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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Les Plaisirs du Bal [before 1st State] (The Pleasures of the Ball)
By (After) Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Chicago, IL
Les Plaisirs du Bal (before 1st State), 1730
The Pleasures of the Ball
Pure etching only by Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin II (born Paris 1698)
495 x 640 mm.; 19 3/8 x 25 1/8 inches
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18th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
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CALIFORNIA 1850 GOLD RUSH CARICATURE
By Charles Amedee de Noe (CHAM)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH CARICATURE
Charles Amédée de Noé, aka CHAM (1819 -1879)
CROQUIS CALIFORNIENS, ca. 1850
Lithograph image inc. text 10 ½ x 6, sheet 14 x 9 1/2 inches. French...
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1840s Barbizon School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
'Pope' from 'In Praise of Folly' — Mid-Century Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Pope' from the series 'Moriae Encomium (In Praise of Folly),' mezzotint, 1943, no edition, proofs only. Signed in pencil. Annotated 'POPE - CARDINAL - BISHOP' - 1943 in ink, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 to 1 7/8 inches) in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Created by the artist for 'Erasmus's Moriae Encomium,' or 'In Praise of Folly,' published by the Limited Editions Club, 1943. A rare, signed, proof impression apart from the Limited Editions Club publication.
Image size 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (197 x 121 mm); sheet size 10 11/16 x 8 1/16 inches (271 x 204 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lynd Ward is acknowledged as one of America’s foremost wood engravers and book illustrators of the first half of the twentieth century. His innovative use of narrative printmaking as a stand-alone storytelling vehicle was uniquely successful in reaching a broad audience. The powerful psychological intensity of his work, celebrated for its dynamic design, technical precision, and compelling dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers, Ward was concerned with the themes of man’s inner struggles and the role of the subconscious in determining his destiny. An artist of social conscience during the Great Depression and World War II, he infused his graphic images with his unique brand of social realism, deftly portraying the problems that challenged the ideals of American society.
The son of a Methodist preacher, Lynd Ward, moved from Chicago to Massachusetts at an early age. He graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University, New York, in 1926, where he studied illustration and graphic arts. He married May Yonge McNeer in 1936 and left for Europe for their honeymoon in Eastern Europe. After four months, they settled in Leipzig, where Ward studied at the National Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookmaking. Inspired by Belgian expressionist artist Frans Masereel's graphic novel ‘The Sun,’ and another graphic novel by the German artist Otto Nückel, ‘Destiny,’ he determined to create his own "wordless" novel. Upon his return to America, Ward completed his first book, ‘God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts,’ published in 1929. ‘Gods’ Man’ was a great success for its author and publisher and was reprinted four times in 1930, including a British edition. This book and several which followed it, ‘Madman’s Drum,’ 1930, ‘Wild Pilgrimage,’ 1932, ‘Prelude to a Million Years,’ 1933, ‘Song Without Words,' 1936, ‘Vertigo,’ 1937; and ‘Last Unfinished Wordless Novel’ (created in the 1960s and published in 2001) were comprised solely of Ward's wood engravings. Ward designed each graphic image to occupy an entire page, the sequence of which conveys the story's narrative.
In 1937, Ward was named Director of the Graphic Arts Division of the Federal Art Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In the following years, Ward went on to illustrate more than one hundred books (some of which he wrote), including classics for the Limited Editions Club Goethe’s ‘Faust,’ Faulkner’s ‘A Green Bough,’ and Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ and several children’s books. He also produced single-subject wood engravings, paintings, and drawings. His print ‘Sanctuary,’ 1939, was shown at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, and ‘Clouded Over,’ 1948, received the 1948 Library of Congress Award and was included in ‘American Prize Prints of the 20th Century’ by Albert Reese. He received the National Academy of Design Print Award (1949), the New York Times Best Illustrated Award (1973), and the Regina Award (Catholic Library Association, 1975). ‘The Biggest Bear,’ a children’s book with illustrations by Ward, was the recipient of the esteemed 1952 Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Ward was a member and board member of the National Academy of Design and the Artists’ League of America. He served several terms as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists and was a member of the American Artists Congress and the Society of Illustrators. Ward exhibited at the American Artists Congress; the National Academy of Design; the John Herron Art Institute; and the Library of Congress. He had a one-person show at Associated American Artists, NY, on the publication of his monograph 'Storyteller Without Words,' 1974; AAA mounted a memorial exhibition in 1986. The May 1976 issue of 'Bibliognost,' a book collector’s publication, was dedicated to Ward. ‘Lynd Ward, His Bookplate Designs,’ an article by Dan Burne Jones, was published in the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers Yearbook, 1981/82.
In 2001, sixteen years after his death, Rutgers University Libraries published ’Lynd Ward’s Last Unfinished Wordless Novel.’ The blocks were intended to be part of a novel in woodcuts, the first since Vertigo, but Ward did not live to complete the project. Master printer and book designer Barbara Henry collated and printed the twenty-six finished blocks out of the forty-four initially planned for the still unnamed narrative.
In 2010 the Library of America honored Ward’s achievements with the meticulous production of a collection of Ward’s woodcut novels—the first time the Library had gone wordless. The publication replicated his original editions with a single full-size image printed on the right page of each double-page spread. In his introduction to the books, renowned cartoonist/illustrator Art...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
The Beggars
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Beggars, etching and drypoint, 1879-80, signed with the butterfly and inscribed “imp”. Reference: Glasgow 190, seventh sta...
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1870s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
Marquette
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Marquett. 1925. Etching. Fletcher 51. 8 7/16 x 6 7/8 (sheet 12 13/16 x 8 7/8). Trial proof, apart from the edition of 106 (total 113 impressions). A rich impression, printed on cream...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
$520 Sale Price
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On the Yard, plate 3.
By Arthur John Trevor Briscoe
Located in Storrs, CT
Laver 139, Hurst 246. 8 7/8 x 13 7/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 16 1/4). Trial proof. No published edition. An extremely rich impression with plate tone printed on 'antique laid paper countermarked 'DS&Pine 17940 with a Strasbourg lily watermark. Signed and annotated 'trial' in pencil. An exceptional proof of the greatest rarity.
Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
In 1899 Briwcoe acquired a studio in Malden, Essex, and bought a 3-ton cutter which, with his young family, he would spend eight or nine months a year, sailing to Calais, along the Belgian coast, and through the Dutch waterways, constantly sketching and painting in both oil and watercolor.
In 1922, after a meeting with the etcher James McBey, Briscoe returned to etching once more producing plates of some of his sea sketches. The two artists sailed together in Briscoe's, forty-ton yacht, the "Golden Vanity...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
$1,500 Sale Price
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Ne sommes-nous pas forçats? (Are we not Slaves?)
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ne sommes-nous pas forçats? (Are we not Slaves?)
Aquatint and heliogravure on Arches laid paper watermarked "Ambroise Vollard"
Signed and dated in the plate lower left (see photo)
P...
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1920s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Aquatint
'Sailing' — Modernism, New York City WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fred Becker, 'Sailing', wood engraving, c. 1935, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper; with full margins (1 to 2 15/16...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Domjulien, Haute Vosges, France
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Domjulien, Haute Vosges, France', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1971, edition 140. Signed, dated, titled and numbered '15/140' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right....
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1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Comus In a Drunken Stupor
By Hernan Bas
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground and flatbite etching, spitbite and soapground aquatints, and unique inking.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
THE WAGON SHOP
By Gustave Baumann
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GUSTAVE BAUMANN (1881 – 1971)
THE WAGON SHOP, 1910 (Chamberlain 24)
Color woodcut signed in pencil. Unnumbed from an edition 100 as published in the Hills o’ Brown...
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1910s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
'Crown of Roses' — Mid-century Modernism
By Mary Van Blarcom
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Mary Van Blarcom, 'Crown of Roses', color serigraph, c. 1945, edition not stated but small. Signed in pencil beneath the image, lower left. Titled in pencil, bottom left sheet corner. A rich painterly impression, with fresh colors, on cream laid paper, with full margins (3/8 to 7/8 inch), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 8 13/16 x 12 11/16 inches; sheet size 9 1/2 x 8 5/16 inches.
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 1940s 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 Traveling 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 represented in the collections of the Newark Public Library, the U.S. Library of Congress; the American Association of University Women; the 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
$320 Sale Price
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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
$1,000 Sale Price
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Elisabeth (Anaïs) also called The London Caster Girl.
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Elisabeth (Anaïs) also called The London Caster Girl. 1922. Etching. Fletcher catalog 32 state x. 5 5/8 x 4 1/4 (sheet 11 1/2 x 9). Edition 76 (total 94 impressions). A rich impress...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
$600 Sale Price
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Ephemera
By Ida Applebroog
Located in New York, NY
Available individually ($2500), and also as a suite of five ($12,000).
Born in Bronx, NY, Ida Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences (1949). She moved...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Aquatint, Photogravure
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
CURIOUS GEORGE GOES TO THE HOSPITAL
Located in Portland, ME
Rey, Margaret and H.A. CURIOUS GEORGE GOES TO THE HOSPITAL. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1966. 1st Printing stated. INSCRIBED in ink on the front free endpaper "To Edith Bell from the R...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
'To Market, to Market' — Surrealist Fantasy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Zena Kavin, 'To Market, to Market', lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '6/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full ma...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$360 Sale Price
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'Venus' — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Venus, Ex Libris - Hanns U. Herta Heeren', woodcut, 1923, edition not stated but small. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op.154' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. A fine impression, on cream Japan paper, with full margins (15/16 to 2 11/16 inches), in good condition. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards (unframed).
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Translation: Venus Ex Libris for Hanns and Herta Heeren.
Image size 5 15/16 x 4 inches (156 x 102 mm); sheet size 9 5/8 x 6 inches (245 x 152 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
'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
$3,840 Sale Price
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'Le maréchal flamand' (The Flemish Blacksmith) — 19th-Century French Romanticism
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault 'Le maréchal flamand' (The Flemish Blacksmith) from the series ‘Etudes, de chevaux lithographiés,’ lithograph, 1822, 2nd state ...
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1820s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Trent et Un
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
A miniature image in an edition of 30 features two beach huts and magical flying fish going by. The image is surreal and serene both at the same time, A lot of quiet emotion is comm...
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1990s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
$140 Sale Price
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My Work
By Joan Snyder
Located in New York, NY
Joan Snyder has been called an autobiographical, even confessional artist, who draws from her experiences and surroundings to create her paintings. While her subjects vary widely, Sn...
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1990s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching, Woodcut
$3,500
'Foul Rope (Left)' — Early American Southwest Rodeo
By William Robinson Leigh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Robinson Leigh, 'Foul Rope (Left)', etching, c. 1920, edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil and signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove Umbria paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 14 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (378 x 303 mm); sheet size 20 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (518 x 391 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia, on a plantation a year after the Civil War and raised in Baltimore, William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) became one of the foremost painters of the American West. His career spanning some seventy-five years, Leigh created some of the most iconic depictions of the Western landscape, with admirers referring to him as ‘The Sagebrush Rembrandt.’
The son of impoverished Southern aristocrats, Leigh received his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell at the Maryland Institute, where he was regarded as the best student in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama.
In 1896, Leigh began working as a magazine illustrator for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine in New York City. He also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes.
Leigh's trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he agreed to paint the Grand Canyon with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting, which led to more commissions and an extensive painting trip through Arizona and New Mexico. These travels inspired him to paint western subjects for the next 50 years, and his primary interests were the Hopi and Navajo Indians.
In 1910, he traveled to Wyoming, where he painted in Yellowstone Park and created sketches, many of which he later converted into large canvases such as ‘Lower Falls of the Yellowstone’ (1915) and ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ (1911).
In 1926, he traveled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience, wrote and illustrated 'Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa'. In 1933, he wrote and illustrated 'The Western Pony'. His adventures were chronicled in several popular magazines, including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers.
For many years, Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel handled his work exclusively in New York. In 1953, Leigh was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design and became a full Academician in 1955.
In March 1999, the Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, held an exhibition of his field sketches and finished works depicting his experiences near Cody early in the century. Between 1910 and 1921, when he often painted in the Carter Mountain vicinity, these years were considered pivotal to his artistic development and devotion to the Western landscape.
Leigh's work is held in many museum collections of American Western art...
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1920s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Sew What (the swells and swirls of the stripes are now in the hands of others)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Sew What" is a color mezzotint with burin engraving created in an edition of 35. This impression is #6. I love sumptuously designed textiles in both real life and art. Patterns metamorphosing over fabric folds appeal to my interest in modulating rhythmic forms, particularly the swells and swirls of calligraphic stripes. I’m also fascinated by articulated wooden hand models, which appear in many of my paintings. Combining these passions with sewing paraphernalia from my seamstress days provided inspiration for my color mezzotint engraving "Sew What".
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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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
Bowling Green, New York
By Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Conrad Rosenberg, 'Bowling Green, New York', etching, 1940. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with all the fine lines printing c...
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1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint
Magic (these two figures seated on a beach beneath an active sky evoke emotion)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
An older couple sits on a beach facing the sea as a shooting object streaks through the sky. There is a feeling of connection and contentment conveyed through the imagery. Does the...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
Canal II
By Maurice Pasternak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maurice Pasternak usually creates surreal landscapes that include traditional male images along a canal. However, this traditional imagery is not organized or presented in a way that...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
Crucifixion
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jean Pichore workshop, 1500-1541
Crucifixion
Metal cut engraving printed on vellum with vintage hand coloring
c. 1500-1541
Miniature (image) size: 4 3/4 x 3 1/8"
Including decorated ...
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16th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
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
Maternité / Motherhood I: Honte / Disgrace
By Marc Chagall
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARC CHAGALL (1887 – 1985)
MATERNITE, 1926. Motherhood I: Honte / Disgrace (Kornfeld 65, Cramer 5, Sorlier, p. 20-21
Etching, Frontispiece from Maternite Au Sans Pareil, Paris, 1926. Marcel Arland, illustrated by Marc Chagall with five original etchings this being one of the five. Image size: 5 5/8 x 4 1/8. 1130 unsigned impressions on various papers. The story begins with a young woman being shunned by the whole village because she had given birth to a child and left its dead body...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Trench
By James Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Trench
Lithograph, 1937
Signed and annotated in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 30
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Mary Ryan Gallery
Frac Teck Services, Ft. Worth, TX
Part of a se...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Settling II Homage to the Mezzotint (Self Portrait of Artist with his Tools)
By Francisco Souto
Located in New Orleans, LA
Francisco Souto has created his self portrait working on the plate of a mezzotint. This is impression #14 from an edition of only 23.
Souto received a BFA from Herron School of Art ...
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Early 2000s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
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
Reflet - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
This impression is #8 of 50
Mezzotint artist Mikio Watanabe was born in 1954 in Ja...
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1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
$650 Sale Price
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Fructidore (Fruit being carried is hard to distinguish from the woman's body)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
In Anne Dykmans' "Fructidore", a well endowed woman uses her plaid apron to carry a bunch of fruit. Parts of her body clothed in plaid seem to suggest the same fruit she is carrying...
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1970s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
Windy Night, Stockholm.
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Storrs, CT
Windy Night, Stockholm. 1935. Drypoint. Dodgson 457.x. 11 7/8 x 7 5/8 (sheet 15 1/2 x 10 7/8). Edition of 80 in this state (total 93 in 10 states). Illustrated: Guichard, British Etc...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
$1,600 Sale Price
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One of Twelve VI (etchings of one of 12 heads based on monumental sculpture)
By Seyed M. S. Edalatpour
Located in New Orleans, LA
"One of Twelve VI" is an etching, 1995, 4 3/4 x 4 3/4, edition: 24, signed in pencil. The print has an embossed chop in the lower right corner, a capital P in a circle indicating th...
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1990s Post-Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
WE’RE OVER THR MOUNTAIN (Wir sind überm Berg)
By Andreas Paul Weber
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893 – 1980)
WE’RE OVER THR MOUNTAIN (Wir sind überm Berg) (A68, D2718)
Lithograph over tinted ground, signed in pencil and in monogram in the stone. Image, 14 ½ x 19 1/4. Large full sheet with watermark and deckle edge, 24 ½ x 19 ¼. In very good condition.
The A. Paul Weber Museum was inaugurated in Ratzeburg in 1973. Andreas Paul Weber died on 9 November 1980. This important German lithographer, draughtsman and painter bequeathed a comprehensive œuvre, in which critical satirical works figure prominently.
THE WEBER MUSEUM HAS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND A BIOGRAPHY
The following is a biography taken from the prominent German auction house KETTERER /KUNST:
Andreas Paul Weber attended secondary modern school in Arnstadt between 1903 and 1910 before briefly attending the School for the Decorative and Applied Arts in Erfurt. In 1908 Weber joined the 'Jungwandervogel', a movement which sought to develop a new, modern lifestyle based on walking and living close to nature. At the same time Andreas Paul Weber began experimenting with lithography and worked as a commercial artist. When the first world war broke out, Weber served as a railway engineer on the Eastern Front, where he worked for the army as a draughtsman from 1916. After the war Andreas Paul Weber illustrated numerous books, including Till Eulenspiegel, Reineke Fuchs and the critical contemporary work Der Zeitgenosse by Hjalmar Kutzleb, which were Weber's first successes. In 1925 Weber founded the 'Clan-Presse' ['Clan Press'], where he and his son Christian printed...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
'Three Masted Ship, 2' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Three Masted Ship, 2 (Dreimastiges Schiff, 2)', woodcut, 1937, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W296. Feininger estate stamp and inventory no. 'W 865' in pencil, bottom left sheet corner. Annotated 'W 296' and 'on block : 3702a' in pencil, 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 2 11/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 6 3/4 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
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
Explorator
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Explorator', engraving, 1734, edition unknown, scarce. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the matrix, lower left. A fine impression, on handmade antique, l...
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1730s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Engraving
The Pump House, Notre Dame, Paris
By Charles Meryon
Located in Storrs, CT
La Pompe Notre Dame. (The Pumphouse, Notre Dame). Schneiderman catalog 26.x.
1861. Etching. Image 6 3/4 x 10. Edition of 30 in this state. Series: Eaux-Fortes sur Paris .
Initial...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
$3,000 Sale Price
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Black Passion
By Rudy O. Pozzatti
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Black Passion
Aluminum plate lithograph from two plates, 1975
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
Edition 50
Published at Lakeside Studio with the Master printer Jack Lemon
Imagery depicts the Seven deadly Sins three Roman soldiers and Simon of Cyrene, who was forced to help Christ carry the cross
One of Pozzatti's favorite works
Condition: Otherwise very good condition Soft rippling bottom margin
Image size: 20 x 28 inches (50.80 x 71.12cm)
Sheet size: 24 x 32 inches
"Painter and printmaker Rudolph Otto "Rudy" Pozzatti was born in Telluride, Colorado, on January 14, 1925. Upon graduation from high school, he received a scholarship to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder where he enrolled as an art major. In 1943, his studies were interrupted by his induction into the U. S. Army. After his discharge in 1946, he re-enrolled in the University of Colorado where he studied under Wendell...
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1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
NACH DEM BAD (AFTER THE BATH)
By Hermann Max Pechstein
Located in Portland, ME
Pechstein, Hermann Max (German, 1881-1955): NACH DEM BAD (AFTER THE BATH). Krueger R 118. Etching and drypoint, 1920. Signed in pencil. Published by Die Schaffenden...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
Angel and Skeleton (the rescuing Angel appears to be female)
By Donna Evans
Located in New Orleans, LA
Donna Evans' "Angel and Skeleton" shows an angel reaching out to a skeleton as if to rescue it from a wooded landscape.
Donna Evans is one of a group of N...
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1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Morning
By Caroline Durieux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Caroline Durieux created the technique (electron print) used in the depiction of "Morning".e. This is only one of 5 impressions. Some have theorized that the image is close to that of the artist's brother, Professor Charles Durieux.
In the electron print technique, radioactive isotopes are mixed with printing ink. A drawing is made and exposed face-to-face to paper coated with a radio-sensitized substance. The paper is then developed and produces an exact image of the original drawing.
“The image is transferred from the radioactive drawing to the sensitized paper by invisible beta rays,” says Dr. Wheeler. “Since beta rays are electrons, we named the process Electron Printing.”
Caroline Durieux (American, 1896 – 1989)
Printmaker, painter, satirist, innovator, social activist, Caroline Durieux was born in New Orleans and was already making sketches by the age of four. Her formal art training was at Newcomb College (1912-1917) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1918-1920).
Carl Zigrosser of the Philadelphia Museum of Art encouraged Durieux to try lithography. While living in Mexico, she learned lithography from Emilio Amero...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Photographic Paper, Lithograph
$550 Sale Price
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RUNNING THE RAPIDS
By Frank Benson
Located in Portland, ME
Benson, Frank. RUNNING THE RAPIDS. Paff 269. Etching, 1927. Edition of 150. Signed in pencil. Printed on Whatman paper. 5 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches (plate), 8 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches (sheet). A...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
MARKET IN ERONGARICUARO
By Morton Dimondstein
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MORTON DIMONDSTEIN (NY 1920 - LA 2000)
MARKET IN ERONGARICUARO 1954
Serigraph, silkscreen. Signed titled and dated in pencil. Image 10 ¼ x 25 ½ inches. Large full sheet 17 1/4 x 30...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Screen
'Yvette Guilbert, SCALA' — Fin de Siècle, Paris
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
BAC (Ferdinand Bach), 'Yvette Guilbert, Tous les Soirs SCALA', vintage color lithograph, 1893. Signed, dated, and titled in the stone.
A superb, richl...
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1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
'On Stage' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'On Stage', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1946, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '22/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (3 5/8 to 4 7/8 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 7/8 x 3 7/8 inches (149 x 98 mm); sheet size 15 1/8 x 11 1/8 inches (384 x 283 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 United 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
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Engraving
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
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
$400 Sale Price
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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
$550 Sale Price
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North River Front (Hudson River)
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'North River Front', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1953, edition not stated. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
BLACK FACE
By Karel Appel
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KAREL APPEL (1921 - 2006)
BLACK FACE, 1969
Lithograph in colors signed in pencil. Edition 26/75, Image: 19 3/4 x 25 1/4, sheet: 22 x 30 inches. Just hint of a mat line
Appel was a member of the Cobra art movement
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1960s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Nude sunning on Floor (out of the shadows) - 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.
A signed Certificate of Authority will be included with all photographs. A nude m...
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2010s Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Digital, Photographic Paper
'Humming Birds and Orchids' — Vintage White Line Color Woodcut
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Wuanita Smith, 'Humming Birds and Orchids', white-line color woodcut, circa 1930, edition 50. Signed and titled in pencil. Annotated '50 edition', 'no 5'...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
'The Castle' — Mid-Century Modernist Children's Fantasy
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'The Castle', color serigraph, 1953, edition 35, Ryan 33. Signed, titled, and numbered '11/35' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream Japan paper. Th...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Screen
Wareham, Dorset
By Stanley Roy Badmin
Located in Storrs, CT
Beetles 36. 5 1/4 x 6 1/4 (sheet 9 1/4 x 11 1/4). Edition 50 for the Print Collector's Club. Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1934; Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, 1934 and ...
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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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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
Architectura Curiosa Nova, Sunburst Garden Fountain
By Georg Andreas Böckler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Andreas Böckler, 'SunBurst Garden Fountain', antique copperplate engraving, 1664, from the book 'Architectura Curiosa Nova'. A fine, richly inked...
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1660s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Engraving
