Maurice Beck Art

Artist Reproduction plate. Edition 1401A Reihe "Gustav Klimt – Phantastische Meisterwerke" mit einem diagonalen Durchmesser von 22 cm und einer Goldumrandung an. Es handelt sich dabei um die Ausgabe "...." aus dem Jahr 1990, Teller-Nr. ?, die als Reproduktion im Auftrag des Hauses Lilien Porzellan...

NEW DECO by the woman artist Robin Morris, is an original handmade limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. NEW ...

"Stabile with Red Sun Galerie Maught" is a color lithograph poster. The Stabile is a black topsy-turvy statue taking up most of the piece. A red sun sits to the right of the black st...

This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes. It's made by layering paper cutouts and different exposures using uv-...

Andy Warhol To Earl and Camilla, Love Andy Warhol, 1979 Original Heart Drawing held in hardcover book with unique dedication to Earl and Camilla McGrath (Signed Twice by Andy Warhol)...

Created circa 1934 by Dutch graphic designer Wim van Andringa de Kempenaer, this original advertising poster promotes De Vries Robbé & Co., a major structural-steel company based...

This is a bold and geometric rendering of a vase of flowers atop a grand piano. The background is cleanly split into three colors in red, yellow, and gray while the flowers and the v...

Sonia DELAUNAY Woman with Art Deco Dress Lithograph after a painting Printed signature in the plate Numbered /600 On Arches vellum 40 x 30 cm (c. 15.7 x 11.8 in) ArtCurial edition,...

Mara Tran-Long (French b. 1935) "Bacchante Montmartre" Edition 71/100, Abstract/Art Deco/Art Nouveau Lithograph numbered and signed in Pencil, 25.50 x 20, Late 20th Century Colors: ...

"Galerie Maeght" lithograph poster. This poster holds Bazine's name in harsh orange lines near the top of the piece. Diagonally bisecting the b and a in Bazaine is a teal line. Bellow this horizontally against the white backgrounds are two lines, one painted yellow and the other blue. Unsigned. Image: 29 x 21 in Jean Bazaine was a French painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer. He was the great great grandson of the English Court portraitist Sir George Hayter. In 1949/1950 he had his first major one man show at the Galerie Maeght, who remained his art dealer thenceforth. From then on it was a steady progress of major exhibitions: Bern, Hanover, Zürich, Oslo... 1987 a retrospective exhibition in Galerie Maeght, 1988 a retrospective of his drawings in the Musée Matisse and finally in 1990 the Exposition Bazaine in the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris., which was accompanied by the reissue of his major texts on painting in art theory as Le temps de la peinture (Paris, Aubier 1990). "The motley crowds of international tourists and souvenir-shoppers who fill the ancient streets of the Latin Quarter in Paris spend most of their time admiring the open-air displays of seafood outside the Greek restaurants in the rue de la Huchette. They ignore the beautiful church of St Severin in the same street, for have they not already "done" Notre Dame? So they miss one of the most wonderful series of stained-glass windows in France: Jean Bazaine's vivid, dynamic works irradiating the sombre ambulatory and apsidal chapels. These windows represent the seven sacraments of the Church, portrayed as essential forms from nature in all its glory and symbolising Water, Fire and Light, sacred emblems of Divine Grace. An appropriate biblical verse is inscribed beneath each. Only Pierre Soulages with his "luminous black" windows at l'Abbaye de Conques (1998) can stand comparison with the majesty of these contemporary works by Bazaine, created between 1965 and 1970. Bazaine was fortunate in his friends. He received at an early stage in his student career support and advice from another master colourist, Pierre Bonnard. In his youth he knew Leger, Braque, James Joyce and Marcel Proust. One of his great personal friends was Jean Fautrier, with whom he shared his first exhibition in 1930. His work gradually developed as a form of bold tachisme - brilliantly composed but well-controlled "splashes" of sumptuous colour. He rejected the term "abstract" which he considered a denial of the essentially intimate relationships between art and reality. He quoted his friend Braque: "The canvas must efface the idea behind it." In 1941, during the Nazi occupation, at a time when Hitler was destroying many works of modern art, Bazaine had the courage to organise in Paris a first "avant-garde" exhibition of 20 French artists. In 1948, he wrote his first book, an unpedantic, unacademic view of contemporary painting, Notes sur la peinture d'aujourd'hui. He quotes Braque on Cezanne: "He's a painters' painter - other people think it's unfinished." Bazaine, too, reverenced Cezanne: Three lines drawn by Cezanne overturn our whole concept of the world, proclaim the liberty of man, his courage. The great painters have never had any other aims. The painter says: "I exist, therefore you exist. I am free, therefore you are free. Or at least he tries to. It's his one aim in life." After the Second World War, Bazaine produced vast compositions with virtuoso colour structures, mostly with references to nature, like the breathtaking Vent de mer (1949, now in the Museum of Modern Art, Paris) and Orage au jardin (1952, now in the Van Abbemuseum at Eindhoven). His Earth and Sky (1950) is in the Maeght Foundation at Saint Paul de Vence. One of his greatest works, L'Arbre tenebreux (1962), was sold to the Sonja Henie...

GEORGE SHERINGHAM (1884-1937) The Wave Signed and numbered 2 Stencil print with 9 plates, designed and cut by the artist, fan shaped 23 by 42 cm., 9 by 16 ½ in. (frame size 37.5 by 22 cm., 14 ¾ by 8 ¾ in.) Sheringham was born in London and studied at the Slade under Henry Tonks and later in Venice, Brussels, Berlin and Paris where he held his first one-man exhibition in 1905. On his return to London he initially supported himself with poster designs and teaching. His first exhibition of fan designs was held at the Ryder Gallery in 1909 followed by another in the following year. With enthusiastic reviews in Studio he had launched his career as a decorative designer, theatrical designer and illustrator. He illustrated books by Max Beerbohm and Cyrus MacMillan. In 1921 he collaborated with his brother Hugh on a book about fishing, The Book of the Fly Rod. He wrote Drawing in Pen and Pencil (1922), with James Laver, Design in the Theatre (1927) and with Rupert Mason and R Boyd Morrison he edited Robes of Thespis, Costume Designs by Modern Artists (1928). As a decorator, Sheringham designed the music room at 40 Devonshire House...

Barbara Takenaga has had fun embellishing the last prints in the editions – Switchback State I and State II from 2011 – with extensive hand coloring. She has inverted and rearranged ...