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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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Boys Sledding
By John Sloan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Boys Sledding
Etching, 1920
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist below image (see photos)
Annotated in pencil by the artist "100 proofs"
Signed and dated in the plate lower left...
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1920s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Black Silk Dress (Anaïs).
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
The Black Silk Dress. 1927. Etching. Fletcher catalog 58 state .ix (published state). 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 (sheet 14 1/2 x 9 1/8). Edition 76 in this state; total 111 proofs). Exhibited at...
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1920s Renaissance Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
L'ACTEUR . . . . - On voit bien qu'il fait chaud . . . . . . . trois spectateurs
By Honoré Daumier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'ACTEUR . . . . - On voit bien qu'il fait chaud . . . . . . . trois spectateurs dans la salle ..... faut-il commencer ? . . . .
LE DIRECTEUR .- Et encore un des trois est le vendeu...
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1850s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Duet — Cellist and Pianist, 1930s Lithograph
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Herschel Levit 'Duet', lithograph, c. 1937. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 x 2 inches)...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Abschied (Parting)
By Emil Nolde
Located in New York, NY
Emil Nolde (1876-1956), Abschied (Parting), etching and aquatint (tonal effects), 1906, signed in pencil lower right. Reference: Schiefler/Mosel 20, third state (of 3). One of only...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
The Pool of London.
By William Lionel Wyllie
Located in Storrs, CT
The Pool of London. c. 1915. Etching and drypoint. 7 7/8 x 15 7/8 (sheet 11 x 14 7/8 x 21 1/4). A rich impression with drypoint burr printed on the full sheet of simili-Japan paper. ...
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1910s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
'Little Locomotive' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Little Locomotive (Kleine Lokomotive)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W158. Annotated 'W 158' (Feininger catalogue number) and '1936' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 1/4 x 3 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (East Berlin KK).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
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1930s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
A Gale at Port Errol
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
A Gale at Port Errol. 1923. Etching. Hardie 215, #46. 13 x 8 3/4 (sheet 16 7 /8 x 11 1/2). Edition 76. #46. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1923. A rich...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'Viel Gluck 1923' (Good Luck Wishes) — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Viel Gluck 1923 Wunscht der Graphikverlag, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothenfelde', woodcut, 1922, edition 20. Signed and numbered op. 135d and 20/20 in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream Japan paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/8 inches), in good condition. With the artist’s blind stamp in the top left margin. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
New Year's Greeting - "1923, Good Luck Wishes from the Graphic Press, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothfelde."
Image size 5 x 3 1/2 inches (127 x 89 mm); sheet size 6 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (168 x 149 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
'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
'Hurdy Gurdy Ballet' — New York City American Scene, Ashcan School
By Glenn O. Coleman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Glenn O. Coleman, 'Hurdy Gurdy Ballet', lithograph 1928, edition 50. Signed, dated, and numbered '14/50' in pencil. Titled in the bottom left margin, in an...
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1920s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Politics
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
Politics (Tonnere de Brest). 1926. Drypoint. Appleby 108. 7 x 9 (sheet 10 1/2 x 15 1/2). A rich impression printed on cream wove paper with full margins. Illustrated: Salaman, Modern...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Tidal Shift # 1 (Young bathers stroll on beach with others out in surf Montauk)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
'Tidal Shift' refers not only to the endangered coastal tideland but also to the psychological mindset of the characters. At first glance, the image projects seaside relaxation but ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
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
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Mulberry Paper, Woodcut
Floating Crap Game
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Floating Crap Game, chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1958, edition 145. Signed, titled, numbered 'Ed. 145' and dated '3/1958'. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, rich ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
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
'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, 1940s Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 IV. Annotated 'PW 290 state IV / IV 3669', in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. With the artist's typed address and date adjacent to the letterhead image: 'Falls Village, Connecticut September 26th, 1940'.
A fine impression, on buff, wove letterhead stock; several small losses, and tears, in the sheet edges (not affecting the image area); a crease in the bottom right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Very scarce.
Image size: 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 11 x 8 5/8 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Feininger moved from Germany to New York City in 1938 and began spending his summers in Falls Village in 1940.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
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1930s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
LARGE RARE OTTO MUELLER WOODCUT POSTER
By Otto Mueller
Located in Santa Monica, CA
OTTO MUELLER (German 1874 – 1930)
POTSDAMER KUNSTSOMMER, 1921 (1968) (Karsch 6)
Woodcut. Edition of 25 and numbered 11. There are no known
impressio...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
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
Sanctuary
Located in New Orleans, LA
This etching is #2 out of an edition of 10
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2010s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Chelsea Rags
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Chelsea Rags.
Chelsea Rags. 1888. Lithograph. Way 22, Levy 35, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 26. 7 1/8 x 6 5/16 (sheet 12 3/4 x 8). Printed on cream laid paper. Provenance: Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip, Whistler's sister-in-law, her seal verso: (Lugt 405). Michael Parkin Fine Art, Ltd. from whom purchased in 1972. Christie's, King Street.Signed with the butterfly in the image. One of 13 impressions listed by Way, before the image was transferred to supplementary stones for the edition of 500-1,000 printed by Way and issued in the Albemarle, January, 1892. Signed with the butterfly in the stone and in pencil. Housed in an elegant silk mat with a silver liner, and in a 16 3/4 x 14 3/4-inch silver leaf frame decorated with fleur-de-lis decorations.
"And his interest in London has not been restricted to the Thames. Seeing the beautiful, where other men might be discouraged by dullness, he has taken his subject, now in the little cheap shop opening a low window upon the street, now in the forgotten church hidden away in a lonely square. And Chelsea Rags, the Shops of Chelsea, the Drury Lane, as well as The Butcher's Dog, are impressions of vague Rembrandtesque interiors where figures, grim or graceful, peer from out deep shadows— shops as lovely in his prints as the halls of a Veronese, or the palaces of a Claude." Elizabeth Robins...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Winter Fun — Mid-century Modernism, Central Park, New York City
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Winter Fun', lithograph, 1940, edition 20, 250 (1941). Flint 188. Signed in pencil, with the artist’s monogram in the stone, lower left. A...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
SCHWANGERE FRAU.
By Käthe Kollwitz
Located in Portland, ME
Kollwitz, Kathe. SCHWANGERE FRAU. Etching and soft ground, 1910. Klipstein 108(V) 14 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches (377 x 236 mm.). Signed in pencil, and with the names of the publisher Richter...
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1910s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
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
Triste Os (Sad Bones)
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Triste Os (Sad Bones)
Color etching and aquatint on Montval laid paper, 1934
Monogrammed and dated in the plate (see photo)
Edition: 250
References And Exhibitions:
Plate 8 from the ...
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1930s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
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
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Drypoint, Etching
'Horse Attacked by Tiger' — 19th-Century French Romanticism
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault (after), 'Tigre dévorant un cheval' (Tiger Devouring a Horse), lithograph, 3rd state of 3, Clement 97, c. 1820. Lettered 'Volmar ...
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1820s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
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
'La Pêche' (Fishing) — French Cubist Woodcut
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Raoul Dufy, 'La Pêche' (Fishing), woodcut, 1910, from the second edition of 220 printed in 1953. With the estate stamp 'ATELIER RAOUL DUFY' in the lower left margin. Numbered '106/220' in pencil, lower right. Titled in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (3 to 5 inches), slight toning at the sheet edges, well away from the image; otherwise in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 12 1/2 x 15 13/16 inches (318 x 402 mm); sheet size 19 9/16 x 25 3/4 inches (497 x 654 mm).
From the suite of four woodcuts entitled 'Les Plaisirs de la Paix' (The Pleasures of Peace), originally published by Éditions de La Sirène, Paris in 1926. The other three works in the series are 'La Danse' (The Dance), 'La Chase' (The Hunt), and 'L'amore' (Love). See our other listings for 'La Danse' and 'L'amore'.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Minneapolis Art...
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1910s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
March 8, 2001
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
Victoria Club
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Victoria Club. 1879 and 1887. Lithograph. Way catalog 11 state ii; Levy catalog 22; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink catalog number 15 state ii. 8 x 5 3/8 (sheet 16 5/8 x 12 1/16). A ri...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Portrait of Gladys Anne Hoskyns
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of Gladys Anne Hoskyns
Collotype after a Wyndham Lewis drawing, 1923
Singed in the plate and reinforced in pencil
Published by The Dial Publishing Company in Living Art...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
On the Kedgwick
By Frank Benson
Located in New York, NY
Frank Benson created the etching "On the Kedgwick" in 1923, in an edition of 150. This impression is the second state of four. There are five known impressions of the second state. It is signed in pencil and inscribed "B-1" and "1 or 5" at the lower left paper edge (pencil). The image size 7 13/16 x 11 7/8" (19.9 x 30.2 cm) and sheet size 15 3/8 x 11 1/2" )29.3 x 39 cm). It is listed in the Frank W. Benson catalogue raisonne by Paff #222.
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 Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
COMPOSITION - Lovely design portraying a future Abstract Expressionist.
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES CHAPIN (1887 – 1975)
COMPOSITION c. 1940
Lithograph signed in pencil, Image 11 7/8 x 7 ¾ inches, sheet 13 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches. Just a hint of mat line in the margins and on the verso. Some remnants of old tape prImarily at the left & right sheet edges. Rather scarce print but possibly published by Associated American Artists.
WONDERFUL PORTRAYAL OF AN UP AND COMING ARTIST...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Viel Gluck 1923' — New Year's Greeting - German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Viel Gluck 1923 Wunscht Karl Michel', etching, 1923, edition not stated but small. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op. 136' in pencil. Signed in the image, lower right. A...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
'Bridges of Florence' — Firenze Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Alonzo C. Webb, 'Bridges of Florence', etching, 1929, edition 100. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in warm ...
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1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Endless Day
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Endless Day', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1979, edition 160 in 1983. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A superb impression, on off-w...
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1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Anaïs No. 2
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Anaïs No. 2. 1930. Etching. Fletcher 67. 8 7/8 x 6 3/4 (Sheet 15 x 11). Edition 111. An extremely rich proof printed on cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. Anaïs F...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Large Village Fair
By Cornelis Dusart
Located in Chicago, IL
The Large Village Fair, 1685
Etching
268 x 377 mm.; 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches
Watermark:
Arms of Amsterdam
Provenance:
H. Freiherr von und zu Aufsess (Lugt 2749)
M. Menge (Lugt 1893a).
References:
Hollstein 16
Notes:
A fine, early impression (before spots on the sky) of one of Dusart’s most powerful and fanciful works.
Concerning the provenances of this etching:
Hans von und zu Aufsess (1801-1872) was a great book lover and also a major collector of Old Master prints. He was one of the founders, in 1852, of the Germanisches Museum in Nürnberg and was that museum’s director until 1862. Mas Menge (died in 1945) was a famous violinist and also a major collector of Old Master prints and drawings.
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17th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Femme
By Aristide Maillol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ARISTIDE MAILLOL (1861-1944)
FEMME ASSISE /
(WOMAN SEATED IN PROFILE, RIGHT, ONE LEG BENT. ONE LEG RAISED), 1926 (Gueirn 321)
Etching signed with “M” monogram in pencil. Image 9 x 9...
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1920s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Venus and the Rose (2nd State)
By Giorgio Mantovano Ghisi
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after Luca Penni
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16th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
DEATH OF THE FIRST BORN - Proof - Magnificent Large Scale Mezzotint
By John Martin
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOHN MARTIN (1789 – 1854)
DEATH OF THE FIRST BORN, Dedicated to His Majesty King Louise Philippe, King of the French, as a Tribute of the Artist’s Grateful...
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1830s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
'Gardenias' — Mid-Century Floral Abstraction
By Mary Van Blarcom
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Mary Van Blarcom, 'Gardenias', color serigraph, c. 1945, edition small. Signed 'Van B' in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled in pencil, bottom left sheet corner. A rich, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (5/16 to 1 1/16 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 6 x 8 3/8 inches; sheet size 6 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Painter, printmaker and craftsperson, Mary Van Blarcom was born in Newark, New Jersey and studied at Wellesley College. She was a member of the National Serigraph Society where she served on the board of trustees from 1945 through 1952 and was 1st vice-president from 1949-51. She was also a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Artists Equity Association, the American Color Print Society, the New Jersey Artists Association (Director), and Artists of Today.
Van Blarcom exhibited actively throughout the 1940’s at many prominent art organizations including: Montclair Art Museum, 1941-45 and 1947-51 (prize, 1948); Society of Independent Artists, 1942-44; Artists of Today, 1942-46; Elisabeth Ney Museum, 1943; Northwest Printmakers, 1944, 1946-49; Laguna Beach Art Association, 1945-47, 1949; National Association of Women Artists, 1945-50, (prize, 1946); Library of Congress, 1946-47; Museum of Modern Art travelling exhibition, 1945-47; Carnegie Institute, 1947; Serigraph Gallery, 1946, 1951 (solo); American Color Print Society, 1947-52; Newark Museum, 1947-48, 1951; California State Library, 1947, 1949; National Serigraph Society, 1949 (prize), 1950 (prize); University of Chile, 1950; New Jersey State Museum, 1950; Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1951; and the Main Gallery, NY, 1952.
Van Blarcom’s work is in the collections of the Newark Public Library, U.S. Library of Congress; the American Association of University Women; New York Public Library; Tel-Aviv Museum, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Princeton Print Club...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Screen
Broadway from the Bowling Green, 1828 — early New York City, hand-coloring
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
J. R. Hutchinson, 'Broadway from the Bowling Green, 1828', hand-colored etching, 1828. Signed and dated in the plate, beneath the image, lower right. Ann...
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1820s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Model
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Santa Monica, CA
RAPHAEL SOYER (1899 - 1987)
THE MODEL 1944 (Cole 64)
Lithograph Signed in pencil, edition 250, 11 ¾ x 7 ¾ Full margins, sheet 15 ¾ x 12
with deckle edge. Very slight toning to the ...
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1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
The Sacristan
By Harry Morley
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image shows a cleric seated in a church sacristy surrounded by religious statues, croziers, various saints, statues and chalices. It is an origina...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Engraving
The Dancer (Anaïs).
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
The Dancer (Anaïs). 1925. Etching. Fletcher catalog 52 state viii. 9 3/4 x 6 1/16 (Sheet 14 1/4 x 10 1/2). Edition 107. An extremely rich proof printed on cream 'MADE IN ENGLAND' ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
My Great Mum (the artist's mother, a quintessential Italian matriarch)
By Paolo Ciampini
Located in New Orleans, LA
"My Great Mum" is a loving portrait of the artist's Italian mother.
Paolo Ciampini was born in Montopoli in Val d'Arno in 1941. After graduating from the Art Institute of Cascina (...
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1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Basque Boy also called Boy with Beret and Fabian.
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
The Basque Boy also called Boy with Beret and Fabian. 1944. Lithograph. Fletcher Lithographs 3.ii. zinc plate. 13 x 10 1/4 (sheet 7 1/8 x 13 7/8). Edition 10. Printed on countermarke...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Mending the Trawl, plate 3.
By Arthur John Trevor Briscoe
Located in Storrs, CT
Hurst 166. 6 7/8 x 11 3/4 (sheet 9 x 13 1/2). Edition 75, #73. A rich impression with dramatic plate tone, printed on cream laid paper with a foolscap watermark. Signed and numbered ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
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
Materials
Lithograph
DER SCHATTEN II - Rich Drypoint - 1st State
By Hermann Max Pechstein
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAX PECHSTEIN (1881 -1955)
DER SCHATTEN II 1918 (Knupp 79, Fecher 143 I/ii)
Rich drypoint, signed and annotated, FIRST STATE. Image: 8 1/4 x 6 inches on japan paper; 15 x 11 1/4 i...
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1910s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint
The Loop III (the artist's memories of days at Chicago's Art Institute)
By Richard Gilbert
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Loop III was created in a small edition of 15. The Loop is a vibrant area featuring eclectic eateries, shops, theaters and parks. Comprised mostly of high-rises, it’s also home to the 108-story Willis Tower. The iconic “Cloud Gate...
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1990s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
'Varietesoubrette, Schwalbennest' also Dancer — 1920s German Expressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Martel Schwichtenberg (1896-1945), 'Varietésoubrette, Schwalbennest (Variety Soubrette, Swallow’s Nest), drypoint, 1922. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression; the full sheet of cream wove paper, with wide margins (3 3/4 to 5 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 7 3/16 x 4 5/16 inches; sheet size 16 3/8 x 12 1/8 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Published in Die Schaffenden...
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1920s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint
Ludgate Hill
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in Storrs, CT
Ludgate Hill. 1921. Etching, aquatint, and drypoint. Dickins 69. 5 5/8 x 5 1/8 (sheet 13 5/8 x 9 3/4). A fine proof with plate tone, printed on 'J Wha[tman] cream wove paper. Edition of 275 for the UK and 125 for the US. Signed in pencil.
Ludgate Hill is a street that runs west from St. Paul's Churchyard to Ludgate Circus (built in 1864), and from there becomes Fleet Street. The Ludgate Hill railway station, between Water Lane and New Bridge Street, is a station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. It was closed before World War II and the railway bridge and viaduct between Holborn Viaduct and Blackfriars stations was demolished in 1990 to enable the construction of the City Thameslink railway station in a tunnel. This also involved the regrading of the slope of Ludgate Hill at the junction. About halfway up Ludgate Hill is St Martin, Ludgate church. This was physically joined to the Ludgate.
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
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Slack Rope Artist
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Slack Rope Artist', lithograph, 1930, edition 30, Fine and Looney 35. Signed and titled in pencil. Numbered '2' in the bottom right margin. A fine impression, with ...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Architectura Curiosa Nova, Dragon Fish Garden Fountain
By Georg Andreas Böckler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Andreas Böckler, 'Dragon Fish Garden Fountain', antique copperplate engraving, 1664, from the book 'Architectura Curiosa Nova'. A fine, richly in...
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1660s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Bearded Man with Shadowed Face, Wearing a Scarf and a Plumed Hat, (3rd state)
By Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Located in Chicago, IL
Bearded Man with Shadowed Face, Wearing a Scarf and a Plumed Hat, (3rd state), 1645-50
Etching on laid paper
152 x 184 mm.; 6 x 7 1/4 inches
References:
Bellini 45
Bartsch 52
Note...
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17th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Laid Paper, Etching
