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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White Head Eagle
By Katsunori Hamanishi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
White Head Eagle
Mezzotint printed in colors, 2014
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled lower center (see photo)
WHITE HEAD EAGLE. The Print Club of Cleveland Publication No. 94, 20...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
ISATSORATU II
By Eduardo Chillida
Located in Portland, ME
Chillida, Eduardo (Spanish, 1924-2002). ISATSORATU II. Etching and embossing on heavy paper, 1998. Edition of 50, Numbered 19/50 and signed in pencil. 3 7/8 x 8 inches, 98 x 203 mm. ...
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1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Toujours Chic Tryptic.
Located in New York, NY
Set of 3 covers to the French fashion journal, "Toujours Chic" illustrated by Germaine Joumard who also sometimes signed her pieces "ZouZou." The three issues are: Les Robes de Soirees...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Paper
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
Steel Workers, 1946
By Antonio Frasconi
Located in New York, NY
Steel Workers, 1946.
By Antonio Frasconi, 1990.
"Steel Workers, 1946" is a woodcut and offset lithograph created by Antonio Frasconi in 1990. This p...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Woodcut
Celestial Nymph I
By Elyse Ashe Lord
Located in New York, NY
Elyse Ashe Lord (1900-1971), Celestial Nymph I, c. 1930, color etching, soft ground, drypoint; signed lower right in pencil and numbered by the artist lower left. In very good condition, the full sheet, 8 1/4 x 10, the sheet 17 x 13 1/2 inches.
A fine impression, with strong color and plate tone on the nymph and surrounding decorations, and with pencil additions in various places on the nymph by the artist (using the same pencil as with signing). Printed on a light laid ivory Japan paper.
Provenance:
Kennedy Galleries, New York (with their stock number A 32064)
Elyse Ashe Lord developed her unique artistic style exclusively around oriental subject matter. Her art was inspired by both Chinese art and various aspects of oriental culture. Although E.A.Lord never actually travelled to China, she used Chinese paintings, embroideries and wall hangings, together with objects from surrounding Eastern countries, as the sources for her images. The highly individual style which Elyse Lord created reflects both this source material and the influences of Art Deco and early 1920’s fashion.
In particular, Elyse Lord is unusual in combining the technique of drypoint with woodcut colour printing. She uses the drypoint design almost as the Japanese would have used a key block in multiple block colour printing. The colours would then be added by over-printing the drypoint design using colour-inked wood blocks, precisely as displayed by this unique series of progressive proofs. Elyse Lord would always supervise the difficult process of printing her plates and blocks, in person. [I am indebted to Michael Campbell...
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1930s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
Solitude
By Amy Wilson
Located in New York, NY
Amy Wilson received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1995 and her MFA from Yale University in 1997. Her drawings explore the tensions between her inner life and t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Game Work No. 20
By Katsunori Hamanishi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Game Work No. 20
Mezzotint, c. 1984
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition 100: (7/100)
Provenance:
Ninion and Sheldon Landy Collection, Donors to Art Inst. of Chicago Hamanishi Exhibition, Oct. 12, 2013-January 5, 2014
Reference:
Katsunori Hamanishi's Work Price List-Small 22
Condition: Excellent
Image: 13 1/4 x 8 3/4"
Sheet: 17 1/2 x 13 1/8"
Ninion and Sheldon Landy were major collectors of Hamanishi's works. They donated a large group of his mezzotints to Art Institute of Chicago, which formed the core of the exhibitions of his works at AIC in 2014 and again in 2019.
HAMANISHI Katsunori...
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
The Heroine Umekawa in "Meido no Kiyaku"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Title: The Heroine Umekawa in "Meido no Kiyaku"
Medium: Color woodcut with mica background, silver metallic pigment, and "gofun" for the snow effect
Date Of Execution: 1923
Dimension...
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1920s Edo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
BRIDGE AT CHARTRES
By Ernest David Roth
Located in Portland, ME
Roth, Ernest (American, 1879-1964). BRIDGE AT CHARTRES. Etching, 1927. A Trial Proof before the edition (if any). Inscribed in pencil "Trial Proof A (Bridge at Chartres) 1927." Signe...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Ruby Dee
By Ellen Gallagher
Located in New York, NY
Two-plate photogravure with aquatint and unique hand-shaped plasticine elements (in three colors) on multilayered laminated paper.
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Early 2000s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint, Photogravure
Boulder Dam
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Boulder Dam
Lithograph, 1946
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled in pencil lower left (see photo)
Printed by Lawrence Barrett, Colorado Springs
Edition of 40 or...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
RAINY SUNDAY AT SAN MARCO
By Lester George Hornby
Located in Portland, ME
Hornby, Lester. RAINY SUNDAY AT SAN MARCO. Falk, 308, Kennedy 32. Etching, 1908. Edition of 60. Titled and signed in the plate and signed in pencil in the margin, lower right. 5 7/8 ...
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Early 1900s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Ready-Mades Et Editions De Et Sur Marcel Duchamps Galerie Givaudan
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Poster for the exhibition Editions de se sur Marcel Duchamp. One of 400 copies with title and date of exhibition, of a total edition of 500.
Unsigned. Schwarz, Ref: Catalogue Rainsonne 396
Marcel Duchamp was born July 28, 1887, in France. After the sensation caused by Nude Descending a...
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1960s Post-Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Offset
Kimono Fabric Design
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Kimono Fabric Design
Color woodcut with pochoir embellishments on fine silver mica ground. 1936
Unsigned as usual
From "Ukiyoe Kosode," a deluxe limited edition album of kimono fabri...
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1930s Showa Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
La Toilette
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Toilette
Drypoint, 1908
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Edition: 65 this state (35/65)
Published by Gustave Pellet (1859-1919),...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Montparnasse Street
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in New York, NY
Montparnasse Street– 1931, Etching
Duffy 128. Edition 50, only 25 printed. Signed, dated, and annotated imp and 50 in pencil.
Image size 4 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (124 x 251 mm); sh...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Two Jumping Fish
By Ed Ruscha
Located in London, GB
Etching on R.K.Burt paper: cut, torn, and deckle edges
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Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Color, Etching
Sketch of Anne
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sketch of Anne
Lithograph, 1923-1924
Signed and titled by the artist, signed by his printer Bolton Brown
Edition: 42
Printed by Bolton Brown (see photo of his signature in pencil)
Pr...
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1920s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Phalanx
By John Ross
Located in New York, NY
This collagraph was created circa 1973. It is signed, titled and inscribed "1/75" in pencil. The paper size is 22 x 30 1/2" with the printed image 18 7/8 x 27 3/4.&q...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Intaglio
Reclining Nude Holding a Necklace
By Albert de Belleroche
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Nude Holding a Necklace
Lithograph, c. 1908
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: c. 15
Reference: Belleroche No. 525
Condition: Excellent
Image: 16 3/4 x 20"
...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Canvas Backed Duck, after John James Audubon, Amsterdam Edition
By John James Audubon
Located in New York, NY
Plate CCCI, Canvas Backed Duck, posthumous reproduction after John James Audubon from The Birds of America, the Amsterdam Edition, printed in Amsterdam, 1971-73. Original multicolored photo-offset print. "G Schut and Zonen" watermark at lower edge of paper. A facsimile from the double-elephant folio...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Whitney Construction at Dusk
By Yvonne Jacquette
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30
In this intensely colorful print, Jacquette captured this view of early stages in the construction of the new Renzo Piano building from an elevated perch in the Standard...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Indian Leaves
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Howard Hodgkin produced the lithograph Indian Leaves in 1982 on the occasion of his exhibition of the same title at Tate, London, in the same year. After it was decided that the pri...
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Here They Come !
By Frank W. Benson
Located in New York, NY
This impression of "Here They Come !" is from the fourth state of eight. There are six known impressions of the fourth state. Edition 150 (final state). It is signed in pencil in the lower left and inscribed "D-1". The image size 13 7/8 x 11 3/4" (34.6 x 28.8 cm) and sheet size 16 3/4 x 14 5/8" (42.8 x 37.1 cm).
FRANK W. BENSON (1862-1951)
Frank Weston Benson, well known for his American impressionist paintings, also produced an incredible body of prints - etchings, drypoints, and a few lithographs. Born and raised on the North Shore of Massachusetts, Benson, a natural outdoorsman, grew up sailing, fishing, and hunting. From a young age, he was fascinated with drawing and birding – this keen interest continued throughout his life.
His first art instruction was with Otto Grundman at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and then in 1883 in Paris at the Academie Julian where he studied the rigorous ‘ecole des beaux arts’ approach to drawing and painting for two years.
During the early 1880’s Seymour Haden visited Boston giving a series of lectures on etching. This introduction to the European etching...
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1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
"Mr Abington" Vanity Fair Jockey
Located in New York, NY
Color lithograph from Vanity Fair of Mr. Abington. London, circa 1890.
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1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Cover illustration for Die Graphischen Kunste, Volume 22
By Henri Riviere
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cover illustration for Die Graphischen Kunste, Volume 22
Color lithograph, 1899
Signed with the artist's initials lower center (see photo)
From: The Graphic Arts, Volume 22, 1899
...
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1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
La Casa Vivienda
By Emilio Sanchez
Located in New York, NY
“LA CASA VIVENDA”
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “La Casa Vivenda” circa 1991. Image size 18.38 x 25 inches and the paper size 21.75 x 29.38 inches. Printed in an edition of 100 this impression is inscribed “70/100” - the 70th impression of 100. This impression is pencil signed in the lower right and inscribed in the lower left.
“Best known for his architectural paintings and lithographs, Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) explored the effects of light and shadow to emphasize the abstract geometry of his subjects. His artwork encompasses his Cuban heritage...
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1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
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
Muscat of ALexandria Grapes by George Brookshaw
By George Brookshaw
Located in New York, NY
Plate LIII, Muscat of Alexandria. from "Pomona Britannica..." by George Brookshaw. London, T. Bensley for the author, 1804-1812. Original aquatint with stipple engraving, color pri...
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Early 19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Nightfear
By Karel Appel
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nightfear
Color lithograph, 1958
From: Rhapsodie de ma nuit, (seven plates)
Signed, dated and numbered in pecnil lower left (see photos)
Edition: E.A. edition of 25, (there were a...
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1950s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
SIX SOUTH AMERICAN FOLK RHYMES ABOUT LOVE
By Antonio Frasconi
Located in Portland, ME
Frasconi, Antonio. SIX SOUTH AMERICAN FOLK RHYMES ABOUT LOVE. South Norwalk, CT., 1964. Edition of 2000, of which this is one of 100 numbered and with a signed woodcut frontispiece. ...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
UNTITLED
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Portland, ME
Agam, Yaacov, (Jacob Gipstein) (Israeli, b. 1928). UNTITLED. Screenprint in colors, not dated. Edition of 180, signed in blue pencil, and numbered 80/180. 26 3/8 x 33 1/4 inches, 669...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
OASIS OF SEVEN PALMS CALIFORNIA
By George Elbert Burr
Located in Portland, ME
Burr, George Elbert. OASIS OF SEVEN PALMS CALIFORNIA. Gouache on paper, not dated. Titled in pencil, lower left, and signed in pencil, lower right, and with the number "85" at the lo...
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Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Gouache
Imprimerie National Mvsiqve/Dessines et Gravure/Affiches Artistiques.
By Jean Leonce Burret
Located in New York, NY
Burret, Jean-Leonce. Imprimerie National Mvsiqve/Dessines et Gravure/Affiches Artistiques. Bruxelles Ca.1898, Color lithograph. 33.5 x 24.5; image, 34.75 x 26; on linen.
Burret was ...
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1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Cave
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 Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
On the Beach at Long Branch - The Children's Hour
By Winslow Homer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
On the Beach at Long Branch - The Children's Hour
Wood engraving, 1874
Published in "Harper's Weekly" August 15, 1874 (p. 672)
Image size: 9 1/4 x 13 5/8 inches
Provenance: Wunderlic...
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1870s Hudson River School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Bucolique Moderne
By Auguste Louis Lepère
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bucolique Moderne
Color woodcut, 1901
Edition of 550 impressions on Holland paper (as here) and an edition of 200 impressions printed on Japan paper signed in pencil by the artist.
References And Exhibitions:
Published in Di Gesellschaft fur vervielfältigende Kunst à Vienne
Reference: Lotz Brissonneau 271 v/V
Illustrated: Musee D'Orsay, Auguste Lepere ou lerenouveau de bois grave, No. 20
Vital, Auguste Lepere 1849-1918, No. 171.
Illustrated:
Musee de le Vendee, no. 171 (see photo)
Musee D'Orsay, Auguste Lepere ou lerenouveau de bois grave, No. 20
Vital, Auguste Lepere 1849-1918, No. 171.
Auguste Louis Lepère...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Self Portrait (With Model)
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Self Portrait (With Model)
Lithograph, 1959-1960
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 50 (30/50)
Commissioned by ACA Gallery, NYC
Depicts the artist in his studio at S...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
La Tour de L’Horloge (The Clock Tower, Paris)
By Charles Meryon
Located in New York, NY
Charles Meryon (1821-1868), La Tour de L’Horloge (The Clock Tower, Paris), 1852, etching with engraving. Reference: Schneiderman 23, Delteil 28. Third state (of 10). On very thin Jap...
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1850s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving, Etching
Oskar Schlemmer/Igor Stravinsky's "Les Noces"
By Bruno Monzuzzi
Located in New York, NY
Oskar Schlemmer/Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces, 1988. Color
Lithograph. 35.5 x 50 inches (90 x 127 cm)
Monguzzi studied in Geneva and London, spent part of his early career in at the studio of Antonio Boggeri, in Milan. The inspiration of the experimental and visually-daring work of the avant garde designers Herbert Bayer, El Lissitsky, Jan Tschichold, Piet Zwart, Paul Schuitema, Ladislav Sutnar...
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Red-Winged Parrakeet Engraving
By William Thomas Greene
Located in New York, NY
Color wood engraving with hand finishing from "Parrots in Captivity" by William Thomas Greene after an original drawing by A.F. Lydon. London: G...
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1880s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Paper
"Switchback (State IV)"
By Barbara Takenaga
Located in Lyons, CO
Barbara Takenaga has had fun embellishing the last prints in the editions – Switchback State I and State II from 2011 – with extensive hand coloring. She has inverted and rearranged ...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
THE NEW YORK SCHOOL: THE POEMS - SALUTE - ODES - PERMANENTLY
By Joan Mitchell
Located in Portland, ME
Tiber Press. THE NEW YORK SCHOOL. New York, 1960. Editions of 200. Four volumes, folios (17 1/2 x 14 inches), housed in a green linen slipcase, com...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Drury Lane
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), DRURY LANE, etching, 1880-81, signed with the butterfly and inscribed imp in pencil [also with the butterfly upp...
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Late 19th Century Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
For Lisa
By Willem de Kooning
Located in Fairlawn, OH
For Lisa
Color lithograph, 1984
Signed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Numbered lower right corner
Published to benefit the Los Angeles Children's Museum
Printed by Brand X Editions...
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1980s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Ave Maria-Nanban Music
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ave Maria-Nanban Music
Color woodcut with mica sprinkles, 1925
Signed Hide in image, Signed Kawanishi Hide on printed mount
From: Dojin zasshi, Hanga Magazine, Volume 5, No. 4
Condi...
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1920s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Los Alamitos
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Screenprint, in colours, 1972, on Gemini rag Board, signed, dated and numbered 53 from the edition of 75, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles., sheet: 51.4 × 203.5 cm. (20 1/4 x 80 1/8 in.), framed: 52.4 x 204.5 cm. (20.6 x 80.5 in.)
The three large scale, extended horizontal screenprints of the ‘Race Track Series’ are named after horse-racing tracks in Southern California and Mexico : Del Mar (San Diego County), Los Alamitos...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Tutankhamon
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pencil signed, dated, titled and numbered.
Image 26" x 18"
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1980s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Untitled (Plate 2)
By Terry Haass
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 2)
Engraving, sugar-lift, and aquatint , 1970
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photo)
From: Variations (8 plates)
Edition: 100 (100/100) (see photo)
Printed by Lac...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Revillon Freres: Woman in a Black Fur Cape
By Reynaldo Luza
Located in New York, NY
Original lithograph, produced as part of a portfolio of images by Reynaldo Luza for the Parisian fur house, Revillon Freres. Paris, Draeger for Revillo...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Plate IV, Le Cocu Magnifique
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate IV, Le Cocu Magnifique
etching & aquatint, 1968
Unsigned on the print
Signed on the portfolio justification page (see photo)
From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions printe...
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1960s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
SIXTEEN ETCHINGS
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Portland, ME
Soyer, Raphael. SIXTEEN ETCHINGS.
Published by Associated American Artists, NY, 1965.
From the Deluxe suite of 25 on Japan paper, this copy number 24/25. (There were a further 60 p...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Untitled
By Frank Stella
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A unique example of a section of color lithograph including hand editions by the artist, collaged on a support board.
Signed, dated, and inscribed "For Pat" in ink in the image. (s...
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1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Official Portraits: Proletarian
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with collage, Edition 30
Hung Liu grew up in China and came of age during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She spent four years in the countryside as a laborer, s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Dancing in the Dark
By Joan Snyder
Located in New York, NY
Joan Snyder has been called an autobiographical, even confessional artist, who draws from her experiences and surroundings to create her paintings. While her subjects vary widely, Sn...
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1980s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
'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...
Category
1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
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By John Senex
Located in New York, NY
The title continues “…. Most Humbly Inscribd [sic] to his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales.”
A fine British produced double hemisphere world map. On this map, California is shown as an island on the main double hemisphere map...
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18th Century Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
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