Aristide Maillol Figurative Prints

Original Vintage Airline Poster by Harold Foster. He created several designs commissioned by the British Overseas Airways Corporation ...

Limited Edition Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, 30 et quelques attitudes... Lithographies originales...

Original Edition Lithograph on wood veneer. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, 24 Drawings by Henry Strater, 1958. Pub...

Figures Composition. 1984. Etching and drypoint. 6 1/2 x 5. Three states, two artist's proofs. Each printed on cream wove paper. Each titled, dated, and signed 'Shortis N[ew] Y[ork]'...

Limited Edition Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, 30 et quelques attitudes... Lithographies originales...

Limited Edition Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, 30 et quelques attitudes... Lithographies originales...

Wonderful example of iconic Pin Up girls of early 20th Century titled "The Enchantress" by famed Pin Up artist Rolf Armstrong (American, 1889-1960) Circa 1...

A poster belonging to Erik Nitsche's third series for General Dynamics, promoting its Convair Company. Founded 1952, General Dynamics hired Nitsche a...

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...

This portrait depicts Rivera's second wife, the artist Frida Kahlo (1907-54), sitting on a bed wearing stockings and shoes and fastening rows of beads around her neck. An accident wh...

Derriere le Miroir-Double Page (Behind the Looking Glass Double Page) Original color llithogragp created by the artist for this ublication, 1964 Unsigned as issued From: Derriere le ...

Limited Edition Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, 30 et quelques attitudes... Lithographies originales...