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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Period: 19th Century
The Gate, Chelsea
By Theodore Casimir Roussel
Located in New York, NY
Theodore Roussel (1847-1926), The Gate, Chelsea; etching and drypoint, 1889-1890, signed on the tab and inscribed imp [also signed in the plate lowere right]. Reference: Hausberg 33, fourth state (of 4), from the total printing of about 43 impressions. In excellent condition, trimmed by the artist all around on the plate mark except for the tab, 8 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches.
A fine impression, printed on a light cream wove paper with plate tone (wiped to brighten the gate and doorway area) and substantial burr in the drypoint work.
According to Hausberg, “The gate and house behind it still stand today at No. 4 Cheyne Walk...
Category
1880s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Art Forms in Nature (Plate 56 - Calanus) — 1899 Celebration of Natural forms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ernst Haeckel, 'Art Forms in Nature' (Plate 56 - Calanus), color lithograph, 1899. Signed and titled in typeset, upper left. Titled 'Tafel 56 — Calanus'...
Category
1890s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Japanese Beauties Enjoy a Full Moon
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Burbank, CA
"Sun, Moon and Stars". Three beauties enjoy a full moon on the veranda of a teahouse or restuarant. The woman on the left kneels and adjusts her lavishly printed kimono. The beauty in the center has her hair down, and behind her is a screen against which shadows are beautifully silhouetted, which adds an air of mystery. The seated woman on the right is perhaps a geisha, as we see a shamisen lying next to her. Before her is a tray with an assortment of foods. One may surmise that the beauties are being compared to the sun, the moon, and the stars. On the left we glimpse a full moon shining over the peaceful bay, and boats at harbor. Original first edition Japanese color woodblock print triptych...
Category
1840s Edo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mulberry Paper, Woodcut
Une Niit d'avril a Ceos
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in New York, NY
Une Niit d'avril a Ceos, theatre program for a production with sets by Maurice Denis with advertisement for La Revue blanche, 1894. Lithograph.
Ref:...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Autoportrait de Gustave Le Gray. 1851.
Located in PARIS, FR
LE GRAY Gustave Villiers-le-Bel 1820 † 1884 Le Caire et MESTRAL Auguste Rans 1812 † 1884 id.
Autoportrait de Gustave Le Gray. 1851.
Photographie.
338 x 243 mm (épreuve). 450 x 314 mm (montage).
Feuille montée sur vélin. Manque important en pied, atteignant la pointe de la veste du photographe. Quelques très légères et fines griffures en surface. Au dos du montage : 3 gravures anciennes, et marque de collection mauve, « L. BONGARD » (lugt non décrit).
Épreuve sur papier salé, d’après un négatif papier ciré sec.
Numéroté « 540 » dans le négatif, dans l’angle supérieur gauche.
Marque des étaux bien visibles dans le négatif, dans l’angle supérieur droit, et dans l’angle inférieur gauche.
De toute rareté.
Une seule autre épreuve connue :
Pierre Bergé & Associés, vente du 19 mars 2015, lot n°101.
La mission héliographique :
Au mois de mai 1851, Gustave Le Gray est délégué par la commission des Monuments historiques pour photographier une liste de monuments remarquables du sud-ouest de la France. D’autres figures pionnières de la photographie participent à cette vaste campagne de recensement, et doivent couvrir le reste du pays : Hippolyte Bayard, Henri Le Secq, Édouard Baldus et Auguste Mestral. Le Gray décide de fusionner son itinéraire avec celui de son élève et ami, Auguste Mestral. Entre juillet et octobre 1851, équipé d’une voiture et de deux chambres noires, le tandem sillonne le territoire de la Loire aux Pyrénées, du château de Chambord à la cité de Carcassonne. Les deux hommes, qui se connaissent depuis 1848, réalisent ensemble les prises de vue - et se présenteront d’ailleurs en tant que coauteurs devant la commission.
Un champ d’expérimentation
Pour Gustave Le Gray, qui vient de mettre au point le « négatif papier ciré sec », la mission héliographique est un champ d’expérimentation inespéré. Pendant trois mois, les photographes exécutent jusqu’à trente prises de vue par jour, une véritable prouesse rendue possible par l’invention de Le Gray. En effet, celle-ci dispense de maintenir humides les négatifs papier, facilitant considérablement le travail en extérieur. Les feuilles peuvent être préparées jusqu’à quinze jours à l’avance, et développées plusieurs heures après la prise de vue. « Tout le monde comprendra combien ce nouveau procédé facilite les opérations en voyage », écrit Le Gray. Méthodiques, les deux hommes numérotent les négatifs dans l’ordre chronologique.
Cette numérotation, allant jusqu’à 605, témoigne d’une production soutenue et indépendante, débordant largement le cadre imposé par la commission des monuments historiques.
Progressivement, le recensement scientifique s’accompagne de véritables digressions artistiques. Entre leur séjour à Carcassonne – point culminant du voyage – et leur retour à Paris, les « photographistes » s’autorisent de nombreux clichés personnels : des vues d’Amélie les Bain, du Pont Palaldas et du pont du Gard. Dans les Pyrénées-Orientales, les cloîtres gothiques d’Elne et d’Arles-sur-tech servent d’écrin à deux autoportraits de Gustave Le Gray. Le premier, réalisé à Elne, est aujourd’hui en mains privées (nous n’en avons trouvé aucune reproduction dans la littérature). Le second, pris très peu de temps après, n’est connu pour l’heure que par deux épreuves, dont celle que nous présentons.
Un manifeste artistique
Vêtu d’un costume noir de ville, Le Gray pose sous une arche gothique, jambes croisées et cigarette à la main. La blancheur insolente des guêtres, du chapeau et du col, accroche irrésistiblement l’œil du spectateur, et rehausse l’austère architecture médiévale d’une touche de modernité et de dandysme. L’élégance et la familiarité subtile de la mise en scène rappellent, dans leur esprit, d’autres portraits de Le Gray, habitué de compositions libres et volontiers énigmatiques – nous pensons ici à son fantomatique Autoportrait dans le miroir de la table de toilette de la duchesse de Parme, réalisé la même année, où le photographe parvient à capter son ombre fuyante dans un miroir.
Contrairement à ses pairs, Le Gray s’est peu consacré au portrait, lui préférant le paysage. Il en a cependant maîtrisé tous les codes, et signé d’authentiques chefs-d’œuvre en la matière : citons ici le portrait rêveur et mélancolique du dramaturge Edmond Cottinet (1849), et celui du sculpteur Auguste Clésinger (1855), d’une vigueur éblouissante, qui fut longtemps donné à son élève Félix Nadar...
Category
1850s Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photographic Paper
Art Forms in Nature (Plate 49 - Heliactis) — 1988 Celebration of Natural Forms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ernst Haeckel, 'Art Forms in Nature' (Plate 49 - Heliactis), offset lithograph, 1899. Signed and titled in typeset, upper left. Titled 'Tafel 49 — Helia...
Category
1890s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Neapolitan Vesuvius Gouache
Located in New York, NY
Original hand-painted Neapolitan gouache entitled "Eruz de Gennajo 1839." An excellent example of the classic Neapolitan School view. Unsigned. Displayed in an archival mat with an o...
Category
1830s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Art Forms in Nature (Plate 79 - Basiliscus) — 1899 Celebration of Nature
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ernst Haeckel, 'Art Forms in Nature' (Plate 79 - Basiliscus), offset lithograph, 1899. Signed and titled in typeset, upper left. Titled 'Tafel 79 — Basi...
Category
1890s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Art Forms in Nature (Plate 80 - Pentremites) — 1899 Celebration of Natural Forms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ernst Haeckel, 'Art Forms in Nature' (Plate 80 - Pentremites), offset lithograph, 1899. Signed and titled in typeset, upper left. Titled 'Tafel 80 — Pentremites', upper right and 'Blastoidea. — Knospensterne', bottom center. Lithographic plate rendered and printed by master lithographer Adolf Giltsch, from the original 1899 publication, the full sheet, in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 11 x 7 7/8 inches; sheet size 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
Pentremites, an extinct genus of stemmed, immobile echinoderms (forms related to the starfish), are abundant as marine fossils...
Category
1890s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
LE PETIT ENTERREMENT (The Small Funeral)
By Félix Hilaire Buhot
Located in Portland, ME
Buhot, Felix. LE PETIT ENTERREMENT (The Small Funeral). B/G 154. Second state of two. Etching, roulette, aquatint and drypoint printed in blue on tan wove paper, 1880. 3 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 86 x 115 mm., (sheet 8 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches; 215 x 264 mm.). Signed with the red owl...
Category
1880s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Leucippus Fallax (Buffy Hummingbird) — Original 1849 Hand-colored Lithograph
By John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Gould, 'Leucippus Fallax' (Buffy Hummingbird), original lithograph with hand-coloring (not a reproduction), c. 1850. Signed in typeset 'J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del et lith.'...
Category
1850s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
VITRE - THE CANAL, BRITTANY
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M.
VITRE: THE CANAL, BRITTANY. Levy 65, Spink 63. Lithograph, 1893.
One of 32 lifetime impressions, printed by Way, with Whistler's butterfly signature in pencil...
Category
1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape with Horses.
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Kennedy catalog 36 state ii; Glasgow 45 state ii. Image: 4 7/8 x 7 3/4 (sheet 6 7/8 x 9 5/8).The Glasgow catalog records 32 known impressions. A scarce early etching -- there was no ...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Feminist Writers - I am the Author of This Remarkable Play!!
By Honoré Daumier
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HONORE DAUMIER (1808 – 1871)
LES BAS-BLEUS - THE BLUE STOCKINGS, 1844 (Daumier Register; Delteil, 1227 ii/ii)
Lithograph as published in "Le Charivari" March 17, 1844. Plate 17 from the series Les Bas Bleus on thin wove paper with text on verso. 7.36 x 8.62 inches. LES BAS-BLEUS is a series of 40 numbered lithographs, which appeared in the Charivari between January 30, 1844 and August 7, 1844.
The usual centerfold from the folded publication. A sheet of acid free black paper placed behind to minimize the text from the verso
Provenance: The Richard Vogler Collection. Vogler's Collection of the caricatures of George Cruikshank, now at UCLA, was the largest private collections of his work in America.
From the "Daumier Register" website:
TRANSLATION (The audience at the Odeon Theatre.) - Author... Author!.... Author!
- Gentlemen, your impatience is about to be rewarded.... You want to know the author of this remarkable play that has just obtained such a great, and I must say, justified success.... that author... is MEEEEE....!
LES BAS-BLEUS (The bluestockings) is a series of 40 numbered lithographs, which appeared in the Charivari between January 30, 1844 and August 7, 1844.
ALBUM LES BAS-BLEUS. The series (“Les Bas-Bleus”) proved to be of such a success with the public, that apart from the Charivari edition a separate edition was published on single white sheets and sold at an up-market price to collectors. Apart from that, an album LES BAS-BLEUS was published in the same year (1844).
ABOUT THIS PRINT. The Odéon theatre in Paris opened in 1797 and merged in 1946 with the Comédie Française. It reopened again in 1959 as an independent theatre under the name Théatre de France. This print shows an enthusiastic public applauding the author at the opening night. It seems that the female author had hidden behind a male name. The applause stops when the audience fully realizes the deception. This print can be seen in reference to George Sand's play "Cosima", which also had been rejected by the public under similar circumstances.
BLUESTOCKINGS. The expression "Bluestocking” (or suffragette) dates back to 18th century England. At that time, angry young gentlemen of society met in London at the Montague House to discuss literary and political questions of their time. As a sign of protest against the establishment they wore blue wool-socks instead of black silk stockings. The expression was taken over by 19th century France to ridicule the new movement carried by Jeanne Désirée (1832), Cécile Fourmel, Suzanne Vailquin, and Claire Demar. George Sand and Flora Tristan joined the group later. Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), famous writer and scientist, as well as Madame de Staël...
Category
1840s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
San Francisco.
By Charles Meryon
Located in PARIS, FR
MERYON Charles
Paris 1821 † Saint-Maurice (Seine) 1868
San Francisco. 1856.
Original copper plate etched, beveled, bow angle.
H240xL1010mm.
Delteil, n°...
Category
1850s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Copper, Steel
Eaux-fortes sur Paris, vers 1850-1854
By Charles Meryon
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles MERYON
Paris 1821 † 1868 Saint-Maurice
Eaux-fortes sur Paris. Vers 1850-1854.
Etchings of Paris. 1850-1854.
Original etchings and drypoint...
Category
1850s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Portrait de Ludovic Halévy.
By Edgar Degas
Located in PARIS, FR
Edgar DEGAS
Paris 1834 † 1917 id.
Portrait of Ludovic Halévy. About 1895-1896.
Photograph. Original silver gelatine print. 82 x 74 mm.
Of great rarity. Only one other known print (L...
Category
1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Nodding Renealmia from Temple of Flora
By Dr. Robert John Thornton
Located in New York, NY
"The Queen Flower" by Dr. Robert Thornton from the quarto edition of "Temple of Flora." London, 1812. Mixed media engraving (aquatint, mezzotint, color...
Category
1810s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Ocelot by Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "The Quadrupeds of North America. Octavo Edition" by John James Audubon. Plate LXXXVI. P...
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1850s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Le maréchal flamand (The Flemish Blacksmith) — 19th Century French Romanticism
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault 'Le maréchal flamand' (The Flemish Blacksmith) from the series ‘Etudes, de chevaux lithographiés,’ lithograph, 1822, 2nd state ...
Category
1820s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Sheffield Island Light off Norwalk, Conn.
By Reynolds Beal
Located in New York, NY
“Sheffield Island Light off Norwalk, Conn.“ This pencil drawing is on a 5.50 x 9 inch sheet of laid paper. It is initialed and dated (June 30, 1887) in ...
Category
1880s Naturalistic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Graphite
Oil Study of Two Horses
By Frederic A. Bridgeman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Oil Study of Two Horses
Oil on canvas, c. 1880
Unsigned
Estate stamp verso of canvas and on stretcher (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
New gilt frame aptterned after the period frame
Painting size: 4 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches
Frame size: 6 3/4 x 11 inches
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York
Eric G. Carlson Fine Prints, New York
"Frederick (sic) Arthur Bridgman relocated from Alabama to New York with his family while still a youth. He was eventually employed as an engraver with the American Bank Note Company. He began studying art in his spare time inthe Art Schools of Brooklyn and the National Academy of Design in New York. He traveled to Paris in 1866 and became a favorite student of Gérôme which lead to Bridgman's exhibition in the Paris Salon in 1868. He made France his permanent home in 1870, and spent his summers on sketching tours of Brittany. He exhibited with the National Academy of Design in 1871. He lived in Egypt in 1873; scenes from Egyptian antiquity were prominent in his work. Bridgman's talents extended to writing and music; he was a noted composer and musician. The artist died in Rouen, France, in 1928." Courtesy SAAM (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
"Frederick Arthur Bridgman was a well-known landscape and historical painter. He is most admired for his Orientalist subjects, including views of North Africa, in particular Egypt and Algeria, and his scenes from Ancient Egyptian history.
Although born in Alabama, Bridgman came from a Yankee family. After the death of his doctor father and amid the mounting tension before the Civil War, the Bridgmans returned to their native New England, settling in New York. Young Frederick showed artistic gifts and was apprenticed as an engraver to the American Banknote Company. He attended evening classes at the Brooklyn Art Association at the same time. He also studied at the National Academy of Design, where he met Harry Humphrey Moore and Thomas Hovendon. In these early years, Bridgman exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association.
Bridgman travelled to France, where he visited Pont Aven, the artists’ colony in Brittany frequented by Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard as well as a circle of American painters around the Philadelphian Robert Wylie (1839-1877). Bridgman also studied in Paris with Jean Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Bridgman made an important reputation for himself in France at the annual Paris Salons; in Britain, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1871 and 1904, and in Germany, where he showed at the Grosse Berliner Kunst Ausstellung. His work was included in the American displays at the 1889 Universal Exposition held in Paris.
In 1872 Bridgman travelled to Spain and North Africa in the company of a British artist known only as ‘S’. In the winter of 1873-4 he made a second trip, visiting Egypt in the company of fellow American artist Charles Sprague Pearce. Bridgman married a young Bostonian, Florence Mott Baker; the deterioration of his wife’s health from the terrible inherited neurological disorder Huntington’s Chorea led him to return to Algiers in 1885 for a respite for them both in a warm climate. He wrote a fascinating travel narrative describing his journeys in North Africa, Winters in Algiers, published in 1888 and illustrated with woodcuts from his works.
Bridgman’s great success culminated at the Paris Salons of 1877, 1878 and 1879 with a trio of paintings portraying life in the ancient Near East...
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1880s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
Night Life at the Moulin Rouge
By Henry Somm
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Night Life at the Moulin Rouge
Pen and ink drawing, c. 1890
Signed lower left (see photo)
A scene of the night life near the Moulin Rouge, Paris. The Moulin Rouge is the famous cabaret located in the old wind mill building in the right distance of this image. It was the center of fin de siecle culture in Paris.
Condition: Slight yellowing to the sheet from age.
Sight size: 9 x 5 3/4 inches
Frame size: 14-1/8 x 10-3/4 x 1/2"
Provenance: Eric G. Carlson (1940-2016), art historian and noted art dealer
François Clément Sommier, best known under the pseudonym “Henry Somm,” was born in Rouen in 1844. He attended the local École municipale des beaux-arts and went on in 1867 to Paris, where he studied under Isidore Pils (1813-1875).
“Somm is above all a painter and his watercolors are much sought after; he has the painter’s eye to the highest degree imaginable.” Louis Morin, Somm’s fellow artist revealed in 1893 that while his training as an academic painter forged his draughsmanship and an acute eye for colors, Somm preferred and excelled in the graphic realm. Particularly prolific, he produced a very extensive corpus of 7,500 drawings and prints, many of which were widely reproduced in journals and magazines.
In 1867, Somm’s career reached a turning point with the discovery of Japanese culture through his friendship with French collector and critic Philippe Burty and a visit to the Paris International Exhibition. More generally, Japanese art and especially Japanese woodblock prints exerted a heavy influence on French artists at the time, and especially on the Impressionists, who were particularly inspired by the subject matter, as well as the innovative use of perspective, composition and color. Although technically not an Impressionist by pure definition, Somm’s interest in the effect of atmospheric light on shadow and color prompted Edgar Degas to invite him to participate in their 4th exhibition in 1879. However, Somm did not exhibit again with the Impressionists, and was never considered a member of the group. Rather, his work intersects between Impressionism, Symbolism and Japonism. In fact, while his drypoints and etchings reflect a more literal borrowing of Japanese elements than the work of Whistler or Monet, they also clearly anticipate the future work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Although Somm was 20 years older than Toulouse-Lautrec, both artists developed a friendship, as habitués of the Chat noir, a cabaret founded by Rodolphe Salis and located 84 boulevard de Rochechouart in Montmartre. More than a cabaret, the Chat noir also became an important gathering place for writers, poets, composers, musicians, and artists living in Montmartre. For Somm, a founding member of this artistic circle, it also served as a unique environment, where he could express his limitless imagination as active participant to the events – notably the literary soirées organized by the hydropathic group – and illustrator of the Chat noir journal.
In 1886, Somm, in collaboration with Georges Auriol, initiated the Chat noir’s first puppet show, which subsequently evolved into shadow theater. Somm’s Japonism and sense of humor appealed to Toulouse-Lautrec, and this influence is echoed in Lautrec posters advertising two other Montmartre nightspots, namely Le Mirliton and Le Divan Japonais...
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Late 19th Century French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
Aries-The Ram
By Eugène Grasset
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the artist's initials lower left
From: Les Douze Mois de 1889
As published in Vol. 9, No. 425 of Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui.
Published by Sagot, Paris
Proof before letters...
Category
1880s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Pompeian Still Life Gouache
Located in New York, NY
Original gouache by an unknown Neapolitan artist, circa 1840. Upper right panel after a fresco in Casa dei Dioscuri, Pompeii.
Category
1840s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Hummingbird Lithograph
By John Gould
Located in New York, NY
Gould, John and Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds.
London, 1849-61.
This plate: Orthorhynchus Ornatus.
Original lithographs hand-co...
Category
Mid-19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
The Great Pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt
By Francis Frith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Great Pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt
Original gold toned albumin photograph, c. 1862
Unsigned as is usual
From: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, c. 1862, Vol 1, ...
Category
1860s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photographic Paper
CURRIER & IVES - 1860 LINCOLN ELECTION CAMPAIGN
By Currier & Ives
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CURRIER & IVES (LOUIS MAURER)
1860 LINCOLN ELECTION CAMPAIGN
THE IMPENDING CRISES - OR CAUGHT IN THE ACT, 1860 (C.3033, G.3270)
Lithograph...
Category
1860s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Tamaya Nishi, Hana-murasaki (Purple Flower)
By Keisai Eisen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed: Keisai Eisen ga;
Seal: Kiwame
Series: Contemporary Scenes in the Pleasure Quarters
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi
Note: This is a famous ...
Category
Early 19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Merry Beaglers: Hunting Lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Color printed aquatint engraving with additional contemporary hand-colored details. Engraved by John Harris after the painting by Harry Hall. London, 1897. ...
Category
1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Le gué (The Ford).
By Charles François Daubigny
Located in Storrs, CT
Original cliché-verre. Delteil, Melot 139. 11 1/2 x 14 1/4 (image and sheet). Edition 150, #71. Posthumous impression from the 1921 edition of 150 printed in Paris by Sagot-Le Garrec...
Category
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photographic Paper
NATIVE AMERICANS HUNTING - TWO DRAWINGS.
By Cassilly Adams
Located in Portland, ME
Adams, Cassilly (American 1843-1921). NATIVE AMERICANS HUNTING -
TWO DRAWINGS. Charcoal and watercolor, not dated. One signed
within the matrix of the drawing, lower right. Each about 7 x 10
inches. Both with a tack hole top and and bottom, center, and
with residue from an old mount, verso. One wih a 1/2 x 1/2 inch
loss at the top right corner. The images fresh. One shows two
hunters with grass head-dress disguises, crouched behind low
grasses,each with a rifle, a killed deer between them, and a herd
moving across the field on the far side of the grasses. The other
depicts two hunters wearing animal-skin disguises, each with a
rifle, crouched behind grasses, beyond which a small herd of
bison grazes. The Pair: $1750.00
The following is from American Western Art...
Category
Late 19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Barges, Dordrecht
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Barges, Dordrecht
Etching, c. 1886
Signed in the plate with the butterfly
Edition: One of 10 known impressions of this image. VERY RARE
Provenance:
Frederick Keppel & Co. with their ...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Cendrillon
By Emile Bertrand
Located in New York, NY
Émile Bertrand's poster for Jules Massenet's Cendrillon, advertising the première performance at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris.
1899. Color lithograph. On linen. De...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Group of Carnations from Temple of Flora
By Dr. Robert John Thornton
Located in New York, NY
"Group of Carnations" by Dr. Robert Thornton from the quarto edition of "Temple of Flora." London, 1812. Mixed media engraving (aquatint, mezzotint, co...
Category
1810s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
BETENDES MADCHEN
By Käthe Kollwitz
Located in Portland, ME
Kollwitz, Kathe. BETENDES MADCHEN. Klipstein 11, Knesebecke 14. Softground, drypoint and aquatint, 1892. The third state of four, with "Original Rad von Kathe Kollwitz" in the plate,...
Category
1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Sunlight Through Storm Clouds.
Located in Storrs, CT
American School. The Pond: Sunlight and Clearing Clouds. Late nineteenth century. 13 7/8 x 11 1/8 x 1 1/4.
Unsigned. Frost & Adams stamp to the verso. The painting has been cleaned and relined; minor discolorations; craquelure. Housed in a linen liner with a gold lip and an elegant period-style 17 1/8 x 14 ½ x 2 1/8-inches.
Frost & Adams (est.1869) was an artists' supply firm in Boston, Massachusetts, located in Cornhill, on the current site of Boston City...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
Dans les Cendres (In the embers)
By Albert Besnard
Located in Storrs, CT
Dans les Cendres (In the embers). 1887. Delteil catalog 67 state iii. State after the plate was cut down and a second figure eliminated (the two earlier states are of the greatest rarity). Etching, drypoint and roulette. 16 3/4 x 12 1/8 (sheet 19 1/2 x 14). Edition 50. Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarterly 9 (1921): 254. A very rich impression with plate tone and drypoint burr, printed on simili-japon. Provenance: Frederick Keppel & Co. This is one of the artist's most striking images. Signed in pencil. Housed in 25 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
Paul Albert Besnard, was an impressionist painter. In 1866, the seventeen-year-old son of artist parents began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts Paris. In 1874, Besnard won the important Prix de Rome, with which the academy distinguished young talent. A portion of the scholarship is a stay of several years in Rome. Besnard married Charlotte Dubray, a sculptress, during this time in Rome. The couple lived in England, where Besnard exhibited at the Royal Academy London, between 1881 and 1884. He became involved with English portrait painting during this period, which had a lasting influence on his work.
In the years that followed, Besnard broke with the academic tradition. In 1886, he presented the portrait of Madame Roger Jourdain...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Moses Breaking the Tablet of the Law (after Parmigianino. 1503-1540)
By Daniel Ramée
Located in Storrs, CT
Moses Breaking the Tablet of the Law. (after Parmigianino. 1503-1540.) Pencil drawing mounted onto paper. 12 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Collector's seal verso: Gustav Grunwald, (Lugt 1155b)...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pencil
Erinnerung (Remembrance) — Turn-of-the Century Romantic Etching
By Max Klinger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Max Klinger, 'Erinnerung (Remembrance)', etching and aquatint, 1896. A fine, richly inked impression, on off white, wove paper, with full margins (1 3/4 to 3 1/8 inches), in excellen...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Horses in Stable
By Georges Lemmen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the estate stamp lower right corner
Note: The image has been sqaured off in red chalk grid lines for use in a large painting
Dated in charcoal lower right: "23 Nov '96"
Category
1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Chalk
Shono
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Storrs, CT
Shono.
Series: Actors from the 53 Stations of the Tokaido. Station 46.
Date: 1852 (rat ).
Actor: Bando Hikosaburo IV .
Role: Nakano Tobei.
Publisher: Sumiyoshiya Masagoro.
Censors' seals: Hama, Magome.
Signed: Toyokuni ga.
Size: vertical oban (14 x 10).
Gaufrage (embossing) in the actor's robe. Light soiling in the actor's cheek; good color
The Yakusha Tokaido by Kunisada Utagawa...
Category
19th Century Edo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut, Color
Robert Ker Porter
By Robert Ker Porter
Located in Storrs, CT
Mezzotint after the painting by Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842). 25 1/4 x 17 (plate). Text: 'Robert Ker Porter pinx.t. W.Say sculp.t. London Published as the Act directs, June 19 1802, by John P. Thompson, Printseller to his Majesty and their Royal Highness's the Duke and Duchess of York...
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Early 19th Century Victorian Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
LAST MOMENTS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
Located in Santa Monica, CA
J. F. BUFFORD PUBLISHER and PRINTER
LAST MOMENTS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, April 15, 1865
Lithograph, very good impression. The 2 lower publishing lines ...
Category
1860s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES
Located in Portland, ME
Michallet (attributed). ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES. Four Charcoal drawings, each on heavy wove paper, 19th Century. 24 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches (s...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Charcoal
Madame Helleu Looking at Watteau drawings at the Louvre..
By Paul César Helleu
Located in Storrs, CT
Madame Helleu Looking at Watteau drawings at the Louvre. (En regardant les Watteau de Louvre). c. 1895. Drypoint printed in 2 colors - black and sepia. 11 3/4 x 15 7/8. Goncourt 3, d...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Color
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 18-1/2 x 1-5/8"
Heller studied with Weir, Whistler, Amen-Jean, Grasset and Rodin. She won a silver medal in 1903.
Label verso: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1910 (see image)
PAFA Catalog search revealed no mention of the artist
A portrait of the artist was painted by Aman Jean, a photo of which is preserved in the MMA Digital Collections
See image below
Based on the Aman Jean portrait, I believe this is a self portrait of the artist
The following is the research that I have been able to uncover about the artist life and colleagues:
NYPL search:
"Eugenie M. Heller (1868-1952) was an American artist who studied and worked in New York and Paris. During World War I she served on the staff of the American Red Cross."
Archive of American Art search:
Correspondence with other artists, and a one page autobiographical sketch, 1936.
Correspondents include: Edmond Aman-Jean, Jeanne Baraduc, Terese R. Boissiere, Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Champney, Frank Dicksee...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
Japanese Beauty Admiring Kirifuri Waterfall
By Yoshu Chikanobu
Located in Burbank, CA
A beauty turns to admire the Kirifuri Waterfall in Nikko Province. She holds the handle of an umbrella and wears fashionable clothing that is beautifully printed. This series pairs f...
Category
1890s Edo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut, Handmade Paper, Mulberry Paper
The Deluge - JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (1775 - 1851)
By Joseph Mallord William Turner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
(after) JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (1775 - 1851)
THE DELUGE, 1828. Mezzotint, Engraved by I. P. Quilly after a painting by J. M.W. Turner R.A.. Image ...
Category
1820s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
A Fairy Tale
By Marius Bauer
Located in Storrs, CT
A Fairy Tale. 1897. Etching. Wisselingh 18. 2 3/4 x 4 3/8 (sheet 5 9/16 x 7 5/8). Edition 100, #51. A rich impression printed on cream laid paper. Signed an...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
BAIGNEUSES
By Henri Fantin-Latour
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR (French 1836-1904)
BAIGNEUSES (4e grande planche), 1898 (Hediard 138 II/II)
It’s one of 6 works that formed a suite of images published ...
Category
1890s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'Tokaido' — Mt. Fuji Rising – Mid-Nineteenth Century Woodblock Print
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Utagawa Kunisada (Tokoyuni III), 'Tokaido', color woodblock, 1863. Signed in the cartouche, lower right. A fine impression, with rich, fresh colors and pronounced woodgrain, the full...
Category
1860s Edo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Vachère au Bord de l'Eau
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO (French 1830-1903)
VACHERE au BORD de l’EAU 1890 (Delteil 93 viii/viii)
Etching, unsigned as published in “Gazette des Beaux Arts”, Paris, 1890. On laid paper
Very...
Category
1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Cougar by Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "The Quadrupeds of North America. Octavo Edition" by John James Audubon. Plate XCVII. Ph...
Category
1850s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Eros Vanne - Cupid Exhausted
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRI de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (French 1864 - 1901)
EROS VANNE (Cupid Exhausted), 1894 (Delteil 74; Adhemar 81; Adriani 92)
Original lithograph, cover of music / song sheet words by Maur...
Category
1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Holiday in Camp -- Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball"
By Winslow Homer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Holiday in Camp -- Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball"
Wood engraving, 1865
After Winslow Homer
Unsigned
(Signed in text in title caption, see photo)
Published in Harper's Weekly July 15, 1...
Category
1860s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving
FLOWERS - Monotype from 1997 Smithsonian Exhibition
By Karl Yens
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KARL YENS (1868 – 1945)
(FLOWERS) 1919
Color monotype signed, dated and annotated: “monotype 1919.” 17 ½” x 11 ½”
Monotypes are unique works of art that fall between printmaking a...
Category
1810s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Monotype
Canada Lynx by Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "The Quadrupeds of North America. Octavo Edition" by John James Audubon. Plate XVI. Phila...
Category
1850s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Umewaka Shrine in the Rain
By Kobayashi Kiyochika
Located in Burbank, CA
Umewaka Shrine, from an untitled series of prints depicting Tokyo. A woman braces her umbrella against the rain and a man waits out the storm next to his jinriksha in this view of th...
Category
1870s Edo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Handmade Paper, Mulberry Paper, Woodcut
Trompe l'oeil [Punch and Judy].
By George Cruikshank
Located in New York, NY
Trompe l'oeil. [Punch and Judy].
Watercolor and drawing, undated, circa 1830. Paper size 10.25 x 14" (26.1 x 35.6 cm). On "J. Whatman" watermarked paper. Unidentified artist.
A 19th-century visual montage of Cruikshank's "Punch & Judy." The images are taken from the book "The Tragical Comedy, or Comical Tragedy of Punch and Judy." As told to John Payne Collier by Giovanni in 1827, illustrated by George Cruikshank and published by S. Prowlett, London 1828. The central circle illustrates a drawing showing two allegorical female figures with two putti. The text under this image: “E Musao Hugonis Howard Armig, from Guercino.” On top of that illustration is a handsome painting of a flintlock pistol. Trompe l’oeil is an art of illustration – the name translates to ‘Trick of the Eye.”
The puppet show of Pulcinella or Punch and Judy has a long and fascinating history. “A puppet play that would have featured a version of Punch was first recorded in England in May 1662 by the diarist Samuel Pepys. He noted seeing it in Covent Garden, London, performed by the Italian puppet showman Pietro Gimonde from Bologna, otherwise known as Signor Bologna.
The earliest script of a Punch and Judy show...
Category
1830s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
![Trompe l'oeil [Punch and Judy].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_3312/1620315874402/Trompe_L_Oeil_Punch_87325_master.jpg?width=240 "Trompe l'oeil [Punch and Judy].")