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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Der Kuss The Kiss (plate facing page 116)
By Peter Behrens
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Der Kuss The Kiss (plate facing page 116)
Color lithograph, 1898
Signed with the artist's initials in the image (see photo)
Published in Pan, Volume IV.2 (Jul-Aug-Sept 1898)
Publishe...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
St. Mary's Church in Bibury, England
By John Taylor Arms
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is stamped as being rom the personal collection of Arms Referenced as Fletcher #386 the image is signed .and inscribed in pencil and is from a small edition of 16. The An...
Category
1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
$146 Sale Price
46% Off
Self Portrait-L.B. AET 56
By Leonard Baskin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Self Portrait-L.B. AET 56
Color woodcut printed in black and green, 1978
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: 150 (97/150)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 32 x 22”
Sheet: 35...
Category
1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Windy Night, Stockholm.
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Storrs, CT
Windy Night, Stockholm. 1935. Drypoint. Dodgson 457.x. 11 7/8 x 7 5/8 (sheet 15 1/2 x 10 7/8). Edition of 80 in this state (total 93 in 10 states). Illustrated: Guichard, British Etc...
Category
1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Turn of the Screw (an ambiguous ghost story by Henry James in 1898)
By Paolo Ciampini
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is signed and numbered in an edition of 50
Paolo Ciampini was born in Montopoli in Val d'Arno in 1941. After graduating from the Art Institute of Cascina (Pisa) in ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
HIEROGLYPHIC
By John Stockton De Martelly
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOHN S. de MARTELLY (1903 - 1979)
HIEROGLYPHIC, 1954
Lithograph, signed, no. 20 and dated '54 in pencil by the artist. 12 x 16
inches, large sheet 17...
Category
1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Spectre (an otherworldly landscape with trees and mountains under a dappled sky)
By Nicola Lopez
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lopez created her haunting landscape in an edition of 95 at Tamarind Institute. It is a four color-lithograph on white Revere silk paper. Collaborating Printer: Valpuri Remling.
"O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam and Tulip by Jamaica Kincaid
By Eric Fischl
Located in New York, NY
FISCHL, Eric. Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam and Tulip. By Jamaica Kincaid. 14 pp. Illustrated with 9 original lithographs by Fischl. Folio, bound in publisher's black cloth with embos...
Category
1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME - PALM CANYON
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EDWARD CURTIS (1868 - 1952)
BEFORE THE WHTE MAN CAME - PALM CANYON, 1924
Photogravure. Printed title along with 1924 copyright line. Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co., Cambridge Mass...
Category
1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photogravure
$975 Sale Price
44% Off
Girl's Head - Woman's Head (Harvard)
By Elie Nadelman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Girl's Head - Woman's Head (Harvard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned (as issued)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from the original zinc an...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
'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
{Floral Still Life in Landscape}
Located in Storrs, CT
Brilliantly-colored bouquet of flowers in a landscape, set against a dramatic sky. Oil on canvas measures 16 x 12; frame dimensions measure 24 x 20 x 1 1/2. Housed in a soft-gold to...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
$900 Sale Price
28% Off
Bare Arms (The Practice #1)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bare Arms (The Practice #1)
Drypoint on Aluminum, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials (see photo)
The first plate from a proposed suite of 9 drypoints, all printed in an edition o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
Soaring New York
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in New York, NY
Howard Cook (1901-1980), Soaring New York, aquatint, soft0ground etching, roulette, 1931-2; signed, dated and annotated “imp” in pencil lower right, titled lower margin. Reference: D...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
San Camilo de Lelis
By Antonio Vanegas Arroyo
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Photo-relief and letterpress on brown paper; letterpress both sides of sheet
Printed verso: "Mexico - Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Calle de Santa Teresa...
Category
20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Ram Skull
By Sharon Augusta Mitchell
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sharon Augusta Mitchell created "Ram Skull" in an edition of 100. This is impression #10 from the edition. It is signed, titled and numbered in pencil by ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
$138 Sale Price
65% Off
Fir Play
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
A series of prints was commissioned by the Met Museum in NY in a regular edition of 40 This impression is from an edition of 5 artist proofs. This impression is #4/5
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...
Category
2010s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Intaglio
At Once I Knew I Was Not Magnificent - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
Printed on Photo Lustre. This is #5 of an edition of 8. A Certificate of Authentici...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Inkjet
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Laburnums and Battersea.
By Theodore Casimir Roussel
Located in Storrs, CT
Laburnums and Battersea. 1889-90. Etching and drypoint. Hausberg 34.iii/v. 13 1/2 x 8 5/8 (image and sheet). Only one other known impression in this state (total of about 62 known im...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Happy Consultation, or Modern Match
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BRITISH CARICATURE
THE HAPPY CONSULTATION, or MODERN MATCH, 1769 (DG 4335)
...
Category
1760s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving
$325 Sale Price
56% Off
Untitled (Woman in Stockings), Standing Female Nude on reverse, double sided
By Everett Shinn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Conte crayon on paper, c. 1905-1909
Signed lower right
Archival frame by Graham Gallery, New York, hand carved frame with silk matting and gold fillet (see photo of corner)
Provenanc...
Category
Early 1900s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Chalk
Small Forms On Crossing Bands
By Werner Drewes
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Werner Drewes, 'Small Forms on Crossing Bands', drypoint and roulette, 1935, edition 20, Rose 1.197. Signed in pencil. A fine, rich impression, in warm black ink, on cream wove paper...
Category
1930s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
Trent et Un
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
A miniature image in an edition of 30 features two beach huts and magical flying fish going by. The image is surreal and serene both at the same time, A lot of quiet emotion is comm...
Category
1990s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
$140 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled, Still Life of Shell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled, Still Life of Shell
Graphite on paper, 1945-1951
Signed lower right in pencil "Bisttram" (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9.63 x 7 .5 inches
EMIL BISTTRAM (189...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Graphite
Las Vegas Date
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Las Vegas Date
Watercolor, c. 1965
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled in pencil upper left (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 17 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches
Provenance: Jo...
Category
1960s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Osmosis (process of gradual /unconscious assimilation of ideas, knowledge, etc.)
By Paolo Ciampini
Located in New Orleans, LA
Osmosis refers to the assimilation of ideas
Paolo Ciampini was born in Montopoli in Val d'Arno in 1941. After graduating from the Art Institute of Cascina (Pisa) in 1962, he comple...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Untitled
By Bernard Childs
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, annotated "epreuve d'artiste"; Annotated on titled "B.B."
Edition: 5
References And Exhibitions:
One of the three impressions printed on ARCHES watermark paper
Int...
Category
1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Intaglio
La Source dans les Bois
By Henri Fantin-Latour
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR (French 1836-1904)
LA SOURCE DANS DE BOIS, 1898 (Hédiart. 139; Johnson 41-2)
Lithograph, unsigned, on chine. Image, 11 3/...
Category
1890s Barbizon School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Canal II
By Maurice Pasternak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maurice Pasternak usually creates surreal landscapes that include traditional male images along a canal. However, this traditional imagery is not organized or presented in a way that...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Chicken Ride
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chicken Ride
Pen and ink on paper, c. 1940
Unsigned
Annotated by the artist with his color intentions
Preliminary study for "Chicken Ride," watercolor, 1940, in the collection of Mr...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
Before It Happened (A mysterious staircase offers no clues as to what happened)
By Jukka Vanttinen
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Finnish artist creates a mezzotint in black and white. This impression is #44 of 100 and is signed, dated and titled in pencil.
Jukka Vanttinen (Finn, b. 1954)
Jukka Vanttinen...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Dining Room with Horse Painting
By Julia Jacquette
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dining Room with Horse Painting
Aquatint on Hahnemuhle Copperplate paper, 2008
Signed in pencil and numbered lower left
Published by the Print Club of Cleveland, Publication No.88, 2...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
No Footprints Show, Where the Flowers Grow Deep
By Shiko Munakata
Located in Fairlawn, OH
No Footprints Show, Where the Flowers Grow Deep
Woodcut, 1961
Unsigned (as isssued)
From: The "Way" of the Woodcut, three woodcuts, 1961
Publisher: Pratt Adlib Press, Brooklyn, New Y...
Category
1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Landscape with Figures in the English Countryside
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with Figures in the English Countryside
Pen, ink and graphite with gray and brown washes on laid watermarked paper, c. 1740
Signed by the artist lower left of image: "Chate...
Category
1740s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
Zebragram (a stylized circular design created by repeated imagery of a zebra)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the zebra. ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
The Great Landscapes II, (4th State)
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Chicago, IL
Watermark:
Schellenkappe (Foolscap) Similar to Churchill no. 340
Category
17th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
The Singers
By Adriaen van Ostade
Located in Chicago, IL
The Singers (4th State), 1667
Etching printed with tone
240 x 190 mm.; 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Provenance:
W. Benoni White (Lugt 2592)
Karl Herweg (not in Lugt)
References:
Godefroy 19 IV/VII
Hollstein 19 IV/VII
Pelletier, Georgia Museum of Art, 1994: nos. 46 and 47
Notes:
A very fine impression of the rare 4th state (of seven) of this major Van Ostade.
Godefroy illustrates differences between this 4th state and the following 5th state. In the latter state, there are several “escaped lines”, going obliquely from left to right, directly above the central post. These lines are not visible in the 4th state.
Ostade was one of the most important of the printmakers within the Rembrandt circle. His prints, avoiding religious subjects, depicted beggars, peasants and artisans. Combining great artistic sensitivity with thorough mastery of the medium of etching, Ostade etchings present a unique artistic panorama of life in seventeenth-century Holland.
Pelletier (S. William Pelletier, Adrian Van Ostade...
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17th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Hidden Pond
By Stow Wengenroth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hidden Pond
Lithograph, 1958
Signed in pencil lower right of image
Annotated: Ed/40 in pencil by the artist lower left
Edition: 40
Provenance:
Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH (acc...
Category
1950s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Homewards, Evening.
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
Pencil drawing. Study for the drypoint of the same title, Appleby 20. 7 1/2 x 5 3/ (available on 1st dibs). Signed Blampied lower left.
Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
Edmund Blampied was a painter, etcher, lithographer and sculptor. Born in 1886 to a family of three boys in St. Martin, Jersey, Blampied became interested in drawing at an early age. After visiting the studio of John Helier Lander in 1899, Blampied decided to make a career as an artist. In 1903 he went to London to attend Lambeth Art School, where he studied etching under Walter Seymour.
In 1905, he joined the Daily Chronicle as an artist. In that year he was awarded a scholarship to Bolt Court School of Photo-engraving and Lithography.
In 1912 he left the Chronicle and established his own studio. He earned a living by illustrating novels and short stories.
In 1913, he had his first exhibition at the Leicester Gallery in London. The following year he married Marianne Van Abbé.
During the 1920's, he became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. During the 1920s Blampied became a member of the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers and exhibited in London to critical acclaim. He produced a folio of comic drawings in the 1930s which was published in New York in 1934 and another that was published in London in 1936. The Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum published a mongraph on his work. His London exhibitions were highly successful.
In 1938, he moved to Bulwarks, St.Aubin in Jersey, but at the onset of the Occupation, had to relocate to Route Orange, St. Brelade. remained there throughout World War II during the German Occupation, despite the fact that his wife was Jewish. During the Occupation he designed bank...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Carbon Pencil
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...
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1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
$160 Sale Price
20% Off
Dad Taught Me to Be Brave, No. 3
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dad Taught Me to Be Brave , No. 3 (Hand touching lips)
Signed with the artist's initials.
Watercolor on Yupo paper
Series: Dad Taught Me to Be Brave (3 watercolors)
Signed with the a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Xylon 21 Naoko Matsubara USA
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Xylon 21 Naoko Matsubara USA
Woodcuts, two which are printed in color, 1970
2 of the 5 woodcuts signed in pencil (see photos)
Five original woodcuts, two of which are signed in penci...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
DER SCHATTEN II - Rich Drypoint - 1st State
By Hermann Max Pechstein
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAX PECHSTEIN (1881 -1955)
DER SCHATTEN II 1918 (Knupp 79, Fecher 143 I/ii)
Rich drypoint, signed and annotated, FIRST STATE. Image: 8 1/4 x 6 inches on japan paper; 15 x 11 1/4 i...
Category
1910s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
L'Armoire (2nd State)
By Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in Chicago, IL
The Armoire
Etching
340 x 469 mm.; 13 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches
Reference:
Inventaire 18e siècle 9: 289-90, No. 22
Wildenstein 1956, cat. No. 23, State II/IV
Regency to Empire, 1...
Category
18th Century Rococo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Jazmen
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jazmen
Pen and ink on paper, 2013
Signed and titled lower right (see photo)
Annotated: “I want to go to Dunbar,…because my friends are there…”
Series: The 99% - Highland Hills
Exhib...
Category
2010s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
Chorus Line
By Sam Spanier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chorus Line
Oil pastel on paper, c. 1960's
Signed (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Estate of the artist (Estate No. 745)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 5 3/4 x 4 inches
Sam Spanier (1925-2008)
Born in Brooklyn New York, Sam Spanier studied painting with Hans Hofmann (1949–50) and also at the Taos Valley Art School (1951). His formative years as a working artist were spent in Paris (1951–52), where he also became involved with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff, through his disciple, Mme. Jeanne de Salzmann.
By 1953, Spanier’s work had already begun to meet with critical acclaim. That year, he had his first solo gallery show, and was selected by Milton Avery and Hans Hofmann to receive the prestigious Lorian Fund Award. His second solo exhibition, in 1955, was curated by renowned museum director, Gordon Washburn. Spanier’s early work was reviewed by Dore Ashton, Donald Judd, Fairfield Porter, Stuart Preston, and Irving Sandler, among other significant critics of the period.
Spanier’s spiritual path increasingly became the central focus of both his life and his art. In 1960, he was introduced to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, which led to visits to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, in 1962 and 1964, during which he was inspired to leave New York City and found Matagiri (in 1968)—a spiritual center in Woodstock, New York—with his lifelong partner, Eric Hughes. The work he embarked upon there bifurcates his life as an artist, separating him from New York’s art world, and radically altering the trajectory of his career. From that point forward, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to consider his artistic endeavor apart from the life of dedication he had undertaken, and to which he remained committed.
As early as 1954, Dore Ashton had recognized in Sam Spanier a “haptic visionary;” in 1960, Irving Sandler wrote that the people in Spanier’s paintings “seem to have witnessed some transfiguring event.” In his later paintings—usually worked in oil pastel on panel or paper—made during intermittent creative periods, from the mid-1970s to the final years of his life, the artist’s inner life remains always apparent in his subject matter; and from the portraits and abstract Buddha-like figures and heads, to the fantasy landscapes, the paintings are redolent with a rich intensity of color and light that can only be described as inspired.
Sam Spanier’s works are in the collections of the Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. He received the Woodstock Artists Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Urban Gallery, New York (1954, 1955, 1956); Wittenborn Gallery, New York (1958); Gallery Mayer, New York (1958, 1959, 1960); Unison Gallery, New Paltz (1986, 1995, 2009); Limner Gallery, New York (1988); Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, New York (1999).
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Salon des Comparaisons, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France (1952); October Exhibition of Oil Paintings, New York City Center Gallery, New York (1954); Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Centre Culturel de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France (1954); Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1955); Les Plus Mauvais Tableaux, Galerie Prismes, Paris (1955);
Première Exposition Internationale de l’Art Plastique Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (1956); Recent Paintings USA: The Figure, The Museum of Modern Art (1960); Winter’s Work, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1985); Juried Group Show, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1986); Woodstock Artists, Self-Portraits, Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, Woodstock, New York (1988); Portraits, Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, New York (2003); The World We Live In, Upstate Art, Phoenicia, New York (2003); Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, New York (2004).
Selected Writings on the Artist:
Dore Ashton, “Sam Spanier,” Art Digest (May 1, 1954) and “Sam Spanier,” The New York Times (March 16, 1960); Cassia Berman, “Sam Spanier: A Divine Calling,” Woodstock Times (February 7, 2008); Lawrence Campbell, “Sam Spanier: Exhibition of Paintings at Urban Gallery,” Art News (April 1, 1954); Sam Feinstein...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil Crayon
Greeting Card for 1946-7
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Santa Monica, CA
STANLEY WILLIAM HAYTER (British 1901-1988)
GREETING CARD FOR 1946-7 (Black / Moorheard 176)
Engraving, soft-ground etching, signed and dated 1946. Wit...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Intaglio
CELIA ADJUSTING HER EYELASH
By David Hockney
Located in Portland, ME
Hockney, David. CELIA ADJUSTING HER EYELASH. Scottish Arts Council 837, Gemini DH79-904. Lithograph, 1979. Edition of 100, plus 16 Artist's Proofs. signed, dated and numbered in gree...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
The Archibald Russell.
By Arthur John Trevor Briscoe
Located in Storrs, CT
The Archibald Russell. 1935. Pencil and watercolour on watercolour board. 20 7/8 x 28 5/8. Mat line from a previous mount; otherwise excellent condition. Signed and dated in ink, low...
Category
1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
$3,000 Sale Price
40% Off
Bassin d'Apollon, Versailles (Fountain of Appollo, Versailles).
By Mortimer Menpes
Located in Storrs, CT
Bassin d'Apollon, Versailles (Fountain of Appollo, Versailles). Drypoint. Menpes 364. 7 1/8 x 9 1/8 (sheet 8 13/16 x 10 7/8). A very rich impression with drypoint burr and plate tone...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Standing Male Nude (recto) Study of the Head of the Standing Male Nude (verso)
By William Merritt Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Male Nude (recto)
Study of the Head of the Standing Male Nude (verso)
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Helen Chase Storm (the arti...
Category
1870s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Graphite
Argosy
By John Buck
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut, Edition 15.
John Buck has an unusual approach to making woodcuts, creating the woodblocks like giant wooden puzzles. The pieces can be lifted out and inked in various colors, reassembled and printed simultaneously. Also unique is his method of incising the characteristic signs, symbols and images which surround a central figure. In "Argosy", a large glass jar...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
$8,000
SUNSET IN IRELAND (undescribed state?)
By Sir Francis Seymour Haden, R.A.
Located in Santa Monica, CA
SIR FRANCIS SEYMOUR HADEN (British 1818 -1910)
SUNSET IN IRELAND 1863 (Schneiderman 47 - Appears to be an undescribed state between XI and XII)
Etching and drypoint, signed in penci...
Category
1860s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
Africa Suite: Africa 7
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large autom...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
$7,500 Sale Price
25% Off
ONE ANCIENT FIGURES
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Portland, ME
Nevelson, Louise. ONE ANCIENT FIGURES. Baro 20. Etching and drypoint, 1953-55, editioned in 1965/1966. Titled "Personages", numbered 1/20 and signed in pencil. It is unclear whether ...
Category
1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
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
Portrait of a Seated Woman
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of a Seated Woman
oIl on canvas, c. 1930
Signed on the reverse in oil paint: "Paul W"
Created while the artist was a student at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Cleaned and stretched by Monica Radecki, South Bend, Indiana.
The painting is unframed
Canvas size: 30 x 24 inches
This work created while the artist was in art school.
Winchell studied art at the Minneapolis and Chicago Art Institutes in the 1930’s. He went on to teach at both institutions. Winchell studied under the noted artists Daniel Garber and Leon Kroll. Winchell exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Art Institute of Chicago and the Kansas City Art Institute. He retired to a quiet life in Painsville, Ohio.
Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris Anisfeld (1878-1973), Daniel Garber (1880 – 1958), Charles Woodbury (1864 – 1940), George Oberteuffer...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
untitled (polo player on horseback)
By Henry George Keller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (polo player on horseback)
Chalk on tan paper, c. 1920
Unsigned
Provenance: Gift of the artist
William McGill (Keller's student)
Image size: 4 3/8 x 5 ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Chalk
