International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
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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Field Study #749
By Terrell James
Located in Houston, TX
Terrell James
Field Study #749, 2020
Oil on vellum
20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil, Vellum
Timber Raft on the Rhine
By Sir Frank Short
Located in Storrs, CT
Timber Raft on the Rhine (after the watercolor by J.M.W. Turner in the National Gallery). 1898. Mezzotint. Hardie 66. 8 1/4 x 11 11/16 (sheet 10 5/16 x 13 1/2). Edition 100. A rich, ...
Category
1890s Romantic International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
POEMS
By Willem de Kooning
Located in Portland, ME
O'Hara, Frank. POEMS. Limited Editions Club, NY, 1988. Edition of 550 copies. Illustrated with 17 original lithographs by Willem De Kooning, and with his authorized facsimile signatu...
Category
1980s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Vin Rouge (Red Wine)
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
1932. Drypoint. Appleby 167. 9 1/4 x 11 5/8 (sheet 11 3/8 x 17 15/16). Edition 100 #48. Mat line, well outside the image; otherwise excellent condition. A rich impression with drypo...
Category
1930s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
The Helmsman
By Arthur John Trevor Briscoe
Located in Storrs, CT
The Helmsman. 1925. Etching. Hurst 130. 7 x 10 7/8 (sheet 11 x 5). Trial proof, apart from the edition of 75 An extremely rich impression printed cream wove paper. An exceptionally r...
Category
1920s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'The Connectors' — Vintage American Realism, New York City
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'The Connectors', 1934, etching, edition not stated, Ryan 66. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on handmade, cream laid paper, with margins (1/2 to 1...
Category
1930s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench).
By James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Located in Storrs, CT
Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench). 1883. Mezzotint. Tissot catalog 79, Béraldi catalog 66, Wentworth catalog 75 state ii/iii. 16 1/2 x 22 1/8 (s...
Category
19th Century Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
'Tanks #1' — American Precisionism
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Tanks #1', lithograph, 1929, edition 50, Flint 39. Signed, titled, and numbered '11/50' in pencil. Signed with the artist's monogram in the stone, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (3/4 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards.
Image size 13 15/16 x 8 1/16 inches (355 x 204 mm), sheet size 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches (400 x 286 mm).
Exhibited: 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock', Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, 2008.
Literature: 'Prints and Their Creators, A World History', Carl Zigrosser, Crown Publishers Inc, 1974; 'American Lithographers...
Category
1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Jerusalem
By Percy John Delf Smith, R.D.I.
Located in Storrs, CT
1931. Pencil, ink and watercolor. 9 1/4 x 15 (framed 18 1/2 x 24 1/2). Signed and dated in pencil. Housed in a silk mat and an elegant carved gold leaf frame.
Twelve of the artist'...
Category
1930s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor, India Ink, Ink
'Diptych' — Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stanley William Hayter, 'Diptych', color engraving and scorper, 1967, edition 50, Black & Moorhead 314. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '10/50' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh, vibrant colors on antique-white wove BFK Rives paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches). Minor skinning and tape residue on the top and bottom sheet edges, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 13 7/8 x 19 1/2 inches (146 x 108 mm); sheet size 19 7/8 x 25 3/8 inches (394 x 292 mm).
Hayter created this work using engraving and scorper on 2 plates, printed side by side. He used alkali blue, printed intaglio, and a phthalo green with a hard roller on the surface. The proofing was in three states, the first with engraving (a single proof); the second adding further engraving and scorper (a single proof); the third added further engraving and editioned: color trial proofs, 5 artist's proofs, edition of 50. The edition was completed in three printings: 8 in 1967; then Hector Saunier printed numbers 9 through 18 in 1968, and numbers 19 through 50 in 1969. This impression is from the Saunier 1968 printing.
Note: the online image cannot accurately convey the vibrancy of the printed alkali blue/phthalo green.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris, now known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists he is credited with influencing are Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall.
The hallmark of the workshop was its egalitarian structure, breaking sharply with the traditional French engraving studios by insisting on a cooperative approach to labor and technical discoveries. In 1929 Hayter was introduced to Surrealism by Yves Tanguy and André Masson, who, with other Surrealists, worked with Hayter at Atelier 17. The often violent imagery of Hayter’s Surrealist period was stimulated in part by his passionate response to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism. He organized portfolios of graphic works to raise funds for the Spanish cause, including Solidarité (Paris, 1938), a portfolio of seven prints, one of them by Picasso. Hayter frequently exhibited with the Surrealists during the 1930s but left the movement when Paul Eluard was expelled. Eluard’s poem Facile Proie (1939) was written in response to a set of Hayter’s engravings. Other writers with whom Hayter collaborated in this way included Samuel Beckett and Georges Hugnet.
Hayter joined the exile of the Parisian avant-garde in 1939, moving with his second wife, the American sculptor Helen...
Category
1960s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Still Night (Brooklyn brownstones on 7th Avenue off Flatbush Avenue)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Still Night", Frederick Mershimer depicts a row of brownstone houses on Seventh Avenue near Flatbush Avenue between Park and Stirling Places. Mershimer remembers that as he was ...
Category
1980s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
High Tide
By Hiroki Morinoue
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut, Edition 30
The left panel of High Tide captures the reflections of the edge of a pond and surrounding trees and hills. The right panel depi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Architectura Curiosa Nova, Chalice Garden Fountain
By Georg Andreas Böckler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Andreas Böckler, 'Chalice Garden Fountain', antique copperplate engraving, 1664, from the book 'Architectura Curiosa Nova'. A fine, richly inked ...
Category
1660s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Cancer-The Crab
By Eugène Grasset
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cancer-The Crab
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 without the calendarium as p...
Category
1880s Art Nouveau International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Asie (Asia) from the series Atlas
By Joseph Hecht
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Joseph Hecht, 'Asie (Asia) from the series Atlas', engraving, 1928, edition c. 50, Tonneau-Ryckelynck & Plumart 162. Signed and annotated 'epreuve definitive' (final proof) in pencil...
Category
1930s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Actor Portrait
By Utagawa Kunisada III
Located in New York, NY
Kunisada, Utagawa.
[Actor portrait.]
Japan, ca. 1855.
Original woodblock print.
Category
Mid-19th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
'Blue Eyes' — Erotic Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hans Bellmer, 'Blue Eyes', engraving and drypoint, edition 99, 1971. Flahutez 89. Signed and numbered '74/99' in pencil. A fine impression, on Arches cream wove paper; the full sheet...
Category
1960s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
Hotel du Pacha Noir (before lettering).
By Jules-Alexandre Grün
Located in New York, NY
Hotel Pachenoir, 1900. Color lithograph. On Linen 51 x36. ( Image Size: 48 x33 3/4.)
Jules-Alexandre Grünwas a French post-impressionist painter, poster artist, and illustrator. ......
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview E
By Leon Polk Smith
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U.S. as the state of Oklahoma, Smith’s parents, who were of Cherokee ancestry, raised him with both a strong sense of his heritage and an abiding respect for the land.
Art would eventually draw Smith to New York where he would quickly embrace elements of geometric abstraction in his work. Many of Smith’s hard-edge compositions could be viewed as distillations of imagery drawn from the Oklahoma landscape...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Beauty Otami - Kabuki
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Beauty Otami - Kabuki
Note: Kabuki actor Nakamura Matsue is in the role of courtesan otami. She is standing in front of a small tea shop in a garden.
Color woodblock, c. 1800-1810
Si...
Category
Early 1800s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Approaching Storm: Horsemen on Normandy Beach
By Albert Zavaro
Located in Chicago, IL
Oil on canvas
60.3 x 73 cm.; 23 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches
Signed lower right
Category
20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moon ( from the artist's Lunar Series)
By Ted Kincaid
Located in New Orleans, LA
An image from Kincaid lunar series. An edition of 10
Over the course of three decades, Ted Kincaid has systematically subverted the notion of an objective photographic record and examined the play between painting and photography. Kincaid has created multiple series...
Category
2010s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Film, Digital
'Girl and Cat' — 1930s Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Girl and Cat', lithograph, 1935, edition 33, Fine and Looney 121. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '5/33' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
View of the Ancient Structure built by Tarquinius Superbus called the Bel Lido
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
View of the Ancient Structure built by Tarquinius Superbus called the Bel Lido, and like others built by Marcus Agrippa in the time of Augustus when he cleaned all the sewers leading...
Category
1750s Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Eight Variations for Galerie Heiner Friedrich
By Fred Sandback
Located in New York, NY
Fred Sandback was a minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints. He majored in philosophy at Yale Universit...
Category
1970s Minimalist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Stars - 8 Pointed
By Sol LeWitt
Located in New York, NY
LeWitt has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide since 1965. A leading figure of the Conceptual and Minimalist movements, his prolific ...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Monoprint
NIGHT WINDOWS
By John Sloan
Located in Portland, ME
Sloan, John (American, 1871-1951). NIGHT WINDOWS. Morse 152. Etching and drypoint, 1910. The 5th state of 5. Edition of 100. Titled, signed, and inscribed...
Category
1910s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
MACHINES
By Jose Clemente Orozco
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO (Mexican, 1883-1949)
MACHINES, (aka Dos cabezas y Maquinas, Dos Cabezas, Maquinas) 1935 (Orozco 26)
Lithograph. Image 12 x 17 inches. Full margins, sheet 16 x 2...
Category
1930s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Rainy Night in Rome
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Rainy Night in Rome
Drypoint, 1913
Signed in pencil and titled in the lower margin by the artist
(see photo)
Provenance:
Kennedy Galleries, Stock # A6538
Reference; Doddgson 299 _/X
...
Category
1910s English School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
Stars - 4 Pointed
By Sol LeWitt
Located in New York, NY
LeWitt has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide since 1965. A leading figure of the Conceptual and Minimalist movements, his prolific ...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Monoprint
'Church with Star' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with Star (Kirche mit Stern)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W265. Annotated 'W 265' (Feininger catalogue number) and inventory no. '2808' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 inches; sheet size 10 1/16 x 7 1/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Une Fois Rien (Once Again / No Action)
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Christine Ravaux created Une Fois Rien which is signed by pencil. This impression is #12 of 30
Shades of blacks and grays on a fallen branch create a pleasing pattern contrasted wi...
Category
Early 2000s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
POEMS OF LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR
Located in Portland, ME
Senghor, Leopold Sedar. POEMS OF LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR with illustrations by Lois Maillou Jones. Limited Editions Club, NY, 1996. Number 88 of the e...
Category
1990s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
A DIAMOND HYPNOTIST - Le Diamant Magnetiseur
By Honoré Daumier
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HONORE DAUMIER (1808 - 1879)
LE DIAMANT MAGNETISEUR.....1859 (DR 3227 iii/iii: LD 3227)
Original lithograph 9 1/2 x 11 incl. text. Published in Le Chariv...
Category
1850s Barbizon School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Tropical Wash Day' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Tropical Wash Day', aquatint, edition 100, 1946. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy cream wove paper, with full...
Category
1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint
VALLEY OF THE TIBER
By Albany E. Howarth
Located in Portland, ME
Howarth, Albany. VALLEY OF THE TIBER. Etching, not dated. Edition size not known.
Signed in pencil lower right. 13 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (plate), 19 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches (sheet). In ex...
Category
Early 20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Roofs, Summer Night.
By John French Sloan
Located in Storrs, CT
Roofs, Summer Night. 1906. Etching. Morse catalog 137 state ii. 5 1/4 x 7 (sheet 9 1/2 x 12 1/8). Series: New York City Life. A fine impression on cream ...
Category
Early 1900s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
!6th c. VIEW OF FLORENCE
By Sebastian Münster
Located in Santa Monica, CA
SEBASTIAN MUNSTER (1488-1552)
FLORENCZ - -- FIGUR UND GELEGENHEIT DER EDLEN UND HOCH BERHÜMPTEN STATT FLORENTZ. . c 1550 (Fauser, #3925.)
Woodcut f...
Category
16th Century Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Formation (Male nude bodies are integral to Autumn foliage))
Located in New Orleans, LA
Formation is from a limited edition of 12. It is signed in pencil on back, Nude males are the falling leaves in this autumnal wonderland.
A new book on the artist will be published in Spring.
London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga...
Category
2010s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
C Print
Pyramus and Thisbe
By Augustus Edwin John
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pyramus and Thisbe
Etching, c.1906
Signed along bottom edge in pencil "Augustus E John"
Edition: 25
Reference: Dodgson 91 ii/II
Condition: Excellent
Plate: 5 1/8 x 4" (13.02 x 10.16 ...
Category
Early 1900s Young British Artists (YBA) International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Les années 1940 (Stephanie Seymour: La Passante du Siecle)
By Richard Avedon
Located in Houston, TX
Richard Avedon
Les années 1940 (Stephanie Seymour: La Passante du Siecle), 1997
Gelatin silver print
15 1/2 x 19 in (39.4 x 48.3 cm)
Edition of 4
JPHB 5683
Category
Late 20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Wave Warrior
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with metallic gold powder, Edition 25
Don Ed Hardy is a painter, printmaker and tattoo artist. Fascinated by tattoos since childhood, Hardy has become a master of...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Dark Vessel' — Mid-Century Modern
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Dark Vessel', color serigraph, 1952, edition 50, Ryan 51. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. A superb impression, with fresh colors, on c...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Printemps Breton
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Printemps Breton, 1926, drypoint, roulette, aquatint, etching; signed in pencil lower left and numbered lower right (37/50) with the imp inscription...
Category
1920s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Woman in a Field
By Henry Bacon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman in a Field (title unknown)
Oil on canvas, 1894
Signed and dated 1894, lower right corner
Unframed
A major exhibition work by this American Expatriate painter. Further research ...
Category
1890s Barbizon School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
Ormolu
By John Hoyland
Located in London, GB
John Hoyland
Ormolu
1972
Acrylic on canvas
183.5 x 137.5 cms (72 1/4 x 54 1/8 ins)
JH001
Provenance:
Andre Emmerich, New York
Christie's London, 1989
Acquired from the above
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Acrylic
After Echolocation #2
By Fred Tomaselli 1
Located in New York, NY
2000, Iris print on paper, 17 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches (45.1 x 33.7 cm), edition of 100, signed and numbered by the artist
Fred Tomaselli creates psychedelic works that explore human per...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Inkjet
'Dialogue Erudite' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Dialogue Erudite', color lithograph, 1945, edition 16. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '98' and '4/16' in pen. A fine, richly-inked impression with fresh colors, on heavy, off-white wove paper; full margins (1/2 to 1 1/4 inch), in excellent condition. Image size 20 1/2 x 14 3/8 inches; sheet size 22 1/2 x 17 inches. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus. He received his degree in architecture and design from the Armour Institute in Chicago and worked at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1924-27, where he was influenced by Harry Kurt Bieg and Le Corbusier. Upon his return to Chicago, Faro worked with the important modernist Chicago architects George and William Keck under Louis Sullivan.
Faro founded the avant-garde printmaking group Vanguard in 1945. The group counted Atelier 17 artists Stanley William Hayter, Sue Fuller...
Category
1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Sommeil (a sensuous nude woman sleeps on her side)
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
In this mezzotint, the sensual profile of a young nude woman is seen sleeping with her torso stretched out. The mezzotint is signed, titled and dated by the artist in pencil, from a...
Category
1990s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
STILL LIFE WITH LEEKS
By James Aponovich
Located in Portland, ME
Aponovich, James. STILL LIFE WITH LEEKS. Lithograph, not dated. Edition of 100, numbered 41/100, titled, and signed in pencil. 18 x 24 inches, plus margins. Margins appear somewhat t...
Category
20th Century American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Robot
By Mary Weatherford
Located in Houston, TX
Mary Weatherford
The Robot, 2018
Spit bite aquatint on gampi paper chine collé
35 1/4 x 28 1/2 in (89.5 x 72.4 cm)
Edition of 25
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint
Sea Gull
By Henrietta Shore
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRIETTA SHORE (1880 -1963)
SEA GULL c 1928
Lithograph, signed and titled in pencil and with the pencil cypher of printer Lynton Kistler (K). Image 7 x 6 1/8 full margins, sheet 12...
Category
1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Le monocycle (Performer on a Unicycle)
By Bernard Buffet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le monocycle (Performer on a Unicycle)
Color lithograph, 1968
Signed and numbered in pencil lower left corner
From the portfolio "Mon Cirque" (My Circus)
Edition: 120 (12/120)
Refere...
Category
1960s French School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Sportsmen
By Louis Legrand
Located in Storrs, CT
Sportsmen. 1908. Etching and drypoint. Exsteens 271.i/ii. 11 1/4 x 5 3/4 (sheet 17 3/8 x 12 1/4). Series: Les Bars. From the first state edition of 30 proofs with the remarque sketch...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
UNTITLED - SEATED WOMAN WITH TOGA
By Gerhard Marcks
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GERHARD MARCKS (1889 1981)
(SEATED WOMAN WITH TOGA) 1933. Graphite on wove paper, signed,
dated, 14 ¼” x 7”. Sheet 15” x 10”. S...
Category
1930s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Graphite
Plate 20 from "Formes et Couleurs"
Located in New York, NY
Plate 20 from "Formes et couleurs; vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs décoratifs" by Auguste H. Thomas. Paris: A. Levy, Librarie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, circa...
Category
1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Still Life — Mid-century Modern
By Charles Quest
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Still Life', 1947, wood engraving, edition 8. Signed, dated, and numbered '3/8' in pencil. Titled and annotated 'wood engraving' in the bottom left margin. A fine impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. 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 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 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 a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release 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 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’.
An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and 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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
French Landscape
Located in Storrs, CT
Brilliantly-colored oil on canvas depicting the French countryside, with "les flâneurs," (people strolling) along the bank of the river. The eye of the viewer follows the river past ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
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