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Art Subject: Drawing
Saint-Jean-de-Luz : La Plage Noir (Mourlot, Paris)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Maurice Brianchon Saint-Jean-de-Luz : La Plage 1964 Original Color Lithograph on Velin d'Arches Size: 10x7.375in Edition: 2,000 Annotated verso Unsigned as issued Publisher: Mourlot,...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

Materials

Vellum, Lithograph

Attesa di Maja - Original Aquatint and Etching by Leo Guida - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Attesa di Maja is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1973 by the italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original Print: Aquatint and Etching on paper with Black Ink. Edi...
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1970s Contemporary Nude Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Skeleton - Etching by Jean Moitte - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Skeleton is an etching realized by Jean Gullaume Moitte in 1771. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi...
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1770s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Tofcia II and Tofcia III. Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Animals, Dogs
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative etching print by Polish arist living in Canada, Pawel Zablocki. Print depicts dog Tofcia in dynamic poses viewed from the side. Artist's unique technique of p...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Paper, Etching

Picasso, Les Banderilles (B. 1014-47; C. 113), A Los Toros Avec Picasso (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, A Los Toros Avec Picasso, 1961. Published by André Sauret, éditeur, Paris; prin...
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1960s Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

WOMEN TOGETHER Signed Lithograph Seated Female Figures, Cream, Gray, Terra Cotta
Located in Union City, NJ
WOMEN TOGETHER is a color lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross presenting an endearing figure study of seated female figures printed on archival white paper in watercolor shades of cream, light terra cotta, warm gray, light blue, light red and graphite black for the drawing. WOMEN TOGETHER is a freely expressed group portrait portraying the gathering of women seated together; their rounded cloud like body forms, gentle facial expressions and curly hair seem to flow in unison across the horizontal composition creating an almost heavenly air. Print size - 20 x 29 inches, unframed, pencil signed by Chaim Gross Edition size - 100, plus proofs Year published - 1979 Chaim Gross,(1904 - 1991) was a sculptor, artist, and teacher, known for his wood carvings, sculptures of moving human figures, religious imagery, acrobats, mothers and children. Chaim was born on March 17, 1904 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia. During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art academy and studied with painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before emigrating to New York City in 1921. In the U.S., Gross's studies continued at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied sculpture with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League, with sculptor Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Gross exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club (the precursor to the Whitney Museum of American Art). In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005), and they had two children, Yehuda and Mimi (Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist, and was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976). In 1933, Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures for schools and public colleges, and created works for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the 1937 Exposition universelle in Paris. Chaim Gross, Sculptor by Josef Vincent Lombardo, the first major book on Gross, came out in 1949 and included a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1963, Gross and his family moved from their longtime residence at 30 W. 105th Street to Greenwich Village, following the purchase of a four-story historic townhouse at 526 LaGuardia Place, which is now the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation. In 1974, the Smithsonian American Art Museum held the exhibition, Chaim Gross: Sculpture and Drawings, and in 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Norman Barr, Fulton St. Fish Market (NYC)
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market. Although Barr was on the Mural Project of the ...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

View of Castello dell'Acqua Felice - Etching by G. B. Piranesi - 1751
Located in Roma, IT
View of Castel of Acqua Felice is an original etching realized by the italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1751. Very precoius and rare lifetime impression. Roman edition. I...
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1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Etching

Surrealist Flowers, Hélène, 1969 - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitsky, aka) Surrealist Flowers, Hélène, 1969 Handsigned original etching Also printed signature in the plate On vellum, 23 x...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Picasso, Minotaure aveugle guidé dans la Nuit par une Petite (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Minotaure aveugle guidé dans la Nuit par une Petite Fille au Pigeon (after Bloch 223) Year: 1992 Medium: Reproduced from the original e...
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1990s Cubist Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Faust Cavalier et la Mort
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Faust Cavalier et la Mort MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 44/95 MEASUREMENTS: 11.4" x 15.3" YEAR: 1969 FRAMED: Yes CONDITION...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Le Phare, Impressionist Etching by Bernard Buffet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bernard Buffet, French (1928 - 1999) - Le Phare, Year: 1958, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 56/75, Image Size: 12 x 10 inches, Frame Size: 22.75 x 19...
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1950s Impressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dalí­ -- Deux nus (Gémeaux)
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí Deux nus (Gémeaux), 1970 Lithograph Sheet size: 77 x 57 cm. Hand signed lower right Numbered XI/XXV lower left Printed by Desjobert Published by Musee de L' Athenee, G...
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1970s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Rettung - Original Lithograph by Alfred Kubin - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist who has died requires a licence for export regardless of t...
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1940s Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Nude VII - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Etching Print
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching

Murex I, by Jakob Demus
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Murex I, Diamond drypoint by Jakob Demus. In the 1986-1988 period Demus immersed himself in the depiction of flowers, and it was then that the most important works in this genre wer...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Drypoint

Alice In Wonderland: Hookah Smoking Caterpillar, Hand signed Etching, Erotica
Located in Union City, NJ
Alice In Wonderland:Hookah Smoking Caterpillar is an original hand made etching by the American abstract painter Knox Martin. Printed in black ink on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free. Erotic fantastical interpretation of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, where Alice first meets the Catepillar while he is sitting on a mushroom smoking a hookah. He helps her by advising her to eat from the mushroom if she wants to change her size. Print size- 18" x 15", Image size - 8.25" x 6.75" Edition size - 50 About the artist- Knox Martin (1923-2022) was an esteemed New York School painter. Knox Martin was born in 1923 in Barranquilla, Colombia. He was the son of the aviator, painter, and poet William Knox Martin, the first man to fly over the Andes mountains. After serving in World War II, Knox Martin attended the Art Students League of New York on the G.I. Bill from 1946-1950, where he studied with Harry Sternberg, Vaclav Vytlacil, Will Barnet, and Morris Kantor. In 1954, Knox Martin's friend Franz Kline placed a painting of his in the Stable Gallery Annual. Charles Egan of the renowned Charles Egan Gallery saw Knox Martin's painting at the Stable Gallery and asked Martin to show his work in a one-man show for the tenth anniversary of the Egan Gallery. Since then, Knox Martin was a celebrated painter, sculptor and muralist. Knox Martin had an extensive exhibition record and his work is in museum, corporate and private collections worldwide. His two best-known murals in NYC are Venus and Woman with Bicycle...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

Dressed in black - Original Etching Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Alméry Lobel-Riche Dressed in black Original engraving Handsigned in pencil Numbered /12 On parchment 31 x 22.5 cm (c. 12.2 x 8.9 inches) Excellent condition
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Early 20th Century Modern Nude Prints

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Etching

Untitled - Etching by Ossi Czinner - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Burin engraving on Magnani-Pescia paper. Paper size 39cmx29,5cm, work size 22cmx17,5cm. Excellent condition, no defects. OSSI CZINNER - Central European artist, graphic designer and...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving

Not an oversea jay. Limited edition print Animal, Bird, Realistic, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary etching print by Polish artist Marian Bocianowski. The print depicts a jay standing in a wintery scene. There is church behind her and house with snow on the roof next t...
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Early 2000s Other Art Style Figurative Prints

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Etching, Paper

Nude of Woman - Lithograph by Carlo Marcantonio - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is a Lithograph realized by Carlo Marcantonio in 1970s. This print is hand signed. This is an edition of 50 prints plus some artist's proofs, numbered 22/50. Prints are the most affordable and reasonably priced artworks...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Cats and Kitty - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
The Cats and Kitty is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was ...
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1850s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Matisse, Crayon, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
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1920s Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Picasso, Femme assise et deux danseuses, La Chèvre-Feuille (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Engraving and Zincograph on vélin Lafuma-Navarre paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Chèvre-Feuille, 1943. Published b...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving

Le Purgatoire XII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Braque, Composition, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, The Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque, Verve: Revue Arti...
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1950s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Scène VIII, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on Vélin de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire, 1958. Published by Tériade,...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Tool Drypoint: Bottle opener by Jim Dine, black and white tool still life sketch
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine drew the plate for this image in the same period as his “Thirty Bones of My Body” 1972 portfolio of drypoint tool images. Crisbrook paper (30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 56 cm.) and p...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint

Homeland Figures - Original Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Homeland figures from Ecce Homo is an original offset and lithograph, realized by George Grosz in 1922. The artwork is the plate n. 47 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published betwee...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Matisse, Fusain, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
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1920s Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Transfiguration /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Landscape Etching Face Lips Surreal
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) Title: "Transfiguration" *Signed by Dali in pencil lower right Year: 1973 Medium: Original Etching on Auvergne paper Limited edition: 90/10...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching, Intaglio

"Evening Peace" Copper Plate Heliogravure
Located in Chicago, IL
2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extol...
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1910s Symbolist Figurative Prints

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Paper

Conclusion de l'Ecclésiaste - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Conclusion de l'ecclésiaste is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s. Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Lithograph on both sheets. Edition of 6500 unsigned lith...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Decorative Motifs- Etruscan - Chromolithograph by A. Alessio - Early 20th Centur
Located in Roma, IT
Decorative Motifs - Etruscan Styles is an original print on ivory-colored paper realized by Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower. Vintage Chrom...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled (Three Ducks Taking to Flight)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Three Ducks Taking to Flight) Drypoint, c. 1940 Signed lower right Provenance: Estate of the Artist Winchell Heirs by descent Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 10 5/16 inches Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis, after his tenure of being an instructor at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the 1930's. Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris Anisfeld...
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1940s American Realist Animal Prints

Materials

Drypoint

"Smiling Woman Reclined" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate #14 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Les Arcades, Dieppe France (the arches along coastline of a town in Normandy)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The image show a panoramic view of the architectural arches and the boats in the harbor of Dieppe in Normandy France. Dieppe was occupied by German naval and army forces after the f...
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Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Piquier Allemand (German Pikeman) /// Old Masters Figurative Man Soldier Antique
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Armand Joseph Lallemand (French, 1810-1871) Title: "Piquier Allemand (German Pikeman)" Portfolio: Gazette des Beaux-Arts Year: 1866 Medium: Original Etching on cream laid pap...
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1860s Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Laid Paper, Etching, Intaglio

Dog in an Interior - Original Etching Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dog in an Interior is an original etching, splendid abstract artwork realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimension: 31.5x 22.5 cm. The artwork represents an abstract scenery with stong emotion created by lines, an Expressionistic style of creation mixed with abstract expression. The shadowy figure of dog...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

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Etching

Veduta delle rovine di una Conserva... - Etching by L. Rossini - 1826
Located in Roma, IT
Veduta delle Rovine di una Conserva d'acqua per la Villa di Domiziano vicino a Castel Gandolfo negl'Orti Lodovisi Image dimensions: 42 x 52 cm. From th...
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1820s Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Etching

JOE MCDONALD
Located in Portland, ME
Hockney, David. JOE MCDONALD. Scottish Arts Council 175. Gemini DH76-767. Lithograph in two blacks, 1976. Done in crayon on both a stone and an aluminum ...
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1970s Portrait Prints

Materials

ABS, Lithograph

Matisse, Plume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
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1920s Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Erotic Scene - Lithograph by Toyen - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an artwork realized by Toyen in 1927. Mixed colored watercolored lithograph. The artwork is an illustration from the book Pybrac written by Pierre Louÿs  (1870-1925...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Looking at Infinity" Copper Plate Heliogravure
Located in Chicago, IL
2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extolling his artistic merits during his lifetime to showing something of a feigned disdain- more reflective of the world political order than a true change of heart for Hodler’s work. After years of Hodler being all but a footnote in the annals of art history and generally ignored, finally, the pendulum has righted itself once again. Recent retrospective exhibitions in Europe and the United States have indicated not only a joyful rediscovery of Hodler’s art but a firm conviction that his work and world view hold particular relevance today. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is not only a collection of printed work reflecting the best of all of his painted work created up to 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I, the portfolio itself is an encapsulation of Hodler’s ethos, Parallelisme. Hodler developed his philosophy of Parallelisme as a unifying approach to art which strips away detail in search of harmony. By means of abstraction, symmetry and repetition, Hodler sought ways to depict Nature’s essence and her fundamental, universal order. He believed these universal laws governing the natural, observable world extend to the spiritual realm. Symbolist in nature with Romantic undertones, his works are equally portraits of these universal concepts and feelings governing all life as they are a visual portrait in the formal sense. Whether his subject is a solitary tree, a moment in battle, mortal fear, despair, the awe inspired by a vast mountain range, a tender moment or even the collective conviction in a belief, Hodler unveils this guiding principle of Parallelisme. Several aspects of Hodler’s portfolio reinforce his tenets of Parallelisme. The Table of Contents clearly preferences a harmonious design over detail. The two columns, consisting of twenty lines each, list the images by order of appearance using their German titles. The abbreviated titles are somewhat cryptic in that they obscure the identities of the sitters. Like the image Hodler presents, they are distillations of the sitter without any extraneous details. This shortening was also done in an effort to maintain a harmonious symmetry of the Table of Contents, themselves, and keep titles to a one-line limit. The twenty-fourth title: “Bildnis des Schweizerischen Gesandten C.” was so long, even with abbreviation, that it required two lines; so, for the sake of maintaining symmetry, the fortieth title: “Bauernmadchen” was omitted from the list. This explains why the images are not numbered. Hodler’s reasoning is not purely esoteric. Symmetry and pattern reach beyond mere formal design principles. Finding sameness and imposing it over disorder goes to the root of Hodler’s identity and his art. A Swiss native, Hodler was bi-lingual and spoke German and French. Each printed image, even number forty, have titles in both of Hodler’s languages. Certainly, there was a market for Hodler’s work among francophones and this inclusion may have been a polite gesture to that end; however, this is the only place in the portfolio which includes French. With German titles at the lower left of each image, Hodler’s name at bottom center and corresponding French titles at the lower right of each image, there is a harmony and symmetry woven into all aspects of the portfolio. This holds true for the page design, as it applies to each printed image and as it describes the Swiss artist himself. Seen in this light, Hodler’s portfolio of printed work is the epitome of Hodler’s Parallelisme. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is also one of the most significant documents to best tell the story of how Hodler, from Switzerland, became caught between political cross-hairs and how the changing tides of nations directly impacted the artist during his lifetime as well as the accessibility of his art for generations to come. The Munich-based publisher of the portfolio, R. Piper & Co., Verlag, plays a crucial role in this story. Publishing on a wide range of subjects from philosophy and world religion to music, literature and the visual arts; the publisher’s breadth of inquiry within any one genre was equal in scope. Their marketing strategy to publish multiple works on Hodler offers great insight as to what a hot commodity Hodler was at that time. R.Piper & Co.’s Almanach, which they published in 1914 in commemoration of their first ten years in business, clearly illustrates the rapid succession- strategically calculated for achieving the deepest and broadest impact - in which they released three works on Hodler to hit the market by the close of 1914. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS was their premier publication. It preceded C.A. Loosli’s Die Zeichnungen Ferdinand Hodlers, a print portfolio after 50 drawings by Hodler which was released in Autumn of 1914 at the mid-level price-point of 75-150 Marks; and a third less expensive collection of prints after original works by Hodler, which had not been included in either of the first two portfolios, was released at the end of that year entitled Ferdinand Hodler by Dr. Ewald Bender. The title and timing of DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS' debut leaves little doubt as to the connection it has with another avant-garde portfolio of art prints, Das Werk Gustav Klimts, released in 5 installments from 1908 -1914 by Galerie Miethke in Vienna. Hodler, himself, was involved in Klimt’s ground-breaking project. As the owner of Klimt’s 1901 painting, “Judith with the Head of Holifernes” which appears as the ninth collotype print in the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts, Hodler was obliged to grant access of the painting to the art printers in Vienna for them to create the collotype sometime before 1908. Hodler had been previously invited in 1904 to take part in what would be the last exhibition of the Vienna Secession before Klimt and others associated with Galerie Miethke broke away. In an interview that same year, Hodler indicated that he respected and was impressed by Klimt. Hodler’s esteem for Klimt went beyond the art itself; he emulated Klimt’s method aimed at increasing his market reach and appeal to a wider audience by creating a print portfolio of his painted work. By 1914, Hodler and his publisher had the benefit of hindsight to learn from Klimt’s Das Werk publication. Responding to the sluggish sales of Klimt’s expensive endeavor, Hodler’s publisher devised the same diversified 1-2-3 strategy for selling Hodler’s Das Werk portfolio as they did with regards to all three works on Hodler they published that year. For their premium tier of DAS WERKS FERDINAND HODLERS, R. Piper & Co. issued an exclusive Museum quality edition of 15 examples on which Hodler signed each page. At a cost of 600 Marks, this was generally on par with Klimt’s asking price of 600 Kronen for his Das Werk portfolio. A middle-tiered Preferred edition of 30, costing somewhat less and with Hodler’s signature only on the Title Page, was also available. The General edition, targeting the largest audience with its much more affordable price of 150 Marks, is distinguishable by its smaller size. Rather than use the subscription format Miethke had chosen for Klimt’s portfolios which proved to have had its challenges, R. Piper & Co. employed a different strategy. In addition to instantly gratifying the buyer with all 40 of the prints comprising DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS and the choice among three price points, they advertised in German journals a fourth possibility of ordering single prints from them directly. These printed images are easily discernible from the three complete folio editions. The paper size of the single purchased images is of the larger format like the Museum and Preferred editions, measuring 65 h x 50 w cm; however, the paper itself is the same copper print paper used in the General edition and then mounted on poster board. The publishing house positioned itself to be a direct retailer of Hodler’s art. They astutely recognized the potential for profitability and the importance, therefore, of having proprietary control over his graphic works. R. Piper & Co. owned the exclusive printing rights to Hodler’s best work found in their three publications dating from 1914. That same year, a competing publication out of Weimar entitled Ferdinand Hodler: Ein Deutungsversuch von Hans...
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1910s Symbolist Figurative Prints

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The Lips - The Physiognomy - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
The Lips - The Physiognomy is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Lo...
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1810s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Dufy, Composition, Les Côtes Normandes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Les Côtes Normandes 1961. Publ...
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1960s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Landscape with Marching Soldiers
Located in Chicago, IL
Etching from the Six Landscapes
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18th Century Landscape Prints

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Etching

Piano Lesson : The Three Sisters - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Alfredo MULLER Piano Lesson : The Three Sisters, 1898 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Unsigned On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) INFORMATION: Lithograph created for t...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Portrait After Raphael - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait After Raphael is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755. Good conditions. Signed in plate. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes. The etching was rea...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Cat - Etching and Drypoint by Giselle Halff- 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cat is an Original etching and drypoint print on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in 1950 ca. Good conditions with some foxing.
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching, Drypoint

Scène V, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on Vélin de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire, 1958. Published by Tériade,...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Salvador Dali "Horace's chimera"
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Horace's chimera Series: Dalinian Horses Date: 1972 Medium: Lithograph Unframed Dimensions: 25.5" x 19.75" Framed Dimensions: 35" x 30.5" Signatu...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #93: "Science" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
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1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Androgyne, Hésperus by Carlos Schwabe, Mystical Symbolist illustration, 1904
Located in Chicago, IL
Lithograph from Carlos Schwabe’s series of hand-colored Symbolist fantasy illustrations for Catulle Mendès’ Hésperus, published in 1904 by Société de pr...
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Early 1900s Symbolist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Aquatint

The Stag Reflected in the Water - Etching - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Stag Reflected in the Water is an artwork realized in 1974. Etching and drypoint with stencil. Printed by Atelier Rigal. Edition XIV/CXX on Auvergne paper. It belongs to the...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Harlequin - Lithograph by Jean Denis Malclès - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Harlequin is an artwork realized by Jean Denis Malclès (1912-2002). Lithograph print. Hand Signed on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left, the edition of 6/25 prints. Is not d...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Nudes - Etching by Paul Emile Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nudes is an etching realized by Paul Emile Colin in the Mid-20th Century. hand-signed. Numbered.Edition, 1/30. Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

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