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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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Paper

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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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, "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, "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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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, "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, "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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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, "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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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, "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, "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 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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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, "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, "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, "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, "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, "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, "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, "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, "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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Paper

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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

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Hygieia” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #10, Ausschnitt aus dem Bilde “Medizin”; multi-color collotype detail from Medicine, one of the faculty paintings for the University of Vienna in oil o...
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Water Snakes II" collotype print
By Gustav Klimt & K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei
Located in Chicago, IL
Water Snakes II, no. 9 from the fourth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts The last painting Klimt exhibited with the Secession before resigning, Water Snakes II relates to Freund...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Erotic Scene - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - 1944
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is an original xilography artwork realized by Mino Maccari in 1944. Hand-signed in the pseudonym of "Jean Baschie" which is the artist's signature in 1944 erotic series ...
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1940s Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Vintage Giltwood Love Seat Conversation Settee Mid 20th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a fantastic English vintage giltwood love seat or conversation "Sociable Settee" mid 20th century in date. It is of clover leaf outline and has four individual seats with...
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Vintage 1950s English Settees

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Velvet, Giltwood

ÉMILE GALLÉ Vase, circa 1900 overlaid cameo glass red flowers, square shape
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
An attractive late 19th Century cameo glass vase of elongated square form cut with decorative burgundy and red flowers against a warm yellow background with excellent hand finished d...
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Antique 1890s Vases

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Cut Glass, Blown Glass, Art Glass

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Kiss" collotype print
By Gustav Klimt & K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei
Located in Chicago, IL
The Kiss, no. 1 from the fifth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Undoubtedly Klimt’s best known and most reproduced images, this printed version of The Kiss is the only one with...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper

Upholstered American Mahogany Curule Stool, c. 1900-50
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Mahogany curule stool with arched crossed legs joined at the pivot point by turned stretcher. The stretcher is defined by turned rosettes at the insertion into the leg crossing point...
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Early 20th Century American Footstools

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Upholstery, Mahogany

Erotic Scene - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is an original xilography artwork realized by Mino Maccari in 1945. Hand-signed in the pseudonym of "Jean Baschie" which is the artist's signature in 1944-45 ca. erotic ...
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1940s Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

"George Washington at Dorchester Heights" after Gilbert Stuart, Oil on Canvas
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is a framed oil-on-canvas painting entitled George Washington at Dorchester Heights by an unnamed artist. The painting dates to the mid-to-late 19th century and was modeled...
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Antique Mid-19th Century American Paintings

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Paint

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “The Embrace (Fulfillment)” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #17, Aus dem Stoclet-Fries: Die Umarmung; multi-color collotype after the cartoon for the 1910-1911 mosaic frieze on the east wall of the dining hall o...
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

signed original etching - Artist's Proof
By Jack Levine
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original soft ground etching. Signed in pencil and annotated "Artist's Proof". Printed in 1967 for the Dreigroschen Film portfolio and published by Touchstone Publishers. Thi...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Sterling Silver and Enamel Art Deco "Naughty" Cigarette Case. Dated 1928
Located in Incline Village, NV
Offered for sale is a risque Art Deco Sterling Silver Cigarette Case, often referred to as a "naughty" because of it's bawdy subject matter; that being; of a seated, topless young la...
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Vintage 1920s English Art Deco Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes

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Enamel, Sterling Silver

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Allegory of Life and Death” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #18, Der Tod und das Leben; multi-color collotype after original painting (1910-1916) in oil on canvas. GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GUSTAV KLIMT AN AF...
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
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1910s Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper

Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
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1910s Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper, Engraving

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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
Category

1920s 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
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1910s Vienna Secession Portrait Prints

Materials

Paper

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, "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
Category

1910s 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, "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, "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, "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, "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

Materials

Paper

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
Category

1910s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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

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

Materials

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
Category

1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

Materials

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

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
Category

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
Category

1920s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

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

Materials

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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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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