$1,500Sale Price|40% Off
A Fierce Bull
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
A Fierce Bull. 1911. Drypoint. Hardie 108. 5 3/8 x 8 (sheet 8 5/16 x 11 7/8). Edition 8. An exceptional impression with rich drypoint burr printed on antique laid paper. A proof of t...
Drypoint, Etching
$1,400Sale Price|20% Off
Thunderstorm Over Boston
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
Thunderstorm over Boston. July 14, 1930. Ink and watercolor on paper. 10 5/8 x 17 5/8 (sheet 12 x 19 1/4). Signed and dated and titled in ink, lower right; titled verso and annotated...
India Ink, Watercolor
$1,250Sale Price|24% Off
Distant Salute (Venice)
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
1925. Etching. Hardie/Carter 250. 7 x 15 (sheet 11 3/8 x 18 1/8). Edition 80, #28. Signed and numbered in ink. A fine impression with plate tone, printed on antique cream-colored wo...
Etching
$9,000Sale Price|33% Off
Barcarolle.
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
Barcarolle. 1926. Etching. Carter 233. 14 7/8 x 8 3/8 (sheet 17 1/4 x 10 1/4). Edition 80, #xxv. Print Collector's Quarterly 24 (1938): 428; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth...
Drypoint, Etching
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$1,250Sale Price|37% Off
A Regatta on the Grand Canal [Venice]
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
A Regatta on the Grand Canal. 1930. Drypoint. Hardie/Carter 248. 8 7/8 x 15 3/8 sSheet 13 3/16 x 19 3/8). Edition 80, #5. A fine impression on cream-colored wove paper with full margins. Signed and numbered in ink. Housed in an 18 x20-inch archival mat. Carter writes, "A procession of boats, gaily decorated, is entering the Grand Canal, with the Campanile and the Doges' Palace in the background. On the left is the baroque poop of a boat with a flamboyant, carved female figure; on the right, another boat with a prow of two prancing horses." Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr Lawson...
Etching
$1,200Sale Price|27% Off
The Picador Incites the Bull.
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
The Picador Incites the Bull. 1911. Drypoint. Hardie 104. 6 1/4 x 9 7/8 (sheet 8 1/4 x 11 7/8). Edition 30, #5. Slight mat line, 1 hinge stain in the lower margin, well outside the i...
Drypoint
$1,250Sale Price|37% Off
A Gale at Port Errol
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
A Gale at Port Errol. 1923. Etching. Hardie 215, #46. 13 x 8 3/4 (sheet 16 7 /8 x 11 1/2). Edition 76. #46. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1923. A rich...
Drypoint, Etching
Lion Brewery
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
Lion Brewery. 1914. Etching. Hardie 149. 11 1/2 x 8 1/8 (sheet 13 5/8 x 10 1/8). Edition 50, #7. Illustrated: Salaman, Modern Masters of Etching. A fine impression of this scarce pri...
Etching
$5,000Sale Price|33% Off
Rio della Misericordia, Venice.
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
Rio della Misericordia. October 1924. Watercolor. 14 x 8 3/4. McBey did a striking nocturnal view of the bridge in his 1926 drypoint, The Bridge by Night Carter 232. Signed and dated, lower right; titled verso. Housed in a French mat and a 22 x 16 1/2-inch gold leaf frame. The Rio Della Misericordia ( from the Venetian to the Misericordia Canal ) is a canal from Venice in the sestiere of Cannaregio, Contrada San Marzillan in Italy. The river runs along the old Servite convent. The canal is crossed by two bridges, from east to west: the San Marziale spawning linking the campo of the same name with the Fondamenta de la Misericordia and the dei dei Servi or Betania linking the Mensa di Betania to the Fondamenta de la Misericordia . Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr...
India Ink, Watercolor
$1,925Sale Price|44% Off
Gravesend
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
Gravesend. August 1928. Ink and watercolor on paper. 13 1/2 x 21. Signed and dated in ink, lower left; and titled in ink, verso. Housed in a 24 1/2 x 31-inch Whistler-style gold frame. Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, on the south bank of the Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex, about 15 miles southeast of London. Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr Lawson...
Ink, Watercolor
$1,800Sale Price|20% Off
The Deserted Palace.
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
The Deserted Palace. 1928. Etching. Hardie/Carter 236. 8 1/2 x 10 (sheet 10 1/2 x 12 3/8). Edition 80, #53. A rich impression printed in bistre ink with pl...
Etching
France at her Furnaces
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
1917. Etching. Hardie 175. 8 x 15 (sheet 10 1/8 x 16 15/16). Edition 76. Slight mat line; otherwise excellent condition. A rich impression printed on antique laid paper with full m...
Drypoint, Etching
$1,750Sale Price|30% Off
A Mirage
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
A Mirage. 1928. Etching. Hardie 238. 11 13/16 x 14 3/8 (sheet 12 3/16 x 18 3/4). Edition 76, #46. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1928 and 1938; Holmes, Etchings of Today. A ri...
Drypoint, Etching
$2,000Sale Price|20% Off
The Passing Gondola
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
The Passing Gondola. c. 1926. Etching. Edition 80, #18. Hardie/Carter 230. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 (sheet 11 1/4 x 13). Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1927. Printed on antique wove pap...
Drypoint, Etching
$1,200Sale Price|27% Off
The Matador.
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
The Matador. 1911. Drypoint. Hardie 109. 6 7/8 x 10 7/8 (sheet 7 7/8 x 12). Edition 15. A few scattered foxing marks and slight mat line; otherwise fine o...
Drypoint, Etching
The Doorway.
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
Hardie/Carter 244. 8 1/16 x 6 3/8 (sheet 10 1/4 x 8 1/4). Edition 80, #52. Illustrated: Guichard, British Etchers, 1850-1940; ; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth ...
Drypoint, Etching
Tugs on the Hudson
By Charles Frederick William Mielatz
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching with engraving printed in black ink on Japanese mulberry paper, 4 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (113 x 84 mm), full margins. In superb condition. A beautiful New York City river...
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Italian Boat at Sunrise
By Sidney Mackenzie Litten
Located in Middletown, NY
A nostalgic image of a bucolic farmyard and thatched cottage, hearkening to a bygone era. Etching with drypoint on laid watercolor paper, 9 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches, (251 x 229 mm), full...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
$192
H 11.82 in W 18.51 in D 0.04 in
Landscape - Original Etching by Léopold Lévy - XX Century
By Leopold Levy
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original artwork realized by the French artist Léopold Lévy (1882-1966) in the first half of the XX century. Etching and drypoint on paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner; signed on plate on the lower left margin. Very good conditions, except for some small spots on the surface of the sheet. Very beautiful artwork representing a natural landscape with some human figures. The composition is characterized by great softness; the strokes are refined and very rapid and smart. The whole composition is very well-balanced and is characterized by a soft chiaroscuro. Léopold Lévy (Paris, 1882 - Paris, 1966) a French painter and engraver. The edition of De la nature (De Rerum Natura) illustrated with 41 original etchings is considered one of the most beautiful artist books of the XX Century. He was one of the friends of Charles Edmond Kayser...
Etching
Vachère au Bord de l'Eau
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO (French 1830-1903) VACHERE au BORD de l’EAU 1890 (Delteil 93 viii/viii) Etching, unsigned as published in “Gazette des Beaux Arts”, Paris, 1890. On laid paper Very...
Drypoint, Etching
$4,050
H 27.25 in W 31.25 in
20th century drypoint etching figurative animal print horses sketch signed
By Claude Weisbuch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Combat Equestre" is an original lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. The artist signed the piece lower right and wrote the edition number (24/100) in the lower left. This piece depicts mu...
Drypoint, Etching
$15,000
H 16.85 in W 12.25 in
Children Snow Sledding in Central Park - New Yorker Cover Study
Located in Miami, FL
Hungarian/American artist/illustrator depicts a charming scene of sledding in the snow in Central Park. The work is abstract in its design as it's functional in its narrative - Unpublished New Yorker...
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
$3,850
H 20 in W 16 in D 0.5 in
"Que pico de Oro" (What a Golden Beak) - Etching and Aquatint on Paper
By Francisco Goya
Located in Soquel, CA
"Que pico de Oro" (What a Golden Beak) - Etching and Aquatint on Paper 5th or 8th edition print of "Que pico de Oro" from the Los Caprichos with burnished aquatints, drypoints etchi...
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Laid Paper
$1,000
H 18.51 in W 24.41 in D 0.79 in
Mid-Century Modern Paris: A View of the Seine
Located in Norwich, GB
Experience the romance and abstraction of 1950s Paris through this striking original mixed media drawing by the acclaimed American Modernist, Frederick E. Conway (1900–1973). This c...
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Billingsgate
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching printed in dark brownish black ink on cream laid paper, 6 x 8 7/8 inches (152 x 226 mm); full margins. Extremely minor and unobtrusive band of toning along the top sheet edg...
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
$640Sale Price|20% Off
H 12.5 in W 9.5 in D 0.5 in
"End of Day" Original Limited Edition Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
"End of Day" Original Limited Edition Etching by John McGrath (Irish/American b.1884 d.1942). This etching depicts a man with a tool slung over his shoulder walking along a path th...
Paper, Ink, Drypoint, Etching
New York Skyline
By Louis H. Ruyl
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper with deckle edges, 4 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches (233 x 323 mm); sheet 9 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches (240 x 338 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/75 ...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Cortland Street
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on antique handmade laid Japon paper, 12 7/8 x 7 1/2 (327 x 191 mm); sheet 15 5/16 x 10 7/16 (389 x 265 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil in the lower margin....
Drypoint, Etching
Margot as Lopokova.
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
Margot as Lopokova. 1920. Drypoint. Hardie 189. 11 15/16 x 8 3/8 (sheet 14 x 10 7/16). Edition 76, #40. A fine impression on laid paper from an antique volume. Signed and numbered in ink. Hardie writes, "Margot, the twelve-year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Murray, in a fancy dress made to resemble that of Lopokova, the Russian dancer, stands with head slightly bent forward and arms at sides. On the left, her mother is sitting with arms outstretched altering the fop flounce of the dress." Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James...
Etching
Sold
H 23.5 in W 17.25 in
"Sub-Treasury Building, Wall Street, New York" Cityscape Scene, Lower Manhattan
By James McBey
Located in New York, NY
James McBey (1883 - 1959) Sub-Treasury Building, New York, 1930 Watercolor and brush and ink on paper 19 1/4 x 12 5/8 inches Signed and dated lower l...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
The Desert of Sinai (No. 2).
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
The Desert of Sinai (No. 2). 1919. Etching. Hardie 184. 7 7/8 x 13 3/4 (sheet 9 5/8 x 15 3/16). Edition 76, #ix. Illustrated: Furst, Original Engraving and Etching: An Appreciation. ...
Drypoint, Etching
The Somme Front
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
The Somme. 1917. Watercolor. 9 1/2 in x 18 3/4. Provenance: Carol Carstairs Gallery; Collection of Victor Spark, New York. Exhibited: The 18th International Exhibition of Water Color...
Ink, Watercolor
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H 10.88 in W 17.94 in D 0.5 in
The First Sight of Jerusalem, Nebi Samwil (No. 2).
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
The First Sight of Jerusalem, Nebi Samwil (No. 2). The First Sight of Jerusalem, Nebi Samwil (No. 2). 1920. Etching. Hardie 197. 10 7/8 x 17 15/16 (sheet 12 5/8 x 19). Edition 76, #2...
Drypoint, Etching
Ras-El-Ain.
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
Ras-El-Ain. 1919. Etching. Hardie 180. 7 7/8 x 12 7/8 (sheet 9 x 14 1/2). Edition 76, # 1. Series: First Palestine Set. A rich impression with plate tone, printed on cream laid paper...
Drypoint, Etching
September Sunset.
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
September Sunset. 1928. Etching. Hardie/Carter 241. 8 7/8 x 17 3/4 (sheet 12 1/4 X 20 7/16). Edition 80, #50. A rich impression with subtle tonal wiping. Printed on white laid paper...
Etching
Haarlem
By James McBey
Located in New York, NY
James McBey (1883-1959), Haarlem, etching, 1910, signed in ink bottom right margin and numbered XXXV bottom left [also signed, titled and dated July 1910 in the plate]. Reference: Hardie and Carter 61, only state, edition of 40, 4 3/4 x 6 7/16, the sheet 6 1/4 x 8 inches. Printed on old laid paper, with a partial crest watermark, with margins. In good condition, a paper loss upper right corner (away from image), slight soiling in margins, archival mounting. A fine impression, with a light veil of plate tone. At the age of 26 McBey left his bank job (which he had had for 15 years!) and traveled to Holland, where from July to September of 1910 he created a number of etchings depicting the Dutch landscape. McBey had studied Rembrandt’s prints, and the influence of the Master is evident in etchings such as Haarlem; Haarlem also is reminiscent of Whistler’s Thames etchings...
Etching
Benicasim
By James McBey
Located in New York, NY
James McBey (1883-1959), Benicasim, etching, 1911, signed in ink and numbered lower left margin [with initials, title and date in the plate]. Reference: Hardie 96, only state, edition of 40. In very good condition, with wide margins (cut irregularly at bottom, tiny loss upper right corner), 5 5/16 x 8 3/8, the sheet 9 x 11 1/2 inches, archival matting. A fine, delicately printed impression, printed in black ink on cream laid paper. Benicasim is a small Spanish town a few miles north of Valencia. In McBey’s etching it appears beautiful, isolated and remote; today it is built up, the site of a famous pop music festival. McBey was of course a student of Rembrandt, and compositionally Benicasim may be referencing Rembrandt’s Three Trees.
Etching
Benachie
By James McBey
Located in New York, NY
James McBey (1883-1959), Benachie, etching, 1911, signed in ink lower right and numbered XXVII lower left [also signed and dated in the plate lower right]. Reference: Hardie 90, only...
Etching
Dawn. The Camel Patrol Setting Out.
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
Dawn. The Camel Patrol Setting Out. October, 1919. Etching. Hardie 181. 8 7/8 x 14 7/8 (sheet x 14 1/4). Edition 76, #XLV. Series: First Palestine Set. Illustrated: Zigrosser, Six...
Drypoint, Etching
Lady Sewing
By James McBey
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original signed watercolor by Scottish artist James McBey (1883-1959) titled "Lady Sewing", dated February 1924. Signed and dated by McBey lower right. ...
Watercolor