Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative 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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Sanctuary - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
This etching is #2 out of an edition of 10
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2010s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Fifer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Fifer
Etching, c. 1875
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Bt descent in the artist's family
Edition: One of four known impressions
With annotation on...
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1870s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
'Eyes for the Night' — Mid-century Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Eyes for the Night', color lithograph, 1948, edition 35, Fine and Looney 261. Signed, dated, and titled, and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. A fine impression with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by master lithographer Theodore Cuno. Image size 19 x 13 inches; sheet size 21 1/8 x 15 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Selected by the artist for his retrospective exhibition 'Benton Spruance: Lithographs...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Nu au fauteuil sur fond moucharabieh
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Nu au fauteuil sur fond moucharabieh
1925
Lithograph on Arches vellum paper, Edition of 50
Paper size: 65.5 x 50 cms (25 3/4 x 19 5/8 ins)
Image size: 54 x 44 cms (21 1...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
'The Death of Hercules' from 'The Temple of the Muses' — 18th Century Engraving
By Bernard Picart
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Picart, 'The Death of Hercules' from 'The Temple of the Muses', engraving, 1730. Signed in the plate, lower left. Titled in French, English, German, and Dutch. A superb, rich...
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1730s Baroque Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Engraving
'Bacchus' — 18th Century Classical Italian Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Bacchus', engraving, 1734, edition unknown. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the plate, lower left. Engraving by Gabbugiani, after the original by Giovan...
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1730s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Engraving
'Negro' — California WPA Social Realism – Slavery
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Nicholas Panesis, 'Negro', 1934, color lithograph, edition 18. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 8/28 in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper, with margins (1 1/8 to 2 3/8 inches). Minor glue staining at the extreme sheet edges verso, where previously taped (not visible recto), otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 10 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches; (270 x 216 mm); sheet size 14 13/16 x 10 15/16 inches (376 x 278 mm).
Created for the California Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project (WPA). Scarce.
Impressions of this work are held in the public collections of La Salle University Art Museum (Philadelphia), U.S. General Services Administration, and Weisman Art Museum (University of Minnesota).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Massachusetts, Nicholas Panesis (1913-1967) studied art at Syracuse University, NY, and went on to teach ceramics at Alfred University, NY.
Panesis moved to San Francisco in the early 1930s shortly before settling in Los Angeles, where he worked for different animation studios...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Engraving of a Female Sculpture
By Francesco Piranesi
Located in New York, NY
Original engraving by Francesco Piranesi from "Raccolta di Statue Antiche." Rome, 1780-1792.
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Late 18th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Laid Paper
La Espera (The Wait -- Three Women by the sea)
By Francisco Dosamantes
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Wait. Three native Mexican women wait by the sea. This impression is #31/100. An impression of this lithograph is in the permanent collectio...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$506 Sale Price
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Portraits: Alba
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz uses outline drawings, called “cartoons”, as templates to transfer full size images onto the canvas prior to painting. Rendered in red chalk or charcoal on brown paper, th...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Charing Cross - The Statue of Charles I.
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in Storrs, CT
Charing Cross -- The Statue of Charles I. 1919. Etching with aquatint and drypoint. 3 5/8 x 4 7/8 (sheet 9 1/8 x 11 3/8). A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream-wove paper. Signed in pencil.
Charing Cross is located at the junction of the Strand, Whitehall, and Cockspur Street in Central London, England. The name originates from the Eleanor cross installed by King Edward I as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile at the former hamlet of Charing. Since 1675, the cross site has been occupied by a statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse. The pedestal is thought to be designed by Wren and carved by Grinling Gibbons.
Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England. Inside the Grade I listed building, there is seating for 400 people. There is a memorial plaque to the author Henry James (1843–1916) who lived nearby on Cheyne Walk. To the west of the church is a small public garden containing a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein.
When he was seventeen,William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
$780 Sale Price
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'Run Little Chillun' also 'Revival' — African American Subject
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Isac Friedlander, 'Run Little Chillun' also 'Revival', wood engraving, 1933, edition 50. Signed, titled and annotated 'New York 1933' in pencil. A sup...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Trois Esquisses de maternite (Three Studies of Maternity)
By Pierre Auguste Renoir
Located in Fairlawn, OH
After Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Trois Esquisses de maternite (Three Studies of Maternity)
Heliogravure with etching on velin paper, 1893
Unsigned as issued
Edition 1000, ther...
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1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
April: Otsuyu of Yanagibashi in Wisteria Arbor at Kameido
By Taiso Yoshitoshi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
April: Otsuyu of Yanagibashi in Wisteria Arbor at Kameido
Color woodcut, 1880
From the series: "Pride of Tokyo's Twelve Months" (Tokyo jiman juni kagetsu)
Signed and sealed lower rig...
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1880s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
'Cheval de Mecklembourg' — 19th-Century French Romanticism
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault 'Cheval de Mecklembourg' (Mecklembourg Horse), lithograph, 1822, 2nd state of 4, Delteil 47. Signed in the matrix 'Gericault', lower left. Published by Godefroy En...
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1820s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Interior with Red Shawl (Young woman reads in this calm Vermeer-like interior)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Interior with a red shawl conveys a quite different mood and feeling: one of calm, and suspension of time. Here the suggestion is that the woman is waiting ...
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Early 20th Century Dutch School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
Courtesan Kumekichi
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Courtesan Kumekichi
Color woodblock, 1858
Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III in the role of courtesan Kumekichi, who is standing in snow hold a red sake cup
Publisher: Ohkuniya Kinjiro...
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1850s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
'Little Locomotive' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Little Locomotive (Kleine Lokomotive)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W158. Annotated 'W 158' (Feininger catalogue number) and '1936' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 1/4 x 3 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (East Berlin KK).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
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1930s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
'Fruit Piece' — American Modernism, Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Pamela Bianco, 'Fruit Piece', lithograph, c. 1925. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower left. Annotated 'No. 8' in pencil, upper right...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Profils Horizontaux (20 men seated in a church, a hall, union or political?)
By Maurice Pasternak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Viewers are always curious about this image. I count 20 people seated -- all men. Why? Three of the men are looking over their shoulders toward the back. Are they impatient to see late arrivers? The seating seems to be pew like. Pasternak, like most artists, wants the viewer to bring their own interpretation to the image and is most circumspect to give an explanation. A church, a union hall, a political meeting -- which is it? The mood seems to be one of anxiety rather than celebration.
The artist did answer why all men. He says that "he likes to create the tension of the image on the page. Putting women and men together...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
Querelle d'amoureux. (Quarreling). 1
By James Tissot
Located in Storrs, CT
En plein soleil. (In the Sunlight). 1881. Etching and drypoint. Tissot 54, Béraldi 45, Wentworth 54. 7 13/16 x 11 1/2 (sheet 11 1/4 x 15). Edition about 100. Mat line and two hinge s...
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19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
$2,800 Sale Price
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L'Armoire (2nd State)
By Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in Chicago, IL
The Armoire
Etching
340 x 469 mm.; 13 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches
Reference:
Inventaire 18e siècle 9: 289-90, No. 22
Wildenstein 1956, cat. No. 23, State II/IV
Regency to Empire, 1...
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18th Century Rococo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Singers
By Adriaen van Ostade
Located in Chicago, IL
The Singers (4th State), 1667
Etching printed with tone
240 x 190 mm.; 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Provenance:
W. Benoni White (Lugt 2592)
Karl Herweg (not in Lugt)
References:
Godefroy 19 IV/VII
Hollstein 19 IV/VII
Pelletier, Georgia Museum of Art, 1994: nos. 46 and 47
Notes:
A very fine impression of the rare 4th state (of seven) of this major Van Ostade.
Godefroy illustrates differences between this 4th state and the following 5th state. In the latter state, there are several “escaped lines”, going obliquely from left to right, directly above the central post. These lines are not visible in the 4th state.
Ostade was one of the most important of the printmakers within the Rembrandt circle. His prints, avoiding religious subjects, depicted beggars, peasants and artisans. Combining great artistic sensitivity with thorough mastery of the medium of etching, Ostade etchings present a unique artistic panorama of life in seventeenth-century Holland.
Pelletier (S. William Pelletier, Adrian Van Ostade...
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17th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
CURRIER & IVES - 1860 LINCOLN ELECTION CAMPAIGN
By Currier & Ives
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CURRIER & IVES (LOUIS MAURER)
1860 LINCOLN ELECTION CAMPAIGN
THE IMPENDING CRISES - OR CAUGHT IN THE ACT, 1860 (C.3033, G.3270)
Lithograph...
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1860s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
AGONY
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROBERT PHILIPPI (Austrian 1877-1959)
KNEELING NUDE. c. 1923 (Chrastek, Widder 2019, p. 162, N° 461) (in Rifkind Collection, LACMA: From a portfolio of 1...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
$600 Sale Price
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Distant Salute (Venice)
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
1925. Etching. Hardie/Carter 250. 7 x 15 (sheet 11 3/8 x 18 1/8). Edition 80, #28. Signed and numbered in ink. A fine impression with plate tone, printed on antique cream-colored wo...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
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Untitled (Mother and Child)
By Maurice Denis
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Maurice Denis, Untitled (Mother and Child), lithograph, 1897, edition not stated. Signed in the stone, lower right. Annotated in linotype 'MAURICE DENIS, ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIE PAN III' in the lower left sheet corner. A fine, atmospheric impression, in warm, dark gray ink, on buff wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 1 3/4 inches); a small discoloration in the bottom left sheet corner, otherwise in good condition. Image size 8 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches; sheet size 13 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches. As published in 'Pan', the leading German magazine of the period devoted to art and literature. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Reproduced: German Expressionist Prints...
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1890s Symbolist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
THE EVANGELIST
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOHN STOCKTON DE MARTELLY (American 1903 - 1980)
THE EVANGELIST, 1941 (Zink 19)
Lithograph, signed, dated and numbered 80/100 in pencil below image. Signature and date in lighter pencil. Image. Very Good Condition. image, 13 1/2 x 9 3/4". Full sheet with deckle edges, 16 x 11 3/4". The Evangelist apparently represents de Martelly's New Hampshire neighbor Lizzy Osgood. De Martelly worked in an American Regionalist Style, often depicting his New Hampshire neighbors. He was associated with Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Art Institute. Most of de Martelly's regionalist prints were published by Associated American Artists in editions of 250. This lithograph is scarcer in an edition of only 100. He became an art professor at Michigan State University. After the 1940's de Martelly abandoned his Regionalist style for abstraction.
Roger Genser...
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1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$680 Sale Price
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'Arbre-Homme' (Tree-Man) —Mid-Century European Surrealism
By Ferdinand Springer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ferdinand Springer, 'Arbre-Homme', engraving, 1945, edition 23. Signed and numbered '23/20' in pencil.
A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, b...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Anatomical Engraving of a Human Arm
By John Lizars
Located in New York, NY
Original color printed engraving, embellished by hand from "Anatomical Plates of the Human Body." Edinburgh: 1822-27. John Lizars was a professor of surgery at the Royal College of ...
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Early 19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Paper
THE PARTISAN (SF Dock strike)
By Herman Roderick Volz 1
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HERMAN VOLZ (Swiss/American 1904 - 1990)
THE PARTISAN, 1937
Lithograph, signed and no. in pencil. Edition 30. 10 1/2 x 14. Sheet 11 1/4 x 17 1/2" Generally good condition aside fro...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Die Bettler (The Beggars)
By Max Beckmann
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Die Bettler (The Beggars)
Lithograph, 1922
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
From: Berliner Reise Series, Plate 7
Printed on wove paper
Edition: 100...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Studio Interior No. 1 — 1930s Masterwork
By Armin Landeck
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Armin Landeck, 'Studio Interior No. 1', 1935, drypoint, edition 100, Kraeft 56. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream laid pap...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint
The Turn of the Screw (an ambiguous ghost story by Henry James in 1898)
By Paolo Ciampini
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is signed and numbered in an edition of 50
Paolo Ciampini was born in Montopoli in Val d'Arno in 1941. After graduating from the Art Institute of Cascina (Pisa) in ...
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Early 2000s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Evening, Port of Genoa
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Storrs, CT
Evening, Port of Genoa. 1915. Drypoint. Dodgson 337.i/v. 7 5/8 x 9 15/16 (sheet 9 1/8 x 14). Edition of 45 in five states. An exceptionally rich impression with drypoint burr, printe...
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1910s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint
$760 Sale Price
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'Feast of Passover' — American Expressionism
By Max Weber
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Max Weber, Untitled 'Feast of Passover', woodcut, 1920, edition proofs—this impression from the edition of 25 printed in 1956, Rubenstein 30. Signed in pencil...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Make Fast, Plate 2.
By Arthur John Trevor Briscoe
Located in Storrs, CT
Make Fast, plate 2. 1929. Etching. Laver catalog number 146; Hurst catalog number 258. Plate: 14 3/8 x 9 13/16 (sheet 17 5/8 x 11 3/4). Trial proof 2, before the edition or 75. Ill...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching, Drypoint
$1,800 Sale Price
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Kris Dancer, Bali
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Al Hirschfeld, 'Kris Dancer, Bali', color lithograph, 1941, edition 1,000. Signed in the stone, lower right. A fine, clean impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper, the ful...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
The Print Shop
By Gustave Baumann
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GUSTAVE BAUMANN (1881 – 1971)
THE PRINT SHOP 1910 (Chamberlain 27)
Color woodcut signed in pencil. Unnumbed from an edition 100 as published in the
Hills o’ Brown Portfolio, (plate 11 of 12). Image 9 x 13 1/8, sheet 10 ¼ x 13 7/8 with
deckle edge at the bottom. The print portrays the Brown County...
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1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Portrait de femme en buste, de profil a gauche, un tres large ruban noir du cou
By Paul César Helleu
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait de femme en buste, de profil a gauche, un tres large ruban noir du cou, Mme Marthe Letellier
Drypoint, 1900-1901
Signed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Titled in pencil low...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint
AFTERNOON TEA
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M. AFTERNOON TEA. Way 147, Levy 114, TS&S 173. Lithograph, 1897. The only State, printed by Clot in an edition of 100, and published b...
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1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
FROLIC
By Lawrence Beall Smith
Located in Portland, ME
Smith, Lawrence Beall (1902-1995). FROLIC. Lithograph, 1948. Edition of 250 published by Associated American Artists. 9 3/8 x 12 1/4 inches (image)12 3/8 x 17 1/4 inches (sheet). In ...
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1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
The Hunchbacked Fiddler (3rd State)
By Adriaen van Ostade
Located in Chicago, IL
The Hunchbacked Fiddler (3rd State), 1654
Etching
266 x 113 mm.; 6 1/2 x 4 7/16 inches
Watermark:
Fleur-de-lys in a Crowned Shield
References:
Godefroy 44 III/VI
Hollstein 44 III/VI
Pelletier, Adrian van Ostade...
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17th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
'de Young Mansion' – San Francisco' — California WPA, Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh, 'de Young Mansion – San Francisco', lithograph, c. 1937, edition 25. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impr...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Nu. Étude d’un mouvement de jambes
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Nu. Étude d’un mouvement de jambes
1929 (printed in 1935)
Lithograph on Arches paper, Edition of 50
Paper size: 50 x 66 cms (19 3/4 x 26 ins)
Image size: 43.3 x 55.5 cm...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
'Havoc in Heaven' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Havoc in Heaven', lithograph, 1948, edition 30-35, Fine and Looney 270. Signed, titled, and numbered 'Ed 35' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. Printed...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
'By the Arks' — Mid-20th Century Surrealism
By Federico Castellon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Federico Castellon, 'By the Arks', 1941, lithograph, edition 250, Freundlich 10D. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower left. A fine, atmospheric impression on cream, wove pap...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Osmosis (process of gradual /unconscious assimilation of ideas, knowledge, etc.)
By Paolo Ciampini
Located in New Orleans, LA
Osmosis refers to the assimilation of ideas
Paolo Ciampini was born in Montopoli in Val d'Arno in 1941. After graduating from the Art Institute of Cascina (Pisa) in 1962, he comple...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Jane Hading
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jane Hading
Lithograph, 1898
Monogramed in the stone upper left corner (see photo)
From the First Edition, printed posthumously before 1906
c. 400 impressions (per Wittrock)
The sitt...
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1890s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Japanese Beauties Enjoy a Full Moon
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Burbank, CA
"Sun, Moon and Stars". Three beauties enjoy a full moon on the veranda of a teahouse or restuarant. The woman on the left kneels and adjusts her lavishly printed kimono. The beauty in the center has her hair down, and behind her is a screen against which shadows are beautifully silhouetted, which adds an air of mystery. The seated woman on the right is perhaps a geisha, as we see a shamisen lying next to her. Before her is a tray with an assortment of foods. One may surmise that the beauties are being compared to the sun, the moon, and the stars. On the left we glimpse a full moon shining over the peaceful bay, and boats at harbor. Original first edition Japanese color woodblock print triptych...
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1840s Edo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Mulberry Paper, Woodcut
BEFORE THE FIREPLACE. NO. 1.
By Mary Cassatt
Located in Portland, ME
Cassatt, Mary. BEFORE THE FIREPLACE. NO. 1.
Breeskin 64.
Soft-grpund etching and aquatint, c. 1882.
State 2 (of 3) with the light tone added, and the profile still indistinct.
Si...
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1880s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Madame Carmencita, Plate 9
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Madame Carmencita, Plate 9
From: Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1934-1936 (published 1938)
Signed with the artist's initials and dated, lower right of plat...
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1930s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
'Early Marshes' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Early Marshes', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1943, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '37/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (2 5/8 to 7 inches), in excellent condition.
With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 x 5 7/8 inches (127 x 149 mm); sheet size 15 x 11 inches (381 x 279 mm).
Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945 and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions.
“The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.”
—Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature.
Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research.
Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June.
Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages."
In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking.
Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
No Footprints Show, Where the Flowers Grow Deep
By Shiko Munakata
Located in Fairlawn, OH
No Footprints Show, Where the Flowers Grow Deep
Woodcut, 1961
Unsigned (as isssued)
From: The "Way" of the Woodcut, three woodcuts, 1961
Publisher: Pratt Adlib Press, Brooklyn, New Y...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Mehr Sonne fur 1924' (More Sun for 1924)— German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Mehr Sonne fur 1924. Viel Gluck Wunscht Karl Michel U. Frau', woodcut, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op. 162' and '15/20' in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression on buff wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
New Year's Greeting – English translation: "More Sun for 1924. Good Luck Wishes from Karl Michel and his Wife."
Image size 4 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (118 x 121 mm); sheet size 7 3/4 x 10 inches (198 x 254 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Revillon Freres: Woman in fur cape with starry background
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 Revill...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Olliver St. John Gogarty
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Oliver St. John Gogarty. 1935. Etching. Fletcher 78. 6 7/8 x 5 1/2 (sheet 11 1/4 x 8 3/8). Edition 100. 75 intended for the Cuala Press, Dublin. A rich impression, printed on cream-wove paper. Signed in pencil.
The etching was done as a commission for Cuala Press, Dublin, as a frontispiece for Gogarty's book, Elbow Room Before publication, the project was changed and the print was never used.
Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty (17 August 1878 – 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'Venice, Maria della Salute' — Serenissima Impressionism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Venice, Maria della Salute', etching, c. 1930. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with skillfully wiped plate tone, on cream wove paper, ...
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1930s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Bedrock' — Construction of the New Yorker Hotel
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'Bedrock', etching, 1928, edition 25, Kennedy 29. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression in brown/black ink, with skilfully wiped plate tone; on ...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Reflections
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Reflections', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1979, edition 160 in 1983. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A superb impression, on cream ...
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1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
