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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The Bubble Blower
By McDermott & McGough
Located in New York, NY
Known for their work in painting, photography, sculpture, and film, McDermott & McGough comprises visual artists David McDermott and Peter McGough, who formed their partnership on th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
$1,600 Sale Price
46% Off
LE POTIN
By Jacques Villon
Located in Portland, ME
Villon, Jacques (French, 1875-1963) LE POTIN (GP E96) Drypoint and aquatint printed in green, 1904, Edition of 50. Printed on Arches paper, signed and numbered 32 in pencil. Publishe...
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Early 1900s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
EARLY JACOULET - A DOWNPOUR AT METALANIM PONOPE EAST CAROLINAS
By Paul Jacoulet
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EARLY JACOULET
PAUL JACOULET (1896 – 1960)
UNE AVERSEA METALANIM, PONAPE , EST CAROLINES, 1935
A DOWNPOUR AT METALANIM PONOPE EAT CAROLINAS (Miles 29)
Color woodcut, with metallic ...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut, Color
Man, Dog (Blue), Canoe/Shark Fins (One Yellow), Capsized Boat
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
It is hard to characterize John Baldessari’s varied practice—which includes photomontage, artist’s books, prints, paintings, film, performance, and installation—except through his ap...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench)
By James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench)
Mezzotint and engraving on cream chine collé laid down on ivory wove paper, 1883
Signed in the plate (see photo)
Condition: Brilliant impression...
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1880s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
END OF THE DAY
By Robert Gwathmey
Located in Portland, ME
Gwathmey, Robert (American, 1903-1988). END OF THE DAY. Williams 4.
Screenprint in colors, 1944.
Edition size not known. Signed in ink, lower right, within the image.
12 1/4 x 14 ...
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1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Screen
CAGED BIRD
By Walter Henry Williams
Located in Portland, ME
Williams, Walter Henry (American 1920-1998). CAGED BIRD. Color woodcut, 1966. Edition of 210, signed, dated, titled and numbered 43/210 in pencil. 18 x 24 i...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
MORTE D'ARTHUR
By Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
Located in Portland, ME
Malory, Thomas. MORTE D'ARTHUR. J. M. Dent, London, 1893. First Edition thus.
Edition of 300 printed on Dutch handmade paper, this copy Numbered "72." (There was a "regular" editi...
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1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
THE TAILOR
By Will Barnet
Located in Portland, ME
Barnet, Will. THE TAILOR. Szoke 39, Cole 38, Johnson 30. Aquatint and etching, 1938. Edition of 25, titled, inscribed "25 Prints, and signed in pencil. Printed by the artist on Rives...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
'Elisabeth' — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Elisabeth', woodcut, edition 20, 1923. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op.142b' and '12/20' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil.
A fine impression, on heavy fibrous Japan paper, with full margins (1 3/16 to 3 1/2 inches),
in good condition. Printed by the artist, With the artist’s blindstamp in the bottom center margin. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 4 15/16 x 6 inches (131 x 152 mm); sheet size 10 x 6 inches (254 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
Materials
Woodcut
LE BALLON VERT
By Graciela Rodo Boulanger
Located in Portland, ME
Rodo-Boulanger, Graciela. LE BALLON VERT. Lublin 20. Etching with aquatint in colors, 1967. Edition of 100. Numbered 31/100 and signed in pencil. 21 1/8 x 17...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
L'Aieule (The Grandmother)
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'Aieule (The Grandmother)
Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1904
Signed with the red stamp of the publisher, Gustave Pellet, Lugt 1193 and numbered (see photo)
Edition: 100 (81/100)
Reference: Arwas 202 iv/IV
IFF 98
Condition: Excellent, the sheet aged as usual
Image size: 14 1/4 x 18 5/8"
Sheet size: 16 15/16 x 24 1/4"
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906.
Life
Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops.
Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all."
Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine.
Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891.
In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes).
Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others.
He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion.
Books illustrated
de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905.
Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
One Can't Tell Why - Proof from the Disasters of War
By Francisco Goya
Located in New York, NY
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746 Fuendetodos – Bordeaux 1828), No se puede saber por qué – One can’t tell why ca. 1808–1814, etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, an...
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1810s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
'Blast Furnace #1' — Mid-Century American Modernism
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Harry Sternberg, 'Blast Furnace #1', etching, aquatint and roulette, 1946, edition 250, Moore 147. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, w...
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1940s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Round of Summer (aka Four Figures), First State Proof
By Arthur B. Davies
Located in New York, NY
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Round of Summer (aka Four Figures), soft ground etching, 1919, signed in pencil lower right. Reference: Czestochowski 91, first state (of 3), trial proo...
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1910s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Photogravure
Bellhop
By Roberto Juarez
Located in New York, NY
Many places, many times intermingle in the work of Roberto Juarez. His life is so much a part of his work, that each new body of work introduces subjects, styles and motifs that seem...
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Late 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Patitcha
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Patitcha
1947
Aquatint on BFK Rives paper, Edition of 25
Paper size: 55.5 x 38 cms (22 x 15 ins)
Image size: 34.9 x 27.6 cm (13 3/4 x 10 7/8 ins)
HM15405
Selected Coll...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
$100,000
UNTITLED [GENTLEMAN OBSERVING BILLIARDS GAME].
Located in Portland, ME
Brinton, D. UNTITLED [GENTLEMAN OBSERVING BILLIARDS GAME]. Drypoint, n.d. (c. early to mid-20th Century). 8 x 6 inches (image), 11 1/2 x 8 inches (sheet). In excellent condition, wit...
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Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint
![UNTITLED [GENTLEMAN OBSERVING BILLIARDS GAME].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/unknown-prints-works-on-paper-untitled-gentleman-observing-billiards-game-for-sale/a_3673/1527774112831/Brinton_Billiards_master.jpg?width=240 "UNTITLED [GENTLEMAN OBSERVING BILLIARDS GAME].")
Vellum Sketches II
By Ida Applebroog
Located in New York, NY
Born in Bronx, NY, Ida Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellows...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Aquatint
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
WO RO SI IA ZIN Russian Soldier with His Family
Located in Fairlawn, OH
WO RO SI IA ZIN Russian Soldier with His Family
Color woodcut, 1861 2nd month
Signed upper left (see photo)
Titled upper right in black cartouche (see photo)
Format: oban
Style: Yokohama-e
Publisherr: Sagamiya Tokichi (Marks #435) active 1955-1866
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has an impression of this image
RARE
Condition: with usual aging
Image size: 13 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches
Rebecca Salter in her Japanese Popular Prints... on page 18 gives a different take on the situation that Yoshifuji found himself in.
"A giant of the period, however, was Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-861). Although best known for warrior prints which reflected the militaristic undercurrents of the time, he was also responsible for some of the most light-heartend and humorous works in this book. His followers in the Utagawa school, Utagawa Yoshitsuya...
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1860s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Le Cafe du Commerce
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le Cafe du Commerce, etching, 1913, signed in pencil lower left and numbered lower right 28/35 [also with the signature and d...
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1910s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
SUBWAY - THREE PEOPLE
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. SUBWAY - THREE PEOPLE. S. 149. Etching, 1934. 9 x 7 inches; 228 x 178 mm. Numbered "10b," and signed in pencil "Reginald Marsh (F.M.)" b...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
'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
Ninth Inning
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Sylvia Mayzer Rantz, 'Ninth Inning', lithograph, 1949, edition 24. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '9/24' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper. The ful...
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1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PKZ- Man in Bowler Hat - Reprint 1981
By Niklaus Stoecklin
Located in New York, NY
PKZ Reprint - 1981 - Official 1981 reprint for Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich Printer: JE Wolfensberger
Niklaus Stoecklin – PKZ – 1935
PKZ Burger-Kehl & Co. AG, Zurich, C
Switerland
Lit...
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1980s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
DISCUSSION or AT THE BASE OF UNION SQ. WASH STATUE.
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. DISCUSSION or AT THE BASE OF UNION SQ. WASH
STATUE. Sasowsky 152. Etching, 1934. Signed in pencil. There was
no edition; the number printed is unknown, but likely o...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Reflections
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Reflections', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1979, edition 160 in 1983. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A superb impression, on cream ...
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1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
PICNIC
By Peggy Bacon
Located in Portland, ME
Bacon, Peggy. PICNIC.
Drypoint, 1926.
Titled and signed in pencil.
5 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches.
Printed on laid paper with deckle on four sides. Very faint matstain, else in excellent c...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$2,250
Odalisque à la culotte de satin rouge
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Odalisque à la culotte de satin rouge
1925
Lithograph on Chine paper, Edition of 50
Paper size: 28.5 x 36.5 cms (11 1/4 x 14 3/8 ins)
Image size: 19 x 27 cms (7 1/2 x 1...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
OPERA BOX
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. OPERA BOX. EnGraving, 1936 (Sasowsky 162).
6 7/8" x 4 15/16."
Signed in pencil.
First state proof, before added shading and modeling (Sas...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
THE CLINIC
By Peggy Bacon
Located in Portland, ME
Bacon, Peggy. THE CLINIC. Flint 109. Drypoint, 1932. Edition size not known, but likely very small as the print is rare. 4 15/16 x 6 7/8 inches, plus wide margins (the sheet is 11 x ...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
EAST RIVER SWIMMERS
By Cecil Crosley Bell
Located in Portland, ME
Bell, Cecil. EAST RIVER SWIMMERS. Lithograph, 1937. Edition of 20.
Signed and dated by the artist's widow. 10 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches, 260 x
375 mm. (image), 1...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SUBWAY TECHNIQUE
By Minna Citron
Located in Portland, ME
Citron, Minna (American, 1896-1991). SUBWAY TECHNIQUE. Lithograph, 1933. Edition of 20, numbered 10/20, titled, and signed in pencil. A few spots of foxing in the margins, away from ...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Dimanche en Bretagne
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Dimanche en Bretagne, etching, 1939, signed in pencil lower left and inscribed “ep d’artite” lower right. Reference: Laboureur 543, second state (of...
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1930s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Merry-Go-Round
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Merry-Go-Round, etching and engraving, 1938, signed in pencil lower right and inscribed Forty Proofs lower left, [also signed in the plate lower left and inscribed SC]. Reference: Sasowsky 179, fourth state (of 4). In good condition, with margins (a paper loss upper right corner well outside of the platemark, stains from prior hinging, notations in pencil lower margin edge). 10 x 8, the sheet 11 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches.
A very good impression, printed in black on a wove paper with a partial FRANCE watermark.
Sasowsky notes that Marsh printed 15 impressions of this state (and only one or two of the prior states), and considered only 10 of the 15 valuable. His notation “Forty Proofs” is therefore surely an expression of a hoped-for edition size, as opposed to an actual edition size. We have found this quite often the case with Marsh prints – he indicates an edition size but the actual number of impressions printed is considerably smaller.
There is an eerie, almost ominous note in this, as in several of Marsh’s merry-go-round prints...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Floater
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 20.
Don Ed Hardy’s lithographs, created in the spring of 2007, continue the “look” of his Ghost Writer painting series which has been developed over the past five years. They are evocative of ancient Chinese stone rubbings, or x-rays. Both prints refer to earlier images from Japanese art history.
Floater, a meditating skeleton poised above surging waves, was done from memory after a 19th century Japanese painting...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Thank you, Mr. President)
By Ida Applebroog
Located in New York, NY
Ida Applebroog has been employing printed art as part of her artistic practice since the beginning of her very long career.
Born in 1929, she has been exhibiting in galleries and mu...
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2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rue Furstenberg
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Rue Furstenberg. 1894. Lithograph. Way 59; Levy 90; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink catalog 97. Only state. 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 (sheet 14 1/4 x 8 7/8). A fine ...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$5,500 Sale Price
26% Off
CURRIER & IVES - 1860 LINCOLN ELECTION CAMPAIGN
By Currier & Ives
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CURRIER & IVES (LOUIS MAURER)
1860 LINCOLN ELECTION CAMPAIGN
THE IMPENDING CRISES - OR CAUGHT IN THE ACT, 1860 (C.3033, G.3270)
Lithograph...
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1860s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Mercado
By Rafael Ferrer
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype.
Rafael Ferrer depicts the intense life of the Caribbean in his paintings and prints. With hot colors, deep shadows and mysterious relationships among his figures, Fe...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Monotype
$5,000
Vellum Sketches I
By Ida Applebroog
Located in New York, NY
Born in Bronx, NY, Ida Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellows...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
'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
Barcarolle.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Barcarolle. 1926. Etching. Carter 233. 14 7/8 x 8 3/8 (sheet 17 1/4 x 10 1/4). Edition 80, #xxv. Print Collector's Quarterly 24 (1938): 428; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth...
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1920s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
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Titre pour "Le Sourire"
By Paul Gauguin
Located in London, GB
Paul Gauguin
Titre pour "Le Sourire"
1899
Woodcut
Paper size 13.8 x 21.9 cms (5 1/2 x 8 5/8 ins)
Image size 10.5 x 20.8 cms (4 1/8 x 8 1/8 ins)
Kornfeld 61
Signed in lower left corn...
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1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'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
'Set Pieces: Vanity of Trust' — Mid-Century American Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Set Pieces: Vanity of Trust', color lithograph, 1949, edition 40, Fine and Looney 279. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '23/40' in pencil. A fine, impression with fresh colors, on...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus 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 V. Inscribed 'J. F. note paper', in pencil, in the artist’s hand; with the Feininger estate stamp and catalog no. 'W 859' in pencil. Annotated 'W.290 V state 3609' 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 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 5/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; NY, 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. Still, 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
Materials
Woodcut
UNTITLED (RESTING WOMEN; SLEEPING WOMEN)
By Doel Reed
Located in Portland, ME
Reed, Doel (American, 1894-1985). UNTITLED (RESTING WOMEN; SLEEPING WOMEN). Etching and Aquatint, 1940. Signed in pencil, lower right. 10 1/2 x 15 inche...
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1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
'Children's Ward' — Socially-Conscious Realism
By Robert Riggs
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Riggs, 'Children's Ward', 2-color lithograph, c. 1940, edition c. 50, Beall 11, Bassham 76. Signed, titled, and numbered '14' in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A su...
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1940s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Renaissance Man
By Hernan Bas
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching, drypoint and spitbite aquatint.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
ASTOR LOBBY, SHOWTIME
By Don Freeman
Located in Portland, ME
Freeman, Don (American, 1908-1978). ASTOR LOBBY,SHOWTIME. McCulloch 34. Lithograph, 1932. Edition of 30 or fewer. Signed in pencil lower right. 8 7/8 x 11 1/8, 225 x 283 mm.(image), ...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Panama Hat with a Bow Tie on a Chair, from The Geldzahler Portfolio
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Etching and aquatint, 1998, on Somerset Satin White paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 69th from the edition of 100 (there were also 15 artist’s proofs), printed by Maurice ...
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1990s English School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Merry-Go-Round, 1930
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Merry-Go-Round, etching, 1930, signed in pencil lower right and numbered "24" lower left. In very good condition, with margins (cut irregularly,...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
COUPLE DE PAYSANS
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Portland, ME
Pissarro, Camille. COUPLE DE PAYSANS. D.125. Etching and aquatint on laid paper. Unsigned. From the posthumous edition of 10 printed in 1923. 4 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches, 118 x 78 mm. (plat...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Acrobates
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952
From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54'
Pr...
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1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Mother Seated in an Inn
By Cornelis Bega
Located in New York, NY
Cornelis Bega (1631/2-1664), The Mother Seated in an Inn, etching, circa 1660-64. Reference: Hollstein 31, a later impression, second state (of 2). In good condition, trimmed outside...
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1660s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Advice
By Walt Kuhn
Located in New York, NY
Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), Advice, etching and drypoint, 1915, signed in pencil lower right and titled lower left. In generally good condition but obviously a proof impression, with marg...
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1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Mother Earth
By William Strang, R.A., R.E.
Located in New York, NY
William Strang (1859-1921), Mother Earth, 1897, etching, drypoint, aquatint ); signed in pencil lower right, and signed by the printer David Strang and...
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1890s Symbolist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
LES PETITS HALEURS
By Jacques Villon
Located in Portland, ME
Villon, Jacques. LES PETITS HALEURS. GP 176. Etching and Aquatint, 1907. Edition of 50 on Arches laid paper, signed and numbered in pencil, 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 inch...
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Early 1900s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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