David Jones, CH, CBE Prints and Multiples

Artist: Erhard Ratdolt (German, 1442-1528) Title: "Preface Page" and "Page CVI - 106" Portfolio: Missale Frisingense Year: 1492 (First edition) Medium: Set of Two Original Incunabula Leaves on watermarked laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Erhard Ratdolt, Ausburg, Germany Publisher: Sixtus of Tannberg, Freising, Germany Sheet size (each): approx. 11.94" x 8.13" Reference: Hain No. 11303; Weale/Bohatta No. 396; Schreiber No. 4699; Pell No. 7944 Condition: "Preface Page" has the occasional wormhole. Remnants of tape, a tape and a paper clip stain along its edge. Minor foxing and soiling mainly in margins. "Page CVI - 106" has remnants of tape and a small stain along its left edge. Light foxing and soiling about its sheet with some general edge wear. Have been professionally stored away for decades. They are both otherwise strong impressions in good condition with strong colors Very rare Notes: Comes from Ratdolt's one volume "Missale Frisingense", (1492) (First edition), which consists of 576 pages of Gothic texts in Latin with red rubricated initials, music, and woodcut illustrations. Printed in Augsburg by Erhard Ratdolt on March 17, 1492. "Preface Page" has a bull's head and cross watermark in the upper center of its sheet. Some information and old prices inscribed in pencil to their sheets. A missal is a book that contains the prayers, chants, biblical readings, and rubrics for celebrating Mass. The first missals were found in monasteries in the 12th and 13th centuries. The term missale is Latin for "Mass book". Biography: Erhard Ratdolt (1442–1528) was an early German printer from Augsburg. He was active as a printer in Venice from 1476 to 1486, and afterwards in Augsburg. From 1475 to 1478 he was in partnership with two other German printers. The first book the partnership produced was the Calendarium (1476), written and previously published by Regiomontanus, which offered one of the earliest examples of a modern title page. Other noteworthy publications are the "Historia Romana of Appianus" (1477), and the first edition of "Euclid's Elements" (1482), where he solved the problem of printing geometric diagrams, the "Poeticon astronomicon", also from 1482, "Haly Abenragel" (1485), and "Alchabitius" (1503). Ratdolt is also famous for having produced the first known printer's type specimen...

Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. In this bright yellow, red, ...

Tim Engelland (American, 1950-2012) Last Call, 1993 Woodcut 9 x 12 in. Signed dated lower right: 1993 T. Engelland Titled and numbered bottom: Last Call, 40/125 A lifelong artist, Engelland specialized in oil portraits and landscapes, and also worked extensively in woodcuts and linocuts. He was born on Jan. 5, 1950, in Ames, Iowa, the son of Charles Wilbur “Will” Engelland and Patricia Fairman Engelland.. Tim grew up in Terre Haute, IN, attending Fairbanks Elementary School and Indiana State University’s Laboratory School. He knew he wanted to be an artist from an early age, and was mentored by Lab School’s John Laska, graduating in 1968. He received a BFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art; was a Norfolk Fellow at Yale University; and received his MFA from Cornell University, teaching there for two years after graduation. He spent the majority of his career, from 1976-2004, at Deerfield...

Ex Libris Dr. Soos Istvan is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the half of the 20th Century. Original B/W woodcut on ivory-colored paper. The work is glued on cardboa...

Ex Libris Attila is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total...

Raoul Ubac - Rythm - Original Woodcut Title: Rythm Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Revue Art de France The painter-sculptor Raoul Ubac was born in 1910 in Malmédy (Ardennes, Belgium). He wen...

Ex Libris Olga Konipe is an original Modern Artwork realized in the 20th Century. Original Ex Libris. Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. The work is glued on car...

Arabian Women is an original woodcut on yellowish paper realized by Moses Levy. Signed and titled in Italian" Donne Arabe". The State of preservation is very good. Included a Passepartout: The artwork represents three Arabian women, through confident and strong strokes in intense black, The artwork is made by the Expressionistic style of creation, the contrast between black and white are well defined. Moses Levy (Italian, 1885–1968) In 1900 he enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts in Lucca and found Lorenzo Viani as a fellow student. Levy and Viani also attend courses at the Nude School of the Academy of Fine Arts held by the painter Giovanni Fattori together in Florence. During this period, Levy became passionate about graphics and came into contact with Renato Natali...

Stage is an original woodcut print realized by Moses Levi in 1914. The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Passepartout dimension: 52.5 x 37 cm.

The Liars - Hell Plate 22 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Good conditions. Limited editi...

Tim Engelland (American, 1950-2012) Yes Sir, 1994 Woodcut 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. Titled, dated, and numbered bottom: Yes Sir... 60/100, 1994 Signed top: T. ...

Tim Engelland (American, 1950-2012) Untitled, c. 1990 Woodcut 11 x 8 1/2 in. Signed and numbered bottom right: T. Engelland, 161/250 A lifelong artist,...