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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Autumn Landscape — 1940s Post-Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Henri Pierre Fortier, Untitled (Autumn Landscape), gouache, c. 1940s. Signed in ink. Inscribed 'To my Friend CLINTON R. MULFORD'. A fine, painterly watercolor, with rich, layered colors, on heavy dark brown drawing paper with approximately 1/4 inch margins; an unfinished figurative sketch...
Category
1940s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Gouache
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
SCHWANGERE FRAU.
By Käthe Kollwitz
Located in Portland, ME
Kollwitz, Kathe. SCHWANGERE FRAU. Etching and soft ground, 1910. Klipstein 108(V) 14 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches (377 x 236 mm.). Signed in pencil, and with the names of the publisher Richter...
Category
1910s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Death March — Spanish Civil War, Anti-fascism
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Untitled (Death March)', brush and ink, c. 1936. Estate stamped, verso. A fine expressionist rendering, on cream wove drawing board, with margins (3/8 to 5/16 inch). Minor toning at the board edges, otherwise in very good condition. Image size 12 5/16 x 9 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 x 10 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
One of a series of powerful Anti-fascist brush and ink drawings created by the artist at the commencement of the Spanish Civil War...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
Work Bench — Mid-century Modern
By Charles Quest
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Work Bench', 1949, wood engraving, edition 40. Signed, dated and numbered 9/40 in pencil. Titled and annotated 'wood engraving 1949' in pencil, in the artist’s hand, lower right margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove Japan, with full margins (1 3/4 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, a successful artist, and fine art instructor, worked in a variety of mediums including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture, but remains best known as a printmaker. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929, and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters. After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis.
Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium which he apparently learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’ In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting a lot of critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’ were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’ and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’, was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in the Graphic Arts Division of the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). This one-man exhibition was a remarkable achievement for Quest, who had been working in the medium for only about ten years. In the press release for the show, Kainen praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’
At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had also won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951. Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’.
Charles Quest retired from teaching in 1971 and made relatively few prints in his later years, as the rigors of the medium were too demanding. He moved to Tryon, North Carolina, with his wife Dorothy, an artist and portrait painter, and remained active as a painter until his death in 1993. An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted the interest of Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for the University's collection.
In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division became the grateful recipient of a large body of Quest's work including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, and stained glass, as well as his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
THE RUG WEAVER
By Gustave Baumann
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GUSTAVE BAUMANN (1881 – 1971)
THE RUG WEAVER, 1910 (Chamberlain 26)
Color woodcut signed in pencil. Unnumbed from an edition 100 as published in the Hills o’ Brown...
Category
1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
The Pool of London.
By William Lionel Wyllie
Located in Storrs, CT
The Pool of London. c. 1915. Etching and drypoint. 7 7/8 x 15 7/8 (sheet 11 x 14 7/8 x 21 1/4). A rich impression with drypoint burr printed on the full sheet of simili-Japan paper. ...
Category
1910s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,500 Sale Price
23% Off
Post Office, New York
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Post Office, New York
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate stamp lower left (see photo)
Illustrated: Marbella Gallery, Robert Hallowell (1886-1939), No. 64
Provenance:...
Category
1930s Abstract Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Venus and the Rose (2nd State)
By Giorgio Mantovano Ghisi
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after Luca Penni
Category
16th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving
Street Corner, L'Ile Saint Louis, Paris — Mid-Century Photogravure
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rémy Duval, 'Street Corner, L'ile Saint Louis, Paris', photogravure, 1946. A fine, richly-inked impression in warm black ink, on cream wove B.F.K. Rives pap...
Category
1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photogravure
(HUNTERS WITH REFLECTIONS) - RICH IMPRESSION
By Levon West
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEVON WEST (1900 - 1968)
(Untitled) - HUNTERS with REFLECTIONS. ca 1925
Etching, signed and numbered 22, lower left. Plate, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Sheet 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches. ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
$600 Sale Price
29% Off
'Sundown, Stonington, Maine' — Artist-printed Exhibition Proof
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Nelson Wilbur (1897-1988), 'Sundown, Stonington, Maine', wood engraving, artist's proof, edition not stated but small, 1969. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the block...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
'Flowers and Ko-Imari' — Taisho/Showa Shin Hanga Woodblock Print
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Masami Iwata, 'Flowers and Ko-Imari', color woodblock print, c. 1960, edition 250. Signed, and with the artist’s seal, lower right. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors,...
Category
1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
'Flyable Objects Identified' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Flyable Objects Identified', color serigraph, 1969, edition 30, Ryan 83. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 30' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, o...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
'Run Little Chillun' also 'Revival' — African American Subject
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Isac Friedlander, 'Run Little Chillun' also 'Revival', wood engraving, 1933, edition 50. Signed, titled and annotated 'New York 1933' in pencil. A sup...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Fifth Avenue Bridge.
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
Fifth Avenue Bridge. 1928. Drypoint. McCarron 72. 9 7/8 x 12 (sheet 12 3/4 x 15). Edition of 108 recorded impressions. A rich impression printed on cream laid paper, with full margin...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Red to Green Portal
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Red to Green Portal
Aquatint, 1979
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: 95 (84/95), see photo
Provenance:
U.S. Representative James A. Leach, retired
Condition...
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1970s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
Untitled
By Mark Fox
Located in Houston, TX
Mark Fox
Untitled, 2018
Acrylic ink and wax crayon on paper
50 x 38 inches
Framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Wax Crayon, Acrylic
$10,000
Untitled (SF64-048)
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
From the series Blue Balls, (1960-63). This series preoccupied Francis for a number of years, and as William C. Agee pointed out, are rooted in his threatened physical body. Again, t...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Acrylic
CALLE EX CONVENTO, TASCO.
Located in Portland, ME
Pappe, Carl. CALLE EX CONVENTO, TASCO. Woodcut, c.1940s-60s. Edition unstated. This print is one of a series of 16 images, all of scenes in Taxco, distinguished by the strength of the carving and the richness of the blacks. 12 x 14 1/4 inches (image), 13 1/2 x 15 3/4 (sheet). Titled and signed in pencil. In excellent condition.
Carl Pappe...
Category
1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
On the Yard, plate 3.
By Arthur John Trevor Briscoe
Located in Storrs, CT
Laver 139, Hurst 246. 8 7/8 x 13 7/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 16 1/4). Trial proof. No published edition. An extremely rich impression with plate tone printed on 'antique laid paper countermarked 'DS&Pine 17940 with a Strasbourg lily watermark. Signed and annotated 'trial' in pencil. An exceptional proof of the greatest rarity.
Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
In 1899 Briwcoe acquired a studio in Malden, Essex, and bought a 3-ton cutter which, with his young family, he would spend eight or nine months a year, sailing to Calais, along the Belgian coast, and through the Dutch waterways, constantly sketching and painting in both oil and watercolor.
In 1922, after a meeting with the etcher James McBey, Briscoe returned to etching once more producing plates of some of his sea sketches. The two artists sailed together in Briscoe's, forty-ton yacht, the "Golden Vanity...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
$1,500 Sale Price
33% Off
untitled Woman by the Windows
By Karl Albert Buehr
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Woman by the Windows)
Unsigned.
Pastel on board, c. 1915
Created while the artist was in Giverny, France
Provenance:
Gift of the artist to his wife, Mary Hess Buehr
by Desc...
Category
1910s Abstract Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pastel
Leaf
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #17 of an edition of 35
Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more . . .
th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
$78 Sale Price
35% Off
Young Man Rising up out of the Sea. 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.
A signed Certificate of Authority will be included with all photographs. A nude yo...
Category
2010s Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital
Plymouth Street ( a twilight scene is set in the Brooklyn section of DUMBO)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This view of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges is looking down "Plymouth Street" to the intersection of Jay Street. It is #35 in the catalogue raisonne by Retif & Salzer and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of City of New York...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Spring Field
By Larry Poons
Located in London, GB
Larry Poons
Spring Field
1989
Acrylic on canvas
39.37 x 95.25 cms (15 1/2 x 37 1/2 ins)
LP10155
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Acrylic
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Early Spring
By Arthur Ernest Becher
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Ernest Becher, 'Early Spring', oil, 1950. Signed and dated, lower right. A fine impressionist landscape, with fresh colors, on heavy illustration board, in very good, original condition, without inpainting. Framed in a period, 3 inch wide wood frame. Image size: 17 5/8 x 20 1/2 inches; outside frame dimensions: 23 3/4 x 26 5/8 inches.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Arthur Ernst Becher was a painter and an illustrator of books and magazines. Born in Freiberg, Germany, he emigrated with his parents at the age of six to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a fine artist, he was known for his rural New York landscapes and historical scenes including Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
He received early training from F.W. Heine and Robert Schade...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
The Model
By William C. Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Model
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
signed lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
A few bits of adhesive residue verso
Colors fresh and unfaded
Housed in a Marin style meta...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
'Downtown, New York' — 1920s Modernism
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Taylor Arms, 'Downtown, New York', etching with aquatint, 1921, edition 75, Fletcher 108. Signed, dated, and numbered 14/75 in pencil.
A superb, finely nuanced impression, in d...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Late Night (Where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Late Night", Frederick Mershimer created a winter scene where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope. This image, the seventh in t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
THE SUCCESSFUL FORTUNE HUNTER - Leading Miss Morrowfat to the Temple of Hyman
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757 - 1827)
THE SUCCESSFUL FORTUNE HUNTER - Our Captain Shelalee Leading Miss Morrowfat to the Temple of Hyman, 1802 issued in 18...
Category
1810s English School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
'Chinoiserie' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'Chinoiserie', color serigraph, 1947, edition 50, Ryan 36. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled, dated, and annotated '4 COLORS – EDITION 50' in the scree...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
'Bighorn' — Mid-Century American Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Wind McKim, 'Bighorn', lithograph, 1940, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (2 to 4...
Category
1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
New York Bouquet
By Childe Hassam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
New York Bouquet
Lithograph, 1917
Edition: 93
Signed with the artist's cipher in pencil lower right (see photo)
This lithograph is inspired by Hassam's oil painting of the same title...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Flower in Vase (Summer)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Flower in Vase (Summer)
Color woodblock, c. 1950
Signed "B. Ohno" lower right (see photo)
Sealed lower right (see photo)
Series: Flowers of the Four Se...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
'Encircled' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Encircled', engraving, 1946, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '5/50' in pencil. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDIT...
Category
1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving
DISCOVERY OF GOLD - Very Large Serigraph - WPA Artist - California Murals
By Anton Refregier
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANTON REFREGIER (1905 – 1979)
DISCOVERY OF GOLD, 1949. Color serigraph. Signed and numbered in pencil, edition of 90. Image 23 ¼ x 21 ¾" Large sheet, 29 3/4 x 25 ¼”. Printed title...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
Reflection
By Amy Wilson
Located in New York, NY
Amy Wilson received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1995 and her MFA from Yale University in 1997. Her drawings explore the tensions between her inner life and t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
$1,200 Sale Price
33% Off
The Second Tournament with the Tapestry of Samson and the Lion
By Lucas Cranach the Elder
Located in Chicago, IL
Watermark:
Bull's Head with Serpent and Cross (Briquet 1575, dated 1492 by Briquet)
Provenance:
Martin Folkes (Lugt 1034)
Reverend G. L. Blake (Lugt 1172)
Reference:
Bartsc...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Northern Renaissance Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Reclining Nude — Mid-Century Modernism, Renowned African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Reclining Nude), brush and ink, c. 1948, unsigned. A fine, spontaneous work, on cream wove paper. Slight toning to the sheet edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 18 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (476 x 597 mm).
Provenance: Adrienne E. Wheeler Collection, acquired from the artist.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Blackburn (1920 - 2003) participated in the rich mix of art programs and creative groups available in Harlem as he grew up, including Charles Alston's Harlem Arts Workshop, the Harlem YMCA, and later the Harlem Artist's Guild. In 1937 he joined the WPA at the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest New York center for instruction in the arts. There he was exposed to Harlem's most prominent artists, Aaron Douglas, William Henry Johnson...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
Convertible
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color spitbite aquatint and aquatint with drypoint.
Edition of 35
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Grande masque
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Grande Masque
1948
Aquatint on Marais paper, signed in pencil and numbered 11/25, there were also 5 artist’s proofs.
Signed, dedicated "à Nadia Sednaoui" and inscribed ...
Category
1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
$120,000
Untitled (Nude in Landscape)
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, 'Untitled (Nude in Landscape)', lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 5 in pencil. Number 5 of Volume 1, a series of 10 lithographs published by the ...
Category
1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
WINTERSONNE
By Erich Heckel
Located in Portland, ME
Heckel, Erich (German, 1883-1970). WINTERSONNE. Dube 318. Drypoint, 1913. Edition size not known. Signed and dated "Heckel 1913" in pencil. Printed on heavy wove paper. 4 3/4 x 6 1/...
Category
1910s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut, Drypoint
RED ROCK CANYON
By Frances H. Gearhart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869 – 1958)
RED ROCK CANYON ca 1936
Color block print. Signed and titled in pencil. 10 x 11” on fibrous paper, sheet 13 3/8 x 15...
Category
1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Linocut
'Nocturnal Adversary' — Mid-Century Surrealist Abstraction
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'Nocturnal Adversary', color serigraph, 1946, edition 50, Ryan 137. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled, dated, and annotated '6 COLORS EDITION 50' in th...
Category
1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
86.4 x 71.8 cms (34 x 28.25 ins)
Edition of 17
Paper: Somerset Textured
Proofs: 9 AP, I CTP (on handmade paper)
Signed right, under image; numbered left, under image; publisher's chop lower right
Publisher: The Litho Shop Inc., Santa Monica, California
Printed by Jacob Samuel...
Category
1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint, Color
Dona Ascensione
By Kenneth M. Adams
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dona Ascensione
Off set lithograph, 1932/published 1950
Signed in pencil by the artist lower right (see photo)
Titled in the stone, lower left
From: New Mexico Artist...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Offset
Rue dans la banlieu de Paris (Street scene on the outskirts of Paris)
By Roger Lersy
Located in Chicago, IL
This exuberantly-painted Parisian street scene is typical of Lersy's colorful and energetic style. His work combines mid-century Modern abstraction with subjects beloved by the Impre...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Doorway in the Temple of Kalabshe, Nubia
By Francis Frith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Doorway in the Temple of Kalabshe, Nubia
Original gold toned albumin photograph, c. 1862
Unsigned as is usual
From: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, c. 1862, Vol 1, (36 plates)
Published by...
Category
1860s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photographic Paper
NEWRY
Located in Portland, ME
Barr, Wyatt. NEWRY. Drawing, Charcoal and ink wash on Arches 300lb. Hot Press Watercolor paper, 2014. The subject is a hillside next to Step Falls in Newry, Maine. Signed and dated. ...
Category
2010s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Charcoal, Ink
$3,500
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Litho crayons on illustrator’s board, c. 1932
Signed: Adolf Dehn (VED) lower right corner (signed by Virginia Dehn, the artist’s widow)
Tilted along the upper edge of the recto in pencil by the artist
Verso inscriptions: “VF 3168.D” in a circle, also annotated in red pencil “32” in a circle and “699
Provenance:
Mary Ryan Gallery, exhibition entitled Adolf Dehn Lithographs, 1927-1940, Nov. 16 to Dec. 12, 1982. The original exhibition notice us affixed to the backing board of the frame
Note: A drawing intended or used in the publication Vanity Fair, for whom Dehn worked in the mid 1920’s to the 1930’s.
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...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil Crayon
'I'll Be What I Choose' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'I'll Be What I Choose: Vanity of Ambition', color lithograph, 1949, edition 40, Fine and Looney 281. Signed, titled, and numbered '23/40' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower ri...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
$960 Sale Price
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Brussels Griffon Painting
Located in New York, NY
Original Brussels Griffon gouache, probably Belgian, done as a design for a series of matchboxes.
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Gouache, Board
Rainy Day / Fifth Avenue in New York
By Levon West
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a rare New York image by Levon West
Levon West, who also used the name Ivan Dimitri, was born on February 3, 1900 in Centerville, North Dakota. ...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,200 Sale Price
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Nu (Standing Female Nude)
By Charles Despiau
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nu (Standing Female Nude)
Red chalk on wove paper, c. 1925
Signed lower right by the artist, see photo
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 1/8 x 8 5/16 inches
Note:
Despiau ...
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1920s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Chalk
Book 1, line 192: Satan on the Burning Lake
By John Martin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Book 1, line 192: Satan on the Burning Lake
Mezzotint, 1825
Engraved signature below the image (see photo)
From John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
Published by Septimus Prowett
Printed by...
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1820s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Last Rays
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30
Last Rays is an intensely colorful image that evokes the play of light and reflections caused by the late rays of the evening sun as they rake low acr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'Foul Rope (Left)' — Early American Southwest Rodeo
By William Robinson Leigh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Robinson Leigh, 'Foul Rope (Left)', etching, c. 1920, edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil and signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove Umbria paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 14 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (378 x 303 mm); sheet size 20 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (518 x 391 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia, on a plantation a year after the Civil War and raised in Baltimore, William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) became one of the foremost painters of the American West. His career spanning some seventy-five years, Leigh created some of the most iconic depictions of the Western landscape, with admirers referring to him as ‘The Sagebrush Rembrandt.’
The son of impoverished Southern aristocrats, Leigh received his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell at the Maryland Institute, where he was regarded as the best student in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama.
In 1896, Leigh began working as a magazine illustrator for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine in New York City. He also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes.
Leigh's trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he agreed to paint the Grand Canyon with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting, which led to more commissions and an extensive painting trip through Arizona and New Mexico. These travels inspired him to paint western subjects for the next 50 years, and his primary interests were the Hopi and Navajo Indians.
In 1910, he traveled to Wyoming, where he painted in Yellowstone Park and created sketches, many of which he later converted into large canvases such as ‘Lower Falls of the Yellowstone’ (1915) and ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ (1911).
In 1926, he traveled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience, wrote and illustrated 'Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa'. In 1933, he wrote and illustrated 'The Western Pony'. His adventures were chronicled in several popular magazines, including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers.
For many years, Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel handled his work exclusively in New York. In 1953, Leigh was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design and became a full Academician in 1955.
In March 1999, the Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, held an exhibition of his field sketches and finished works depicting his experiences near Cody early in the century. Between 1910 and 1921, when he often painted in the Carter Mountain vicinity, these years were considered pivotal to his artistic development and devotion to the Western landscape.
Leigh's work is held in many museum collections of American Western art...
Category
1920s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
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
