Joseph Hecht Art

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Joseph Piccillo's large-scale canvases contrast masculine and feminine qualities, carefully balancing strength and power beside grac...

Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a so...

Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, full margins. Signed and numbered 59/75 in pencil, lower margin. Notations in pencil along the lower sheet edge, recto, well outside of ima...

Elephant Engraing, 1957, printed 1988 Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by the artist Dedicated: "For Jon From Ray" Edition: 100 in two printings This is an artist's proof from th...

Art Size : 11 x 14 in. Vintage Frame: 17 x 20 in. Signed and dated in pencil, bottom right. Media includes watercolor, acrylic, and pencil on paper. This vibrant, psychedelic and su...

Paul Jouve (after) - Tiger - Engraving 19 x 14 cm Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950. Copy on velin creme de Rives Copper engraving heightened with pochoir.

We're pleased to showcase Mexican Master Rufino Tamayo's work on paper. Flying Bird portrays a bird flying over the mountains. Rufino Tamayo created this modernist and minimalist dra...

The Cat is an Original etching and drypoint print on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in 1950 ca. Good conditions with some foxing.

Sander's interiors are always intriguing. This work also reads as a stage with a dance; it recalls the Porch of the Maidens at the Erectheum at the Acropolis in Athens. There of cour...

The Goldfinch is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 11.2 x 8.25 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers). Catalogue - Cramer #37 The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work. Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential. For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate). These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...

Vienna Lipizzaner Engraving, 1962 Signed and dated lower right (see photo) Titled and numbered lower left (see photo) This impression is from the second edtition printed c. 1992 1st ...

Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950. Copy on velin creme de Rives Artwork by Paul Jouve. Original copper engraving heightened with pochoir. Paul...