Early 20th Century Portrait Prints

Oval Portrait by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952) Woodcut 15.1 x 11.3 cm (6 x 4¹/₂ inches) Initialled, inscribed and dated 1918 in the plate Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo and n...

"Girl With Flowers" is a lithograph printed in brown, signed and dated in stone upper left WJR. It depicts the head of a girl with short hair surrounded by floating flowers. 14.5" ...

One hundred years ago 1805-1905 original print signed and dated 1905 by Albert w holden (British, 1848-1932) features a royal naval seaman admiring portraits and art wall in the form...

This advertising calendar poster dated from 1920 for the "Chinese and Western Medicine Pharmacy" melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. Compared to other Western influenced advertisements of the era featuring seductive women, posters like this one captivated consumers with the latest fashion trends. We see a woman with a Western hair cut...

This vintage poster from the 1930s melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. The serene landscape print depicts a young woman d...

This poster from the 1930s melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography—and a side of risque. The poster features a young woman dressed in a fur-trimmed coat with Western accessories...

This framed advertising poster for Hatamen Cigarettes from the late 1920s melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the nuanced color and fine resolution of color lithography. Ensconced in a filigree frame, a woman peers out alluringly, caressing the fur trim of her luxurious robe. Discreetly positioned on the lower corners, an open pack of Hatamen cigarettes makes a more subtle appeal to the senses. These advertisements, depicting fashionable women and influenced by the Art Deco movement in the west, recall the economic boom of early 20th-century Shanghai, an international center of business and trade. Today, these lithograph tobacco posters...

Woodcut print on paper. Hand signed and dated by Lyonel Feininger. Unknow edition. Image size approx 3.9 x 3.9 inches. Sheet size 7 x 6.5 inches. Artwork is in excellent conditio...

Maurice de Vlaminck - Paris' Souflot Street - Original Etching Dimensions : 13 x 10". Paper : Rives vellum. Edition : 225 copies. 1927 From Tableaux de Paris, Emile-Paul Frere...

Helio-etching on hand-made paper, 1925 by Paul Klee. It's signed in the print, lower left: Klee From portfolio Paul Klee, Handzeichnungen 1921-1930; Here no 24 Measurements: Image: 6...

After Tea by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Wood engraving 12 x 13.2 cm (4 ³/₄ x 5 ¹/₄ inches) Initialled and titled in the plate Executed circa 1917 Artist biography Ludovic-Rod...

FEDOR LOEVENSTEIN LOWENSTEIN 1901-1947 (Czech / French) Title: Portrait of a Man with Hands on Table, early 1920’s Technique: Original Hand Signed, Numbered and Titled Woodcut on thin paper Paper Size: 28 x 22 cm / 11 x 8.7 in Plate Size: 14.8 x 10 cm / 5.8 x 3.9 in Additional Information: This work is hand signed in pencil by the artist "F. Loevenstein" at the lower right margin. It is also tilted in Cyrillic "ИАН ИАNCON" (probably Jan Jansson) and numbered "22" in pencil at the lower left margins. This work was printed in the early 1920's in a small edition. Our impression is number 22 from the edition. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Fédor Löwenstein...

York Road by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Wood engraving 13.2 x 9 cm (5 ¹/₄ x 3 ¹/₂ inches) Initialed and titled in the plate, signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo and numbered lowe...

In most of Nora's work, she combines realism and fantasy. Here, the viewer's position is the back of a theater. In front, there are four raised hands, cheering a monumental image of a sleeping wrapped infant resting on a crescent moon and surrounded by two stars. The infant is floating above the seats and centered in the middle theater curtain...

FEDOR LOEVENSTEIN LOWENSTEIN 1901-1947 (Czech / French) Title: Jewish Man, early 1920’s Technique: Original Hand Signed, Numbered and Titled Woodcut on thin paper Paper Size: 28 x 22 cm / 11 x 8.7 in Plate Size: 14.8 x 10 cm / 5.8 x 3.9 in Additional Information: This work is hand signed in pencil by the artist "F. Loevenstein" at the lower right margin. It is also tilted in Cyrillic "EBPEЙ" (Jew) and numbered "19" in pencil at the lower left margins. This work was printed in the early 1920's in a small edition. Our impression is number 19 from the edition. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Fédor Löwenstein...

SOLD UNFRAMED Holiday by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Wood engraving 15.2 x 11.5 cm (6 x 4 ½ inches) Initialed and titled in the plate Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo and nu...

SOLD UNFRAMED Rotten Row (Hyde Park) by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Wood engraving 13.5 x 12.5 cm (5 ¼ x 4 ⅞ inches) Initialed and titled in the plate Executed circa 1917 Artist biography Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro, born in Paris in 1878, was Camille Pissarro’s fourth son. Encouraged by his father...

'La Bergère Turque' (The Turkish Shepherdess) by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Etching 33.5 x 27 cm (13 ¼ x 10 ¾ inches) Signed lower left, Manzana Pissarro, titled and inscri...

Exquisitely attired in an elegant bespoke jacket c1920/ 30s Art Sz:12 1/2" x 8 1/2" Frame Sz: 16 1/2" x 12 1/2"

Lithograph on Japon paper, Edition of 50 Paper size: 35 x 27.8 cms (13 3/4 x 11 ins) Image size: 18.6 x 12.8 cms (7 1/2 x 5 ins)

FEDOR LOEVENSTEIN LOWENSTEIN 1901-1947 (Czech / French) Title: Portrait of an Old Man, 1922 Technique: Original Hand Signed, Titled, Dated and Dedicated Woodcut on thin paper Paper Size: 19.2 x 14.5 cm / 7.5 x 5.7 in Image size: 14.5 x 11.7 cm / 5.7 x 4.5 in Additional Information: This work is hand signed and dated in pencil "Fedor Loevenstein '22" at the lower margin It is also tilted and inscribed in Cyrillic in pencil at the lower left margins. There is an additional text in French at the far lower right margin. This work as printed in 1922 in a small edition. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Fédor Löwenstein...

FEDOR LOEVENSTEIN LOWENSTEIN 1901-1947 (Czech / French) Title: Uncle Vanja, early 1920’s Technique: Original Hand Signed, Inscribed and Titled Woodcut on thin wove paper Paper Size: 27.5 x 21 cm / 10.8 x 8.2 in Plate Size: 14.8 x 10 cm / 5.8 x 3.9 in Additional Information: This work is hand signed in pencil by the artist "F. Loevenstein" at the lower right margin. It is also tilted "Onkel Wanja" (Uncle Vanja) and inscribed "Handabzug" (Hand printed) in pencil at the lower left margins. This work was printed in the early 1920's in a small edition. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Fédor Löwenstein (Munich, 1901 - Nice, 1946) studied art in Germany before moving to Paris in 1923, attracted by its artistic influence. There he mixed with the painter André Lhote from Bordeaux and joined the Groupe des Surindépendants in 1936. His style evolved from Cubism to a form of Romantic abstraction. In 1938, he painted La Chute (The Fall), inspired by the signing of the Munich Agreement ratifying the dismantling of the Czechoslovakia created in 1918. France’s entry into the war drove him to leave the capital for Mirmande, a ruined village in the Drôme region, where Lhote held a summer academy. Löwenstein then divided his time between Mirmande and Nice where his mother and sister lived, but had to take refuge for a time in the Abbey of Aiguebelle. He fell ill in the autumn of 1943 and went to Paris to see a doctor; he died in Nice in 1946. Exhibited: Fédor Lowenstein...

FEDOR LOEVENSTEIN LOWENSTEIN 1901-1947 (Czech / French) Title: Beggars / Bettler, early 1920’s Technique: Original Hand Signed, Inscribed, Dedicated and Titled Woodcut on thin wove paper Paper Size: 28.5 x 20.5 cm / 11.3 x 8 in Plate Size: 15 x 10 cm / 5.9 x 3.9 in Additional Information: This work is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "F. Loevenstein 22" at the lower right margin. It is also tilted "Bettler" (Beggars) and inscribed "Handabzug" (Hand printed) in pencil at the lower left margins. It is dedicated “pour ma chere et jamais ce debacle, Fedor, Zoppot Sommer 22” (for my dear never this debacle [sic], Fedor, Sopot (Poland) Summer (19)22.) This work was hand printed by the artist himself in the early 1920's in a small edition. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Fédor Löwenstein (Munich, 1901 - Nice, 1946) studied art in Germany before moving to Paris in 1923, attracted by its artistic influence. There he mixed with the painter André Lhote from Bordeaux and joined the Groupe des Surindépendants in 1936. His style evolved from Cubism to a form of Romantic abstraction. In 1938, he painted La Chute (The Fall), inspired by the signing of the Munich Agreement ratifying the dismantling of the Czechoslovakia created in 1918. France’s entry into the war drove him to leave the capital for Mirmande, a ruined village in the Drôme region, where Lhote held a summer academy. Löwenstein then divided his time between Mirmande and Nice where his mother and sister lived, but had to take refuge for a time in the Abbey of Aiguebelle. He fell ill in the autumn of 1943 and went to Paris to see a doctor; he died in Nice in 1946. Exhibited: Fédor Lowenstein...

"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...

Emil Nolde Tandelei (Tändelei) Woodcut on fine paper (Holzschnitt auf Karton) Year: 1917 Image Size: 11.811x9.527in Sheet Size: 16.614x13.425in Edition: 12 Signed and titled in pencil Catalogue Raisonné: Schiefler-Mosel H 134 III Framed Ref.: 924802-1749 Condition: Very good. Image intact; no tears, creases, foxing, staining or soiling Provenance: This piece has been graciously consigned with our gallery by a prominent Kansas City Private Collection. --------------------- Emil Nolde (born Hans Emil Hansen...

Signed in pencil, from the edition of 20 to 25 that accompanied Max Jacob's 'Le Phanérogame' in December 1918. With wide margins (the version issued with the...