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An original signed lithograph on cream HMP Koller handmade paper by English artist David Hockney (1937-) titled "Ann Combing Her Hair", 1979. Hand pencil signed, dated, and numbered by Hockney lower right. Limited edition: 41/75. (There were also 15 artist's proofs). Printed in two colors from two aluminum plates: black and transparent black from crayon and tusche. Printed by Charles Ritt and Anthony Zepeda of Gemini G.E.L. and published by Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles, CA. Collaboration and supervision: Serge Lozingot. Processing and proofing: Serge Lozingot and Anthony Zepeda. Gemini G.E.L. chop mark/blind stamp lower right. Gemini G.E.L. ink stamp and pencil inscribed work number "DH79-885" on verso lower left. Reference: "David Hockney Prints 1954-1995" - MOCA Tokyo: No. 215, page 128; Gemini No. 830; "Gemini G.E.L. Art and Collaboration" - Fine: No. 61a, page 152; "That's the Way I See It" - Hockney No. 43, page 48. Provenance: private collection - St. Louis, MO. Sheet size: 23.5" x 31.5". A crease upper left corner, a few faint foxmarks, remnants of old mounting tape on verso from previous framing. In otherwise very good condition with strong color. Rare. Ann Upton (1941-2017) met David Hockney in 1960 and became his model in 1962. Ann's eventual husband David Graves met Hockney at the opening night of 'The Rake's Progress' at the Glyndebourne Opera, 1975, which Hockney designed. A practicing sculptor, David was working at the time as a paper restorer at Petersburg Press, with a studio opposite Hockney's in London. By the late 1970s he was working as Hockney's assistant, helping with stage sets and later with the preparation and editioning of Hockney's composite photographs. He began to appear in Hockney's drawings from 1982 or 1983. David and Ann met through Hockney as mutual friends and later while on holiday in Hawaii in May of 1983, decided to get married, Hockney being their wedding photographer. The couple and Hockney would continue to be lifelong friends and colleagues until Ann and David's death in 2017 and 2019. Known for his photo collages and paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools, David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, David Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. There, he painted his famous swimming pool paintings...

An original offset-lithograph, exhibition poster on smooth wove paper after English artist David Hockney (1937-) titled "Contemporary British Drawings (Tel Aviv Museum) (Celia)", 1980. Edition size unknown. Printed by L. Malis. Photolitho Reprocolor LTD. and published by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art both in Tel Aviv, Israel. Poster produced for a special exhibition of Hockney's work "Contemporary British Drawings" at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art during the Summer of 1980. The image featured on this poster is Hockney's 1973 drawing "Celia in a Black Dress and Lace Collar". Reference: "Hockney Posters" (1987) - Baggot No. 45; "David Hockney: Poster Art" (1995) - Baggot No. 59. Sheet size: 27.25" x 20". Some light handling creases. In excellent condition. Celia Birtwell, CBE, who was a close friend of David Hockney, is a British textile designer and fashion designer, known for her distinctive bold, romantic and feminine designs, which are influenced by Picasso and Matisse, and the classical world. She was well known for her prints which epitomised the 1960's-1970's. GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer: Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters. Known for his photo collages and paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools, David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, David Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. There, he painted his famous swimming pool paintings...

An original signed etching on cream laid paper by English artist Eileen Alice Soper (1905-1990) titled "Blowing Bubbles", 1924. Hand pencil signed by Soper lower right. Limited edition: 240, (fourth state of four). Likely printed by Eva Soper and published by H C Dickens, London, UK. Reference: "The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Etchings of George and Eileen Soper" - Beetles No. 67, page 117, 141, 157. Provenance: private collection - Boulder, CO. Recently framed in a Louis XV style frame with matting from Holland and Museum glass. Framed size: 13.25" x 15.13". Sheet size: 7.25" x 9.63". Image size: 4.5" x 7". In very good condition. Eileen Soper was born in 1905 in the Municipal Borough of Enfield and moved to the house where she was to spend the rest of her life in Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside in 1908. The house she later named "Wildings" was built by her father, the artist George Soper...

Sheet from “Rapunzel” story (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Text printed letterpress and “Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your Hair” etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP" Etching 10.5 × 9.85 in. / 26.7 × 25 cm Paper 17.5 x 12.25 in. / 45 x 31 cm Unsigned: apart from the published edition of 400 books and 100 portfolios. This is one of eleven images recently found in our archive which we have decided to make available. There is one only of each image. Perhaps the most famous story from the Grimm Brothers, Rapunzel spins the tale of a beautiful young princess locked away by an evil sorceress. Captured in this scene is the moment a King's son came across the tower and fell in love with her sweet singing, beseeching her: 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair to me.' Though the sorcerer banishes Rapunzel and maims the prince, they are of course ultimately reunited to live happily together. Hockney illustrates this scene with incredible texture detail: layers of aquatint defining the soft forest floor, delicate hatching on the horse's haunch, the tower's tight crosshatching, and of course the lyrical gesture of Rapunzel's hair which cascades from the upper right corner. This print from our publisher's archives is one of thirty-nine etchings from David Hockney’s 1969 "Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm". Hockney worked on this series with Paul Cornwall-Jones at Petersburg Press over the course of a year. 400 books and 100 portfolios plus artist’s proofs were printed. The artist illustrated six stories: 'The Little Sea Hare', 'Fundevogel', 'Rapunzel', 'The Boy who left Home to learn Fear', 'Old Rinkrank' and 'Rumpelstilzchen'. According to Hockney, "They're fascinating, the little stories, told in a very, very simple, direct, straightforward language and style, it was this simplicity that attracted me. They cover quite a strange range of experience, from the magical to the moral." He was inspired by earlier illustrators of the tales, including Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, but Hockney reimagined the stories for a modern audience. The frontispiece for the project pictures Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, the elderly German woman who recounted fairy tales to the Grimm brothers when they were in their late twenties. In Hockney's words: “The stories weren’t written by the Brothers Grimm…they came across this woman called Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, who told 20 stories to them in this simple language, and they were so moved by them that they wrote them down word for word as she spoke.” Hockney drew the German woman in the style of Dürer, formally posed yet naturalistic against an impeccably crosshatched swath of grey. Hockney wrote about the surreal plots contained in the Brothers Grimm tales: “…the stories really are quite mad, when you think of it, and quite strange. In modern times, it’s like the story of a couple moving into a house, and in the next door’s garden they see this lettuce growing: and the wife develops this craving for the lettuce that she just must have and climbs over to pinch it, and the old woman who lives in the house next door says well, you can have the lettuce if you give me your child, and they agree to it. And if you put it into terms like this and imagine them in their semi-detached house agreeing to it all, it seems incredible.” Hockney enhanced this unbelievable quality with his illustrations which traverse inky, dense areas of intense crosshatching and minimalist line work. Rather than serving as direct interpretations of the plot, the images capture moments and feelings. Some portray the magic yet mundane -- Rapunzel's tiny face gazing placidly at a well-tended garden, or project danger and unease as in The Haunted Castle, with its citadel perched atop craggy rocks, dramatically lit against a dark sky. Hockney's sense of humor comes through in Cold Water About to Hit the Prince, in which a man tucked into bed stares straight at a rush of water drawn with a splash (this technique is likely Spit Bite, and the resultant bold spattered brushstroke contrasts beautifully with the rest of the carefully crosshatched image). A Wooded Landscape, with its lush textures, conveys the bucolic setting of a fairy tale and the potential danger hidden within the woods -- the viewer is left to wonder who lives on the hilltop in that diminutive cabin. These etchings defy the conventions of beautiful fairy tale illustrations...

An original signed etching on cream laid paper by English artist Eileen Alice Soper (1905-1990) titled "The Tragedy", 1922. Hand pencil signed by Soper lower right. Limited edition: 264. Likely printed by Eva Soper and published by H C Dickens, London, UK. Reference: "The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Etchings of George and Eileen Soper" - Beetles No. 31, page 111, 141, 155. Provenance: private collection - Boulder, CO. Sheet size: 9.13" x 5.5". Image size: 3.88" x 6". Remnants of previous mounting tape at right edges. In excellent condition. Eileen Soper was born in 1905 in the Municipal Borough of Enfield and moved to the house where she was to spend the rest of her life in Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside in 1908. The house she later named "Wildings" was built by her father, the artist George Soper...

Sheet from “The Little Sea Hare” story (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Text printed letterpress and “The Boy hidden in a Fish...

Perhaps the most famous story from the Grimm Brothers, Rapunzel spins the tale of a beautiful young princess locked away by an evil sorceress. Captured in this scene is the moment a King's son came across the tower and fell in love with her sweet singing, beseeching her: 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair to me.' Though the sorcerer banishes Rapunzel and maims the prince, they are of course ultimately reunited to live happily together. This print pictures Rapunzel's tower prison with her cascading hair nearly reaching the forest floor. Hockney's tight crosshatching enhances the menacing form of the tower, contrasted with the dense, soft grass and the elegant gesture of her hair. Sheet from “Rapunzel” story (from Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) Text printed letterpress and “The Tower Had One Window” etching and aquatint on W S Hodgkinson paper watermarked "DH" and "PP" Etching 13.5 x 6.25 in. / 34 x15.7 cm Paper 17.5 x 12.25 in. / 45 x 31 cm Unsigned: apart from the published edition of 400 books and 100 portfolios. This is one of eleven images recently found in our archive which we have decided to make available. There is one only of each image. This print from our publisher's archives is one of thirty-nine etchings from David Hockney’s 1969 "Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm". Hockney worked on this series with Paul Cornwall-Jones at Petersburg Press over the course of a year. 400 books and 100 portfolios plus artist’s proofs were printed. The artist illustrated six stories: 'The Little Sea Hare', 'Fundevogel', 'Rapunzel', 'The Boy who left Home to learn Fear', 'Old Rinkrank' and 'Rumpelstilzchen'. According to Hockney, "They're fascinating, the little stories, told in a very, very simple, direct, straightforward language and style, it was this simplicity that attracted me. They cover quite a strange range of experience, from the magical to the moral." He was inspired by earlier illustrators of the tales, including Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, but Hockney reimagined the stories for a modern audience. The frontispiece for the project pictures Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, the elderly German woman who recounted fairy tales to the Grimm brothers when they were in their late twenties. In Hockney's words: “The stories weren’t written by the Brothers Grimm…they came across this woman called Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, who told 20 stories to them in this simple language, and they were so moved by them that they wrote them down word for word as she spoke.” Hockney drew the German woman in the style of Dürer, formally posed yet naturalistic against an impeccably crosshatched swath of grey. Hockney wrote about the surreal plots contained in the Brothers Grimm tales: “…the stories really are quite mad, when you think of it, and quite strange. In modern times, it’s like the story of a couple moving into a house, and in the next door’s garden they see this lettuce growing: and the wife develops this craving for the lettuce that she just must have and climbs over to pinch it, and the old woman who lives in the house next door says well, you can have the lettuce if you give me your child, and they agree to it. And if you put it into terms like this and imagine them in their semi-detached house agreeing to it all, it seems incredible.” Hockney enhanced this unbelievable quality with his illustrations which traverse inky, dense areas of intense crosshatching and minimalist line work. Rather than serving as direct interpretations of the plot, the images capture moments and feelings. Some portray the magic yet mundane -- Rapunzel's tiny face gazing placidly at a well-tended garden, or project danger and unease as in The Haunted Castle, with its citadel perched atop craggy rocks, dramatically lit against a dark sky. Hockney's sense of humor comes through in Cold Water About to Hit the Prince, in which a man tucked into bed stares straight at a rush of water drawn with a splash (this technique is likely Spit Bite, and the resultant bold spattered brushstroke contrasts beautifully with the rest of the carefully crosshatched image). A Wooded Landscape, with its lush textures, conveys the bucolic setting of a fairy tale and the potential danger hidden within the woods -- the viewer is left to wonder who lives on the hilltop in that diminutive cabin. These etchings defy the conventions of beautiful fairy tale illustrations...

An original signed lithograph on unbranded heavy white wove paper by Czech artist Dagmar Mezricky (1944-) titled "Act III with Portrait", c. 1988. Hand penc...

An intimate portrait of his second son, Jean Renoir (1894 – 1979), evokes a childlike sentiment and love that Renoir had for his children. Most likely no more than age 3, Jean is shown here with a cookie, beneath a frilly bonnet characteristic of late 19th century French society. His pink, rosy cheeks are defined with rich, glowing hues that contrast from the pale yellow and grey background in which he rests. Jean was also featured in a family portrait of the Renoirs, titled La Famille de l’Artiste (1896). Created in 1899, this Color Lithograph on Cream Laid Paper is from the edition of 100, from the unpublishedL’Album d’estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard; printed by Auguste Clot, Paris. Catalogue Raisonné: It is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work): 1. Delteil, Loys. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, l’œuvre grave...

An original signed lithograph on Rives BFK paper by Polish artist Janusz De Rola titled "Un Soir a Paris", 1990. Hand pencil signed by De Rola lower right and numbered lower left. Limited edition: 31/125. Rives BFK watermark lower right. Sheet size: 30" x 22". Image size: 25.5" x 19". Mint condition. Extremely rare. Janusz de Rola (1906-1991) was born in Poland to a family of the princely nobility. His father is friends with the Emperor of Austria-Hungary the famous Franz Joseph. Having studied at Vienna (Austria), he entered the diplomatic service as vice-consul of Poland in Sicily and is pursuing a cultural and diplomatic career until 1939. A volunteer in 1939 in the Polish forces fighting alongside the French troops, the hazards of war led him to Nice. He will live there after the armistice, to meet with his wife. Then he will live in Vienna in the 1960s (Salesianer Gasse 7), then in the Var, Pignans (the field of Cressonniere from 1971) and finally in Gonfaron from 1981 until his death in 1991. He holds a "Nansen Passport", he will remain stateless after the war. Between 1940 and 1950 he was a pupil of the painter Sylvain Vigny. He joins a group where Picasso whose face he meets. Since the fifties of Janusz ROLA imposes his figurative painting, including his famous "elegant" works acquired by larger collections. In the early 1970s he met the painter Roger Boubenec who became his friend and who said of him: "He was the man of Europe. Painter, poet, musician To him I owe the visual sense the composition ". Janusz from ROLA received the title of Artist of the Year 1986 awarded by the largest German magazine in the cultural field, "Madame". In 1987 the South Art magazine wrote an article in the first issue. Salvatore Lombardo, founder of the magazine, will honor him in a small book published in 1991. official portraitist of the Saudi royal family has also produced portraits of Sophia Loren...

Photo Opportunity (Tourists, Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado; edition of 30 is a lithograph circa 1935 by Charles Wheeler Locke (1899...

Ink sketch by iconic fashion designer, Halston. Each ink sketch under plexi-glass for preservation done on legal note paper, Halston's preferred medium for his initial ideas. UNFRA...