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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Jeunes Filles Sur le Port
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur, Jeunes Filles Sur Le Port, 1920, engraving, signed in pencil [also initialed and dated in the plate]. Reference: Godefry, Sylvain Laboureur 200, second state of...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Irving Place Burlesk
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Irving Place Burlesk, etching, 1929, signed in pencil lower right and numbered (18) lower left. Reference: Sasowsky 75, third state (of 3). In very good c...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
SNAPSHOT
By Antonio Frasconi
Located in Portland, ME
Frasconi, Antonio. SNAPSHOT. Cleveland 165. Woodcut in colors, 1950. Edition of 10. Titled, inscribed "Ed 4/10" and signed and dated in pencil. 22 1/4 x 14 15/16 inches in an oval fo...
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
POCKETS FOR POWDER IN THE MINE
By Harry F. Mack
Located in Portland, ME
Mack, Harry F. POCKETS FOR POWDER IN THE MINE. Etching with aquatint, not dated, but circa 1930s. Titled and signed "H. F. Mack" in pencil. 7 7/8 x 6 inches (plate), 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 i...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Negres Americains a Saint-Nazaire
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Negres Americains a Saint-Nazaire, 1917-1920, engraving on cream wove paper, signed in pencil lower left, titled lower left margin edge, and numbere...
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1910s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Engraving
THE FORGE - Rich Drypoint
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEIL WHISTLER (1834 – 1903)
THE FORGE 1866 (Kennedy. 68 iv/vi: Glascow 86 vi/vi)
Etching and drypoint. Signed and dated in the plate 1866. VERY GOOD IMPRESSION WITH...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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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
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Lithograph
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
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Photogravure
$1,600 Sale Price
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Haiti II
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
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Monotype
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
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Etching
Torse à l'aiguière
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Torse à l’aiguière
1927
Lithograph on Chine paper, Edition of 50
Paper size: 49.5 x 34.5 cms (19 1/2 x 13 1/2 ins)
Image size: 36.4 x 26 cms (14 1/4 x 10 1/4 ins)
HM15...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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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
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Archival Pigment
'The Bath' — Meji Era Cross-Cultural Woman Artist
By Helen Hyde
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Helen Hyde, 'The Bath', color woodblock print, edition not stated, 1905, Mason & Mason 59. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Numbered '96' in pencil in the image, lower left. The artist's monogram in the block, lower left, and 'Copyright, 1905, by Helen Hyde.' upper right. A superb impression with fresh colors on tissue-thin cream Japanese paper; the full sheet with margins (7/16 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 16 1⁄4 x 10 1⁄8 in. (413 x 260 mm); sheet size: 19 1⁄4 x 11 1⁄8 in. (489 x 283 mm).
Impressions of this work are held in the following collections: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (De Young), Harvard Art Museums, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Terra Foundation for American Art, University of Oregon Museum of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Helen Hyde (1868-1919) was a pioneer American artist best known for advancing Japanese woodblock printmaking in the United States and for bridging Western and Japanese artistic traditions. Hyde was born in Lima, New York, but after her father died in 1872, her family relocated to Oakland, California, where she spent much of her youth.
Hyde pursued formal art education in the United States and Europe. She enrolled in the San Francisco School of Design, where she took classes from the Impressionist painter Emil Carlsen; two years later, she transferred to the Art Students League in New York, studying there with Kenyon Cox. Eager to expand her artistic repertoire, Hyde traveled to Europe, studying under Franz Skarbina in Berlin and Raphael Collin in Paris. While in Paris, she first encountered Japanese ukiyo-e prints, sparking a lifelong fascination with Japanese aesthetics. After ten years of study, Hyde returned to San Francisco, where she continued to paint and began to exhibit her work.
Hyde learned to etch from her friend Josephine Hyde in about 1885. Her first plates, which she etched herself but had professionally printed, represented children. On sketching expeditions, she sought out quaint subjects for her etchings and watercolors. In 1897, Hyde made her first color etchings—inked á la poupée (applying different ink colors to a single printing plate)—which became the basis for her early reputation. She also enjoyed success as a book illustrator, and her images sometimes depicted the children of Chinatown.
After her mother died in 1899, Hyde sailed to Japan, accompanied by her friend Josephine, where she would reside, with only brief interruptions, until 1914. For over three years, she studied classical Japanese ink painting with the ninth and last master of the great Kano school of painters, Kano Tomonobu. She also studied with Emil Orlik, an Austrian artist working in Tokyo. Orlik sought to renew the old ukiyo-e tradition in what became the shin hanga “new woodcut prints” art movement. She immersed herself in the study of traditional Japanese printmaking techniques, apprenticing with master printer Kanō Tomonobu. Hyde adopted Japanese tools, materials, and techniques, choosing to employ the traditional Japanese system of using craftsmen to cut the multiple blocks and execute the exacting color printing of the images she created. Her lyrical works often depicted scenes of family domesticity, particularly focusing on women and children, rendered in delicate lines and muted colors.
Through her distinctive fusion of East and West, Hyde’s contributions to Western printmaking were groundbreaking. At a time when few Western women ventured to Japan, she mastered its artistic traditions and emerged as a significant figure in the international art scene.
Suffering from poor health, she returned to the United States in 1914, moving to Chicago. Having found restored health and new inspiration during an extended trip to Mexico in 1911, Hyde continued to seek out warmer climates and new subject matter. During the winter of 1916, Hyde was a houseguest at Chicora Wood, the Georgetown, South Carolina, plantation illustrated by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith in Elizabeth Allston Pringle’s 1914 book A Woman Rice Planter. The Lowcountry was a revelation for Hyde. She temporarily put aside her woodcuts and began creating sketches and intaglio etchings of Southern genre scenes and African Americans at work. During her stay, Hyde encouraged Smith’s burgeoning interest in Japanese printmaking and later helped facilitate an exhibition of Smith’s prints at the Art Institute of Chicago.
During World War I, Hyde designed posters for the Red Cross and produced color prints extolling the virtues of home-front diligence.
In ill health, Hyde traveled to be near her sister in Pasadena a few weeks before her death on May 13, 1919. She was buried in the family plot near Oakland, California.
Throughout her career, Hyde enjoyed substantial support from galleries and collectors in the States and in London. She exhibited works at the St. Louis Exposition in 1897, the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo in 1901, the Tokyo Exhibition for Native Art (where she won first prize for an ink drawing) in 1901, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition in Seattle in 1909 (received a gold medal for a print), the Newark Museum in 1913, a solo show at the Chicago Art Institute in 1916, and a memorial exhibition in 1920, Detroit Institute of Arts, Color Woodcut Exhibition in 1919, New York Public Library, American Woodblock Prints...
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Early 1900s Showa Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
The Dancer (Anais)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in New York, NY
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1891-1978), The Dancer (Anais), 1925, etching, signed lower right and dedicated by the artist (to F.L. Berry, Esq.) lower left [also signed and dated in reverse in the plate lower left]. Reference: Fletcher 52, seventh state (of 7). From the edition of 107. In good condition, with slightest toning, with full margins and as issued and (not archivally) matted, 9 1/4 x 5 1/2, the sheet 15 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches.
Provenance: F. L. Berry (not in Lugt, see note below)
Roddy Willis has graciously provided an extensive background note on this provenance, which I quote from with permission: “Francis Berry...
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1920s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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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
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
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Engraving, Etching
LE PETIT ENTERREMENT (The Small Funeral)
By Félix Hilaire Buhot
Located in Portland, ME
Buhot, Felix. LE PETIT ENTERREMENT (The Small Funeral). B/G 154. Second state of two. Etching, roulette, aquatint and drypoint printed in blue on tan wove paper, 1880. 3 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 86 x 115 mm., (sheet 8 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches; 215 x 264 mm.). Signed with the red owl...
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1880s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
Listening
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Listening is a 2000 mezzotint that is signed by the artist.
Art Werger’s lyrical suburban scenes are evocative of boyhood summer evenings while his city images are fraught with tens...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
$100 Sale Price
60% Off
Danseuse Créole
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
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Lithograph
'Chion-in Temple Gate' from 'Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms' — Jizuri Seal
By Hiroshi Yoshida
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hiroshi Yoshida, 'Chion-in Temple Gate (Sunset)' from the series 'Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms (Sakura hachi dai: Sakura mon)', color woodblock print, 1935. Signed in brush 'Yoshida' and in pencil 'Hiroshi Yoshida'. A superb, early impression, with fresh colors; the full sheet with margins, on cream Japan paper; an area of slight toning in the top right sheet corner, not affecting the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Marked with a jizuri (self-printed) seal, upper left margin. Self-published by the artist.
Image size 9 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches (444 x 375 mm); sheet size 10 7/8 x 16 inches (276 x 406 mm). Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Provenance: M. Nakazawa, Tokyo.
Literature: Japanese Landscapes of the 20th Century (Hotei Publishing calendar), 2001, May.
Collections: Honolulu Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
Located in Kyoto, Chionin is the main temple of the Jodo sect of Japanese Buddhism, one of the most popular Buddhist sects in Japan, having millions of followers. The Sanmon Gate, Chionin's entrance gate, standing 24 meters tall and 50 meters wide, it is the largest wooden temple gate in Japan and dates back to the early 1600s. Behind the gate, a broad set of stairs leads to the main temple grounds.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Painter and printmaker Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the Japanese 'shin hanga' (New Print) movement.
Yoshida was born as the second son of Ueda Tsukane in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, a schoolteacher from an old samurai family. In 1891 he was adopted by his art teacher Yoshida Kasaburo in Fukuoka and took his surname. In 1893 he went to Kyoto to study painting, and the following year to Tokyo to join Koyama Shotaro's Fudosha private school; he also became a member of the Meiji Fine Arts Society. These institutions taught and advocated Western-style painting, greatly influencing Yoshida’s artistic development.
In 1899 Yoshida had his first American exhibition at Detroit Museum of Art (now Detroit Institute of Art), making the first of many visits to the US and Europe. In 1902 he helped reorganize the Meiji Fine Arts Society, renaming it the Taiheiyo-Gakai (Pacific Painting...
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1930s Showa Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Hagoromo - Noh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Matsuno Sofu (1899-1963), 'Hagoromo - Noh', woodblock print, 1937. Signed 'Sofu' with the artist's seal, lower right. A fine impression, with fresh color...
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1930s Showa Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Fashions of the Past
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan (American 1871 – 1954), Fashions of the Past, etching and aquatint, 1926, signed and titled by the artist in pencil (Morse 224 IV/IV), also signed by the printer. From the...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Une Navigation Difficile
By Honoré Daumier
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), Une Navigation Difficile, lithograph, 1843, plate 6 from the series Les Canotiers Parisiens [with the addresses, text, and Daumier’s initials in the plate...
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1840s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
UNTITLED (WOMAN WEAVING)
By Jehuda Wallersteiner
Located in Portland, ME
Wallersteiner, Jehuda Isaraeli 1915-2004). UNTITLED (WOMAN WEAVING). Woodcut in colors, not dated. Edition of 85. 38 x 26 inches.Signed in pencil and numbered. Framed,
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Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Color, Woodcut
THOMAS HART BENTON
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HARRY STERNBERG (American, 1904-2001)
THOMAS BENTON, 1943. Color screenprint on gray card stock wove paper. Edition of 30. Signed "Benton by Sternberg" in ink, by hand by the artist...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Screen
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
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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
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
MEN IN STREET
By Lester Johnson
Located in Portland, ME
Johnson, Lester. MEN IN STREET #2.
Etching in colors, 1973.
Edition of 35, numbered 33/35, titled, and signed in pencil.
19 1/2 x 25 inches, 494 x 635 mm. (plate); 25 x 31 inches,...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
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
'Broken Carousel' — Mid-Century American Symbolism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Broken Carousel', color lithograph, 1950, edition 35, Fine and Looney 285. Signed, titled, and numbered '18/35' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked ...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
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
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Lithograph
Chelsea Rags
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Chelsea Rags.
Chelsea Rags. 1888. Lithograph. Way 22, Levy 35, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 26. 7 1/8 x 6 5/16 (sheet 12 3/4 x 8). Printed on cream laid paper. Provenance: Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip, Whistler's sister-in-law, her seal verso: (Lugt 405). Michael Parkin Fine Art, Ltd. from whom purchased in 1972. Christie's, King Street.Signed with the butterfly in the image. One of 13 impressions listed by Way, before the image was transferred to supplementary stones for the edition of 500-1,000 printed by Way and issued in the Albemarle, January, 1892. Signed with the butterfly in the stone and in pencil. Housed in an elegant silk mat with a silver liner, and in a 16 3/4 x 14 3/4-inch silver leaf frame decorated with fleur-de-lis decorations.
"And his interest in London has not been restricted to the Thames. Seeing the beautiful, where other men might be discouraged by dullness, he has taken his subject, now in the little cheap shop opening a low window upon the street, now in the forgotten church hidden away in a lonely square. And Chelsea Rags, the Shops of Chelsea, the Drury Lane, as well as The Butcher's Dog, are impressions of vague Rembrandtesque interiors where figures, grim or graceful, peer from out deep shadows— shops as lovely in his prints as the halls of a Veronese, or the palaces of a Claude." Elizabeth Robins...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$3,500 Sale Price
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WEDDING PREPARATIONS
By Doel Reed
Located in Portland, ME
Reed, Doel (American, 1894-1985) WEDDING PREPARATIONS.. Etching and Aquatint, 1973. Signed in pencil, lower right, and numbered 26/30. 12 x 17 1/2 inches (plate), 15 x 22 1/4 inches ...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Sanctuary (St. Anthony's Garden at rear of St. Louis Cathedral on Royal Street)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This French Quarter garden is a serene haven with a lighted statue of Christ that exists not very far from the raucous revelry of New Orleans' Bourbon S...
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1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint, Aquatint
Resurrection (aka Flying Figures; Border of the Lake)
By Arthur B. Davies
Located in New York, NY
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Resurrection (aka Flying Figures; Border of the Lake), drypoint and aquatint on zinc, 1916, signed with the estate stamp lower right. Reference: Price 2...
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1910s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Aquatint
A Monmartre (Moulin Rouge).
By Eugène Delâtre
Located in New York, NY
Ca 1895. Printed and stamped by Eugene's father, August Delatre. Signed in pencil lower right, and signed in the plate. Sheet size 13 3/4 x 9".
Image size 10 x 4"
Eugène Delâtre...
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Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
'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
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Woodcut
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
PKZ [Man in Blue Suit].
By Ernst A Kretchmamm
Located in New York, NY
PKZ .Man in Blue Suit. 1924, Color lithograph. Linen backed.
PKZ has and still is an important department store in Zurich, Switzerland. PKZ was one of the...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
![PKZ [Man in Blue Suit].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_2922/1456960678772/Kretschmann_PKZmansmoking_master.jpg?width=240 "pkz man")
Flora with her Nymphs, after Giulio Romano
Located in New York, NY
GIULIO BONASONE (1510-1576) AFTER GIULIO ROMANO (CIRCA1499-1546)
Flora with her Nymphs
engraving, circa1531-50, on laid paper, watermark Two crossed Arro...
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16th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Simon Frevalles
By Marcel Vertès
Located in New York, NY
Poster Adverting the Entertainer Simon Frevalles. 1923. Color lithograph. On Linen.
An outstanding twentieth century painter, printmaker and illustrator, Marcel Vertes moved from his native Hungary to Paris during the First World War. The art of Marcel Vertes was at its peak during the vibrant and somewhat wild decade of the 1920’s. Concentrating upon scenes of Paris street life, portrayals of women and depictions of circus and cabaret acts, Vertes left a legacy of original lithographs and drawings that superbly capture the spirit of 1920’s Paris.
Vertès is also responsible for the original murals in the Café Carlyle...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Saved from Drowning
By Honoré Daumier
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), [Saved from Drowning], lithograph, plate 7 from the series Les Canotiers Parisiens, a sur blanc impression from the album, with...
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1840s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Swing (The swing of the bat from #27 a right handed hitter. Play Baseball!
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Play Ball! No. 27 unleashes a mighty swing at the ball. Both umpire and catcher are in their huddled crouch. "Swing" is an exclusive publication of Stone and Press Gallery by Art We...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Le Policeman, Londres
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le Policeman, Londres, 1913, etching on zinc. Signed lower left in pencil [also with the signature and date in the plate]. Reference: Godefroy, Sylv...
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1910s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
GLOUCESTER FISHERMAN and PREPARATORY DRAWING FOR GLOUCESSTER FISHERMAN
By Carl Nordell
Located in Portland, ME
Nordell, Carl Johan David. GLOUCESTER FISHERMAN and PREPARATORY DRAWING FOR GLOUCESSTER FISHERMAN. Etching and pencil drawing, not dated, but circa...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Pencil, Etching
Un Homme a La Mer
By Honoré Daumier
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), Un Homme a La Mer lithograph, 1843, [with initials in the plate]. Reference: Daumier Register 1036, plate number 14 from the series Les Canotiers...
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1840s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Venise sauvee, play in five acts by Thomas Otway. 1895.
Located in New York, NY
Venise sauvee, play in five acts by Thomas Otway. 1895. Lithograph on simili Japan Framed. .Very good condition with the exception of a slight center fold. Framed. Rare
Ref: Artis...
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1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
MY BELOVED
By John Murray Barton
Located in Portland, ME
Barton, John Murray. MY BELOVED. Color Woodcut, 1958. Edition of 125. Titled, numbered 1/125, signed and dated in pencil. 23 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (image), 11 1/2 x 27 inches (sheet). I...
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1950s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, 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
Metro 2nd Class
By Clement Haupers
Located in New York, NY
Clement Haupers (1900-1982), Metro 2nd Class, aquatint and etching, 1928, signed, titled, numbered (6/20), dated and inscribed “Paris.” In very good condition, slight toning and rema...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Belle Jardinaire
By Eugène Grasset
Located in New York, NY
Grasset, Eugene. Belle Jardinaire. Proof for the Calendar, "Belle Jardinaire",1896, on China paper produced for the month of December.
12 7/8 x 9 7/8"
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Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
ICE CREAM
By Peggy Bacon
Located in Portland, ME
Bacon, Peggy (American, 1895-1987).
ICE CREAM. Flint 6.
Drypoint, 1918.
Edition size not known, but likely very small.
Titled "Ice Cream," dated "Nov. 19...
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1910s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$2,500
Besancon La Mouillere PLM
By Lucien Pillot
Located in New York, NY
Besancon La Mouillere PLM. Ca 1930. printed by Gerin Paris
Color lithograph. On Linen
Lucien Pillot registered as a member of the Société des Artistes Français. He had previo...
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1930s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Children in Mulberry Street
By Jerome Myers
Located in New York, NY
Jerome Myers (1867-1940), Children in Mulberry Street, c. 1910, soft ground etching and plate tone, signed in pencil lower right. In good condition (apart from weakening at platemark...
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1910s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
7 A. M. St. Louis
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
It's early morning I'm St. Louis in this 2002 mezzotint that is signed and numbered
Art Werger’s lyrical suburban scenes are evocative of boyhood summer evenings while his city imag...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$125 Sale Price
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La Petite Plage
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), La Petite Plage, 1926, etching and engraving, signed in pencil lower left [inscribed lower margin as a trial proof; also wi...
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1920s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
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
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Etching, Aquatint
YOUNG COUPLE
By Will Barnet
Located in Portland, ME
Barnet, Will. YOUNG COUPLE. Szoke 146, Cole 141. Etching in colors, 1971. Edition of 225. Titled, Numbered 122/225 and signed in pencil. 17 1/4 x 15 1/2 i...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
OLD MAN WITH BOWL OF FRUIT
By Arthur William Heintzelman
Located in Portland, ME
Heintzelman, Arthur William. OLD MAN WITH BOWL OF FRUIT. 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches,250 x 197 mm., with wide margins. Signed in pencil. In excellent condition.
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Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Peintre et Modele
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Peintre et Modele
Etching and aquatint on Rives wove paper, 1966
Signature stamp lower right (see photo)
Annotated in pencil lower left: "epreuve avant acierage" (see photo)
One of t...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
