Bruno Munari Animal Prints

Original vintage poster: WONDERFUL COPENHAGEN created by the artist Viggo Vagnby. This antique poster is archival linen-backed, in excellent condition, and ready to frame. No da...

Antique Rooster Portrait Prosper Alphonse Isaac (France, 1858-1924) Woodblock Print circa 1910 9 x 7 1/8 (15 1/4 x 17 frame) inches The excellent book "The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints" which was an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1974, recounts the phenomenal "cult of Japan" in late nineteenth-century France and reveals through direct comparisons its particular impact on the graphic work of Manet, Degas, Cassatt, Bonnard, Vuillard, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin. This print directly relates to the discovery of Japanese art most notably through the woodblock prints which found their way to the West oftentimes as stuffing or packing materials from consumer goods that were being imported to the West at the end of the 19th century. Prosper-Alphonse Isaac was born in a well-to-do family. This gave him the means not only of leaving his native Calais to pursue a career as an artist in Paris, but also the means to acquire art. Isaac was particularly drawn to Japanese arts, which he collected avidly. Many of the objects he bought were eventually given to museums. As a printmaker Isaac started drawing seascapes in dry point, but eventually moved on to become one of only a handful of artists versed in color woodcut techniques in France. His compositions, generally small in scale, are heavily influenced by the arts of Japan. He printed small editions of these works. Aside from this artistic activity, Isaac was also an active textile decorator. "This mark, which he borrows from Hokusaï and Totoya Hokkeï...

Colorful Lithograph of Horse Race – Jockey on Norse No. 6 by Serge Medjisky, original poster: Linen-backed printer's proof without text of the horse race. In the lower right are the ...

Antique Dog Portrait Lithograph in the Taste of Alfred De Dreux Saint Bernard France, circa 1870 Lithography 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 (28 x 20 frame) inches Six lithographs of dog portrait...

Le Lion Qui Marche Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1796-1875) Circa 1880 Etching on laid paper after the original bronze by master etcher Abel Lurat (F...

"Walking Tiger" Antoine Louis-Barye Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot Circa. 1870 11 1/3 x 7 3/4 (21 3/8 x 17 1/2 frame) inches This is "Walking Tig...

Antique Dog Portrait Lithograph in the Taste of Alfred De Dreux Greyhounds D France, circa 1870 Lithography 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 (28 x 20 frame) inc...

Antique Dog Portrait Lithograph in the Taste of Alfred De Dreux Wolfhound E France, circa 1870 Lithography 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 (28 x 20 frame) inches Six lithographs of dog portraits....

Leonor Fini Pioneer, 1975 Colored etching on Arches paper 11 × 15 in 28 × 38 cm Limited edition of 185

Original The Owl And The Pussycat, by Edward Lear with all text in Greek. Linen backed and in very good condition. One tiny printing flaw under the foot of the cat. Translation:...

To Amir Hossein Akhavan, “nature” is not an abstraction. “Nature is not the forest and the trees as we so often define it, but all is nature.” Nor is painting an abstraction. The sub...

"Walking Lion" Antoine Louis-Barye (France, 1775-1895) Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot Circa. 1870 11 1/3 x 7 3/4 (21 3/8 x 17 1/2 frame) inches This is "Walking Lion," along with "Walking Tiger...