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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Navajo Thunderbird Silversmith
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Navajo Thunderbird Silversmith
Signed in ink, titled in pencil
Dimensions: 42 1/4 x 23 inches
Mixed media on paper
Provenance: Acquired from the art...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled. Form in Space.
By Werner Drewes
Located in New York, NY
Pencil drawing on paper from 1944. Signed and dated with cypher. Paper size 4 x 6" (10 x 15.1 cm).
Werner Drewes (1899-1985), painter, printmaker, educator and lecturer, was...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Pencil
Tokyo Tower in Shiba
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Tokyo Tower in Shiba
Color woodblock, 1960
Signed and sealed lower right
Signed with the artist's name:" Keimei" (see photo)
Signed with the artist's seal in red (see photo)
Publishe...
Category
1960s Other Art Style International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Montparnasse Street
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in New York, NY
Montparnasse Street– 1931, Etching
Duffy 128. Edition 50, only 25 printed. Signed, dated, and annotated imp and 50 in pencil.
Image size 4 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (124 x 251 mm); sh...
Category
1930s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
EAST RIVER SWIMMERS
By Cecil Crosley Bell
Located in Portland, ME
Bell, Cecil. EAST RIVER SWIMMERS. Lithograph, 1937. Edition of 20.
Signed and dated by the artist's widow. 10 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches, 260 x
375 mm. (image), 1...
Category
1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
La fortune fait oublier les amis
By Honoré Daumier
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-79),La fortune fait oublier les amis,lithograph, plate 31 from the series Caricaturana, published in Le Charivari in 1837; later in Alb...
Category
1830s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
EUCALYPTUS TREE
By Leon Bibel
Located in Portland, ME
Bibel, Leon (American, born Poland, 1912-1995). EUCALYPTUS TREE. Screenprint, 1938. Edition of 25. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 14/25, all in pencil, and also signed in the mat...
Category
1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
JONAH AND THE WHALE
By Ruth Starr Rose
Located in Portland, ME
Rose, Ruth Starr (American, 1887-1965). JONAH AND THE WHALE. Lithograph, 1936.
Edition size not known.
Titled, signed and dated in pencil. Printe...
Category
1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Letter
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
The Letter. 1921. Drypoint. Appleby 107. 7 x 9 3/8 (sheet 10 1/2 x 15 7/16). Edition 100. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1925; Salaman, Modern Masters of Etching: Edmund Blamp...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
28% Off
CAKE WALK DES PETITES FILLES
By Jacques Villon
Located in Portland, ME
Villon, Jacques. CAKE WALK DES PETITES FILLES. GP.102, second state of four. Drypoint and aquatint in colors, 1904. Edition of only 10 (there was an edition of 30 in state 4, with th...
Category
Early 1900s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Big Momma's Still Life #2
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Big Momma's Still Life #2
Oil pastel on rag paper, 2007
Signed by the artist lower left: "Sedrick Huckaby III" (see photo)
Sheet size: 16 x 12 1/8 inches
Frame: 28 x 24 inches
Exhibi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
Afternoon
By Arthur B. Davies
Located in New York, NY
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Afternoon, transfer lithograph, 1920, signed in pencil lower left. Reference: Czestochowski 188, only state, from the edition of 25 (another 300 unsigne...
Category
1920s American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Argosy
By John Buck
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut, Edition 15.
John Buck has an unusual approach to making woodcuts, creating the woodblocks like giant wooden puzzles. The pieces can be lifted out and inked in various colors, reassembled and printed simultaneously. Also unique is his method of incising the characteristic signs, symbols and images which surround a central figure. In "Argosy", a large glass jar...
Category
1990s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
$8,000
Fabric Design (Black and White)
By Lizzie Derriey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned as is usual
References:
Located at 136, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, the Lizzie Derriey Design Studio was active from 1928-1994. This creative co-operative, which emp...
Category
20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Gouache
Tartessians
By Arthur B. Davies
Located in New York, NY
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Tartessians, soft ground etching with aquatint, 1919-20, signed in pencil lower right. Reference: Czestochowski 96, second state (of 2), total printing ...
Category
1910s American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Sortie De Bal - After The Ball
By Armand Rassenfosse
Located in New York, NY
Rassenfosse, Armand.( 1862-1934) Sortie De Bal, 1894. Original drypoint in colors on Japan, initialled in red ink by artist with his monogram. Beautiful impression. In addition, the ...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Fabric Design
Gouache on paper, 1920-1935
Signed with the Atelier Stamp verso (see photo)
Numbered with the Atelier Litt Archive number verso
(see photo) No. 37365
...
Category
1930s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Gouache
Les Oignons de Siracuse
By Mario Avati
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Oignons de Siracuse
Mezzotint, 1961
Signed, titled & annotated Epreuve d'Artiste vii/X in pencil
Edition: Epreuve d'Artiste vii/X
Reference: Passeron 315
Condition: Mint
Image: ...
Category
1960s French School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Woman with Arms Crossed
By Byron Browne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Arms Crossed
Mixed media collage-painting on stone chip surface, mounted on fabric, mounted on wood support by the artist, 1955
Signed and dated lower center
Image size: 1...
Category
1950s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Other Medium
Celeste
By Italo Scanga
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
Italo Scanga was a painter, sculptor and printmaker. After a childhood spent in Italy, Scanga matured as an artist in his adopted home, the United St...
Category
1990s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Detention at the Border of Language
By Enrique Chagoya
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
The artist describes this project:
“In this work I defang the stereotypes of Native Americans depicted as primitive savages in the painting by Wimar. The mask and the Mayan head team up with a third character to form a fictitious, original, trans-continental Border Patrol. This work is a humorous reminder that all nations in the Americas were created by undocumented immigrants from Europe. Today, some politicians call refugees from Central America and other countries “illegal aliens” but for me they are no different from the Pilgrims or Daniel Boone...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Plate 2)
By Terry Haass
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 2)
Engraving, sugar-lift, and aquatint , 1970
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photo)
From: Variations (8 plates)
Edition: 100 (100/100) (see photo)
Printed by Lac...
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Acrylic and gold leaf collage on canvas, 2005
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 10 13/16 x 8 5/8 inches
Support Sheet size: 17 x 14 ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Acrylic
La butte de Montmartre et le Sacre-Couer (Sacre Coeur from a Distance)
By Robert Delaunay
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La butte de Montmartre et le Sacre-Couer (Sacre Coeur from a Distance)
Lithograph, 1926
From Joseph Delteil's "Allo, Paris," published by Quatre Chemins, Paris, 1926
Rare signed proo...
Category
1920s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Baggage Claim (Sketch #4)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From the series: Baggage Claim, inspired by the death of the artist's mother. The reference to "Baggage" is symbolic to all the emotion and weight one acumulates through life and ho...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Bucolique Moderne
By Auguste Louis Lepère
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bucolique Moderne
Color woodcut, 1901
Edition of 550 impressions on Holland paper (as here) and an edition of 200 impressions printed on Japan paper signed in pencil by the artist.
References And Exhibitions:
Published in Di Gesellschaft fur vervielfältigende Kunst à Vienne
Reference: Lotz Brissonneau 271 v/V
Illustrated: Musee D'Orsay, Auguste Lepere ou lerenouveau de bois grave, No. 20
Vital, Auguste Lepere 1849-1918, No. 171.
Illustrated:
Musee de le Vendee, no. 171 (see photo)
Musee D'Orsay, Auguste Lepere ou lerenouveau de bois grave, No. 20
Vital, Auguste Lepere 1849-1918, No. 171.
Auguste Louis Lepère...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
A NEW MAP OF THE WORLD from the Latest Observations.
By John Senex
Located in New York, NY
The title continues “…. Most Humbly Inscribd [sic] to his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales.”
A fine British produced double hemisphere world map. On this map, California is shown as an island on the main double hemisphere map...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Nature morte au bulbe d'ail
By Mario Avati
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nature morte au bulbe d'ail
Mezzotint, 1957
Signed, titled & numberred in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 50 (40/50)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 10 7/8 x 11 5/8 inches
Sheet: 14 7/8 x 1...
Category
1950s 85 New Wave International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Italian Cityscape
By Victoria Hutson Huntley
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Italian Cityscape
Pastel on Strathmore paper, 1968
Signed and dated lower right with the estate signature with the initials RH
Image size: 13 3/4 x 10 inches
Condition: Excellent
Pro...
Category
1960s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Pastel
untitled (Woman and Cat)
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned
Graphite on paper
Category
20th Century Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Graphite
Orchid and Bamboo (Sensu-e)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Japanese (mid 20th Century)
Unsigned wood cut with hand embellishments in gouache created for a Japanese folding fan.
Unsigned
Image size: 8 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches
Mounted on support sh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Gouache
UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A BOAT #2; LIKELY IN ITALY)
By William Thon
Located in Portland, ME
Thon, William (American, 1906-2000).; UNTITLED (DRAWING OF A BOAT #2; LIKELY IN ITALY). Ink and watercolor on paper. Not dated. Unsigned. 14 x 17 inches. In excellent condition. From...
Category
Mid-20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Ink
Bessie Smith - If You Don't Like My Peaches - Don't Shake My Tree
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bessie Smith - If You Don't Like My Peaches - Don't Shake My Tree
Collage, 1980
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled in pencil lower left
Original price verso '3,000' (see photo)
Provenance: Acquired from the artist
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, friend and patron of the artist
Condition: Very good
Usual minor condition issues (wrinkling) associated with the artist's creation process
Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002)
The artist’s own grandchildren attempt to fathom the real life and nature of Stephen Longstreet, prolific author, artist, screenplay writer, and jazz aficionado.
Born Chauncy Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener) in New York City in 1907, Longstreet reinvented himself on a regular basis. Changing his name first to “Henry,” then “Henri,” he started his career as a commercial artist for a department store. In various public biographies he claimed to have studied in New York, London, and Paris, and said he was a student of cartoonist Ralph Barton (1891-1931). Facts that can be documented are that he was art editor for Golfer and Sportsman magazines, and was a contributor to various other magazines including The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Life, and Hooey, among others. He wrote sketches for NBC radio and the Rudy Vallee Show.
In the 1930s, Longstreet worked and wrote under the names Thomas Burton, David Ormsbee, and Paul Haggard...
Category
1980s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Magazine Paper
Two Graters
By Tomoe Yokoi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and editioned in pencil by the artist
Edition: 150 (84/150)
Sheet: 19 3/4 x 26";
Image: 11 7/8 x 12 3/4"
Tomoe Yokoi (Born 1943)
Tomoe Yokoi was born in Nagoya, Japan i...
Category
1980s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Tapestry
By Freeman Baldridge
Located in Storrs, CT
Freeman Baldridge's depiction of "Tapestry," mixed media comprised of paint with fabric. Sight size measures 11 1/2 x 8 1/2; board measures 17 1/8 x...
Category
20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Ancient Landscape II (Ancient City)
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ancient Landscape II (Ancient City)
Etching and drypoint, 1953-1955
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist; (see photo)
Annotated: "E130 A/1" in pencil lower right
Estate stamp v...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Westminster Palace
By Félix Hilaire Buhot
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Westminster Palace
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint, roulette and salt ground lift
1884
Depicts the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben Clock and Tower and the...
Category
1880s French School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
[untitled] Street Scene with Fruit Vendor.
By Emilio Sanchez
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created [untitled] “STREET SCENE WITH FRUIT VENDOR” in circa 1950. This unsigned watercolor and came to us directly from the Sanchez estate. It is stamped on the verso "Estate of Emilio Sanchez." This piece is in good to very good condition and painted to the paper's edge. The paper size is 14.88 x 15.25 inches (37.6 x 38.6 cm).
“Best known for his architectural paintings and lithographs, Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) explored the effects of light and shadow to emphasize the abstract geometry of his subjects. His artwork encompasses his Cuban heritage...
Category
1950s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
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Young and Noble
Located in Storrs, CT
Oil on canvas board measures 12 x 9; frame dimensions measure 19 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 1. Artist's signature and date, '09, lower right. Weight is 3.6 pounds.
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
FONDAMENTA DEL TOLENTI
Located in Portland, ME
Bacher, Otto (American, 1856-1909. FONDAMENTA DEL TOLENTI.Andrews 28, State 2 of 2. Etching, 1880. Inscribed and signed "From yours truly Otto H. Bacher / Present state of Plate." Nu...
Category
1880s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
UNTITLED
By George Hoehn
Located in Portland, ME
Hoehn, George (American, 1935 - ?) UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Gouache on heavy wove paper, 1967. Signed and dated, lower right. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (image), 15 x 11 inches (sheet). In ex...
Category
1960s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Gouache
Jugentud (Youth)
By Jorge Dumas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jugentud (Youth)
Color lithograph, 1975
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 250 (67/250)
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Published by Circle Gallery Ltd...
Category
1970s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Flores Hechas de Cielo / Flowers Made out of Sky #1
By Ana Maria Hernando
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with cut-outs, Edition 30.
Words from the artist's poem:
Swelling inside the mud, blackness damp and robust,
flowers full of star’s yearning,
brimming under ange...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, ...
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, the taste of bitterness)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922
Unsigned as ...
Category
1920s French School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint
The Book of Ah!
By Julio de Diego
Located in Fairlawn, OH
String bound booklet (portfolio) with six hand colored woodcuts, signed in pencil by the artist, tipped in the book
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
By descent to his daughter Kir...
Category
1960s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Blue and Red Space
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blue and Red Space
Ilk Screen, 1971
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
editioned lower left (see photo)
Edition: 75 (75/75)
Sheet size: 22 1/8 x 29 7/8"
Image: 21-7/8 x 29-5/8"...
Category
1970s Op Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Two Boys (one standing, the other seated and drawing)
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Two Boys (one standing, the other seated and drawing)
Graphite and colored pencils on wove paper, 1975
Signed and dated lower left center (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Slight waviness visible only on reverse
Image size: 11 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 14 x 17 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
By descent
Mary Spain (Colie)
(1934-1983)
Mary Spain was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. She taught art in Chagrin Falls...
Category
1970s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color Pencil
Preliminary drawing for a sculpture
By Seymour Lipton
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for a sculpture
Black crayon on paper, 1959
Signed and dated middle right (see photo)
A rare 1950's AbEx drawing.
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Michael and Ala...
Category
1950s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Crayon
untitled (Peonies)
By Frederick Carl Gottwald
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Peonies)
Oil on artist's board, c. 1910-1920's
Signed by the artist in ink lower center (see photo)
Provenance:
Joseph Erdelac, Private Collector, Cleveland, acquired from ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
Flowering Tree -- Moonlight
By Karl Schrag
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist; The Print Club of Cleveland stamp lower left
Edition: 260
The Print Club of Cleveland Publication No. 69, 1991
Printer: Am...
Category
1990s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Shoe Box (D)
By Allen Jones
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Shoe Box (D)
Lithograph printed on BFK Rives
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
From: Shoe Box-Exotic (Sculpture and seven original li...
Category
1960s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gulf + Western Plaza
By Ida Applebroog
Located in New York, NY
Born in Bronx, NY, Ida Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellows...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
THE DOVE
By Doris Lee
Located in Portland, ME
Lee, Doris (American, 1905-1983). THE DOVE. Lithograph, 1952. Edition of 250 published by Associated American Artists. Signed in pencil. 11 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches...
Category
1950s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Kandahar
By Virginia Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Kandahar
Acrylic and mixed media on fabric, c. 1970
Signed by the artist lower right (see photo)
Kandahar is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country next to Pakistan. Inspired by the Dehns visit to Afghanistan in the 1960's.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Dehn Heirs
Condition: Excellent
Canvas size: 18 x 20 inches
Virginia Dehn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Dehn
Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe
Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Life
Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.
Early career
Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia and Adolf Dehn
The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work.
The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India.
Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies.
Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Acrylic
Black House
By Stevan Jennis
Located in New York, NY
Stevan Jennis has been interested in painting, drawing and sculpture since childhood. He was inspired by his father, who was an artist and Merchant Mariner. Born in Newark, New Jerse...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis / Mappe Monde
By Homann Heirs
Located in New York, NY
This map was printed from a copperplate engraving in 1746. The printed image size is 18.25 x 21.75 inches (46.3 x 55.2 cm) plus margins.
An attractive double hemisphere map...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
PLUM NELLIE - BEAR HUG
By Robert Reed
Located in Portland, ME
Reed, Robert (American, 1938-2014). PLUM NELLIE, BEAR HUG. Mixed media on paper, 1979. Titled, signed, dated, and further inscribed in the margin below the image. 22 1/2 x 34 1/2 inc...
Category
1970s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
The Pinks and the Blues
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Pinks and the Blues
Watercolor, pen and ink on paper, 1954
Signed and dated in ink lower left, titled in pencil verso.
Provenance: Gift of the Artist
Privat...
Category
1950s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait De Cezanne
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait De Cezanne
Lithograph, 1914
Unsigned (as issued in 1914)
Edition: Either 100 (per Roger Marx) or 400 impressions on various papers
Published in, Cezanne, Bernheim Jeune, 1914
Reference:
Roger-Marx 51 ii/II, printed in greenish-grey ink on laid paper
Condition: Excellent
Image: 9 1/2 x 9"
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 11 1/8"
Edouard Vuillard
French, 1868 - 1940
Vuillard's work straddles two centuries: he was a major post-impressionist in the 1890s, as well as a participant in the renewal of decorative art before and after 1900. Vuillard was one of the central figures of "Les Nabis...
Category
1910s French School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
STELLA PEREGRINA
By Franz Marc
Located in Portland, ME
Marc, Franz (German, 1880-1916).
STELLA PEREGRINA.
FranzHanffstaengl, Munich, 1917. Only edition.
Number 25 of the limited edition of 110.
Folio (18 x 13 inches), parchment-bac...
Category
1910s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color
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