Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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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Cover for "L'Estampe Moderne"
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cover for "L'Estampe Moderne"
Signed in the stone lower left (see photo)
Two color lithograph on greenish laid paper
L'Estampe Moderne appeared each month as a portfolio of 4 origina...
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1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Beauty Otami - Kabuki
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Beauty Otami - Kabuki
Note: Kabuki actor Nakamura Matsue is in the role of courtesan otami. She is standing in front of a small tea shop in a garden.
Color woodblock, c. 1800-1810
Si...
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Early 1800s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
YELLOW CALLA LILLIES
By Jim Dine
Located in Portland, ME
Dine, Jim (American, born 1935). YELLOW CALLA LILLIES. D'Oench and Feinberg 19. Etching, soft-ground, drypoint, photogravure and electric tools, with hand-...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
'Kaf With' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Kaf With', color lithograph, 1945, edition 15. Signed, dated, titled and numbered '84' and '6/15' in pen, recto. Titled, numbered '#84' and '6/15' and dated '7/22/...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Untitled (for the journal, XX Siécle)
By Hans Hartung
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (for the journal, XXe Siécle)
Color lithograph on wove paper, 1973
Unsigned (as issued)
From: XXe Siecle,, December 1973, No. 41
Published by G. di San Lazzaro for A. Maeght, Paris
Printed by Mourlot, Paris
Edition 3000 (There was also a signed edition of 75 on larger paper)
Catalogue raisonné: Subsequent to Schmücking
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches
"Hans Hartung
B. 1904, LEIPZIG, GERMANY; D. 1989, ANTIBES, FRANCE
Hans Hartung was born on September 21, 1904, in Leipzig, Germany. He cultivated interests in philosophy, astronomy, music, and religion at a young age before he turned to painting. Early in his career he found inspiration in the works of Rembrandt van Rijn and Francisco de Goya, and later influences included Lovis Corinth, Oskar Kokoschka, Emil Nolde, and Max Slevogt. At just 17, Hartung began to experiment with abstraction, synthesizing the graphic techniques of his artistic models while completely eliminating figurative elements.
Hartung entered the Universität Leipzig in 1924 to study philosophy and art history but left to concentrate on painting at the Kunstakademie, Leipzig. While Hartung was advised to pursue further training at the Bauhaus, he opted to study at the Kunstakademie, Dresden. In 1926 Hartung saw an exhibition of international art in Dresden, which exposed him to Cubism and other modern styles that had emerged in France. His encounters with works by Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, along with various travels abroad, encouraged him to move to Paris in 1926, where he spent the majority of his time until 1932, although he passed the summer of 1928 in Munich studying under artist and theorist Max Dörner.
In 1929 Hartung married the Norwegian painter Anna-Eva Bergman. After several years abroad, they tried to reestablish themselves in Berlin in 1935 but were soon forced into exile by the National Socialist regime. In the years leading up to World War II, Hartung's work reflected his attempts to reconcile chance and control, combining expressive graphic elements with patches of black and color to produce a sense of spontaneity. After the outbreak of the war, Hartung served in the Foreign Legion (1939–40), and later in the Free French (1943–44). He was gravely wounded at the German Front, and one of his legs was amputated. In 1945 he returned to Paris and resumed painting and the following year earned French citizenship.
Hartung was a major figure in Art Informel and Tachisme (from the French tache, meaning blot or stain). While Hartung's postwar paintings are generally described as exhibiting a calligraphic quality, his work moved through a series of phases, becoming less spontaneous and more formally aggressive than his work from the late 1930s. In many works of the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as T-50 Painting 8 (T-50 peinture 8, 1950), he applied large areas of color to the canvas on which he painted a combination of bold black brushstrokes and thinner frenetic linear strokes.
Hartung received several international awards, including the 1956 award for the Europe-Africa section at the Guggenheim International Award and the International Grand Prize for painting at the 1960 Venice Biennale. His first major group show was organized by curator and critic Christian Zervos at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (1937). After settling permanently in Paris, he exhibited regularly at the Salon des Surindépendants (1935, 1937, 1945). His first solo show took place at Galerie Lydia...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Ascension (Traffic in front of St. Bartholomew / Park Ave bet 50th and 51s
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
An overflow of traffic in front of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Cathedral on Park Avenue between 50th and 51st
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
Untitled (Nike)
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Nike), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 1 in pencil. Number 1 of Volume 1, a series of 10 lithographs in each of 2 portfolios, publish...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
'Havoc in Heaven' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Havoc in Heaven', lithograph, 1948, edition 30-35, Fine and Looney 270. Signed, titled, and numbered 'Ed 35' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. Printed...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
SEA TREASURES
By Frances H. Gearhart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART and Sisters (THE GEARHARTS)
SEA TREASURES...
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1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
$1,100 Sale Price
43% Off
Portrait of Albert Schweitzer.
By Arthur William Heintzelman
Located in Storrs, CT
Portrait of Albert Schweitzer. Etching. 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 (sheet 16 1/4 x 14). Illustrated: Beall, American Prints in the Library of Congress, page 205....
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Drypoint
$750 Sale Price
50% Off
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches of Salvation): The 30th Figure - Astrological Diagram with Scene of the Nativity
Woodcut, 1491
Unsigned, as issued
Published by Anton Koberger
Diagram has Zodiac signs on outer ring, planets in the lower registers, and Nativity in the center.
Condition: Very good for a 15h century woodcut, with the usual slight age stains
Sheet size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Wogelmut was the teacher of Albrecht Durer and employed young Durer in many project of the last decade of the 15th century.
Michel Wolgemut Biography
Wolgemut trained with his father Valentin Wolgemut (who died in 1469 or 1470) and is thought to have been an assistant to Hans Pleydenwurff in Nuremberg. He worked with Gabriel Malesskircher in Munich early in 1471, leaving the city after unsuccessfully suing Malesskircher's daughter for breach of contract, claiming she had broken off their engagement. He then returned to his late father's workshop in Nuremberg, which his mother had maintained since Valentin's death.
In 1472 he married Pleydenwurff's widow and took over his workshop;[3] her son Wilhelm Pleydenwurff worked as an assistant, and from 1491 a partner, to Wolgemut. Some consider Wilhelm a finer artist than Wolgemut, however he died in January 1494, when he was probably still in his thirties. Wilhelm's oeuvre remains unclear, though works in various media have been attributed to him.
Woodcuts
Michael Wolgemut, Danse Macabre, 1493
Two large and copiously illustrated books have woodcuts supplied by Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff; both were printed and published by Germany's largest publisher, the Nuremberger Anton Koberger, who was also Dürer's godfather. The first is the Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichthumer des Heils (1491); the other is the Historia mundi, by Schedel (1493), usually known as the Nuremberg Chronicle...
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15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1
Pochoir, 1934
Unsigned as issued in Cahier's edition
Published in Cahier's d'art, 1934
Unsigned Edition of 1200
There was also a pencil signed...
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1930s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Stencil
Five Ideas for Sculpture
By Henry Moore
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Five Ideas for Sculpture
Lithograph, 1981
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist lower margin. (see photos)
Edition: (35/50) 50
There were also 15 Roman Numeral artist's proofs....
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1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Reading
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reading
Lithograph, 1879 and 1887
Signed in the stone with the Butterfly (see photo)
A proof laid paper printed before the edition of 100 impressions printed for Art Notes
Watermark:...
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1870s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
In th Bighorns (Wyoming)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
In th Bighorns (Wyoming)
Drypoint, c. 1930's
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled in the plate lower left
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 6 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches
Hans Kleiber (1887-1967)
Hans Norbert Kleiber, painter, etcher, illustrator, and naturalist, was born in Cologne, Germany on August 24, 1887. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1900, settling in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming. Kleiber first worked in lumber camps before working for the United States Forest Service from 1906 until 1924. One of his duties as a ranger was to monitor the logging camps in the Bighorn Mountains.
Kleiber was primarily self-taught as an artist and it was in the 1920s that he began devoting himself to art. It appears that he first began to work in watercolor and oil but was producing etchings and drypoints as early as 1924. He traversed the mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and his subjects are drawn from the pristine landscapes and wildlife.
Kleiber's first exhibition of his etchings was mounted in 1928 at Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. His etching, Crossing the Platte, was included in the 1939 New York World's Fair exhibition, American Art Today. There was an exhibition of fifty of his etchings at the National Museum in 1944, and an exhibition of his watercolors was mounted at the Grand Central Galleries in New York in 1950. Kleiber was a member of the Society of American Etchers and the California Society of Printmakers. He received a silver medal in 1931 from the Printmakers Society of California for his print, Leaving the High Country...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
'Sea And Sky' — 1930s Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'Sea and Sky', wood engraving, edition 150, 1931 (published 1932). A brilliant, richly-inked impression on cream wove Japan; the full sheet with margins (2 to 2 1/2 in...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
American White Pelican
By John James Audubon
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "Birds of North America." First Octavo Edition, by John James Audubon. Plate 422. Philadelphia, J.T. Bowen, ca. 1839-44.
Custom fr...
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1870s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Paper
La Terrazza
By Jeanette Pasin-Sloan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Terrazza
Lithograph, 1987
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Published by Kandfall Press, Chicago (their stamp verso)
Landfall drystamp recto lower left
Edition 12...
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1980s Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
J.A.M. Whistler with the White Lock.
By Thomas Robert Way
Located in Storrs, CT
J.A.M. Whistler with the White Lock. c. 1895. Lithograph. Gallatin 131. 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 (sheet 10 X 6 3/4). A tonal impression printed on fine wove paper. Signed in pencil.
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19th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$2,000 Sale Price
27% Off
Canna Lily
By Nishimura Hodo
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Canna Lily
Color woodcut, 1939
Unsigned (as usual)
Publisher: Takemura Hideo
(active Yokohama 1926-1939)
Format: oban
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 15 5/8 x 11 inches
Provenance: Robert O. Muller
There is little biographical data available about the Japanese printmaker Hodo Nishimura...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
'The Death of Hercules' from 'The Temple of the Muses' — 18th Century Engraving
By Bernard Picart
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Picart, 'The Death of Hercules' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate, lower left. Titled in French, English, German, and Dutch. A superb, rich...
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1730s Baroque Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Netherton Chapel
By Frederick Landseer Griggs, R.A., R.E.
Located in Storrs, CT
Netherton Chapel. 1935. Etching. Comstock 53.v. 5 11/16 x 4 3/8 (sheet 8 15/16 x 6 1/2). Edition 85 in this state (total edition 88-89). Illustrated Fine Prints of the Year, 1936; Print Collector's Quarterly 26 (1939): 286. A fine impression on white laid paper with a partial crown watermark. Signed in pencil. Housed in a striking 11 1/2 x 10 7/8 wood and champagne gold frame.
According to Comstock "The subject is a small memorial chapel, now much more ruinous than the etching shows, near Bredon Hill...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Mlle Sablon, musical actress
By Albert de Belleroche
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mademoiselle Sablon, MUSCIAL ACTRESS
Lithograph, 1907
Unsigned
Provenance: estate of the artist
Reference: Belleroche No. K383
Albert Belleroche Log of lithographs...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Profile of an African Woman —1920s Modernism
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Profile of an African Woman), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 15 in pencil. Number 15 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publish...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
'Flowers and Ko-Imari' — Taisho/Showa Shin Hanga Woodblock Print
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Masami Iwata, 'Flowers and Ko-Imari', color woodblock print, c. 1960, edition 250. Signed, and with the artist’s seal, lower right. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors,...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
'Flyable Objects Identified' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Flyable Objects Identified', color serigraph, 1969, edition 30, Ryan 83. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 30' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, o...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Mädchen am Fenster. 1906-08.
By Oskar Kokoschka
Located in New York, NY
Mädchen am Fenster. 1906-08. Color lithograph printed on smooth card stock. Full margins. Tipped into a later presentaion folder, signed by the artist in pencil, on the recto. Published by the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, with the printed postcard text on verso. Among Kokoschka's earliest prints were a series of 14 postcards, the current work and the following lot that he produced for the Wiener Werkstätte. Wingler/Welz 4.
Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The So-Called Tempio della Tosse, Near Tivoli. Interior Upright
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The So-Called Tempio della Tosse, Near Tivoli. Interior Upright (Veduta interna del Tempio della Tosse)
"Temple of the Cough"
Etching, 1764
Signed in the plate
From: Vedute di Roma...
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1760s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Grande masque
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Grande Masque
1948
Aquatint on Marais paper, signed in pencil and numbered 11/25, there were also 5 artist’s proofs.
Signed, dedicated "à Nadia Sednaoui" and inscribed ...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
$120,000
La Toilette
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Toilette
Drypoint, 1908
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Edition: 65 this state (35/65)
Published by Gustave Pellet (1859-1919),...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
VALLEY OF THE TIBER
By Albany E. Howarth
Located in Portland, ME
Howarth, Albany. VALLEY OF THE TIBER. Etching, not dated. Edition size not known.
Signed in pencil lower right. 13 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (plate), 19 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches (sheet). In ex...
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Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Poem 71-25 (Me)
By Haku Maki
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Poem 71-25 (Me)
Color woodcut with cement mold embossing, 1971
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition 100 (55/100) (see photo)
Signed with the artist's stamp lowe...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
The Great Church, Nashville
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Great Church, Nashville
Etching & aquatint, c. 1936
Signed in pencil lower right
A very rare trial proof
Annotated "2" lower left corner recto
Three total impressions in the esta...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
MIGRANT
By Robert Gwathmey
Located in Portland, ME
Gwathmey, Robert (American 1903-1988). MIGRANT. Screenprint, 1978. An Artist's Proof aside from the edition of 100. Signed in pencil and inscribed "A/P.". 27 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches (ima...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Confident - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
Mikio Watanabe created "Confident", a side view of a sensuous female nude, exclusiv...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
Miracle
By Marino Marini
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARINO MARINI (1901-1980)
MIRACLE - Etching, Signed and numbered 70 / 75 in pencil. Image 15 ½ x 10 ½ inches,. Full sheet 22 3/8 x 15 inches with deckle edges.
Plate IV of the serie...
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1970s Abstract Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
'The Pimp' — Graphic Modernism
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fritz Eichenberg, 'The Pimp', wood engraving, 1980, artist's proof before the edition. Signed in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 3/16 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 12 x 9 3/4 inches (305 x 248 mm); sheet size 18 x 14 inches (457 x 356 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990) was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion, social justice, and nonviolence.
Eichenberg was born to a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany, where the destruction of World War I helped to shape his anti-war sentiments. He worked as a printer's apprentice and studied at the Municipal School of Applied Arts in Cologne and the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, where he studied under Hugo Steiner-Prag. In 1923 he moved to Berlin to begin his career as an artist, producing illustrations for books and newspapers. In his newspaper and magazine work, Eichenberg was politically outspoken and sometimes wrote and illustrated his reporting.
In 1933, the rise of Adolf Hitler drove Eichenberg, who was a public critic of the Nazis, to emigrate with his wife and children to the United States. He settled in New York City, where he lived most of his life. He worked in the WPA Federal Arts Project and was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists.
In his prolific career as a book illustrator, Eichenberg portrayed many forms of literature but specialized in works with elements of extreme spiritual and emotional conflict, fantasy, or social satire. Over his long career, Eichenberg was commissioned to illustrate more than 100 classics by publishers in the United States and abroad, including works by renowned authors Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Poe, Swift, and Grimmelshausen. He also wrote and illustrated books of folklore and children's stories.
Eichenberg was a long-time contributor to the progressive magazine The Nation, his illustrations appearing between 1930 and 1980. Eichenberg’s work has been featured by such esteemed publishers as The Heritage Club, Random House, Book of the Month Club, The Limited Editions Club, Kingsport Press, Aquarius Press, and Doubleday.
Raised in a non-religious family, Eichenberg had been attracted to Taoism as a child. Following his wife's unexpected death in 1937, he turned briefly to Zen Buddhist meditation, then joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1940. Though he remained a Quaker until his death, Eichenberg was also associated with Catholic charity work through his friendship with Dorothy Day...
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1980s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Dans les Cendres (In the embers)
By Albert Besnard
Located in Storrs, CT
Dans les Cendres (In the embers). 1887. Delteil catalog 67 state iii. State after the plate was cut down and a second figure eliminated (the two earlier states are of the greatest rarity). Etching, drypoint and roulette. 16 3/4 x 12 1/8 (sheet 19 1/2 x 14). Edition 50. Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarterly 9 (1921): 254. A very rich impression with plate tone and drypoint burr, printed on simili-japon. Provenance: Frederick Keppel & Co. This is one of the artist's most striking images. Signed in pencil. Housed in 25 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
Paul Albert Besnard, was an impressionist painter. In 1866, the seventeen-year-old son of artist parents began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts Paris. In 1874, Besnard won the important Prix de Rome, with which the academy distinguished young talent. A portion of the scholarship is a stay of several years in Rome. Besnard married Charlotte Dubray, a sculptress, during this time in Rome. The couple lived in England, where Besnard exhibited at the Royal Academy London, between 1881 and 1884. He became involved with English portrait painting during this period, which had a lasting influence on his work.
In the years that followed, Besnard broke with the academic tradition. In 1886, he presented the portrait of Madame Roger Jourdain...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
37% Off
Dangerous: The Appearance of a Contemporary Geisha of the Meiji Era
By Taiso Yoshitoshi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dangerous: The Appearance of a Contemporary Geisha of the Meiji Era
Color woodcut, 1888
Plate 28 from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Customs and Manners" (Fuzoku Sanjuniso)
Format...
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1880s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
L'Eventail (Anaïs) also called The Fan.
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
L'Eventail (Anaïs) also called The Fan. 1921. Etching. Fletcher 22. Final state. 6 3/8 x 4 7/16 (sheet 11 1/2 x 9 1/4). Edition 76. An extremely rich, tonal impression printed on cr...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$1,750 Sale Price
30% Off
MORNING IN YOSEMITE
By Harold Lukens Doolittle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD L. DOOLITTLE (1883 - 1974)
MORNING IN YOSEMITE c 1938
Aquatint, signed and titled in pencil by the artist. Plate size 13 3/8 x 9 3/4". Sheet 16 x 11 1/8" with deckle edges.
Doolittle was a renaissance man. His day job was as an engineer for the Edison Electric Co. But he produced an outstanding body of prints for 5 decades as well as photographs. His very rare arts and crafts furniture is highly sought after. He was a long time member and officer in the California Print...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
America's Son II (Sonny)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
America's Son II (Sonny)
Lithograph, 2016
Signed and numbered in pencil
From: America's Family II
Printer: James Reed at Milestone Graphics
Printed on Arches paper
Edition: 40, of wh...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Mary, Mary
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in London, GB
Screenprint and offset lithograph in colours, 1987, on wove paper, signed in pencil by the artist, one of 10 printer's proofs, aside from standard edition of 72, published by Lincoln...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Offset, Screen
'Tree, Manhattan' — Classic American Realism
By Martin Lewis
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Martin Lewis, 'Tree, Manhattan', drypoint, 1930, edition 91 (including 10 trial proofs), McCarron 87. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression, in warm black ink, on cream...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
The Biggest of All; Telephone and Telegraph Building.
By Joseph Pennell
Located in Storrs, CT
The Biggest of All; Telephone and Telegraph Building. 1925. Etching. Wuerth 853. 9 7/8 x 11 7/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 17 1/8). Edition probably 35. An atmospheric impression with plate tone, printed on antique laid paper...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$850 Sale Price
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Tweeter's Recovery
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Ed. 30
Hardy states: “A follow-up to a painting done in 1992 after the L.A. riots which was titled “Bad News (Tweeter is Sick)”. The tattoo bird skirts over the wa...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Hummingbird Lithograph
By John Gould
Located in New York, NY
Gould, John and Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds.
London, 1849-61.
This plate: Orthorhynchus Ornatus.
Original lithographs hand-co...
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Mid-19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Virgo-The Virgin
By Eugène Grasset
Located in Fairlawn, OH
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
Very ra...
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1880s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
City Scene I — Mid-Century Modernism, Precisionism
By Bernard Brussel-Smith
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Brussel-Smith, 'City Scene I', wood engraving, 1949, edition 100. Signed, titled, and numbered '93/100' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on white wove paper, wi...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
86.4 x 71.8 cms (34 x 28.25 ins)
Edition of 17
Paper: Somerset Textured
Proofs: 9 AP, I CTP (on handmade paper)
Signed right, under image; numbered left, under image; publisher's chop lower right
Publisher: The Litho Shop Inc., Santa Monica, California
Printed by Jacob Samuel...
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1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint, Color
The Wrath of Elihu: 'I Am Young, And Ye Are Very Old, Wherefore I Was Afraid.'
By William Blake
Located in Storrs, CT
The Wrath of Elihu. 'I Am Young, And Ye Are Very Old, Wherefore I Was Afraid'. 1823-25. Engraving. .Binyon catalog 117 state ii, Bindman catalog 632. Image 7 7/8 x 5 15/16; plate 8 ...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
'Together' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Together', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1946, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '22/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 7/8 to 5 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (149 x 124 mm); sheet size 15 x 11 1/8 inches (381 x 283 mm).
Collection: Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945 and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions.
“The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.”
—Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature.
Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research.
Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June.
Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages."
In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking.
Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
La Negresse (The Negress)
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Negresse (The Negress)
Etching & drypoint, 1909
Unsigned (as issued in the portfolio)
From the album "Les Bars" (8 plates plus cover illustration)
Editi...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Official Portraits: Immigrant
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with collage, Edition 30
Hung Liu grew up in China and came of age during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She spent four years in the countryside as a laborer, s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Gothic Spirit
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gothic Spirit (also called A Gargoyle, A Gothic Spirit). 1922. Etching and stipple. Fletcher 120. 11 5/8 x 7 (sheet 15 1/4 x 11 1/4). Gargoyle Series #8. Edition 130. Illustrated...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$2,500 Sale Price
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Double Personage
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Double Personage
Color lithograph, 1975 (?)
Unsigned (as issued)
Edition: Large Edition Limited, (estimated to be approximately 2000)
Published in: XXe Siecle, No. 52, Juin 1979
Published: G. di San Lazzaro
Printer: Mourlot Imprimeur, Paris, France
Reference: Lam-Tonneau-Ryckelynck L7513
Condition: Excellent, fresh colors
Traces of glue residue along margin edge where it was bound in the book
Image/sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches
Wilfredo Lam (1902-1982)
Biography
Wifredo Lam was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, on December 8, 1902. He was the eighth child born to Lam-Yam―born in Canton around 1820, an immigrant to the Americas in 1860―and to Ana Serafina Catilla―born in 1862 in Cuba of mixed African and Spanish ancestry.
The luxuriant nature of Sagua la Grande had a strong impact on Lam from early childhood. One night in 1907, he was startled by the strange shadows cast on the wall of his bedroom of a bat in flight. He often recounted the incident as his first magnificent awakening to another dimension to existence.
In 1916, Lam and part of his family settled in Havana. He was enrolled in the Escuela Profesional de Pintura y Escultura, Academia de San Alejandro, where he remained a student until 1923. This period, with exhibitions at the Salón de Bellas artes, was determinant in his choice to become a painter. In 1923, the municipality of Sagua la Grande awarded him a grant to study in Europe and by the autumn of that year, at the age of twenty-one, he left the country for Spain.
His time in Spain―initially intended as a short stay on his way to Paris―lasted 14 years. In Madrid, he was exposed to the ideas and movements of modern art. He spent long hours at the Archeological Museum and the Prado. He studied the great masters of Spanish painting, Velázquez and Goya, but felt particularly drawn to the works of Bosch and Bruegel the Elder. In 1931, his first wife, Eva (Sébastiana Piriz) and their son Wilfredo Victor died of tuberculosis. The terrible suffering he endured led to numerous paintings of mother and child. Lam found solace in the company of his Spanish friends and made contact with several political organizations. In 1936, with the help of his friend Faustino Cordón, he joined the Republican forces in their fight against Franco. He designed anti-Fascist posters and took part in the struggle by working in a munitions factory. The violence of the struggle inspired his painting La Guerra Civil.
In 1938, Lam left Spain for Paris. Shortly before leaving, he met Helena Holzer, who would become his wife in 1944. His meeting Picasso in his studio on the Rue des Grands Augustins proved decisive. Picasso introduced his new “cousin” to his painter, poet and art critic friends, Braque, Matisse, Miró, Léger, Eluard, Leiris, Tzara, Kahnweiler, Zervos. Lam also met Pierre Loeb, the owner of the Galerie Pierre in Paris, which hosted Lam’s first solo exhibition in 1939.
Shortly before the Germans arrived, Lam left Paris for Bordeaux and then Marseille, where many of his friends, for the most part surrealists, had gathered around André Breton in the Villa Air Bel: Pierre Mabille, René Char, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, Oscar Domínguez, André Masson, Benjamin Péret. In the Villa Air Bel, a meeting place for creativity and experimentation, Lam worked and produced, most notably, a series of ink drawings that set the tone for what would become his signature style of hybrid figures, a vocabulary he would develop more fully during his years in Cuba from 1941 to 1947.
In January and February 1941, Lam illustrated Breton’s poem Fata Morgana which was censored by the Vichy government. On March 25, Lam and Helena Holzer embarked on the “Capitaine Paul Lemerle” headed for Martinique, in the company of some 300 other artists and intellectuals―André Breton and Claude Lévi-Strauss among them. Upon arrival, the passengers were interred at Trois Îles. It was during this forced passage in Martinique and before leaving for Cuba that Lam and Aimé Césaire met for the first time to become life-long friends.
Newly settled in his native land after almost twenty years, Lam delved deeper into his artistic investigations, finding nourishment for his ideas in the surroundings of his childhood and youth. His sister Eloisa, whom he was closest to, explained to him in much detail the workings of Afro-Cuban rituals and he began attending ritual ceremonies with some of his friends. This contact with Afro-Cuban culture brought new impetus to his art. He painted over one hundred canvases, most notably La Jungla, making the year 1942 his most productive of this period. Over the next few years, a number of exhibitions followed in the United States, at the Institute of Modern Art of Boston, at the MoMA of New York, at the Galerie Pierre Matisse, where La Jungla was presented and created a scandal.
In 1946, Lam and Helena travel to Haiti and attend voodoo ceremonies in the company of Pierre Mabille and André Breton. Talking about his experience in Haiti, Lam said, “It is often assumed that my work took its final form in Haiti, but my stay there, like the trips I made to Venezuela, Colombia or to the Brazilian Mato Grosso only broadened its scope. I could have been a good painter from the School of Paris, but I felt like a snail out of its shell. What really broadened my painting is the presence of African poetry.”
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Wifredo Lam et Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, 1954
Lam then went on to New York where he renewed contact with Marcel Duchamp and made new acquaintances: Jeanne Reynal, James Johnson Sweeney, Arshile Gorky, John Cage, Roger Wilcox, Mercedes Matter, Ian Hugo, Jesse Fernández, John Cage, Sonia Sekula and Yves Tanguy. By the end of the 1940s, Lam divided his time between Europe, Havana and New York, where they stayed with Pierre and Teeny Matisse...
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1970s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch)
By Kurt Seligmann
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KURT SELIGMANN (1900–1962 American, born in Switzerland,)
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch) 1934
Etching and aquatint, unsigned ? possibly a proof aside from The ...
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1930s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
De trace de pas de trace de…
By Roberto Matta
Located in Fairlawn, OH
De trace de pas de trace de…
Color etching with aquatint, 1966
From: Monsour and Matta, Les Damnations, 1966 (11 plates, this one of 7 hors text images)
Edition: 85 portfolios in the...
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1960s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
Water lLily
By Henrietta Shore
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRIETTA SHORE (1880 -1963)
WATER LILY c. 1928
Lithograph, signed and titled in pencil and with the pencil cypher of printer Lynton Kistler (K). Image 7 x 6 1/8, full margins, shee...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Tamas The Power of Bad
By Willy Pogany
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLY POGANY (1882 - 1955)
TAMAS THE POWER OF BAD, c. 1940.
Etching, signed and titled and numbered 50 in pencil. Image 12 x 9 inches. Sheet 14 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches. Generally goo...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
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