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Horses in the Landscape - Original Etching by J.J. Veyrassat - Late 19th Century

Horses in the Landscape - Original Etching by J.J. Veyrassat - Late 19th Century

By Jules Jacques Veyrassat

Located in Roma, IT

Horses in the Landscape is an original artwork realized by Jules Jacques Veyrassat in the second half of the XIX century. Original etching on paper. Proof before Letter. Passepartou...

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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

CHRISTINE CHAGNOUX - 'Circus Crocodile' - Framed Color Etching - France - C.1970
CHRISTINE CHAGNOUX - 'Circus Crocodile' - Framed Color Etching - France - C.1970

CHRISTINE CHAGNOUX - 'Circus Crocodile' - Framed Color Etching - France - C.1970

Located in Chatham, ON

CHRISTINE CHAGNOUX (1937-2020) - 'Circus Crocodile' - Epreuve d’Artiste 18/30 (Artist's Proof) - Wonderful mid century color etching and watercolor on paper by an artist famous for h...

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Mid-20th Century French Modern Prints

Materials

Metal

Etching Glyn Thomas Lighthouse Orford Ness Castle River Alde length
Etching Glyn Thomas Lighthouse Orford Ness Castle River Alde length

Etching Glyn Thomas Lighthouse Orford Ness Castle River Alde length

Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK

Glyn Thomas (b.1946) : Lighthouse, Orford Ness Etching. Artists proof from a limited edition of 150, signed and titled in pencil, f Depicting the lighthouse in the foreground, the ...

Category

20th Century English Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

High Wire Desire Signed AP Aquatint Etching by Dan M. Allison, 1978
High Wire Desire Signed AP Aquatint Etching by Dan M. Allison, 1978

High Wire Desire Signed AP Aquatint Etching by Dan M. Allison, 1978

Located in Raymondville, TX

Allison's modern primitive style 'High Wire Desire' 1978 signed artist's proof three-color aquatint etching on float mounted German copperplate paper in a black metal frame.

Category

Vintage 1970s American Modern Prints

Materials

Paper

M. Tinnayre, La Maison Du Péché, with H. Jourdain Etchings, Mylander Binding
M. Tinnayre, La Maison Du Péché, with H. Jourdain Etchings, Mylander Binding

M. Tinnayre, La Maison Du Péché, with H. Jourdain Etchings, Mylander Binding

Located in Middletown, NY

This EXTRA ILLUSTRATED COPY includes: * 2 original signed watercolors by Henri Jourdain which served as illustrations for the title headings of chapters 16 and 25 (93 x 145 mm and...

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Early 20th Century French Books

Materials

Gold Leaf

NINTH AVENUE SUITE
NINTH AVENUE SUITE

NINTH AVENUE SUITE

Located in Portland, ME

Kirk, Michael (American, born 1947). DOORWAYS. Six etchings and aquatints, 1975. Edition of 75, of which this is number 17 of the Regular Edition of 60 (there were also 6, for Instit...

Category

1970s Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

DESOLATION VALLEY
DESOLATION VALLEY

DESOLATION VALLEY

Located in Santa Monica, CA

AUGUSTA (Payne) RATHBONE 1897 – 1990) DESOLATION VALLEY ca. 1930 Color aquatint and etching, Signed in pencil an annotated “artist proof” & “Plate 1”.

Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Le Chene des Roches (Oak tree growing among Rocks)
Le Chene des Roches (Oak tree growing among Rocks)

Le Chene des Roches (Oak tree growing among Rocks)

By Théodore Rousseau

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Rousseau made only four isolated attempts at etching between 1836 and 1861. The first three were never published and exist only in one or two proofs.

Category

1860s Barbizon School Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

Abstract
Abstract

Esteban VicenteAbstract, 1975

$4,400Sale Price|20% Off

Abstract

By Esteban Vicente

Located in New York, NY

Printer's Proof solar plate etching that is signed in pencil.

Category

20th Century Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

BOWERY

BOWERY

By Reginald Marsh

Located in Portland, ME

Marsh, Reginald. BOWERY. S.54. Etching, 1928. A proof, one of only four, from the 5th State of 7.

Category

Early 20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Landscape with Grapevine

Landscape with Grapevine

By Franco Gentilini

Located in Roma, IT

Hand signed on the right lower margin. Artist's proof. Beautiful etching describes a man sitting under a grapevine.

Category

1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Abricot (Apricot), From FlorDalí (Les Fruits), 1969
Abricot (Apricot), From FlorDalí (Les Fruits), 1969

Abricot (Apricot), From FlorDalí (Les Fruits), 1969

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Naples, Florida

From FlorDalí (Les Fruits) Artist’s Proof (EA) Lithograph with drypoint etching and embossing on Rives wove paper Signed and dated lower rig...

Category

1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching, Lithograph

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta
Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

By Roberto Matta

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Roberto Matta (1912-2002) Title: Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393) Year: 1974 Edition: 38/125, plus proofs Medium: Etching on Arches paper Size: 23.875 x 17.5 inches Inscription: ...

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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta
Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

By Roberto Matta

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Roberto Matta (1912-2002) Title: Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393) Year: 1974 Edition: 38/125, plus proofs Medium: Etching on Arches paper Size: 23.875 x 17.5 inches Inscription: ...

Category

1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta
Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

By Roberto Matta

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Roberto Matta (1912-2002) Title: Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393) Year: 1974 Edition: 38/125, plus proofs Medium: Etching on Arches paper Size: 23.875 x 17.5 inches Inscription: ...

Category

1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta
Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

By Roberto Matta

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Roberto Matta (1912-2002) Title: Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393) Year: 1974 Edition: 38/125, plus proofs Medium: Etching on Arches paper Size: 23.875 x 17.5 inches Inscription: ...

Category

1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta
Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

By Roberto Matta

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Roberto Matta (1912-2002) Title: Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393) Year: 1974 Edition: 38/125, plus proofs Medium: Etching on Arches paper Size: 23.875 x 17.5 inches Inscription: ...

Category

1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta
Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

By Roberto Matta

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Roberto Matta (1912-2002) Title: Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393) Year: 1974 Edition: 38/125, plus proofs Medium: Etching on Arches paper Size: 23.875 x 17.5 inches Inscription: ...

Category

1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta
Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

By Roberto Matta

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Roberto Matta (1912-2002) Title: Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393) Year: 1974 Edition: 38/125, plus proofs Medium: Etching on Arches paper Size: 23.875 x 17.5 inches Inscription: ...

Category

1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta
Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

By Roberto Matta

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Roberto Matta (1912-2002) Title: Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393) Year: 1974 Edition: 38/125, plus proofs Medium: Etching on Arches paper Size: 23.875 x 17.5 inches Inscription: ...

Category

1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta
Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

By Roberto Matta

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Roberto Matta (1912-2002) Title: Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393) Year: 1974 Edition: 38/125, plus proofs Medium: Etching on Arches paper Size: 23.875 x 17.5 inches Inscription: ...

Category

1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta
Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393), Roberto Matta

By Roberto Matta

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Roberto Matta (1912-2002) Title: Centre Noeuds (Sabatier 393) Year: 1974 Edition: 38/125, plus proofs Medium: Etching on Arches paper Size: 23.875 x 17.5 inches Inscription: ...

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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

2. Ebene
2. Ebene

Hans Juergen Diehl2. Ebene, 1971

$460Sale Price|23% Off

2. Ebene

By Hans Juergen Diehl

Located in Kansas City, MO

Ebene Year: 1971 Medium: Color Etching Edition: Proof (P) Size: 33.5 x 25.5 in. Publisher: Ketterer, Germany Signed, numbered and/or titled Hans-Jürgen Diehl was born in 1940 in Han...

Category

1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Iris (5)
Iris (5)

Iris (5)

By Leonard Baskin

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Leonard Baskin, 'Iris ( 5 )', etching, 1988, artist proof before the edition of 10, outside the book edition.

Category

1980s Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Oiseau de Terre
Oiseau de Terre

Oiseau de Terre

Located in Houston, TX

Beautifully detailed abstract etching artist proof by French artist Oiseau de Terre, circa 1990.

Category

1990s Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

DIE SCHAUSPIELERIN HILDE KORBER

DIE SCHAUSPIELERIN HILDE KORBER

By Max Ackermann

Located in Portland, ME

DIE SCHAUSPIELERIN HILDE KORBER. Etching, 1928. A proof before, or in addition to the edition of 200.

Category

1920s Expressionist Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching

Amberley Boy, No. 2
Amberley Boy, No. 2

Amberley Boy, No. 2

By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst

Located in Fairlawn, OH

This beautifully handled etched portrait of a coy young peasant lad repeats a subject which Gerald Leslie Brockhurst had attempted in 1920 and which exists in only 3 proof impression...

Category

1920s English School Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Landscape with Ravine, Ian Hornak
Landscape with Ravine, Ian Hornak

Landscape with Ravine, Ian Hornak

By Ian Hornak

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Landscape with Ravine Year: 1968 Edition: 200, plus proofs Medium: Etching on vélin de Rives paper Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Good Inscrip...

Category

1960s Photorealist Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

Decalogue N° 3

Decalogue N° 3

By Lucio Del Pezzo

Located in Roma, IT

Original print realized by Lucio del Pezzo in 1976, it is from the "Decalogue", a portfolio of ten sheets, variously numbered from the total of 105 pieces (75 in Arabic Numerals Edit...

Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Olive Grove in Moonlight, Ian Hornak
Olive Grove in Moonlight, Ian Hornak

Olive Grove in Moonlight, Ian Hornak

By Ian Hornak

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Olive Grove in Moonlight Year: 1968 Edition: 200, plus proofs Medium: Etching on vélin de Rives paper Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Good Insc...

Category

1960s Photorealist Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

Marino from Shakespeare
Marino from Shakespeare

Marino from Shakespeare

By Marino Marini

Located in New York, NY

A very good impression of this color aquatint and etching. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 75.

Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Color, Etching, Aquatint

A Yorkshire Dell or The Heron’s Pool.
A Yorkshire Dell or The Heron’s Pool.

A Yorkshire Dell or The Heron’s Pool.

By Sir Frank Short

Located in Plano, TX

Finberg has identified a very slight chalk sketch of this subject in a sketch-book of subjects in Scotland; so the title might be A Scottish Dell." A few proofs of the etching exist....

Category

Early 20th Century Romantic Landscape Prints

Materials

Mezzotint, Etching

Stanwick
Stanwick

Stanwick

By John Taylor Arms

Located in Middletown, NY

A superb impression of a scarce proof on rare paper. Etching on blue laid watermarked "Hand Made" paper, 7 3/8 x 3/14 inches (188 x 83 mm); sheet 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (292 x 209 mm...

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Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper

Manhattan Bridge — 1920s New York City
Manhattan Bridge — 1920s New York City

Manhattan Bridge — 1920s New York City

By George Stimmel

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

'Manhattan Bridge', etching, c. 1920, proofs only. Signed in ink in the image, lower right.

Category

1920s American Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

Bulls, Skulls, and Tears, monochromatic linear animals bones

Bulls, Skulls, and Tears, monochromatic linear animals bones

By Jenny Toth

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This is an artist proof (one of a kind) etching of a woman peaking behind a bull's skull with other live bulls dancing around behind.

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Etching

Feeling Prickly

Feeling Prickly

By Jenny Toth

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This is an artist proof (one of a kind) etching of a woman with a cactus growing in and out of her.

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Etching

Wilby Church, Northhamptonshire, England
Wilby Church, Northhamptonshire, England

Wilby Church, Northhamptonshire, England

By John Taylor Arms

Located in Middletown, NY

A fine proof impression on antique paper Etching on antique laid paper with a large heraldic watermark. 4 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches (109 x 61mm), full margins.

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Laid Paper, Etching

New-York City Suite : Plaza - Lithograph - circa 1981
New-York City Suite : Plaza - Lithograph - circa 1981

New-York City Suite : Plaza - Lithograph - circa 1981

By (after) Salvador Dali

Located in Paris, IDF

He painted with watercolor a proof of the etching Plaza and offered it to Mr Schneider and allowed him to published it as an interepretative lithograph.

Category

1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Beginning of the End
Beginning of the End

Beginning of the End

By Charles Bragg

Located in San Francisco, CA

It is in excellent condition. This is a counter proof lithograph from the etching of the same name.

Category

Late 20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Venus, Mars et Cupidon - Original etching - 1971 - Artist proof
Venus, Mars et Cupidon - Original etching - 1971 - Artist proof

Venus, Mars et Cupidon - Original etching - 1971 - Artist proof

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Paris, IDF

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Venus, Mars et Cupidon (1971) Original Etching on vellum Arches Handsigned in pencil Artist proof Size : 30 x 22.2 inch (76 x 56,5 cm) References : Cat...

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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

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