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Egon Schiele And Max Jaffe

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "The Artist's Wife, Seated" Collotype plate VI
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
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1910s Vienna Secession Portrait Prints

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R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Torso" Collotype plate IV
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
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1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Portrait of a Child" Collotype plate X
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
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1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Male Nude in Red Loincloth" Collotype plate II
Located in Chicago, IL
Lanyi, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele
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1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Two Girls, Lying Entwined" Collotype plate VIII
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
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1910s Vienna Secession Nude Prints

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R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Reclining Nude w/Green Stockings" Collotype PL XI
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
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1910s Vienna Secession Nude Prints

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Paper

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Russian Soldier" Collotype plate VII
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
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1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Kneeling Female Semi-Nude" Collotype plate XII
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
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1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Woman with Greyhound" Collotype plate III
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
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1910s Vienna Secession Portrait Prints

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Paper

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Seated Woman with Bent Knee" Collotype plate I
Located in Chicago, IL
Lanyi, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele
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1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "One-Year-Volunteer Private" Collotype plate V
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
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1910s Vienna Secession Portrait Prints

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Paper

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Nude With Raised Arm" Collotype plate IX
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
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1910s Vienna Secession Nude Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Female Model, Seated" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
After Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Crouching Female Nude" Collotype plate V
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
Schiele and included an original drawing by Schiele. The art images were printed by Kunstanstalt Max Jaffe
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Nursing Mother with Child" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Reclining Female Nude Glancing Up" Collotype
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Kneeling Female Nude" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Female Nude, Back View" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Kneeling Female, Semi-Nude" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Self-Portrait" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Portrait Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Female Nude, Walking" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Artist's Sister-in-Law" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
After Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Reclining Girl, Half-Figure" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Portrait Study (Head of a Girl)" Collotype
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Portrait Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen, "Seated Female Nude w/Orange Drapery" Collotype
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful draftsmanship and precocious insight into the human
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Female Nude, Walking after Egon Schiele, 1920 Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Culver City, CA
watercolors and drawings by Egon Schiele. Female Nude, Walking after Egon Schiele Handzeichnung (Sketch
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1920s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen, "Seated Female Nude w/Orange Drapery" Collotype
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful draftsmanship and precocious insight into the human
Category

1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen, "Seated Female Nude w/Orange Drapery" Collotype
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful draftsmanship and precocious insight into the human
Category

1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Kneeling Female, Semi-Nude" Collotype plate
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "One-Year-Volunteer Private" Collotype plate V
By Egon Schiele and Max Jaffé
Located in Chicago, IL
Richard Lanyi, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon
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1910s Vienna Secession Portrait Prints

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Seated Woman with Bent Knee" Collotype plate I
By Egon Schiele and Max Jaffé
Located in Chicago, IL
Richard Lanyi, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon
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1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Woman with Greyhound" Collotype plate III
By Egon Schiele and Max Jaffé
Located in Chicago, IL
Richard Lanyi, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon
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1910s Vienna Secession Portrait Prints

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Portrait of a Child" Collotype plate V
By Egon Schiele and Max Jaffé
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
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1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Russian Soldier" Collotype plate VII
By Egon Schiele and Max Jaffé
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
Category

1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Kneeling Female Semi-Nude" Collotype plate XII
By Egon Schiele and Max Jaffé
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
Category

1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Woman with Greyhound" Collotype plate III
By Egon Schiele and Max Jaffé
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
Category

1910s Vienna Secession Portrait Prints

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Paper

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "The Artist's Wife, Seated" Collotype plate VI
Located in Chicago, IL
, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon Schiele. The plates
Category

1910s Vienna Secession Portrait Prints

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Paper

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Russian Soldier" Collotype plate VII
By Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
Richard Lanyi, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon
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1910s Vienna Secession Portrait Prints

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Kneeling Female Semi-Nude" Collotype plate XII
By Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
Richard Lanyi, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon
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1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Reclining Female Nude" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Reclining Female Nude" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Standing Female Nude" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Female Model, Seated" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
After Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Nursing Mother with Child" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Crouching Female Nude" Collotype plate V
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
Schiele and included an original drawing by Schiele. The art images were printed by Kunstanstalt Max Jaffe
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Reclining Female Nude" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Nursing Mother with Child" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL
Category

1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Male Nude in Red Loincloth" Collotype plate II
Located in Chicago, IL
Richard Lanyi, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe in an edition of 400 under the supervision of Egon
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1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

Reclining Nude with Green Stockings From Zeichnungen By Egon Schiele
By Egon Schiele
Located in New York, NY
Zeichnungen 1917 Vienna, Richard Lányi, Editor-Publisher Max Jaffe, Printer Plate VI of 12
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Early 20th Century American Expressionist Prints

Portrait Sketch (Blue, Red and White Tinted) Porträtskizze
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Toronto, CA
posthumously, one year after Klimt’s death, by the Kunstanstalt Max Jaffé, a Viennese specialist in fine art
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1910s Contemporary Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Reclining Girl, Half-Figure (Sketch Folio) after Egon Schiele, 1920 Collotype
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Culver City, CA
watercolors and drawings by Egon Schiele. Reclining Girl, Half-Figure after Egon Schiele Handzeichnung
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1920s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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Masturbating Woman Surrounded by Black
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
Published anonymously c. 1920, Vienna, in an edition of 100, after the original gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper, signed and dated in the plate by the artist in middle right: ...
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

"Male Youth with Pole", Superb Painting of Male Nude by Sigvard Mohn, 1910s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sensitively painted with a rich but subdued palette and dramatic lighting, this large painting of a male youth leaning on a long pole was made by Sigvard Mohn, a Minnesota-born artis...
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Vintage 1910s American Beaux Arts Paintings

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Nude Male Model, Unique Silver Gelatin Print.
By Andy Warhol
Located in Cotignac, FR
Unique Silver Gelatin print from circa 1977 by Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol carried a camera with him obsessively. Similarly to his tape recorder, he used this technology not only as an...
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1970s American Modern Nude Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Clyde
By Daniel Handal
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print, painted frame (Edition of 4 + 1 AP) Signed and numbered, verso This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Price includes mounting and ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Clyde
H 19 in W 8.5 in
"Five Olympic Rowers", Monumental 1930s Painting of Nude Male Oarsmen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the most stunning and monumental depictions of male nude figures -- and male athletes -- ever accomplished in the Modern era, this large painting shows five nude rowers, relax...
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Vintage 1930s British Art Deco Paintings

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Paint

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Statue of an Athlete
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “Bruce Sargeant is a mythic figure in the modern art movement. He embodies a world that is in many ways lost to us; he...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Allegory of Fortune
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: S. Spinelli Collection, Florence; their sale, Galleria Pesaro, Milan, July 11-14, 1928, lot 112 (unsold); reoffered Galleria Luigi Bellini, Florence, April 23-26, 1934,...
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16th Century Old Masters Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Nude of Woman Reclined on the Back of a Chair on the Right, Original Drawing
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman Reclined On the Back of a Chair on the Right is an original drawing realized by Gustav Klimt between 1904 and 1906, probably in 1905, as stated in the Catalogue Raisonn...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

"The Golden Hour, " Monumental Painting with Utopian Scene, Multiple Male Nudes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Monumental and quite extraordinary, this utopian scene -- all cast in a lovely, warm glow -- depicts a wide range of nude figures, mostly male, in a grassy river valley between mount...
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Vintage 1920s British Art Deco Paintings

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Paint

Mother and Child - Collotype Print After Egon Schiele - 1920
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Mother and Child is a fine black and white collotype from the series “Handzeichnungen” (1920), a fine art portfolio by Egon Schiele. Monogram on plate “S '10” on the lower right mar...
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1920s Expressionist Nude Prints

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Other Medium

DIE TRAUME BESCHAUTE (OBSERVED IN A DREAM)
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Chicago, IL
Published anonymously c. 1920, Vienna, in an edition of 100, after the original watercolor and pencil on paper, titled in the plate at the top: “DIE TRAUM/BESCHAUTE” and signed and d...
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1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Portrait of a Man
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: with Leo Blumenreich and Julius Böhler, Munich, 1924 Dr. Frederic Goldstein Oppenheimer (1881-1963), San Antonio, Texas; by whom given to: Abraham M. Adler, New York, un...
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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Portrait of a Man
Portrait of a Man
H 11 in W 9 in
Jean Bonnardel Portrait by Federico Masses
Located in New York, US
Our very large portrait of Jean Bonnardel (1899-1952), Countess Madeleine de Montgomery, by Federico Armando Beltran Masses (1885-1949) measures 77 3/8 by 52 1/4 in, 196.5 x 132.6 cm...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Paintings

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Looking Into the Past
Located in Atlanta, GA
For sculptor/ painter/ photographer Roberto Santo, art became a way of life when, at age16, he embarked upon an apprenticeship with Bob Peak, the celebrated illustrator… and his fath...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Looking Into the Past
Looking Into the Past
H 59.06 in W 47.25 in D 59.06 in
Against the Glass
By Michael Leonard
Located in London, GB
Alkyd-oil on Masonite board, 102cm x 83cm, (124cm x 104cm framed). The painting comes directly from the artist. Michael Leonard is most probably most famous for his portrait of HM ...
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Early 2000s Post-War Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Alkyd

Against the Glass
Against the Glass
H 48.82 in W 40.95 in D 1.19 in
"Jungle Book, " Important Painting w/ Male Nude by Barbier for Schmied, 1918
By George Barbier
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliant reminder of how early the Art Deco style we know today emerged in France, this vividly-painted depiction of Mowgli, the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book,...
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Vintage 1910s French Art Deco Paintings

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Paint

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A Close Look at Expressionist Art

While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared. 

Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.

Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.

Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.

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Finding the Right Prints-works-on-paper for You

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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