Léon Desbuissons was born in Paris on May 30, 1870, and also where he died on December 4, 1940, was a French painter and etcher. A student of Charles Albert Waltner, member of the Committee of the Société des aquafortistes and the Fédération des artistes de Paris, he exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français and at the Salon des Indépendants of which he was a member, as well as in galleries. Léon was a member of the geological societies of France and Switzerland and of the French Society of Mineralogy. He published The Binn Valley (Valais): Geographical, Geological, Mineralogical and Picturesque Study in 1909 and Atlas of the Diplomatic and Consular Directory in 1924.
Le Cloître de St. Papoul - Etching by Léon Desbuissons - Late 19th Century
By Léon Desbuissons
Located in Roma, IT
Etching, c. 19th century This finely executed etching by Léon Desbuissons presents the cloister of St. Papoul Abbey, a Benedictine site in southern France renowned for its Romanesqu...
Etching
Woman Hanging Laudry - Original Etching by L. Desbuissons - 1904
By Léon Desbuissons
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Hanging Laudry is a beautiful black and white aquatint and etching on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1904 by the French artist Léon Desbuissons (1870 -1940). Signed in penci...
Etching
$1,100
H 17.75 in W 16 in
The glass mountain shattered David Hockney Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Etching, Aquatint
$1,200
H 31 in W 37.6 in
Four Figures and a Head, on Giant Phallus by Claes Oldenburg erotic nude scene
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of joy and come-hither coquettishness. T...
Etching
$1,125
H 37.75 in W 41.75 in
Study for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style Claes Oldenburg
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of ecstasy and repose. The loose sketches were drawn directly onto the plate by the artist, a master draftsman whose erotic etchings are largely unknown. The composition is based on the drawing: Clinical Study, Towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comic Style, 1965, ball-point pen on paper, 20 x 40 in. / 60 x 101.6 cm. *This print was etched in six gorgeous inks, each in an edition of ten: take your pick of color!* Oldenburg had an interest in imaginary monuments: he famously conceptualized works such as “Ball”, an unbuilt monument conceived of in 1967 which imagined two ballcocks – the round mechanism in a toilet tank...
Etching
$2,800
H 17.75 in W 16 in
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair David Hockney Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel, which he chose for its popularity. When illustrating the princ...
Etching, Aquatint
Polo, colour etching, horses, circa 1950
By Louis Claude
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Titled 'Polo' and signed 'Louis Claude' in pencil below the image. Printed in Paris for the Paris Etching Society, New York. 465mm by 595mm (pla...
Etching
$900
H 17.75 in W 16 in
The Enchantress with the Baby Rapunzel by David Hockney Brothers Grimm Tales
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel. The Enchantress with the baby Rapunzel references a Heironymus...
Etching, Aquatint
$2,000
H 24.75 in W 17.75 in
The Princess in her tower David Hockney Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
One of David Hockney’s Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm illustrations, taken from the story of ‘The Little Sea Hare’. This tower was likely inspired by Hockney’s travels throu...
Etching, Aquatint
$1,125
H 37.75 in W 41.75 in
Study for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style Claes Oldenburg
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of ecstasy and repose. The loose sketches were drawn directly onto the plate by the artist, a master draftsman whose erotic etchings are largely unknown. The composition is based on the drawing: Clinical Study, Towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comic Style...
Etching
$950
H 17.75 in W 16 in
Old Rinkrank threatens the Princess by David Hockney Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Etching, Aquatint
$850
H 24.75 in W 17.75 in
Catherina Dorothea Viehmann David Hockney Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
The frontispiece for Hockney’s Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio and book features Catherina Dorothea Viehmann, the elderly German woman who recounted fairy tales to ...
Etching, Aquatint
$1,680Sale Price|30% Off
H 25 in W 20 in
Claes Oldenburg mythological Erotic Fantasy Suite print set of 6 medusa mermaid
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
These erotic etchings depict mythological and fantasy creatures as striking nudes. A host of sensuous and shocking figures include a mermaid, Medusa, and women in both jubilant and p...
Etching
$1,400
H 12 in W 12 in
Digging up glass by David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Etching, Aquatint