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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View of Piazzo San Marco in Venice
By Pierre Van der Aa
Located in New York, NY
Engraving of Veduta della Piazza di S. Marco, verso L'Horologio by Pierre van der Aa. Printed in 1722. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size, 11 x 13 5/8 in. Has the original center crease.
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1720s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Paper
The Pinks and the Blues
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Pinks and the Blues
Watercolor, pen and ink on paper, 1954
Signed and dated in ink lower left, titled in pencil verso.
Provenance: Gift of the Artist
Privat...
Category
1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Les deux tures coifffes d’un turban avec une aigrette (The turban with crest)
By Jacques Callot
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les deux tures coifffes d’un turban avec une aigrette
(The two headdresses of a turban with a crest)
Etching, 1618
From: Varie Figure (16 plates)
Condition: Trimmed withing the plate...
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1610s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
CLE Series: Under and Beyond
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
"Under and Behind"
Contemporary artist Thomas Roese, inspired by the industrial landscape of steel mills, rail yards, architectural details, and urban neighborhoods surrounding him,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Fuwa, Kabuki Actor
By Masamitsu Ota
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Fuwa, Kabuki actor
Color woodblock, 1931
From: “Kabuki Jahachi-Ban” (Eighteen Kabuki Plays) by the Ichikawa Family
Publisher: Gekiga Kanko Kai
Carver: Okura Hanbei
Printer: Shinmi Yo...
Category
1930s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled
By Virginia Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Mixed media on paper mounted on paper, c. 1990's
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 8 5/8 x 10 1/4 inches
Support Sheet size: 11 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Dehn Heirs
Virginia Dehn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Dehn
Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe
Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Life
Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.
Early career
Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia and Adolf Dehn
The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work.
The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India.
Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies.
Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mixed Media
Cover for DLM No. 173
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cover for DLM No. 173
Color lithograph, 1968
Unsigned as issued in DLM
Published in Derriere le Miroir (Behind the Mirror), called DLM
From: DLM No. 173, published October 1968, whic...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
L'heure de Berger (Hour of the Shepherd)
By Hans Christiansen (b.1866)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'heure de Berger (Hour of the Shepherd)
Color lithograph, 1898
Signed in the stone lower right
As published in L'Estampe Moderne, Paris, March, 1898
Edition: 2000 (there was also a ...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Gaspe Homes
By William C. Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Title Unknown (Gaspe Bay Houses)
Acrylic on board, 46 1/4 x 34 inches
Signed lower right
Condition: Good
Minor surface wear to the frame
Provenance: Estate of the artist
by decent to his daughter Gretchen
William C. Grauer (1895-1985)
William C. Grauer (1895-1985) was born in Philadelphia to German immigrant parents. After attending the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, Grauer received a four year scholarship from the City of Philadelphia to pursue post graduate work. It was during this time that Grauer began working as a designer at the Decorative Stained Glass Co. in Philadelphia.
Following his World War I service in France, Grauer moved to Akron, Ohio where he opened a studio in 1919 with his future brother-in-law, the architect George Evans...
Category
1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Acrylic
York Road Near Rt. 82
By August F. Biehle
Located in Fairlawn, OH
York Road Near Rt. 82
Signed in pencil upper left; signed again green pencil lower right.
raphite and colored crayon on paper, mounted to paper
c. 1950's
Titled by the artist in bla...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
Doorway of the Doges, Venice
By Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Located in New York, NY
Donald Shaw MacLaughlin (1876-1938), Doorway of the Doges, Venice, etching with plate tone, 1909, signed bottom right [also signed and dated in the plate]. Reference: Marie Bruette 1...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Hell Gate / Oyster Bay and Huntington / Huntington Bay
Located in New York, NY
HELL GATE / OYSTER BAY AND HUNTINGTON / HUNTINGTON BAY. This aquatint and line engraved map was published according to Act of Parliament Novr. 19th, 1778.
T...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
COMBAT SOUSMARIN
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Portland, ME
Hayter, Stanley William. COMBAT SOUSMARIN (Black & Moorhead 233). Engraving and soft-ground etching in colors, 1957. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/50 in pencil. Printed on BFK...
Category
1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving, Etching
LA TOILETTE ASSISE
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Portland, ME
Bonnard, Pierre. LA TOILETTE ASSISE (Woman Dressing, Seated). Bouvet, 96. Lithograph printed in black, 1925. First State, before the addition of the Monogr...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Head of a Young Woman with Blond Hair
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Young Woman with Blond Hair
Watercolor on paper mounted on rag paper support, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate Stamp B
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
By Walasse Ting
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Color lithograph, 1972
Unsigned
Edition: From: Fresh Air School, Exhibition of Paintings Large Edition (2000?)
Published by the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, 1973
Printe...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Plate 2) DLM
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 2) DLM
Color lithograph, 1963
Unsigned and unnumbered (as issued)
From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141
Published by A. Maeght, Paris
Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris
Note...
Category
1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Standing Lincoln: The Man, Lincoln Park, Illinois
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Lincoln: The Man, Lincoln Park, Illinois
Watercolor and graphite on paper , c. 1895
Signed in script lower right (see photo)
The scene depicts the Augustus Saint-Gaudens bro...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Bloques (Road Block)
By Georges Meunier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bloques (Road Block)
Color lithograph, 1905
Signed and numbered in pencil lower right; signed and dated in the stone lower right (see photo)
Edition: 100, first edition (33/100)
Publ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Provincetown (Sunbathing)
By Peter Grippe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Provincetown (Sunbathing)
Sepia ink on tan paper, 1966
Signed in ink lower center (see photo)
Exhibited: Art from Lexington Homes, Lincoln Massachusetts, May 14-22, 1966 (see label)
...
Category
1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
Le Septieme Chant.
Located in New York, NY
MASSON, André. Le Septieme Chant. By Alain Jouffroy. Illustrated with 4 engravings by Masson. Folio, loose as issued in the original wrappers and linen-covered slipcase, preserve...
Category
1970s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Ski Fashion Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Original watercolor on paper, signed in pencil.
Category
1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Monseignor St. Thomas
By Cyril Power
Located in New York, NY
Cyril Power (1872-1951) color linoleum cut, Monseignor St. Thomas, circa 1931, signed and titled in pencil at the lower right, apart from the edition of 60. Reference: Redfern 24. In very good condition, on buff oriental laid tissue, conservation matted, with margins, 13 7/8 x 11 1/8, the sheet 15 x 12 5/8 inches.
A fine impression, with the colors fresh and vivid. Printed in four colors (yellow, red, blue and dark blue).
The prints of the Grosvenor School artists were created by applying colors with successive blocks. The margins show the colors of each of these blocks (see illustration of the margin).
The subject matter of this print relates to TS Eliot...
Category
1930s Futurist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Linocut
Lithographie originale our XXe siecle
By Hans Hartung
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lithographie originale our XXe siecle
Color lithograph, 1964
Unsigned (as issued)
From: XXe siecle, Permanence du Sacre, No. 24
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro, Paris
Printed by Mourlot...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Drei Grazien (Three Graces)
By Lovis Corinth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Drei Grazien (Three Graces)
Etching and drypoint, 1920
Signed and titled in pencil (see photo)
Total Edition 100: 30 on Japan and 70 on Butten paper as here
Published by von Wohlgemu...
Category
1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
Pair of Horse Lithographs
By David Low
Located in New York, NY
"The Old-Irish Hunter." and "The Cleveland Bay." from "The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands." by David Low. London, Fairland, 1842.
Original lithograph hand-col...
Category
1840s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
La Morgue
By Charles Meryon
Located in New York, NY
Charles Meryon 1821-1868), La Morgue, etching, 1854, fourth state (of 7), printed in brown/black ink, Schneiderman 42 [with the inscription, date, address in the plate]. In very goo...
Category
1850s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Duomo (Florence)
By Julian Trevelyan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Duomo (Florence)
Etching & aquatint , 1965-66
Signed, titled and annotated "artist's proof" (see photos)
Edition: 100, this impression an artist's proof
Reference: Silvie Turner. Julian Trevelyan Catalogue Raisonne of Prints.November 1, 2010. Reprint, Lund Humphries, 2010., No. 174
Provenance: Elizabeth Carrol Shearer, former President of the Print Club of Cleveland
He moved to Paris to become an artist, enrolling at Atelier Dix-Sept, Stanley William Hayter's engraving school, where he learned etching. He worked alongside artists including Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso.
In 1935, Trevelyan bought Durham Wharf, beside the River Thames in Hammersmith, London. This became his home and studio for the rest of his life and was a source of artistic inspiration to him. He became a confirmed Surrealist and exhibited at the International Surrealist Exhibition, held at the New Burlington Galleries in London.
From 1950 to 1955, Trevelyan taught history of art and etching at the Chelsea School of Art.
From 1955-63, Trevelyan worked at the Royal College of Art and became Head of the Etching Department. Because of his enthusiasm in his work and the desire to share it with others, Trevelyan became a highly influential teacher, with students including David Hockney, Ron Kitaj...
Category
1960s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
FROM PIER 4 - EAST RIVER
By Ernest David Roth
Located in Portland, ME
Roth, Ernest (American, 1879-1964). FROM PIER 4 - EAST RIVER. Etching, not dated. Edition size not stated. Signed in Pencil, and titled in pencil at the lower edge, and Signed, dated...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
The Monumental Tablet
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Monumental Tablet
Etching, engraving, drypoint and burnishing, c. 1748
Series: Grotteschi (Grotesques, 4 plates)
Original, unwashed condition. Excellent.
Second edition first is...
Category
1740s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Whitney Construction at Dusk
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30
In this intensely colorful print, Jacquette captured this view of early stages in the construction of the new Renzo Piano building from an elevated perch in the Standard...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
STELLA PEREGRINA
By Franz Marc
Located in Portland, ME
Marc, Franz (German, 1880-1916).
STELLA PEREGRINA.
FranzHanffstaengl, Munich, 1917. Only edition.
Number 25 of the limited edition of 110.
Folio (18 x 13 inches), parchment-bac...
Category
1910s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color
UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A TOWN IN ITALY)
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000). UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A TOWN IN ITALY) Ink and watercolor on paper. Not dated. Unsigned. 14 x 17 inches. In excellent condition. From a sketchboo...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #5
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #5. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
Ready-Mades Et Editions De Et Sur Marcel Duchamps Galerie Givaudan
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Poster for the exhibition Editions de se sur Marcel Duchamp. One of 400 copies with title and date of exhibition, of a total edition of 500.
Unsigned. Schwarz, Ref: Catalogue Rainsonne 396
Marcel Duchamp was born July 28, 1887, in France. After the sensation caused by Nude Descending a...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Offset
Untitled Number 2, Cell with Conduit and Smokestack
By Peter Halley
Located in Houston, TX
Peter Halley
Untitled Number 2, Cell with Conduit and Smokestack, 1991
Lithograph
22 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches
ed. 40
Framed
Category
20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #18
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #18. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #17
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000) UNTITLED SKETCHBOOK DRAWING #17. Ink on paper, not dated, but circa 1960s. Unsigned.The sketchbook identified by an Estate label on its cover. 5 x...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
Cle Series: Three Rows in the Yard.
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
702 CLE Series: Three Rows in the Yard.
Contemporary artist Thomas Roese, inspired by the industrial landscape of steel mills, rail yards, architectural details, and the urban neigh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Portrait De Cezanne
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait De Cezanne
Lithograph, 1914
Unsigned (as issued in 1914)
Edition: Either 100 (per Roger Marx) or 400 impressions on various papers
Published in, Cezanne, Bernheim Jeune, 1914
Reference:
Roger-Marx 51 ii/II, printed in greenish-grey ink on laid paper
Condition: Excellent
Image: 9 1/2 x 9"
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 11 1/8"
Edouard Vuillard
French, 1868 - 1940
Vuillard's work straddles two centuries: he was a major post-impressionist in the 1890s, as well as a participant in the renewal of decorative art before and after 1900. Vuillard was one of the central figures of "Les Nabis...
Category
1910s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Blossom Time in Tokyo
By Helen Hyde
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blossom Time in Tokyo
Color woodcut, 1914
Signed by the artist in pencil on the image (see photo)
Signed in the block with the artist red stamp and her initials (see photo)
Condition...
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1910s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Goldfish Pochoir from Relais
By Edouard Benedictus
Located in New York, NY
Benedictus, Edouard.
Relais.
Plate 1.
Paris, Éditions Vincent, Fréal et Cie, 1930.
Original pochoir, printed by J. Saudé.
Category
1930s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
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
Indian Leaves
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Howard Hodgkin produced the lithograph Indian Leaves in 1982 on the occasion of his exhibition of the same title at Tate, London, in the same year. After it was decided that the pri...
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
ISATSORATU II
By Eduardo Chillida
Located in Portland, ME
Chillida, Eduardo (Spanish, 1924-2002). ISATSORATU II. Etching and embossing on heavy paper, 1998. Edition of 50, Numbered 19/50 and signed in pencil. 3 7/8 x 8 inches, 98 x 203 mm. ...
Category
1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Richard Wagner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Richard Wagner
Etching, c. 1880
Signed in the plate (see photo)
Edition: c. 200 impressions
Condition: mint
Image/Plate size: 6 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 14 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches
...
Category
1880s Academic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Ascension
By Maria Deguchi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ascension
Etching and aquatint printed in red and gold leaf on Arches France paper
Signed, titled, and editioned in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Edition: 60 of which this number...
Category
1970s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
Pueblo Ledge
By John Ross
Located in New York, NY
The printmaking intaglio technique called collagraph was used to make the matrix of this early to mid-1970's print. Inspired by his trips to the Southwest during this period, John R...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Intaglio
Lido (Venice)
By Otto Henry Bacher
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lido (Venice)
Etching on chine collee, 1880
Part of the artist's "Venice Set"
Signed upper right in plate :Otto H Bacher" (see photo)
Signed with the estate stamp, Lugt 2002 recto lower right beneath image. (see photo)
Created October 20, 1880
Reference: Andrew Venice No. 29
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Otto H. Bacher (1856-1909)
Otto Henry Bacher was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to a family of German descent. He first studied art at the age of sixteen with local genre trompe l'oeil still-life artist, DeScott Evans. Although he studied with Evans for less than one year, Bacher's early work, comprised mainly of still lifes, betrays Evans's influence. After a short period in Philadelphia, where he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Bacher returned to Cleveland and met Willis Seaver Adams, an artist from Springfield, Massachusetts, who had just recently arrived upon the Cleveland art scene. Soon the two artists were rooming together. Adams was instrumental in the founding of the Cleveland Art Club, as well as the establishment of the Cleveland Academy of the Fine Arts, to the board of which Adams had Bacher appointed. Also during this time, Bacher began to learn the process of etching from local etcher and landscape painter Sion Longley Wenban.
In 1878, Bacher and Adams left for Europe. After stopping briefly in Scotland, Bacher went on to Munich, where he enrolled at the Royal Academy. He quickly tired of the rigors of the academy, and soon he was studying with Cincinnati artist Frank Duveneck, the prime American exponent of the Munich School. In 1879, Bacher made a trip to Florence with Duveneck as one of the celebrated "Duveneck Boys." Early the following year, the group proceeded to Venice, where Bacher and several other artists established studios in the Casa Jankovitz.
By this time an avid printmaker, Bacher had his etching press sent from Muni ch, and it was in his Venice studio that he taught Duveneck the rudiments of etching. Soon Bacher, Duveneck, and other members of the Duveneck circle were experimenting in printmaking. Among the group's contributions were some of the first American examples of monotypes, which they called "Bachertypes" because they were printed using Bacher's press.
It was also in Venice that Bacher met the venerable American expatriate artist, James McNeill Whistler. On learning of Bacher's press and his collection of etchings by Rembrandt, Whistler made himself a regular visitor to Bacher's studio, and he eventually took his own room in the Casa Jankovitz. Bacher spent much of the rest of 1880 with Whistler, the two artists sharing etching techniques. From Whistler, Bacher learned tone and line graduation; from Bacher, Whistler learned his etching techniques, including better ways of using the acid bath which produced less tedious and more efficient work. Bacher visited Whistler occasionally in the years that followed, and in 1908 he published With Whistler in Venice, his famous recollections of his time with the great artist.
Bacher spent the next two years traveling extensively throughout Italy, with Venice as the center of his operations, and he produced a number of important etchings of Italian subjects. Bacher sent several of these works to America in 1881 to be included in the Society of American artists exhibition that year, and had a similar group of works shown at the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers' first exhibition at the Hanover Gallery in London. Following the exhibition, Bacher, along with several other of the American contributors, was elected a Fellow of the Society. Bacher collected twelve of his etchings of Venetian subjects and sold them in bound volumes through his New York dealer, Frederick Keppel.
Bacher returned to Cleveland in January 1883 as a fully cosmopolitan artist. He set up a lavish studio furnished with exotic items and objets-d'art he had collected on his travels, and began to hold art classes as a means to supplement his income. He soon joined with Joseph De Camp in forming a summer sketch class in Richfield, Ohio. Bacher and De Camp also planned the Cleveland Room for a major loan exhibition in Detroit that year. During this period, Bacher increasingly painted in oil, and he began to produce sun-dappled canvases in an impressionistic mode.
Unable to sell any paintings from this early period, however, Bacher left Cleveland for Paris in 1885, where he planned to undertake further studies. Stopping first in London to visit Whistler, Bacher stayed only briefly in Paris before heading to Venice, where he spent the remainder of the year. In January 1886, Bacher returned to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian, and also entered the atelier of Emile-Auguste Carolus-Duran. The life of the student seems never to have suited Bacher, as he stayed in Paris only through June, before departing again for Venice. For the next six months he, Robert Blum, and Charles Ulrich...
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1880s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
untitled (Color collage)
By Edward Landon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Printed paper collage elements on cardboard, 1960
Signed in pencil lower right
Condition: Excellent
Board size: 13 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
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Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mixed Media
Barcham Green Portfolio
By Sherrie Levine
Located in Houston, TX
Barchman Green Portfolio, 1986
Suite of five etchings
31 x 22 1/2” each
ed. 25
Framed
Category
20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
833 CLE Series: Red Bridge w/Car.
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
833 CLE Series: Red Bridge w/Car.
Contemporary artist Thomas Roese, inspired by the industrial landscape of steel mills, rail yards, architectural details, and the urban neighborhoo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Derrier le Miroir, cover, Volume 141
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derrier le Miroir, cover, Volume 141
Original color lithograph, 1963
Unsigned and unnumbered (as issued)
From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141
Published by A. Maeght, Paris
Condition: E...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Medicine
By Squeak Carnwath
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint etching
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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
The White Scarf (Self Portrait of the Artist)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The White Scarf (Self Portrait of the Artist)
Oil on board, 1894
Signed and dated lower left: E M Heller '94 (see image)
Framed in a metal leaf Whistler style frame, Frame: 23 x 18-...
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1890s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
STUDENT
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in Portland, ME
Hirsch, Joseph (American, 1910-1980). STUDENT. Charcoal drawing on paper, not dated, but before 1980. Signed lower left, "J Hirsch." 17 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (framed to 25 x 19 inches)...
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1970s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Charcoal
The Berggruen Series: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
40 x 42.2 cms (15 3/4 x 16 5/8 ins)
Signature: Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions: Numbered in pencil lower right
Edition: 100
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Montparnasse Street
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in New York, NY
Montparnasse Street– 1931, Etching
Duffy 128. Edition 50, only 25 printed. Signed, dated, and annotated imp and 50 in pencil.
Image size 4 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (124 x 251 mm); sh...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
School Girls of Vienna Packing Rations from England and America for the Children
Located in Fairlawn, OH
School Girls of Vienna Packing Rations from England and America for the Little Children
Color lithograph poster, 1921
Signed lower right in the text (see photo)
Created in the Wein (...
Category
1920s Jugendstil Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
