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Style: Victorian
Dark Flora: Fly Argaric - mounted print and framed in oak
Located in London, GB
Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas, 'Dark Flora' is a series of photographs using wild plants and flowers in a curated yet naturalistic arrangement. The plants are foraged ...
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2010s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Color, Oak, Glass, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Dark Flora Autumn Weald in Floral arrangement of wild flowers and plants, Framed
Located in London, GB
Dark Flora #4 - Autumn Weald: An arrangement of cloth of gold, pine, beech, and bracken surrounding a nest of exquisite blue eggs. Archival Pigment Print, Mounted on Aluminium, in bespoke Oak Framed, Edition 3/8 Print size: 75 x 54 cm Framed: 80 x 60 cm approx. Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas...
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2010s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment, Glass, Wood, Oak, Photographic Paper, Color

Peaches and apricots, Antique Botanical Fruit Chromolithograph, circa 1895
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Pfirsiche und Aprikosen' (Peaches and Apricots) - German chromolithograph, circa 1895. 245mm by 150mm (sheet)
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Late 19th Century Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Ornamentale Tatowierung (Ornamental Tattoo) Antique Chromolithograph, circa 1895
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ornamentale Tatowierung' (Ornamental Tattooing) German chromolithograph. 1895. 240mm by 150mm (sheet)
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Late 19th Century Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Plums, Antique Botanical Fruit Chromolithograph, circa 1895
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Pflaumen' (Plums) - German chromolithograph, circa 1895. 245mm by 155mm (sheet)
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Late 19th Century Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

"Crystal and Jade" Still Life Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Crystal and Jade" Still Life Lithograph in Ink on Paper Delicate and detailed lithograph of a crystal glass and jade vase by John Taylor Arms (American, 1887-1953). On the left side of the composition, there is a crystal martini glass, with intricate designs. Next to it is a jade vase or urn, with a carved surface. They are sitting on an ornate tablecloth, with a strand of beads, possibly a rosary. Numbered ("VI"), inscribed with a dedication ("To Georgiana Brewer and Jasper S. Mathews Jr from Dorothy and John Taylor Arms"), signed ("John Taylor Arms"), and dated ("1940") along the bottom edge. Presented in a wood frame with an off-white mat. Frame size: 16.5"H x 14.75"W Image size: 8.5"H x 7.25"W John Taylor Arms was born in Washington, DC in 1887. He studied law at Princeton University, transferring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, to study architecture, graduating in 1912. After serving as an officer in the United States Navy during World War I, he devoted himself full-time to etching. He published his first original etchings in 1919. His initial subject was the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City near which he worked. Arms developed a successful career as a graphic artist in the 1920s and 1930s, specializing in series of etchings of Gothic churches and cathedrals in France and Italy. In addition to medieval subjects, Arms made a series of prints of American cities. He used sewing needles and magnifying glasses to get a fine level of detail. A member of many printmaking societies, Arms served as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists. An educator, Arms wrote the Handbook of Print Making and Print Makers (1934) and did numerous demonstrations and lectures. Arms was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member in 1930, and became a full member in 1933. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics...
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1940s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Ink, Lithograph, Paper

"Church of St. Aignan Chartres" Etching in Ink on Paper (Demonstration Plate)
Located in Soquel, CA
"Church of St. Aignan Chartres" Etching in Ink on Paper (Demonstration Plate) Delicate and detailed drypoint etching of the Church of St. Aignan in Chartres, France by John Taylor Arms (American, 1887-1953). The viewer stands in an alley near the church, looking out of the shadows at the sunlit towers. The architectural details of the church are well-captured, including the texture of the stone walls, the roof, and ornamental detail. Titled, signed, dated, and inscribed along the bottom edge: Sketch, Saint Aignon, Chartres John Taylor Arms 1950 The inscription includes details about production, as well as a dedication "To my friends Georgia and Jasper Mathews, with my sincerest good wishes" Presented in a wood frame with an off-white mat. Frame size: 12.5"H x 9.25"W Image size: 7"H x 4.5"W John Taylor Arms was born in Washington, DC in 1887. He studied law at Princeton University, transferring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, to study architecture, graduating in 1912. After serving as an officer in the United States Navy during World War I, he devoted himself full-time to etching. He published his first original etchings in 1919. His initial subject was the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City near which he worked. Arms developed a successful career as a graphic artist in the 1920s and 1930s, specializing in series of etchings of Gothic churches and cathedrals in France and Italy. In addition to medieval subjects, Arms made a series of prints of American cities. He used sewing needles and magnifying glasses to get a fine level of detail. A member of many printmaking societies, Arms served as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists. An educator, Arms wrote the Handbook of Print Making and Print Makers (1934) and did numerous demonstrations and lectures. Arms was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member in 1930, and became a full member in 1933. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics...
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1940s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Ink, Etching, Drypoint, Paper

Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis's Botanical Magazine /// Botany
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799) Title: Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine Year: 1789-1810 Medium: Set of Six Original Hand-Colored Engra...
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1780s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Intaglio, Laid Paper, Engraving, Watercolor

Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis's Botanical Magazine /// Botany
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799) Title: Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine Year: 1796-1829 Medium: Set of Six Original Hand-Colored Engra...
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1790s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Intaglio, Engraving, Watercolor

Iris /// Antique Natural History Botany Botanical Flower Art Science Garden
By Pierre Corneille Van Geel
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pierre Corneille Van Geel (Flemish, 1796-1838) Title: "Iris" Portfolio: Sertum Botanicum Year: 1828 (first edition) Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on wove paper Lim...
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1820s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Lithograph

A Set of Two Hand-Colored Engravings of an Ancient Roman Vase and a Tazza (Cup)
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a pair of framed hand-colored engravings of an ancient vase in the Palizzy Wares style and a silver gilt tazza (cup) with a cover, both from the 16th century. These were engraved under the supervision of Philip De La Motte...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Still-life Prints

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Engraving

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Located in San Francisco, CA
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21st Century and Contemporary Victorian Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper

Creole Dancer
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri Matisse - Acrobat Edition of 200 with the printed signature, as issued 80 x 60 cm Posthumous edition after the original paper cut-out with stamp of the Succession Matisse References : Artvalue - Succession Matisse MATISSE'S BIOGRAPHY YOUTH AND EARLY EDUCATION Henri Emile Benoît Matisse was born in a tiny, tumbledown weaver's cottage on the rue du Chêne Arnaud in the textile town of Le Cateau-Cambrésis at eight o'clock in the evening on the last night of the year, 31 December 1869 (Le Cateau-Cambrésis is in the extreme north of France near the Belgian border). The house had two rooms, a beaten earth floor and a leaky roof. Matisse said long afterwards that rain fell through a hole above the bed in which he was born. Matisse’s ancestors had lived in the area for centuries before the convulsive social and industrial upheavals of the nineteenth century. Matisse grew up in a world that was still detaching itself from a way of life in some ways unchanged since Roman times. The coming of the railway had put Bohain on the industrial map, but people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse’s father, Émile Hippolyte Matisse, was a grain merchant whose family were weavers. His mother, Anna Heloise Gerard, was a daughter of a long line of well-to-do tanners. Warmhearted, outgoing, capable and energetic, she was small and sturdily built with the fashionable figure of the period: full breasts and hips, narrow waist, neat ankles and elegant small feet. She had fair skin, broad cheekbones and a wide smile. "My mother had a face with generous features," said her son Henri, who always spoke of her with particular tenderness of the sensitivity. Throughout the forty years of her marriage, she provided unwavering, rocklike support to her husband and her sons. Matisse later said: "My mother loved everything I did." He grew up in nearby Bohain-en-Vermandois, an industrial textile center, until the age of ten, when his father sent him to St. Quentin for lycée. Anna Heloise worked hard. She ran the section of her husband's shop that sold housepaints, making up the customers' orders and advising on color schemes. The colors evidently left a lasting impression on Henri. The artist himself later said he got his color sense from his mother, who was herself an accomplished painter on porcelain, a fashionable art form at the time. Henri was the couple’s first son. The young Matisse was an awkward youth who seemed ill-adapted to the rigors of the North; in particular, he hated the gelid winters. He was a pensive child and by his own account he was a dreamy, frail and not outstandingly bright. In later life he never lost his feeling for his native soil, for seeds and growing things he had encountered in his youth. The fancy pigeons he kept in Nice more than half a century after he left home recalled the weavers' pigeon-lofts tucked away behind even the humblest house in Bohain. Matisse's childhood memories were of a stern upbringing. "Be quick!" "Look out!" "Run along!" "Get cracking!" were the refrains that rang in his ears as a boy. In later years when survival itself depended on habits of thrift and self-denial, the artist prided himself on being a man of the North. When Matisse in turn had children of his own to bring up, he chided himself for any lapse in discipline or open display of tenderness as weakness on his part. In 1887 he went to Paris to study law, working as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis after gaining his qualification. Although he considered law as tedious, he nonetheless passed the bar in 1888 with distinction and began his practice begrudgingly. Once Matisse finished school, his father, a much more practical man, arranged for his son to obtain a clerking position at a law office. PAINTING: BEGINNINGS Matisse’s discovery of his true profession came about in an unusual manner. Following an attack of appendicitis, he began to paint in 1889, when his mother had brought him art supplies during the period of convalescence. He said later, “From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.” Matisse’s mother was the first to advise her son not to adhere to the “rules” of art, but rather listen to his own emotions. Matisse was so committed to his art that he later extended a warning to his fiancée, Amélie Parayre, whom he later married: “I love you dearly, mademoiselle; but I shall always love painting more.” Matisse had discovered "a kind of paradise" as he later described it. His drastic change of profession deeply disappointed his father. Two years later in 1891 Matisse returned to Paris to study art at the Académie Julian and became a student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau. After a discouraging year at the Académie Julian, he left in disgust at the overly perfectionist style of teaching there. Afterwards he trained with Gustave Moreau, an artist who nurtured more progressive leanings. In both studios, as was usual, students drew endless figure studies from life. From Bouguereau, he learned the fundamental lessons of classical painting. His one art-schooled technical standby, almost a fetish, was the plumb line. No matter how odd the angles in any Matisse, the verticals are usually dead true. Moreau was a painter who despised the "art du salon", so Matisse was destined, in a certain sense, to remain an "outcast" of the art world. He initially failed his drawing exam for admission to the École des Beaux-Arts, but persisted and was finally accepted. Matisse began painting still-lives and landscapes in the traditional Flemish style, at which he achieved reasonable proficiency. Most of his early works employ a dark palette and tend to be gloomy. Chardin was one of Matisse's most admired painters having made four the French still-life master paintings in the Louvre. Although he executed numerous copies after the old masters he also studied contemporary art. His first experimentations earned him a reputation as the rebellious member of his studio classes. In 1896, Matisse was elected as an associate member of the Société Nationale, which meant that each year he could show paintings at the Salon de la Société without having to submit them for review. In the same year he exhibited 5 paintings in the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and the state bought two of his paintings. This was the first and almost only recognition he received in his native country during his lifetime. In 1897 and 1898, he visited the painter John Peter Russell on the island Belle Île off the coast of Brittany. Russell introduced him to Impressionism and to the work of Van Gogh who had been a good friend of Russell but was completely unknown at the time. Matisse's style changed completely, and he would later say "Russell was my teacher, and Russell explained color theory to me." Matisse also observed Russell's and other artists' stable marriages. This probably influenced him to find in Amélie Noellie Parayre, his future wife, his anchor. The Dinner Table (1897) was Matisse’s first masterpiece, and he had spent the entire winter working on the oeuvre. Though the Salon displayed the piece, they hung the work in a poor location, disgusted by what they considered its radical, Impressionist aspects. Caroline Joblaud was Matisse's early lover for four years during his initial struggles to affirm his artistic direction and professional career. Caroline (also called Camille) gave Matisse his first daughter Marguerite in 1894, who after Matisse's marriage to Amélie Noellie Parayre was warmly accepted contrary to conventional hostility such arrangements provoked. Caroline posed various times for the artist’s compositions while Marguerite served many times as a model for Matisse throughout his life. MARRIAGE WITH AMÉLIE NOELLIE PARAYRE The Matisses of Bohain and the Parayres of Beauzelle had outwardly nothing in common, and there was no reason why Matisse and Amélie should ever have met. But in October 1897 Matisse went to a wedding in Paris and happened to sit next to her at the uproarious banquet that followed. There had been no banal flirtation between them, even when the wine flowed, each recognized the other as true metal, and when they got up from the table she held out her hand to Henri Matisse in a way that he never forgot. Matisse at that time was not yet the professorial figure of legend. He was known as a prankster, as a ribald and anti-clerical songster, and as someone who had once broken up a café concert performance just for the hell of it. Amélie's relatives operated at that time within a social, intellectual, and political context of which Matisse had had no previous experience. They stood for free thinking, for the separation of church and state, and for the secularization of the French educational system. Her family, better off that that of Matisse, provided the support he needed for the budding artist. When Matisse married Amélie in January 1898, they had been introduced only three months after. Amélie's Aunt Noélie and two of her brothers ran a successful women's shop called the Grande Maison des Modes. Before her marriage, Amélie had shown a gift for designing, making, and modeling hats for a fashionable clientele. In June 1899, she found a partner and opened a shop of her own on the rue de Châteaudun. This allowed Henri and herself to live, with Marguerite, in a tiny two-room apartment on the same street. Madame Matisse, fervently loyal, would play a fundamental role in the life and career of the artist for more than 40 years. Marguerite was to become her father's lifetime mainstay In 1902 disaster struck. Amélie’s parents were disgraced and financially ruined in a spectacular scandal of national scope, as the unsuspecting employees of a woman whose financial empire was based on fraud. Thanks to his early years in a lawyer's office, Matisse was able to busy himself to great effect in the organization of his father-in-law's defense. When all about him lost their heads, burst into tears, and felt more than sorry for themselves, Henri Matisse dealt with their problems one by one. The ordeal had taken its toll, in more than one way. His doctors ordered Matisse to go to Bohain and take two months' complete rest. Amélie had lost both her hat shop and the apartment on the rue de Châteaudun. For the first time, Henri, Amélie and the three children were united in Bohain, having nowhere else to go. Hillary Spurling, one of Matisse’s biographers, asserts that Amélie’s memories of that public disgrace nurtured a “suspicion of the outside world” that would always mark the Matisse family. The Matisse family formed a kind of hermetic unit which revolved around the artist’s work and profession. They fitted their activities according his breaks and work sessions. Silence was essential. Even during the years when Matisse lived mostly alone in Nice, an annual ritual of unpacking, stretching, framing and hanging ended with the whole family settling down to respond to the paintings. The conference might last several days. Then the dealers were admitted. Matisse and his wife had had two sons, Jean (born 1899) and Pierre (born 1900). He was not always in peace with his family. He wrote that their views were not always in accord “which disturbs me considerably in my work, for which I require the most complete calm and from those how surround me, a serenity that I cannot find here. I intend to move to a village a few league away.” Pierre, his brother, Jean, and Marguerite remained close to their father through every vicissitude, and Matisse, in his last invalid years, was devoted to his several grandchildren. In 1899, at a time when his paintings displayed rebellious talent but not much clear direction, Matisse began attending classes in clay modeling and sculpture. Assigned to copy one of the sculptural masterpieces in the Louvre, he selected Jaguar Devouring a Hare a violently precise work by Antoine-Louis Barye. Later, whenever his paintings seemed stuck, he turned to sculpture to organize his thoughts and sensations. Influenced by the works of the post-Impressionists Paul Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Paul Signac, and also by Japanese art, Matisse made color a crucial element of his paintings. Matisse said, "In modern art, it is indubitably to Cézanne that I owe the most." By studying Cézanne’s fragmented planes -- which stretched the idea of the still life to a forced contemplation of color surfaces themselves -- Matisse was able to reconstruct his own philosophy of the still life. Many of his paintings from 1899 to 1905 make use of a pointillist technique adopted from Signac. In 1898, he went to London to study the paintings of J. M. W. Turner and then went on a trip to Corsica. After years in poverty, Matisse went through his "dark period" (1902-03), moved briefly to naturalism, went back to a dark palette and told friends in 1903 that he had lost all desire to paint and had almost decided to give up. Fortunately, Matisse was able to earn some money painting a frieze for the World Fair at the Grand Palais in Paris. He also traveled extensively in the early 1900s when tourism was still a new idea. Brought on by railroad, steamships, and other forms of transportation that appeared during the industrial revolution, travel became a popular pursuit. As a cultured tourist, he developed his art with regular doses of travel. FAUVISM Matisse's career can be divided into several periods that changed stylistically, but his underlying aim always remained the same: to discover "the essential character of things" and to produce an art "of balance, purity, and serenity," as he himself put it. The changing studio environments seemed always to have had a significant effect on the style of his work. In these first years of struggle Matisse set his revolutionary artistic agenda. He disregarded perspective, abolished shadows, repudiating the academic distinction between line and color. He was attempting to overturn a way of seeing evolved and accepted by the Western world for centuries by substituting a conscious subjectivity in the place of the traditional illusion of objectivity . Matisse hit his stride in the avant-garde art world in the first years of the new decade. He explored the modern art scene through frequent visits to galleries such as Durand-Ruel and Vollard, where he was exposed to work by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh. Matisse’s first solo exhibition took place in 1904, without much success. In 16 May 1905 he arrived in the charming Catalan port of Collioure, in the south of France. He soon invited the painter André Derain (1880-1954), 11 years his junior, to join him. By 1905, Matisse was considered spearhead the Fauve movement in France, characterized by its spontaneity and roughness of execution as well as use of raw color straight from the palette to the canvas. Matisse combined pointillist color and Cézanne’s way of structuring pictorial space stroke by stroke to develop Fauvism - a way less of seeing the world than of feeling it with one’s eyes. When the Fauve summer drew to an end, Derain left Collioure with 30 paintings, 20 drawings and some 50 sketches, never to return, while Matisse departed some days later bringing back to Paris 15 finished paintings, 40 aquarelles, over 100 drawings. He returned Collioure in the summers of 1906, 1907, 1911 and 1914. The lure of the sun would prove always to have powers of restoration to the artist throughout his life particularly after periods of great emotional exertion. When Fauvist works were first exhibited Salon d'Automne in Paris they created a scandal. Eyewitness accounts tell of laughter emanating from room VII where they were displayed. Gertrud Stein, one of Matisse's most important future supporters, reported that people scratched at the canvases in derision. "A pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public" was the reaction by the critic Camille Mauclair. Louis Vauxcelles described the work with the historic phrase "Donatello au milieu des fauves!" (Donatello among the wild beasts), referring to a Renaissance-type sculpture that shared the room with them. His comment was printed on 17 October 1905 in Gil Blas, a daily newspaper, and passed into popular usage. Derain himself later called the Fauves' color "sticks of dynamite." The painting that was singled out for attacks was Matisse's Woman with a Hat, a portrait of Madame Matisse. This picture was bought be was bought by Gertrude and Leo Stein, a fact which had a very positive effect on Matisse who was suffering demoralization from the bad reception of his work. Matisse continued his experiments in Collioure, visible in the painting The Open Window and the View of Collioure , also a characteristic work of Fauvism in its raw color and disregard for details. Both of these works of the landscape in the French Mediterranean present a distinct development towards the spontaneous and uninhibited style. Other than André Derain, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy and Maurice Vlaminck were also members of the Fauve movement. However, Matisse’s intimate friends among artists were mostly easygoing minor painters, such as Albert Marquet. Matisse’s temperamental aloneness made him prey to vertiginous depressions. He later recalled a breakdown that he underwent in Spain, in 1910: “My bed shook, and from my throat came a little high-pitched cry that I could not stop.” From the onset of is career women were from one of the cardinal motifs of the artist's production. His Joy of Life (1906) draws us into the world of hallucinatory vividness composed of nymphs set in an idyllic open fields dressed in pure color and sensual outline. Two women lounge in the sunlight while two more chat on the edge of the forest. One crouches to pick some flowers while her companion weaves a chain of them into her hair. A couple embraces each other while another group engages in a lively round-dance in the distance. In this way, Joy of Life depicts woodland nymphs engaging in a celebration of their life, their womanhood, and their sexuality. Due to the recurrent incidence of nude women and intensely sensual interpretation many observers have assumed that as a man Matisse must have been a hedonist. On the contrary, historic examination demonstrates that in reality, he was rather a self-abnegating Northerner who lived only to work, and did so in chronic anguish, recurrent panic, and amid periodic breakdowns. While Picasso recompensed himself, as he went along, with gratifications of intellectual and erotic play Matisse did not. In an age of ideologies, Matisse dodged all ideas except perhaps one: that art is life by other means. Matisse’s uninhibited celebration of women is often believed to have initiated from Cézanne’s painting Three Bathers (1882) (which he had acquired for himself along with a Van Gogh and a Gauguin). However, Matisse depicts women as nurturing, welcoming, and unlike the forbidding, massive clay-like presence of those of Paul Cézanne. FAME The decline of the Fauvist movement, after 1906, did nothing to deter the rise of Matisse. From 1906 -1917 he lived in Paris and established his home, studio, and school at Hôtel Biron. Among his neighbors is sculptor Auguste Rodin, writer Jean Cocteau, and dancer Isadora Duncan. Many of his finest works were created in this period, when he was an active part of the great gathering of artistic talent in Montparnasse, even though he did not quite fit in with his conservative appearance and strict bourgeois work habits. In fact, the aim of Matisse’s art was something less than revolutionary. In 1908, in a famous statement drawn from “Notes of a Painter,” Matisse declared as his ideal an art “for every mental worker, for the businessman as well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.” Matisse's personal habits were incredibly regular. On a typical day rose early and worked all morning with a second work session after lunch, followed by violin practice, a simple supper (vegetable soup, two hard-boiled eggs, salad and a glass of wine) and an early bedtime. In 1906, he created a series of 12 lithographs, all variations on the theme of a seated nude. He chose to share his graphic work with the public almost immediately. The lithographs were exhibited at the Druet Gallery in Paris the same year that they were produced, and the woodcuts were shown at the Salon des Independants in the spring of 1907. In 1907 Appolinaire, commenting about Matisse in an article published in La Falange, said, "We are not here in the presence of an extravagant or an extremist undertaking: Matisse's art is eminently reasonable." Notwithstanding newly-won fame, Matisse's work continued to encounter vehement criticism and it was difficult for him to provide for his family. His controversial 1907 painting Blue Nude was burned in effigy at the Armory Show in Chicago in 1913. Contrary to the fate of the Impressionists, Matisse and other Fauves were able to exhibit in art galleries. In 1908 Paul Cassirer, the German art dealer and editor who played a significant role in the promotion of the work the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, staged an exhibit of Matisse’s works in Berlin. In the same year the American photographer Alfred Stieglitz in New York organized him one-man show in his tiny Manhattan gallery called 291 which effectively introduced Matisse the powerful American art market. In the first decade of his notoriety as the leader of the Fauves, Matisse was more admired by foreigners than by the French. It was, after all, the Russians and the Americans who acquired significant collections of his early work almost as quickly as it was created. The great Matisses we see in the Paris museums today were mostly acquired after the artist's death in lieu of death duties. It took the French a good deal longer to understand Matisse's greatness-longer, certainly, than the international cadre of aspiring talents that flocked to his classes when he was still one of the most controversial figures in the Paris avant-garde. In the summer of 1907, Matisse and his wife went on a long trip to italy "for work and Pleasure," visiting Venice and Padua, where they admired Giotto's frescos. In Florence the were the guests of the Steins in their villa in Fiesole. From this base matisse visited Arezzo, to study Piero della Francesca, and Siena, attracted by the early Sienese painters, especially, Duccio. PICASSO, GERTRUDE STEIN AND THE CONE SISTERS During the first decade of the 20th century Americans in Paris Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo Stein, Michael Stein and Michael's wife Sarah took keen interest in Matisse's art. In addition, Gertrude Stein's two friends from Baltimore. Clarabel and Etta Cone, became major patrons of Matisse and Picasso, collecting hundreds of their works.The Cone Sisters acquired their first Matisse in 1906 and, during the next four decades, went on to form one of the world's great collections of his art. The Cone Collection not only contains major works from every phase of Matisse's long career but reflects the sisters' special interest in his Nice period, when a new complexity of form and psychology entered the ever intense surface allure of his paintings. In April of 1906 during a gathering at the house of the legendary Gertrude Stein, Matisse was introduced to Pablo Picasso who was 11 years younger. Picasso and Matisse were poles apart aesthetically and their life styles were no less so. Matisse was markedly taller and more polished than the stocky, cocky Catalan, was then ruler of the turbulent Paris avant-garde art scene. The two were said to have always been looking over their shoulders at each other. It is well-known that after their rivalry grew, sides were taken. Picasso later said: "No one has ever looked at Matisse's paintings more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he." One key difference between their pictorial concepts was that Matisse drew and painted from nature, while Picasso was much more inclined to work from imagination. The subjects painted most frequently by both artists were women and still lives, with Matisse more likely to place his figures in fully realized interiors. Gertrude Stein, who loved stirring things up, wrote, "the feeling between the Picassoites and the Matisse-ites became bitter." Although Matisse dryly noted that "our disputes were always friendly," it should be pointed out that Picasso and his friends threw suction-cupped darts at Matisse's 1906 Portrait of Marguerite (which Picasso had obtained in a trade for his own Pitcher, Bowl and Lemon, from 1907). While the rift between the two artists eventually healed, the one between their supporters remained. ACADEMIE MATISSE IN PARIS & SERGEI SHCHUKIN In 1909, with the Matisse family lived in a former convent on the Boulevard des Invalides, in Paris, where the artist conducted a painting school. His immense notoriety, which had been confirmed in 1905-06 by Joy of Life, a work which seemed to trash every possible norm of pictorial order and painterly finesse.His friends organized and financed the Académie Matisse in Paris, a private and non-commercial school in which Matisse instructed young artists. It operated from 1911 until 1917. Hans Purrmann and Sarah Stein were several of his most loyal students. Although it lasted for only three years (1908-11), and yet, during its brief existence the Académie Matisse became one of the principal crossroads of modern painting for a number of gifted European and American artists. Given the reputation Matisse had acquired as the"wild man" of modernist color, it must have come as a shock to some of his early students that the program of instruction he offered was remarkably conservative. As Jean Heiberg, the first Norwegian to enroll in the Académie, later wrote in a memoir: "The school had, at Matisse's suggestion, acquired a copy of two antique sculptures from the Louvre, Mars and an archaic sculpture, which he often used to demonstrate. Every now and then he got completely rid of the life model and we only drew from the plaster casts, and his critiques then were no less profitable." Among Matisse’s students was Olga Meerson, a Russian Jew who had studied with Wassily Kandinsky in Munich and, already possessed of an elegant style, sought to remake herself under Matisse’s tutelage. Amélie suspected the worst. Perhaps a combination of Amélie’s jealousy and Meerson’s neediness caused a Matisse to end the connection, with bad feeling all around. Meerson moved to Munich, where she married the musician Heinz Pringsheim, a brother-in-law of Thomas Mann. Never having fulfilled her promise as a painter, she committed suicide in Berlin, in 1929. One of Matisse's biographers, with access to much of the artist's correspondence, contends that the artist, after his marriage, rarely, if ever, had sex with models, despite his apparent feelings for many. Two Russian art collectors stood out at the beginning of the 20th century: the cloth merchant Sergei Shchukin (1854–1936) and the textile manufacturer Ivan Morozov (1871–1921). Both acquired modern French art, developed a sensibility for spotting new trends, and publicized them in Russia. In this period, Matisse had initiated his fecund association with the Russian textile magnate and visionary collector, Sergei Shchukin. The artist created one of his major works La Danse specially for Shchukin as part of a two painting commission. Inspired by a circular dance-- perhaps a sardana - performed by fishermen at Collioure, this painting embodies the clash between the sacred and reality. Human hands link together, but they form a divine spirit. Moreover, Matisse all but abandoned perspective The work ’s flatness emphasizes the idea, colors, and material, a notion that made Matisse a model for Modernists. The other painting commissioned was Music, 1909. Shchukin was considered by some almost as a co-producer of some of the artist’s greatest works and was strongly commuted to the French painter’s work. Concerning the violent attacks on his friend, the Russian wrote to the artist: “The public is against you, but the future is yours.” By 1914 Shchukin’s house in Moscow contained thirty-seven Matisses. “He always picked the best,” the artist said. During the political revolution Lenin expropriated Shchukin collection in person but allowed Shchukin to remain, in servants’ quarters, as caretaker and guide. He died in Paris, in 1936. The collection is now in the Hermitage and Pushkin Museums From about 1911 to 1915, Matisse struggled with the ideas of Cubism, an experiment he felt he was "not participating in" because it did not "speak to [his] deeply sensory nature." MOROCCO Like many avant-garde artists in Paris, Matisse was receptive to a broad range of influences. He is one of the first painters to take an interest in various forms of “primitive” art. His art was profoundly influenced by Easter art...
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Mid-20th Century Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Creole Dancer
Creole Dancer
H 31.5 in W 23.63 in D 0.04 in
Andy Warhol, Brooklyn Bridge, 1983/2022 (pink, red, blue)
Located in Manchester, GB
Andy Warhol, Brooklyn Bridge, 1983/2022 (pink, red, blue) Paper size 97 × 97 cm Image size 90 × 90 cm Matt 250gsm conservation digital paper From 1949 until his death, New York Ci...
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2010s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

The Purple Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Bernard Buffet Title: The Purple Bouquet of Flowers Portfolio: Bernard Buffet Lithographs 1952-1966 Medium: Lithograph Year: 1968 Ed...
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1960s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

The Purple Bouquet of Flowers
The Purple Bouquet of Flowers
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H 12.375 in W 9.5 in
David Hockney, Mount Fuji and Flowers, 2016
Located in Manchester, GB
David Hockney, Mount Fuji and Flowers, 2016 Offset lithograph 63.5 x 86.5 cm Original poster produced by the MET featuring Hockney’s 1972 Mount Fuji an...
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2010s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Interior Scene With Fruit, Guitar, Wine Bottle on Table
Located in Berlin, MD
Marcel Mouly (French 1918 - 2008) Untitled lithograph on woven paper with deep saturated colors in excellent condition. Well framed under plexiglass with a double matt, signed lowe...
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Late 20th Century Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

NIGHT WORK
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed & numbered by the artist. Sheet size: 18.5 x 23 inches. Image size: 14 x 17.5 inches. Edition of 300. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity in...
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1980s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

NIGHT WORK
No Reserve
H 18.5 in W 23 in
Miami Vintage Pastel Palette, Tropical Fruit, Still Life, Lemon, Turquoise, Pink
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects and textures arranged meti...
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2010s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée, Ar...

R2D2 40x28 Star Wars, Empire, Jedi, Pop Art Photography Photograph Movie Toy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
R2D2 from the original Kenner release of the Star Wars toys in May of 1977 This is pre release is the first release in the much anticipated series "The Toys" These iconic figures hav...
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21st Century and Contemporary Victorian Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

D is for Dish (A fine whimsical work by a pioneer in the English Pop Art scene)
Located in New Orleans, LA
British Pop artist Harvey Daniels created this image in 1970 in a small edition of 20. This impression is #2 His work has described by art historian Norbert Lynton as a “visual carni...
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1970s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Roy Lichtenstein Spray Can from 1¢ Life
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein Title: Spray Can Portfolio: 1¢ Life Medium: Lithograph on white wove paper Year: 1963 Edition: 2000 Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 19 1/4" Sheet Size: 16" x 11 1/2" I...
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1960s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

CHINA CLOSET
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed & numbered by the artist. Sheet size: 23 x 18.5 inches. Image size: 17.5 x 14 inches. Edition of 300. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity in...
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1980s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

CHINA CLOSET
No Reserve
H 23 in W 18.5 in
Previously Available Items
Berries, Antique Botanical Fruit Chromolithograph, circa 1895
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Beerenobst' (Berries) - German chromolithograph, circa 1895. 160mm by 240mm (sheet)
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Late 19th Century Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis's Botanical Magazine /// Botany
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799) Title: Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine Year: 1804-1816 Medium: Set of Six Original Hand-Colored Engra...
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Early 1800s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Intaglio, Engraving, Watercolor

Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799) Title: Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine Year: 1793-1812 Medium: Set of Six Original Hand-Colored Engra...
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1790s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Engraving, Intaglio

Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799) Title: Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings including "Hemanthus Tigrinus (Tiger-Spotted Blood-Flower)" Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine Ye...
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1780s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Intaglio, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving

Set of Seven Hand-Colored Engravings from "Icones Plantarum"
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz (Austrian, 1772-1815) Titles: "Anchusa Tinctoria (Dyer's Alkanet)", "Sanguisorba Officinalis (Great Burnet)", "Napellus (Monkshood)", "Tragopogon Por...
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Early 1800s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio

Set of Five Hand-Colored Lithograph Botanical Prints by Louis van Houtte
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Louis van Houtte (Belgian, 1810-1876) Titles: "Portulaca Grandiflora (Moss-Rose Purslane)", "Gloxinias (Gloxinia) (red)", "Convolvulus Tricolor (Dwarf Morning-Glory)", "Rose Faune de Perse (Rose)", and "Gloxinias (Gloxinia) (purple)" Portfolio: Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe (Flowers of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe) Year: 1845-1855 Medium: Set of Five Original Hand-Colored Lithographs on smooth wove paper Limited edition: Volume I (1845) - 500; All remaining Volumes - 1,500 Printer: Guillaume Severeyns, Louis-Constantin Stroobant, and Pieter De Pannemaker, Ghent, Belgium Publisher: Louis van Houtte, Charles Lemaire, and Michael Scheidweiler, Ghent, Belgium Reference: "Great Flower Books" - page 84; Nissen BBI 2254; Sitwell - page 157 Sheet size (each): approx. 10" x 6.75" Image size (each): approx. 8" x 5.5" Condition: "Portulaca Grandiflora (Moss-Rose Purslane)" and "Convolvulus Tricolor (Dwarf Morning-Glory)" have light toning to their sheets. "Gloxinias (Gloxinia) (red)" has one minor area of discoloration upper center. Otherwise, they are all in very good - excellent condition with strong colors. An excellent group of works of consideration for interior decorators/designers and, or private collectors Notes: "Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe (Flowers of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe)" (1845-1888) was one of the finest horticulture journals produced in Europe during the 19th century, spanning 23 volumes with over 2,000 hand-colored plates with French, German and English texts. Founded by Louis van Houtte and edited together with Charles Antoine Lemaire and Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler, it was a showcase for lavish hand-finished engravings and lithographs depicting and describing botanical curiosities and treasures from around the world. The work is remarkable for the level of color-printing craftmanship displayed by the Belgian lithographers Guillaume Severeyns, Louis-Constantin Stroobant, and Pieter De Pannemaker. Stroobant printed many of the illustrations for the first 10 volumes. Most of the plants depicted in "Flore des Serres" were available for sale in van Houtte's nursery, so that in a sense the journal doubled as a catalogue. The editors were experienced botanical engravers and horticulturists, combining their knowledge and skills to create a showpiece of novel exotics and familiar cultivated plants. Lemaire came from being an engraver for Pierre-Joseph Redouté's great works "Les Liliacées" and "Les Roses". Van Houtte, owner of the most successful nursery in Europe at that time, sent his own plant explorers to find unknown orchids and other exotics and bring them back to Ghent, Belgium for cultivation at his nursery and later publication in "Flore des Serres". Biography: Louis Benoît van Houtte (29 June 1810, in Ypres - 9 May 1876, in Ghent) was a Belgian horticulturist who was with the Jardin Botanique de Brussels between 1836 and 1838 and is best known for the journal "Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe", produced with Charles Lemaire and M. Scheidweiler, an extensive work boasting more than 2,000 hand-colored plates in 23 volumes published between 1845 and 1883. Early in his career, van Houtte worked in Brussels for the ministry of finance. All his leisure time was spent on botany at the botanical garden and private estates. He was on good terms with men like the peony breeder M. Parmentier of Enghien, the Knight Parthon de Von...
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1840s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Lithograph

Set of Five Hand-Colored Lithograph Botanical Prints by Louis van Houtte
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Louis van Houtte (Belgian, 1810-1876) Titles: "Cobaea Scandens (Cup and Saucer Vine)", "Salvia Roezli (Sierra Gooseberry)", "Hyacinthus Orientals (Hyacinth)", "Campanula Nobilis (Spotted Bellflower)", and "Jacinthe (Hyacinth)" Portfolio: Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe (Flowers of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe) Year: 1845-1855 Medium: Set of Five Original Hand-Colored Lithographs on smooth wove paper Limited edition: Volume I (1845) - 500; All remaining Volumes - 1,500 Printer: Guillaume Severeyns, Louis-Constantin Stroobant, and Pieter De Pannemaker, Ghent, Belgium Publisher: Louis van Houtte, Charles Lemaire, and Michael Scheidweiler, Ghent, Belgium Reference: "Great Flower Books" - page 84; Nissen BBI 2254; Sitwell - page 157 Sheet size (each): approx. 10" x 6.75" Image size (each): approx. 8.5" x 5.5" Condition: "Cobaea Scandens (Cup and Saucer Vine)" has one minor area of discoloration lower center. Otherwise, they are all in excellent condition with strong colors. An excellent group of works of consideration for interior decorators/designers and, or private collectors Notes: "Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe (Flowers of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe)" (1845-1888) was one of the finest horticulture journals produced in Europe during the 19th century, spanning 23 volumes with over 2,000 hand-colored plates with French, German and English texts. Founded by Louis van Houtte and edited together with Charles Antoine Lemaire and Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler, it was a showcase for lavish hand-finished engravings and lithographs depicting and describing botanical curiosities and treasures from around the world. The work is remarkable for the level of color-printing craftmanship displayed by the Belgian lithographers Guillaume Severeyns, Louis-Constantin Stroobant, and Pieter De Pannemaker. Stroobant printed many of the illustrations for the first 10 volumes. Most of the plants depicted in "Flore des Serres" were available for sale in van Houtte's nursery, so that in a sense the journal doubled as a catalogue. The editors were experienced botanical engravers and horticulturists, combining their knowledge and skills to create a showpiece of novel exotics and familiar cultivated plants. Lemaire came from being an engraver for Pierre-Joseph Redouté's great works "Les Liliacées" and "Les Roses". Van Houtte, owner of the most successful nursery in Europe at that time, sent his own plant explorers to find unknown orchids and other exotics and bring them back to Ghent, Belgium for cultivation at his nursery and later publication in "Flore des Serres". Biography: Louis Benoît van Houtte (29 June 1810, in Ypres - 9 May 1876, in Ghent) was a Belgian horticulturist who was with the Jardin Botanique de Brussels between 1836 and 1838 and is best known for the journal "Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe", produced with Charles Lemaire and M. Scheidweiler, an extensive work boasting more than 2,000 hand-colored plates in 23 volumes published between 1845 and 1883. Early in his career, van Houtte worked in Brussels for the ministry of finance. All his leisure time was spent on botany at the botanical garden and private estates. He was on good terms with men like the peony breeder M. Parmentier of Enghien, the Knight Parthon de Von...
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1840s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Lithograph

Dark Flora Print Fly Agaric A floral arrangements x 3 Prints Set
Located in London, GB
"This image has been in my mind all year, waiting till the days shorten as we head into autumn until these fungi pushed upwards through the loam. Mushrooms are so delicate and begin to break down so quickly that I have not found it possible to bring them into the studio as part of a still life. It took 3 days of hunting and photographing the mushrooms in situ without picking them, then making red and white paper stand-ins to be able to compose and to cast correct shadows on the moss below. Long and laborious, but so worth it for the final image." - Jasper Goodall Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas, 'Dark Flora' is a series of photographs using wild plants and flowers in a curated yet naturalistic arrangement. The plants are foraged from forest clearings, hedgerows and roadside verges, often using humble and unassuming species rather than showy specimens so often used in floral photography. Each arrangement is gathered from within approximately a square mile and therefore represent seasonal ‘portraits’ of the local environments from which they came. Dark Flora #7 - Fly Agaric. A poisonous autumnal cornucopia of amanita muscaria...
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2010s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Set of Nine Botanical Floral Colored Prints - Ideal Gallery Wall project
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of Nine Floral Colored Prints Each print is unframed and measures 14 x 11 inches. A range of floral bouquets and plants - ideal for many interior design projects. Condition:...
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20th Century Victorian Still-life Prints

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Color

Seaweeds (Algae), antique botanical chromolithograph, circa 1895
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Seaweeds (Algae) - botanical chromolithograph. Central vertical fold as issued.
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Late 19th Century Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Peacock, French 19th century bird engraving with original hand-colouring
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Paon Domestique' (Peacock) Printed by F. Chardon from Achille Comte’s 'Musee d’Histoire Naturelle', Museum of Natural History, Gustave Hazard, Paris, 1...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Still-life Prints

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Engraving

A Victorian English White and Red Rose botanical flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Roses. 1. Souvenir de la Malmaison (Bourbon) 2. General Jacqueminot (Hybrid perpetual)' Antique English rose botanical engraving by Thomas Dick...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Victorian still-life prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Victorian still-life prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including William Curtis, John Taylor Arms, and Pierre Corneille Van Geel. Frequently made by artists working with Engraving, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Victorian still-life prints, so small editions measuring 5.5 inches across are also available. Prices for still-life prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $475 and tops out at $1,741, while the average work sells for $800.

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