Box Prints and Multiples

Rare Keith Haring Party of Life IV invitation, 1991: “Party of Life IV A Celebration of Keith Haring. Thursday, May 23rd, 1991, Shelter. Pr...

'Katzen' (Cats) German wood-engraving, circa 1895. 240mm by 155mm (sheet)

This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. Lovely scene of a hidden pond in a Scandinavian forest. Details: + Title: Scandinavian Enchanted Forest + Year: 2024 + ...

Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983) La Boite Alerte, 1959 Color lithograph Signed lower right, numbered 98/200 lower left 9.75 x 6.75 inches Joan Miró Ferra was born April 20, 1893, in B...

Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg. While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting. Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked. Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium. Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print. There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...

Glove is an original Etching on cardboard, realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006). Hand-signed and dead 1972 at the bottom. In very good condition except for ma...

Glove is an authentic original Etching on cardboard, realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006). Hand-signed and dead 1972 at the bottom. Unique specimen hand water...

'Einsiedlerkrebse' (Hermit crabs) German wood-engraving, circa 1895. 240mm by 155mm (sheet)

Great Grey Owl, limited edition photograph, signed, Platinum/Palladium Print My fascination with birds of prey began eight years ago. There have been nesting owls on my family’s lan...

Woodcut on vellum, 1918. Typographic Inscription on the back: Campendonk: Tiere. Holzschnitt. Framed. Image dimensions: 3.03 x 9.17 in ( 7,7 x 23,3 cm ), Sheet dimensions: 9.06 x 12.6 in ( 24,4 x 32 cm ) Catalog raisonné: Engels-Söhn 33a Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk ( born 1889 in Krefeld, Germany – died...

Paul Cezanne Still life, Roses in a vase, 1971 Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet workshop) Unsigned Numbered / 225 On paper applied on Arches vellum 53.5 x 41.5 cm (c. 21 x 16.5 in) ...

A wonderful piece of unknown edition by Andy Warhol. A silkscreen print on a Cellulose and Cotton dress. Fearing the artist's trade mark Campbell's soup can. In very good condition.