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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A Gale at Port Errol
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
A Gale at Port Errol. 1923. Etching. Hardie 215, #46. 13 x 8 3/4 (sheet 16 7 /8 x 11 1/2). Edition 76. #46. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1923. A rich...
Category
1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
37% Off
New York Skyline
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A superb impression in warm black ink, on cream, laid paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 2 3/4 inches); original brown paper hinges on the top sheet edge recto, in excellen...
Category
1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
THE RETURN
Located in Portland, ME
Pellew, Claughton (British, 1890-1966). THE RETURN. Ashmolean 17. Wood engraving, 1925. Edition of 25. Initialed in the block, and titled, signed, dated and...
Category
1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Maisons au Bord de la Mer
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Maisons au Bord de la Mer, etching, 1936, numbered bottom right (26/66) and inscribed in the bottom margin by Suzanne Laboureur (see below). Referen...
Category
1930s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Birds & Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Birds & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 4 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 14 x 11 inches.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
'Sylvan Maze' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Sylvan Maze', color lithograph, 1946, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled and numbered '112' and '11/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression with fresh colors, on heavy, off-white wove paper; full margins (1 to 1 1/2 inch), in excellent condition. Image size 13 11/16 x 9 11/16 inches; sheet size 16 1/8 x 12 5/16 inches. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a 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...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'The Elevated, East 42nd Street, New York' — 1910 American Realism
By William Monk
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Monk, 'The Elevated, East 42nd Street, New York', etching, 1910. Signed in pencil and titled in the bottom right sheet corner. Signed in the plate, lower right. A superb, ric...
Category
1910s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Bertoia — Mid-Century Visionary Abstraction, Unique
By Harry Bertoia
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Harry Bertoia, Untitled (Abstraction), monotype, c. 1960, a unique impression. Signed 'HB' in pencil, lower right sheet corner, verso. Inscribed '1852' (the artist’s inventory number) in pencil, lower right sheet corner, recto. A superb, painterly impression, on cream wove Japan paper, the full sheet, in excellent condition. Unmatted, unframed.
Sheet size 12 x 39 inches (30 x 99 cm).
Provenance: Val Bertoia; Private Collection; Rago Auctions, Lambertville, NJ.
Literature: 'Harry Bertoia: Monoprints,' Nancy N. Schiffer, Schiffer Publishing LTD, 2011; pg. 253.
This work is included in the Harry Bertoia Foundation digital resource, Harry Bertoia Catalogue Raisonné, number TD.MO.1584.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) was a visionary Italian-American artist, sculptor, and designer. Born in San Lorenzo, Italy, Bertoia immigrated to the United States with his family at age fifteen, settling in Detroit, Michigan.
From an early age, Bertoia demonstrated a keen interest in art and design, studying painting and drawing at the Cass Technical High School in Detroit. Later, he attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he studied under renowned designers Eliel Saarinen and Charles Eames. At Cranbrook, Bertoia first began to explore the possibilities of working with metal, a medium that would come to define his artistic career.
In the 1940s, Bertoia moved to California to work for Charles and Ray Eames, contributing to the development of innovative molded plywood furniture. However, his experimentation with metal wire sculpture would ultimately catapult him to international acclaim. Bertoia's iconic "Sonambient" sculptures, consisting of delicate metal rods arranged in various configurations, created ethereal sounds when touched or moved, transforming the act of sculpture into a multisensory experience.
Bertoia's talent and innovation caught the attention of Florence Knoll, the founder of Knoll Associates, a leading furniture design company. In 1950, Bertoia began collaborating with Knoll, producing a series of iconic wire chairs that became emblematic of mid-century modern design. His "Diamond Chair," with its geometric form and airy construction, remains a classic of modern furniture design.
Bertoia continued to explore sculpture as a means of artistic expression, experimenting with new forms and materials. His work was characterized by organicism and fluidity, with forms that evoked natural phenomena such as waves, leaves, and clouds.
A decade before Harry Bertoia began creating three-dimensional sculpture, he dedicated his creative efforts to producing experimental prints at the Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, pursuing a passion that would continue for the rest of his life. With these spontaneous works, he worked intuitively, testing different tools and techniques to achieve his desired effects. Rather than using a traditional mechanical pressing process, he would apply ink to a glass or smooth Masonite plate with a sheet of paper laid directly on top. Then, tools such as brayers, dog hair brushes, styluses, and different parts of his hands were employed to draw or “press” the images on the back of the sheet. Rice paper was typically used due to its semi-translucent nature, offering Bertoia limited visibility of the effects of his experimentation, but ultimately, the unpredictable nature of the process was an integral aspect of the results, which never ceased to delight him. Each work was a singular composition with abstract imagery ranging from linear, structural compositions to fantastic surrealistic forms to poetic tonal landscapes. He received little input from other artists, developing his unique vision with rare purity and a deep personal resonance.
From his first year of printmaking in 1940, Bertoia quickly amassed an extensive collection of unique works. The compositions were strongly tied to the non-objective movement, which, while popular in Europe, was still in its nascent stages in the US. There were few proponents of this new art form to be found in the 1940s, and it was Hilla Rebay, then Director of the Guggenheim Museum of Non-Objective Art, who gave Bertoia the encouragement and promotion he needed. In 1943, Bertoia sent approximately 100 monotypes to Rebay for review. After receiving the prints, she responded with a surprising offer to buy them all. Rebay then began including them in the museum’s exhibitions.
The Guggenheim shows succeeded in putting Bertoia’s name out into the world. He began exhibiting his works regularly at the Neierndorf Gallery in New York and was provided a stipend to ensure a steady supply of prints until Karl Neierndorf died in 1947. By the 1950s...
Category
1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Monotype
Leucippus Fallax (Buffy Hummingbird) — Original Hand-colored Lithograph
By John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Gould, 'Leucippus Fallax' (Buffy Hummingbird), original lithograph with hand-coloring (not a reproduction), c. 1850. Signed in typeset 'J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del et lith.'...
Category
1850s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
The Bath #1 - In Celebration of Pride Month
By David Levy
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
David Levy created this vintage silver gelatin photograph in 1995. The image was t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$395 Sale Price
34% Off
Sketch of a woman's head in profile
By Sir William Orpen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sketch of a woman's head in profile
Graphite on paper, c. 1900-1910
Unsigned
Condition: Excellent
Tiny tear upper right near hinge (repaired and bearly visible)
Sheet size: 4 5/8 x 3...
Category
1910s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Graphite
N.Y. STEEL AND IRON.
By William Meyerowitz
Located in Portland, ME
Meyerowitz, William. N.Y. STEEL AND IRON. Drypoint, 1928. Edition of 40. Ttiled, numbered "2/40" and signed in pencil. 12 x 9 7/8 inches (plate), 13 1/2 x 11 inches (sheet). Inexcell...
Category
1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
The World and Its Surroundings, from the Global Editions Series
By Ed Ruscha
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, torn and deckle edges
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'Winter Serenity' —from 'Solitude' for Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Naoko Matsubara, 'Winter Serenity' for the portfolio 'Solitude', woodcut, 1971, edition 100. Signed and numbered '58/100' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream laid J...
Category
1970s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Mountain Road, Late November
By Marion Huse
Located in Storrs, CT
Autumnal scene of a fence-lined road winding down from the mountains. Oil on board measures 14 x 18, housed in a rustic wooden frame with a white linen liner, 18 3/4 x 22 7/8 x 1 3/4...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
'Le Petit Bay, St. Malo' — 1920s British Impressionism
By Sybil Andrews
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Sybil Andrews, 'Le Petit Bay, St. Malo', color monotype, c. 1925; edition 3, print 2. Signed 'Sybil Andrews pinx et imp' annotated 'No 2' and titled in pencil. A superb, luminous imp...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Monotype
Trompe-l'Oeil Study
By Eugene Berman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trompe-l'Oeil Study
Watercolor on heavy wove paper, 1943
Signed with the artists initials, lower center of image; Dated 1943, lower center of image
Provenance:
Swann Galleries, 2007, realized $2,640
Condition: Excellent. Fresh colors. Framed with conservation glass.
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 11 1/4"
Frame size: 20 3/4 x 17
Berman brothers (painters)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eugene Berman in Italy in the 1960s
Eugène Berman (Russian: Евгений Густавович Берман; 4 November 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 14 December 1972, Rome) and his brother Leonid Berman...
Category
1930s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Sportsmen
By Louis Legrand
Located in Storrs, CT
Sportsmen. 1908. Etching and drypoint. Exsteens 271.i/ii. 11 1/4 x 5 3/4 (sheet 17 3/8 x 12 1/4). Series: Les Bars. From the first state edition of 30 proofs with the remarque sketch...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$800 Sale Price
54% Off
'Gardenias' — Mid-Century Floral Abstraction
By Mary Van Blarcom
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Mary Van Blarcom, 'Gardenias', color serigraph, c. 1945, edition small. Signed 'Van B' in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled in pencil, bottom left sheet corner. A rich, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (5/16 to 1 1/16 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 6 x 8 3/8 inches; sheet size 6 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Painter, printmaker and craftsperson, Mary Van Blarcom was born in Newark, New Jersey and studied at Wellesley College. She was a member of the National Serigraph Society where she served on the board of trustees from 1945 through 1952 and was 1st vice-president from 1949-51. She was also a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Artists Equity Association, the American Color Print Society, the New Jersey Artists Association (Director), and Artists of Today.
Van Blarcom exhibited actively throughout the 1940’s at many prominent art organizations including: Montclair Art Museum, 1941-45 and 1947-51 (prize, 1948); Society of Independent Artists, 1942-44; Artists of Today, 1942-46; Elisabeth Ney Museum, 1943; Northwest Printmakers, 1944, 1946-49; Laguna Beach Art Association, 1945-47, 1949; National Association of Women Artists, 1945-50, (prize, 1946); Library of Congress, 1946-47; Museum of Modern Art travelling exhibition, 1945-47; Carnegie Institute, 1947; Serigraph Gallery, 1946, 1951 (solo); American Color Print Society, 1947-52; Newark Museum, 1947-48, 1951; California State Library, 1947, 1949; National Serigraph Society, 1949 (prize), 1950 (prize); University of Chile, 1950; New Jersey State Museum, 1950; Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1951; and the Main Gallery, NY, 1952.
Van Blarcom’s work is in the collections of the Newark Public Library, U.S. Library of Congress; the American Association of University Women; New York Public Library; Tel-Aviv Museum, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Princeton Print Club...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
Robot
By Nam June Paik
Located in London, GB
Mixed metal multiple with lightbulb, 1990, signed in black ink, dated, numbered from an edition of 91 unique works, published by Edition Mönchehaus-Museum, Goslar, Germany, height: 5...
Category
1990s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Metal
$25,341
Place Le Soir (The Square at Evening)
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Place Le Soir (The Square at Evening)
Color lithograph on wove paper, 1899
Unsigned (as issued)
From: Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris (Some Aspects of Parisian Life), 1899, Plate...
Category
1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
“La Rèpublique nous appelle…” (The Republic calls us…)
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La République Nous Appelle (The Republic Calls Us)
Transfer lithograph with an etching Remarque in the lower left corner, 1915
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: 100 (...
Category
1910s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
One Plate, from We Are The Square Jocular Clan
By Takashi Murakami
Located in London, GB
Offset lithograph in colours, 2018, on wove paper, signed in ink and numbered from the edition of 300, published by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 47.5 x 47.5 cm. (18 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.)
© Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Murakami bridges the gap between Fine Art and Pop Art by uniting elements of Japanese anime...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Upper Tuscany — Mid-century expressionism
By William Thon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Thon, 'Upper Tuscany', a two-sided watercolor, c. 1955. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, expressionist work, with fresh colors, on cream watercolor paper; the image...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Cruise-O-matic
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
Cruise-O-matic
1972
Line Etching on zinc, Edition of 60
Paper size: 70.5 x 104.5 cms (27 3/4 x 41 ins)
Image size: 50.5 x 75 cms (19 7/8 x 29 1/2 ins)
This classic ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
The Gamesters. The Fortune Teller.
Located in New York, NY
THE GAMESTERS and THE FORTUNE TELLER.
A wonderful pair of color printed mezzotint engravings after paintings by the Rev. Matthew William Peters, R....
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Late 18th Century English School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Old Injun
By Charles Banks Wilson
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Banks Wilson, 'Old Injun', lithograph, 1948, edition 250, Hunt 39. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 3/4 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Published by Associated American Artists.
Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the following institutions: Ackland Art Museum, Georgetown University...
Category
1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Double Pyramid Thought Form
By Matt Magee
Located in Houston, TX
Matt Magee
Double Pyramid Thought Form, 2019
Oil on aluminum
25 1/2 x 19 1/4 in (64.8 x 48.9 cm)
JPHB 5837
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
Bloom
By Terrell James
Located in Houston, TX
Terrell James
Bloom , 2019
Mixed media on stone paper
40 x 28 in (101.6 x 71.1 cm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil, Graphite
$10,000
Roadside, Collonges-La Rouge
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Roadside, Collonges-La Rouge', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1980, edition 160 in 1983. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, l...
Category
1980s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 150
104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
ELEVEN ETCHINGS
By Clara Tice
Located in Portland, ME
Tice, CLara (Amrican, 1888-1973). ELEVEN ETCHINGS. Etchings on
paper, not dated, but 1930s. Each c. 6 x 4 1/2 inches on a sheet
c. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. Each signed in the plate. Fr...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
'Navajo Reservation Landscape' — Southwest Regionalism
By Ira Moskowitz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ira Moskowitz, 'Navajo Reservation Landscape', lithograph, 1945, edition c. 30. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 12 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (324 x 400 mm); sheet size: 15 1/2 x 19 inches (394 x 482 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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Benchmark
By William Wegman
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 7
"Benchwork" is part of Wegman's artistic exploration of photography and staged scenes. The artwork is representative of Wegman's distinctive approach to photography, wh...
Category
2010s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pigment
Marche aux Legumes a Pontoise
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO (French 1830- 1903)
MARCHE AUX LEGUMES A PONTOISE, 1891 (D. 97ii/ii)
Etching and aquatint, Unsigned as published in Le Peintre-graveur Illlustre: Pissarro, Sisley,...
Category
1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
'Bedrock' — Construction of the New Yorker Hotel
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'Bedrock', etching, 1928, edition 25, Kennedy 29. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression in brown/black ink, with skilfully wiped plate tone; on ...
Category
1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
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
A Regatta on the Grand Canal [Venice]
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
A Regatta on the Grand Canal. 1930. Drypoint. Hardie/Carter 248. 8 7/8 x 15 3/8 sSheet 13 3/16 x 19 3/8). Edition 80, #5. A fine impression on cream-colored wove paper with full margins. Signed and numbered in ink. Housed in an 18 x20-inch archival mat.
Carter writes, "A procession of boats, gaily decorated, is entering the Grand Canal, with the Campanile and the Doges' Palace in the background. On the left is the baroque poop of a boat with a flamboyant, carved female figure; on the right, another boat with a prow of two prancing horses."
Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr Lawson...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
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$1,250 Sale Price
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Untitled
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Color lithograph, 1963
Unsigned (as issued)
From:Derriere le Miroir, Volume 141
Large unsigned edition
Printed by Mourlot, Paris
Published by Aime Maeght, Paris
Condition: C...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
For John Constable
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 100
46.4 x 67.3 cms (18 1/4 x 26 1/2 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Figurative Abstraction of Isadora Duncan #7)
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Abraham Walkowitz, Untitled (Figurative Abstraction of Isadora Duncan #7), pencil, 1918. Signed and dated in pencil, bottom center. A fine, spon...
Category
1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pencil
Sail I
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
101.6 x 71.1 cms (40 x 28 ins)
Edition of 40
Signed lower left; numbered lower centre, printer's chop lower right.
Publisher: Hollander's Workshop, New ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color, Lithograph
$2,500
'Commuters' — Early 20th-Century Modernism
By George Josimovich
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Josimovich, 'Commuters', linocut, 1922-23, edition 20. Signed, dated '22, titled, and annotated '9/20' in pencil. Initialed in the block 'G.J....
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Linocut
Les Boulevards
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Boulevards
Color llthograph on china paper, 1900
Signed In graphite, below image, right: P. Bonnard
A proof outside of the edition of 100 for Das Ma...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'On Stage' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'On Stage', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1946, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '22/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (3 5/8 to 4 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 7/8 x 3 7/8 inches (149 x 98 mm); sheet size 15 1/8 x 11 1/8 inches (384 x 283 mm).
Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945, and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the United States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions.
“The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.”
—Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature.
Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research.
Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June.
Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages."
In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking.
Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...
Category
1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving
Window, from 'More Indian Views'
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from six zinc plates printed in beige, brown, and four shades of green. On TH Saunders paper (250 gsm)
Signed and dated 76 in pencil, lower right, verso. Numbered in penci...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Black and White (School children in Gambia, West Africa)
By Benno Thoma
Located in New Orleans, LA
This black and white image is of an excited group of school children in Gambia, West Africa This impression is #1 of an edition of 10. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth paper that meets the highest industry standards regarding density, color gamut, color graduation and image sharpness. This white 100% rag paper guarantees archival standards.
Benno Thoma was born in the university city of Maastricht on the southern tip of the Netherlands in November, 1956. He strives to stimulate our senses in his photographs and to move his audience to touch, feel and experience his vision.
Thoma's photographs show us the beauty in each aspect of the composition. There is a tactile feel to his material, a positive energy that comes from the light that gives nuance to the subtle colors created. Arranged together with the beauty and dignity of the human body his technique invites us to become one with the scene. He travels around the world to create his images and strives to bathe his subjects in the natural light of that locale. Above all he captures the sense of place, its uniqueness -- cultural, natural or architectural. His newest photographs manipulate the element of water and light to express his vision of the male body – in both its innocence and vulnerability. Thoma uses movement and composition to capture the beauty of the body.
The German publishing house of Bruno Gmunder has published five monographs of the work of Thoma. His photographs chronicle the luxurious properties of the Kempinski Hotel Group, the beautiful young actors of Bel Ami...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Darius at 10
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Darius at 10
Drypoint, 2022
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Printed by Rebekah Wilhelm
Her drystamp lower right
Published by the artist
Edition 14, plus proofs
Condition: Excel...
Category
2010s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
New Hop Poles
By Stanley Roy Badmin
Located in Storrs, CT
1930. Etching. Beetles 17. 6 x 5 1/4 (sheet 11 1/2 x 9). Edition 30, #29, published by the Twenty-One Gallery. Exhibited at the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, 1932(...
Category
1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Split Ring Image C
By Robert Mangold
Located in New York, NY
Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, Mangold developed a reductive vocabulary based on geometric forms, monochromatic color, and an emphasis on the flatness of t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
September Morning: The First Ferry.
By Joseph Pennell
Located in Storrs, CT
September Morning: The First Ferry. 1929. Watercolor. 10 1/8 x 13 (image and sheet). Provenance: The Fine Art Society, London. A misty, impressionist watercolor on French papier ved...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
$5,200 Sale Price
25% Off
Kaller's [Top Hat and Gloves on Chair].
By Jules de Praetere
Located in New York, NY
1918. Color lithograph. On Linen.
Julius de Praetere (Jules de Prater) was a Belgian painter, graphic designer, university lecturer and publisher in the field arts and textile de...
Category
1910s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
![Kaller's [Top Hat and Gloves on Chair].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_2922/1479938131715/KallersHutModepost_master.jpg?width=240 "gubellini hat")
Loading the Catch [Katwyck Aan Zee]
By Charles Paul Gruppe
Located in Storrs, CT
Charles Paul Gruppé. Loading the Catch [Katwyck Aan Zee] c. 1892. Watercolor. 14 1/2 x 17 1/2 (framed 19 1/2 x 23 1/2). Signed, lower left. Housed in an archival French mat and champ...
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Late 19th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
![Loading the Catch [Katwyck Aan Zee]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_3352/1579193458471/frameb3_master.JPG?width=240 "charles paul gruppe")
$2,000 Sale Price
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Untitled (Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
By Fletcher Martin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
(Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Pen and ink with wash on heavy wove sketchbook paper, 1938
Signed lower right: Fletcher Martin
Directly related to Martin's famous painting of 1942 entitled "Lullaby", which was also used in the lithograph of the same name. (see photo)
The drawing depicts the third and final knockdown of Max Schmeling in their rematch of 1938.
Condition: Mat staining at the edges of the sketchbook page edges
Toning to verso from previous framing.
Does not affect framed presentation
"It was here that Louis first used sport to bridge America's cavernous racial divide. With Hitler on the march in Europe and using Schmeling's victory over Louis as proof of “Aryan supremacy,” anti-Nazi sentiment ran high in the States. Louis had long grown accustomed to the pressures of representing his race but here the burdens were broader and deeper. Now he was shouldering the hopes of an entire nation.
A few weeks before the match Louis visited the White House and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose tenure lasted even longer than Louis' would, told him, “Joe, we need muscles like yours to beat Germany.”
Those muscles certainly beat Schmeling on fight night...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
WE’RE OVER THR MOUNTAIN (Wir sind überm Berg)
By Andreas Paul Weber
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893 – 1980)
WE’RE OVER THR MOUNTAIN (Wir sind überm Berg) (A68, D2718)
Lithograph over tinted ground, signed in pencil and in monogram in the stone. Image, 14 ½ x 19 1/4. Large full sheet with watermark and deckle edge, 24 ½ x 19 ¼. In very good condition.
The A. Paul Weber Museum was inaugurated in Ratzeburg in 1973. Andreas Paul Weber died on 9 November 1980. This important German lithographer, draughtsman and painter bequeathed a comprehensive œuvre, in which critical satirical works figure prominently.
THE WEBER MUSEUM HAS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND A BIOGRAPHY
The following is a biography taken from the prominent German auction house KETTERER /KUNST:
Andreas Paul Weber attended secondary modern school in Arnstadt between 1903 and 1910 before briefly attending the School for the Decorative and Applied Arts in Erfurt. In 1908 Weber joined the 'Jungwandervogel', a movement which sought to develop a new, modern lifestyle based on walking and living close to nature. At the same time Andreas Paul Weber began experimenting with lithography and worked as a commercial artist. When the first world war broke out, Weber served as a railway engineer on the Eastern Front, where he worked for the army as a draughtsman from 1916. After the war Andreas Paul Weber illustrated numerous books, including Till Eulenspiegel, Reineke Fuchs and the critical contemporary work Der Zeitgenosse by Hjalmar Kutzleb, which were Weber's first successes. In 1925 Weber founded the 'Clan-Presse' ['Clan Press'], where he and his son Christian printed...
Category
1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Brooklyn Waterfront
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Brooklyn Waterfront
Lithograph, 1931
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist
Edition: Undetermined (very small), plus artist's proofs
Printed by Meister Schulz, Berlin
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Virginia Dehn, the artist's widow
Dehn Quests
Bibliography:
Lumsdaine and O'Sullivan 152
Illustrated: Adams, The Sensuous Life of Adolf Dehn, Fig. 9.14, page 213 (This impression)
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Amorous Couple
By Philibert-Louis Debucourt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Amorous Couple
Watercolor on laid paper, c. 1810
Unsigned
Provenance: Emile Wolf (1899-1996)
The art collection of Emile Wolf was dispersed by Sotheby and Stair Galleries.
Condition: Excellent
22K gold leaf finishes corner frame (see photo)
“Mr. Wolf’s collection reflects a lifelong commitment to the arts. Although a mainstay of the Old Masters art scene in New York, Mr. Wolf’s collection spanned centuries and genres. He was an impassioned collector, and his Fifth Avenue apartment was filled with paintings and drawings that hung from floor to ceiling in every room. Space void of art was lined with an extensive library of art books that fueled his ardent collecting. Mr. Wolf took great joy in sharing this collection and his ideas with art historians, collectors, dealers and university students.
The Wolf collection included masterworks from every influential and groundbreaking Impressionist and modern artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ranging from an outstanding grouping of works on paper by Picasso, Pissarro, and Cezanne to a Renoir oil...
Category
1810s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
DOWNTOWN, NEW YORK
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Portland, ME
Arms, John Taylor (American, 1887-1953). DOWNTOWN, NEW YORK. F.108. Etching and Aquatint, 1921. Edition of 75. Numbered 19/75 and signed and dated 1921, all in pencil. 8 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches, 214 x 125 mm (plate) plus margins. Framed to 16 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches with the label of The Old Print Shop...
Category
1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Hunchbacked Fiddler (3rd State)
By Adriaen van Ostade
Located in Chicago, IL
The Hunchbacked Fiddler (3rd State), 1654
Etching
266 x 113 mm.; 6 1/2 x 4 7/16 inches
Watermark:
Fleur-de-lys in a Crowned Shield
References:
Godefroy 44 III/VI
Hollstein 44 III/VI
Pelletier, Adrian van Ostade...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
One Plate, from We are the Jocular Clan
By Takashi Murakami
Located in London, GB
Offset lithograph in colours, 2018, on wove paper, signed in ink and numbered from the edition of 300, published by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 47.6 x 47.6 cm. (18 3/4 x 18 3/4 in....
Category
2010s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
