Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life 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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Three Irises
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 ...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Etching
Snail in a Bowl (Artist Proof inscribed to Fritz Eichenberg)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg.
While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting.
Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked.
Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium.
Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print.
There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...
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1980s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Kaller's [Top Hat and Gloves on Chair].
By Jules de Praetere
Located in New York, NY
1918. Color lithograph. On Linen.
Julius de Praetere (Jules de Prater) was a Belgian painter, graphic designer, university lecturer and publisher in the field arts and textile de...
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1910s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Lithograph
![Kaller's [Top Hat and Gloves on Chair].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_2922/1479938131715/KallersHutModepost_master.jpg?width=240 "gubellini hat")
Trim Fit (Deconstructed Singer machine gives both steel and silk equal weight)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax deconstructs a Singer sewing machine in this mezzotint created in an edition of 75. The image gives equal weight to the steel of the machine and the silk of the fabric. It...
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Early 2000s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Lotus
By Maki Hino
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hino creates a still life of a lotus from an edition of 65. A prominent figure in Buddhist and Egyptian culture, and native flower for both India and Vietnam, the lotus holds enormous symbolic weight. It spans various thousand-year-old Eastern cultures and yet, is still considered one of the most sacred flowers today. So what is it about this mysterious blossom that people find so enrapturing? Its colorful bloom is an obvious suspect, but the lotus also has a life cycle unlike any other. With its roots based in mud, it submerges every night into murky river water, and—undeterred by its dirty environment—it miraculously re-blooms the next morning without residue on its petals.
Although cultures have their own interpretations of this daily process, there is a general consensus among ancient texts...
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1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Studio Flowers
By Robert Kipniss
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Studio Flowers
Lithograph, 1982
Signed lower right (see photo)
Numbered lower left
Edition: 120 (42/120) (see photo)
Condition: Mint condition
Two bits of hinge residue verso
Image s...
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1980s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Lithograph
SITUATION
By Katsunori Hamanishi
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KATSUNORI HAMANISHI (b.1949)
SITUATION X (S. 32) Mezzotint Signed, titled and numbered 6/90 in pencil.
13 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches, sheet 18 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches. Excellent condition.
She...
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1980s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Le Mais (Corn on the cob) in woven basket)
By Laurent Schkolnyk
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maize by Scholnyk is a mezzotint of ears of corn in a woven basket. This impression is #25 of an edition of 80.
Schkolnyk was born in Paris, France in 1953 and currently resides in...
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1890s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Untitled (Still Life)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Still Life)
Etching, aquatint and soft ground, 2001
Signed in pencil (see photo)
Edition: 260
Published by the Print Club of Cleveland, Publication 80, 2002
Printed by Felix Harlan at Harlan and Weaver, New York
William Bailey, Modernist Figurative Painter, Dies at 89
He swathed his nudes and still lifes of eggs, vases, bottles and bowls in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery.
The painter William Bailey in 2009. He was never given a career survey in a major museum, but his influence, particulary on students at Yale, was deep.Credit...Ford Bailey
By William Grimes for the New York Times
April 18, 2020
William Bailey, whose pristine, idealized still lifes and female nudes made him one of the leading figures in the return of figurative art in the 1980s, died on April 13 at his home in Branford, Conn. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Alix Bailey.
Beyond his painting, Mr. Bailey influenced generations of students in his many years as a teacher at the Yale School of Art.
In some of his best-known work, Mr. Bailey arranged simple objects — the eggs, bowls, bottles and vases that he once called “my repertory company” — along a severe horizontal shelf, or on a plain table, swathing them in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery.
His muted ochres, grays and powdery blues conjured up a still, timeless world inhabited by Platonic forms, recognizable but uncanny, in part because he painted from imagination rather than
“They are at once vividly real and objects in dream, and it is the poetry of this double life that elevates all this humble crockery to the realm of pictorial romance,” Hilton Kramer wrote in The New York Times in 1979.
Mr. Bailey’s female figures, some clothed in a simple shift or robe and others partly or entirely nude, are disconcertingly impassive, implacable and unreadable, fleshly presences breathing an otherworldly air.
The critic Mark Stevens, writing in Newsweek in 1982, credited Mr. Bailey with helping to “restore representational art to a position of consequence in modern painting.”
But his version of representation was entirely idiosyncratic, seemingly traditional but in fact “a modernism so contrarian,” the artist Alexi Worth wrote in a catalog essay for the Betty Cuningham Gallery in 2010, “that it feels, despite its historical sophistication, almost like a brand of outsider art.”
William Harrison Bailey...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Etching
Violin et Coquille (violin and shell / inscribed Happy New Year 2000)
By Laurent Schkolnyk
Located in New Orleans, LA
This black and white mezzotint of a shell next to a violin is an artist proof that was inscribed Happy New Year 2000 and signed by the artist. The regular e...
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1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Scopes
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
The marriage between the art of science and the art of seeing was cemented by the invention of the lens. It is FIROS #48 in the catalogue raisonne.
Carol Wax originally trained to b...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Red Loop (suite of 12 mezzotints in boxed portfolio)
By Eduardo Leyva Herrera
Located in New Orleans, LA
12 copper mezzotints printed on Hahnemulle paper in an edition of 12. This is impression #5
The 12 complementary mezzotints are included in boxed portfolio
Graduated from the Natio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
The Green Sugarbowl — Mid-Century Color Woodcut
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Ross Abrams, 'The Green Sugarbowl', color woodcut, 1949, edition 24. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'Artist’s proof' in pencil. A fin...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Woodcut
Flowers
By Bernard Buffet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Flowers
Color lithograph
Signed in pencil (see photo)
Annotated in pencil "Eprueve HC" (see photo)
A trial proof reserved for the artist
Printed by Mourlot, Paris
First edition was 1...
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1950s Post-Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Lithograph
Drapery Against Black
By Holly Downing
Located in New Orleans, LA
This black and white mezzotint is in an edition of 30. It is titled, numbered #1/30 and signed in pencil.
Holly Downing is a painter and printmaker who has been making mezzotint e...
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1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
'Fruit Forms' — American Modernism
By Albert Heckman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Albert Heckman, 'Fruit Forms', color lithograph, edition not stated, c. 1935. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colo...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Lithograph
Colombe (Dove of Peace returns to ark with olive branch in her beak)
By Mario Avati
Located in New Orleans, LA
"And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was a plucked off olive leaf: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth."
Mario Avati, a master ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Sewing Circles
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
A play on words provides the title for this image -- a circle created out of the deconstructed parts of Singer IV This image is #37 from an edition of only 50, referenced as Firos 78...
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1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Lillies and Bowls (still life of flowers and colorful bowls)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The moon, bowls, lillies and birds are featured in this 2002 mezzotint. It is #17 from an edition of 75 and is signed, titled, dated and edition by hand by this Korean artist born i...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Canna Lily
By Nishimura Hodo
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Canna Lily
Color woodcut, 1939
Unsigned (as usual)
Publisher: Takemura Hideo
(active Yokohama 1926-1939)
Format: oban
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 15 5/8 x 11 inches
Provenance: Robert O. Muller
There is little biographical data available about the Japanese printmaker Hodo Nishimura...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Woodcut
Hollyhocks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hollyhocks
Color woodcut, 1953
Signed with the artist's stamp lower left
Printer: Niimi
Carver: Nagashima
An early printing
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 15 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches
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1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Woodcut
Dahlias
By Nishimura Hodo
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dahlias
Color woodcut, 1939
Unsigned (as usual)
Format: oban
Publisher: Takemura Hideo
Stamp verso: "Made in Japan"
Provenance: Robert O. Muller
Biography
Hodo Nishimura...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Woodcut
Drift (dramatic nocturne in America's suburbia)
By Jacob Crook
Located in New Orleans, LA
Drift is a hand-pulled mezzotint in an edition of 10. This is #3/10. Location is Jarnigan ST in Starksville, Mississippi
Jacob Crook was born in St. Loui...
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2010s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
New York Stock Exchange (Symbolic icon of Wall St.'s vast power and wealth)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This color intaglio of the "New York Stock Exchange" was issued in a limited edition of 100. This impression is one of the Artist Proofs from the edition. The Stock Exchange is seen from Federal Hall...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint, Aquatint
Buds
By Jack Beal
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Buds
Color lithograph, 1980
Signed, titled, and editioned in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Art Matters
Printer: Bud Shark, Shark's Ink, Lyons, CO
Condition: Excellent
Image: 31-1/8 x 41-1/4" (79 x 104.7 cm.)
"An Abstract Expressionist when he left the Art Institute of Chicago in 1956, Beal has since become a dedicated realist who sees art as a potentially powerful moral force. He has great regard for Platonic ideals of truth, beauty, and goodness, and admires both the realism of seventeenth-century Dutch painting and the compositional authority of Renaissance art. Since moving to New York in the late 1950s with his wife, painter Sondra Freckelton, Beal has painted still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, although in recent years his most ambitious undertakings have been large-scale allegories and myths. In describing his approach, Beal calls himself a "life painter" and says he is committed to human over aesthetic concerns. Yet his intricate complexes of figures and surface patterns, along with his adroit handling of space, reveal his sophisticated, accomplished sense of composition.
Virginia M. Mecklenburg
Biography
Jack Beal (1931-2013) was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He briefly attended the College of William and Mary, studying biology, but dropped out after two years. A decision to take evening art classes lead to his attending the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied from the old masters in the Institute’s collection and with Isobel Steele MacKinnon, a student of Hans Hoffman. His classmates there included Red Grooms, Richard Estes, Claes Oldenberg and Robert Barnes, and while abstract expressionism remained “the only valid way to paint,” it was a style that all would eventually reject. In 1956 Beal left the Art Institute and moved to New York with the aim of finding success as a painter, eventually becoming one of the first artists to settle in the SoHo neighborhood.
A turning point came in 1962 when, spending the summer in upstate New York, Beal decided to begin painting outdoors. Dissatisfied with abstract painting, he “wanted to give Art one more try” and in working from nature “fell in love with painting all over again.” Over the next few years Beal worked toward a balance between expressionistic paint handling and realistic, narrative pictures. Clement Greenberg’s pronouncement around this time, that the figure was no longer a valid subject was taken as a challenge by many artists, Beal included. His subsequent adoption of the female nude - modeled by his wife, the artist Sondra Freckelton - was a break-through. Though the paintings retained the sensuousness of his earlier canvases, the rigorous formality of their composition and the masterful treatment of light and shadow offered a new approach to realist painting. Indeed, Beal was not alone in this transformation; friends and colleagues in New York were coming to similar conclusions and the group, who included painters such as Philip Pearlstein, Alfred Leslie, Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Jack Tworkov, Nell Blaine and Fairfield Porter, would eventually be considered the ‘New Realists.’
With the resurgence of figurative painting, Beal distinguished himself for his skillful handling of color and modeling as well as what was later described as his “pushing of representational forms to their interface with abstraction”. Through the later half of the 1960s, while his subject matter remained unchanged, his paintings were increasingly given over to wide areas of flat color. In 1969, he exhibited a series of Table Paintings which, with their hard-edge style and near complete abstraction of the form, were a radical departure for Beal. So radical in fact, he was accosted by fellow realist painters Alfred Leslie and Sidney Tillim, who berated him “for betraying realism and betraying [himself], for moving away from ‘the true path’.” The incident had its intended effect and Beal did return to a more naturalistic and humanistic style, eventually abandoning the nude in favor of increasingly allegorical portraits. In 1974, the United States General Services Administration commissioned Beal to produce a series of murals for the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters in Washington D.C. The result was The History of Labor, four, 12 x 13 foot paintings in the vein of George Caleb Bingham, each illustrating a century of American development.
Following the completion of the murals in 1977, Beal continued to make use of narrative in his paintings, with portraiture and self-portraiture as a means of exploring moral and didactic themes. He and Sondra had purchased an old mill in upstate New York in 1974 and after extensive renovations, it became their permanent residence. Unsurprisingly, many of his later paintings are pastoral scenes based on his rural surroundings or still lives including flowers which they grew on the property. In 1986, Beal was commissioned by the Art in Transit Initiative to create a large-scale mural as part of the redevelopment of the Times Square Subway Station. The proposed mosaic mural, The Return of Spring, took over fifteen years to complete, with the two, 7 x 20 foot sections finally installed in 2001 and 2005. Together they update the Greek myth of Persephone with a New York setting, showing her abduction by Hades, initiating the arrival of winter, and her release, bringing the bountiful return of spring.
Beal was a founder of the Artist’s Choice Museum, New York and the New York Academy of Art as well as the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including honorary degrees from the Art Institute of Boston and the Hollins College...
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1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Lithograph
Still Life with Peonies — Italian Succession
By Carlo Alberto Petrucci
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Carlo Alberto Petrucci, 'Still Life with Peonies', color monotype, c. 1915. Signed in pencil, in the image, lower right. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on heavy c...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Monotype
Apple Peeler II (a kitchen tool interpreted by paintings of Yves Tanguy)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Apple Peeler II", shows the simple tool influenced in part by Yves Tanguy. It was created in 1992 an edition of 50. This image is...
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1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Plymouth Street ( a twilight scene is set in the Brooklyn section of DUMBO)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This view of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges is looking down "Plymouth Street" to the intersection of Jay Street. It is #35 in the catalogue raisonne by Retif & Salzer and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of City of New York...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint, Aquatint
THE NEW FRENCH TOOLS 5 - BOULEVARD VICTOR DOUBLE SKY.
By Jim Dine
Located in Portland, ME
Dine, Jim. THE NEW FRENCH TOOLS 5 - BOULEVARD VICTOR DOUBLE SKY. D;Oench and Feinberg 175. Etching and aquatint and electric tools on two plates, with hand ...
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1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Aquatint, Etching
Singer IV (part of a typewriter that is iconic)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, Singer IV looking at the botton of the typewriter portrays the incised metal of the machine. It was issued as an edition of 75 and this impression is #22. FIR...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Le Talon Aigviille (Marlene Dietrich's Stiletto Heel -- In time for PRIDE)
By Laurent Schkolnyk
Located in New Orleans, LA
This mezzotint was created by Laurent Sckolnyk and was meant as an homage to the movie stars of yesteryear -- in this case Marlene Dietrich. Dietrich was an icon in the gay community...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Singer Needle
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's "Singer Needle" is a mezzotint issued in an edition of 100. It was originally designed to illustrate the step by step mezzotint process in the Abrams publication: "The Mezzotint: History and Technique" authored by Carol Wax. It is FIROS #44 in the catalogue raisonne. This impression is #98 out of 100
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 Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting.
In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
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1980s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Singer II (Woodgrain, incised metal plate of a Singer typewriter casts shadows)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, Singer II looking at the end of the typewriter portrays the incised metal and the wood grain of the machine. It was issued as an edition of 75. This image is i...
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1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
UNICEF Bouquet - Tom Wesselmann, Pop Art, Still-life, Print, Screenprint
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1998.
From 'Meine Kindheit - Schmerz und Heilung, UNICEF'.
Signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 100.
Image: 63.5 x 54.5 cm Sheet: 78.8 x 70 cm
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1990s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Screen
Plum Bob #2 (a multi color lithograph showing brass plum bob and night sky)
By David Morrison
Located in New Orleans, LA
A dramatic gold - colored plumb bob, hanging against a backdrop of geometric drawings, is contrasted with the stars of the night sky. In the Greek Empire...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Lithograph
Retained Time
By Sonja Lamut
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Retained Time
Color mezzotint, c. 1970's
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Edition: 30 (15/30)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 11 7/8 x 15 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 30 x 22 inches
Sonja Lamut: A contemporary illustrator, painter and mezzotint engraver, Sonja Lamut received her B.F.A. from the University of Arts, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and her M.F.A. from Hunter College, City University of New York. She is presently Assistant Professor of Illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City.
During her career Sonja Lamut has illustrated numerous books, particularly in the field of children's literature. These include, Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The Great Green Notebook of Katie Roberts, The Famous Adventures of Jack, Lemuel the Fool, Little Mermaid, Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks (New York Times Children's Books list Bestseller), Love You, Soldier, . She is also the author and illustrator of the following works; Too Noisy!, Bugs and Halloween Costumes.
Sonia Lamut's art has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at institutions such as Gallery shows in New York, Boston Miami, Greenwich Stockholm, Ljubjiana and numerous other national and international group shows. Today her art is included in the following collections; the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Museum of Modern Art , Fredrikstad, the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, the Museum of Modern art, Belgrade, he National Museum, Krakow and many other important private and public institutions.
For several decades, the American artist, Sonja Lamut has produced a number of striking works of art in the most demanding of all graphic media -- the mezzotint. In 1974 she was a participating artist in the exhibition, "International Mezzotint Today" in London, England. Utilizing the unique, black tonal values of this intaglio method she has created intriguing imagery, such as, "Cage".
Courtesy: Art of the Print
Collections
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Grafiska Sallskapet, Stockholm
Museum of Modern Art, Fredrikstad
Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
College Board, New York
Utubo Gallery, Kyoto
Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade
National Museum, Krakow
Awards/Publications:
“Grand Prix” in Mediterranean Art...
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1970s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Thorns
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is impression #12 of 35 impressions
Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more . . ....
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Early 2000s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
HOPE, 2021 (The promise of the new year appears to be floating
By Matt Magee
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hope is an archival color print with sculptured and hot gloss stamp printed in an edition of 50. This is impression #25 of 50.
ARTIST STATEMENT: Language is liquid and as HOPE was ...
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2010s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Archival Ink, Color, Archival Pigment
Leaf
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #17 of an edition of 35
Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more . . .
th...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Mezzotint
Candle Light (a serene sacred shrine for decency and peace with Asian feel)
By Masahiro Arai
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Candle Light" is a lithograph signed, dated, titled and editioned in pencil. It is #2 from an edition of 65 and was an exclusive publication of Stone and Press. Shadow and light are...
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1990s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
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Lithograph
Elegy for a Forgotten Day
By Marc Balakjian
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is an artist proof and is annotated VIII / VIII The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Pylon (Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan side of East River near South St. Seaport)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
A "Pylon" of the Brooklyn Bridge with the Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge visible in the background is captured in this powerful image by Frederick Mershimer. It is #77 in t...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Trivium MMV
By Francisco Souto
Located in New Orleans, LA
In medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects that were taught first: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The word is a Latin term meaning "the three ways" or "the thr...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Lithograph, Screen
Livre (An opening to the book of knowledge)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image seems to capture the opening of knowledge through books. At the top of the imagemoors are opening revealing a sliver of light providing entree to yer massive book at the ...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Missing Link
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #12 from an edition of only 75,
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after...
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2010s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
D is for Dish (A fine whimsical work by a pioneer in the English Pop Art scene)
By Harvey Daniels
Located in New Orleans, LA
British Pop artist Harvey Daniels created this image in 1970 in a small edition of 20. This impression is #2 His work has described by art historian Norbert Lynton as a “visual carni...
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1970s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Made in China (A lantern with Chinese characters etched on the base)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Made in China", explores the irony that glass, a transparent material alters perceptions of reality. This is the first instance in which Wax explores that iro...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Symbiosis
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 ...
Category
1990s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
In Memory of an Historic Phrase
By Marc Balakjian
Located in New Orleans, LA
Marc Balakjian was enigmatic in his subject matter creating images that are disturbing in their ambiguity. Is this image just striped fabric tied with ropes on a platform or is this is a flag-draped coffin symbolizing those who passed "in memory of an historic phrase"? Politicians may turn the phrase but a price must be paid. This small edition mezzotint was created in 1975 in an edition of only 5.
Armenian by descent, Marc Balakjian was raised in Lebanon. He spent his early years in the small town of Rayak, before moving to Beirut at the age of 10. He came to England in 1966, initially to study architecture with a firm in Oxford. He then decided to study art at Hammersmith College of Art and took up a postgraduate degree in printmaking at the Slade School of Art in 1971. After graduating he began working at Studio Prints in 1973, just as it was establishing itself in Queen’s Crescent. By 1976 he had become a full time partner, collaborating with other artists as well as continuing his own work, much of which is inspired by his Armenian and Lebanese culture and heritage.
By the 1980s work was falling off, so Balakjian and Studio Prints introduced in-house plate-making to serve painters and sculptors who had little experience with printmaking. Artists such as Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Ken Kiff...
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1970s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
ALE CANS
By Jasper Johns
Located in Portland, ME
Johns, Jasper (American, born 1930). ALE CANS (I). Wesleyan 202. Lithograph from two plates (blue background, black image), 1975. Edition of 41 plus 11 Artist's Proofs. Signed in pen...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nature morte au bulbe d'ail
By Mario Avati
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nature morte au bulbe d'ail
Mezzotint, 1957
Signed, titled & numberred in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 50 (40/50)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 10 7/8 x 11 5/8 inches
Sheet: 14 7/8 x 1...
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1950s 85 New Wave Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
L' Ananas (The Pineapple, a symbol of hospitality)
By Laurent Schkolnyk
Located in New Orleans, LA
Laurent Schkolnyk created this original mezzotint, L' Anais that is signed, titled and numbered #22 in an edition of 30. Since the fruit was so perishable, it became a symbol of lu...
Category
1980s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Orchid and Bamboo (Sensu-e)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Japanese (mid 20th Century)
Unsigned wood cut with hand embellishments in gouache created for a Japanese folding fan.
Unsigned
Image size: 8 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches
Mounted on support sh...
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Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Gouache
Singer 10101
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Singer 10101", is an image of Singer I as seen through a drafting template. It was issued as an edition of 40 and was printed at the Indiana University print...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
In the Silence of Passing Years
By Marc Balakjian
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is an artist proof XII / XII. The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
untitled (Still Life with Cup and Horn)
By Tomoe Yokoi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Still Life with Cup and Horn)
Color mezzotint, c. 1980
Numbered and signed in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Edition: 100 (53/100)
Published by John Szoke Graphics, New ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
STILL LIFE WITH APPLES
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Portland, ME
Lozowick, Louis. Amer., (1892-1973), STILL LIFE NO.2 (STILL LIFE WITH APPLES), Lithograph, 1929, Ed. C. 50. Flint 36, 10 5/16 x 13 3/16, 262 x ...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SIX FLOWER STUDIES
Located in Portland, ME
Blatherwick, Lily (English, 1854-1934)
A group of six flower studies done in the 1920s, which are very impressionistic and atmospheric, and show a mastery of the lithographic medium....
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
