Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Launched in 1987, the International Fine Print Dealers Association has continually set the bar for quality and ethics while promoting prints as original works of art to generations of collectors, curators and art lovers. With over 160 members in 13 countries, the IFPDA is a worldwide community of leading dealers and editions publishers who represent the full spectrum of printmaking. Each year, the IFPDA hosts the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, the only major fair dedicated to fine-art prints.
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Phrosine and Mélidore
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Phrosine and Mélidore
Etching, 1879
Signed in the polate lower left of image
This etching is after the Dantan painting, a copy after the Pierre-Paul Prud’hom painting
Published by Vv...
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1870s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
MIGRANT
By Robert Gwathmey
Located in Portland, ME
Gwathmey, Robert (American 1903-1988). MIGRANT. Screenprint, 1978. An Artist's Proof aside from the edition of 100. Signed in pencil and inscribed "A/P.". 27 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches (ima...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
The Echo of Luck
By Fred Stonehouse
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Ed. 25
The artist describes this project:
“I have a long history of exploring the possibilities of animal and naturalist imagery to fabulist ends. These works ser...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Mayan Trio
By Francisco Dosamantes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mayan Trio
Lithograph, 1950
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition 250 for Associated American Artists
Publsihed 1950
Reference: AAA Cat.: 1950‑05; 1958‑01
AAA Index 1087
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 x 9 1/2 inches
Francisco Dosamantes (b. October 4, 1911 - d. July 18.1986) was a Mexican artist and educator who is best known for is educational illustrations and graphic work against fascism. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Life
Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. He was not registered into the civil registry until he was about twenty years old on March 6, 1939. His mother’s name is not listed on the certificate. As a child, he demonstrated a strong interest in drawing and color, influenced by his father and his uncle Juan. The Mexican Revolution occurred while he was a young child and he stated that he remembered events such as soldiers on horses charging as well as the execution of rural farm workers.
He attended primary and high school in Mexico City but stated that his education was irregular and deficient. He then entered the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, where he studied for five years. Initially, however, he was disappointed with the inexperience of the young professors and he left for a short time to study on his own. During this time, some of the dissatisfied professors organized the 30 30 group against the academic system of the school and which whom he sympathized. The effort gained the attention of established artists such as Diego Rivera who intervened.
He died on Mexico City on July 18, 1986
Career
After he graduated, he worked with the cultural missions of the Secretaría de Educación Pública in Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Colima, Coahuila and Chihuahua (state) from 1932 to 1937 then again from 1941 to 1945. He stated that this experience was vital to his conscience as he worked with rural farm workers and others he stated were worthy of dignity and respect, but victims of deceit and exploitation. When he returned to Mexico City, he gave classes in high schools from 1937 to 1941. In 1945 he founded and directed the Taller Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura “Joaquín Claussell” in Campeche, Campeche.
Dosamantes was a politically and culturally active artist with most of his work and affiliations related to such. He was a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios from 1934 to 1938. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, serving as administrator in 1940 and remaining a member until his death except for one short hiatus. He created posters for conferences about fascism and Nazism such as Alemania bajo bayonetas (Germany under bayonets) in 1938. In 1940 he became the secretary general of the Sindicato de Maestros de Artes Plásticas. He was also a member of the Sociedad para el Impulso de las Artes Plásticas en 1948, a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1949 and a member of the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas from 1952.
He painted a number of murals in rural areas of Mexico generally when he was there on cultural missions. His main mural is at the former home of José María Morelos in Carácuaro, Michoacán, but there are a number at various rural schools. These were all painted between 1941 and 1946.
As a book illustrator he mostly worked for the Secretaría de Educación Pública working on books for literacy campaigns.
He exhibited his works, which included engravings, oils, tempuras and lithographs in Mexico and abroad. His first individual exhibition was in 1930 at the Galeria de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. His major exhibitions include the Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1932, various exhibitions in New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in 1937; the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Missouri in late 1947, and the Gallery of Mexican Art in...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'Hold that Tiger' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Hold that Tiger', color lithograph, 1945, edition 16. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '91' and '15/16' in pen. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, coated, off-white wove paper; the full sheet with margins (13/16 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 14 x 9 3/8 inches (356 x 239 mm); sheet size 17 x 11 1/4 inches (432 x 285 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a well-known modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus. He received his degree in architecture and design from the Armour Institute in Chicago and worked at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1924-27, where he was influenced by Harry Kurt Bieg and Le Corbusier. Upon his return to Chicago, Faro worked with the important modernist Chicago architects George and William Keck under Louis Sullivan.
Faro founded the avant-garde printmaking group Vanguard in 1945. The group counted Atelier 17 artists Stanley William Hayter, Sue Fuller, and Anne Ryan as New York members and Francine Felsenthal of Chicago. The Brooklyn Museum mounted a show of Vanguard artists' work in 1946, which subsequently toured several other institutions in the United States.
Faro's visionary graphics from the 1940s are a sophisticated blend of Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and Indian Space...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
$520 Sale Price
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Lunchtime on Broadway
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms’ “Ruckus Manhattan” in the mid-1970s humorously transformed Grand Central Terminal into a 3-D caricature of New York City. “I wanted to do a novelistic portrait of Manhatt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
HYMN SINGER / THE MINSTREL / BURL IVES -- Large Benton
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in Santa Monica, CA
THOMAS HART BENTON (1890- 1975)
HYMN SINGER / THE MINSTREL (Portrait of Burl Ives) 1950 (Fath 74)
Lithograph signed with full signature “Thomas H. Benton” A large image, 15 ¾ x 12 i...
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1950s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Baigneuse dans les Roseaux
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952
From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54'
Pr...
Category
1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
VALLEY OF THE TIBER
By Albany E. Howarth
Located in Portland, ME
Howarth, Albany. VALLEY OF THE TIBER. Etching, not dated. Edition size not known.
Signed in pencil lower right. 13 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (plate), 19 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches (sheet). In ex...
Category
Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Baigneuse debout à mi-jambes
By Pierre Auguste Renoir
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (French, 1841 - 1919)
BAIGNEUSE DEBOUT A MI JAMBES (D., S. 23)
Etching, 1910, a later impression on laid paper, the only state. Full margins with deckle edge...
Category
1910s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
$760 Sale Price
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Missing Peace (Homage to 911)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Artist's Christmas homage to the attack on the twin towers with reindeer atop the buildings.
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting.
In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
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Early 2000s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Intaglio
'African Idol' — Mid-Century African-American artist
By Charles Elmer Harris
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (African Idol), watercolor, c. 1950s. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '570' in ink. A fine, spontaneous wat...
Category
1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Tamas The Power of Bad
By Willy Pogany
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLY POGANY (1882 - 1955)
TAMAS THE POWER OF BAD, c. 1940.
Etching, signed and titled and numbered 50 in pencil. Image 12 x 9 inches. Sheet 14 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches. Generally goo...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Sister Kate — Mid-century, Jazz-inspired Modernism
By James Houston McConnell
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Houston McConnell, 'Sister Kate', color serigraph, 1947, edition 24. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '24' in pencil. Annotated '10.00 - 19 colors - 24 copies - #24' in pencil. A fine impression, with vibrant, fresh colors, on heavy tan wove paper, with full margins (11/16 to 1 1/2 inches). Tack holes in the four margin corners, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Another of McConnell's mid-century modernist, jazz-inspired serigraphs, 'Combo', is featured in the British Museum's 2008 publication (and traveling exhibition) 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock'.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
"I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate", often simply "Sister Kate", is an up-tempo jazz dance song, written by Armand J. Piron and published in 1922. The lyrics of the song are narrated in the first person by Kate's sister, who sings about Kate's impressive dancing skill and her wish to be able to emulate it. She laments that she's not quite "up to date", but believes that dancing like "Sister Kate" will rectify this, and she will be able to impress "all the boys in the neighborhood" like her sister.
Over the years this song has been performed and recorded by many artists, including Frances Faye and Rusty Warren, a 1959 version by Shel Silverstein...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
Early Spring
By Arthur Ernest Becher
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Ernest Becher, 'Early Spring', oil, 1950. Signed and dated, lower right. A fine impressionist landscape, with fresh colors, on heavy illustration board, in very good, original condition, without inpainting. Framed in a period, 3 inch wide wood frame. Image size: 17 5/8 x 20 1/2 inches; outside frame dimensions: 23 3/4 x 26 5/8 inches.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Arthur Ernst Becher was a painter and an illustrator of books and magazines. Born in Freiberg, Germany, he emigrated with his parents at the age of six to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a fine artist, he was known for his rural New York landscapes and historical scenes including Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
He received early training from F.W. Heine and Robert Schade...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
$1,280 Sale Price
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'Grand Central, Night' — 1920s New York City Realism
By Walter Tittle
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Walter Tittle, 'Grand Central Night', drypoint, edition not stated, c. 1920s. Signed in pencil. Titled, and annotated '36.00' and with the inventory numb...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
Printemps Breton
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Printemps Breton, 1926, drypoint, roulette, aquatint, etching; signed in pencil lower left and numbered lower right (37/50) with the imp inscription...
Category
1920s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Geometric Abstraction
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A unique, beautifully composed, large-scale geometric abstraction encaustic, with fresh colors, on fibrous buff, wove paper; the image extending ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Encaustic
OLD TREE
By James Fitzgerald
Located in Portland, ME
Fitzgerald, James (1899-1971) OLD TREE. Cat Raisonne 1223. Watercolor on paper, c. 1930. Signed, lower left. 19 x 25 1/2 inches, framed to 27 5/8 x 33 1/4 inches. Provenance: Estate ...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
$19,500
'Navajo Trading Post' — Southwest Regionalism, American Indian
By Ira Moskowitz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ira Moskowitz, 'Navajo Trading Post', lithograph, 1946, edition 30, Czestochowski 161. Signed and dated in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 3 1/8 inches). Pale mat line, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 11 11/16 x 15 1/2 inches (297 x 395 mm); sheet size 16 5/16 x 191/8 inches (414 x 486 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ira Moskowitz was born in Galicia, Poland, in 1912, emigrating with his family to New York in 1927. He enrolled at the Art Student's League and studied there from 1928-31. In 1935, Moskowitz traveled to Paris and then lived until 1937 in what is now Israel. He returned to the United States in 1938 to marry artist Anna Barry in New York. The couple soon visited Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico, returning for extended periods until 1944, when they moved there permanently, staying until 1949. During this especially productive New Mexico period, Moskowitz received a Guggenheim fellowship. His work was inspired by the New Mexico landscape and the state’s three cultures (American Southwest, Native American, and Mexican). He focused on Pueblo and Navajo life, producing an extensive oeuvre of authentic American Indian imagery. He and Anna also visited and sketched across the border in Old Mexico. While in the Southwest, Moskowitz flourished as a printmaker while continuing to produce oils and watercolors. Over 100 of Moskowitz’s works depicting Native American ceremonies were used to illustrate the book American Indian Ceremonial Dances by John Collier, Crown Publishers, New York, 1972.
After leaving the Southwest, printmaking remained an essential medium for the artist while his focus changed to subject matter celebrating Judaic religious life and customs. These works were well received early on, and Moskowitz was content to stay with them the rest of his life. From 1963 until 1966, Moskowitz lived in Paris, returning to New York City in 1967, where he made his permanent home until he died in 2001.
Shortly before his death, Zaplin-Lampert Gallery of Santa Fe staged an exhibition of the artist's works, December 2000 - January 2001. Other one-person shows included the 8th Street Playhouse, New York, 1934; Houston Museum, 1941; and the San Antonio Museum, 1941. The artist’s work was included in exhibitions at the Art Students League, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Print Club, College Art Association (promotes excellence in scholarship and teaching), and the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts (shown at MOMA, 1955).
Moskowitz’s lithographs of American Indian...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'Spirit of Buffalo' — Urban Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Spirit of Buffalo', etching, edition not stated, c. 1927. Signed in pencil. Annotated 'Spirit of Buffalo 522', in another hand, in the bottom right margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, with skillfully-controlled plate tone, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches; sheet size 12 1/4 x 15 7/8 inches.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Etcher, painter, and architect, Anton Schutz was born in Germany in 1894. He studied at the University of Munich, earning a double degree in mechanical engineering...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Napoleon a Bautzen
By Hippolyte Bellangé
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Napoleon a Bautzen
Lithograph, 1822
Signed in the stone (see photo)
From: Arnault, A. V.
Vie Politique et Militaire de Napoleon (120 plates)
Published, Paris, Librairie Historiquem 1...
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1820s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Little Devils Bridge over the Russ, above Alt Dorft Swiss
By Joseph Mallord William Turner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Little Devils Bridge over the Russ, above Alt Dorft Swiss
From: Liber Studiorum
Etching and mezzotint, 1809
Signed in the plate by JMW Turner and Charles Turner who applied the mezz...
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Early 1800s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Kanani (Hawaii)— 1940s Polynesian Portrait
By John Melville Kelly 1
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Melville Kelly, 'Kanani (Hawaii)', drypoint, 1946. Signed, titled and annotated 'No 36' in pencil. A superb impression, in dark brown ink, on ...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
White Out
By William Wegman
Located in New York, NY
2014, pigment print, 43 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches, edition of 7
An original photograph from the artist's "Cubism and other Isms" series in which brightly painted geometric cubes are arran...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Archival Pigment
North End ( Reference to Chicago's gay sports bar in Boystown near Wrigley)
By Nicholas Krushenick
Located in New Orleans, LA
Nicholas Krushenick 's "North End" is a color silkscreen pencil signed, dated, and editioned; proof from the published edition of 200, .
Nicholas Krushenick (American, 1929 – 1999)
...
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1970s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Silk, Screen
Una (The Young Creole)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Una (The Young Creole). 1929. Etching. Fletcher 65 catalog iv/x. Image: 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 (sheet 15 3/8 x 10 1/4). Edition of 3 in this state (total 140 impressions). A very rich impress...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
$1,000 Sale Price
25% Off
Le Mirivis des Naturgies.
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in New York, NY
DUBUFFET, Jean. Le Mirivis des Naturgies. By André Martel and Jean Dubuffet. 48 pp. Illustrated with 16 original lithographs by Dubuffet, of which 14 are loose, one is on the wra...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
ELLSBERG - PENTAGON PAPERS TRIAL - Original Drawing - Leonard Weinglass Attorney
Located in Santa Monica, CA
DAVID ROSE (1910 – 2006)
LEONARD WEINGLASS - ELLSBERG TRIAL, 1973
Color marking pen on tracing paper. Image 12 ½ x 11 inches, sheet 15 x 18 ½ inches. Very fresh, in good condition with bright colors save for horizontal creases at the lower sheet edge slightly into the image and a few other soft creases.
Leonard Weinglass along with Leonard Boudin were attorneys for Anthony Russo and Daniel Ellsberg at the Pentagon Papers Trial in 1973. Upon his death in 2011 the NY Times called Weinglass, “perhaps the nation’s pre-eminent progressive defense lawyer, who represented political renegades
Provenance: Directly from the artist David Rose to this dealer in the late 1980’s. I knew David as an artist and friend as we both lived in Los Angeles. It has been in temperature and humidity storage since its acquisition.
The Ellsberg Trial was the beginning of a long career for Rose as a court reporter
Rose’s papers are in Special Collections of USC, The University of Southern California.
The Online Archives of California Rose Biography states:
Rose's courtroom career began in 1973 with the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, the former defense analyst who released the Pentagon Papers regarding the Viet Nam War to the New York Times. (Rose received an Emmy Award nomination for his coverage of the Pentagon Papers trial.) Rose's sketches of this trial-- along with all those that would follow through the next twenty-five years-- appeared in television news broadcasts and newspapers all over the world. He saw himself as a reporter-- but with colored pencils and sketchpads as his tools. He tried to capture the emotions in the courtroom-- the tension, anger, and the body language that conveyed them. Over the years, Rose's art depicted the trials of some of the most famous-- and infamous-- personalities to make the news: Klaus Barbie (the Butcher of Lyon), Patty Hearst, Sirhan Sirhan, John Z. DeLorean, Rodney King, Imelda Marcos, Huey Newton...
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1970s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
Netherton Chapel
By Frederick Landseer Griggs, R.A., R.E.
Located in Storrs, CT
Netherton Chapel. 1935. Etching. Comstock 53.v. 5 11/16 x 4 3/8 (sheet 8 15/16 x 6 1/2). Edition 85 in this state (total edition 88-89). Illustrated Fine Prints of the Year, 1936; Print Collector's Quarterly 26 (1939): 286. A fine impression on white laid paper with a partial crown watermark. Signed in pencil. Housed in a striking 11 1/2 x 10 7/8 wood and champagne gold frame.
According to Comstock "The subject is a small memorial chapel, now much more ruinous than the etching shows, near Bredon Hill...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
$1,600 Sale Price
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OBSEQUIO á el MAESTRO (‘A gift for the master’)
By Francisco Goya
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCISCO de GOYA y LUCIENTES (1746 -1828)
OBSEQUIO á el MAESTRO (‘A gift for the master’) Plate 47 from the 1st edition of Los Caprichos (Blas, ...
Category
1790s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Stones
By Marc Balakjian
Located in New Orleans, LA
Marc Balakjian was enigmatic in his subject matter creating images that are disturbing in their ambiguity. Is this image just striped fabric tied with ropes on a platform or is this is a flag-draped coffin symbolizing those who passed "in memory of an historic phrase"? Politicians may turn the phrase but a price must be paid. This small edition mezzotint was created in 1975 in an edition of only 5.
Armenian by descent, Marc Balakjian was raised in Lebanon. He spent his early years in the small town of Rayak, before moving to Beirut at the age of 10. He came to England in 1966, initially to study architecture with a firm in Oxford. He then decided to study art at Hammersmith College of Art and took up a postgraduate degree in printmaking at the Slade School of Art in 1971. After graduating he began working at Studio Prints in 1973, just as it was establishing itself in Queen’s Crescent. By 1976 he had become a full time partner, collaborating with other artists as well as continuing his own work, much of which is inspired by his Armenian and Lebanese culture and heritage.
By the 1980s work was falling off, so Balakjian and Studio Prints introduced in-house plate-making to serve painters and sculptors who had little experience with printmaking. Artists such as Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Ken Kiff...
Category
1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
$160 Sale Price
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Singer II (Woodgrain, incised metal plate of a Singer typewriter casts shadows)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, Singer II looking at the end of the typewriter portrays the incised metal and the wood grain of the machine. It was issued as an edition of 75. This image is i...
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1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Veduta del Romano Camipidpglio con scalinata che va alla chisea d’Araceli (The C
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Veduta del Romano Camipidpglio con scalinata che va alla chisea d’Araceli (The Capitol and the Steps of S. Maria in Aracoeli)
Etching, 1775
Watermark: Double Circle Fleur de Lys
A lifetime impression with the price etching in the plate
Printed in Rome, before the plates are moved to Paris and the numerous posthumous editions
Reference: Hind 38 ii/IV
Robison 38 ii/V with the price
Wilton Ely 190
Condition: A fine Roman...
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1770s Baroque Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
AGONY
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROBERT PHILIPPI (Austrian 1877-1959)
KNEELING NUDE. c. 1923 (Chrastek, Widder 2019, p. 162, N° 461) (in Rifkind Collection, LACMA: From a portfolio of 1...
Category
1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
$600 Sale Price
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Reflet - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
This impression is #8 of 50
Mezzotint artist Mikio Watanabe was born in 1954 in Ja...
Category
1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
$650 Sale Price
24% Off
Bougival
By Maurice de Vlaminck
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bougival
Woodcut, 1914
Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition 30, this numberd 22
Printed on laid Van Gelder Zonen paper
Published by Henri Kanweiler, Paris
Printed by Paul Birault, P...
Category
1910s Fauvist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
On Lake Como # 1
By John Taylor Arms
Located in New Orleans, LA
Both of Arms' Lake Como images were mostly printed in color. is a rarer black and white impression,
John Taylor Arms was born in Washington, DC. He studied architecture at the Massa...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Man, Wife and Child
By John French Sloan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Man, Wife and Child
Etching, 1905
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist below image (see photo)
Annotated in pencil by the artist "100 proofs"
Signed and dated in the plate lower...
Category
Early 1900s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Woman on a Patio
By Karl Albert Buehr
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman on a Patio
Pastel on paper, c. 1915
Unsigned
Provenance: Gift of the artist to his wife, Mary Hess Buehr
By decent to the artist's niece, daughter of Will...
Category
1910s Abstract Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pastel
Untitled 5 - Herd Animals
Located in New Orleans, LA
Self taught outsider art by African American artist from New Orleans with work in major museum and private collections. White created a bold c...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Foam Board, Felt Pen
Poem 71-25 (Me)
By Haku Maki
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Poem 71-25 (Me)
Color woodcut with cement mold embossing, 1971
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition 100 (55/100) (see photo)
Signed with the artist's stamp lowe...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Homme couche et femme accroupie
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Homme couche et femme accroupie
Lithograph on Arches paper, 1956
Signature stamp lower right )see photo)
Annotated in pencil lower left: "epreuve d'artiste" (see p[hoto)
Edition: 50...
Category
1950s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
86.4 x 71.8 cms (34 x 28.25 ins)
Edition of 17
Paper: Somerset Textured
Proofs: 9 AP, I CTP (on handmade paper)
Signed right, under image; numbered left, under image; publisher's chop lower right
Publisher: The Litho Shop Inc., Santa Monica, California
Printed by Jacob Samuel...
Category
1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint, Color
The Golden Calf - Nuremberg Chronicle, (528 Years Old)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, 1493
THE GOLDEN CALF (THE CALF OF GOD) 1493
Woodcut. from "Liber Chronicarum." Printed by Anton Koberger text by Hartmann Sc...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Derriere le Miroir-Double Page (Behind the Looking Glass Double Page)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derriere le Miroir-Double Page (Behind the Looking Glass Double Page)
Original color llithogragp created by the artist for this ublication, 1964
Unsigned as issued
From: Derriere le ...
Category
1960s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
In th Bighorns (Wyoming)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
In th Bighorns (Wyoming)
Drypoint, c. 1930's
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled in the plate lower left
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 6 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches
Hans Kleiber (1887-1967)
Hans Norbert Kleiber, painter, etcher, illustrator, and naturalist, was born in Cologne, Germany on August 24, 1887. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1900, settling in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming. Kleiber first worked in lumber camps before working for the United States Forest Service from 1906 until 1924. One of his duties as a ranger was to monitor the logging camps in the Bighorn Mountains.
Kleiber was primarily self-taught as an artist and it was in the 1920s that he began devoting himself to art. It appears that he first began to work in watercolor and oil but was producing etchings and drypoints as early as 1924. He traversed the mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and his subjects are drawn from the pristine landscapes and wildlife.
Kleiber's first exhibition of his etchings was mounted in 1928 at Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. His etching, Crossing the Platte, was included in the 1939 New York World's Fair exhibition, American Art Today. There was an exhibition of fifty of his etchings at the National Museum in 1944, and an exhibition of his watercolors was mounted at the Grand Central Galleries in New York in 1950. Kleiber was a member of the Society of American Etchers and the California Society of Printmakers. He received a silver medal in 1931 from the Printmakers Society of California for his print, Leaving the High Country...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
Here They Come !
By Frank W. Benson
Located in New York, NY
This impression of "Here They Come !" is from the fourth state of eight. There are six known impressions of the fourth state. Edition 150 (final state). It is signed in pencil in the lower left and inscribed "D-1". The image size 13 7/8 x 11 3/4" (34.6 x 28.8 cm) and sheet size 16 3/4 x 14 5/8" (42.8 x 37.1 cm).
FRANK W. BENSON (1862-1951)
Frank Weston Benson, well known for his American impressionist paintings, also produced an incredible body of prints - etchings, drypoints, and a few lithographs. Born and raised on the North Shore of Massachusetts, Benson, a natural outdoorsman, grew up sailing, fishing, and hunting. From a young age, he was fascinated with drawing and birding – this keen interest continued throughout his life.
His first art instruction was with Otto Grundman at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and then in 1883 in Paris at the Academie Julian where he studied the rigorous ‘ecole des beaux arts’ approach to drawing and painting for two years.
During the early 1880’s Seymour Haden visited Boston giving a series of lectures on etching. This introduction to the European etching...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
Snowy Peaks (Mont Blanc)
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Snowy Peaks (Mont Blanc)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
Signed "R. Hallowell" lower right (see photo)
The image depicts is of Mont Blanc in France.
Mont Blanc is the highest mountain i...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
UNTITLED (FAMILY ON SAILBOAT)
Located in Portland, ME
Mora, F. Luis (Americn, born Uruguay, 1874-1940). UNTITLED (FAMILY ON SAILBOAT). Drawing, pencil on paper. Not dated, but circa 1890-1910. Signed, and with the artist's address in p...
Category
Late 19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pencil
XXXIII Fig. I Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
XXXIII Fig. I Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce .View of the Remains of the Peristyle of the House of Nero,
Etching, 1756
Signed in the plate (see photo)
From: Le Antichità Roma...
Category
1750s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Retour (Homecoming)
By Georges De Feure
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Retour
Color lithograph, 1897
Signed in the stone lower left edge of the image (see photo)
As published in "L'Estampe Moderne"
L'Estampe Moderne appeared each month as a portfolio of...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Irving Place Burlesk
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irving Place Burlesque
Etching, 1930
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edition)
Numbered in pencil lower left
Blind stamp of the Whitney Museum (WM) lower right
From: Reginald Marsh...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
English Bar
By Louis Legrand
Located in Storrs, CT
English Bar. 1908. Etching and drypoint. Exsteens catalog 275 state ii. 8 1/8 x 5 5/8 (sheet 17 3/8 x 12 1/4). Series: Les Bars. Edition 65 in this state (total edition 95). Printed ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$800 Sale Price
54% Off
Chez Madame Dupont
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
Chez Madame Dupont. 1931-32. Drypoint. Appleby 158. 8 3/16 x 11 3/4 ( 11 1/8 x 18 1/3). Edition 100, #75. A fine impression on pale cream-colored laid paper, printed on the full shee...
Category
1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,000 Sale Price
33% Off
'Havoc in Heaven' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Havoc in Heaven', lithograph, 1948, edition 30-35, Fine and Looney 270. Signed, titled, and numbered 'Ed 35' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. A fine,...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
"The Caissons Go Rolling Along".
By Kerr Eby
Located in Storrs, CT
"The Caissons Go Rolling Along". 1929. Etching and sandpaper ground. Giardina 145. 17 3/8 x 9 1/2 (sheet 18 3/4 x 11 1/2). Edition 90. Slight mat line, otherwise find condition. A ri...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
28% Off
Temple of Isis, View of Philae (verso)
By Henry Bacon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Temple of Isis
Philae (verso)
Dpouoble sided watercolor, 1902
Signed on front lower left: "Henry Bacon" and dated 1902
Note:
The Temple of Isis is located on the Island of Philae at ...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
'Masken (Masks)' — German Expressionism, Bauhaus
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Masken (Masks)' also 'Carnival Masks', woodcut, 1920, proofs only. Prasse W193. Signed and titled in pencil. Annotated '1973', the artist’s inventory number. A fin...
Category
1920s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Composition in Red
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Composition in Red
c. 1960
Gouache on paper
52.5 x 24.5 cms (20 11/16 x 9 11/16 ins)
SF14434
$125,000
Exhibited:
Bernard Jacobson Gall...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Gouache
