Maurice Brianchon Prints and Multiples

Artist: Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Title: "Flying Colors '76 (Stars and Stripes)" Portfolio: Flying Colors *Issued unsigned, though signed by Calder in the plate (printed signature) lower right Year: 1976 Medium: Original Lithograph on unbranded white wove paper Limited edition: approx. 1,000, (there was also a signed and numbered edition of 100 on larger Arches paper) Printer: possibly Atelier Fernand Mourlot, Paris, France Publisher: possibly Atelier Fernand Mourlot, Paris, France for Braniff International Airlines, Dallas, TX Framing: Recently framed in a white maple wood moulding Framed size: 12.25" x 15.25" Sheet size: 11.07" x 14" Condition: Faint crease down center of sheet. Light undulation to far left side. In otherwise very good condition with strong colors and clean paper Notes: Provenance: private collection - South Kingstown, RI; private collection - life-long Braniff Airways travel agent who acquired it directly from their employer/the publisher Braniff International Airlines, Dallas, TX. Printed in two colors: red and blue. Comes from Calder's 1974-1976 "The Flying Colors Collection" of various works. The image featured on this print is a design representing the stars and stripes of the Nation's flag which Calder hand-painted on the cover of a Braniff Airways plane's right-side engine. In conclusion to Alexander Calder and Braniff International Airline's collaborative marketing campaign in conjunction with the American bicentennial...

Landscape from "Fugaku hyakkei" is an original modern artwork realized after Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849). Original Woodcut print from the series "Fugaku hyakkei" (100 views of Mount Fuji). From the second posthumous edition 1878. Passepartout is included. Publisher Eiraku Toshiro. Sheet dimensions: 24 x 26 cm. Good conditions. Signs of age and wear. Hokusai created the monumental Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji both as a response to a domestic travel boom in Japan and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji. Landscape from "Fugaku hyakkei" is an original modern artwork realized by Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849) in the Second half of the XIX Century. Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849) known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Hokusai is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa...

Artist: Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Title: "Untitled (front cover)" Portfolio: Derrière le Miroir (No. 156) *Issued unsigned, though signed by Calder in the plate (printed signature) lower right Year: 1966 Medium: Original Lithograph on smooth wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris, France Publisher: Galerie Maeght, Paris, France Sheet size: 14.75" x 11" Condition: In excellent condition Notes: Lithograph produced for the 1966 No. 156 "Derrière le Miroir" portfolio in conjunction with a special exhibition of Calder's work at Galerie Maeght, Paris, France in February of 1966 which featured 13 totems and 27 gouaches. The complete folio included a poem by Jacques Prévert and texts by Professor Meyer Schapiro, Alexander Calder, and Nicholas Guppy. Small spiral lithograph and text on verso as issued. In October 1945, the French art dealer Aimé Maeght opens his art gallery at 13 Rue de Téhéran in Paris. His beginning coincides with the end of Second World War and the return of a number of exiled artists back to France. The magazine Derriere Le Miroir was created in October 1946 and published without interruption until 1982. Maeght's ambition in establishing his print shop and his publication magazine Derriere Le Miroir was to make available to a broader audience less expensive printed imagery by the artists of his time, many whom were represented by his Paris gallery...

Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938) Two Women Wiping Lithograph enhanced with stencil after a drawing Signed in the plate On Lana vellum, 32 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) INFORMATION: Lithograph...

Shono is an original modern artwork realized after Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in the 20th Century. Woodcut Print Oban Yokoe Format. Rep...

Kyoka-Tokaido is an original modern artwork realized after Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in 1925. Woodcut print Chuban Yokoe Format. Signed...

This artwork "Landscape" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on wove paper by noted American artist Robert Kipniss, b.1931. It is hand signed and numbered 168/200 in pencil by the...

Artist: Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Title(s): Sky Swirl, Sky Bird, Convection, Beastie, Friendship, and Sunburst (from the Braniff International Airways Flying Colors Collection) Ye...

Lake Biwa, sunset in Yabase is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in 1920s. Woodcut Print Oban Yokoe Format. Reprint of of the Taisho...

Hand-colored lithograph 1st ed. Royal Octavo Master printer: J.T. Bowen John James Audubon was born in Haiti in 1785. Most of his childhood was spent in ...

Onésime (M.1075) from 1975 is a stunningly colored lithograph by Joan Miró, limited to a small edition of 65 (50 Arabic and 15 Romans). The image size is 35.5 x 27.87 inches and the ...

Henry Moore (1831-1895) - Hommage à San Lazzaro Lithograph from 1975. Edition 371/575 (Photocopy of the colophone is included). Dimensions of work: 31 x 24 cm. Each copy of this ...