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Art Subject: Men
Original political poster - Fight to live - IRA - Irish Republican Army
Located in PARIS, FR
From the 1960s onwards, Northern Ireland experienced a period of unparalleled violence and political unrest. Several paramilitary organizations took up arms to fight against the British presence on their soil. This was the beginning of the IRA (Irish Republican...
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Slim Aarons 'Andros Island' 1957 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Andros Island'
Friends prepare for a day snorkeling by Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957.
30x30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Reclining Woman - Lithograph after Egon Schiele
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Reclining Woman is a beautiful lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " by Egon Schiele.
It is a reproduction of the homonym black crayon drawing, a self-portrait realized by the...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$251 Sale Price
30% Off
1947 Expressionist Oil Painting Flute Player Musician Boris Deutsch WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Boris Deutsch (American Lithuanian Russian, 1892-1978)
"The Flute Player," 1947
Oil paint on canvas,
Hand signed and dated upper left,
Provenance: gallery label (Pasadena Art Museu...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surgical Instruments - Etching by Lorenz Heister - 1750
Located in Roma, IT
Surgical Instruments is part of the suite realized by Lorenz Heister in the series of Institutiones Chirurgicae, Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesberg, 1750.
Etching on paper.
The work be...
Category
1750s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Frescoes - Original Etching by Nicola Billy - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Frescoes from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Nicola Billy in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditi...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
L'Enfer VII (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...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Captain
Located in Columbia, MO
F. CLEVEROT
Captain
1898
Oil on panel
18 x 14 inches
Framed: 28 x 24 inches
Hand signed lower right recto
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$8,640
Mid 19th Century French Signed Portrait of Gentleman with Letter & Quill Pen
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman
French School, mid 19th century
signed to the letter and dated
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 36 x 28 inches
canvas: 29 x 20 inches
Provenance: private collect...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sailors at Cafe du Globe
By Charles Rocher
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Charles Rocher (1890-1962. Sailors, ca. 1920s. Gouache on paper. Sheet measures 19 x 25 inches. Considerable damage and loss as depicted. Signed lower left.
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
1930's French Impressionist Painting - Young Girl in Blue Dress Rocky Coast Sea
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Title: Sur la Plage
Medium: watercolour on artists paper
Size: painting: 8 x 10 inches
Provenance: private collection, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Rico (Father)" Life-size Figurative Work of Man in Foliage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Rico (Father)" is an original artwork by Alain Jean-Baptiste and measures 72"h x 24"w. This work is made from oil paints on canvas and ships with a gallery-issued ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Canvas, Oil
Martin Luther King Motorcade
By Ted Williams
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams
Martin Luther King Motorcade, 1964
Silver gelatin print
16 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition
with certificate of authenticity
Dr. Martin Luther King waves to the crowds as he drives in a motorcade on the way to make a speech at the ‘Illinois Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, US, June 21, 1964.
Ted Williams (1925-2009) first heard jazz on the radio as a youngster in the 1930s in Wichita, Kansas. The sounds of Earl Hines, Duke Ellington and Cab...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Men portrait with a hat
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Henry William Pickersgill, attributed to
(London 1782 – London 1875)
Portrait of Captain Samuel Wright
Oil on canvas
H. 92 cm; L. 73 cm
Circa 1810/1815
Provenance:
– Brother of the ...
Category
1810s English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Gilbert & Sullivan: Framed Pair of 19th C. Vanity Fair Portraits
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a pair of Vanity Fair color chromolithograph caricatures of the famous and beloved English musical composers and playwrights Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir Leslie Ward (Spy) (1851-1922) and Carlo Pellegini (Ape) (1839-1889). The portrait of Arthur Sullivan entitled "English Music" was published in Vanity Fair on March 14, 1874 and W. S. Gilbert entitled "Patience" was published in the Men of the Day portion of Vanity Fair on May 21, 1881.
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900) is regarded as the finest British composer of the 19th century. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Sullivan composed 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous hymns and other church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. The best known of his hymns and songs include "Onward Christian Soldiers" and "The Lost Chord".
Sir William Schwenck (WS) Gilbert (1836-1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert's creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, and numerous short stories, poems and lyrics, both comic and serious.
These Vanity Fair portraits of Gilbert and Sullivan are presented in identical ornate black wood frames and cream-colored French mats with grey inner mats. The frames each measure 21.75" x 16" x .88". The frames and prints are in excellent condition.
From 1868 until February 5, 1914, Vanity Fair, a weekly magazine of social, literary and political content, was very popular in Victorian and later, Edwardian England. The most popular of its features were the full page caricatures of famous men and women of the day which included their biographies, which remains the magazines lasting legacy. Vanity Fair's most famous artists were Carlo Pellegrini who signed his works “Ape” and Leslie Ward, known as “Spy”, but many other artists and writers contributed caricatures and prose to the publication, including Lewis Carroll, Willie Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Jessie Pope and Bertram Fletcher Robinson.
Thomas Gibson...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tense (pet dog, bulldog, baseball, animal portrait art, surrealist oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Tense," a thought-provoking piece by Rudolf Kosow, presents a surreal interplay between a colossal bulldog and a diminutive baseball player. The dog's face, detailed with astonishing realism, conveys a palpable intensity through its piercing gaze. The size disparity between the dog and the player underscores a narrative ripe with anticipation.
The baseball player, clad in traditional attire, stands with bat at the ready, embodying a moment of concentration and readiness. This portrayal of the player, so starkly contrasted against the vastness of the bulldog's features, evokes a feeling of an undercurrent of suspense, as if the outcome of this encounter balances on a knife-edge.
Through "Tense," Kosow delves into the theme of confrontation and the moments that precede action. The artwork captures the stillness before the storm, the quiet before the play, offering a metaphor for life's high-pressure situations where individuals face larger-than-life challenges.
The painting invites reflection on the psychological interplay between fear and courage, the small against the mighty, and the personal tenacity required to stand firm in the face of overwhelming odds. "Tense" is not just a snapshot of a surreal encounter but a broader commentary on the emotional landscapes we navigate when confronted with formidable obstacles.
keywords; painting on canvas, surrealist painting, animal vs human, americana, nature, man, man vs nature, surrealism, giant animal...
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi - Suite of Original Etchings by B. Pinelli
Located in Roma, IT
Complete Title: Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi Incisi all'Acquaforte".
Suite of original colored etching realized by the italian engraver Bartolomeo Pinelli in 1815-...
Category
1810s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Yakushae - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada - 1863
Located in Roma, IT
Yakushae is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada in 1863.
Woodcut print oban from a tryptich. Signed Toyokuni ga. Publisher: Izutsuya. Scene from the play "Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi". Yasugoro, the thief with the bat tattoo on his cheek, enters the oil merchant's house at night...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Black and White Horses - Lithograph by R. Mendes France - Mid 1900
By René Mendes France
Located in Roma, IT
Black and White Horses is an original lithograph by the France artist René Mendes France (1885-1985).
Monogrammed "RMF" on plate on lower right corner in the matrix area, and signed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ed Mell, This Palomino Ain't No Pal of Mine, Giant Size, 54 x 36 in , Special Ed
By Ed Mell
Located in Phoenix, AZ
This Palomino Ain’t No Pal of Mine 1982
Giant Size, Special Limited Edition
Archival Pigment Print
Original Pencil Signature, Signed Lower Right
Made in collaboration with Ed Mell
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital
REBEL (black pug carlin cowboys lasso vintage americana surrealist oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
A colossal black pug, its head resting heavily on the ground, gazes outward with an expression both sorrowful and unyielding. Its vast, glossy eyes shimmer w...
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
MUMUYE FIGURE
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Within Nigeria's Benue River Valley region, such representations have been associated with a range of functions, including reinforcement of the status of male elders and used by heal...
Category
Early 20th Century Tribal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
$760 Sale Price
36% Off
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1956 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...
Category
1950s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
A Fine Mid-Century Modern Abstract Figure Study Drawing, Male Model, Young Man
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern, Abstracted Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Male Model, Young Man by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well execute...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Threshold - Large Scale Painting of a Nude Male Seated on a Green Chaise Lounge
Located in Chicago, IL
An intimate moment is interrupted as the viewer gazes upon this scene. Thresholds, a portrait of a nude male sitting upon a green chaise lounge with his eyes cast down in deep though...
Category
2010s Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane during the tv program "The joyous".
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"The Three B's of Music" Beethoven, Bach, & Brahms, An Extremely Rare Painting
Located in Queens, NY
"The Three B's of Music" Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms, An Extremely Rare Oil Painting, C. 1880
"A true music lovers dream" - A true work of art.
A very rare and collectible oil on canvas triptych painting depicting portraits of "The Three Bs of Classical Music": Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms - Housed in a fine carved and painted frame in gold gilt and green paint by Frederick Harer, with musical scores underneath each portrait. The paintings appear to be unsigned. The frame is signed on the back "F. W. Harer" and dated 1918.
Each canvas: 17" high x 14" wide
Outside frame: 29" high x 52.5" wide
Provenance: Academy of Music, Philadelphia PA.
Very good condition overall, no damages noted. Paintings are relined, some gold gilt highlights are rubbed in some areas of the frame.
Frederick Harer was an American painter, sculptor and etcher, best known for his skill as a gilder and frame maker. He produced frames for many of the Pennsylvania Impressionist painters, including Edward Redfield and Daniel Garber. Today, having a Harer frame on a Pennsylvania Impressionist painting...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$52,000 Sale Price
35% Off
Jupiter and Mercury received by Philemon and Baucis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Canvas size: 57 3/4 x 45 1/2 inches
A striking and impressive French Academic painting in a high quality Italian style gold leaf frame.
Gorguet was an Academic French artist who was trained by Boulanger, Gerome, Bonnat and Morot. His academic training was so strong that he was asked by the Opera House to illustrate many of their posters and he made his living illustrating many books of the time. In the market today this is most of what circulates and comes to light by the artist. He was ultimately made a professor of Drawings at L’Institut.
However, Gorguet was also a Symbolist artist and did works aligned with the Art Nouveau movement. Many of these works are quite impressive but rarely have surfaced in the art market. Jupiter and Mercury Received by Philemon and Baucis is more of an Allegorical work and Gorguet switched gears to do a painting which would garner International attention at the important Concourse du Prix de Rome competition. 1891 was a year where the competition would be stiff and he knew he had to do an impressive painting with a compelling historical or allegorical content. In this painting, Gorguet is depicting their Jupiter and Mercury’s arrival at their home and the indication that Philemon and Baucis will share what they have with them despite their poverty-stricken means.
The technical execution of this work is exceptional as the figurative work is done masterfully and any small detail within the canvas demonstrates tremendous attention of subtlety of tone and modeling. An example is the strand of cloth that crosses Jupiters chest and the delicate shades of pink and gray and how it is modeled. More than ever, the academic artists of this period are to be appreciated for the quality and creativeness of their work. And the timelessness of these classical allegories are still applicable to our lives today. So we predict a turn back toward work like this as qualitatively we know it will never be done again.
Story of Jupiter and Mercury Visiting Philemon and Baucis
(one interpretation)
According to ancient Roman mythology and Ovid's Metamorphoses (8.631, 8.720.), Philemon and Baucis had lived out their long lives nobly, but in poverty. Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods, had heard of the virtuous couple, but based on all his previous experiences with humans, he had serious doubts as to their goodness.
Jupiter was about to destroy mankind but was willing to give it one final chance before starting over again. So, in the company of his son Mercury, the wing-footed messenger god, Jupiter went about, disguised as a worn and weary traveler, from house to house among the neighbors of Philemon and Baucis. As Jupiter feared and expected, the neighbors turned him and Mercury away rudely. Then the two gods went to the last house...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Winter Sport Athletes
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Signed in red, u.l.
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
Price includes $650 additional cost of framing.
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Bustling 17th century harbour landscape with fishermen, visitors and merchants
By Mathys Schoevaerdts
Located in Aartselaar, BE
17th Century Flemish Painting "A bustling scene of fishermen, merchants and visitors in a peaceful and picturesque port village”
This intriguing painting offers a wonderful and real...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"A Mid Summer Night, Romans 5:4" (2025) Original Oil Painting, Nocturne
Located in Denver, CO
"A Mid Summer Night, Romans 5:4" (2025) by Thomas Kegler is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a an old growth tree softly lit by moonlight.
About the artist:
Thomas K...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Jean in my heart
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a reproduction titled Jean in My Heart by Nikki de Saint Phalle, part of her Nana Sculpture series. The piece features a vibrant and styl...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
$304 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Female Nude Figure, Sea Cliff Beach
Located in Soquel, CA
Female nude figure at the beach by listed artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Jon Blanchette" verso. Image size, 24"H x 18"W.
Jon Blan...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Confrontación de Ideales. From The series Guerreros. Photo collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Confrontación de Ideales, 2002
From The series Guerreros
Unique Photo-collage
Sheet size: 27.5 in H x 39.5 in W
Unframed
Signed, titled and dated by the artist
The root of these un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Photographic Paper
Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) - Framed Japanese Woodblock, A Popular Man
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine original woodblock by Japanese Ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865).
Signed with the artist's seal in the print to the upper left. Presented in a black lacquered frame...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Italian Early 17th Century Renaissance Baroque Oil Painting Entombment of Christ
Located in Portland, OR
An important & large Italian Baroque period oil painting on panel attributed to Daniele Crespi (1598-1630), "The Entombment of Christ", Milan circa 1620. See artist biography below.
...
Category
1620s Baroque Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
“Orientalist Portrait of an Arab Man” Jean-Horace Vernet (French 1789-1863)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
“Orientalist Portrait of an Arab Man”
Half-length, turned to the left, oval
Jean-Horace Vernet (French 1789-1863)
Circa 1830s
Watercolor heightened with touches of white on paper
Sig...
Category
1830s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Golddigger, " Isaac Friedlander, WPA, New York City, Social Realism, 1931
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Isaac Friedlander was born in 1890 in Mitau, Latvia. He studied painting and printmaking at the Academy of Rome—the only formal art training he would ever have. After the overthrow o...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Portrait Notable Hudson 18th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master England
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Thomas Hudson
(Devon 1701 - London 1799)
Portrait of a Notable in his Study
Oil on canvas
124 x 102 cm.
In antique frame 142 x 120 cm.
This fascinating portrait is a valuable te...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
$9,345 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine Dutch Old Master Large Oil Painting Portrait Gentleman in Ruff Collar Robes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman in Ruff Collar and Robes
Dutch School, 18th century
oil on canvas laid over panel, unframed
board: 28.5 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
She Draws, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The world of sad, always hurrying adults is covered with weeds. They say: "Don't bother us! Don't get in our way..." Never mind. Draw your beautiful life! :: Painting :: Conte...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Independent
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
At first glance, "Independent" captures the viewer's attention with its striking imagery of a woman wearing a vibrant yellow coat. The choice of yellow as the dominant color is symbo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, Composition, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Don't let the sun blast your shadow- 21st Century Painting of a Nude Boy
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
David van der Linden
'Don't let the sun blast your shadow''
100 x 100 cm
Oil on canvas
framed in a black wooden frame (included in price) 115x115 cm
David van der Linden is a Dutch...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 19th Century English silhouette portrait of a lady in a night cap
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very skillfully painted ink on paper silhouette, unusually with the sitter appearing to be dress in her nightcap. Very Dickensian!
English School, 19th Century
Portrait of a lady ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
$191 Sale Price
30% Off
Andy Warhol (After) COWBOYS & INDIANS Prints, Priced Each
By Andy Warhol
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer: Andy Warhol (after) (American, 1928-1987)
Marking(s); notes: copyright/publisher’s ink stamp, blind stamp; unknown edition size; 1986
Materials: screenprint in color...
Category
20th Century Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
"The Heart Of America IV" Bison Bull Buffalo Charcoal Drawing, Steffen Bue
By Steffen Bue
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
Title: The Heart of America IV
Date: 2024
Artist: Steffen Bue (Danish, 1948 - )
Medium: Charcoal on handmade paper
Dimensions with frame: 26,5in (W) x 19in (H) / 67,5cm (W) x 48,5cm ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Handmade Paper
Unique Female Architectural Cement Sculpture - "LarA 003", Intense Blue Tinteds
By Jose Perozo
Located in FISTERRA, ES
"LarA 003" is a unique sculpture from the LarA series, created by Spanish sculptor José Perozo in 2024. Measuring 21 x 29 x 17 cm and hand-tinted in an intense blue tone, this piece ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
"The Necklace" Oil on board by Telopa
Located in Carmel, CA
Telopa, the father and son of artists, paints women in an elegant Mannerist style that combines classic beauty and mythological, symbolic allegory.
A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$4,125 Sale Price
25% Off
Ella FITZERALD " Mercédès " 1988
Located in CANNES, FR
Annie Leibovitz ( 1949- )
photo : 24 x19 cm .
Ella Fitzgerald devant un cabriolet Mercedes . 1988
Original Vintage work .
Framed : 42 X 42 cm
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$1,725 Sale Price
20% Off
'Priests' from 'In Praise of Folly' — Mid-Century Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Priests' from the series 'Moriae Encomium (The Praise of Folly)', mezzotint, 1943, no edition, proofs only. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/4 to 2 inches) in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Image size 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (197 x 121 mm); sheet size 10 11/16 x 8 1/16 inches (271 x 204 mm).
Created by the artist for 'Erasmus's Moriae Encomium,' or 'In Praise of Folly,' published by the Limited Editions Club, 1943. A rare, signed, proof impression apart from the Limited Editions Club publication.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lynd Ward is acknowledged as one of America’s foremost wood engravers and book illustrators of the first half of the twentieth century. His innovative use of narrative printmaking as a stand-alone storytelling vehicle was uniquely successful in reaching a broad audience. The powerful psychological intensity of his work, celebrated for its dynamic design, technical precision, and compelling dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers, Ward was concerned with the themes of man’s inner struggles and the role of the subconscious in determining his destiny. An artist of social conscience during the Great Depression and World War II, he infused his graphic images with his unique brand of social realism, deftly portraying the problems that challenged the ideals of American society.
The son of a Methodist preacher, Lynd Ward, moved from Chicago to Massachusetts at an early age. He graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University, New York, in 1926, where he studied illustration and graphic arts. He married May Yonge McNeer in 1936 and left for Europe for their honeymoon in Eastern Europe. After four months, they settled in Leipzig, where Ward studied at the National Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookmaking. Inspired by Belgian expressionist artist Frans Masereel's graphic novel ‘The Sun,’ and another graphic novel by the German artist Otto Nückel, ‘Destiny,’ he determined to create his own "wordless" novel. Upon his return to America, Ward completed his first book, ‘God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts,’ published in 1929. ‘Gods’ Man’ was a great success for its author and publisher and was reprinted four times in 1930, including a British edition. This book and several which followed it, ‘Madman’s Drum,’ 1930, ‘Wild Pilgrimage,’ 1932, ‘Prelude to a Million Years,’ 1933, ‘Song Without Words,' 1936, ‘Vertigo,’ 1937; and ‘Last Unfinished Wordless Novel’ (created in the 1960s and published in 2001) were comprised solely of Ward's wood engravings. Ward designed each graphic image to occupy an entire page, the sequence of which conveys the story's narrative.
In 1937, Ward was named Director of the Graphic Arts Division of the Federal Art Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In the following years, Ward went on to illustrate more than one hundred books (some of which he wrote), including classics for the Limited Editions Club Goethe’s ‘Faust,’ Faulkner’s ‘A Green Bough,’ and Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ and several children’s books. He also produced single-subject wood engravings, paintings, and drawings. His print ‘Sanctuary,’ 1939, was shown at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, and ‘Clouded Over,’ 1948, received the 1948 Library of Congress Award and was included in ‘American Prize Prints of the 20th Century’ by Albert Reese. He received the National Academy of Design Print Award (1949), the New York Times Best Illustrated Award (1973), and the Regina Award (Catholic Library Association, 1975). ‘The Biggest Bear,’ a children’s book with illustrations by Ward, was the recipient of the esteemed 1952 Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Ward was a member and board member of the National Academy of Design and the Artists’ League of America. He served several terms as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists and was a member of the American Artists Congress and the Society of Illustrators. Ward exhibited at the American Artists Congress; the National Academy of Design; the John Herron Art Institute; and the Library of Congress. He had a one-person show at Associated American Artists, NY, on the publication of his monograph 'Storyteller Without Words,' 1974; AAA mounted a memorial exhibition in 1986. The May 1976 issue of 'Bibliognost,' a book collector’s publication, was dedicated to Ward. ‘Lynd Ward, His Bookplate Designs,’ an article by Dan Burne Jones, was published in the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers Yearbook, 1981/82.
In 2001, sixteen years after his death, Rutgers University Libraries published ’Lynd Ward’s Last Unfinished Wordless Novel.’ The blocks were intended to be part of a novel in woodcuts, the first since Vertigo, but Ward did not live to complete the project. Master printer and book designer Barbara Henry collated and printed the twenty-six finished blocks out of the forty-four initially planned for the still unnamed narrative.
In 2010 the Library of America honored Ward’s achievements with the meticulous production of a collection of Ward’s woodcut novels—the first time the Library had gone wordless. The publication replicated his original editions with a single full-size image printed on the right page of each double-page spread. In his introduction to the books, renowned cartoonist/illustrator Art...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
Humorous Gentleman's Magazine cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Cartoon sketch, ca. 1955. Pencil on paper, sheet measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Unsigned with editor's notations.
From a group of sketches meant to be preliminary drafts for editor appro...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
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"Reflections" at the Vietnam War Memorial by Lee Teter
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This artwork by Lee Teter depicts a veteran at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Late 20th Century Realist Portrait Prints
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DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of "Beefcake" model Dick Lee
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1950s Post-War Nude Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Picasso, Composition, Les Bleus de Barcelone (after)
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Title: Figures by boats on the river
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 24 x 19.7...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
French Mid 19th Century Portrait of an Italian Brigand. Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century oil on canvas portrait of an Italian brigand, unsigned, in painted wood and gilt frame.
The painting is a fine and fascinating rendition with plenty of wonderful character and detail to the costume, accessories, landscape and seascape. Very atmospheric and imposing much like the character it portrays.
There is a trade stamp to the back of the canvas for the Paris firm of Susse Freres. The canvas is on a fine quality stretcher with 'keys'. There is an artist's name or title written on the top of the rear stretcher (see photo).
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The painting dates from a period when France, under its then leader Napoleon III, was involved in the conflicts in the Italian states and the unification and eventual creation of the nation of Italy.
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1860s Romantic Landscape Paintings
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Oil, Cotton Canvas
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Located in Forest Hills, NY
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Part of my NeoMythology project.
Shipped as it is, stretched.
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2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
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NEGRO ES BELLO II Signed Lithograph, Black Is Beautiful, Black Power Movement
Located in Union City, NJ
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
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Lithograph