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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Paperclip Suite IId (yellow/blue)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Sanctuary - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
This etching is #2 out of an edition of 10
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2010s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
George's Dock, LIverpool.
By Sir Frank Short
Located in Storrs, CT
1890. Etching. Hardie 245. 5 7/8 x 7 3/4 (sheet 8 1/4 x 10 1/8). Two hinge stains in the top sheet edges; otherwise excellent condition. A rich impression with plate tone, printed on cream wove paper with full margins. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat.
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George's Dock was located on the River Mersey, England, within the Port of Liverpool. It was connected to Canning Dock to the south and George's Basin to the north. The dock, which opened in 1771, was designed and built by Henry Berry and expanded by John Foster, Sr.
In 1899 the dock and the adjoining George's Basin were filled in to create what is now the Pier Head...
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19th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
'Fruit Piece' — American Modernism, Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Pamela Bianco, 'Fruit Piece', lithograph, c. 1925. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower left. Annotated 'No. 8' in pencil, upper right...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
A Regatta on the Grand Canal [Venice]
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
A Regatta on the Grand Canal. 1930. Drypoint. Hardie/Carter 248. 8 7/8 x 15 3/8 sSheet 13 3/16 x 19 3/8). Edition 80, #5. A fine impression on cream-colored wove paper with full margins. Signed and numbered in ink. Housed in an 18 x20-inch archival mat.
Carter writes, "A procession of boats, gaily decorated, is entering the Grand Canal, with the Campanile and the Doges' Palace in the background. On the left is the baroque poop of a boat with a flamboyant, carved female figure; on the right, another boat with a prow of two prancing horses."
Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr Lawson...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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Untitled
By Michael Graves (b.1934)
Located in New York, NY
Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect. Identified as one of The New York Five, as well as Memphis Group, Graves was known first for his contemporary building designs and some prominent public commissions that became iconic examples of Postmodern architecture, such as the Portland Building and Denver Public Library. His recognition grew through designing domestic products sold by premium Italian housewares maker Alessi, and later low-cost new designs at stores such as Target and J. C. Penney in the United States. He was a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture and formerly designed postmodern buildings, and was recognized as a major influence in all three movements. Michael Graves was one of the most prominent and influential architects and designers of the late- 20th and early- 21st centuries. In his buildings and in his furniture and housewares, Graves embodied the essence of Postmodernism — a refined classicism inflected with a humanistic sense of joy. The Indiana-born Graves attended the University of Cincinnati’s architectural program and continued his studies at Harvard as well as at the American Academy in Rome. In 1962, he began teaching at Princeton, and remained there throughout his career. Following a seminal 1972 Museum of Modern Art group survey of rising modernist architects, Graves, along with Richard Meier, Charles Gwathmey, Peter Eisenman...
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1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$880 Sale Price
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Nu Bleu II
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952
From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54'
Pr...
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1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Beatles, Paul McCartney on a train at Marylebone Station
Located in London, GB
Original silver gelatin print on Ilford Multigrade fibre base 255 gsm paper, numbered in black pen to verso from the edition of 35, artist’s name blindstamp lower right, publisher’s ...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Silver Gelatin
Dixie's
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 75.
Red Grooms is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, and showman par excellence. His major installations, “Ruckus Manhattan”, “The City of Chicago”, and “Tut’s Fever” have stretched the boundaries of sculpture and painting and excited the imaginations of thousands of viewers.
Red Grooms and Master printer Bud Shark began their many print collaborations in 1981 with “Mountaintime”, followed in 1982 by their first three-dimensional lithograph, “Ruckus Taxi”. The range of prints produced by Grooms and Shark include `flatsos’, flat-color lithographs, like “Elvis” and “Van Gogh with Sunflowers”, three-dimensional lithographs, “London Bus”, “Little Italy” and “Times Square”, three-dimensional lithographs with moving parts, “Red’s Roxy”, and “Holy Hula”, woodcuts, “Noa...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$1,000
LAST MOMENTS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
Located in Santa Monica, CA
J. F. BUFFORD PUBLISHER and PRINTER
LAST MOMENTS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, April 15, 1865
Lithograph, very good impression. The 2 lower publishing lines ...
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1860s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Bertoia — Mid-Century Visionary Abstraction, Unique
By Harry Bertoia
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Harry Bertoia, Untitled (Abstraction), monotype, c. 1960, a unique impression. Signed 'HB' in pencil, lower right sheet corner, verso. Inscribed '1852' (the artist’s inventory number) in pencil, lower right sheet corner, recto. A superb, painterly impression, on cream wove Japan paper, the full sheet, in excellent condition. Unmatted, unframed.
Sheet size 12 x 39 inches (30 x 99 cm).
Provenance: Val Bertoia; Private Collection; Rago Auctions, Lambertville, NJ.
Literature: 'Harry Bertoia: Monoprints,' Nancy N. Schiffer, Schiffer Publishing LTD, 2011; pg. 253.
This work is included in the Harry Bertoia Foundation digital resource, Harry Bertoia Catalogue Raisonné, number TD.MO.1584.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) was a visionary Italian-American artist, sculptor, and designer. Born in San Lorenzo, Italy, Bertoia immigrated to the United States with his family at age fifteen, settling in Detroit, Michigan.
From an early age, Bertoia demonstrated a keen interest in art and design, studying painting and drawing at the Cass Technical High School in Detroit. Later, he attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he studied under renowned designers Eliel Saarinen and Charles Eames. At Cranbrook, Bertoia first began to explore the possibilities of working with metal, a medium that would come to define his artistic career.
In the 1940s, Bertoia moved to California to work for Charles and Ray Eames, contributing to the development of innovative molded plywood furniture. However, his experimentation with metal wire sculpture would ultimately catapult him to international acclaim. Bertoia's iconic "Sonambient" sculptures, consisting of delicate metal rods arranged in various configurations, created ethereal sounds when touched or moved, transforming the act of sculpture into a multisensory experience.
Bertoia's talent and innovation caught the attention of Florence Knoll, the founder of Knoll Associates, a leading furniture design company. In 1950, Bertoia began collaborating with Knoll, producing a series of iconic wire chairs that became emblematic of mid-century modern design. His "Diamond Chair," with its geometric form and airy construction, remains a classic of modern furniture design.
Bertoia continued to explore sculpture as a means of artistic expression, experimenting with new forms and materials. His work was characterized by organicism and fluidity, with forms that evoked natural phenomena such as waves, leaves, and clouds.
A decade before Harry Bertoia began creating three-dimensional sculpture, he dedicated his creative efforts to producing experimental prints at the Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, pursuing a passion that would continue for the rest of his life. With these spontaneous works, he worked intuitively, testing different tools and techniques to achieve his desired effects. Rather than using a traditional mechanical pressing process, he would apply ink to a glass or smooth Masonite plate with a sheet of paper laid directly on top. Then, tools such as brayers, dog hair brushes, styluses, and different parts of his hands were employed to draw or “press” the images on the back of the sheet. Rice paper was typically used due to its semi-translucent nature, offering Bertoia limited visibility of the effects of his experimentation, but ultimately, the unpredictable nature of the process was an integral aspect of the results, which never ceased to delight him. Each work was a singular composition with abstract imagery ranging from linear, structural compositions to fantastic surrealistic forms to poetic tonal landscapes. He received little input from other artists, developing his unique vision with rare purity and a deep personal resonance.
From his first year of printmaking in 1940, Bertoia quickly amassed an extensive collection of unique works. The compositions were strongly tied to the non-objective movement, which, while popular in Europe, was still in its nascent stages in the US. There were few proponents of this new art form to be found in the 1940s, and it was Hilla Rebay, then Director of the Guggenheim Museum of Non-Objective Art, who gave Bertoia the encouragement and promotion he needed. In 1943, Bertoia sent approximately 100 monotypes to Rebay for review. After receiving the prints, she responded with a surprising offer to buy them all. Rebay then began including them in the museum’s exhibitions.
The Guggenheim shows succeeded in putting Bertoia’s name out into the world. He began exhibiting his works regularly at the Neierndorf Gallery in New York and was provided a stipend to ensure a steady supply of prints until Karl Neierndorf died in 1947. By the 1950s...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Monotype
'Eyes for the Night' — Mid-century Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Eyes for the Night', color lithograph, 1948, edition 35, Fine and Looney 261. Signed, dated, and titled, and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. A fine impression with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by master lithographer Theodore Cuno. Image size 19 x 13 inches; sheet size 21 1/8 x 15 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Selected by the artist for his retrospective exhibition 'Benton Spruance: Lithographs...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
'Cerro Paine Grande, Chile' — from the series 'Axis Mundi', Contemporary
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Beth Ganz, 'Cerro Paine Grande, Chilean Patagonia', copperplate photogravure etching, edition 10, 2021. 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'. Additional works from the series are available; please inquire.
Exhibited: 'Photography in Ink, A Look at Contemporary Copper-Plate Photogravure,' Curated by Leandro Villaro, Penumbra Exhibition Space Gallery, Nov 30, 2022 - March 15, 2023.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
Cerro Paine Grande is the highest summit of the Cordillera Paine Mountain Range located within Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, one of the most breathtaking national parks in the world and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1978. The Torres del Paine or Towers of Paine are three massive granite pillars...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Photogravure
WHAT DOES ART MEAN HERE? - WAS HEISST HIER KUNST?
By Andreas Paul Weber
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893-1980)
WAS HEISST HIER KUNST? (WHAT DOES ART MEAN HERE?) c 1953
Lithograph, signed in pencil and with the artist's Clan Press Stamp lower left corner. Image including the light PRINTED BORDER AROUND THE IMAGE is 15 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches. The full sheet 19 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches with deckle edges.. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. SHEET FRESH AND EVEN - PHOTO IS TOO DARK!!
An image of EDVARD MUNCH''S "THE SCREAM" is below a satirical image of a man eating a sausage sitting on top of other works of art including - GOYA"S "SLEEP OF REASON...
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1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Rooftops (the harbor and skyline of NYC from Brooklyn rooftop)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
Moody, mysterious, majestic – these are some of the ways to describe the mezzotints of Frederick Mershimer. His images travel through the serenity of a Brooklyn neighborhood on a sti...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint, Aquatint
UNTITLED
By Werner Drewes
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WERNE DREWES (1899-1985)
UNTITLED, 1934
Woodcut on paper, Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil Ed. 15/20. Image 13 3/8 x 11 1/8 inches. Full sheet, 17 x 12 1/8 inches deckle edge o...
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1930s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
'Petrouchka's Predicament' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Petrouchka's Predicament', color lithograph, 1946, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '115' and '14/20' in pen. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, off-white wove paper; full margins (1 1/4 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 21 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches; sheet size 24 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
'Petrouchka', a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Michel Fokine, is based on the legend of Russian folklore. 'Petrouchka', a puppet made of straw with a bag of sawdust as his body, comes to life and has the capacity to love, a story conceptually resembling that of Pinocchio.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a well-known modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus. He received his degree in architecture and design from the Armour Institute in Chicago and worked at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1924-27, where he was influenced by Harry Kurt Bieg and Le Corbusier. Upon his return to Chicago, Faro worked with the important modernist Chicago architects George and William Keck under Louis Sullivan.
Faro founded the avant-garde printmaking group Vanguard in 1945. The group counted Atelier 17 artists Stanley William Hayter, Sue Fuller...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Model
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Santa Monica, CA
RAPHAEL SOYER (1899 - 1987)
THE MODEL 1944 (Cole 64)
Lithograph Signed in pencil, edition 250, 11 ¾ x 7 ¾ Full margins, sheet 15 ¾ x 12
with deckle edge. Very slight toning to the ...
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1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Loop VI (the artist's memories of days at Chicago's Art Institute)
By Richard Gilbert
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Loop VI was created in a small edition of 15. The Loop is a vibrant area featuring eclectic eateries, shops, theaters and parks. Comprised mostly of high-rises, it’s also home to the 108-story Willis Tower. The iconic “Cloud Gate...
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1990s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
12th Street Walls — 1940s New York City
By Armin Landeck
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Armin Landeck, '12th Street Walls', etching, edition 100, first state, 1944, Kraeft 93. Signed in pencil. Initialed in the plate lower left. A superb, early impression, with all the ...
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1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Trim Fit (Deconstructed Singer machine gives both steel and silk equal weight)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax deconstructs a Singer sewing machine in this mezzotint created in an edition of 75. The image gives equal weight to the steel of the machine and the silk of the fabric. It...
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Early 2000s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
Mujeres Veracruzans (three seated women from Vera Cruz Mexico in shawls)
By Francisco Dosamantes
Located in New Orleans, LA
Three native Mexican women all similarly dressed in traditional, flowing white dresses covered in dark, fringed shawls raise their heads as if the...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Derrier le Miroir, cover, Volume 141
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derrier le Miroir, cover, Volume 141
Original color lithograph, 1963
Unsigned and unnumbered (as issued)
From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141
Published by A. Maeght, Paris
Condition: E...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Abschied (Parting)
By Emil Nolde
Located in New York, NY
Emil Nolde (1876-1956), Abschied (Parting), etching and aquatint (tonal effects), 1906, signed in pencil lower right. Reference: Schiefler/Mosel 20, third state (of 3). One of only...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
'Bullfight'— Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Bullfight', wood engraving, 1945, edition 15. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '105' (the artist's inventory number) and '13/15' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/16 to 2 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 1/16 x 4 1/16 inches (129 x 103 mm); sheet size 8 9/16 x 6 5/16 inches (217 x 160 mm).
An impression of this work is included in the museum collection of the National Gallery of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a well-known modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus. He received his degree in architecture and design from the Armour Institute in Chicago and worked at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1924-27, where he was influenced by Harry Kurt Bieg and Le Corbusier. Upon his return to Chicago, Faro worked with the important modernist Chicago architects George and William Keck under Louis Sullivan.
Faro founded the avant-garde printmaking group Vanguard in 1945. The group counted Atelier 17 artists Stanley William Hayter, Sue Fuller, and Anne Ryan as New York members and Francine Felsenthal...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
$360 Sale Price
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EL MOZO
By Mauricio Lasansky
Located in Portland, ME
Lasansky, Mauricio (American, 1914-2012. EL MOZO. Lasansky 188. Engraving, etching, soft ground, open-bite, drypoint and resist ground, 1966. Printed from three plates: a copper mast...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Etching
AMERICA
By John Speed
Located in Santa Monica, CA
IMPORTANT AMERICAN MAP - ONE OF THE FIRST TO SHOW CALIFORNIA as an ISLAND
JOHN SPEED (1552-1629)
AMERICA - With Those Known Parts In That Unknown Worlde (sic),
1626-(76)
(Burden 217 iv/iv) Engraving, uncolored. Engraved by Abraham Goos and
published by Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell - 4th state of 4 in 1676
15 1/8 x 20 1/2” From “A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the
World”. Generally good condition. A repaired split in lower centerfold. This
is the most common version of this important map...
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1620s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
$4,000 Sale Price
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SELF PORTRAIT IN A GERMAN MANNER - Large Monotype
By Karl Schrag
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KARL SCHRAG (German - American 1912 - 1995)
SELF PORTRAIT IN THE GERMAN MANNER, 1991
Monotype, Signed titled, dated and annotated "Monotype with touches of Oil color, I /I"
Plate an...
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1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Monotype
Une Dacquoise. (Anaïs) (A Woman from Dax (Landes)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Une Dacquoise. (Anaïs) (A Woman from Dax (Landes).) 1922. Etching. Fletcher catalog 29 state iii. 6 3/8 x 4 1/2 (sheet 11 1/2 x 9 1/8). Edition 76. A rich impression printed on crea...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
The Beatles, John Lennon on a train at Marylebone Station
Located in London, GB
Original silver gelatin print on Ilford Multigrade fibre base 255 gsm paper, numbered in black pen to verso from the edition of 35, artist’s name blindstamp lower right, publisher’s ...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Silver Gelatin
The Beatles, Ringo Starr on a train at Marylebone Station
Located in London, GB
Original silver gelatin print on Ilford Multigrade fibre base 255 gsm paper, numbered in black pen to verso from the edition of 35, artist’s name blindstamp lower right, publisher’s ...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Silver Gelatin
'Little Locomotive' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Little Locomotive (Kleine Lokomotive)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W158. Annotated 'W 158' (Feininger catalogue number) and '1936' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 1/4 x 3 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (East Berlin KK).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
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1930s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Kreuzende Segelschiffe 2 (Cruising Sailing Ships 2)
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in New York, NY
Lyonel Feininger, “Kreuzende Segelschiffe 2 (Cruising Sailing Ships 2)”
1919, Woodcut.
Prasse W175. Edition 275 unsigned for portfolio Die tunlte Jahresgabe des Kreises graphischer ...
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1910s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Eve #26
By Kate Shepherd
Located in Houston, TX
Kate Shepherd
Eve #26, 2022
Unique screenprint on Coventry Rag paper
38 3/4 x 23 5/8 in (98.4 x 60 cm)
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Untitled (Still Life)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Still Life)
Etching, aquatint and soft ground, 2001
Signed in pencil (see photo)
Edition: 260
Published by the Print Club of Cleveland, Publication 80, 2002
Printed by Felix Harlan at Harlan and Weaver, New York
William Bailey, Modernist Figurative Painter, Dies at 89
He swathed his nudes and still lifes of eggs, vases, bottles and bowls in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery.
The painter William Bailey in 2009. He was never given a career survey in a major museum, but his influence, particulary on students at Yale, was deep.Credit...Ford Bailey
By William Grimes for the New York Times
April 18, 2020
William Bailey, whose pristine, idealized still lifes and female nudes made him one of the leading figures in the return of figurative art in the 1980s, died on April 13 at his home in Branford, Conn. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Alix Bailey.
Beyond his painting, Mr. Bailey influenced generations of students in his many years as a teacher at the Yale School of Art.
In some of his best-known work, Mr. Bailey arranged simple objects — the eggs, bowls, bottles and vases that he once called “my repertory company” — along a severe horizontal shelf, or on a plain table, swathing them in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery.
His muted ochres, grays and powdery blues conjured up a still, timeless world inhabited by Platonic forms, recognizable but uncanny, in part because he painted from imagination rather than
“They are at once vividly real and objects in dream, and it is the poetry of this double life that elevates all this humble crockery to the realm of pictorial romance,” Hilton Kramer wrote in The New York Times in 1979.
Mr. Bailey’s female figures, some clothed in a simple shift or robe and others partly or entirely nude, are disconcertingly impassive, implacable and unreadable, fleshly presences breathing an otherworldly air.
The critic Mark Stevens, writing in Newsweek in 1982, credited Mr. Bailey with helping to “restore representational art to a position of consequence in modern painting.”
But his version of representation was entirely idiosyncratic, seemingly traditional but in fact “a modernism so contrarian,” the artist Alexi Worth wrote in a catalog essay for the Betty Cuningham Gallery in 2010, “that it feels, despite its historical sophistication, almost like a brand of outsider art.”
William Harrison Bailey...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Red Damsel (Human looks at small Tinker Bell like figure)
By Lois Ward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lois Ward's "Red Damsel" is a color mezzotint created in 1994 in a very small edition of just 10. This impression is #2 of 10. A young human figure in green gazes down on a Tinker B...
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1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
Charing Cross - The Statue of Charles I.
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in Storrs, CT
Charing Cross -- The Statue of Charles I. 1919. Etching with aquatint and drypoint. 3 5/8 x 4 7/8 (sheet 9 1/8 x 11 3/8). A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream-wove paper. Signed in pencil.
Charing Cross is located at the junction of the Strand, Whitehall, and Cockspur Street in Central London, England. The name originates from the Eleanor cross installed by King Edward I as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile at the former hamlet of Charing. Since 1675, the cross site has been occupied by a statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse. The pedestal is thought to be designed by Wren and carved by Grinling Gibbons.
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...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
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Untitled (Plate 2) DLM
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 2) DLM
Color lithograph, 1963
Unsigned and unnumbered (as issued)
From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141
Published by A. Maeght, Paris
Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris
Note...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
'Early Marshes' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Early Marshes', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1943, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '37/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (2 5/8 to 7 inches), in excellent condition.
With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 x 5 7/8 inches (127 x 149 mm); sheet size 15 x 11 inches (381 x 279 mm).
Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945 and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions.
“The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.”
—Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature.
Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research.
Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June.
Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages."
In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking.
Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Marche aux Legumes a Pontoise
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO (French 1830- 1903)
MARCHE AUX LEGUMES A PONTOISE, 1891 (D. 97ii/ii)
Etching and aquatint, Unsigned as published in Le Peintre-graveur Illlustre: Pissarro, Sisley,...
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1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
'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
'Mehr Sonne fur 1924' (More Sun for 1924)— German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Mehr Sonne fur 1924. Viel Gluck Wunscht Karl Michel U. Frau', woodcut, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op. 162' and '15/20' in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression on buff wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
New Year's Greeting – English translation: "More Sun for 1924. Good Luck Wishes from Karl Michel and his Wife."
Image size 4 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (118 x 121 mm); sheet size 7 3/4 x 10 inches (198 x 254 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
'The White House' — Vintage Washington D.C.
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'White House', etching, edition not stated, c. 1928. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with skillfully-controlled plate tone, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches; sheet size 11 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Etcher, painter, and architect Anton Schutz was born in Germany in 1894. He studied at the University of Munich, earning a double degree in mechanical engineering...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Climber
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30
Don Ed Hardy is a painter, printmaker and tattoo artist. Fascinated by tattoos since childhood, Hardy has become a master...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
'Arbre-Homme' (Tree-Man) —Mid-Century European Surrealism
By Ferdinand Springer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ferdinand Springer, 'Arbre-Homme', engraving, 1945, edition 23. Signed and numbered '23/20' in pencil.
A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, b...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
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 ...
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1890s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Zephyr - Stratos Cumulus
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
Quintet
By Terry Haass
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Quintet', etching and aquatint, edition 20, c. 1948. Signed, titled, and numbered '12/20' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
'Feast of Passover' — American Expressionism
By Max Weber
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Max Weber, Untitled 'Feast of Passover', woodcut, 1920, edition proofs—this impression from the edition of 25 printed in 1956, Rubenstein 30. Signed in pencil...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Untitled (Mother and Child)
By Maurice Denis
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Maurice Denis, Untitled (Mother and Child), lithograph, 1897, edition not stated. Signed in the stone, lower right. Annotated in linotype 'MAURICE DENIS, ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIE PAN III' in the lower left sheet corner. A fine, atmospheric impression, in warm, dark gray ink, on buff wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 1 3/4 inches); a small discoloration in the bottom left sheet corner, otherwise in good condition. Image size 8 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches; sheet size 13 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches. As published in 'Pan', the leading German magazine of the period devoted to art and literature. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Reproduced: German Expressionist Prints...
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1890s Symbolist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Triste Os (Sad Bones)
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Triste Os (Sad Bones)
Color etching and aquatint on Montval laid paper, 1934
Monogrammed and dated in the plate (see photo)
Edition: 250
References And Exhibitions:
Plate 8 from the ...
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1930s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
Peter Blake, M is for Marilyn, from Alphabet Series, 1991
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Two of a Kind Va (broken blue line on purple)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
71 x 71 cms (28 x 28 ins)
Edition of 50
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Color, Lithograph
Fats Domino
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms’ “Ruckus Manhattan” in the mid-1970s humorously transformed Grand Central Terminal into a 3-D caricature of New York City. “I wanted to do a novelistic portrait of Manhattan from Battery Park to Grant’s tomb,” Grooms explained. The comic-book inspired interactive installation included iconic landmarks—the subway, Central Park, the Apollo Theater...
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1980s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$800 Sale Price
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Ink is King
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
In "Ink is King", an Oni (a Japanese folklore demon) is seen riding a koi fish on a wave. This demon brandishes his ink stone and brush, conjuring up...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Studio Interior No. 1 — 1930s Masterwork
By Armin Landeck
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Armin Landeck, 'Studio Interior No. 1', 1935, drypoint, edition 100, Kraeft 56. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream laid pap...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
POSTER SIZE MEXICAN LINOCUT - DESPERTAR (Awakening)
By Adolfo Mexiac
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ADOLFO MEXIAC (Mexican b.1927 - )
DESPERTAR, (Awakening) 1960
Linoleum cut signed, titled and dated. image 19 1/4 x 27 1/2. Sheet 24 x 31 1/2
Generally very good condition save for a loss along the top sheet edge and creasing in the lower right part of the sheet. This print was most likely produced at the TGP (El Taller de Grafica Popular...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Linocut
$850 Sale Price
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ALAMANDA
By Roi Partridge
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROI GEORGE PARTRIDGE (1888 - 1984)
ALAMANDA. 1937-42 (White 242), Etching edition 27, Signed In pencil and in plate. 13 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches. On a cream toned paper with full margin...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
THE RETURN
Located in Portland, ME
Pellew, Claughton (British, 1890-1966). THE RETURN. Ashmolean 17. Wood engraving, 1925. Edition of 25. Initialed in the block, and titled, signed, dated and...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
THE WINDOW II
By David Bumbeck
Located in Portland, ME
Bumbeck, David (American, born 1940). WINDOW II. Etching and aquatint, 1966. An Artist's Proof aside from the edition of 35. Ttiled, inscribed "Artist's Proof," and signed and dated,...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
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