Graphics Art

Kansei: Like The River's Flow 2010 by Takashi Murakami Offset print, cold stamp and high gloss varnishing with silver ink signed, numbered and stamped by the Artist 27 7/8 in diamete...

Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Purple Pansies in Cup, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 35, Image Size: 14 x 10 inches, Si...

Charles Demuth was one of the most complex, talented, and deeply sensitive artists of the American modern period. Whether he was painting floral still lifes, industrial landscapes, or Turkish bathhouses, art was, for Demuth, fraught with personal meaning. A fixture of the vanguard art scene in New York, Demuth navigated the currents of Modernism, producing some of the most exquisite watercolors and original oil paintings in twentieth-century American art. Demuth was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the only child of a well-to-do family. He had an awkward and introverted childhood shaped by a childhood illness, Perthes, a disease of the hip that not only left him permanently lame, but, as part of the “cure,” bedridden for two years in the care of his mother. This long period of incapacitation had a deep impact on Demuth, who came to see himself as an invalid, an outsider who was different from everyone else. It was perhaps during this period of indoor confinement that his keen interest in art developed. Several relatives on his father’s side had been amateur artists, and, following his convalescence, his mother encouraged his artistic pursuits by sending him to a local painter for instruction. The majority of his early pictures are of flowers, a subject for which Demuth maintained a lifelong passion. Following high school, Demuth enrolled at the Drexel Institute of Art in Philadelphia, a school renowned for its commercial arts program. He advanced through the program rapidly, and, in 1905, at the encouragement of his instructors, he began taking courses at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The two leading teachers then at the Academy were William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz. Anshutz, himself a former student of Thomas Eakins, was well liked by his students, and is best known as the teacher of Robert Henri, John Sloan, and several of the other artists of the Ashcan School. Demuth, too, adopted a similar idiom, working in a controlled, realistic manner while at the Academy, where he remained until 1910. In 1907, Demuth made his first trip to Europe, staying in Paris. He spent time on the periphery of the art scene composed of the numerous American artists there, including John Marin and Edward Steichen. He returned to Philadelphia five months later, and immediately resumed courses at the Academy. Despite his introduction to advanced modern styles in Europe, Demuth’s work of this period retains the academic style he practiced before the trip. It wasn’t until he had summered at New Hope, Pennsylvania, in 1908 and 1911, that his style began to evolve. New Hope was a prominent American Impressionist art colony whose members were largely affiliated with the Pennsylvania Academy. Demuth dropped the conservative tone of his style and adopted a freer and more colorful palette. Although he remained based in Philadelphia, Demuth frequently went to New York during this period. Many of the same American artists of the Parisian art scene Demuth had encountered on his earlier European trip now formed the nucleus of New York’s avant-garde, which centered around Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 gallery. It wasn’t long before Demuth began to apply modernist-inspired strategies to his work. He was particularly influenced by the watercolor work of John Marin, also a former student of Anshutz, whose bold use of color in the medium Demuth freely adapted into looser washes of color. In 1912, Demuth again left for Paris, this time studying in the Académie Moderne, Académie Colorossi, and Académie Julian. In Paris Demuth met the American modernist Marsden Hartley. Hartley, a principal figure in the expatriate art circle, acted as a mentor to Demuth, and introduced him to the wide array of modern styles currently practiced in Europe. Hartley also introduced Demuth to many of the members of the Parisian avant-garde, including Gertrude Stein. Demuth was an aspiring writer, and he spent many hours in conversation with Stein. He wrote extensively during this period, and published two works shortly after his return to America. He also developed an interest in illustrating scenes from literary texts. From 1914 to 1919, Demuth produced a series of watercolors of scenes from books such as Emile Zola’s Nana and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. Upon his return to America, Demuth settled in New York. In 1914, Demuth had his first one-man show at Charles Daniel’s gallery, which promoted emerging modern American artists, including Man Ray, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Stuart Davis, and Max Weber. Demuth drew closer to the artistic vanguard in New York, becoming friends with many in the Stieglitz and Daniel circles, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, Carl Van Vechten, and Edward Fiske. New York’s cosmopolitan atmosphere and active nightlife appealed greatly to Demuth. In a sketchy style well suited to watercolor, he painted many vaudeville and circus themes, as well as nightclub, café, and bathhouse scenes. Often with Duchamp, Demuth took part in an urban subculture replete with nightclubs, bars, drugs, and sexual permissiveness, which, for a homosexual artist like himself, allowed room for previously unattainable personal expression. Demuth’s pictures of sailors, bathhouses, and circus performers embody a sensual and sexual undercurrent, expressing the artist’s sense of comfort and belonging in the bohemian subculture of New York. Simultaneously, Demuth deepened his interest in floral pictures, painting these almost exclusively in watercolor. His style evolved from the broad color washes of his earlier pictures to more spare, flattened, and sinuous compositions, inspired by the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley and other artists of the Aesthetic Movement. Demuth’s flower watercolors are moody and atmospheric, sensuous and elegant, introspective and yet full of expressive power. Moreover they are beautiful, and are unequivocally among the finest still lifes in American art. Despite numerous subsequent artistic undertakings that led him in a variety of directions, Demuth never stopped painting flower pictures, ultimately adding fruits and other still-life objects to his repertoire. In 1916, Demuth began to develop a style later known as Precisionism, a form of landscape painting infused with Cubism, in which space is divided into precisely drawn geometric regions of color. Demuth first began to paint the landscape in an appropriated Cubist mode while on a trip with Hartley to Bermuda. In these early landscapes, in which the curvilinear forms of trees intersect the geometrically articulated architectural forms, Demuth explored ideas that shaped the future development of modernism in America. The full realization of Demuth’s explorations came after his return to America in 1917, when he turned his attention to industrial subjects. These works derive from a “machine aesthetic,” espoused by New York artists such as Francis Picabia, Joseph Stella, Albert Gleizes, and Duchamp, by which artists viewed machines as embodying mystical, almost religious significance as symbols of the modern world. Rather than painting the skyscrapers and bridges of New York as did most of his like-minded contemporaries, Demuth returned to his home town of Lancaster, where he painted factories and warehouses in a Precisionist idiom. The titles for these pictures are often contain literary references, which serve as clues for the viewer to aid in the decoding of the artist’s meaning. In 1923, Demuth planned a series of abstract “poster portraits” of his friends and contemporaries in the New York art and literary scene. In these “portraits,” Demuth combined text and symbolic elements to evoke the essential nature of his sitters’ distinguishing characteristics. In this fashion, he painted portraits of such artists as Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, and Arthur Dove. His most famous poster portrait, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold...

Artist: Wifredo Lam, Cuban (1902 - 1982) Title: Orsa Maggiore Year: 1976 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: X/XXV Paper Size: 31...

"Autumn Harvest III" is an abstract expressionist painting by Romina Milano where a dance of black gestures unfolds across colorful brushstrokes infused with raw emotion. Romina Mi...

Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) - Galerie Bellint. Year: 1979, Medium: Poster, Size: 32 in. x 20.5 in. (81.28 cm x 52.07 cm)

Mesmerizing abstract color play of muted tones and surreal shapes, from a series of still life works created entirely in camera Caleidoscope II by Christian Stoll 40 x 28 inches (1...

'Australia' With decorative border surrounds and vignettes including a view of Sydney, Kangaroos, Natives of Australia Felix, Australian Parrots and Cockatoos and Natives of the Tri...

Artist: Schizas, Nikolaos Title: Always On My Mind Date: 2024 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Unframed Dimensions: 39" x 39" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Edition: Unique Ba...

From 1833 to 1835 Johan Laurentz Jensen lived in France and Italy; while in Rome, he was considered the most prominent painter in an extensive colony of Scandinavian artists there. I...

Chromolithograph, 1878. The gold colour is actually metallic and shiny. From Frederick William Hulme's 'Suggestions in Floral Design', a late Victorian pattern book for interior des...

Frames that capture the transformation from everyday life into another reality. Images that explore how the future will look. The proposal comes from the contemporary but goes beyond...

Lafuente - Flowers - Oil on canvas Spanish school signed "Lafuente". Oil measures 61x50 cm. Frameless.

This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "Cistusflore Albo, Balaustium Flore Minori Romanum, Cotinus", depicting flowering Pomegranate, Rock Rose...

Mitzy Renooy Wild Flowers 110 x 120 cm Frame included in price, size with frame: 115 x 125 cm Dutch artist Mitzy Renooy, a former camera woman for national television, did follow ar...

Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...

Dahlias Color woodcut, 1939 Unsigned (as usual) Format: oban Publisher: Takemura Hideo Stamp verso: "Made in Japan" Provenance: Robert O. Muller Biography Hodo Nishimura...

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1958 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. Born in 1971 in Seoul, Korea, Emily Cho, whose Korean name is Yunshee Cho, attended an art hig...

Created by the artist in 2024, Yellow Mimosa with Red is a screenprint in colors with enamel inks and sand on museum board. Measuring 22 x 22 in. (56 x 56 cm), unframed, the artwork ...

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Florals Narcissus (Phones) Andalou MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 1/350 MEASUREMENTS: 21.75" x 29.5" YEAR: 1972 FRAMED: No...

In Katharina Husslein's floral-themed paintings, her profound connection to nature and deep inspiration drawn from flowers are unmistakable. Through her textural and abstract approac...

"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness." — Eckhart Tolle Kaori VI (...

An original and unique painting by contemporary artist Eric Alfaro in acrylic on cotton canvas. Painting is signed by the artist, accompanied with it's certificate of authenticity. S...

'Flying Composition no. 2' original watercolor painted in 2021. Large work at 40 x 60 inches, in multi-color including an explosion of blue, orange, yellow, and green from Cleveland-...

100 x 70cm mixed media and oil painting on canvas. "Blooming in Silence" portrays the quiet strength that lies within growth and transformation. A cascade of vibrant flowers emerges...

Tom Wesselmann Bedroom painting #7 (detail), 1976 Offset lithograph poster 32 × 22 inches Unsigned, Unframed Limited Edition of 500 (unnumbered) Rarely seen on the market place Offs...

Renée Demsey, an accomplished American painter, has left an indelible mark across art, fashion, and design for more than 75 years. Her dynamic artwork ini...

Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches ( 38.1 x 55.88 cm ) Image Size: 15 x 22 inches ( 38.1 x 55.88 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age Additi...

These are three 11 x 8.5 inch (45 x 60 cm) original hand-printed original cyanotype photographs sold together. Cyanotypes are an antique photographic process dating back to the nine...

This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery. Marcel Demagny was born in 1949 in Nancy, France. He graduated from the Nancy School of Architecture in...

Artist: Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931-2004) Title: "Helen Nude" *Signed, dated, and numbered by Wesselmann in pencil lower right Year: 1981 Medium: Original Screenprint on heavy unb...

Acrylic & watercolor on paper with wood panel Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art director, she was involv...

Violet Dance, 2021 14 layer screen print on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin White paper - finished with matte varnish and glossy, vinyl ink details 27 3/5 × 19 7/10 in 70 × 50 cm Ed...

The painting "Peonies and Lace" is a 24x30 oil painting on canvas by the Russian artist Alexander Pede. Depicted is a peaceful soft floral bouquet in white. The fresh blooms spring o...

Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...

Original Fashion Design Illustration by Roz Jennings, British watercolor and ink on card, unframed size: 12 x 8.25 inches condition: very good A beautifully colorful and characterfu...

These are three separate 24 x 18-inch hand-printed photographs using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. Unframed, side by side, they span 24 x 54 inches”. Once matted and framed ...

Edition 5 Pink Painting of Pooh the bear JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fin...