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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Chelsea Old Church, London
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in Storrs, CT
Chelsea Old Church. 1924. Etching, drypoint, and aquatint. Dickins 94. 5 3/8 x 8 (sheet 8 1/2 x 9 3/4). Edition 100 for The Print Collector's Club. A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream wove paper. Signed and dedicated "W.R. Button from W. Walcot London 1930" in pencil.
Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England. Inside the Grade I listed building, there is seating for 400 people. There is a memorial plaque to the author Henry James (1843–1916) who lived nearby on Cheyne Walk. To the west of the church is a small public garden containing a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein.
When he was seventeen,William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel Metropole...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Pisces-The Fish
By Eugène Grasset
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pisces
From: Les Douze Mois de 1889
As published in Vol. 9, No. 425 of Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui.
Published by Sagot, Paris
Proof before letters without the calendarium as published
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1880s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Rainy Day / Fifth Avenue in New York
By Levon West
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a rare New York image by Levon West
Levon West, who also used the name Ivan Dimitri, was born on February 3, 1900 in Centerville, North Dakota. ...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$2,200 Sale Price
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Untitled, from 25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Offset lithograph, circa 1954, on wove paper, with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Warhol Foundation ink stamps on the reverse, 49.1 x 34.2 cm. (19¼ x 13½ in.) From the '25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy' series.
25 cats name[d] Sam, and One Blue Pussy, circa 1954, was one of Warhol’s first illustrated bound books. Produced with Seymour Berlin of Record Offset Corporation in New York, and written by Charles Lionsby, Warhol illustrated 25 cats name[d] Sam, and One Blue Pussy with sixteen drawings of cats...
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1950s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Offset
![Untitled, from 25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/andy-warhol-prints-works-on-paper-untitled-from-25-cats-named-sam-and-one-blue-pussy-for-sale/a_470/1676046915719/107450_master.jpg?width=240 "andy warhol cat original")
Stars - 8 Pointed
By Sol LeWitt
Located in New York, NY
LeWitt has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide since 1965. A leading figure of the Conceptual and Minimalist movements, his prolific ...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Monoprint
'Fantasia Americana, 1880' — Mid-Century American Surrealism
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches.
Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Work Bench — Mid-century Modern
By Charles Quest
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Work Bench', 1949, wood engraving, edition 40. Signed, dated and numbered 9/40 in pencil. Titled and annotated 'wood engraving 1949' in pencil, in the artist’s hand, lower right margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove Japan, with full margins (1 3/4 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, a successful artist, and fine art instructor, worked in a variety of mediums including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture, but remains best known as a printmaker. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929, and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters. After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis.
Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium which he apparently learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’ In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting a lot of critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’ were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’ and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’, was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in the Graphic Arts Division of the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). This one-man exhibition was a remarkable achievement for Quest, who had been working in the medium for only about ten years. In the press release for the show, Kainen praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’
At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had also won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951. Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’.
Charles Quest retired from teaching in 1971 and made relatively few prints in his later years, as the rigors of the medium were too demanding. He moved to Tryon, North Carolina, with his wife Dorothy, an artist and portrait painter, and remained active as a painter until his death in 1993. An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted the interest of Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for the University's collection.
In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division became the grateful recipient of a large body of Quest's work including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, and stained glass, as well as his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Le monocycle (Performer on a Unicycle)
By Bernard Buffet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le monocycle (Performer on a Unicycle)
Color lithograph, 1968
Signed and numbered in pencil lower left corner
From the portfolio "Mon Cirque" (My Circus)
Edition: 120 (12/120)
Refere...
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1960s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Night Life at the Moulin Rouge
By Henry Somm
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Night Life at the Moulin Rouge
Pen and ink drawing, c. 1890
Signed lower left (see photo)
A scene of the night life near the Moulin Rouge, Paris. The Moulin Rouge is the famous caba...
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Late 19th Century French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Ink
CALIFORNIA VISTA
By Harold Lukens Doolittle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD L. DOOLITTLE (1883 – 1974)
CALIFORNIA VISTA, 1923
Aquatint signed and titled in pencil. 8 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches. Sheet 11 x 14 inches. Good condi...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Hotel du Pacha Noir (before lettering).
By Jules-Alexandre Grün
Located in New York, NY
Hotel Pachenoir, 1900. Color lithograph. On Linen 51 x36. ( Image Size: 48 x33 3/4.)
Jules-Alexandre Grünwas a French post-impressionist painter, poster artist, and illustrator. ......
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
JOE MCDONALD
By David Hockney
Located in Portland, ME
Hockney, David. JOE MCDONALD. Scottish Arts Council 175. Gemini DH76-767.
Lithograph in two blacks, 1976. Done in crayon on both a stone and an aluminum ...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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ABS, Lithograph
Study for a Decoration (Marguérite).
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Study for a Decoration (Marguérite). 1926. Etching. Fletcher catalog 46 state ii/iii. 6 7/8 x 5 (sheet 11 3/16 x 9 1/16). 5 proofs in this state (total 76 proofs). Illustrated: Salam...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
'Westminster Abbey' — Royal Church, London
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Westminster Abbey', etching, edition not stated, 1927. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-i...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
'Verdi' — American Modernism - Italian Opera Composer
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Verdi', wood engraving, 1936, edition 60, (only 14 printed), Wien 188. Signed, titled, and numbered '10/60' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream, laid Japan paper, ...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Untitled (Plate 1) DLM
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 1) DLM
Color lithograph, 1963
Unsigned and unnumbered (as usual)
From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141
Published by A. Maeght, Paris
Image/sheet size: 14 7/8 x 11 inches...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
NIGHT WINDOWS
By John Sloan
Located in Portland, ME
Sloan, John (American, 1871-1951). NIGHT WINDOWS. Morse 152. Etching and drypoint, 1910. The 5th state of 5. Edition of 100. Titled, signed, and inscribed...
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1910s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
The Dancer (Anaïs).
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
The Dancer (Anaïs). 1925. Etching. Fletcher catalog 52 state viii. 9 3/4 x 6 1/16 (Sheet 14 1/4 x 10 1/2). Edition 107. An extremely rich proof printed on cream 'MADE IN ENGLAND' ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Chez Madame Dupont
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
Chez Madame Dupont. 1931-32. Drypoint. Appleby 158. 8 3/16 x 11 3/4 ( 11 1/8 x 18 1/3). Edition 100, #75. A fine impression on pale cream-colored laid paper, printed on the full shee...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$1,000 Sale Price
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Merry Beaglers: Hunting Lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Color printed aquatint engraving with additional contemporary hand-colored details. Engraved by John Harris after the painting by Harry Hall. London, 1897. ...
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1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Zephyr - Ceramic
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
Archival giclée print
Edition of 70, Set of 8
Paper size: 57.2 x 56 cms (22 1/2 x 22 ins)
Image size: 40 x 40 cms (15 3/4 x 15 3/4 ins)
Starting from a belief that all forms, and li...
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2010s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Archival Ink, Giclée
The Garden of Love (after Peter Paul Rubens [1577-1640]
By Christoffel Jegher
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Garden of Love (after Peter Paul Rubens [1577-1640])
Woodcut diptych, c. 1633-1636
Each of the two sheets is signed in the plate lower right
A posthumous impression with tiny wor...
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17th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
![The Garden of Love (after Peter Paul Rubens [1577-1640]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/christoffel-jegher-1596-1652-3-netherlands-prints-works-on-paper-the-garden-of-love-after-peter-paul-rubens-1577-1640-for-sale/a_140/a_147163221719706543029/FA1849_montage_master.jpg?width=240 "Christoffel Jegher - The Garden of Love (after Peter Paul Rubens [1577-1640]")
Kanani (Hawaii)— 1940s Polynesian Portrait
By John Melville Kelly 1
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Melville Kelly, 'Kanani (Hawaii)', drypoint, 1946. Signed, titled and annotated 'No 36' in pencil. A superb impression, in dark brown ink, on ...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
'The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City '— American Expressionism
By Frederick K. Detwiller
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Frederick K. Detwiller, 'The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City', lithograph, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Lith 20' in pencil. Inscribed 'To my Friend Herbert L. Jones' in pencil. Signed and dated, in the stone, lower right; initialed and dated '1927' in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with margins (7/8 to 1 1/4 inches); slight toning in the top left sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.
Image size 20 1/2 x 14 inches (521 x 356 mm); sheet size 22 1/2 x 16 inches (572 x 406 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
The Sixth Avenue El was constructed in the late 1870s by the Gilbert Elevated Railway and reorganized as the Metropolitan Elevated Railway. By 1878, it was running from Rector Street to 58th Street. Soon after that, it was taken over by the Manhattan Railway Company, with three other Manhattan elevated train lines. The company built a connection, the ‘spur’ by which it turned west on 53rd Street to merge with the 9th Avenue El—paralleling the present-day route of the 6th Avenue subway.
The Sixth Avenue El served the “Ladies Mile” shops (including the Siegel-Cooper emporium, whose building now houses Bed...
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1920s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
FROZEN CUSTARD and STUDY FOR FROZEN CUSTARD
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. FROZEN CUSTARD. S.183. Etching and engraving, 1939. Second State of two. Edition of only 18, printed by Marsh and signed and titled in pencil. 7 x 10 inches, 178 x 2...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Ink, Engraving, Etching
Les Laveuses, 2e Pensee (The Washerwoman)
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Laveuses, 2e Pensee (The Washerwomen)
Lithograph, c. 1910
Unsigned (as issued)
Edition: c.30-50 impressions
Condition: Rust spot, associated with pape...
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1910s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Purple Tulips 1, from The Flowers Portfolio
By Alex Katz
Located in London, GB
Archival pigment print, 2021, on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 100, Lococo Publishing, Missouri, 80 x 119 cm. (31½ x 46¾ in.)
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Archival Pigment
'George Washington Bridge (Under Construction)' — 1920s New York City
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'George Washington Bridge' (under construction) also titled 'The Cables That Hold it All', etching, 1928, edition unknown. An uns...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
AGONY
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROBERT PHILIPPI (Austrian 1877-1959)
KNEELING NUDE. c. 1923 (Chrastek, Widder 2019, p. 162, N° 461) (in Rifkind Collection, LACMA: From a portfolio of 1...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
$600 Sale Price
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Mayan Trio
By Francisco Dosamantes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mayan Trio
Lithograph, 1950
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition 250 for Associated American Artists
Publsihed 1950
Reference: AAA Cat.: 1950‑05; 1958‑01
AAA Index 1087
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 x 9 1/2 inches
Francisco Dosamantes (b. October 4, 1911 - d. July 18.1986) was a Mexican artist and educator who is best known for is educational illustrations and graphic work against fascism. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Life
Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. He was not registered into the civil registry until he was about twenty years old on March 6, 1939. His mother’s name is not listed on the certificate. As a child, he demonstrated a strong interest in drawing and color, influenced by his father and his uncle Juan. The Mexican Revolution occurred while he was a young child and he stated that he remembered events such as soldiers on horses charging as well as the execution of rural farm workers.
He attended primary and high school in Mexico City but stated that his education was irregular and deficient. He then entered the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, where he studied for five years. Initially, however, he was disappointed with the inexperience of the young professors and he left for a short time to study on his own. During this time, some of the dissatisfied professors organized the 30 30 group against the academic system of the school and which whom he sympathized. The effort gained the attention of established artists such as Diego Rivera who intervened.
He died on Mexico City on July 18, 1986
Career
After he graduated, he worked with the cultural missions of the Secretaría de Educación Pública in Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Colima, Coahuila and Chihuahua (state) from 1932 to 1937 then again from 1941 to 1945. He stated that this experience was vital to his conscience as he worked with rural farm workers and others he stated were worthy of dignity and respect, but victims of deceit and exploitation. When he returned to Mexico City, he gave classes in high schools from 1937 to 1941. In 1945 he founded and directed the Taller Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura “Joaquín Claussell” in Campeche, Campeche.
Dosamantes was a politically and culturally active artist with most of his work and affiliations related to such. He was a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios from 1934 to 1938. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, serving as administrator in 1940 and remaining a member until his death except for one short hiatus. He created posters for conferences about fascism and Nazism such as Alemania bajo bayonetas (Germany under bayonets) in 1938. In 1940 he became the secretary general of the Sindicato de Maestros de Artes Plásticas. He was also a member of the Sociedad para el Impulso de las Artes Plásticas en 1948, a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1949 and a member of the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas from 1952.
He painted a number of murals in rural areas of Mexico generally when he was there on cultural missions. His main mural is at the former home of José María Morelos in Carácuaro, Michoacán, but there are a number at various rural schools. These were all painted between 1941 and 1946.
As a book illustrator he mostly worked for the Secretaría de Educación Pública working on books for literacy campaigns.
He exhibited his works, which included engravings, oils, tempuras and lithographs in Mexico and abroad. His first individual exhibition was in 1930 at the Galeria de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. His major exhibitions include the Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1932, various exhibitions in New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in 1937; the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Missouri in late 1947, and the Gallery of Mexican Art in...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
END OF THE DAY
By Robert Gwathmey
Located in Portland, ME
Gwathmey, Robert (American, 1903-1988). END OF THE DAY. Williams 4.
Screenprint in colors, 1944.
Edition size not known. Signed in ink, lower right, within the image.
12 1/4 x 14 ...
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1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Game of Chance
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
88.3 x 69.9 cms (34.7 x 27.51 ins)
Edition of 100
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Color, Aquatint, Lithograph
BAIGNEUSES
By Henri Fantin-Latour
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR (French 1836-1904)
BAIGNEUSES (4e grande planche), 1898 (Hediard 138 II/II)
It’s one of 6 works that formed a suite of images published ...
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1890s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$650 Sale Price
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Wave Warrior
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with metallic gold powder, Edition 25
Don Ed Hardy is a painter, printmaker and tattoo artist. Fascinated by tattoos since childhood, Hardy has become a master of...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Black Cat
By Walasse Ting
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Black Cat
Color lithograph, 1981
Signed in pencil lower right
Annotated: AP (Artist Proof)
Printer: Jorge Dumas, Atelier Dumas, New York
Condition: Very fresh colors
Slight creasing ...
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1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Looking Up (left profile of a man looking toward the heavens)
By Maurice Pasternak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maurice Pasternak has created a surreal landscape that includes several spirit-like creatures seeming to wander in an unknown landscape He moves images around on the paper to create ...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
$140 Sale Price
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Vedute di Roma (3rd state) (Frontispiece of series, with Statue of Minerva)
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Chicago, IL
Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma): Frontispiece for the whole series, with Statue of Minerva.
A fine impression of the rare 3rd state (of seven) of this m...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Racamadour (French Church Series #10) — Lyrical Realism
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Rocamadour' (French Church Series # 10), etching, 1927, edition 50, Fletcher 186. Signed, dated, and annotated 'First State' in pencil. Titled and dated 'Rocamadour 1926' in the plate, bottom right. A superb, finely detailed impression, in dark brown ink, on buff laid Japan paper, with full margins (1 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition.
Image size 13 3/4 x 10 inches (349 x 254 mm); sheet size 15 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches (400 x 346 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Literature: illustrated in Dorothy Noyes Arms, 'Churches of France', The Macmillan Company, 1929.
Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Davis Museum (Wellesley), McNay Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and the Whitney Museum of Art.
ABOUT THE SUBJECT
Rocamadour is a small clifftop village in south-central France. It is known for the Cité Réligieuse complex of religious buildings, accessed via the Grand Escalier staircase. It includes the Chapelle Notre-Dame, with its Black Madonna statue, and the Romanesque-Gothic Basilica of St-Sauveur.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“John Taylor Arms will live on and on and future generations centuries from now will marvel at his work... . As a friend and as a man, he fully matched his superb work.” —John Winkler, printmaker
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1887, John Taylor Arms attended the Lawrenceville School and began the study of law at Princeton University. In 1907, he transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and took up the study of architecture. Arms evolved his unique drafting style, with its highly realistic, precise detail and exquisitely rendered effects of light, from his experience and practice as an architectural student. He graduated in 1911 and completed a master’s degree the following year. He then worked as a draftsman with the well-known Carrere and Hastings Company in New York.
In 1913 Arms was given a hobbyist’s etching set, and he began to dabble with copperplate and acid. In 1915, after copying a handful of prints by Jongkind and other Etching Revivalists, Arms created his first original etching. His early experiments were picturesque views of European villages, reflecting the influence of Whistler. He inked and printed several of these plates in color in the manner of Charles Mielatz...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$720 Sale Price
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'Mount Fuji, Japan' — from the series 'Axis Mundi', Contemporary
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Beth Ganz, 'Mount Fuji, Japan', copperplate photogravure etching, edition 10, 2019. Signed, titled, and numbered 6/10 in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression in warm black ink, on cream, wove, cotton rag paper; the full sheet in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches; sheet size 16 x 15 1/2 inches.
From the artist's series of 64 photogravure etchings, 'Axis Mundi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Photogravure
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...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
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WESTERN PEAKS
By Harold Lukens Doolittle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD LUKENS DOOLITTLE (1873 - 1974)
WESTERN PEAKS c. 1945
Aquatint signed and titled in pencil. 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 sheet 9 5/8 x 12 3/4.
Good condition save for just a hint of darkening within the window and small bits if tape on the sheet edge verso.
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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1940s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Imperfect Print for B.A.M.
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in London, GB
Woodcut and screenprint in colours, 1987, on Arches wove paper, signed and dated in pencil from the edition of 75, published by Parasol Press, Ltd., New York, from The Brooklyn Acade...
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Color, Screen, Woodcut
Ocelot by Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "The Quadrupeds of North America. Octavo Edition" by John James Audubon. Plate LXXXVI. P...
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1850s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Paper
The Serenade
By Louis Legrand
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A superb, richly-inked impression, with skilfully wiped plate tone and burr in the drypoint, printed in dark sepia ink on cream laid paper, with the Louis LeGrand watermark in the bo...
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1890s Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
View of Venice II - Bacino
By Antonio Frasconi
Located in New York, NY
Antonio Frasconi created the color woodcut entitled "View of Venice II – Bacino" in 1968. It is signed, titled, dated, and inscribed “13/18” in pencil. The paper size is 24 x 36 inch...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
'The Visitor' — Surrealist Fantasy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Zena Kavin, 'The Visitor', lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '9/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Returning to the Stable.
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
Returning to the Stable. 1920. Drypoint. Appleby 64. 8 3/4 x 12 1/4 (sheet 11 7/16 x 16 1/8). Edition 100. A rich impression printed on cream laid paper wi...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$800 Sale Price
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The River at Belfast, Maine
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
Jacquette creates compelling images of the landscape and the sea from the air or atop hills or mountains.
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Rue Furstenberg
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Rue Furstenberg. 1894. Lithograph. Way 59; Levy 90; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink catalog 97. Only state. 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 (sheet 14 1/4 x 8 7/8). A fine ...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$5,500 Sale Price
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The Pool of London.
By William Lionel Wyllie
Located in Storrs, CT
The Pool of London. c. 1915. Etching and drypoint. 7 7/8 x 15 7/8 (sheet 11 x 14 7/8 x 21 1/4). A rich impression with drypoint burr printed on the full sheet of simili-Japan paper. ...
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1910s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$1,500 Sale Price
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The Thames and the Tower of London
By William Lionel Wyllie
Located in Storrs, CT
The Thames and the Tower of London. 1924. Etching and drypoint. 6 3/8 x 14 3/4 (sheet 10 1/4 x 17 1/4). Mat line; otherwise fine condition. A rich impr...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$975 Sale Price
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'Feu sous L'eau' (Fire Under Water) —Mid-century Modernism, Atelier 17
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stanley William Hayter, 'Feu sous L'eau (Fire Under Water)', color engraving, soft-ground etching and scorper with yellow silkscreen, 1955, edition 50 plus 10 artist proofs, Black & Moorhead 221. Signed, titled 'Fire Under Water', dated and annotated 'Essai' in pencil. Dedicated in the artist’s hand 'for Adja & Dove WH Bill 17–5–55' in the top margin. A superb, richly inked impression with fresh colors, on heavy, cream wove paper; wide margins (2 1/2 to 3 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. One of 10 artist’s proofs. Image size 10 3/16 x 7 inches; sheet size 18 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
In 1950 Hayter returned to Paris and reopened Atelier 17. Works such as 'Fire Under Water' reveal newfound influences, such as that of the Ardèche area of southern France, where he acquired a house in 1951 and frequently visited. Hayter took great interest in the flowing Escoutay River, an experience that parallels the artist and co-director of Atelier 17 Krishna Reddy’s interest in depicting water. While some forms in this print evoke the natural world, the palette of contrasting tones of purple, yellow, black, and white reflects Hayter’s belief in using color intuitively to express emotions and evoke feelings. The sharp white relief lines from the paper and the textural effects realized through soft-ground etching operate in tandem with the sweeping curves and bold colors to give the composition a sense of vitality and dynamism.
—edited from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published by 'La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine', Paris.
Impressions of this work are in the following collections: British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris, now known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists he is credited with influencing are Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall.
The hallmark of the workshop was its egalitarian structure, breaking sharply with the traditional French engraving studios by insisting on a cooperative approach to labor and technical discoveries. In 1929 Hayter was introduced to Surrealism by Yves Tanguy and André Masson, who, with other Surrealists, worked with Hayter at Atelier 17. The often violent imagery of Hayter’s Surrealist period was stimulated in part by his passionate response to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism. He organized portfolios of graphic works to raise funds for the Spanish cause, including Solidarité (Paris, 1938), a portfolio of seven prints, one of them by Picasso. Hayter frequently exhibited with the Surrealists during the 1930s but left the movement when Paul Eluard was expelled. Eluard’s poem Facile Proie (1939) was written in response to a set of Hayter’s engravings. Other writers with whom Hayter collaborated included Samuel Beckett and Georges Hugnet.
Hayter joined the exile of the Parisian avant-garde in 1939, moving with his second wife, the American sculptor Helen Phillips...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Etching
High Tide
By Hiroki Morinoue
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut, Edition 30
The left panel of High Tide captures the reflections of the edge of a pond and surrounding trees and hills. The right panel depi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Le Beguin (Anaïs)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Le Beguin (Anaïs). 1922. Etching. Fletcher catalog 33 state iii./iv (before cancellation). 5 1/2 x 4 5/16 (sheet 11 1/2 x 8 13/16). Edition 76. Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarter...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
The Butterfly.
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
Edmund Blampied, R.E. The Butterfly. 1928-29. Drypoint. Appleby 133. 9 5/8 x 7 7/8). Etching (sheet 15 1/4 x 10 3/16)on 100. A rich impression printed on cream-colored laid 'F.J.He...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$1,200 Sale Price
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Canadian Geese in Flight
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Canadian Geese in Flight
Drypoint printed with plate tone in the sky
c. 1940's
Signed in pencil lower right
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches
Provenanc...
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1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Elegy Fragment II
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on Georges Duchene Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper
87.6 x 61 cm (34 1/2 x 24 inches)
Edition of 52
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
Cosmos
By Nishimura Hodo
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cosmos
Color woodcut with gauffage (embossing), January 1940
Unsigned (as usual)
Publisher: Takemura Hideo
(active Yokohama 1926-1940)
Condition: excellent
Image size: 14 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches
Provenance: Robert O. Muller Estate
Biography
Hodo Nishimura...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
‘LE REPOSE du MODELE' - Rare First State
By Henri Matisse
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRI MATISSE (French 1869-1954)
LE REPOSE du MODELE 1922 . (Duthuit 416)
Original lithograph, FIRST STATE, on Chine volant paper BEFORE image was reduced at the left edge. An uns...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
English Bar
By Louis Legrand
Located in Storrs, CT
English Bar. 1908. Etching and drypoint. Exsteens catalog 275 state ii. 8 1/8 x 5 5/8 (sheet 17 3/8 x 12 1/4). Series: Les Bars. Edition 65 in this state (total edition 95). Printed ...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$800 Sale Price
54% Off
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