Paul Edme LeRat Art

Jean Cocteau - Portrait - Original Etching Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946 Edition of 340 Signed in the plate Unnumbered as issued

Etching on paper published by S. Merigot, London, in 1796. A finely executed late eighteenth-century topographical engraving depicting the celebrated Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek, L...

Artist: Camille Pissarro Title: Les Faneuses Portfolio: l'Histoire des Peintres Impressionistes Medium: Etching on cream laid paper Date: 1906 Edition: 1000 Frame Size: 19 1/2" x 17"...

This artwork titled "Revelations de Nozdriov" from the suite "Nicholas Gogol, Les Ames Mortes" created 1923-1937, published 1948, is an etching on paper by renown Russian/French arti...

Ex Libris - Ernest Monteux is an Etching print created by Michel Fingesten in 1930s. Hand signed on the lower margin. Numbered on the left corner, ex. 149/150 Good conditions. Mi...

Genre: Other Subject: Portrait Medium: Aquatint Eching Print Surface: Paper Country: United States The artist Bernard Stern illustrates the portrait of a boy in a non-realistic, ca...

This artwork titled "Laquais" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal" created in 1937, is an original color aquatint on Montval paper by renown French artist Georges Rouault, 1871-1958. I...

Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving Mme.Helvetius' Cats Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF). Conditions: excellent Edition: 100 Support: Arches paper. Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm Editions: Moret, Paris. Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery. Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau. A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...

Pierre Bonnard - The Street - Original Lithograph Dimensions : 13 x 10". Paper : Rives vellum. Edition : 225 copies. 1927 From Tableaux de Paris, Emile-Paul Freres, Paris CHARLES...

Pierre Bonnard - People - Original Etching Circa 1940 Dimension : 30 x 23 cm Signed in the plate with his initials.

Jacques Villon - Woman - Original Etching Circa 1949 Signed in pencil and numbered Dimensions : 34.8 x 25 cm

Etching on imitation Japan paper. Image dimension: 26.7x39 cm. Signed and dated in the lower right in pencil "Morandi 1945". Edition of 22/50, numbered in pencil. Ref. Vitali 111...