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.
to
206
845
383
366
166
189
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
351
326
243
74
59
49
40
40
27
12
7
1
1
59
47
32
27
21
54
190
1,323
380
49
60
214
160
102
60
129
149
139
115
34
1,949
1,464
158
809
398
329
302
255
189
110
108
98
89
80
76
69
61
57
55
53
46
44
42
600
580
261
210
135
132
73
1,612
337
Orientation: Vertical
Dido
By John Hoyland
Located in London, GB
John Hoyland
Dido
1979
Etching, edition of 50
91.5 x 68.5 cms (36 x 27 ins)
JHE001
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
$5,604
Invocation
By Max Weber
Located in New York, NY
M a x W e b e r – – 1 8 8 1 – 1 9 6 1
Invocation- – 1919-20, Color Woodcut.
Rubenstein 27. Proofs only. Signed in pencil.
Image size 3 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches (124 x 54 mm); sheet size ...
Category
1910s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
$13,500
Plate 7 from "Formes et Couleurs"
Located in New York, NY
Plate 7 from "Formes et couleurs; vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs décoratifs" by Auguste H. Thomas. Paris: A. Levy, Librarie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, circa ...
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
America's Son
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil lower right
Edition: 40
From: America’s Family (Five Images)
Published by Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Dallas, Texas and Thomas French Fine Art, LLC...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Myron Kozman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Screen print, 1941
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
From an unnumbered edition of 6
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 7 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 10 x 8 inches
Pr...
Category
1940s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Untitled (Three Ducks Taking to Flight)
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Three Ducks Taking to Flight)
Drypoint, c. 1940
Signed lower right
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Winchell Heirs by descent
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 10 5/16 inches
Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis, after his tenure of being an instructor at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the 1930's.
Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris Anisfeld...
Category
1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Drei Grazien (Three Graces)
By Lovis Corinth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Drei Grazien (Three Graces)
Etching and drypoint, 1920
Signed and titled in pencil (see photo)
Total Edition 100: 30 on Japan and 70 on Butten paper as here
Published by von Wohlgemu...
Category
1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Sunflower Bouquet III
By Robert Kushner
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype with collage.
Kushner recently completed a series of monotypes, many with collaged decorative papers. He worked from still-lives of flowers, fruits, pitchers and Bett...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
Ephemera
By Ida Applebroog
Located in New York, NY
Available individually ($2500), and also as a suite of five ($12,000).
Born in Bronx, NY, Ida Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences (1949). She moved...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Photogravure
Tommy's Pond
By Gabor F. Peterdi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Tommy's Pond
Etching, aquatint and intaglio, 1966
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Image/Plate size: 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches
Sheet size: : 20 1/16 x 14 7/16 inches
From: The Portf...
Category
1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Intaglio
MATERNITY AILEE
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Portland, ME
Hayter, Stanley William. MATERNITY AILEE. 1948. B&M 187. Engraving, Etching & Aquatint, printed in colors. Edition of 50, signed, dated 1948, titled and numbered. 13 5/8 x 7 15/16 in...
Category
1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
'Mondo Negro III' — African American artist
By Camille Billops
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Camille Billops, 'Mondo Negro III', color etching, 2000, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '7/20' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impre...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
America's Daughter
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
America's Daughter
Lithograph, 2016
Signed in pencil lower right
Edition: Edition: 40 (15/40)
From: America's Family (Five Images)
Published by: Valley House Gallery and Sculpture ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
UNTITLED
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Portland, ME
Nevelson, Louise. UNTITLED. Baro 36. Tamarind Number 801. Lithograph, 1963. Edition of 20, plus 2 Printer's Proofs, 1 Trial Proof, and 3 Artist's Proofs. Inscribed "Tamarind Impressi...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Fan and its Surroundings, from the Global Editions Series
By Ed Ruscha
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, torn and deckle edges
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Arashi Rikan II in an Osaka Kabuki Scene
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arashi Rikan II in an Osaka Kabuki Scene
Color woodcut, c. 1827
Signed middle left (see photo)
Titled upper left (see photo)
Format: oban
Publisher: Honsei
The actor, in character, d...
Category
1820s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Vive le Vin
By Hippolyte Bellangé
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Medium: Lithograph with tint stone
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 10 1/2" (34.80 x 26.70 cm); Mat: 20 x 16"
Publisher: G. Engelmann
References And Exhibitions:
Published by G. Engelmann
Reference: Beraldi p. 17Medium: Lithograph with tint stone
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 10 1/2" (34.80 x 26.70 cm); Mat: 20 x 16"
Publisher: G. Engelmann
References And Exhibitions:
Published by G. Engelmann
Reference: Beraldi p. 17
Medium: Lithograph with tint stone
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 10 1/2" (34.80 x 26.70 cm); Mat: 20 x 16"
Publisher: G. Engelmann
References And Exhibitions:
Published by G. Engelmann
Reference: Beraldi p. 17
Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé (17 January 1800 – 10 April 1866) was a French battle painter and printmaker. His art was influenced by the wars of the first Napoleon, and while a youth, he produced several military drawings...
Category
1820s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Beyound (sic) - IX
By Katsunori Hamanishi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Beyond (sic) - IX
Mezzotint, n.d.
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: Unique impression (i/I)
Ninion and Sheldon Landy were major collectors of Hamanishi's works. They donated a large group of his mezzotints to Art Institute of Chicago, which formed the core of the exhibitions of his works at AIC in 2014 and again in 2019.
Condition: excellent
Plate/Image size: 9.75 x 7.75 inches
Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches
Provenance: Ninion and Sheldon Landy, Hamanishi's patrons
EXTREMELY RARE-UNIQUE
Katsunori Hamanishi
Born: 1949, Hokkaido
Medium: Mezzotint, with relief printing and metallic foil. Also a few woodblocks
Hamanishi studied painting and graduated from Tokai University with a degree in Art, in 1973. Since then, he has been living in the Tokyo area, where his primary focus is printmaking. Mezzotint is a variation of intaglio printing--an exacting and laborious process whereby ink is transferred from below the surface of the plate by use of a press. First, the entire copper plate is indented with a toothed steel rocker tool. Worked in all directions, this creates an even finely-grained texture over the surface of the plate. Each pit will hold ink and were the plate inked at this stage, it would print almost solid black.
To create the design the artist smoothes out some of the pits with a burnisher so they will hold less ink. Where highlights are required the plate is burnished and polished quite smooth. A wide range of tones are possible in mezzotint and the process can usually be recognized by a light design on a velvety black background. Hamanishi is internationally known for his mastery of this medium. He creates images with both subtle detail and dynamic composition that explore spatial relationships.
His genius is in balancing calm and meditative qualities with the energetic tensions of inanimate and natural objects. Early work had such things as pipes and branches wrapped with cloth, later rope, then straw. When he moved to a more rural area, rice fields became a common element. He has also been exploring the use of color and metallic leaf in his artwork. In 2005 Mr. Hamanishis began the Haze series exploring more abstract themes using the subtle differences between matte and black inks done in mezzotint and relief printing.
There is always a sense of mystery and intrigue in the complex mezzotint prints that come from Hamanishi’s deft hands. They compel the viewer to do a slow, thoughtful examination in order to fully absorb the vision the artist intends.
Exhibitions:
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts --2 person show with Hamaguchi
Ibiza Biennial, Spain--Grand Prize
Original Colored Graphic Print Triennial, Switzerland--Grand Prize
Cabo Frio International Print Biennial, Brazil--Grand Prize
CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo--Art Grant winner
Republic of China Print Exhibit--Gold Medal
Graphic Arts Council, Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco--commissioned print
Art Institute of Cleveland
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada--visiting artist
Shun-yo-Kai, Tokyo--prize winner
Bhara Bhavan International Print Biennale, India
Ren Brown...
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
Poppy Pochoir from Relais
By Edouard Benedictus
Located in New York, NY
Benedictus, Edouard.
"Relais."
Plate 14.
Paris, Éditions Vincent, Fréal et Cie, 1930.
Original pochoir, printed by J. Saudé.
Unsigned and unnumbered from an edition of presumabl...
Category
1930s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
On the Wing
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
46.75 x 30.5 ins (118.7 x 77.5 cms)
Edition of 70
Signed in pencil lower right.
Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop number "RM83-718" in pe...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Color, Lithograph
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
PKZ- Man in Bowler Hat - Reprint 1981
By Niklaus Stoecklin
Located in New York, NY
PKZ Reprint - 1981 - Official 1981 reprint for Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich Printer: JE Wolfensberger
Niklaus Stoecklin – PKZ – 1935
PKZ Burger-Kehl & Co. AG, Zurich, C
Switerland
Lit...
Category
1980s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
In The Green
By Christopher Brown
Located in Berkeley, CA
Chris Brown
In The Green
Color soapground and spitbite aquatints with softground.
Edition of 20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Grapheme 1
By Matt Magee
Located in Houston, TX
Matt Magee
Grapheme 1, 2013
Lithograph
12 x 10 inches
ed. 15
Framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
PHOEBE PASSES MY GATE
Located in Portland, ME
Hutty, Alfred. PHOEBE PASSES MY GATE.
Drypoint, c. 1931. Edition size c.75.
8 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (plate), 10 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches (sheet).
Print...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Profile Bust of a Girl - Woman's Head in Profile (Havard)
By Elie Nadelman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Profile Bust of a Girl - Woman's Head in Profile (Havard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned (as issued)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from ...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Impression B
By Toshi Yoshida 1
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Impression B
Color woodcut, 1959
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
A trial proof, prior to the edition of 100, signed and numbered
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 14 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
by decent to his heirs
"Printmaker and painter Toshi Yoshida was born on July 25, 1911, into the respected Yoshida family of artists of Tokyo, Japan. Father Hiroshi was a celebrated landscape painter and printmaker, and mother Fujio established herself as the first female Yoshida artist as well as an Abstract artist later in her career. Younger brother Hodaka was an Abstract printmaker whose style, completely separate from his family's historic traditional bent, later influenced Toshi. Hodaka's wife Chizuko would become a pioneering female Japanese artist whose own exploration of Surrealism and Abstraction challenged the status quo. Toshi, however, as the eldest sibling, was expected to follow in his father's footsteps, and from an early age he was trained by Hiroshi in his studio.
Unable to attend formal schooling due to the polio-induced paralyzation of his leg, Toshi would instead help with his family's printmaking studio and go on sketching trips with Hiroshi. As he got older, these trips would include India and Southeast Asia, working from morning to night taking night trains to get from one destination to another. Among Toshi's favorite subjects were the animals he discovered along the way. However, these trips ended as Japan entered military dictatorship in the mid 1930s, and artists whose work showed signs of Western influence were barred from exhibiting. At this time, Toshi left Japan for China and Korea, where he would remain for the duration of the war. He stuck to patriotic themes to remain in business, and after the end of World War II, as Japan struggled to recover from wartime economic depression, he earned his living creating traditional Japanese woodcut landscapes...
Category
1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
WO RO SI IA ZIN Russian Soldier with His Family
Located in Fairlawn, OH
WO RO SI IA ZIN Russian Soldier with His Family
Color woodcut, 1861 2nd month
Signed upper left (see photo)
Titled upper right in black cartouche (see photo)
Format: oban
Style: Yokohama-e
Publisherr: Sagamiya Tokichi (Marks #435) active 1955-1866
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has an impression of this image
RARE
Condition: with usual aging
Image size: 13 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches
Rebecca Salter in her Japanese Popular Prints... on page 18 gives a different take on the situation that Yoshifuji found himself in.
"A giant of the period, however, was Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-861). Although best known for warrior prints which reflected the militaristic undercurrents of the time, he was also responsible for some of the most light-heartend and humorous works in this book. His followers in the Utagawa school, Utagawa Yoshitsuya...
Category
1860s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Coxuria, from The Geldzahler Portfolio
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1997, on White Lana mouldmade paper, signed and dated in pencil, 69th from edition of 75 (there were also 15 artist’s proofs), printed by Tyler Graphics, Ltd....
Category
1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
THE KNAVE OF HEARTS
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Portland, ME
Parrish, Maxfield. THE KNAVE OF HEARTS. 1925. 14 full page and many smaller color plates. A Fine copy of Parrish's most elaborate book. A highlight among American children's books, b...
Category
1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
In the Fifth Season
By Gregory Amenoff
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Plate 20 from "Formes et Couleurs"
Located in New York, NY
Plate 20 from "Formes et couleurs; vingt planches en couleurs contenant soixante-sept motifs décoratifs" by Auguste H. Thomas. Paris: A. Levy, Librarie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, circa...
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Fire Opal
By Robert Kushner
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30
Kushner has collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark since 1982 on various monotypes and lithographs. These exuberant, sensuous prints often include...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
PLONGEON
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Portland, ME
Hayter, Stanley William (English, 1901-1988). PLONGEON. B/M 374. Engraving and soft-ground etching in colors, 1974. 23 x 19 1/4 inches; 583 x 460 mm. (plate), 29 3/4 x 22 inches (sh...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Ephemera
By Ida Applebroog
Located in New York, NY
Available individually ($2500), and as a suite of five ($12,000).
Born in Bronx, NY, Ida Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences (1949). She moved to C...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Photogravure
Lilac Engraving
By Jean Louis Prévost
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving, printed in color and finished by hand. Paris, ca. 1820.
Category
1820s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
Color aquatint and etching, c. 1906
Signed in pencil in the image (see photo)
Edition: c. 100
Reference: Merrill Chase, Volume 1, No. 85
Condition: F...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
SUBWAY TECHNIQUE
By Minna Citron
Located in Portland, ME
Citron, Minna (American, 1896-1991). SUBWAY TECHNIQUE. Lithograph, 1933. Edition of 20, numbered 10/20, titled, and signed in pencil. A few spots of foxing in the margins, away from ...
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
QUARTER OF NINE - SATURDAY'S CHILDREN
By Martin Lewis
Located in Portland, ME
Lewis, Martin (American, born Australia, 1881-1962). QUARTER OF NINE, SATURDAY'S CHILDREN. McCarron 79. Drypoint, 1929. McCarron says the intended edition was 100 , but 107 were prin...
Category
1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Taurus-The Bull
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...
Category
1880s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Renaissance Man
By Hernan Bas
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching, drypoint and spitbite aquatint.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Santa sitting on the Globe Gouache
Located in New York, NY
Original gouache with stencil by Warner Kreuter. Wisconsin, 1929. Initialed lower/mid right. Dated lower left. Mounted on green card stock. Unframed.
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Little Penthouse
By Martin Lewis
Located in New York, NY
Martin Lewis (1881-1962), Little Penthouse, drypoint, 1931, signed in pencil lower right [signed in the plate in a rectangle lower left]. Reference: McCarron 91, only state. Printed ...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
'The Connectors' — Vintage American Realism, New York City
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'The Connectors', 1934, etching, edition not stated, Ryan 66. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on handmade, cream laid paper, with margins (1/2 to 1...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Medicine
By Squeak Carnwath
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint etching
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Patitcha. Masque
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Patitcha. Masque
1947
Aquatint on BFK Rives paper, signed in pencil and numbered 3/25
Paper size: 56.2 x 38.1 cms (22.1 x 15 ins)
Image size: 34.6 x 27.4 cms (13 5/8 x 10 7/8 ins)
HM16063
Duthuit, C.,1983. Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé, Paris. n. 786 plate 367.
Yau, J., 2018. Henri Matisse Prints...
Category
1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
'Pope' from 'In Praise of Folly' — Mid-Century Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Pope' from the series 'Moriae Encomium (In Praise of Folly),' mezzotint, 1943, no edition, proofs only. Signed in pencil. Annotated 'POPE - CARDINAL - BISHOP' - 1943 in ink, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 to 1 7/8 inches) in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Created by the artist for 'Erasmus's Moriae Encomium,' or 'In Praise of Folly,' published by the Limited Editions Club, 1943. A rare, signed, proof impression apart from the Limited Editions Club publication.
Image size 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (197 x 121 mm); sheet size 10 11/16 x 8 1/16 inches (271 x 204 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lynd Ward is acknowledged as one of America’s foremost wood engravers and book illustrators of the first half of the twentieth century. His innovative use of narrative printmaking as a stand-alone storytelling vehicle was uniquely successful in reaching a broad audience. The powerful psychological intensity of his work, celebrated for its dynamic design, technical precision, and compelling dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers, Ward was concerned with the themes of man’s inner struggles and the role of the subconscious in determining his destiny. An artist of social conscience during the Great Depression and World War II, he infused his graphic images with his unique brand of social realism, deftly portraying the problems that challenged the ideals of American society.
The son of a Methodist preacher, Lynd Ward, moved from Chicago to Massachusetts at an early age. He graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University, New York, in 1926, where he studied illustration and graphic arts. He married May Yonge McNeer in 1936 and left for Europe for their honeymoon in Eastern Europe. After four months, they settled in Leipzig, where Ward studied at the National Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookmaking. Inspired by Belgian expressionist artist Frans Masereel's graphic novel ‘The Sun,’ and another graphic novel by the German artist Otto Nückel, ‘Destiny,’ he determined to create his own "wordless" novel. Upon his return to America, Ward completed his first book, ‘God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts,’ published in 1929. ‘Gods’ Man’ was a great success for its author and publisher and was reprinted four times in 1930, including a British edition. This book and several which followed it, ‘Madman’s Drum,’ 1930, ‘Wild Pilgrimage,’ 1932, ‘Prelude to a Million Years,’ 1933, ‘Song Without Words,' 1936, ‘Vertigo,’ 1937; and ‘Last Unfinished Wordless Novel’ (created in the 1960s and published in 2001) were comprised solely of Ward's wood engravings. Ward designed each graphic image to occupy an entire page, the sequence of which conveys the story's narrative.
In 1937, Ward was named Director of the Graphic Arts Division of the Federal Art Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In the following years, Ward went on to illustrate more than one hundred books (some of which he wrote), including classics for the Limited Editions Club Goethe’s ‘Faust,’ Faulkner’s ‘A Green Bough,’ and Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ and several children’s books. He also produced single-subject wood engravings, paintings, and drawings. His print ‘Sanctuary,’ 1939, was shown at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, and ‘Clouded Over,’ 1948, received the 1948 Library of Congress Award and was included in ‘American Prize Prints of the 20th Century’ by Albert Reese. He received the National Academy of Design Print Award (1949), the New York Times Best Illustrated Award (1973), and the Regina Award (Catholic Library Association, 1975). ‘The Biggest Bear,’ a children’s book with illustrations by Ward, was the recipient of the esteemed 1952 Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Ward was a member and board member of the National Academy of Design and the Artists’ League of America. He served several terms as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists and was a member of the American Artists Congress and the Society of Illustrators. Ward exhibited at the American Artists Congress; the National Academy of Design; the John Herron Art Institute; and the Library of Congress. He had a one-person show at Associated American Artists, NY, on the publication of his monograph 'Storyteller Without Words,' 1974; AAA mounted a memorial exhibition in 1986. The May 1976 issue of 'Bibliognost,' a book collector’s publication, was dedicated to Ward. ‘Lynd Ward, His Bookplate Designs,’ an article by Dan Burne Jones, was published in the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers Yearbook, 1981/82.
In 2001, sixteen years after his death, Rutgers University Libraries published ’Lynd Ward’s Last Unfinished Wordless Novel.’ The blocks were intended to be part of a novel in woodcuts, the first since Vertigo, but Ward did not live to complete the project. Master printer and book designer Barbara Henry collated and printed the twenty-six finished blocks out of the forty-four initially planned for the still unnamed narrative.
In 2010 the Library of America honored Ward’s achievements with the meticulous production of a collection of Ward’s woodcut novels—the first time the Library had gone wordless. The publication replicated his original editions with a single full-size image printed on the right page of each double-page spread. In his introduction to the books, renowned cartoonist/illustrator Art...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
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, AB698
Edition: c. 10
Condition: excellent
Image size: 20 x 17 inches
Sheet size: 24 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches
Albert Gustavus de Belleroche, also known as Albert Belleroche, (22 October 1864 – 14 July 1944) was a Welsh-born painter and lithographer, who lived most of his childhood and his adulthood in Paris and England. He began as a painter, but at the turn of the century focused on lithography, for which he is most well-known. He was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre de Leopold by King Albert I of Belgium in 1933.
Early life
Albert de Belleroche, Lithograph of the artist's mother, Mrs. Harry Vane Milbank, circa 1900
Albert Gustavus De Belleroche was born on 22 October 1864 in Swansea. His parents were Brusseler Alice and Edward Charles, the Marquis de Belleroche, who died when he was three years old. His mother was the daughter of Desire Baruch. In March 1871, she married Harry Vane Millbank, the son of MP Frederick Milbank. He grew up in Paris and London and he used the surname Milbank until he was 30 years of age. He attained the title of count from his father's family of French Huguenot ancestry.
Career and personal life
La Danseuse (model Lili Grenier), circa 1890
In 1882, Belleroche studied briefly at Carolus-Duran's art school in Paris, preferring to study the masters like Johannes Vermeer and Sandro Botticelli at museums. He was a friend and studio-mate of John Singer Sargent in Paris and London, with the men making many sketches and paintings of each other. Some of the works that Sargent made of Belleroche are suggestive of an emotional relationship between the men and Belleroche may have been the love of Sargent's life. Dorothy Moss, an art historian, states "Sargent's portraits of Belleroche, in their sensuality and intensity of emotion, push the boundaries of what was considered appropriate interaction between men at this period." Belleroche was financially independent and did not need or desire to obtain work through commissions. Instead, he chose who he would paint, which included Japanese wrestler...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Summer Sign
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Carborundum on Whatman paper
Edition of 38
84.1 x 78.7 cms (33 1/8 x 31 ins)
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color
EARLY JACOULET - A DOWNPOUR AT METALANIM PONOPE EAST CAROLINAS
By Paul Jacoulet
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EARLY JACOULET
PAUL JACOULET (1896 – 1960)
UNE AVERSEA METALANIM, PONAPE , EST CAROLINES, 1935
A DOWNPOUR AT METALANIM PONOPE EAT CAROLINAS (Miles 29)
Color woodcut, with metallic ...
Category
1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut, Color
Pochoir of a Private Terrace in Cannes
By Henry Delacroix
Located in New York, NY
Plate 5. "Terrasse propriete a Cannes" from "Décoration moderne dans l'intérieur" bu Henry Delacroix. Paris, ca. 1930. Pochoir with hand-coloring. Mild yellowing at edges.
Category
1930s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Three to Compare
By Julian Stanczak
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three to Compare
From: Twelve Progressions
Signed and numbered in pencil
Commissioned by Martha Jackson Graphics
Printer: Domberger, Stuttgart, Germany
Their drystamp lower right cor...
Category
1970s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
RECOLLECTION 3
By Kunihiro Amano
Located in Portland, ME
Amano, Kunihiro (Japanese, born 1929). RECOLLECTION 3. Color Woodblock, not dated. Edition of 50. Titled, Numbered 17/50, and signed in pencil. 23 x 17 1/2 inches, In excellent condi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
ENCLOSURE 12
By Kunihiro Amano
Located in Portland, ME
Amano, Kunihiro (Japanese, born 1929). ENCLOSURE 12. Color Woodblock, not dated. Edition of 30. Titled, Numbered 21/30, and signed in pencil. 18 x 13 1/2 inches. In excellent condit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
La Casa Grande
By Emilio Sanchez
Located in New York, NY
“LA CASA GRANDE”
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this lithograph entitled “La Casa Grande” in 1997. The printed image size is 30.5 x 30 inches and ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Old Houses in Amsterdam
By T.F. Simon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Old Houses in Amsterdam
Drypoint, 1909
Signed and dedicated in pencil lower right.
"A Mr. H. A. Webster, bien sympathiquement, T.F. Simon, Paris 26/10"
Simon...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
UNTITLED - DECANTER AND TWO GLASSES
By Asa Cheffetz
Located in Portland, ME
Cheffetz, Asa. UNTITLED - DECANTER AND TWO GLASSES. Not in Springfield. Wood engraving, undated, but likely 1935-1945. Signed in pencil. 7 x 6 1/8 inches (image) plus margins. A tiny...
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Modern Art
By Arthur Wesley Dow
Located in New York, NY
Dow, Arthur Wesley. Modern Art, 1896. Color lithograph. Plate from Maitre de L’affiches.
Arthur Wesley Dow, ( American painter, printmaker, photographer,...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Centered Rings
By Julian Stanczak
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Centered Rings
Screen print, 1971
Signed and numbered in pencil
From: Twelve Progressions
Commissioned by Martha Jackson Graphics
Printer: Domberger, Stuttgart, Germany
Their drystam...
Category
1970s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Composition rouge orangé
By Arthur Luiz Piza
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Composition rouge orangé
Etching, Aquatint, and Engraving, 1990
Signed "Piza" lower right corner (see photo)
Edition: 99
Numbered 96/99 lower left corner (see photo)
Publisher blinds...
Category
1990s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Read More
Joan Mitchell’s Rare, Late-Career Diptych Buzzes with Life
Beneath the inky blackness, the painter’s irrepressible energy electrifies this pair of intaglio prints.
The 1stDibs Guide to Types of Abstract Art
Get to know the key movements and artists who have influenced visual culture for more than a century.
Romare Bearden’s Humanity Infuses His Bright, Bold Art
Through collage, painting and printmaking, the artist foregrounded Black life in America in revolutionary new ways.
Andy Warhol and Suzie Frankfurt’s ‘Wild Raspberries’ Cookbook Is an Artful, Fanciful Delight
This set of recipes and original prints might not make you a better chef. But it will make you smile.
Art Brings the Drama in These Intriguing 1stDibs 50 Spaces
The world’s top designers explain how they display art to elicit the natural (and supernatural) energy of home interiors.
Welcome (Back) to the Wild, Wonderful World of Walasse Ting
Americans are rediscovering the globe-trotting painter and poet, who was connected to all sorts of art movements across a long and varied career.
Shapero Modern’s Director Tells Us All about 20th-Century Prints
Tabitha Philpott-Kent knows a lot of art multiples. Here, the London gallery director talks about what makes printmaking so fabulous.
Yoshitomo Nara Puts a Punk Rock Twist on the Traditional Prints of His Ancestors
The forever-rebellious Japanese artist craftily defaces famous Edo Period woodblock prints with “In the Floating World.”