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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Untitled
By Henri Goetz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Engraving, drypoint & carborundum, c. 1960's
Signed and numbered in pencil lower margin (see photos)
Edition: 25 (9/25)
Printed by the artist
Condition: Adhesive residue on ...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Le Mais (Corn on the cob) in woven basket)
By Laurent Schkolnyk
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maize by Scholnyk is a mezzotint of ears of corn in a woven basket. This impression is #25 of an edition of 80.
Schkolnyk was born in Paris, France in 1953 and currently resides in...
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1890s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
Glowing Tree
By Gabor F. Peterdi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Glowing Tree
Etching, engraving & lift ground, 1958
Signed, titled and annotated in pencil (see photos)
Edition: Artist Proof (there was a published addition of 30 with five stencil ...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Intaglio
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Brushed aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on German Etching paper
71.8 x 56.5 cms (28 1/4 x 22 1/4 ins)
Edition of 32
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
'Viel Gluck 1923' (Good Luck Wishes) — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Viel Gluck 1923 Wunscht der Graphikverlag, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothenfelde', woodcut, 1922, edition 20. Signed and numbered op. 135d and 20/20 in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream Japan paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/8 inches), in good condition. With the artist’s blind stamp in the top left margin. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
New Year's Greeting - "1923, Good Luck Wishes from the Graphic Press, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothfelde."
Image size 5 x 3 1/2 inches (127 x 89 mm); sheet size 6 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (168 x 149 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 (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Flowering Quince and Cantonese Buttercup, Siskin — 19th century woodblock print
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Imao Keinen, 'Flowering Quince and Cantonese Buttercup, Siskin' from the series 'Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons', color woodblock Oban diptych, 1882. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream Japan paper, in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size: diptych 12 5/8 x 17 7/8 inches (321 x 452 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Kyoto, Imao Keinen (1845-1924) studied painting and calligraphy with Umegata Tokyo and Suzuki Hyakunen. He taught at the Kyoto Prefecture School of Painting and exhibited in shows in Japan and Paris. One of the most well-known Japanese painters of his time, Keinen was honored by his country with the title of 'Artist of the Japanese Empire...
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1880s Naturalistic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
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
Z is for Zoe
By Harvey Daniels
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is an#1 of an edition of 7
Harvey Daniels (British, 1936-2013)
Born in London, Daniels attended the Willesden School of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art, London University an...
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1960s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Le Seuil (The Threshold)
By Judith Rothchild
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Le Seuil" (The Threshold) is an image printed in 2006. This impression is Roman numeral X of XX. It is titled, dated, numbered and signed by the artist.
Judith Rothchild, printma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
The Great Landscapes II, (4th State)
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Chicago, IL
Watermark:
Schellenkappe (Foolscap) Similar to Churchill no. 340
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17th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
The First $100, 000 I Ever Made
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
It is hard to characterize John Baldessari’s varied practice—which includes photomontage, artist’s books, prints, paintings, film, performance, and installation—except through his ap...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Red Mountain
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Red Mountain
Three color lithograph, 1986-7
Signed, titled and dated in pencil lower right
Annotated "B.A.T." for Bon a Tire lower left corner
This example is the printers guide for ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Poster for the Saxon Trade and Art Exhibition, Dresden 1896
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Poster for the Saxon Trade and Art Exhibition, Dresden 1896
Color lithograph poster mounted on heavy linen, 1896
Signed in the stone lower left corner (see photo)
Proof before additi...
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1890s Jugendstil Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Keresan Dancers
By Gene Kloss
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Keresan Dancers
Etching & drypoint, 1962
Signed lower right (see photo)
Inscribed lower left: "Artist's Proof Keresan Dancers"
Depicts Keresan speaking peoples at Sam Felipe Pueblo
Contemporary Puebloans are customarily described as belonging to either the eastern or the western division. The eastern Pueblo villages are in New Mexico along the Rio Grande and comprise groups who speak Tanoan and Keresan languages. Tanoan languages such as Tewa are distantly related to Uto-Aztecan, but Keresan has no known affinities. The western Pueblo villages include the Hopi villages of northern Arizona and the Zuni, Acoma, and Laguna villages, all in western New Mexico.
Born Alice Glasier in Oakland, CA, Kloss grew up amid the worldly bustle of the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with honors in art in 1924. She discovered her talents in intaglio printmaking during a senior-year course in figurative drawing. The professor, Perham Nahl, held up a print from Kloss’ first plate, still damp from the printing process, and announced that she was destined to become a printmaker.
In 1925, Gene married Phillips Kloss, a poet and composer who became her creative partner for life. The match was uncanny, for in her own way Gene, too, was a poet and a composer. Like poetry, her artworks capture a moment in time; like music, her compositions sing with aesthetic harmony. Although she was largely self-taught, Kloss was a printmaking virtuoso.
On their honeymoon the Klosses traveled east from California, camping along the way. They spent two week is Taos Canyon – with a portable printing press cemented to a rock near their campsite – where Gene learned to appreciate the wealth of artistic subject matter in New Mexico. The landscape, the cultures, and the immense sky left an indelible impression on the couple, who returned every summer until they made Taos their permanent home 20 years later.
Throughout her life, Kloss etched more than 625 copper plates, producing editions ranging from five to 250 prints. She pulled every print in every edition herself, manually cranking the wheel of her geared Sturges press until she finally purchased a motorized one when she was in her 70s. Believing that subject matter dictated technique, she employed etching, drypoint, aquatint, mezzotint, roulette, softground, and a variety of experimental approaches, often combining several techniques on the same plate. She also produced both oil and watercolor paintings.
Kloss’ artworks are filled with drama. Her prints employ striking contrasts of darkness and light, and her subjects are often illuminated by mysterious light sources. Though she was a devout realist, there is also a devout abstraction on Kloss’ work that adds an almost mythical quality.
For six decades Kloss documented the cultures of the region-from images of daily life to those of rarely seen ceremonies. She and her husband shared a profound respect for the land and people, which made them welcome among the Native American and Hispanic communities. Kloss never owned a camera but relied instead on observation and recollection. Her works provide an inside look at the cultures she depicted yet at the same time communicate the awe and freshness of an outsider’s perspective.
Although Kloss is best known for her images of Native American and Penitente scenes, she found artistic inspiration wherever she was. During the early years of their marriage, when she and Phil returned to the Bay Area each winter to care for their aging families, she created images of the California coast. And when the Klosses moved to southwestern Colorado in 1965, she etched the mining towns and mountainous landscapes around her.
In 1970 the Klosses returned to Taos and built a house north of town. Though her artwork continued to grow in popularity, she remained faithful to Taos’ Gallery A, where she insisted that owner Mary Sanchez keep the prices of her work reasonable regardless of its market value. Kloss continued to etch until 1985, when declining health made printmaking too difficult.
From her first exhibition at San Francisco’s exclusive Gump’s in 1937 to her 1972 election to full membership in the National Academy of Design, Kloss experienced a selective fame. She received numerous awards, and though she is not as well known as members of the Taos Society of Artists...
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1960s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
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
TEAHOUSE AND WILLOW TREE
By Junichiro Sekino
Located in Portland, ME
Junichiro Sekino (Japanese, 1914-1988). TEAHOUSE AND WILLOW TREE. Color woodblock print, not dated. Edition size not known. Signed in pencil and with the a...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Titre pour "Le Sourire"
By Paul Gauguin
Located in London, GB
Paul Gauguin
Titre pour "Le Sourire"
1899
Woodcut
Paper size 13.8 x 21.9 cms (5 1/2 x 8 5/8 ins)
Image size 10.5 x 20.8 cms (4 1/8 x 8 1/8 ins)
Kornfeld 61
Signed in lower left corn...
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1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Arising
By Alessandro Mastro-Valerio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arising
Mezzotint, 1942
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Publisher : Issued by the Miniature Print Collectors Society.
Edition: 200
Condition: Mint
Archival framing wit...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
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
'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
THE MODERN POSTER.
By April Greiman
Located in New York, NY
THE MODERN POSTER. 1988.
38 3/4x24 1/2 inches, 98 1/2x62 1/4 cm.
Condition A. Paper.
Greiman, an early proponent of computer imagery and digital design, became a prominent role model for a new generation of American graphic designers in the digital age. She was able to incorporate her knowledge of European Modernism into Californian ;New Wave style. As Steven Heller explained in Eye Magazine...
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1980s 85 New Wave Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Offset
'Hurdy Gurdy Ballet' — New York City American Scene, Ashcan School
By Glenn O. Coleman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Glenn O. Coleman, 'Hurdy Gurdy Ballet', lithograph 1928, edition 50. Signed, dated, and numbered '14/50' in pencil. Titled in the bottom left margin, in an...
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1920s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Duet — Cellist and Pianist, 1930s Lithograph
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Herschel Levit 'Duet', lithograph, c. 1937. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 x 2 inches)...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Drawing Boards I (grey / purple)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 60, Set of 5
74.9 x 56.5 cms (29.5 x 22.25 ins)
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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
New Map of the Terraqueous Globe - WORLD MAP - CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND
By Edward Wells
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EDWARD WELLS (British 1667- 1727)
A NEW MAP of the TERRAQUEOUS GLOBE - according to the latest Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into CONTINENTS and OCEANS, 1700-01 (Shirley 609)
Engraved by Michael Burghers, Oxford. Hand-colored, Platemark 14 1/4 x 20 1/8 inches. Central cartouche flanked by figures representing the continents with dedication to William, Duke of Gloucester...
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Early 1700s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
MISSOURI MOUSE - Large Folio "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America" Pl.100
By After John James Audubon
Located in Santa Monica, CA
(After) JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785 - 1851)
MISSOURI MOUSE, 1846 - Plate 100 (C) No. 20
Lithograph with original hand coloring. From Audubon's "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America...
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1840s American Realist 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
Pointed Shapes and Black Half Moon
By Werner Drewes
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Werner Drewes, 'Pointed Shapes and Black Half Moon', etching, 1935, edition 20, Rose l.198. Signed, dated, and numbered 'I-XX' in pencil. A fine, rich impression, in warm black ink...
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1930s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
'Going My Way?' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Going My Way?', lithograph, 1946, edition 14. Signed in pen, recto. Titled, numbered '#118 14/14' and dated '5/5/46' in pen, verso. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 5/8 to 2 15/16 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 13 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches; sheet size 17 x 12 3/8 inches. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
An impression of this work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a 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
(Large!) UNA DELLE QUATTRO FIGURE RAPPRESENTANTI QUATTRO VITTORIE
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (1710-1778)
UNA DELLE QUATTRO FIGURE RAPPRESENTANTI QUATTTRO VITTORIE, (Focillon 330, Wilton-Ely 463) 1750-1756
Etching, Plate 48 from “Le Antichita Romane“ vol. 3. Engraved by Jean Barbault...
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1750s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Portrait of E.D.
By Jacques Villon
Located in Chicago, IL
This impression is signed and numbered 24/25. The references for this work are: Auberty & Perussaux 191 and Ginestet & Pouillon E. 277.
This is one of Jacques Villon’s great 1913...
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1910s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
A Gale at Port Errol
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
A Gale at Port Errol. 1923. Etching. Hardie 215, #46. 13 x 8 3/4 (sheet 16 7 /8 x 11 1/2). Edition 76. #46. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1923. A rich...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
'Vague Lumineuse' (Luminescent Wave) — Late 19th Century Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théophile Pierre Wagner, 'Vague Lumineuse' (Luminescent Wave), lithograph, edition not stated but small, c. 1895. Signed and titled in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower left. A f...
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1890s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Hand-Colored Penguin Engraving
By George Edwards
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving, hand-colored at the time of publication, after the work of George Edwards from "Sammlung verschneider auslandischer und seltener Vogel" by Johann Michael Seligma...
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Mid-18th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper
Sanctuary
Located in New Orleans, LA
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
The Black Silk Dress (Anaïs).
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
The Black Silk Dress. 1927. Etching. Fletcher catalog 58 state .ix (published state). 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 (sheet 14 1/2 x 9 1/8). Edition 76 in this state; total 111 proofs). Exhibited at...
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1920s Renaissance Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Modernist Nude — Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Russell T. Limbach, 'Untitled (Modernist Nude)', etching and aquatint, no known edition, c. 1930. Signed in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 7/8 to 2 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 8 15/16 x 5 15/16 inches; sheet size 13 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches. Extremely rare. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Probably created when Limbach was in Paris (1928-1934), where he was exposed to modernist printmaking explorations at Stanley William Hayter’s 'Atelier 17'.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Massillon, Ohio, Russell Limbach...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Truck Traffic (Colorful Gridlock in Manhattan)
By David Kapp
Located in New Orleans, LA
A six block woodcut published in an edition of only 23. It is signed and archivaliity
David Kapp is best known for his paintings of the contemporary urban landscape. His paintings ...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Little Hall's Island.
By Kerr Eby
Located in Storrs, CT
Little Hall's Island. 1940. Etching and sandpaper ground. Giardina 199. 10 x 15. Edition 100. Little Hall's Island is located off the coast of Friendship. Maine. Signed and annotated 'imp' (imprimit) in pencil, indicating a proof printed Eby. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat.
Eby was an Associate of the National Academy NA (1930); National Academy of Design (1934); Society of American Etchers; Chicago Society of Etchers; Philadelphia Society of Etchers; National Institute of Arts and Letters. Kerr...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Three Irises
By Roberto Juarez
Located in New York, NY
Many places, many times intermingle in the work of Roberto Juarez. His life is so much a part of his work, that each new body of work introduces subjects, styles and motifs that ...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Floating Crap Game
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Floating Crap Game, chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1958, edition 145. Signed, titled, numbered 'Ed. 145' and dated '3/1958'. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, rich ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Open Action.
By Kerr Eby
Located in Storrs, CT
Published edition, not trial proof
Open Action. 1926/1928. Etching. Giardina 124. 7 x 15 1/8 (sheet 12 3/4 x 15 1/4). Trial proof, prior to the edition of 90. A rich, tonal impressi...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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
'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, 1940s Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 IV. Annotated 'PW 290 state IV / IV 3669', in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. With the artist's typed address and date adjacent to the letterhead image: 'Falls Village, Connecticut September 26th, 1940'.
A fine impression, on buff, wove letterhead stock; several small losses, and tears, in the sheet edges (not affecting the image area); a crease in the bottom right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Very scarce.
Image size: 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 11 x 8 5/8 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Feininger moved from Germany to New York City in 1938 and began spending his summers in Falls Village in 1940.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
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
Arkoi
By Matt Magee
Located in Houston, TX
Matt Magee
Arkoi, 2022
Monotype on BFK Rives
26 1/4 x 19 3/4 in (66.7 x 50.2 cm)
JPHB 5644
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Monotype
The Vraic Season (No 1).
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
The Vraic Season (No 1). 1936. Etching. Appleby 181. 12 x 14 1/4 (sheet 15 1/4 x 20). Edition 125 for The American College Society of Print Collectors (alternatively titled Seaweed H...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
River Scene with Village and Church
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine, well contrasted impression of the 1st State, before the addition of the number, present when the work later was included in Bol’s River Series.
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16th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Politics
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
Politics (Tonnere de Brest). 1926. Drypoint. Appleby 108. 7 x 9 (sheet 10 1/2 x 15 1/2). A rich impression printed on cream wove paper with full margins. Illustrated: Salaman, Modern...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
La Grande Cascade de Saint Cloud
By Alfredo Müller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Grande Cascade de Saint Cloud
Color aquatint on watermarked Arches J Perrigot paper, 1905
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right. (see photo)
Edition: 100. Numbered "39" in ...
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Early 1900s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Piramidi
By Sol LeWitt
Located in New York, NY
LEWITT, Sol. Piramidi. 10 lithographs, each 222 × 680 mm, in publisher's cardboard box, preserved in a new cloth folding box. Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1986.
This stunning set of ...
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1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Winter Fun — Mid-century Modernism, Central Park, New York City
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Winter Fun', lithograph, 1940, edition 20, 250 (1941). Flint 188. Signed in pencil, with the artist’s monogram in the stone, lower left. A...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
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
Studio Flowers
By Robert Kipniss
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Studio Flowers
Lithograph, 1982
Signed lower right (see photo)
Numbered lower left
Edition: 120 (42/120) (see photo)
Condition: Mint condition
Two bits of hinge residue verso
Image s...
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1980s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Olliver St. John Gogarty
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Oliver St. John Gogarty. 1935. Etching. Fletcher 78. 6 7/8 x 5 1/2 (sheet 11 1/4 x 8 3/8). Edition 100. 75 intended for the Cuala Press, Dublin. A rich impression, printed on cream-wove paper. Signed in pencil.
The etching was done as a commission for Cuala Press, Dublin, as a frontispiece for Gogarty's book, Elbow Room Before publication, the project was changed and the print was never used.
Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty (17 August 1878 – 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Green Sugarbowl — Mid-Century Color Woodcut
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Ross Abrams, 'The Green Sugarbowl', color woodcut, 1949, edition 24. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'Artist’s proof' in pencil. A fin...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
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
Materials
Lithograph
'Craugh Phadrig, Ireland' — from the series 'Axis Mundi', Contemporary
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Beth Ganz, 'Craugh Phadrig, Ireland', copperplate photogravure etching, edition 10, 2020. 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
Cruach Phadraig in Irish, known as Croagh Patrick...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Photogravure
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