Men Prints and Multiples

In this charming image we see a drummer happily playing what appears to be a modern looking set of drums. The poster was created in the 1930’s by an unknown artist Rassiat. The poste...

Group of Caryatids with the dedication to Henry Hope Artist proof, printed on contemporary laid paper, wide margins, representing a “group of caryatids” found in Vigna Strozzi", Rome...

Animal Figures from Ancient Rome, from the Series "The Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is an original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. In ...

Fukuroi Dejaya No Zu (An Outdoor Tea Stall at Fukuroi), is a beautiful color woodblock print on paper, the plate n. 28 from the series Fifty-three Stations Along the Tokaido (Tokai...

Homo Ludens is an original hand-colored etching realized by the Italian artist Sergio Barletta (Bologna, 1934). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right margin, titled "homo ludens"...

Swimmer is an original lithograph realized by Kim Hyang. This artwork is from the portfolio The Unique Collection for the Olympic Fine Arts 2008 presented during the Olympic Games a...

Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978) No Swimming Original painting produced 1921, date of this print unknown Lithograph Sight: 21 x 18 in. Framed: 30 x 24 x 1 in. Signed in plate Ha...

A Standing Man is an original lithograph artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (after) (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier Gavarni, 1804-1866) ...

Image dimensions: 28 x 18 cm. The Fire is an original artwork realized by Gu Yuan in 1947. Original xylograph on watermarked paper. Signed and dated in pencil on the lower right. ...

"Man on Horseback" is an original print in etching technique on ivory-colored cardboard , by Anonymous Artist of the XVIII Century. In excellent condi...

Artist: Alberto Giacometti Title: 'Portrait d'homme' Year: 1961 Medium: Original Lithograph on vélin paper Dimensions: 15in. by 11in. Edition: From the rare limited edition Reference...

Portrait of A.R. Mengs is an original artwork realized by James Neagle (1765 - 1822). Original Etching from J.c. Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge ...

Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - Vieillard au Bonnet Fendu (B265). Year: 1878 (of original 1640), Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 6 x 5.5 in. (15.24 x ...

Charles HUARD Fishermen in Paris, 1898 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) INFORMATION: Lithograph create...

Original poster of Vandor for the singer Jean Lumière. His real name was Jean Anezin and he was born into a family of music-loving merchants. He won first ...

This bright and cheerful poster was created by famous poster artist, Leonetto Cappiello in 1903 for a fundraiser being held in Paris' Bois de Boulogne. One of his signature smiling l...

FRANCIS BACON 1909-1992 Dublin 1909-1992 Madrid (Irish / British) Title: Portrait of Michel Leiris, 1976/78 Technique: Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Aquatint in Colours on ...

Faust et Marguerite au jardin is a wonderful original lithograph by Eugène Louis Pirodon (1824-1908), d'après James Tissot. A very touching and romantic scene in which two lovers are in Renaissance costume...

A beautiful poster commissioned in the 1930's by La Maison du Voyage, a former travel agency that developed cruises and tours around the world. This poster was intended to promote t...

Since 1974, Oliva has had individual and collective exhibitions in Cuba as well as internationally. His works can be seen at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba and in collections in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Switzerland, Mexico, Germany and United States. In 1998 Oliva founded and funded the House-Workshop of Pedro Pablo Oliva...

Figure is an original print in lithograph on paper realized by an anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century. In very good conditions. The artwork created through confident strokes, ...

Vinattieri is a beautiful artwork realized by Henry Bischoff. Xilograph. In good condition. A French text printed on the back. Henry Bischoff (1882-1951) was a Swiss painter and en...

City with Travellers is an original and little etching of an unknown artist of 17th century. The artwork is in good conditions with some little stains on a yellowed paper. No signa...

Ukiyo-e Style Woodcut Untitled, c. 1900 Woodcut print Sight: 13 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. Framed: 22 1/4 x 37 1/4 in.

Prisoners is an Original Woodcut print realized by A. H. Laboureur. The artwork on a green paper is in good condition, glued on a page of magazine. No signature. Titled on the uppe...

Dive into the seductive world of Rockin’ Jelly Bean's "True Romance – Variant," a captivating homage to the cult classic film that has captured heart...

Military Education Institute is a original lithograph by Antonio Zezon. Naples 1853. Interesting colored lithograph which describes some members of the Military Education Institute:...

Infantryman 1939 - 1945 uniform Lithograph 50 x 31 cm Produced for the Institute of Army Education. Printed for HM Stationery Office by I A Limited, Southall 51. These posters were...

Oscar Dominguez, Spanish (1906 - 1957) - Rollercoaster, Year: circa 1945, Medium: Etching on Japon, signed in pencil, Image Size: 7 x 5 inches, Size: 16 x 10.75 in. (40.64 x 27.31 ...

Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life. Aldin executed village scenes and rura...

The Artist is an original Lithograph realized by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet in 1836. Signature on the lower margin, the artwork represents a gentleman with an artist. Good conditio...

Autre émotion maritime is a b/w lithograph (n.14) from the satirical print series “Les Trains de Plaisir”, composed of caricatures “de mœurs” (of behaviours), realized by Honoré Daum...

Bold, slightly abstracted etching of an elderly woman titled "Amazing Grace" by Claudette McElroy (American, b. 1943). Signed on verso "Claudette McElroy" in the lower right corner, ...

Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surreal mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates r...

Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - Portrait de Jean Corneille Sylvius (B280). Year: 1878 (of original 1633), Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 11 x 7.5 in. ...

The conversation is an original lithograph artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (after) (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier Gavarni, 1804-1866...

Jean-Michel Basquiat Downtown 81: A rare massive-sized theatrical poster published circa 2001 to promote the historical early 1980s Basquiat film: Downtown 81. A highly collectible ...

Mary Sister of Martha is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of...

Ancient Roman Fresco, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower ...

The present hand-colored lithograph was produced as part of the funeral and mourning culture in the United States during the 19th century. Images like this were popular as ways of remembering loved ones, an alternative to portraiture of the deceased. This lithograph shows a man, woman and child in morning clothes next to an urn-topped stone monument. Behind are additional putto-topped headstones beneath weeping willows, with a steepled church beyond. The monument contains a space where a family could inscribe the name and death dates of a deceased loved one. In this case, it has been inscribed to a young Civil War soldier: William W. Peabody Died at Fairfax Seminary, VA December 18th, 1864 Aged 18 years The young Mr. Peabody probably died in service for the Union during the American Civil War. Farifax Seminary was a Union hospital and military headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The hospital served nearly two thousand soldiers during the war time. Five hundred were also buried on the Seminary's grounds. 13.75 x 9.5 inches, artwork 23 x 19 inches, frame Published before 1864 Inscribed bottom center "Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier. 2 Spruce St. N.Y." Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and TruVue Conservation Clear glass, housed in a gold gilded moulding. Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...

Garden is a beautiful artwork realized by Orfeo Tamburi beetween 1973 and 1975. Mixed colored lithograph. Edited and printed by Graphis Arte, Livorno The artwork is from the portf...

Mr. Cat and Miss. Fox Playing Rope Game With Little Cricket and Beetles is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by J.J. Grandville from Scènes de la vie privée et p...

Black and white print of an upper class women in a carriage. There are other figures in the back riding in a carriage as well. Edition 17 of 58. Painting is signed by the artist and ...

Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923) Title: Entre Deux Trains Year: 1916 Medium: etching Edition: Numbered 100/100 in pencil Paper...

This double-sided lithograph by Paolo Garretto features a Vanity Fair cover "The Face Off" on the front and a Camel Cigarette ad on the back. It was pu...

Hand signed. Signed and titled on plate. Very good conditions. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 50 years ago by an a...

Inari Kozo Tasaburo- Kabuki Color woodcut, c. 1820 Signed: ‘Toyokuni’ Publisher: ‘Yamamoto Heikichi’ Censor: Hama and Magome Very good impression and color Sheet/Image size: 15 1/2 x...

Medium: black and white mezzotint Year: 2024 Edition: 25 Image Size: 24 x 18 inches Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist Dramatic mezzotint of the tattooed back of a ...

Allegorien-Neue Folge was a serialized folio published in installments between 1895 and 1900. Martin Gerlach, its publisher, was inspired by the rise of modernist design in Vienna an...

1941 is a black and white xylograph realized by Jean Chieze (1898-1975), in the First Half 20th Century. The artwork represents the ode of the fourth centenary by Charles Forot to O...

Image dimensions. 26x18.2 cm. Mele is a precious color lithograph printed by G. Ricordi and C. Milano, Milan, between 1895 and 1914. An advertising poster of the famous Italian tai...

Japanese Custom is an original Hand-colored lithograph on creamy paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 19th Century. Titled in Italian in Italian on the lower center "Dama Giapponese". Very good conditions. A precious hand-colored artwork representing a Japanese costume...

Couple from Ecce Homo is an original offset and lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n. 57 from the porfolio Ecce Homo published between 1922/1923,edition o...

On S'Amuse is an original artwork realized in 1945 by Mino Maccari. Original colored xylograph. Includes passepartout: 49 x 33.5 cm Good conditions except for yellowing of paper d...

Japanese Customs is an original Hand-colored lithograph on creamy paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 19th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower. Titled in Italian on t...

Gymkhana Umbrella Races Rockaway Hunting Club is from the portfolio entitled Sporting Incidents: Being a Collection of sixteen plates done in color..representing the most important events of the track...

Flirtage is a wonderful wood-cut original print by Ferdinand Florentin Froment, d'après A. Forestier. A woman crouching on her chair, is receiving some flatterings from a man on he...

Portrait of Kennedy by Cemeli is an original lithograph, limited edition number 52 out of 150 and pencil signed by the artist. Kennedy is portrayed as a sculptured multi-colored hea...