Intaglio Portrait Prints

Dorothy Morton was born in New Zealand. The date is usually listed as 1905, but it also appears at 1890. She died there in 1983. It's hard to look at an mid-twentieth century intagl...

Artist: Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (English, 1890-1978) Title: "James McBey" *Signed by Brockhurst in pencil lower right. It is also signed, dated, and titled in the plate (printed si...

Artist: Salvador Dali Portfolio: Our Historical Heritage Title: King Saul Year: 1975 Medium: Intaglio Etching and Color Pochoir on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition...

Portrait of a Man is a wonderful phototype print realized in the second half of XIX century. Signed on the lower right margin. Fair conditions, with a browing of paper due to the t...

This is an original drypoint and aquatint artwork by Jacques Villon. The artist signed in pencil on the lower right. As well as signed in plate at the top right of the image. This is a wonderful artwork of different intaglio processes being brought together in a beautiful almost seamless harmony. The thin pencil like markings and hair detailing are made using the Drypoint printmaking method. Whilst the color details around the girls are made using the Aquatint etching method. Jacques Villon shows his skills as a printmaker with the way these pieces line up perfectly and with how clean the rest of the plate is around the girls. Catalogue Raisonne E101, pg. 66-67 (Ginestet & Pouillon. It depicts two young girls. 15" x 11 1/2" art 25 1/8" x 20" frame French painter, printmaker and illustrator. The oldest of three brothers who became major 20th-century artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, he learnt engraving at the age of 16 from his maternal grandfather, Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-94), a ship-broker who was also a much appreciated amateur artist. In January 1894, having completed his studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, he was sent to study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, but within a year he was devoting most of his time to art, already contributing lithographs to Parisian illustrated newspapers such as Assiette au beurre. At this time he chose his pseudonym: Jack (subsequently Jacques) in homage to Alphonse Daudet’s novel Jack (1876) and Villon in appreciation of the 15th-century French poet François Villon...

Artist: Eileen Alice Soper (English, 1905-1990) Title: "The New Pupil" *Signed by Soper in pencil lower right Year: 1925 Medium: Original Etching on unbranded white wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Likely printed by Eva Soper, London, UK Publisher: H C Dickens, London, UK Reference: "The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Etchings of George and Eileen Soper" - Beetles No. 93, page 121, 141, 157 Sheet size: 11" x 9" Image size: 6" x 3.5" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. In mint condition Notes: H C Dickens chop mark/blind stamp lower left. The Art Institute of Chicago has an example of this work within their permanent collection. Biography: Eileen Alice Soper (26 March 1905 – 18 March 1990) was an English etcher and illustrator of children's and wildlife books. She produced a series of etchings, mainly of children playing, and illustrated books for other writers, notably for Enid Blyton and Elizabeth Gould. She also wrote and illustrated her own children's book. Some of her illustrations of children and animals were used in a china series for children by Paragon China...

Out West is a beautiful rare book illustrated by 24 panels with photolithographs realized by various authors. Printed probably in Germany, around 1900. Black and gold embossed title...