Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
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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BARCELONA
By Eduardo Chillida
Located in Portland, ME
Chillida, Eduardo. BARCELONA I. Koelin 71018. Lithograph on Guarro paper, 1971. Edition of 75 numbered 51/75 and signed in pencil. 28 1/8 x 19 5/8 inches, 715 x 498 mm. In excellent ...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Africa Suite: Africa 8
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large autom...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1
Pochoir, 1934
Unsigned as issued in Cahier's edition
Published in Cahier's d'art, 1934
Unsigned Edition of 1200
There was also a pencil signed...
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1930s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Stencil
'Variation 5, Vol. I' — from the series '1 to 40 Variations'
By Katherine Sophie Dreier
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Katherine S. Dreier, 'Variation 5, Vol. I' from '1 to 40 Variations', lithograph with pochoir and hand-coloring, 1934, edition 65. Stenciled signature and date, lower right. Annotate...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph, Stencil
Love Apple (Brown background).
By Jane Martin VonBosse
Located in Storrs, CT
Love Apple (Brown background). 1967. Linoleum cut printed in black, red, orange, brown and tan. 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 (sheet 21 3/4 x 15). Edition 18. A vivid impression printed on wove pa...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
'Kaf With' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Robert Vale Faro
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Kaf With', color lithograph, 1945, edition 15. Signed, dated, titled and numbered '84' and '6/15' in pen, recto. Titled, numbered '#84' and '6/15' and dated '7/22/...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
ECLIPSE IV
Located in Portland, ME
Peterdi, Gabor (American, born Hungary, 1915-2001). ECLIPSE IV. Johnson 247) Aquatint in colors, 1966. Edition of 25, signed, dated, titled and numbered 9-25 in pencil. 36 x 24 inche...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Still Life — Mid-century Modern
By Charles Quest
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Still Life', 1947, wood engraving, edition 8. Signed, dated, and numbered '3/8' in pencil. Titled and annotated 'wood engraving' in the bottom left margin. A fine impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. 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 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 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 a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release 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 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’.
An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and 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...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Interior at Fontenay aux Roses
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
Interior at Fontenay aux Roses
" He derived a peculiar pleasure from being in a well lighted room when all the surrounding houses were wrappe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
All
By Emmi Whitehorse
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25.
Emmi Whitehorse is a painter and printmaker. Using a private language of symbols and memories, Whitehorse makes 'personal diaries' of her life as an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
ONE ANCIENT FIGURES
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Portland, ME
Nevelson, Louise. ONE ANCIENT FIGURES. Baro 20. Etching and drypoint, 1953-55, editioned in 1965/1966. Titled "Personages", numbered 1/20 and signed in pencil. It is unclear whether ...
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
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 Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Omar’s Cup
By Bernard Childs
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Annotated in pencil on detached bottom margin: “Printed by the artist’s own press at 4 rue d’universite, Paris, Sept. 1958”
Edition: 10 (8/10)
Printed in red, black with gold leaf highlights
Dedicated in pencil by the artist: “For Alice and Albert Turner...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Learning to Fly
By Evan Colbert
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 20.
The artist describes this project:
"In my abstract lithograph, Learning to Fly, I attempt to create an uncertain sense of depth and scale, as if celest...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Interlinear K50 — Mid-Century Geometric Abstraction
By Josef Albers
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Josef Albers, 'Interlinear K50', zinc plate lithograph offset to stone printing, 1962, edition 20, Danilowitz 151. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '14/20' in pencil. A superb, ri...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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 Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Marginal
By Julian Stanczak
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and numbered in pencil
From: Twelve Progressions, 1970-1971
Commissioned by Martha Jackson Graphics
Printed: Domberger, Stuttgart, Germany
Edition: 90 (51/90)
Provenance:...
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1970s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
The Oliver (This image is being used to promote an upcoming show at the MET )
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Oliver which is in several museum collections and has won numerous awards) is being used to promote the show, Printed Ladies, opening March 1st at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and will be reproduced on the cover of the upcoming revised second edition of Carol's book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique which is due out in early 2024
Thomas Oliver invented the first double-sided lateral top stroke machine. This was No. 9 introduced in 1916. With light focused on the machine it suggested the logo of the Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes series - giving off an anima-like aura. The print was issued in an edition of 75.
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Araignee
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in London, GB
Stanley William Hayter
Araignee
1967
Etching, Edition of 50
Paper size: 65 x 49.5 cms (25 1/2 x 19 1/2 ins)
Plate size: 39.5 x 24.7 cms (15 1/2 x 9.7 ins)
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
An Other Set (Y) – From the Pasadena Box
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
An Other Set - Y (From The Pasadena Box)
1964
Lithograph, Edition of 100, experimental proof
39.4 x 57.2 cms (15.51 x 22.52 ins)
SF15493
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Four Knots
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 50
71 x 76 cm (28 x 30 ins)
RSE023
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Identical/Variation (red, blue, green)
By Amy Ellingson
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
The artist describes this project:
“In early September, I made my second trip to Shark's Ink in Lyons, CO. It was wonderful to be invited back to cre...
Category
2010s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Twin Formation in Gray
By Werner Drewes
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Twin Formation in Gray, color woodcut, 1982, edition 30, Rose III.400. Signed, dated and numbered I7/XXX in pencil, annotated 415 and titled in the bottom left sheet edge. A fine imp...
Category
Late 20th Century Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Africa Suite: Africa 6
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large autom...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Three of a Kind C
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 60
71 x 79 cms (28 x 31 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Color Forms (B)
By Leon Polk Smith
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
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1970s Color-Field Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled (Small orange photo on peach and blue background)
By Joe Goode
Located in London, GB
46 x 74 cms (18.11 x 29.13 ins)
Edition of 50
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Screen
'The Orange Point' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Thomas A. Robertson
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'The Orange Point', color serigraph, edition 54, c. 1940. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed/54' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; the full sheet wi...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Bastos
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 49 plus 12 artist's proofs
158.4 x 101.6 cms (62.4 x 40 ins)
Published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Bernard Childs
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, annotated "epreuve d'artiste"; Annotated on titled "B.B."
Edition: 5
References And Exhibitions:
One of the three impressions printed on ARCHES watermark pape...
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1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Untitled
By John Hoyland
Located in London, GB
Screenprint with embossing on wove
Edition of 40
30 x 24 cms (11 4/5 x 9 2/5 ins)
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Edward Gordon Craig I
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 95, Set of 2
56 x 76.2 cms (22 x 30 ins)
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Two
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is #12 of an edition of 25.
Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more . . .
the bla...
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Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Untitled (Jahn 84)
By Fred Sandback
Located in New York, NY
Fred Sandback was a minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints. He majored in philosophy at Yale Universit...
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1980s Minimalist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled, from the portfolio formen der farbe
By Leon Polk Smith
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Untitled (Tamarind O )
By Leon Polk Smith
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
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Mid-20th Century Hard-Edge Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
untitled
By Garo Zareh Antreasian
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated in pencil lower right; Annotated: Artist's Proof in pencil lower left; printer's chop mark lower right
Edition: 18 impressions and 2 ar...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled XXV
By Piero Dorazio
Located in New York, NY
Untitled XXV shows four, large, stripes which are mostly in red, green and blue with some little part in yellow and two different shades of purple. The background is white.
Three str...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Zebragram (a stylized circular design created by repeated imagery of a zebra)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the zebra. ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
anyone who dreams of the ideal prefers illusion to reality
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
"it seemed to him an undeniable fact that anyone who dreams of the ideal prefers illusion to reality"
1974/2018
Soft ground etching with intaglio and relief printing ...
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2010s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
B.B.
By Bernard Childs
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, annotated "epreuve d'artiste"; Annotated on titled "B.B."
Edition: 5 (5/5)
Part of a set of 4 prints commissioned for a book Childs did with the German writer Ba...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Sulk
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
Colour soap ground and spit bite aquatints with photogravure and roulette on Somerset Satin paper
Published by Crown Point Press
87.6 x 64.8 cms (34 1/2 x 25 1/2 ins)
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Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Dyad-O
By Rodney Carswell
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 20.
The artist describes this project:
“The suggestive but ambiguous presence and narrative of the images “Bloob (?)” & “Dyad-O” reflect an ongoing creati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rake
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
Colour soap ground and spit bite aquatints with photgravure and roulette on Somerset Satin Paper
Published by Crown Point Press
87.6 x 64.8 cms (34 1/2 x 25 1/2 ins)
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
DERNIERES MESSAGES - GALERIE MAEGHT POSTER
By Georges Braque
Located in Portland, ME
Braque, Georges. DERNIERES MESSAGES - GALERIE MAEGHT POSTER. Color Lithograph, 1960. 27 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. In excellent condition.
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Plate 4)
By Terry Haass
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 4)
Engraving, sugar-lift, and aquatint, 1970
Signed and numbered in pencil
From: Variations (8 plates)
Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100 (29/100)
Printed by ...
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1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
'Signes' — Mid-Century Modernist Abstraction
By Jean (Hans) Arp
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jean Arp, Signes, woodcut, edition 50, 1949. A fine, black impression, with all the fine lines printing clearly, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with wide margins (1 5/8 to 6 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Signed and numbered '8/50' in pencil. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jean Arp was born Hans Arp on September 16, 1886, in Strassburg. In 1904, after leaving the Ecole des Arts et Métiers, Strasbourg, he visited Paris and published his poetry for the first time. From 1905 to 1907, Arp studied at the Kunstschule, Weimar, and in 1908 went to Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian. In 1909, he moved to Switzerland and in 1911 was a founder of the Moderner Bund group there. The following year, he met Robert and Sonia Delaunay in Paris and Vasily Kandinsky in Munich. Arp participated in the Erste deutsche Herbstsalon in 1913 at the gallery Der Sturm, Berlin. After returning to Paris in 1914, he became acquainted with Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Amadeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso. In 1915, he moved to Zurich, where he executed collages and tapestries, often in collaboration with his future wife Sophie Taeuber (who became known as Sophie Taeuber-Arp after they married in 1922).
In 1916, Hugo Ball...
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1940s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Descendents/Portraits - "Those high hung dark faceless portraits.."
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
The Descendents/Portraits
"Those high hung dark faceless portraits ..."
1974/2018
Six gravure plates, black and red inks intaglio, on...
Category
2010s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Mercury
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Mercury
1963
Lithograph on BFK Rives paper, Edition of 20
60 .3 x 47.6 cms (23 3/4 x 18 3/4 ins)
SF16664
Literature:
The Prints of Sam Francis: A Catalogue Raisonne 196...
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1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bloob (?)
By Rodney Carswell
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 20.
The artist describes this project:
“The suggestive but ambiguous presence and narrative of the images “Bloob (?)” & “Dyad-O” reflect an ongoing creati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
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...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Déesse- Goddess
By André Verdet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Déesse- Goddess
Linocut in colors, 1972
Unsigned
Stamped in ink on verso: "Imprimerie Arnéra" Archives/ Non Signé
Watermark: Arches (see photo)
An impression printed in black, purpl...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
Untitled
By Henri Goetz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: 25 (9/25) (see photo)
Engraving, drypoint & carborundum
Printed by the artist
Condition: Excellent, slight residue on reverse
Sheet: 9 7/8 x 12 3/4"
Image/Plate: 5 x 7"
Note: Goetz was born in the United States, moved to Paris and became a noted Surrealist artist and journalist of the surrealist movement. As a printmaker, Goetz invented carborundum printmaking in the 1960’s. In 1968, La gravure au carborundum, a treatise on carborundum printing, was published by the Maeght Gallery. It was prefaced by Joan Miró. Goetz created many abstract prints using this method. Other artists such as Antoni Clavé, Antoni Tàpies, and in particular Joan Miró, employed carborundum printing in their work.
Henri Bernard Goetz (1909-1989)
Henri Bernard Goetz was born 29 September 1909 in New York, in a family of French and American origin. He studied at Harvard University and the Grand Central Art School before moving to Paris in 1930 where he continued his studies at the Academies Julian and Academies Ozenfant in Montparnasse.
After a brief return to the US in the early 1930’s he settled permanently in France, taking a Parisian studio next to Victor Brauner. With Brauner Goetz became involved with the Surrealist group and was soon a highly accomplished exponent. 1935 would be a year of major importance for Goetz: he exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Surindependants, he married the Dutch painter Christine Boumeester and he met Hans Hartung, who would become a close lifelong friend. In 1937 Goetz held his first solo show at Galerie Van Leer, Paris.
During the war, having neglected to become naturalized French citizens, Goetz and Boumeester became illegal aliens and both worked in the resistance movement. They printed leaflets on a simple printing press and created posters to paste...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Jedermann
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Etching in two colors
Signed, dated, titled in pencil by the artist
Sheet size: 19 5/8 x 25 3/4"
Category
1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Garden of Eden
By Leonard Edmondson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEONARD EDMONDSON (1906 – 2001)
GARDEN OF EDEN c. 1960
Color intaglio (carborundum?) Signed and titled in pencil. Small edition, these larger prints...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Quintet
By Terry Haass
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Quintet', etching and aquatint, edition 20, c. 1948. Signed, titled, and numbered '12/20' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1...
Category
1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
For Meyer Schapiro: Tallith for Meyer Schapiro
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
For Meyer Schapiro: Tallith for Meyer Schapiro
1974
Lift-ground etching and aquatint on Arches Cover paper
Ed. 100, 13 AP, 1 CP, 11 HC
105.4 x 74.9 cms (41.5 x 29.5...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview B
By Leon Polk Smith
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
