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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Crushed Beetle / Fragile Series
By Lois Ward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lois Ward created a Fragile Series of images including "Crushed Beetle" in 1990 in a very small edition of just 9. This impression is #1 of 9.
Ward has always been concerned with t...
Category
1990s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
$105 Sale Price
30% Off
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
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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
$78 Sale Price
35% Off
Untitled (Plate 1) DLM
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 1) DLM
Color lithograph, 1963
Unsigned and unnumbered (as usual)
From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141
Published by A. Maeght, Paris
Image/sheet size: 14 7/8 x 11 inches...
Category
1960s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Girders (rainy night view of artist's former studio in Washington Heights
By Craig McPherson
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Griders" is Craig McPherson's rainy night scene showing the view from his former studio in Washington Heights in NYC. The image is the companion pi...
Category
1980s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Rainy Night in Rome.
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Storrs, CT
Rainy NIght in Rome.. 1913. Drypoint. Dodgson 299.x. 12 x 9 (sheet 16 x 11 1/4). Edition 125 in 10 states. A rich impression with burr and tonal wiping. Pr...
Category
1910s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
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
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Category
1910s English School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
Portrait of a resting young lady (Marjorie Organ)
By Robert Henri
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of a resting young lady (Marjorie Organ)
Black chalk on paper. c. 1907
signed in ink by Henri's nephew, John C. LeClair, the executor of the Henri estate
"Robert Henri JLC"
Note: The sitter for this portrait is depicted in two drawings of similar size, illustrated in Chapellier Galleries Inc., Robert Henri 1865-1929, 1976, nos. 15 & 16.
Please see the attached photo of Marjorie Organ, Henri's second wife
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 10 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
John C. LeClair, Estate Adminitrator
Private Collection, Pawling, New York
Biography
Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 24, 1865, the son of a professional gambler and real estate developer. The family lived in Nebraska and Colorado, but fled east when the father shot and killed a rancher over a land dispute and was indicted for manslaughter. They changed their last name because of the ensuing scandal and eventually settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the early 1880s.
In 1886 Henri enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz, Thomas Hovenden...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Graphite
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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Photogravure
Tourists — vintage drawing, original 'Superman' artist
By Leonard Nowak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leonard Nowak, 'Tourists', conté crayon and India ink, c. 1940s. Signed in ink, lower left. Original cartoon drawing, on textured, off-white wove drawing...
Category
1940s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Conté, India Ink
February -- Orchid. (Nigatsu - Ranjo no saku).
By Shiko Munakata
Located in Storrs, CT
February -- Orchid. (Nigatsu - Ranjo no saku). 1956. Woodcut with hand-applied color from the verso. Kodansha vol.9 No. 125. 17 x 13 (sheet 18 1/4 x 21 1/2). Series: Calender in the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
$6,500 Sale Price
35% Off
Interior with Red Shawl (Young woman reads in this calm Vermeer-like interior)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Interior with a red shawl conveys a quite different mood and feeling: one of calm, and suspension of time. Here the suggestion is that the woman is waiting ...
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Nude drawing (Nude on her haunches draws ) - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
A nude woman squats on her haunches as she draws an image on a sheet of paper. Jos...
Category
1960s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Thames from Waterloo.
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in Storrs, CT
The Thames from Waterloo Bridge. 1913. Etching. Dickins 12. 3 3/4 x 7 1/16 (sheet 7 x 10 15/16). Edition 100. A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream-wove paper. Signed in pencil.
Architectural draughtsman, etcher. Born in Lustdorf, near Odessa, Russia, to a British father and Russian mother. Traveled extensively with his family before studying architecture in St Petersburg, with further studies at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Atelier Redan, Paris. Practiced architecture in Moscow and was co-designer of the Metropole Hotel, in 1898. Moved to London in 1907 and was employed as an architectural perspectivist. After a sponsored visit to Rome and Venice he had a solo exhibit at the Fine Art Society, 1912, 'Watercolours of London and Venice'; followed by a further four shows. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers..., and Connell & Sons. His etchings were published in London by H C Dickens,1913-24, and a folio of his work 'Architectural watercolors and etchings of William Walcot' was published, in 1919. Elected RE, 1920; FRIBA, 1922; Associate British School at Rome. A foremost architectural draughtsman, he worked from studios in London, Oxford and Rome.
The complete set of The Arteries of Great Britain includes: The Thames, The Tyne, The Forth, The Clyde, The Mersey. Signed in pencil .Housed in a 16 x 20 inch mat suitable for framing.
Opened in 1890, the Forth Bridge...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
Pisces-The Fish
By Eugène Grasset
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pisces
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 published
...
Category
1880s Art Nouveau 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
END OF THE DAY
By Robert Gwathmey
Located in Portland, ME
Gwathmey, Robert (American, 1903-1988). END OF THE DAY. Williams 4.
Screenprint in colors, 1944.
Edition size not known. Signed in ink, lower right, within the image.
12 1/4 x 14 ...
Category
1940s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
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 caba...
Category
Late 19th Century French School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Ink
'Interim' from the series 'Graphic Tectonics' —Mid-Century Geometric Abstraction
By Josef Albers
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Josef Albers, 'Interim' from the series 'Graphic Tectonics', zinc plate lithograph, 1942, edition 30, Danilowitz 101. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '3/30' in pencil. A fine imp...
Category
1940s Abstract Geometric International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
El Vergonzoso (Plate 54) (Los Caprichos Series)
By Francisco Goya
Located in London, GB
Francisco Jose Goya Y Lucientes
El Vergonzoso (Plate 54)
(Los Caprichos Series)
1799
Etching with aquatint
31.5 x 20.5 cms (12.4 x 8.1 ins)
Category
Late 18th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
POLSTER (The Cushion)
By Max Kurzweil
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAXIMILLIAN KURZWEIL (Austrian 1867-1916)
DER POLSTER / THE CUSHION, 1903. Color woodcut printed on laid japon paper, affixed as usual to a support sheet from its upper sheet edge...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
'Skyline from Jersey Heights' — 1930s Modernism
By Adriaan Lubbers
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Adriaan Lubbers, 'Skyline from Jersey Heights', lithograph, 1930, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '4/XXV' in pencil. Dated 'Paris 1930' in pencil. A fine impression, on crea...
Category
1930s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Les Laveuses, 2e Pensee (The Washerwoman)
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Laveuses, 2e Pensee (The Washerwomen)
Lithograph, c. 1910
Unsigned (as issued)
Edition: c.30-50 impressions
Condition: Rust spot, associated with pape...
Category
1910s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lux Aeterna I (Eternal Light -The Requiem/ copters hover over fearful refugees)
By Ana Maria Pacheco
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ana Maria Pacheco portrays the fear and feelings of the displacement of refugees cowering beneath helicopters overhead. The title of the work refers ...
Category
1990s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
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
"The Caissons Go Rolling Along".
By Kerr Eby
Located in Storrs, CT
"The Caissons Go Rolling Along". 1929. Etching and sandpaper ground. Giardina 145. 17 3/8 x 9 1/2 (sheet 18 3/4 x 11 1/2). Edition 90. Slight mat line, otherwise find condition. A ri...
Category
1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
28% Off
FROZEN CUSTARD and STUDY FOR FROZEN CUSTARD
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. FROZEN CUSTARD. S.183. Etching and engraving, 1939. Second State of two. Edition of only 18, printed by Marsh and signed and titled in pencil. 7 x 10 inches, 178 x 2...
Category
1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Ink, Engraving, Etching
Chelsea Old Church, London
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in Storrs, CT
Chelsea Old Church. 1924. Etching, drypoint, and aquatint. Dickins 94. 5 3/8 x 8 (sheet 8 1/2 x 9 3/4). Edition 100 for The Print Collector's Club. A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream wove paper. Signed and dedicated "W.R. Button from W. Walcot London 1930" in pencil.
Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England. Inside the Grade I listed building, there is seating for 400 people. There is a memorial plaque to the author Henry James (1843–1916) who lived nearby on Cheyne Walk. To the west of the church is a small public garden containing a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein.
When he was seventeen,William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel Metropole...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
'Search' — Australian Romanticism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Balfour Garrett, 'Search', monotype in colors, c. 1910, a unique impression. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, painterly impression with fresh colors on off-white, wove p...
Category
1910s Romantic International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Monotype
CALIFORNIA VISTA
By Harold Lukens Doolittle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD L. DOOLITTLE (1883 – 1974)
CALIFORNIA VISTA, 1923
Aquatint signed and titled in pencil. 8 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches. Sheet 11 x 14 inches. Good condi...
Category
1920s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint
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. ...
Category
1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled, from 25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Offset lithograph, circa 1954, on wove paper, with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Warhol Foundation ink stamps on the reverse, 49.1 x 34.2 cm. (19¼ x 13½ in.) From the '25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy' series.
25 cats name[d] Sam, and One Blue Pussy, circa 1954, was one of Warhol’s first illustrated bound books. Produced with Seymour Berlin of Record Offset Corporation in New York, and written by Charles Lionsby, Warhol illustrated 25 cats name[d] Sam, and One Blue Pussy with sixteen drawings of cats...
Category
1950s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
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The Dole Map of the Hawaiian Islands.
Located in New York, NY
Original color lithograph. Honolulu. Hawaiian Pineapple Company, 1950.
Category
1950s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Study for a Decoration (Marguérite).
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Study for a Decoration (Marguérite). 1926. Etching. Fletcher catalog 46 state ii/iii. 6 7/8 x 5 (sheet 11 3/16 x 9 1/16). 5 proofs in this state (total 76 proofs). Illustrated: Salam...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
The Garden of Love (after Peter Paul Rubens [1577-1640]
By Christoffel Jegher
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Garden of Love (after Peter Paul Rubens [1577-1640])
Woodcut diptych, c. 1633-1636
Each of the two sheets is signed in the plate lower right
A posthumous impression with tiny wor...
Category
17th Century Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
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'Fantasia Americana, 1880' — Mid-Century American Surrealism
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches.
Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
Category
1940s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'African Idol' — Mid-Century African-American artist
By Charles Elmer Harris
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (African Idol), watercolor, c. 1950s. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '570' in ink. A fine, spontaneous wat...
Category
1950s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
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
Assembly (Dogpile for Duccio)
By Matt Kleberg
Located in Houston, TX
Matt Kleberg
Assembly (Dogpile for Duccio), 2024
Carborundum relief print on joined sheets
36 1/2 x 50 in (92.7 x 127 cm)
Edition of 8
Co-published by Farrington Press and Josh Paz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color
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
Study of Lucie (Ralph) Belin seated in an interior
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of Lucie (Ralph) Belin seated in an interior
Graphite on paper, 1915
Signed with the estate stamp, Lugt 909b, the stamp faded from blue to brown (see photo)
Provenance:
Neffe-D...
Category
1910s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Graphite
Horses Leaving the Barn
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Horses Leaving the Barn
Watercolor on paper, 1940
Signed and dated lower left corner (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 14 1/2 x 21”
Frame: 25” x 31”
Provenance; Associated American Artists, New York (see photo of label)
Mamdouha and Elmer Holmes Bobst
Displayed in an original wormy chestnut frame with OP3 Acrylic. Most probably from the AAA Dehn watercolor exhibition of 1940. Vintage original framing chosen by the artist.
Note: Elmer Holmes Bobst (1884–1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who worked in the pharmaceutical industry. His wife, Mamdouha, was also well known philanthropist.
Bobst was born in Lititz, Pennsylvania. He aspired to become a doctor, but instead, he taught himself pharmacology. After his wife Ethel composed his interview letter, he became manager and treasurer of the Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Works by 1920. When Bobst retired from the company in 1944, he was one of the nation's highest paid corporate executives. In 1945 he took charge of the ailing William Warner Company (later Warner–Lambert) and he remained board chairman until his retirement.
Bobst had close connections to President Dwight Eisenhower, but was also a close friend of President Richard Nixon.
Note: In 1940, the year of this watercolor, Dehn and Elizabeth Timmerman visited Waterville, MN on their way to Colorado Sprint, Colorado where Dehn was to teach lithography and watercolor. This watercolor is obviously a view of the area around Waterville.
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...
Category
1940s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
'Verdi' — American Modernism - Italian Opera Composer
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Verdi', wood engraving, 1936, edition 60, (only 14 printed), Wien 188. Signed, titled, and numbered '10/60' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream, laid Japan paper, ...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Dancer (Anaïs).
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
The Dancer (Anaïs). 1925. Etching. Fletcher catalog 52 state viii. 9 3/4 x 6 1/16 (Sheet 14 1/4 x 10 1/2). Edition 107. An extremely rich proof printed on cream 'MADE IN ENGLAND' ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
'Westminster Abbey' — Royal Church, London
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Westminster Abbey', etching, edition not stated, 1927. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-i...
Category
1920s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Elegy Study
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Twinrocker handmade paper
1979
64.1 x 95.3 cm (25 1/4 x 37 1/2 inches)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Chez Madame Dupont
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
Chez Madame Dupont. 1931-32. Drypoint. Appleby 158. 8 3/16 x 11 3/4 ( 11 1/8 x 18 1/3). Edition 100, #75. A fine impression on pale cream-colored laid paper, printed on the full shee...
Category
1930s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,000 Sale Price
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Zephyr - Ceramic
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
Archival giclée print
Edition of 70, Set of 8
Paper size: 57.2 x 56 cms (22 1/2 x 22 ins)
Image size: 40 x 40 cms (15 3/4 x 15 3/4 ins)
Starting from a belief that all forms, and li...
Category
2010s Other Art Style International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Giclée
Black Cat
By Walasse Ting
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Black Cat
Color lithograph, 1981
Signed in pencil lower right
Annotated: AP (Artist Proof)
Printer: Jorge Dumas, Atelier Dumas, New York
Condition: Very fresh colors
Slight creasing ...
Category
1980s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Kanani (Hawaii)— 1940s Polynesian Portrait
By John Melville Kelly 1
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Melville Kelly, 'Kanani (Hawaii)', drypoint, 1946. Signed, titled and annotated 'No 36' in pencil. A superb impression, in dark brown ink, on ...
Category
1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
Mayan Trio
By Francisco Dosamantes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mayan Trio
Lithograph, 1950
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition 250 for Associated American Artists
Publsihed 1950
Reference: AAA Cat.: 1950‑05; 1958‑01
AAA Index 1087
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 x 9 1/2 inches
Francisco Dosamantes (b. October 4, 1911 - d. July 18.1986) was a Mexican artist and educator who is best known for is educational illustrations and graphic work against fascism. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Life
Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. He was not registered into the civil registry until he was about twenty years old on March 6, 1939. His mother’s name is not listed on the certificate. As a child, he demonstrated a strong interest in drawing and color, influenced by his father and his uncle Juan. The Mexican Revolution occurred while he was a young child and he stated that he remembered events such as soldiers on horses charging as well as the execution of rural farm workers.
He attended primary and high school in Mexico City but stated that his education was irregular and deficient. He then entered the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, where he studied for five years. Initially, however, he was disappointed with the inexperience of the young professors and he left for a short time to study on his own. During this time, some of the dissatisfied professors organized the 30 30 group against the academic system of the school and which whom he sympathized. The effort gained the attention of established artists such as Diego Rivera who intervened.
He died on Mexico City on July 18, 1986
Career
After he graduated, he worked with the cultural missions of the Secretaría de Educación Pública in Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Colima, Coahuila and Chihuahua (state) from 1932 to 1937 then again from 1941 to 1945. He stated that this experience was vital to his conscience as he worked with rural farm workers and others he stated were worthy of dignity and respect, but victims of deceit and exploitation. When he returned to Mexico City, he gave classes in high schools from 1937 to 1941. In 1945 he founded and directed the Taller Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura “Joaquín Claussell” in Campeche, Campeche.
Dosamantes was a politically and culturally active artist with most of his work and affiliations related to such. He was a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios from 1934 to 1938. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, serving as administrator in 1940 and remaining a member until his death except for one short hiatus. He created posters for conferences about fascism and Nazism such as Alemania bajo bayonetas (Germany under bayonets) in 1938. In 1940 he became the secretary general of the Sindicato de Maestros de Artes Plásticas. He was also a member of the Sociedad para el Impulso de las Artes Plásticas en 1948, a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1949 and a member of the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas from 1952.
He painted a number of murals in rural areas of Mexico generally when he was there on cultural missions. His main mural is at the former home of José María Morelos in Carácuaro, Michoacán, but there are a number at various rural schools. These were all painted between 1941 and 1946.
As a book illustrator he mostly worked for the Secretaría de Educación Pública working on books for literacy campaigns.
He exhibited his works, which included engravings, oils, tempuras and lithographs in Mexico and abroad. His first individual exhibition was in 1930 at the Galeria de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. His major exhibitions include the Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1932, various exhibitions in New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in 1937; the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Missouri in late 1947, and the Gallery of Mexican Art in...
Category
1950s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
View of Venice II - Bacino
By Antonio Frasconi
Located in New York, NY
Antonio Frasconi created the color woodcut entitled "View of Venice II – Bacino" in 1968. It is signed, titled, dated, and inscribed “13/18” in pencil. The paper size is 24 x 36 inch...
Category
1960s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Composition in Red
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Composition in Red
c. 1960
Gouache on paper
52.5 x 24.5 cms (20 11/16 x 9 11/16 ins)
SF14434
$125,000
Exhibited:
Bernard Jacobson Gall...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Gouache
'The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City '— American Expressionism
By Frederick K. Detwiller
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Frederick K. Detwiller, 'The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City', lithograph, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Lith 20' in pencil. Inscribed 'To my Friend Herbert L. Jones' in pencil. Signed and dated, in the stone, lower right; initialed and dated '1927' in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with margins (7/8 to 1 1/4 inches); slight toning in the top left sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.
Image size 20 1/2 x 14 inches (521 x 356 mm); sheet size 22 1/2 x 16 inches (572 x 406 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
The Sixth Avenue El was constructed in the late 1870s by the Gilbert Elevated Railway and reorganized as the Metropolitan Elevated Railway. By 1878, it was running from Rector Street to 58th Street. Soon after that, it was taken over by the Manhattan Railway Company, with three other Manhattan elevated train lines. The company built a connection, the ‘spur’ by which it turned west on 53rd Street to merge with the 9th Avenue El—paralleling the present-day route of the 6th Avenue subway.
The Sixth Avenue El served the “Ladies Mile” shops (including the Siegel-Cooper emporium, whose building now houses Bed...
Category
1920s Ashcan School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1850s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Cosca II “VP 100”
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cosca II “VP 100”
Screen print, 1982
Signed and numbered by the artist (see photo of signature)
Edition: 325 plus 65 Vasarely Foundation (127/325)
Editor: no editor/publisher is prov...
Category
1980s Op Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled (SF64-121)
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled (SF64-121)
1964
Gouache and oil on paper
69.9 x 104.4 cms (27 1/2 x 41 1/8 ins)
SF14605
Exhibited:
New York, 'Chamberlain/Francis', Van Doren Waxter, July 11- ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Gouache
Academic Nude Study
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Academic Nude Study by E. Rantz
Charcoal on laid paper signed in charcoal
Lalanne Watermark, c. 1880-1900
Image: 24 3/4 x 18 3/4"
Category
Early 1900s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Charcoal
