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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Deux Antillaise (Deux Négresses)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Deux Antillaise (Deux Négresses)
Edition: Proof on Van Gelder paper
Unsigned (as usual for this image)
Edition: unknown
Published by Ambrose Vollard, Paris (?)
References: Johnson 25...
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1920s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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
Morita Kanya XIII As Genta Kagesue in the play Genta Kando
By Natori Shunsen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Morita Kanya XIII As Genta Kagesue in the play Genta Kando
Color woodcut, 1928
Signed and stamped middle right edge
Natori stamp lower left image edge
Series: Collection of Creative...
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1920s Showa Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Shoe Box (C)
By Allen Jones
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Shoe Box (C)
From: Shoe Box-Exotic (Sculpture and seven original lithographs)
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Lithograph printed on ...
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1960s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
LYAM 3D
By Kota Ezawa
Located in Berkeley, CA
Kota Ezawa recreates animated sequences from television, cinema, and art history. He uses basic digital drawing and animation software to create slide projections, light boxes, collages, and prints. In the vein of Warhol, his highly stylized facsimiles of familiar and often infamous images emphasize the distance between the viewer and the depicted figures that feature so prominently in America’s collective memory. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art, California among others. The artist is represented by the Cheryl Haines Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$1,500
Untitled
By Fred Sandback
Located in Houston, TX
Fred Sandback
Untitled, 1976
Aquatint
21 1/2 x 25 3/4
ed. 35
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20th Century Minimalist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
L’île Lacroix, à Rouen
By Camille Pissarro
Located in New York, NY
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), L’île Lacroix, à Rouen, etching, aquatint, maniere grise, drypoint, burnishing, c. 1887. Signed and numbered (No. 1) in pencil lower left, annotated 1...
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1880s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
GIRL WALKING - PILLAR - SOLDIER
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald GIRL WALKING - PILLAR - SOLDIER. S. 219. Engraving, 1942. State II of II. One of two proofs in this State, annotated "State II, 1/2" and signed by Marsh in pencil. Sa...
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1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Pond
By Sally Gall
Located in New York, NY
Sally Gall has spent her career exploring the intricacies of the natural world in delicate black-and-white photos of dew on spider webs, reflections on water, formal gardens, insects...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Photogravure
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
The Draped Figure, Seated
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Draped Figure, Seated
Lithograph on fine japanese paper, 1893
Signed in pencil with the butterfly (see photo)
Signed in the stone with the butterfly on the sofa (see photo)
Numbe...
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1890s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
THE TRAWLERS
By George Elmer Browne
Located in Portland, ME
Browne, George Elmer (American, 1871-1946). THE TRAWLERS. Drypoint, not dated. Edition size not stated. Titled and signed in pencil. In excellent condition.
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20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Moon Rays
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Moon Rays
Graphic Construction (three sheets layered in a shadow box presentation), 1967
Signed lower right. Editioned lower left. (see photos)
Edition: 60 f...
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1960s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Other Medium
WOMAN AND CATS
By Will Barnet
Located in Portland, ME
Barnet, Will. WOMAN AND CATS. Cole 134. Lithograph in colors, 1969. Edition of 100, titled and signed in pencil. Printed on Arches by Mourlot, NY. 21 x 22 1/2 inches. In excellent co...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Century Magazine
By Edward Henry Potthast
Located in Fairlawn, OH
After Edward Henry Potthast
The Century Magazine
Chromolithograph, July 7, 1896
Printed by W.B. Orcutt Co., NY
Note: This image won an honorable mention in a poster contest sponsored...
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1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
La sieste
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
La Sieste
1922
Lithograph on Chine paper, Edition of 50
Paper size: 45 x 57 cms (17 3/4 x 22 1/2 ins)
Image size: 40.5 x 43.5 cms (16 x 17 1/8 ...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$30,000
Vista
By David Salle
Located in New York, NY
This charming beach image by the American painter, printmaker, photographer and stage designer David Salle evokes the joy to be found in a serene day by the ocean. The print was publ...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$2,000
The Awakening-Night
By Mark Tobey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Awakening-Night
From: Homage to Tobey Portfolio (Six Plates)
Etching, 1974
Signed in pencil by the artist on the front lower right "Tobey" (see photo)
Numbered in Roman numerals ...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Man's Ruin
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25.
In Man’s Ruin, a wolf is portrayed as a nurse, two iconic images often seen in tattoo flash. Below the wolf are two brigh...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Crucifixion
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Crucifixion
Engraving, etching, and ground printed in colors, 1947
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
From the second printing by Jon Clemens, master printer in the 1990's
Done while the artist was at the Iowa Print Group, MFA Program, University of Iowa .
Condition: excellent
Image/Plate size: 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
WOMAN'S HEAD (WOMAN'S HEAD WITH RIBBON).
By Elie Nadelman
Located in Portland, ME
Nadelman, Elie (Born Poland, 1882, Died in New York, 1946). WOMAN'S HEAD (WOMAN'S HEAD WITH RIBBON). Drypoint, 1920. 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches, 106 x 69 mm., plus margins. Unsigned, as us...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate III
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate III
Color lithograph, 1976
Signed and numbered in pencil
From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buq...
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1970s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Barcham Green Portfolio
By Sherrie Levine
Located in Houston, TX
Barchman Green Portfolio, 1986
Suite of five etchings
31 x 22 1/2” each
ed. 25
Framed
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20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
Burst of Sound
By Misako Shimizu
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Burst of Sound
Lithograph printed in colors
Signed and titled in pencil in Japanese (see photos)
Edition: 30 (5/30)
Provenance:
Ralph Drake, Cleveland, OH, noted collector of decorat...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Progeny Suite: Jimmy Choo
By Ida Applebroog
Located in New York, NY
Born in Bronx, NY, Ida Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellows...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Digital
Oreilles gardees, by P.A. Benoit. Paris: PAB, 1962.
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in New York, NY
DUBUFFET, Jean. Oreilles gardees, by P.A. Benoit. Paris: PAB, 1962. Illustrated with letterpress designs by J. Dubuffet on variou colored papers. Square folio, [32] ff; decorated wra...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Other Medium
Girl Running (or Woman Running)
By Arthur B. Davies
Located in New York, NY
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Girl Running (or Woman Running), drypoint, 1917, signed in pencil (twice) lower left and dated lower right. Reference: Czes...
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1910s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
NIGHT FLIGHT
By Antonio Frasconi
Located in Portland, ME
Frasconi, Antonio. NIGHT FLIGHT. Color Woodcut, 1958. Edition of 20. Signed and dated, numbered 10/20, and inscribed "imp," all in pencil. 19 x 34 inches,...
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Alkyd, Woodcut
Les Moissonneurs (The Reapers)
By Alphonse Legros
Located in New York, NY
Alphonse Legros (1837-1921), Les Moissonneurs (The Reapers), etching, c. 1890, signed in pencil lower right margin. Reference: Bliss 464, third state (of 3)...
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19th Century American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Fille dite de joie (They Call Her Daughter of Joy)
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Fille dite de joie (They Call Her Daughter of Joy)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922-1927
Unsigned (as issued)
From: Miserere (Have Mercy), 58 plate...
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1920s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Prelude de Lohengrin (2e planche) (The Appearance of the Holy Grail)
By Henri Fantin-Latour
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Prelude de Lohengrin (2e planche) (The appearance of the Holy Grail)
Lithograph, 1898
Signed and dated in the stone lower left (see photo)
Printed on chine collee paper
Condition...
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1890s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Desert Icon II
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Desert Icon II
Screen print, c. 1968
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition 100 (17/100)
Printed by the artist
This image is the most elaborate of three color var...
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1960s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Basilica of Madeleine, Vezelay
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Basilica of Madeleine, Vezelay
Etching, 1929
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Annotated: "Third State" lower left
Printed on a sheet of old book paper
From: French Church Ser...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
SHOULD, WOULD, COULD
By Suzanne McClelland
Located in New York, NY
Suzanne McClelland fuses painterly marks with linguistic elements, creating rhythmic canvases that explore both visual and written languages. McClelland often begins with poetic verses, names, or numbers that she weaves into the space of her canvas, though she is rooted firmly in a tradition of abstraction, placing her in conversation with figures such as Louise Fishman...
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Late 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Woodcut
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Cloudburst
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Yal...
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Late 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Couverture pour Douze Lithographies en Couleurs, ou Passage et Interieurs
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Couverture pour Douze Lithographies en Couleurs, ou Passage et Interieurs
Color lithograph, 1896-1898
Unsigned (as issued)
From: Douze Lithographies en Couleurs, ou Passage et Interi...
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1890s Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Untitled (Portrait)
By William H. Bailey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Portrait)
Drypoint printed in blue-black graphite mixed with silver, 1974
Signed and dated lower ight (see photo)
From: Series entitled Six Drypoints
Edition: 23 (4/23)
Numbered lower left (see photo)
Print Shop: Crown Point Press
Printer: Jeannie Fine
Publisher: Parasol Press, New York
Note: A portfolio is in the collection of the National Gallery, Australia, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco- de Young/Legion of Honor, Davis Museum at Wellesley College and the Yale University Art Gallery.
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 6 3/8 x 5 3/8 inches
Sheet size: 24 x 20 inches
From a portfolio of six drypoints, printed with unqiue combination of blue-black graphite shavings combined with silver to create the appearence of an original drawing. I know of no other artist to use a similar printing technique.
William Bailey studied art at the University of Kansas, Yale University and Yale School of Art where he studied with Josef Albers receiving his MFA in 1957.
Mr. Bailey’s first exhibition in New York was at Robert Schoelkopf Gallery in 1968, where he showed regularly until its closing in 1990. During the 90’s he exhibited at the Andre Emmerich Gallery and on its closing, exhibited at the Robert Miller Gallery. In 2004 Bailey moved to the Betty Cuningham Gallery where his most recent exhibition was held from April 30 - June 11, 2016.
Mr. Bailey’s work has been exhibited extensively in both America and Europe. He is represented in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting in 1965. Mr. Bailey was elected to The National Academy of Design in 1983 and to The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986.
Mr. Bailey taught at The Yale School of Art from 1958 to 1962 and from 1969 to 1995. He has also taught at The Cooper Union, University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University. He maintains studios in New Haven and in Umbertide, Italy.
Courtesy Betty Cunningham Gallery
Tribute to William Bailey
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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.
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.
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 life.
“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
William Harrison Bailey...
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1970s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
COMBAT SOUSMARIN
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Portland, ME
Hayter, Stanley William. COMBAT SOUSMARIN (Black & Moorhead 233). Engraving and soft-ground etching in colors, 1957. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/50 in pencil. Printed on BFK...
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Etching
UNTITLED - SHIPPING YARD
By Edward A. Wilson
Located in Portland, ME
Wilson, Edward A. (American, born Scotland, 1886 - 1970). UNTITLED - SHIPPING YARD. Lithograph, 1945. Edition of 25, signed and numbered 23/25. 11 x 13 inches (image), 13 1/2 x 15 in...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Ile de la Cite, Paris
By Robert Delaunay
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Palais de Justice (Ile de la Cite, Paris)
Lithograph printed on chine paper, 1926
Signed in pencil; Atelier blindstamp l.l. (see photo)
Edition: Rare proof on chine, outside of th...
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1920s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Matisse in the Souk II
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype
Completed after a recent trip to Morocco, this print continues Grooms’ series of tributes to modern masters. Grooms imagined this scene as he followed the footsteps...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Monotype
Tank Car Rail
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Tank Car Rail, 1929, etching, signed lower right and numbered 15 lower left margin [also signed and dated in the plate]. Reference: Sasowsky 86, fifth sta...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Plain Weave Grid (Yellow Ochre, Viridian Green, Cerulean Blue, Vermillion Red)
By Ruth Laskey
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching.
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2010s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Tatoo-Shave-Haircut
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1934), Tattoo-Shave-Haircut, etching, 1932. Signed, titled (“Tattoo-Haircut-Shave”), dedicated (“for Arnold Newman”), and annotated (“Fourth State. First of Two Prints”). Reference: Sasowsky 140. On cream wove paper. In very good condition, with small margins (as trimmed, slightly irregularly, by the artist) (slight foxing in margins), remains of prior hinging verso; 9 7/8 x 9 3/4, the sheet 10 15/16 x 10 5/8 inches; archival matting.
A very fine rich black impression; we have not seen impressions of comparable quality on the market.
Provenance: Estate of Arnold Newman. Arnold Newman (1918-2006) was one of the great 20th Century masters of photography, and a friend of many leading artists; it is appears that Marsh took special care in printing this impression for Newman.
Sasowsky calls for 10 states of Tattoo-Shave, based largely on Marsh’s notes. But the states are not clearly delineated (e.g., his States 3 and 4, one proof each, are characterized by Marsh as “Engraving added”; no information is given for State 5). The design for the print was complete in the first state, and subsequent state changes were not, apparently, major.
This impression does not appear to differ in etching lines from the final state impression shown in Sasowsky. Its inscription (as a Fourth State, by Marsh), as well as its rich inking and quality, attest to its being a proof before the edition (of about 34 impressions), but the state of this print (and, presumably of many of the other several proof impressions) cannot at this time be stated with confidence.
Marsh printed this impression personally (we recall his famous answer to a question about the size of his editions: “Since I do practically all my own printing, I do not limit the edition. The buyer limits the edition – he rarely buys, I rarely print”).
Tattoo-Shave-Haircut depicts a scene in the Bowery, a section of New York’s Lower East Side, during the Great Depression. The building and train structures in the top half of the print recall Piranesi’s Carceri...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Flying Concellos
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Flying Concellos, etching, 1936, signed in pencil lower right and annotated “40 Proofs” lower left. Reference: Sasowsky 163, fourth state (of 4). In excel...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Buds
By Jack Beal
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Buds
Color lithograph, 1980
Signed, titled, and editioned in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Art Matters
Printer: Bud Shark, Shark's Ink, Lyons, CO
Condition: Excellent
Image: 31-1/8 x 41-1/4" (79 x 104.7 cm.)
"An Abstract Expressionist when he left the Art Institute of Chicago in 1956, Beal has since become a dedicated realist who sees art as a potentially powerful moral force. He has great regard for Platonic ideals of truth, beauty, and goodness, and admires both the realism of seventeenth-century Dutch painting and the compositional authority of Renaissance art. Since moving to New York in the late 1950s with his wife, painter Sondra Freckelton, Beal has painted still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, although in recent years his most ambitious undertakings have been large-scale allegories and myths. In describing his approach, Beal calls himself a "life painter" and says he is committed to human over aesthetic concerns. Yet his intricate complexes of figures and surface patterns, along with his adroit handling of space, reveal his sophisticated, accomplished sense of composition.
Virginia M. Mecklenburg
Biography
Jack Beal (1931-2013) was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He briefly attended the College of William and Mary, studying biology, but dropped out after two years. A decision to take evening art classes lead to his attending the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied from the old masters in the Institute’s collection and with Isobel Steele MacKinnon, a student of Hans Hoffman. His classmates there included Red Grooms, Richard Estes, Claes Oldenberg and Robert Barnes, and while abstract expressionism remained “the only valid way to paint,” it was a style that all would eventually reject. In 1956 Beal left the Art Institute and moved to New York with the aim of finding success as a painter, eventually becoming one of the first artists to settle in the SoHo neighborhood.
A turning point came in 1962 when, spending the summer in upstate New York, Beal decided to begin painting outdoors. Dissatisfied with abstract painting, he “wanted to give Art one more try” and in working from nature “fell in love with painting all over again.” Over the next few years Beal worked toward a balance between expressionistic paint handling and realistic, narrative pictures. Clement Greenberg’s pronouncement around this time, that the figure was no longer a valid subject was taken as a challenge by many artists, Beal included. His subsequent adoption of the female nude - modeled by his wife, the artist Sondra Freckelton - was a break-through. Though the paintings retained the sensuousness of his earlier canvases, the rigorous formality of their composition and the masterful treatment of light and shadow offered a new approach to realist painting. Indeed, Beal was not alone in this transformation; friends and colleagues in New York were coming to similar conclusions and the group, who included painters such as Philip Pearlstein, Alfred Leslie, Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Jack Tworkov, Nell Blaine and Fairfield Porter, would eventually be considered the ‘New Realists.’
With the resurgence of figurative painting, Beal distinguished himself for his skillful handling of color and modeling as well as what was later described as his “pushing of representational forms to their interface with abstraction”. Through the later half of the 1960s, while his subject matter remained unchanged, his paintings were increasingly given over to wide areas of flat color. In 1969, he exhibited a series of Table Paintings which, with their hard-edge style and near complete abstraction of the form, were a radical departure for Beal. So radical in fact, he was accosted by fellow realist painters Alfred Leslie and Sidney Tillim, who berated him “for betraying realism and betraying [himself], for moving away from ‘the true path’.” The incident had its intended effect and Beal did return to a more naturalistic and humanistic style, eventually abandoning the nude in favor of increasingly allegorical portraits. In 1974, the United States General Services Administration commissioned Beal to produce a series of murals for the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters in Washington D.C. The result was The History of Labor, four, 12 x 13 foot paintings in the vein of George Caleb Bingham, each illustrating a century of American development.
Following the completion of the murals in 1977, Beal continued to make use of narrative in his paintings, with portraiture and self-portraiture as a means of exploring moral and didactic themes. He and Sondra had purchased an old mill in upstate New York in 1974 and after extensive renovations, it became their permanent residence. Unsurprisingly, many of his later paintings are pastoral scenes based on his rural surroundings or still lives including flowers which they grew on the property. In 1986, Beal was commissioned by the Art in Transit Initiative to create a large-scale mural as part of the redevelopment of the Times Square Subway Station. The proposed mosaic mural, The Return of Spring, took over fifteen years to complete, with the two, 7 x 20 foot sections finally installed in 2001 and 2005. Together they update the Greek myth of Persephone with a New York setting, showing her abduction by Hades, initiating the arrival of winter, and her release, bringing the bountiful return of spring.
Beal was a founder of the Artist’s Choice Museum, New York and the New York Academy of Art as well as the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including honorary degrees from the Art Institute of Boston and the Hollins College...
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Pair of Horse Lithographs
By David Low
Located in New York, NY
"The Old-Irish Hunter." and "The Cleveland Bay." from "The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands." by David Low. London, Fairland, 1842.
Original lithograph hand-col...
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In Search of New Beginnings 3
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
In Search of New Beginnings 3
Puff pigment screen print with hand coloring, 2021
Signed with the artist's initials in the lower right corner (see photo)
Titled in the lower left corn...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Armadillo and Flowering Plant Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Seba, Albertus.
Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historiam.
Amsterdam, Wetsten, Smith, Jans...
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Turn-about
By Rudy O. Pozzatti
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Turn- about
Color Aluminum plate lithograph from three plates
Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil by the artist
"Bon-a-tirer" impression (BAT)
This is the finished example that the artist approved as the model for the edition.
Published at Lakeside Studio with the master printer Jack Lemon.
Condition: Very good, one ink stain in the large margin, from printing
Image size: 18 3 /4 x 23 1/4" 47.63 x 59.06cm
Sheet size: 22 x 29 7/8"
"Painter and printmaker Rudolph Otto "Rudy" Pozzatti was born in Telluride, Colorado, on January 14, 1925. Upon graduation from high school, he received a scholarship to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder where he enrolled as an art major. In 1943, his studies were interrupted by his induction into the U. S. Army. After his discharge in 1946, he re-enrolled in the University of Colorado where he studied under Wendell Black...
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Cypresses
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cypresses
Reductive color woodcut in colors, black, green & brown, 1982
Unsigned
From: Tramp Picture series
"The printer was Claude Jinchat at Imprimerie Arnéra, Vallauris. The set w...
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1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Linocut
The Razorback Bunch (Etching VI)
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Houston, TX
Robert Raushenberg
The Razorback Bunch (Etching VI), 1982
Intaglio in 2 colors on handmade Twinrocker paper
29 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches
Edition of 24
Framed
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20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Intaglio
Bando Mitsugoro as a Servant with a Sword
By Natori Shunsen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bando Mitsugoro as a Servant with a Sword
Color woodcut, 1952
From The Series Shunsen Nigao-E Shu (Shunsen Portraits), Six Woodblock Prints
Publisher: Watanabe
Excellent condition
Im...
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1950s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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HARPER'S WEEKLY - BICYLCE NUMBER
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Portland, ME
Parrish, Maxfield. HARPER'S WEEKLY - BICYLCE NUMBER. Vol XL, April 4, 1896. 16 x 12 inches. With front and back covers by Parrish, and an ad by Will Bradley for Victor Bicycles on th...
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1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Offset
Impression B
By Toshi Yoshida 1
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Impression B
Color woodcut, 1959
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
A trial proof, prior to the edition of 100, signed and numbered
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 14 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
by decent to his heirs
"Printmaker and painter Toshi Yoshida was born on July 25, 1911, into the respected Yoshida family of artists of Tokyo, Japan. Father Hiroshi was a celebrated landscape painter and printmaker, and mother Fujio established herself as the first female Yoshida artist as well as an Abstract artist later in her career. Younger brother Hodaka was an Abstract printmaker whose style, completely separate from his family's historic traditional bent, later influenced Toshi. Hodaka's wife Chizuko would become a pioneering female Japanese artist whose own exploration of Surrealism and Abstraction challenged the status quo. Toshi, however, as the eldest sibling, was expected to follow in his father's footsteps, and from an early age he was trained by Hiroshi in his studio.
Unable to attend formal schooling due to the polio-induced paralyzation of his leg, Toshi would instead help with his family's printmaking studio and go on sketching trips with Hiroshi. As he got older, these trips would include India and Southeast Asia, working from morning to night taking night trains to get from one destination to another. Among Toshi's favorite subjects were the animals he discovered along the way. However, these trips ended as Japan entered military dictatorship in the mid 1930s, and artists whose work showed signs of Western influence were barred from exhibiting. At this time, Toshi left Japan for China and Korea, where he would remain for the duration of the war. He stuck to patriotic themes to remain in business, and after the end of World War II, as Japan struggled to recover from wartime economic depression, he earned his living creating traditional Japanese woodcut landscapes...
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1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Pochoir of a Private Terrace in Cannes
By Henry Delacroix
Located in New York, NY
Plate 5. "Terrasse propriete a Cannes" from "Décoration moderne dans l'intérieur" bu Henry Delacroix. Paris, ca. 1930. Pochoir with hand-coloring. Mild yellowing at edges.
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Up the Line, Miss?
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan (1871-1951), “Up the Line, Miss?”, etching, 1930, signed, titled and inscribed 100 proofs [also signed in the plate]. Reference: Morse 243, fifth state (of 5). In excellen...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
ATTACKER
By Richard Bosman
Located in Portland, ME
Bosman, Richard (Australian, born 1944). ATTACKER. Woodcut in seven colors, 1982. Artist's proof aside from the edition of 48 plus 9 Artist's Proofs. Signed in pencil an annotated "A...
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1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
La butte de Montmartre et le Sacre-Couer (Sacre Coeur from a Distance)
By Robert Delaunay
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La butte de Montmartre et le Sacre-Couer (Sacre Coeur from a Distance)
Lithograph, 1926
From Joseph Delteil's "Allo, Paris," published by Quatre Chemins, Paris, 1926
Rare signed proo...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Levana
By Ben Shahn
Located in New York, NY
This elegant Ben Shahn lithograph entitled “Levana” was created in 1966. It was printed by Gemini G. E. L., Los Angeles, California, in an editi...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
IN FRONT OF THE 42ND STREET LIBRARY
By Isabel Bishop
Located in Portland, ME
Bishop, Isabel. IN FRONT OF THE 42ND STREET LIBRARY. Teller 3. Etching, 1927. 4 x 3 inches; 100 x 75 mm. Signed in pencil. One of only a few lifetime impre...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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