Carol Wax. It is FIROS #44 in the catalogue raisonne. This impression is #98 out of 100
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting.
In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
Category
1980s American Modern Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Self-Portrait Leaning Forward Bust - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-Portrait Leaning Forward Bust is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a l...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Below Stairs.
Located in Storrs, CT
Below Stairs. 1930-31. Drypoint. Appleby 143. 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 (sheet 15 3/4 x 10 1/8). Edition 100, #31. A very rich, tonal impression on cream-colored laid paper. Unobtrusive soiling in the top left- and lower-left hand margins, just below the platemark; and light mat line just outside the platemark. . Signed and numbered in ink. Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat, suitable for framing. A charming discussion between the chef and a scullery maid in a "Downtown Abbey...
Category
1930s Modern Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$975 Sale Price
56% Off
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 ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$800 Sale Price
54% Off
Chez Madame Dupont
Located in Storrs, CT
Chez Madame Dupont. 1931-32. Drypoint. Appleby 158. 8 3/16 x 11 3/4 ( 11 1/8 x 18 1/3). Edition 100, #75. A fine impression on pale cream-colored laid paper, printed on the full shee...
Category
1930s Modern Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,000 Sale Price
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Nah-Et-Luc-Hopie: 19th C. Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Folio-sized Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
An original 19th century hand-colored folio-size McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Nah-Et-Luc-Hopie", created by...
Category
1830s Naturalistic Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Oriental Head - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental Head is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art belongs to a late edition...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Portrait Of Jan Six - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait Of Jan Six is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1630. This wonderful piece of a...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Original Jean Francois Raffaelli Etching of a Hat Salesman
Located in New York, NY
Jean-François Raffaëlli (French, 1850-1924)
Le Marchand de Habits, 1895
Etching and drypoint
Sight: 6 x 4 in.
Framed: 12 x 9 3/4 x 3/4 in.
Initialed lower left in plate: R
This etc...
Category
1890s French School Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Singer IV (part of a typewriter that is iconic)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, Singer IV looking at the botton of the typewriter portrays the incised metal of the machine. It was issued as an edition of 75 and this impression is #22. FIR...
Category
1990s Contemporary Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Mr. Thirteen (the insignificance of the significant)
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Mr. Thirteen" is an etching, engraving and drypoint created in 1995, edition: 12 signed in pencil. The print has an embossed chop in the lower right corner, a capital P in a circl...
Category
1990s Surrealist Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Engraving, Drypoint
$697 Sale Price
41% Off
Self Portrait by Jim Dine (plate seven from Self Portraits portfolio 1971)
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine, Self Portrait 1971
drypoint on Hodgkinson Hand Made Tone-Weave paper
Paper 18 x 14 in. / 46 x 36 cm
Plate 8 x 6 in. / 20 x 15 cm
plate seven from Self Portraits (1971) port...
Category
1970s Realist Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Self-portrait with a Broad Nose - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-portrait with a Broad Nose is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a late...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Original Hand Colored McKenney & Hall Lithograph Wat-Che-Mon-Ne, An Ioway Chief
Located in Alamo, CA
An original 19th century hand colored McKenney and Hall engraving of a Native American entitled "Wat-Che-Mon-Ne, An Ioway Chief, No. 90", published by Rice, Rutter & Co. in 1865.
Th...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Lieutenant General Talmash: 18th C. Portrait by Houbraken
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century copperplate engraved portrait of Lieutenant General Talmash by Jacobus Houbraken after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, from "The Heads of Illustrious Perso...
Category
1740s Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
W. Ward (1766-1826) after G. Morland - Framed Stipple Engraving, Cyprian Volary
By William Ward
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine early 19th century coloured stipple engraving, titled Cyprian Volary by William Ward after George Morland. The engraving is exquisitely presented in a verre eglomise mount and...
Category
Early 19th Century Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Johannes Wesselius Portrait: An 18th Century Engraving/Etching by Houbraken
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century engraved and etched portrait of Johannes Wesselius by Jacobus Houbraken after a painting by Jan Maurits Quinkhard. It depicts a half-height image of Wesselius...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
18th Century Engraved Portrait of George Savile, Marquis of Halifax by Houbraken
Located in Alamo, CA
A superb 18th century engraved portrait of George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, Plate 82 in "The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain", written by...
Category
Mid-18th Century Realist Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Missing Link
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #12 from an edition of only 75,
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after...
Category
2010s American Modern Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Sacred to the Memory of General George Washington 1838
Located in Paonia, CO
" Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious Champion of Liberty General George Washington First President of the United States of America" engraved and published by John Donlevy . The artist lists himself as an "intaglio-chromographic and Electrographic Engraver". This is a fine example of American calligraphic and stipple engraving. The face of the portrait is based on Stuart's " Antheaeum " painting surrounded by swirls and elaborate calligraphic design typical of this artist. This is the second state, according to Charles Hart's "Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington...
Category
1830s Other Art Style Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Joseph Addison: 18th C. Portrait of Philosopher, Poet, Playwright and Politician
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century copperplate engraved portrait of Joseph Addison, Esq. by Jacobus Houbraken after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, from "The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain", published in London in 1748 by John & Paul Knapton. It depicts a bust portrait of Addison in an ornamental oval. He is turned to his right, but he is looking directly at the viewer. He is wearing a dark coat over a white shirt. Below the oval are items relating to plays, music, as well as the rod of Asclepius and books lying in foreground on the right.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. he founded The Spectator magazine with his friend Richard Steele. In 1712, Addison wrote his most famous work, "Cato, a Tragedy". It focussed on the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, He was dealing with issues of individual liberty versus government tyranny. The play was particularly popular in America. It is credited as an inspiration for the American Revolution. General George Washington had Cato performed for the Continental Army at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78.
Several famous quotations from the American Revolution were inspired by passages in Cato, including: Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death!", inspired by Act II, Scene 4: "It is not now time to talk of aught, But chains or conquest, liberty or death.") and Nathan Hale...
Category
1740s Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Kai-Pol-E-Quah: 19th C. Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Folio-sized Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
An original 19th century hand-colored folio-size McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Kai Pol E Quah, White Nosed F...
Category
1830s Naturalistic Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Wa-Bish-Kee-Pe-Na: 19th C. Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Folio-sized Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
An original 19th century hand-colored folio-size McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Wa-Bish-Kee-Pe-Na, The White ...
Category
1830s Naturalistic Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Kee-She-Waa, A Fox Warrior: Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Folio-sized Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This an original 19th century hand-colored folio-size McKenney and Hall engraving of a Native American entitled "Kee-She-Waa, A Fox Warrior", drawn b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Marjorie Bacon (1877-1962) - Framed 1933 Mezzotint, Master John Lock
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine mezzotint engraving, after an original oil painting by Sir Henry Raeburn RA. Published by Henry Graves & Co ltd, London 1933. Mounted in an elegant Hogarth-style frame. On pap...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
After Sir Henry Raeburn RA - Framed 1937 Mezzotint, Boy & Rabbit
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine mezzotint engraving, after an original oil painting by Sir Henry Raeburn RA. Published by Gladwell & Co ltd, London 1937. Mounted in an elegant Hogarth-style frame. Indistinct...
Category
Early 20th Century Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Peasant Family on the Tramp - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Peasant Family on the Tramp is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1652. This wonderful piece of art belongs to a...
Category
19th Century Modern Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Self-Portrait - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-Portrait is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art belongs to a late edition...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Meta-Koosega Chippeway Warrior: Original Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Meta-Koosega, Chippeway Warrior,...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Old Teacher of Philosophy - Original Drypoint by Jeanne Bardey - 1913
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Teacher of Philosophy is an original artwork realized by French Artist Jeanne Bardey (1872 - 1954)
Drypoint print. Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil, on up dated 191...
Category
1910s Modern Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Minnie Cormack (1862-1919) After Morland - Mezzotint, Portrait of a Young Lady
By Minnie Cormack
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming portrait mezzotint of a young lady with a well-plumed hat by Minnie Cormack (1862-1919), thought to be after one of a pair of works by George Morland (1763-1804). Wearing ...
Category
Early 20th Century Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Portrait of E.D.
Located in Chicago, IL
This impression is signed and numbered 24/25. The references for this work are: Auberty & Perussaux 191 and Ginestet & Pouillon E. 277.
This is one of Jacques Villon’s great 1913...
Category
1910s Cubist Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury: An 18th C. Hand-Colored Portrait by Kneller
By (After) Sir Godfrey Kneller
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored portrait of John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, engraved and etched by the Dutch master of portraits Jacobus Houb...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Viscount Thomas Belasise: 17th Century Hand-colored Portrait by Robert White
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving by Robert White (1645-1703) after a painting by Abraham Blooteling (or Bloteling) (1634–1690) entitled "The Effigies of the Right honorable: Thomas B...
Category
Late 17th Century Other Art Style Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Thomas Jacobsz Haringh - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Thomas Jacobsz Haringh is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1855 ca. This wonderful piece of art belongs to an...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Gift of the Magi: An 18th C. Religious Engraving by Vale, After Calmarat
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a very rare early 18th century old master religious themed engraving entitled "Les Mages...Trouverent l'Enfant avec Marie sa Mere, et se prosternant entere ils l'adorent Puis ouvrant leurs tresors ils tuy offrirent pour present de lor de l'encens et de la myrrhe" by S. Vale after Calmaret, published in Paris by Pierre Drevet (1663-1738). The scene depicts the Magi bowing before Jesus, who is held by his mother Mary, and bringing him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to demonstrate their adoration and respect. Winged cherubs fly overhead and a ray of light is focused on the spiritual couple. A cattle stall and buildings are in the background and a crown and scepter are dropped in the foreground, symbolically demonstrating that these nobles place Jesus above their titles and rank. Little is known about the artist Calmarat or the engraver S...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Old Master Royal Stallion Engraving by Crispin de Passe
Located in New York, NY
Crispin van de Passe The Younger (c. 1594-1670)
Untitled (Royal Stallion), c. 1620-1660
Engraving
Sight: 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.
Framed: 18 3/4 x 22 5/8 in.
Inscribed in plate: Le Bonit...
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17th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Artist's Mother - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Artist's Mother, Head and Bust is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a l...
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19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Woman's Head in Profile - Woman's Head in Profile (left) (Havard)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman's Head in Profile - Woman's Head in Profile (left) (Havard)
Drypooint, 1920
Unsigned (as usual)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, pro...
Category
1920s American Modern Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Männlicher Kopf im Profil (Male Head in Profile) /// German Expressionism Modern
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976)
Title: "Männlicher Kopf im Profil (Male Head in Profile)"
Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman)
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1918
Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany
Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany
Reference: Schapire No. 219, page 45; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118
Overall size with attached page: 8.5" x 10.63"
Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38"
Image size: 4" x 3.38"
Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). In very good condition
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. Presently attached to its accompanying page. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Biography:
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died...
Category
1910s Expressionist Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Crispin de Passe Engraving of the Grand Écuyer (Squire) of France
Located in New York, NY
Crispin van de Passe The Younger (c. 1594-1670)
Grand Écuyer de France or Grand Squire of France, c. 1620-1660
Engraving
Sight: 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.
Framed: 18 3/4 x 22 5/8 in.
Crisp...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
VISION PLANETAIRE ET SCATOLOGIC
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered in pencil. From the series La Conquete du Cosmos (Conquest of Cosmos). Sheet size: 38.5 x 27.5 inches. Image size: 29.5 ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Lithograph, Paper
$6,750 Sale Price
25% Off
Chinois inventa, dit-on, la poudre a canon, nous en fit don
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chinois inventa, dit-on, la poudre a canon, nous en fit don
(The Chinese invented gunpowder, they say, and made is a gift of it)
Aquatint, roulette, drypoint, acid bite, and scorper...
Category
1920s French School Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
The First Oriental Head - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The First Oriental Head is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1635. This wonderful piece of art belongs to an ed...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Self-Portrait in a Fur Cap - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait in Fur Cap is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belong...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Kirkuk, portraits of Iran, by James Groleau
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Title: Kirkuk
Medium: Mezzotint
Image Size: 12" x 10"
Edition Size: 20
ABSENCE OF PASSION / PORTRAITS OF IRAQ
Kirkuk is from The Absence of Passion suite of fifteen mezzotint portra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Sinjar, portraits of Iran, by James Groleau
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Title: Sinjar
Medium: Mezzotint
Image Size: 12" x 10"
Edition Size: 20
ABSENCE OF PASSION / PORTRAITS OF IRAQ
Sinjar is from The Absence of Passion suite of fifteen mezzotint portra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Bust of an Old Man with Curly Hair- Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bust of an old man with curly hair is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905)after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a la...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Self-Portrait, Frowning - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-Portrait, Frowning is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a late edition...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Männlicher Kopf von vorn, nach rechts gewandt (Male Head Facing Right)
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976)
Title: "Männlicher Kopf von vorn, nach rechts gewandt (Male Head Facing Right)"
Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönhe...
Category
1910s Expressionist Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
"Mlle Landsberg" (grade planche, pl. 16)
Located in Missouri, MO
"Mlle Landsberg" (grade planche, pl. 16), 1914
Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)
Signed and Numbered Lower Right
Edition 12/15
Image size: 7 7/8 x 4 5/16 inches
Sheet size: 17 11/16 x 12 1/2 inches
With frame: 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches
Henri Matisse came from a family who were of Flemish origin and lived near the Belgian border. At eight o'clock on the evening of December 31, 1869, he was born in his grandparents' home in the town of Le Cateau in the cheerless far north of France. His father was a self-made seed merchant who was a mixture of determination and tightly coiled tension.
Henri had no clear idea of what he wanted to do with his life. He was a twenty-year-old law clerk convalescing from appendicitis when he first began to paint, using a box of colors given to him by his mother. Little more than a year later, in 1890, he had abandoned law and was studying art in Paris. The classes consisted of drawing from plaster casts and nude models and of copying paintings in the Louvre. He soon rebelled against the school's conservative atmosphere; he replaced the dark tones of his earliest works with brighter colors that reflected his awareness of Impressionism. Matisse was also a violinist; he took an odd pride in the notion that if his painting eye failed, he could support his family by fiddling on the streets of Paris.
Henri found a girlfriend while studying art, and he fathered a daughter, Marguerite, by her in 1894. In 1898 he married another woman, Amelie Parayre. She adopted the beloved Marguerite; they eventually had two sons, Jean, a sculptor and Pierre who became an eminent art dealer. Relations between Matisse and his wife were often strained. He often dallied with other women, and they finally separated in 1939 over a model who had been hired as a companion for Mme. Matisse. She was Madame Lydia, and after Mme. Matisse left, she remained with Matisse until he died.
Matisse spent the summer of 1905 working with Andre Derain in the small Mediterranean seaport of Collioure. They began using bright and dissonant colors. When they and their colleagues exhibited together, they caused a sensation. The critics and the public considered their paintings to be so crude and so roughly crafted that the group became known as Les Fauves (the wild beasts).
By 1907, Matisse moved on from the concerns of Fauvism and turned his attention to studies of the human figure. He had begun to sculpt a few years earlier. In 1910, when he saw an exhibition of Islamic art, he was fascinated with the multiple patterned areas and adapted the decorative universe of the miniatures to his interiors. As a continuation of his interest in the "exotic", Matisse made extended trips to Morocco in 1912 and 1913.
At the end of 1917, Matisse moved to Nice; he would spend part of each year there for the remainder of his life. A meticulous dandy, he wore a light tweed jacket amd a tie when he painted. He never used a palette, but instead squeezed his colors on to plain white kitchen dishes...
Category
1910s Fauvist Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Head of a Man in a High Cap - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Head of a man in a high cap is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art belongs to ...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
No U-Turn
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Mezzotint
Year: 2023
Edition: 25
Image Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inches
Art Werger’s prints show a keen observation of quiet and normally unnoticed moments. Pedestrians passing each...
Category
2010s Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Bust of an old man with flowing beard - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bust of an old man with flowing beard is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art b...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Phlegm - Customary Hats - Urban Graffiti Street Art
Located in Asheville, NC
Customary Hats:
Artists: Phlegm
Year: 2020
Class: Art Print
Released: 12/09/20
Run: 275
Technique: Etching
Paper: Fabriano Rosaspina 280gsm
Size: 7.874 X 12.992
Markings: ...
Category
2010s Street Art Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Black and White, Engraving, Etching, Screen
King Henry VII /// Old Masters Royal Family British Portrait Face Engraving Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: George Vertue (English, 1684-1756)
Title: "King Henry VII"
Portfolio: The Heads of the Kings of England, Proper for Mr. Rapin's History
*Issued unsigned, though signed by Ver...
Category
1730s Baroque Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
King Richard II /// Old Masters British Royal Family Portrait Engraving Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: George Vertue (English, 1684-1756)
Title: "King Richard II"
Portfolio: The Heads of the Kings of England, Proper for Mr. Rapin's History
*Issued unsigned, though signed by Ve...
Category
1730s Baroque Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Self-Portrait - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-Portrait is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a late edition of the 19...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Engraving Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
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