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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Four Knots
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 50
71 x 76 cm (28 x 30 ins)
RSE023
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Art Forms in Nature (Plate 79 - Basiliscus) — 1899 Celebration of Nature
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ernst Haeckel, 'Art Forms in Nature' (Plate 79 - Basiliscus), offset lithograph, 1899. Signed and titled in typeset, upper left. Titled 'Tafel 79 — Basi...
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1890s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Settling II Homage to the Mezzotint (Self Portrait of Artist with his Tools)
By Francisco Souto
Located in New Orleans, LA
Francisco Souto has created his self portrait working on the plate of a mezzotint. This is impression #14 from an edition of only 23.
Souto received a BFA from Herron School of Art ...
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Early 2000s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
Listening
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Listening is a 2000 mezzotint that is signed by the artist.
Art Werger’s lyrical suburban scenes are evocative of boyhood summer evenings while his city images are fraught with tens...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
Au Bois De Boulogne (illustrating the congregation of French nobility outside
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Au Bois De Boulogne (illustrating the congregation of French nobility outside the Chalets du Cycle
Chromolithograph, 1897
Signed in the plate lower right corner
From the Special Supp...
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1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Nude at Piano
By John Sloan
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Sloan, 'Nude at Piano', 1933, etching, edition 100, (only 85 printed), Morse 265. Signed, titled and annotated '100 proofs' in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right...
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1930s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Suite Catalana, plate 2
By Antoni Tàpies
Located in London, GB
Aquatint in colours, 1972, on Guarro paper, signed and inscribed in pencil aside from the edition of 75, published by Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 75.7 x 100.5 cm. (29.8 x 39.6...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Lament for Lorca
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on white Tyler Graphics Ltd. (TGL) handmade paper
44x61 in (111.8x154.9cm)
Edition of 52
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Color, Lithograph
THE FORGE - Rich Drypoint
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEIL WHISTLER (1834 – 1903)
THE FORGE 1866 (Kennedy. 68 iv/vi: Glascow 86 vi/vi)
Etching and drypoint. Signed and dated in the plate 1866. VERY GOOD IMPRESSION WITH...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE BROADCAST - Published by WPA!
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NAN LURIE (b. 1910-?)
INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE BROADCAST, c 1935
Lithograph, published by the WPA New York Project. Signed and titled in pencil with the
WPA NY Project stamp lower left. WPA Editions are typically about 25. Image 14 x 10” sheet 16 x 11 ¼”. Listed in the GSA (General Service Administration) WPA catalog in only one example, the University of Kentucky Art...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Flowers
By Bernard Buffet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Flowers
Color lithograph
Signed in pencil (see photo)
Annotated in pencil "Eprueve HC" (see photo)
A trial proof reserved for the artist
Printed by Mourlot, Paris
First edition was 1...
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1950s Post-Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 150
104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins)
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Still Life
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Screenprint from 18 screens. On Velin Arches mould-made paper
Based on 'Still Life', textile dyes on hand-made Indian paper, 1978
Signed with initials and dated 1980 in pencil, lower...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
IMMIGRANT FAMILY
By Ben Shahn
Located in Portland, ME
Shahn, Ben. IMMIGRANT FAMILY. Serigraph, 1941. Prescott 2. Edition size unknown; Prescott knew of only 3. This copy unsigned. 11 1/2 x 18 inches (image), 19 1/4 x 25 1/4 (sheet), fra...
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1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Rolling Stock Series (For Chuck)
By Robert Cottingham
Located in New York, NY
Robert Cottingham's Rolling Stock series is a significant part of his artistic portfolio, focusing on railroad imagery. The series features hand-colored etchings, collographs, and mo...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
J is for James Dean
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77cm.
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1990s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Scattered Seed II
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with aluminum leaf, Ed. 30
In "Scattered Seed I" and "Scattered Seed II" her new lithographs, Liu has juxtaposed portraits of late 19th/early 20th century Chinese prostitutes - derived from photographs of the time - with images of dandelions rendered from close-up photographs she took at national parks and historic sites around the Western US, including Mount Rushmore, Devil...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Golden Parachute
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Golden Parachute
Color aquatint and gold leaf.
Edition of 50
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
'Bacchus' — 18th Century Classical Italian Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Bacchus', engraving, 1734, edition unknown. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the plate, lower left. Engraving by Gabbugiani, after the original by Giovan...
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1730s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
'Chinoiserie' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'Chinoiserie', color serigraph, 1947, edition 50, Ryan 36. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled, dated, and annotated '4 COLORS – EDITION 50' in the scree...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
'Child and Seeing Hands' — after the artist's 1948 Surrealist masterwork
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hans Bellmer, 'Child and Seeing Hands', photogravure and engraving, edition 9, 1970. Flahutez 4-9. Signed by the artist and numbered '41/90' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impress...
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1670s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Photogravure
Ladies and Gentlemen
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1975, on textured watercolour Arches paper, signed by the artist in pencil on the reverse, numbered from the edition of 250 (there were also 50 artist’s proofs in roman numerals), published by Mazzota Editore, Milan, 95.2 x 64.8 cm. (37½ x 25½ in.)
The ‘Ladies and Gentlemen...
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1970s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
La Capeline de Paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat).
By Henri Matisse
Located in Storrs, CT
La Capeline de Paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat). 1923. Lithograph. Duthuit 430. 17 3/4 x 15 3/4 (sheet 23 1/8 x 17 7/8). Trial proof, apart fr...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Plate VI, from Album 19
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1961, on BFK Rives wove paper, signed with the artist's monogram in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (the total edition included 15 impressions numbered...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
L'Armoire (2nd State)
By Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in Chicago, IL
The Armoire
Etching
340 x 469 mm.; 13 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches
Reference:
Inventaire 18e siècle 9: 289-90, No. 22
Wildenstein 1956, cat. No. 23, State II/IV
Regency to Empire, 1...
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18th Century Rococo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
'Heart of San Francisco' — Vintage 1920s Realism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Heart of San Francisco', etching, c. 1927, edition not stated. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
'Sailing' — Modernism, New York City WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fred Becker, 'Sailing', wood engraving, c. 1935, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper; with full margins (1 to 2 15/16...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Untitled (Undertow Variant)
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Undertow Variant)
Etching and aquatint printed in colors
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 30 (9/30) see photo
Condition: Excellent
Image: 7 7/8 x 7"
She...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
Monsieur - Here's Your Handkerchief
By Honoré Daumier
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), Monsieur – Here’s Your Handkerchief, lithograph, 1842. Daumier Register 670, third state (of 3), sur blanc, plate 47 from the series Moeurs Conjugales, pu...
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1840s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Oursikoff - including a copy of the Journal in which it appeared
By Honoré Daumier
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), Oursikoff, lithograph, from Actualities, Plate number 72, published in Charivari, 1854. Reference: Daumier Register 2519, second state of two, a newsprint...
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1850s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
# 091208.4
By Harold Cohen
Located in London, GB
Harold Cohen
# 091208.4
2009
Digital print on paper, Edition of 25
53.3 x 91.2 cms (21 x 35 7/8 ins)
HC12025
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Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Digital
February -- Orchid. (Nigatsu - Ranjo no saku).
By Shiko Munakata
Located in Storrs, CT
February -- Orchid. (Nigatsu - Ranjo no saku). 1956. Woodcut with hand-applied color from the verso. Kodansha vol.9 No. 125. 17 x 13 (sheet 18 1/4 x 21 1/2). Series: Calender in the ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Watercolor, Woodcut
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...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint, Photogravure
The Plaza, Sunset Glow
By Walter Tittle
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'The Plaza, Sunset Glow', drypoint, c. 1920s, edition not stated. Signed in pencil and initialed in the plate, lower right. Titled 'The Plaza, Sunset' and annotated 'no. 165' in ink, in the bottom left sheet corner. A superb, luminous impression in dark brown ink, with selectively wiped plate tone; on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 2 1/4 inches). Pale tape stains on the top sheet edge, recto, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
A view across 'The Pond' in New York City's Central Park, toward Grand Army Plaza...
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1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
MONTPARNASSE AU MATIN
Located in Portland, ME
Hasegawa, Shoichi (French, born Japan, 1929- ). MONTPARNASSE AU MATIN. Color viscosity intaglio, 1977. Edition of 160, signed, titled and numbered 136/160, in pencil. 23 1/4 x 19 3/8...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Intaglio
March 8, 2001
By Paolo Ciampini
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is signed and numbered in an edition of 50
Paolo Ciampini was born in Montopoli in Val d'Arno in 1941. After graduating from the Art Institute of Cascina (Pisa) in ...
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Early 2000s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Grey Folded Clouds - I Blue and Pink
By Joe Goode
Located in London, GB
Joe Goode
Grey Folded Clouds - I Blue and Pink (blue sky tiles)
1971
Lithograph, Edition of 50
33 x 46 cms (13 x 18 ins)
JGE007
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
New York (from Ports of America)
By Louis Orr
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Orr, 'New York' (from the portfolio 'Ports of America', published by Yale University Press, 1928), etching, 1925, edition not stated. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the...
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1920s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Twilight (an otherworldly nude reclines under a dusky moon)
By Paul Wunderlich
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul Wunderlich created a series of 12 lithographs,Twilight together with his wife, Karin Szekessy, a fine art photographer. This image is of an other worldly nude reclining on a tab...
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1970s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
On the Roof Garden
By Christopher R. W. Nevinson
Located in Storrs, CT
On the Roof Garden. 1919. Mezzotint. Leicester Galleries 53, Guichard 32. 8 1/4 x 4 5/8. Edition 50. New York set. A richly inked impression printed on laid...
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1910s Futurist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
Everybody Pt. 1
By Amy Sillman
Located in New York, NY
Amy Sillman is an influential contemporary American painter and printmaker whose practice conflates the abstract and the figurative. Born in 1955 in Detro...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
MANHATTAN CLIFFS (Large Lithograph)
By Mark Freeman
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARK FREEMAN (1908 - 2003)
MANHATTAN CLIFFS, 1947
Lithograph (offset?) with 2 color plates. Signed, titled and dated. 19 1/2 x 15 in., large grey sheet, 22 3/8 x 17 1/2 in. Very good condition. A large and very strong image of New York.
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Swing (The swing of the bat from #27 a right handed hitter. Play Baseball!
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Play Ball! No. 27 unleashes a mighty swing at the ball. Both umpire and catcher are in their huddled crouch. "Swing" is an exclusive publication of Stone and Press Gallery by Art We...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
'Counterpoint' — Mid-Century Modernist Abstraction
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Counterpoint', color serigraph, 1942, edition 25, Ryan 45. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 25' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream, wove paper; the full sheet with margins (7/8 to 2 1/2 inches). A 1 1/2 inch crease across the top left sheet corner, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Scarce.
Image size 13 9/16 x 14 5/16 inches (344 x 364 mm); sheet size 14 15/16 x 17 inches (379 x 432 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Literature:
'A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking', David Acton, New York, London, 1990.
'American Screenprints', Reba and Dave Williams, New York, 1987.
'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock', Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, 2008.
Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Edward Landon dropped out of high school to study art at the Hartford Art School. In 1930 and 1931 he was a student of Jean Charlot at the Art Students League in New York, after which he traveled to Mexico to study privately for a year with Carlos Merida. In 1933 he settled near Springfield, Massachusetts, painted murals in the local trade school, and exhibited with the Springfield Art League. His painting 'Memorial Day' won first prize at the fifteenth annual exhibition of the League at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. Landon became an active member of the Artists Union of Western Massachusetts, serving as president from 1934-1938.
Landon acquired Anthony Velonis’s instructional pamphlet on the technique of serigraphy in the late 1930s. With colleagues Phillip Hicken, Donald Reichert, and Pauline Stiriss, he began experimenting with screen printing techniques. The artists' groundbreaking work in screen printing as a fine art medium was the subject of the group’s landmark exhibition at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts in 1940.
Landon became one of the founding members of the National Serigraph Society and served as editor of its publication, 'Serigraph Quarterly,' in the late 1940s and as its president in 1952 and 1953. The Norlyst Gallery in Manhattan held a one-person show of his prints in 1945. Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1950, Landon traveled to Norway, where he researched the history of local artistic traditions and produced the book 'Scandinavian Design: Picture and Rune Stones...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Fire Dance (Flambeaux carriers light the path of Endymion parade in New Orleans)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is #108.
Mershimer created a color mezzotint of the Mardi Gras scene in mid-city New Orleans. The parade was the Endymion crew marching on Canal Street near Jefferson...
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1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
The Lake
By Udo Claassen
Located in New Orleans, LA
German artist Udo Claassen created a dramatic landscape of this Icelandic scene in 1985 in an edition of 40. This is #33.
Claassen was born in Itzehoe in the state of Schleswig-Hol...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
MODEL
By Robert Riggs
Located in Portland, ME
Riggs, Robert (American, 1896-1970). MODEL (Bassham 8). Lithograph, c. 1932. Unsigned. 11 x 8 3/4 inches (image), 13 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (sheet). In very good condition.
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
'Doctor' from 'In Praise of Folly' — Mid-Century Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Doctor' from the series 'Moriae Encomium (In Praise of Folly),' mezzotint, 1943, no edition, proofs only. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/4 inches) in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
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).
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.
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...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
Backyard II
By Robert Kipniss
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Backyard II
Lithograph, 1972
Signed lower right
Signed lower right
Annotated: Printer's Proof
Reference: Karl Lunde 58
An impression is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chic...
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1970s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Le Rêve (The Dream)
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Rêve (The Dream)
Color gillotage poster, 1890
Signed in the image lower right corner (see photo)
This poster for a ballet at the Académie nationale de musique in Paris is typical ...
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1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
THE SMITH’S YARD
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEIL WHISTLER (1834 – 1903)
THE SMITH’S YARD 1895 (Spink, Stratis & Tedeschi 124)
lithograph, 1895, on wove paper, from the edition of 3000, published by
The Inter...
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1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Mexican Barber Shop (Getting a shave amidst revelry of community)
By Irwin D. Hoffman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Irwin Hoffman created a lively scene of a Mexican barber shop that serves as a focal point of the community's life. A man is being shaved as people cook, eat and revel in the camaraderie of the scene. This print was issued by Associated American Artists and is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Born in East Boston...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Telephone (The iPhone of the early 20th Century)
By Laurent Schkolnyk
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is an artist's proof (xv/xv) of an early telephone that is signed and numbered by the artist in pencil
Schkolnyk was born in Paris, France in 195...
Category
1980s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
'Ex Libris Dr. Witropp' — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Ex Libris Dr. Witropp - Homunculus und Galatee', etching, 1923, edition not stated. Signed, dated, and numbered 'Op. 140' (the artist's inventory number) in pencil. Si...
Category
1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
DO AS YOU CHOOSE ALLEY, CHARLESTOWN.
By Elizabeth Verner
Located in Portland, ME
Verner, Elizabeth O'Neill (American 1883-1979) DO AS YOU CHOOSE ALLEY, CHARLESTOWN. Etching, not dated. Edition of 80. Signed and titled in pencil and numbered 23/80. In excellent co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
'Cheval de Mecklembourg' — 19th-Century French Romanticism
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault 'Cheval de Mecklembourg' (Mecklembourg Horse), lithograph, 1822, 2nd state of 4, Delteil 47. Signed in the matrix 'Gericault', lower left. Published by Godefroy En...
Category
1820s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Les Pelerins d'Emmaus (The Pilgrims of Emmaus)
By Maurice Denis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Pelerins d'Emmaus (The Pilgrims of Emmaus)
After a 1894 painting by Denis in the Van Gogh Museum (see photo)
Color lithograph, 1895
Signed in pencil ...
Category
1890s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled #050105 (Pink)
By Harold Cohen
Located in London, GB
Harold Cohen
Untitled # 050105 (Pink)
2005
Digital print on paper, Edition 30
147.5 x 119.5 cms (58 1/8 x 47 ins)
HC11003
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Digital
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