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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Mother and Child Before Notre-Dame Lithograph from 1952. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. On the verso another Lithograph in b...

Sibilla is an original couple of books engraved by Giulio Aristide Sartorio (Rome, 1860 - 1932) in 1922. Original First Edition. 1333 numbered and signed copies. Published by L'Eroica, Milan. Format: in 4°. The dimensions of the book are indicative. The book includes 230 pages with 219 etchings (70 of them are in full page). Good conditions. Giulio Aristide Sartorio (11 February 1860 – 3 October 1932) was an Italian painter and film director from Rome. Having attended the Rome Institute of Fine Arts, Sartorio presented a Symbolist work at the 1883 International Exposition of Rome. He formed friendships with Nino Costa and Gabriele D’Annunzio, and associated with the painters and photographers of the Roman countryside. He won a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 and met the Pre-Raphaelites in England in 1893. His participation in the Venice Biennale began in 1895 with the 1st International Exposition of Art of Venice, after which he taught at the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts from 1896 to 1898. His period of greatest renown came at the beginning of the century, when he produced decorative friezes for the 5th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte of Venice (1903), the Mostra Nazionale of Fine Arts (Milan, Parco Sempione...

Aurelia is an original modern rare book written written by Gérard Labrunie (Paris, 1808 – Paris, 1855) and illustrated by Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (Leitmeritz, 1877 – Zwickledt, 1959) in 1910. Original First Edition. Published by Georg Muller, München/Leipzig. Format: Large 8°. The book includes 146 pages with 57 drawings (several are full page drawings). Binding by Paul Renner Mint conditions. Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (Leitmeritz, 1877 – Zwickledt, 1959) in 1910. He was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism and is noted for dark, spectral, symbolic fantasies, often assembled into thematic series of drawings. Like Oskar Kokoschka and Albert Paris Gütersloh, Kubin had both artistic and literary talent. He illustrated the works of Edgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Fyodor Dostoevsky...

La Tentation de St. Antoine is an original modern rare book illustrated by Odilon Redon (Bordeaux, 1840 - Paris, France) and written by various authors...

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Then the Angel of the Lorde appeared unto him in a flame of fire, out of the middes of a bush; and he looked, and beholde, the bush was not consumed Litho...

Die Elixiere des Teufels is an original modern rare book written by Hoffman E.T.A. (24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) and illustrated by Hugo Steiner-Prag (Prague, 1880 - New York, 194...

Chez les Passants is an original Rare Book written by Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) and illustrated by Félicien Rops (Namur, 7 luglio 1833 – Essonnes, 23 agosto 1898) in 1890. Original First Edition. Published by Comptoir d’édition, Paris. Format: in 12°. The dimensions and the weight are indicative. The book includes 320 pages with full page frontispiece etching. Good conditions. Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (7 July 1833 – 23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism and the Parisian Fin-de Siecle. He was a painter, illustrator, caricaturist and a prolific and innovative print maker, particularly in intaglio (etching and aquatint). Although not well known to the general public, Rops was greatly respected by his peers and actively pursued and celebrated as an illustrator by the publishers, authors, and poets of his time and provided frontispieces and illustrations for Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Charles Baudelaire, Charles De Coster...

Die neue stadt is an book written by J. Luitpold and illustrated by Otto Rudolph Schatz (Wien, 1900 - Wien, 1961) in 1926. Original First Edition. Published by Buchergilde Gutenberg, Berlin. Format: In Folio. The dimensions of the book are indicative. The book includes 38 pages with 12 Woodcuts. Good conditions. This Book has been illustrated by Otto Rudolf Schatz...

Der Todseher is an original modern rare book written by Ernst Adolf Willkomm (Herwigsdorf, 1810 - Zittau, 1886) and illustrated by Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (Leitmeritz, 1877 – Zwickledt, 1959) in 1910. Original Edition. Published by Barsdorf, Berlin. 30 numbered copies of deluxe issue. Format: in 8°. The book includes 284 pages with six full page drawings. Mint conditions. Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (Leitmeritz, 1877 – Zwickledt, 1959) in 1910. He was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism and is noted for dark, spectral, symbolic fantasies, often assembled into thematic series of drawings. Like Oskar Kokoschka and Albert Paris Gütersloh, Kubin had both artistic and literary talent. He illustrated the works of Edgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, among others. Kubin also illustrated the German fantasy magazine Der Orchideengarten. Ernst Adolf Willkomm (Herwigsdorf, 1810 - Zittau, 1886). Willkomm was a German writer. Willkomm has published time-critical novels, travel sketches and short stories. With the title of his novel Die Europamüden in 1838 he took up a key word that had been coined by Heine in 1828 and with which an important aspect of thinking in the Vormärz was recorded. In the years 1845/46 Willkomm undertook a trip to Italy, whose experiences he processed in 1847 in the travel sketches Italian...

Ten Mandala 24 carat real gold painted on canvas is a one of a kind Thangka Painting. The thangka is ritual Buddhist Painting use to pray or Meditation purpose. Several steps are inv...

Marc Chagall (1887 Liozna near Vitebsk – 1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence), Jerzy Ficowski: Lettre à Marc Chagall with five etchings by the artist, 1969 Technique: etching on paper Dimensio...

Der Golem. Prager Phantasien is an original modern rare book written by Gustav Meyrink, pseudonym of Gustav Meyer (Wien, January 19, 1868 - Starnberg, December 4, 1932) and illustrated by Hugo Steiner-Prag (Prague, 1880 - New York, 1945) in 1916. Original Edition. 300 numbered and signed copies. Published by Kurt Wolff verlag, Leipzig. Format: In Folio. The book includes an original Portfolio with 25 Lithographs. Mint conditions. Hugo Steiner-Prag (Prague, 1880 - New York, 1945); he was an artist and illustrator. In his adolescence, he took private art lessons and was a member of Jung Prag, a group of young artists fascinated by mysticism. His formal artistic career began at age seventeen when he enrolled at the Prague Academy of the Arts, Prager Kunstakadmie, in 1897. He continued his education in Munich, Germany at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Königliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste. It was here Steiner added “Prag'' to his last name in recognition of his home city and to help distinguish his name from other artists. The Leo Baeck Institute has a vast collection of Steiner-Prag’s illustrations and personal mementos from throughout his entire career. Viewers can appreciate his beautifully drawn city scenes and mythical creatures, photographs, set designs, artistic instruments, and certificates of achievement. In 1916, Steiner-Prag illustrated Der Golem by Gustav Meyrink. The golem...