Albert Decaris was the best and most notorious French engraver of the 20th century, with a strange mix of classicism and audacity. Decaris created a major oeuvre of original engravings and etchings, both as individual plates and as illustrations for Livres d’artistes (art books). In the 1930s, Decaris began carving postal stamps, resulting in more than 500 such vignettes. At the same time, Decaris was preparing large plates, mostly for his pleasure, on a wide variety of subjects: careful (almost technical) representations of monuments and places of interest, scenes of history, real-life or imaginary; scenes of mythology or imagination, verging on surrealism and mere caricatures, with a sense of humor.
Leda and the Swan
By Albert Decaris
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a monumental original etching by French artist Albert Decaris. Decaris won many honors in France during his extensive career. "Leda and the Swan", depicts the mythologi...
Etching
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Composition, Portrait de A. Decaris, Albert Decaris
By Albert Decaris
Located in Southampton, NY
Engraving on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Portrait de A. Decaris, 1953. Published by Editions d'Art Manuel Bruker, Paris; printed by Ateliers Rigal, Paris, January 30, 1953. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), The present portrait of Albert Decaris was completed to print on January 30, 1953 for typography by Zichieri; for engraving by Rigal. The edition has been set at 250 on vélin de Rives. The first twenty examples are suites on annam of all the engravings. ALBERT DECARIS (1901-1988) was a French artist, engraver, painter and Olympic Gold Medallist. Decaris was the first illustrator of luxury art books such as Le Chant de Mon Voyage vers la Grèce by Léon Cathlin, Combourg by Chateaubriand, Les Discours des Misères de ce Temps by Ronsard and Les Destinées by Alfred de Vigny. Decaris joined the infamous group called FVHJ at age 24. In the 1930s, Decaris began engraving postage stamps, resulting in more than 500 such designs, for various postal services, notably French and African. Stamp collectors...
Engraving
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Composition, Portrait de A. Decaris, Albert Decaris
By Albert Decaris
Located in Southampton, NY
Engraving on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Portrait de A. Decaris, 1953. Published by Editions d'Art ...
Engraving
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Composition, Portrait de A. Decaris, Albert Decaris
By Albert Decaris
Located in Southampton, NY
Engraving on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Portrait de A. Decaris, 1953. Published by Editions d'Art Manuel Bruker, Paris; printed by Ateliers Rigal, Paris, January 30, 1953. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), The present portrait of Albert Decaris was completed to print on January 30, 1953 for typography by Zichieri; for engraving by Rigal. The edition has been set at 250 on vélin de Rives. The first twenty examples are suites on annam of all the engravings. ALBERT DECARIS (1901-1988) was a French artist, engraver, painter and Olympic Gold Medallist. Decaris was the first illustrator of luxury art books such as Le Chant de Mon Voyage vers la Grèce by Léon Cathlin, Combourg by Chateaubriand, Les Discours des Misères de ce Temps by Ronsard and Les Destinées by Alfred de Vigny. Decaris joined the infamous group called FVHJ at age 24. In the 1930s, Decaris began engraving postage stamps, resulting in more than 500 such designs, for various postal services, notably French and African. Stamp collectors...
Engraving
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Composition, Portrait de A. Decaris, Albert Decaris
By Albert Decaris
Located in Southampton, NY
Engraving on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Portrait de A. Decaris, 1953. Published by Editions d'Art ...
Engraving
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Composition, Portrait de A. Decaris, Albert Decaris
By Albert Decaris
Located in Southampton, NY
Engraving on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Portrait de A. Decaris, 1953. Published by Editions d'Art Manuel Bruker, Paris; printed by Ateliers Rigal, Paris, January 30, 1953. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), The present portrait of Albert Decaris was completed to print on January 30, 1953 for typography by Zichieri; for engraving by Rigal. The edition has been set at 250 on vélin de Rives. The first twenty examples are suites on annam of all the engravings. ALBERT DECARIS (1901-1988) was a French artist, engraver, painter and Olympic Gold Medallist. Decaris was the first illustrator of luxury art books such as Le Chant de Mon Voyage vers la Grèce by Léon Cathlin, Combourg by Chateaubriand, Les Discours des Misères de ce Temps by Ronsard and Les Destinées by Alfred de Vigny. Decaris joined the infamous group called FVHJ at age 24. In the 1930s, Decaris began engraving postage stamps, resulting in more than 500 such designs, for various postal services, notably French and African. Stamp collectors...
Engraving
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Composition, Portrait de A. Decaris, Albert Decaris
By Albert Decaris
Located in Southampton, NY
Engraving on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Portrait de A. Decaris, 1953. Published by Editions d'Art ...
Engraving
December : Christmas Tree - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
By Albert Decaris
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS December : Christmas Tree Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in) Excellent ...
Etching
February : Carnival time - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
By Albert Decaris
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS February : Carnival time Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in) Excellent c...
Etching
March : Last Fight of Winter - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n°1/100
By Albert Decaris
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS March : Last Fight of Winter Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in) Excelle...
Etching
Landscape - Etching - Early 20th Century
By Albert Decaris
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an etching realized in the Early 20th Century by Albert Decaris. Good condition. The artwork is strong through soft strokes with perfect hatchings in a well-balanced ...
Etching
January : Rising New Year - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
By Albert Decaris
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS January : Rising New Year Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in) Excellent ...
Etching
August : Summer Holidays - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
By Albert Decaris
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS August : Summer Holidays Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 ...
Etching
September : Wine & Harvest - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
By Albert Decaris
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS September : Wine & Harvest Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in) Excellent...
Etching
The Artist in Fine Art Academy - Etching - Mid-20th Century
By Albert Decaris
Located in Roma, IT
The Artist in Fine Art Academy is an original etching realized by Albert Decaris in the mid-20th Century. In good conditions with some foxing. The artwork is presented through def...
Etching
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The Compassion - Etching - Early 20th Century
By Albert Decaris
Located in Roma, IT
The Compassion is an etching realized by Albert Decaris in the Early 20th Century. In good conditions with some foxing. The artwork is presented through deft strokes, the expressi...
Etching
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Composition, Portrait de A. Decaris, Albert Decaris
By Albert Decaris
Located in Southampton, NY
Engraving on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Portrait de A. Decaris, 1953. Published by Editions d'Art ...
Engraving
$240
Aquarius - Original Etching by Albert Decaris - Mid 20th century
By Albert Decaris
Located in Roma, IT
Aquarius is a fine black and white original burin, realized by Albert Decaris. Signed on plate on lower- right margin. This beautiful print, representing the zodiacal sign of Aquarius with a very synthetic line, is in very good condition, except for some usual yellowing of the margin. Including a white cardboard passepartout, cm 31.8 x 24.6. Albert Decaris (1901 – 1988) Albert Decaris was a French artist, engraver, painter. At age 19, Decaris won the Concours de Rome, which was seen as the first award among young French artists at the time. Moreover he was elected Fellow of The French Académie des Beaux Arts in 1943. Decaris was the best and most notorious French engravers of the 20th century, with a strange mix of classicism and audacity. As reflected by columnist Yvan Christ, "Decaris' works take place beyond times and styles. They are made for duration." (L'Amateur d'Art, Paris, Feb 1988 Decaris was the first illustrator of luxury art books such as Le Chant de Mon Voyage vers la Grèce by Léon Cathlin, Combourg by Chateaubriand, Les Discours des Misères de ce Temps by Ronsard and Les Destinées by Alfred de Vigny. In the 1930s, Decaris began carving postal stamps, resulting in more than 500 such vignettes, for various postal services, notably French and African. At the same time Decaris was preparing large plates on a wide variety of subjects: careful technical representations of monuments and places of interest, scenes of history, real life or imaginary; scenes of mythology or imagination, verging on surrealism; mere caricatures, with a sense of humor. Some are collected in albums, such as The Apocalypse or The Zodiac. Decaris is also notable for being the last person to ever win an Olympic Gold Medal...
Etching
May : Blossom Spring - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
By Albert Decaris
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS May : Blossom Spring Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in) Excellent condi...
Etching
April : Back to the Fields - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
By Albert Decaris
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS April : Back to the Fields Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in) Excellent...
Etching
July : Rise of Nature - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
By Albert Decaris
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS July : Rise of Nature Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in) Excellent cond...
Etching
June : the Shepherd - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
By Albert Decaris
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS June : the Shepherd Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in) Excellent condition
Etching
October : Diane the Huntress - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n°1/100
By Albert Decaris
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS October : Diane the Huntress Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum ...
Etching
Tugs on the Hudson
By Charles Frederick William Mielatz
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching with engraving printed in black ink on Japanese mulberry paper, 4 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (113 x 84 mm), full margins. In superb condition. A beautiful New York City river...
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
$275
H 11.5 in W 8.75 in
Delayed (Bus is late, the umbrella up and the long walk home thru rain begins)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
The bus is delayed and the night is cold and rainy as a lone woman raises her umbrella to brave the shadowy walk home after giving up on her ride She has just left the bus shelter a...
Mezzotint
Chicago Skyline
By Paul Schumann
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful turn-of-the-century lake view of Chicago by an American artist known for his Texas landscapes. Etching with drypoint on watermarked Umbria laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (182 x 275 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/25 in pencil, lower margin. In good condition with adhesive residue at the sheet edges on the verso, does not show through to the recto. A lovely Lake Michigan landscape...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
New York Skyline
By Louis H. Ruyl
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper with deckle edges, 4 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches (233 x 323 mm); sheet 9 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches (240 x 338 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/75 ...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Cortland Street
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on antique handmade laid Japon paper, 12 7/8 x 7 1/2 (327 x 191 mm); sheet 15 5/16 x 10 7/16 (389 x 265 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil in the lower margin....
Drypoint, Etching
Coenties Slip
By Charles Frederick William Mielatz
Located in Middletown, NY
Lower Manhattan and the Seaport as the artist imagined it would have appeared before 1835. New York: 1907. Etching with drypoint on Japon paper, 13 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches (353 x 248 mm...
Etching, Drypoint, Handmade Paper
$216
H 3.75 in W 6.89 in D 0.04 in
Goat - Etching by Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berghem - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on laid paper, depicting a finely observed study of a goat’s head shown in three-quarter profile. The animal’s curved horns, alert eye, and textured beard are rendered with e...
Etching
A Mirage
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
A Mirage. 1928. Etching. Hardie 238. 11 13/16 x 14 3/8 (sheet 12 3/16 x 18 3/4). Edition 76, #46. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1928 and 1938; Holmes, Etchings of Today. A ri...
Drypoint, Etching
Trees - Etching - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Trees is an lithograph on paper realized by an unknown artist in the 20th Century. The artwork is in good condition.
Engraving
$1,700
H 10.71 in W 9.93 in
Amiens; The Cathedral of Notre Dame, from the Lower Town
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb impression from the artist's own collection. Etching with drypoint on watermarked FJ Head & Co. handmade laid paper, 10 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches (272 x 252 mm); sheet 18 1/8 x 14 ...
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Irving Guyer, Christmas Trees on Second Street (NYC)
By Irving Guyer
Located in New York, NY
Philadelphia-born Irving Guyer attended the Art Students League and worked in New York City before moving to California. This print is signed and titled i...
Drypoint, Etching
Edward Bawden, Modern British art, Kew Gardens
By Edward Bawden
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderful image by one of the great modern masters of English art, depicting a whimsical pastiche of Kew Gardens. Edward Bawden (1903-1989) Kew Gardens Signed, titled and numbered 36/40 Engraving 17 x 10.5 cm Edward Bawden was a watercolourist, illustrator, designer, printmaker and teacher, born in Braintree, Essex, the county in which he spent much of his life, finally living in Saffron Walden. Studied at Cambridge School of Art from 1919, then at Royal College of Art, 1922-5, on a scholarship, in the design school being taught by Paul Nash. Soon began on commercial work for Poole Pottery and Curwen Press, then in 1928-9 with Eric Ravilious and Charles Mahoney did decorations for Morley College. Bawden went on studying engraving and bookbinding at Central School Arts and Crafts after leaving the Royal College and himself taught there, the Royal Academy Schools and Goldsmiths' College School of Art. First one-man show at Zwemmer Gallery in 1934, after which he showed extensively including RA, being elected RA in 1956. Work poured from Bawden's studio in the 1930s, for companies such as Shell-Mex; book illustrations such as Good Food, 1932, and The Week-end Book, 1939; and a mass of often ephemeral work which evinced a wonderful wit, economy and aptness to subject. Official War Artist in World War II, much of his output being in the Imperial War Museum. Tate Gallery and many other public collections hold his work. Bawden did decorations for the SS Orcades and Oronsay and for the Unicorn Pavilion for the Festival of Britain of 1951. His son was the artist Richard Bawden...
Paper, Engraving
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H 25.2 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
The Colosseum - Etching - Early 20th Century
By Albert Decaris
Located in Roma, IT
The Colosseum is an Original etching realized in the Early 20th Century by Albert Decaris. Good condition except for consumed margins and some foxings. Hand-signed but illigible. ...
Etching
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H 20.08 in W 25.2 in D 0.04 in
Landscape - Etching - Early 20th Century
By Albert Decaris
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a etching realized in the Early 20th Century by Albert Decaris. Good conditions except for some fixings and a cut on the lower margin that doesn't affect the artwork. ...
Etching
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H 25.4 in W 22.64 in D 1.19 in
Venus and her Maid Engraving Copper Plaque by Albert Decaris
By Albert Decaris
Located in Atlanta, GA
Exceptionally rare, an authentic copper plaque for etchings designed by Albert Decaris (1901 - 1988). This very finely carved plaque features Venus and her maid. The details of the b...
Copper
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H 11.23 in W 8.86 in D 0.04 in
La Vendange - Original Etching by Albert Decaris - Late 1900
By Albert Decaris
Located in Roma, IT
La vendange is a fine black and white burin on cream-colored paper realized by Albert Decaris (1901-1988). This original print, representing a very dynami...
Etching
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H 9.85 in W 9.73 in D 0.04 in
Le Paradis - Original Etching by Albert Decaris - Mid 20th century
By Albert Decaris
Located in Roma, IT
Le Paradis is a fine black and white burin, realized by Albert Decaris. This beautiful original print, representing the myth of Adam and Eve, is in very good condition, except for so...
Etching
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H 25.99 in W 19.69 in
November : Halloween Time - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
By Albert Decaris
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS November : Halloween time Original etching Signed in pencil Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100 Titled Janvier (January) On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in) Excellent ...
Etching