Alfredo Brasioli Art

Leonor Fini - Untitled - Original Handsigned Etching Circa 1982 On colored paper Handsigned and Numbered Edition: 275 Dimensions: 69 x 52.5 cm Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery. Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau. A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...

André Derain - Ovid's Heroides Original Etching Edition of 134 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...

Engraving on copper. Physick catalog 368 state ii. 4 3/8 x 4 1/4 (sheet 13 1/16 x 9 7/8). Second state of the engraving, as indicated by the ballet skirts...

This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of ecstasy and repose. The loose sketches were drawn directly onto the plate by the artist, a master draftsman whose erotic etchings are largely unknown. The composition is based on the drawing: Clinical Study, Towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comic Style...

Etching monogrammed in the plate. Illustration for a Robert Ganzo's poem "Lespugue" Editions Marcel Sautier, Paris, 1966. Conditions: Good Conditions Dimensions: 25,5 x 16,5 cm. Vellum paper Référence Czwiklitzer n°55. 1890 Zadkine was born on the 14th of July in Vitebsk, a city in Belarussia, on the Dvina. His father Ephime teaches classical languages at the local seminar. His mother Sophie Lester descended from Scots, who emigrated at the time of Peter the Great. 1905 His parents send him to Sunderland, in the North of England, where his mother’s family lives. He studies English and attends modelling courses at the local Art School. 1905-1909 He travels to London without his parents permission where he attends courses at the Regent Street Polytechnicum. In order to earn his living, he plans to work with a stonecutter. He visits the British Museum and studies classical sculpture there. Returns to Smolensk where he produces his first sculpture. Goes back to London. 1909-1910 Zadkine settles in Paris and studies in the ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Finds a workshop in a building called La Ruche, in the XVe arrondissement. 1911 Zadkine presents statues and drawings at the annual Salon d’Automne and at the Salon des Indépendants. It is the ‘cubists’ who draw his attention in Paris. Is essentially close to Russian students who get together in a cafe of the ‘Quartier Latin’. Has himself called Joe Zadkine until 1914. 1912-1913 Finds a room in the neighbourhood of Montparnasse, in the rue de Vaugirard. Studies Roman sculpture. Zadkine is immortalized by his neighbour, photographer Marc Vaux, in his new workshop. Meets Brancusi, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jacques Lipchitz, Pablo Picasso, Antoine Bourdelle, Leopold Survage and Robert Delaunay. Henri Matisse visits Zadkine’s workshop. 1914-1915 Exhibition at the Freie Sezession in Berlin, at De Onafhankelijken in Amsterdam (Holland) and at the Allied Artists Association in London. Thanks to collector Paul Rodocanachi, he can settle in a workshop in the rue Rousselet. Becomes friends with Modigliani. 1916-1917 Works as a stretcher-bearer on the front. Produces drawings and watercolours dealing with war. Zadkine is discharged in 1917. He says he is ‘bodily and spiritually’ ruined by the war. After his stay in the Epernay hospital he recovers in Bruniquel, in the southwest of France. 1918-1919 Makes a series of 20 war etchings...

This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of joy and come-hither coquettishness. T...

Dufza - Paris Notre Dame - Original Handsigned Etching Circa 1940 Handsigned in pencil Dimensions: 20 x 25 cm Unumbered as issued

André Derain - Ovid's Heroides Original Etching Edition of 134 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...

This Artwork Titlled "Last Year at Marraketch" 1972 is an original color etching and aquatint on B.F.K Rives paper by noted American artist Clinton Blair King, 1901-1979 It is hand signed, dated, titled, dedicated and numbered 3/40 in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 15.25 x 19.5 inches, sheet size is 21.75 x 29.65 . It is in very good condition. The work of Clinton Blair King is held in many corporate, private collections and museums, among them: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of New Mexico, Smithsonian Museum of Art, Washington and National Gallery of Art, Washington. About the artist: EDUCATION 2005 MFA Sculpture: School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2000 BFA Painting: Columbus College of Art and Design SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 SPECTRAL EVIDENCE, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York City, NY 2015 OPEN ENDED, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY. 2008 APATHY, Shiraya Art Space, Tokyo Japan​ 2001 FOR THE TIME BEING, Ohio Art League, Columbus, OH GROUP ExHIBITIONS 2017 YELLOW CHAIR, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY DECONSTRUCTED Terrault Gallery, Baltimore MD TRANSCENDENCE OF US, Trans-cen-der space, Brooklyn NY 2016 THIS STRANGE GAME, Landmark Arts Building, Chelsea, NY STONE SOUP NASTY, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, New York, NY COLD SUMMER, Curated by Peter Shear, The Provincial, Chief, Michigan "TIKI" Helper Gallery, NADA art fair, Miami FL 2014 BRUTE MODERATES, with Peter Shear, Firework Gallery, Brooklyn, NY BROOKLYN BRIDGE, Curated by Justine Frischmann. George Lawson Gallery. SF, CA SUDDENLY THERE, Garis and Hahn, Bowery NYC DO IT YOURSELF, Curated by Julie Torres / Julia Schwartz B.O.S. Brooklyn NY LOOK & LISTEN, Curated by Yifat Gat. Espace Art / Galerie & Ateliers. Marseille France SORRY I"M LATE, Brooklyn Fireproof. Brooklyn NY. 2013 WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU, Parallel Art space, Brooklyn, NY DONUT MUFFIN Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NYC 2012 ART BLOG "LOVE", One River Gallery, Englewood NJ BUSHWICK BASEL, Jules de Balincourt Studio, Brooklyn NY. ALTER MINIMAL, Lexicon Series Vol. 1, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY HIATUS, Urban Institute For Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2011 I CAN"T GO ON I MUST GO ON, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL. VIS -A -VIS, Backyard Projects- New York, NY NEITHER A BEGINNING OR END, Possible Projects, Philadelphia, PA 2010 A VAUGE WHOLE, Spaces, with Benjamin Bellas and Steffani Jemison Cleveland, OH 2009 i.e. ARTIST COLLECTIVE, University of Green Bay, WI i.e. ARTIST COLLECTIVE, Boots Contemporary, St. Louis, MO 2008 FLAT BLACK , Zaim Space, Yokohama, Japan. i.e.llusions, Alogon Gallery, Chicago, IL 2007 i.e. BETWEEN, Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL SPLIT ENDS, with Julie Curtiss...

These erotic etchings depict mythological and fantasy creatures as striking nudes. A host of sensuous and shocking figures include a mermaid, Medusa, and women in both jubilant and p...

André Derain - Ovid's Heroides Original Etching Edition of 134 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938 Andre Derain was born in 1...

Weyman Michael Lew is a painter and printmaker, born in San Francisco, California in 1935. Without over-mat, silver tone aluminum frame and plexi-glass. Imaqe, 22"H x 27"L. He studied at the University of California, and the San Francisco Art Institute from 1965 to 1966 with Artist Mary Joan Jay DeFeo. His works are in the collection of De Young Memorial Museum; the Institution of Arte Contemporary in Lima, Peru; the Western American Artists...