Germaine Richier was born on September 16, 1902, in Grans, France. She was an avant-garde sculptor and printmaker of provocative biomorphic figures. Richier studied art in Montpellier, went to Paris in 1926 and learned to work with bronze. Her talent was recognized with a solo exhibition in 1934 at the Galerie Max Kaganovitch, the Blumenthal Prize for Sculpture in 1936 and an exhibition her work at the Paris World’s Fair in 1937. By the 1940s, her figures had become allegorical and sometimes hybridized expressions of humanity and nature. A fascination with insect forms and night creatures is exemplified by her Praying Mantis in 1946. Richier worked also in ceramics, mosaic and printmaking and illustrated Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations in 1951 aof nd Contre terre in 1958, a volume of poems by her husband, René de Solier. Richier’s contribution to the art world was cut short by her early death from cancer in 1959. However, her oeuvre was resurrected in 2014 in an exhibition of nearly 50 of her works at the Dominique Lévy Gallery and Galerie Perrotin in New York City as well as in a retrospective exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland.
Germaine Richier, Don Quichotte
By Germaine Richier
Located in Saint-Didier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Description : rare signed and numbered print by the famous artist Germaine Richier, inscreasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women, and generally described as...
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Germaine Richier French Artist Original Etching, Figure with Owl
By Germaine Richier
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Germaine Richier (1902-1959) etching Richier was a French artist noted for making animal and insect figures with human attributes. Etching, figure and owl, circa 1950. Unframed, matt...
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$675
H 20.75 in W 16.75 in D 0.5 in
"The Little One" - Rare Signed Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Little One" - Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper Bold lithograph by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). A young child is kneeling, facing away ...
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
$12,000
H 18 in W 19 in
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Girlfriends II" collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Palm Beach, FL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #1, Die Freundinnen II; multi-color collotype after 1916/17 painting in oil on canvas which was destroyed by fire in May 1945 at Immendorf Castle Lower Austria. Eisler’s choice to begin his 1931 portfolio of works by Klimt with Girlfriends II was both bold and prescient. Just 14 years later, the painting was tragically destroyed in a fire. With such a loss, this rare and exquisite image is all the more valuable by virtue of having been made in color. In works from his late period, Klimt continued his fascination with exploring female dynamics and their various forms of love. Girlfriends II is a fine example of how space, color and ornament play a noticeable role in the evolution of his symbolic language. Wide swaths of space in the background as well as the two female forms create the structure. Klimt’s strong brushstrokes show a painterly quality and a new move toward abstraction which feels very far away from his earlier work. Nor should Klimt’s economy of line be overlooked. His draughtsmanship is what infuses the female bodies with movement, emotion and a profundity of life. Both women confront the viewer’s gaze unselfconsciously, as if they are modern-day Viennese women stepping out of a Klimtesque ukiyo-e print. Characteristic of this late period, Klimt uses ornament...
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Kapitipede Vert
By Yvon Taillandier
Located in Saint-Didier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Magnificent work by Yvon Taillandier his emblematic character whom he calls " Capitipee " (" Kapi" for the head and " footstool " for foot) silkscreened on a page of an antiphonary d...
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Kapitipède rouge
By Yvon Taillandier
Located in Saint-Didier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Magnificent work by Yvon Taillandier his emblematic character whom he calls " Capitipee " (" Kapi" for the head and " footstool " for foot) silkscreened on a page of an antiphonary d...
Paper, Screen
$236
H 1.97 in W 2.56 in D 0.08 in
The Monkey - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Rat is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published i...
Paper, Lithograph
Etching by Germaine Richier
By Germaine Richier
Located in New York, NY
Original etching and aquatint by Germaine Richier. Numbered 143/220 and signed in pencil "G. Richier", France, circa 1950.
Etching, Paper