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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Toilet
By Eric Gill
Located in Storrs, CT
Toilet. (After a drawing by Norval Gray.) 1923. Wood engraving on sycamore, end grain. Physick 256. 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 (sheet 5 5/8 x 4 1/8). Proof printed on sturdy Japanese mulberry lai...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut, Engraving
SEA TREASURES
By Frances H. Gearhart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART and Sisters (THE GEARHARTS)
SEA TREASURES...
Category
1920s American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Drunkard in Spring —after Gustav Mahler's 'The Song of the Earth'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Paunzen, 'Der Trunkene im Frühling' (The Drunkard in Spring) from the suite 'Song of the Earth', etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1920. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/4 to 4 1/4 inches), in good condition. Image size 12 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches; sheet size 19 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Pauzen’s suite of six etchings 'Das Lied von der Erde' (The Song of the Earth), published in 1920, was inspired by Gustav Mahler...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
DER SCHATTEN II
By Hermann Max Pechstein
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAX PECHSTEIN (1881 -1955)
DER SCHATTEN II 1918 (Knupp 79, Fecher 143 I/ii)
Rich drypoint, signed and annotated, FIRST STATE. Image: 8 1/4 x 6 inches on japan paper; 15 x 11 1/4 i...
Category
1910s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
Parachute Class
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Parachute Class
Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Profile of an African Woman)
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, 'Untitled (Profile of a Black Woman)', lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 14 in pencil. Number 14 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publishe...
Category
1920s Art Deco International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Figure Composition
By Martin Shortis
Located in Storrs, CT
Figures Composition. 1984. Etching and drypoint. 6 1/2 x 5. Three states, two artist's proofs. Each printed on cream wove paper. Each titled, dated, and signed 'Shortis N[ew] Y[ork]'...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Le Couple
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Le Couple, 1951, drypoint on chine volant, signed lower right margin and numbered (5/XI) lower left margin. References: Bloch 690,...
Category
1950s Cubist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
'Soaring New York' — 1930s American Modernism, New York City
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Soaring New York', aquatint, soft-ground etching, roulette, 1931-32, edition 25, Duffy 165. Signed, dated, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmosp...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
PERSONNAGE VIRTUEL
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Portland, ME
Hayter, Stanley William. PERSONNAGE VIRTUEL. BM182. Engraving,
soft-ground etching and scorper, 1947. Edition of 70, signed, dated,
and numbered 42/70, all in pencil. 11 3/4 x 8 7/8...
Category
1940s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
'Child Reaching' — 1940s American Modernism
By Will Barnet
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Will barnet, 'Child Reaching', woodcut, 1940, edition 25, Cole 82. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, black impression, on fibrous Japan paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 3/4 inch...
Category
1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Wild Garden
By Robert Kushner
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph/diptych, Edition 25.
The artist describes this project:
Two years ago, I had the very good fortune to be invited to paint in the South of France. My studio was an ...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bon Fire Night Circle (13 totally nude men arrayed in a circle in the desert)
Located in New Orleans, LA
13 nude guys form a circle in the desert. This is number 1 from a limited edition of 12. The work is signed on the back. A book of the artists work will be published in early Spring
London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga...
Category
2010s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
C Print
Arlecchino in blu e grigio (Harlequin in Blue and Gray)
By Duilio Barnabe
Located in Chicago, IL
This work is signed by Barnabè in the lower right. Harlequins were one of Barnabè's favorite subjects, reminders of the costumed revellers at the famous Carnival of Venice celebrated...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Charcoal, Gouache
Balustrade Vase C
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype collage/woodcut.
Since 1985, Woodman collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark to produce monotypes, woodcuts and lithographs with the same inventiveness and exubera...
Category
1990s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Monotype
The Solitary One in Autumn—after Gustav Mahler's 'The Song of the Earth'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Paunzen, 'Der Einsame im Herbst' (The Solitary One in Autumn) from the suite 'Song of the Earth', etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1920. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 3/8 to 4 1/8 inches), in good condition. Image size 12 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches; sheet size 19 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Pauzen’s suite of six etchings 'Das Lied von der Erde' (The Song of the Earth), published in 1920, was inspired by Gustav Mahler...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
'European Landscape' —Mid-century American Surrealism
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'European Landscape', drypoint, edition 50, 1942. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '7/50' in pencil. A superb, finely nuanced impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/4 inches); in excellent condition.
Image size 10 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
An impression of this work is included in the permanent collection of the Syracuse University Art Museum.
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
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
SITUATION
By Katsunori Hamanishi
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KATSUNORI HAMANISHI (b.1949)
SITUATION X (S. 32) Mezzotint Signed, titled and numbered 6/90 in pencil.
13 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches, sheet 18 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches. Excellent condition.
She...
Category
1980s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
VEDUTA DEGLI AVANZI De’MAUSOLEI E DELLE FABBRICHE…...
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (Italian 1720-1778)
VEDUTA DEGLI AVANZI De’MAUSOLEI E DELLE FABBRICHE…c 1756 (Hind 83; Focillon 20.A.293; Giesecke 116; Wilton-E...
Category
1750s Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Foggy Night (the way home or a Stephen King setting)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is #22
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mez...
Category
2010s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Untitled V (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Golden Parachute
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Golden Parachute
Color aquatint and gold leaf.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
White Monday
By Martin Lewis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in the plate lower left
Note: Printed on September 26, 1980 in an edition of 4 restrikes.
Reference: Paul McCarron, The Prints of Martin Lewis: A Catalogue Raisonne (Bro...
Category
1970s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
The Scalby Suite - Towards 2023
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
Etching, aquatint and embossing with hand colouring in watercolour on paper
Plate size: 39.5 x 39.5 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins)
Paper size: 58 x 58 cms (22 3/4 x 22 3/4 ins)
Category
2010s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Expressionist Abstraction — Hawaiian Artist
By Tetsuo Ochikubo
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Tetsuo "Bob" Ochikubo, 'Untitled (Abstract Expressionist Composition)', color lithograph, 1963, edition 3. Signed, dated, and numbered '3-3' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (5/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Very scarce. Image size 17 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches; sheet size 19 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tetsuo Ochikubo (1923–1975), also known as Bob Ochikubo, was a Japanese-American painter and printmaker who was born in Waipahu, Hawaii. After service in the US Army as an infantryman in Europe during World War II, Ochikubo studied painting and design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. He worked at the renowned lithography workshop Tamarind Institute in the 1960s and is best known for his non-objective paintings and lithographs.
Ochikubo was a member of the Metcalf Chateau, a group of seven Asian-American artists with ties to Honolulu which included Satoru Abe...
Category
1960s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Autumn Landscape — 1940s Post-Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Henri Pierre Fortier, Untitled (Autumn Landscape), gouache, c. 1940s. Signed in ink. Inscribed 'To my Friend CLINTON R. MULFORD'. A fine, painterly watercolor, with rich, layered colors, on heavy dark brown drawing paper with approximately 1/4 inch margins; an unfinished figurative sketch...
Category
1940s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Gouache
THE RUG WEAVER
By Gustave Baumann
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GUSTAVE BAUMANN (1881 – 1971)
THE RUG WEAVER, 1910 (Chamberlain 26)
Color woodcut signed in pencil. Unnumbed from an edition 100 as published in the Hills o’ Brown...
Category
1910s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Morning Walk. [Central Park.]
By Harold Altman
Located in New York, NY
Signed and titled in pencil. Inscribed "192/285." Edition 285.
Category
1980s Naturalistic International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
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(PHILOSOPHER READING)
By Ferdinand Bol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Circle of or a follower of Ferdinand Bol - (1616-1680)
(PHILOSOPHER READING) ca 1700
Etching on thin laid paper attached to support sheet at the top sh...
Category
18th Century Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
'The Start of the Race' — America's Cup, 1899
By Jacques La Grange
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jacques La Grange, 'The Start of the Race, 1899', color woodcut, edition 500, 1934. Signed and numbered '21/500' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper,...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway
By Jared French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway
Graphite on cream wove paper, c. 1960
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
A master of ...
Category
1960s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Graphite
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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Graphite
The Chase Is On
By Gordon Phillips
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Gordon Phillips, 'The Chase Is On', graphite, c. 1980. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, spontaneous rendering, on white, wove bristol, the full she...
Category
20th Century Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Graphite
'The Deluge' from 'The Temple of the Muses' — 18th Century Engraving
By Bernard Picart
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Picart, 'The Deluge' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate and dated
'1730' lower left. Titled in French, English, German, and Dutch. A superb...
Category
1730s Baroque International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
#90 Strange Creature
By Norbert Lenz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
#90 Strange Creature
Oil and pencil on board, 1932
Signed and dated in the image lower right (see photo)
Provenance:
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, OH
Condition: excellent
Archival framing
Image size: 10 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches
Frame size: 25 x 24 inches
Painter, illustrator and commercial artist Norbert Lenz was born in Norwalk, Ohio and received his artistic training at both the Huntington Polytechnic Institute and the Cleveland School of Art. During his career Lenz exhibited his paintings and drawings at such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art. Today the art of Norbert Lenz is held by the Columbus Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art.
Lenz was also a very highly regarded commercial designer of stamps. He worked for a number
of years at the House of Farman, a leading vendor of first day covers...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
1880s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
Of Youth —after Gustav Mahler's 'The Song of the Earth'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Paunzen, 'Von der Jugend' (Of Youth) from the suite 'Song of the Earth', etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1920. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/4 to 4 1/4 inches), in good condition. Image size 12 1/4 x 9 1/16 inches; sheet size 19 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Pauzen’s suite of six etchings 'Das Lied von der Erde' (The Song of the Earth), published in 1920, was inspired by Gustav Mahler...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
Untitled IV (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
'Peking - Paifang Gate' — Mid-Century Watanabe Color Woodcut
By Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge, 'Peking '25', woodblock print, published 1926. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'No 124' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh, undiminished colors; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Watanabe 6 mm seal, lower right, indicating an impression printed between 1945 and 1957. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 9 5/8 x 14 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 7/16 x 15 3/8 inches.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
A 'paifang', also known as a 'pailou', is a traditional style of Chinese architectural arch or gateway structure. It has been theorized that the paifang gate architecture was influenced by Buddhist torana temple gates. Paifang are designed with traditional Chinese architectural motifs including multi-tiered roofs, prominent supporting posts, and gracefully arched openings.
This is an unusual ukiyo-e or 'floating world' woodcut published by Watanabe Shozaburo, Tokyo, in that the subject is of an early 20th-century scene in Peking, China.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cyrus Leroy Baldridge...
Category
1920s Showa International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled III (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Bright Beach
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Bright Beach
Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled VI (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled I (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled II (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
421 Nights: Reach (Silos on Highway 421)
By Donald Furst
Located in New Orleans, LA
Donald Furst has created a series of 10 mezzotints based on Highway 421. U.S. Route 421 is a spur route of U.S. 21. It runs for 941 miles from Fort Fisher, North Carolina south of Wilmington to Michigan City, Indiana at U.S. 20. This image, "421 Nights: Reach", shows the reach of some storage tanks. This impression is #10 from an edition of just 30.
A member of the faculty since 1985, Donald Furst is Professor of Art and former chair (2002-2009) of the UNCW Department of Art and Art History. He has received the following recognitions for teaching: University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1999; University Distinguished Professorship, UNCW, 1996-98; Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award, UNCW, 1996; College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching, UNCW, 1992.
Furst currently operates Ars Longa...
Category
1990s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Hagoromo - Noh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Matsuno Sofu (1899-1963), 'Hagoromo - Noh', woodblock print, 1937. Signed 'Sofu' with the artist's seal, lower right. A fine impression, with fresh color...
Category
1930s Showa International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
La Receveuse (Bill Collector) —French Cubism
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jean-Emile Laboureur, 'La Receveuse', engraving, 1919, edition 8, first state of two (artist's proof). Laboureur, Godefroy 190.
Signed and numbered '3/8 ép' in pencil. Initialed and...
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1910s Cubist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Spring — American Modernism
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'Spring', color woodcut, edition 50, c. 1925. Signed, titled and numbered '4/50' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on ...
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1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Ink
A Burial at Sea
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with collage, Edition 20.
The artist describes this project:
"My recent collaboration with Bud Shark resulted in three images based on classic sailing...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Girl with Hands to Face' — Mid-century Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Girl with Hands to Face', two-color lithograph, 1940, edition 30, Fine and Looney 180. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 30' in pencil. A superb impression, on cr...
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1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Church with Houses' — Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with Houses' also 'Tree and Star' ('Kirche mit Hausern', 'Baum und Stern'), woodcut, 1933, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W275. Annotated 'W 275' (Feininger catalogue number) and inventory number '3033' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, laid letterhead paper, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 7/16 x 2 5/8 inches; sheet size 10 x 6 7/8 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
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...
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1930s Bauhaus International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Ciel Gris II (Grey Sky II)
By (after) Georges Braque
Located in Storrs, CT
Ciel Gris. 1959. Lithograph printed in colors. Vallier, Dora. Braque. The Complete Graphics, London 1988, page 294, No. 1033. 9 x 3 3/8 (sheet 15 x 10 3/4). One of about 3000 imp...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
'Garyu no sakura' (The Lying Dragon Cherry Tree, Gifu) — Contemporary Japanese
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hajime Namiki, 'Garyu no sakura (The Lying Dragon Cherry Tree, Gifu)', color woodcut, 2003, edition 200. Signed in pencil and with the artist’s red seal....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Wild Pilgrimage, No. 26
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Wild Pilgrimage', No. 26, wood engraving, 1932, edition not stated but very small. Signed in pencil. A fine, black impression, with full margins (1 1/16 to 3 3/16 inches), on tissue-thin cream Japan paper, in very good condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Created by Lynd Ward for his narrative book of illustrations without words, 'Wild Pilgrimage', published by Harrison Smith...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
